For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

It's not a gun control problem; it's a cultural control problem.

It is difficult, if not impossible, to argue that laws written in the 1970s are adequate for today's intelligence challenges.

Looking down the road, space exploration and the benefits it yields - in medicine and information technology - should not be overlooked.

It is high time for some congressional oversight backbone.

The Constitution never even mentions political parties, let alone the Republican and Democratic parties, yet all the election laws help to protect them from competition.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

Whether it's a sitting president when I was an impeachment manager, or a Republican president who has taken liberties with adherence to the law, to me the standard is the same.

The Libertarian Party is a very mainstream party. It's a mainstream philosophy. It's of returning power from Washington to parents, to schools, to businesses in their communities.

The backlash against Big Government is an encouraging sign of a growing resistance to the mission creep of federal power.

The Tea Party knows that continuing to delay charting a course to spending reform hurts everybody.

I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension.

A warp," Nita whispered. "A tunnel through space-time. Are you a white hole?" It stopped bobbing, stared at her as if she had said something derogatory. (Do I look like a hole?)

And what would you do if you met a jibboo?

I am alone in this white, garden-rimmed street. Alone and free. But this freedom is rather like death.

Cookies at both of them. The cookies are probably better at Letterman though.

I didn't use a phone until I was 14.

If you have not clung to a broken piece of your old ship in the dark night of the soul, your faith may not have the sustaining power to carry you through to the end of the journey.

I went home and took my wife and went to my Cosen Tho. Pepys's and found them just sat down to dinner, which was very good; only the venison pasty was palpable beef, which was not handsome.

Balls in general are not a good looking item.

And is it selfish of me to crave victory, or is it brave?