When I was 13, I told my parents I didn't believe in God any more. Religion should not be about determining women's freedoms.
Once a federal law or policy is in place it is more difficult to kill than a vampire.
With the help of pressure groups, government now has crossed over into the final frontier of bigotry, what writer and Catholic theologian Michael Novak calls 'Christophobia. ' Traditional Christians and Jews are the new counterculture - aliens in a land their forefathers' beliefs and values established and built.
I think the philosophy in our public schools, and many other institutions today, is that a dose of God is more hazardous to your health than a dose of herpes or drugs.
The brutality of communism was quickly swept under history's rug, in large part because so many on the left had embraced it as the solution to humankind's problems.
If taxpayers want to keep more of the money they earn, they must also work to become less dependent on a government check. We look to government too often and to ourselves not enough.
I am not robbed by people who have more money than me. I am robbed by a government that wants to penalize my industry and give increasing portions of what I earn to people who do not emulate my principles, morals and ethics.
Foreign policy is now a huge field. It isn't just people who are studying political science. There are so many aspects to it in terms of understanding hard science for people who are studying climate change, or people who are interested in health policy or food security, or people who care about education.
It's within your world that things will unfold and intuitive understandings will open up.
None of us seem to think that we should draw a line under what would be a satisfactory amount of wealth.
I don't think that Israel has any legal or moral justification for their massive bombing of the entire nation of Lebanon.