Reagan Is The Republican Fdr, An Exemplar

Justified Or Not, The Supreme Court Has A Kind Of Sacred Status In American Life. For Whatever Reason, Presidents Can Safely Run Against Congress, And Vice Versa, But I Think There Is An Inherent Popular Aversion To Assaults On The Court Itself. Perhaps It Has To Do With An Instinctive Belief That Life Needs Umpires.

I Am A Southerner Who Grew Up With And Around Guns. I Own Some Still. My Father Gave Me A .22 Rifle When I Was 9 And A Single Barrel .410 Shotgun When I Was 10.

Whenever There Is News Of A Terrible Shooting, I Wonder Why America Has So Miserably Failed To Enact Even Common-sense Gun Legislation.

It Is True That Traditional Christianity Is Losing Some Of Its Appeal Among Americans, But That Is A Religious, Not Political, Matter. It Is Worth Remembering That The Jeffersonian 'wall Of Separation' Between Church And State Has Always Been Intended To Protect The Church From The State As Much As The State From The Church.

Environmental Concern Is A Little Like Dieting Or Paying Off Credit-card Debt - An Episodically Terrific Idea That Burns Brightly And Then Seems To Fade When We Realize There's A Reason We Need To Diet Or Pay Down Our Debt. The Reason Is That It's Really, Really Hard, And Too Many Of Us In Too Many Spheres Of Life Choose The Easy Over The Hard.