Government can hardly get the big things right; it never gets the small things right, and shouldn't try.

If your god teaches that "unbelievers" aren't your equal, you aren't going to treat them very well.

But for anyone else, a frozen hell.

If you want quick technological improvements, backward-looking regulations stand in the way.

A Republican Vietnamese-American who now represents mostly-black New Orleans, wants to join the Congressional Black Caucus. Don't hold your breath.

Islam and Christianity view the nature of God differently, which is why they have such different cultures.

The war on greenhouse gases finds its way to barnyards.

Throwing shoes at our president, after we spent countless billions and thousands of lives to free Iraq? Why do we bother?

Almost without exception, every close friend - political or otherwise - that Mr. Obama has ever had turns out to be a felon, an anti-American, a Communist, a racist, a terrorist, or all of the above. Yet he isn't?

Whether or not you believe in a god makes a profound difference to how you think and behave.