The Ron Paul youth have little interest in a Reagan-like "shining city on a hill" message, or talk about a threatening "evil empire" abroad.

Freedom is not about warmed-over conventional wisdom. It's about ideals, humility, originality -- and embracing the unexpected and unanticipated.

It's not just conservatives who are frustrated today. It is all Americans who long to see their nation regain its vitality, restoring freedom and prosperity at home and shining the light of human potential across the planet.

Should the candidates be forced to weigh in on collapse of the traditional family in America?

The Republican presidential debates are looking more and more like symptoms of the problems we've got than part of the process of solving them.

Maximum style, minimum substance. Focus on sizzle, forget about the steak.

These events are supposed to be about quality information, raising the bar, and producing a thoughtful, informed electorate. But they are being produced to provide entertainment, and we are barely getting that.

Too many Americans refuse to let go of the same illusions that Greeks protesting in the streets cling to today.

But just one week before, the President and his Democrat colleagues used this very point -- that the budget is about values -- as an excuse to attack conservatives and Republicans.

One of the reasons we study history is that there is something to learn from it.

We're now noting that traumatic landmark in American history -- the beginning, 150 years ago, of the Civil War.