Our films have immense power, and we have always accepted international artistes with open arms. If Priyanka Chopra and Deepika Padukone can do wonders in Hollywood, then they can also do it here.
If America is a nation of laws as we proclaim, then our immigration laws are part of the package.
Why should one U.S. airman give up his life when our national security is not in imminent danger?
Bizarrely, our English word 'sturdy' may go back to the Latin turdus, thrush. Anyone described as 'sturdy' in the 1200s was wilfully reckless and possibly as immovable as a sozzled bird.
No one can be immune from our laws; everyone must be held to account.
Our players are not immune to the things that are going on in society.
All judges have cases that touch our passions deeply, but we all struggle constantly with remaining impartial.
The only conduct that merits the drastic remedy of impeachment is that which subverts our system of government or renders the president unfit or unable to govern.
We should not have a petty regard for God's gifts, though we may and should despise our own imperfections.
We have the First Amendment to rely on whenever an elected official tries to impinge on our rights to speak.
Implementing the so-called 'Buffett Rule' would restore some badly needed fairness to our tax system.
We reduced the size of our front page code by about 50%, and by using absolute positioning, we are able to display important parts of the page before other parts may have fully loaded yet.
One of the most important roles of our journalists is to be watchdogs.
We ask our companies to restructure; we ask employees to work more for less money because there is overproduction, but then we're unable to defend them from cheaper Chinese imports. We are insane.
We can't have our industry progressively destroyed by cheap Chinese imports.
The mark of our time is its revulsion against imposed patterns.
The deep fascination with the mysterious, and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context, seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.
We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.
The news is notoriously inaccurate, and our memory of it is even worse.
Atheists in our midst are proof that all consciences can be accommodated here, even those that have no ground for holding that conscience is sacred, inalienable, and prior to civil society.
