In fact, the U.S. military has bent over backwards to respect the religious beliefs of some very dangerous fanatics who want to kill us.

Back in the day, a pair of tight jeans was enough to earn a girl a bad reputation. Now slutty has gone Main Street.

The United Nations has become a largely irrelevant, if not positively destructive institution, and the just-released U.N. report on the atrocities in Darfur, Sudan, proves the point.

One of the techniques terrorists employ is to allege torture and mistreatment when they are captured, regardless of whether it is true.

Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.

Liberals believe they own the franchise on minorities and can't stand any Hispanic or black who breaks rank.

It's very important, who has the most delegates. The superdelegates should not be the ones making the decision.

When have handouts ever worked? In the United States, we learned that welfare for our own citizens not only turned into a debilitating crutch, it created a more or less permanent underclass.

Some 43 percent of voters in union households voted for President Bush in 2004, according to exit poll data.

Neither the wording of the amendment itself nor common practice challenged the widely held belief that government guaranteed freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.

We have created not a Brave New World, but a vulgar marketplace, where human attributes come with a price tag.

Truth may start out timid, but it finishes bold.

The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

I am not the Jesus of the official church tolerated by those in power. I am not your superstar.

I compare songwriting to childbirth. How many kids can you have before your uterus explodes?

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

I always loved to dance, but I never had a clue what I was doing.

I you don't value your time, no one else will.

So if I was dating somebody now and the relationship didn't work out, I'd take that as failing

A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.

My mother is the best storyteller. And her mother was too.