The secret of learning to be sick is this: Illness doesn't make you less of what you were. You are still you.

The business of peace requires more than showing up with paint brushes, foodstuffs and an oil pipeline or two.

Pet lovers know that animals sometimes understand us better than we do, and the annals of human sin and desire provide plenty of stories to drive the point home.

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.

If you think Independence Day is America's defining holiday, think again. Thanksgiving deserves that title, hands-down.

Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.