We live in an anaesthetized society.
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
It makes no sense to pack an auditorium with 5,000 people and then tell them to keep quiet.
We've got to rebuild human hearts - and persuade people that hope isn't just possible, but essential.
Well, we can't afford blindness anymore. There are tens of thousands of thugs who loathe liberty and love death, and want to annihilate Western civilization.
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
To have faith is to believe in truth, believe that truth confers special power on those lucky enough to get a little insight, and to know in our hearts that all these things come from God, which is why we should never get too cocky about our successes.
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
We believe. We believe in our destiny as a nation. We believe we have been called to do good, to spread the blessings of liberty and encourage the sense of trust upon which free societies depend.
If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.