When Under Attack, No Country Is Obligated

Every New President Flatters Himself That He, Kinder And Gentler, Is Beginning The World Anew. Yet, When Barack Obama In His Inaugural Address Reached Out To Muslims By Saying, 'to The Muslim World, We Seek A New Way Forward, Based On Mutual Interest And Mutual Respect,' His Formulation Was Needlessly Defensive And Apologetic.

Life And Consciousness Are The Two Great Mysteries. Actually, Their Substrates Are The Inanimate. And How Do You Get From Neurons Shooting Around In The Brain To The Thought That Pops Up In Your Head And Mine? There's Something Deeply Mysterious About That. And If You're Not Struck By The Mystery, I Think You Haven't Thought About It.

Where Religion Is Trivialized, One Is Unlikely To Find Persecution.

When You Have The Worst Disaster In American History, You've Got To Be Attuned To Expectations,.

Winning Control Of The Senate Would Allow Republicans To Pass A Whole Range Of Measures Now Being Held Up By Reid, Often At The Behest Of The White House. Make It A Major Reform Agenda. The Centerpiece Might Be Tax Reform, Both Corporate And Individual. It Is Needed, Popular And Doable. Then Go For The Low-hanging Fruit Enjoying Wide Bipartisan Support, Such As The Keystone Xl Pipeline And Natural Gas Exports, Most Especially To Eastern Europe. One Could Then Add Border Security, Energy Deregulation And Health-care Reform That Repeals The More Onerous Obamacare Mandates.