We live in an anaesthetized society.
The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.
The United States spends more money on African aid than any nation on earth.
I hate to tell you, but it's not always pretty up there on Capitol Hill and there have been other scandals as you know that have been more than simply naughty e-mails.
The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.
George W. Bush broke a mold four years ago: Even though he lost the popular vote, he governed as if he had won by acclamation.
In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.
President Bush has committed billions to the fight against AIDS, thus making retroviral drugs available to millions of HIV-positive Africans.
Go off-road...Practice a little daring.
George Bush has become something of an embarrassment.
You think Vietnam was bad? Vietnam is nothing next to Kosovo.
One of the problems with NPR is that there is so much political correctness that if you've got a name that looks like it was made up by Rudyard Kipling, you've got a better chance of getting hired. I'm a white guy named Tony Snow for heaven's sake. That's as white as it goes.
The last person to achieve unambiguous victory in an air war was Zeus.
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.
There is no Senate rule governing the proper uses of the filibuster.
It serves notice that President Bush is serious about promoting freedom, because free societies are a lot more peaceable than dictatorships and monarchies.
Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.
Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.
It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.
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.
That said, ID does not qualify as science because it gives us nothing to test or measure. Science requires replicable tests involving measurable variables.
Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.
[The GOP] must decide soon where they stand on the issue of socialized medicine. President Clinton threw down the gauntlet in his State of the Union address, when he proposed guaranteeing health insurance for at least half of the 10 million American children who have none.
The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.
