"A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. A book that does nothing to you is dead. A baby, whether it does anything to you, represents life. If a bad fire should break out in this house and I had...

"Here you leave Today and enter the World of Yesterday, Tomorrow, and Fantasy" So says the plaque at the entrance to Disney World, and I suppose that's appropriate for an...

"To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose..." Ecclesiastes When my grandson was three, he and his mother were preparing for his first jet flight ever, and they needed to go to the airport ticket counter...

Men like their gods to be above them, but not too far above them. When we create our gods we create them after our own image, just slightly better. We prefer our gods to be outside our world, yet in a...

Freedom is a fire that can only be doused with laws and force. Left to its own, freedom soon becomes license, or the law of the jungle, where the least principled take advantage of their fellows. Freedom without regulation becomes freedom...

Oh, I do hope this doesn't seem too much like a college lecture to you! We tend to live in the here and now and think that the issues we face are unique and have never been faced before, but...

Last year my six year old grandson signed up for tee ball. It wasn't as fun as he thought it might be; a lot of practice, paying attention, and learning stuff; you know, the kind of things boys...

Institutions should not be judged by the failures of their participants. Adultery should not define marriage, nor should hypocrisy define religion. Higher education ought not be disdained on the basis of some poor professors, and we cannot allow ourselves to become...

Sometimes it feels like David going up against Goliath when it comes to putting good Conservative candidates on the road to victory. First, you have your rivals to deal with. Yeah, politics is hardball, but sometimes it seems more like dodgeball,...

Imagine a world without pain. Not just the physical sort, but all manner of suffering. No headaches or hunger, no heartache or humiliation, no muscle aches, no poverty, no toothaches, no guilt. Paradise? Well, as any good science fiction writer can tell you,...