The taxpayers profit not only from paying the AIG bonuses, but from hoping that they're even bigger next year.

Sure enough, struggling Americans do cling to guns, religion, and family.

We call fundamentalist Islam "barbaric" only because we cannot find a harsher word.

Even "just words" have real consequences.

Pension plans all over America are about to collapse.

Unions do get more pay for their members, until they suck up all the money and the employer collapses.

Islamic terror is uncivilized. We are in a Fight Against Barbarism, and should call it such.

How a religion prefers to be spread has a profound influence on how well it gets along with other religions.

If either Church or State controls the other one, problems ensue.

Belief in a God of order is a necessary underpinning for modern scientific research.