Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next century, even if Guantanamo did not exist.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure.

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

A salute from this corner to President Bush for saying he was willing to investigate raising or eliminating the cap on salaries subject to the Social Security tax.

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy.

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolution, sometimes violent upheavals.

Creativity without discipline will struggle, creativity with discipline will succeed.

To become a better you, secure your dreams from the jaws of people who discredit your ambitions.

We all try to be are greatest, but what if are greatest hasn’t affected others with greatness…

Don't focus on her hiss. Remember her purr.

Wherever negative thoughts go, negative feelings always follow.

The Lord God had created all animals, and had chosen out the wolf to be his dog.

I've found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world.

The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.

When a film like Chris Nolan's Memento cannot get picked up, to me independent film is over. It's dead.

It's funny, because I don't think of my films as "slow-burn." I don't even know if I was familiar with the phrase until people started labeling me with it.