The quality that defines us as Americans is the courage to respond to being hit. The courage to root out and destroy the killers. And, most important….

One of the pleasant duties of America's most famous announcers during the relatively short swing era of the big bands was to host late-night remotes ….

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner..

In matters large and small, many people seemed concerned about churlishness, an ugliness in our relationships that appears to be increasing rather th….

America, the temple of invention and industry, doesn't make things anymore..

In economic panics throughout history, the wiping out of the savings accounts of lower earners and the middle class has often led to social revolutio….

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was ….

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis..

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round..

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching..

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting..

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving..

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis..

Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders..

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rul….

Our actions in the Middle East over the last 15 years have already guaranteed radical Muslims quite enough ammunition to kill Americans for the next ….

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the At….

Perhaps our Irish friends should not so completely turn their backs on their historical dishes, no matter how many jokes they might have to endure..

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live..

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of….

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake..