Marriage is not for everyone.Collection: Marriage
Freedom is a choice. The grace of God abounds, and man is nonetheless free.Collection: Freedom
For the Left, Thanksgiving is about politics; for the Right, politics is about thanksgiving. The different approaches to holiday conversation come from opposing views of politics.Collection: Thanksgiving
Liberty plays an important role in justice, and there can be no justice without liberty, which is the power to do what one wills. But government exists first and foremost for the purpose of justice, which inclines the will to give each and all their due.Collection: Power
In reality, student loan forgiveness is welfare for the rich: a federal mandate that people who will make less money on average over the course of their lives bail out people who will make more money on average over the course of their lives.Collection: Forgiveness
When it comes to environmental regulation, the cruelty is the point.Collection: Environmental
While the leading environmental alarmists burn fossil fuels like they're going out of style, the United States under President Trump has led the world in reducing carbon emissions.Collection: Environmental
A miserable politics awaits us when the irreligious rot flows downstream.Collection: Politics
Many of the environmental rules not only fail to protect the natural environment, they actually increase the damage.Collection: Environmental
Every theistic religion, including Catholicism, Mainline Protestantism, Judaism, Mormonism, and Islam, has traditionally held homosexual congress in moral opprobrium.Collection: Religion
A proper criminal justice system exacts justice - that is, punishes criminals for their crimes. Rehabilitation and deterrence are worthy goals, but they are secondary to retribution.
No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.
Capital punishment is neither cruel nor unusual.
Everyone suffers. Rain falls on the just and the unjust alike. It falls on both the rich and the poor too. Leftist materialists imagine suffering to be a factor of economic circumstance.
For decades, the pro-life movement has focused on scientific evidence and ethical arguments.
Disbelief in the consequences of wrongdoing has coarsened our society and alienated us one from another.
Liberation from meaning leaves us skeptical of truth itself, comfortable only to acknowledge 'your truth' and 'my truth,' confident only in the reality of subjective feeling rather than objective fact.
Either men cannot be women or there is not such thing as a woman.
Some people bear great burdens with grace; others suffer minor inconveniences in misery.
The Right has focused on expanding economic liberty through tax cuts, free trade, and deregulation.
What is the purpose of the electoral college? It has a few purposes. One, it's to restrain pure democracy. Very good, very important, that's a wonderful thing.
Donald Trump is certainly an American original. Barack Obama, he's an American original. Where else but in America could that man become president? George W. Bush, a very different man from his father. These guys, they have their distinct voice and their distinct agenda.
The purpose of language is to communicate. That's the most basic definition of language. I have my own subjective experience going on in my head, and you have your own subjective experience going on in your head. The only way we can bridge that unbridgeable gap is through language.
No social policy can ever eradicate evil or perfect human nature.
The belief that men and women are different, the decision to date a Christian girl, and the audacity to disagree with one's liberal friends suggest a radicalism so dangerous it merits a New York Times investigation.
Speech is not violence. The Left conflates the two in order to justify its own violent reactions to differing points of view.
The American healthcare system is the worst form of healthcare other than all the other systems that have been tried.
For the Left, victimhood has long carried social currency.
Conservatives have always been forthright about our views, whether they brought defeat in 1964 or victory in 1980.
As pro-life advocates continue to expose the scientific and ethical reality of abortion, we must also console the millions of Americans who carry the heavy burden of an enormous sin.
The way to achieve a higher birthrate, which is a noble goal and I am glad conservatives are serious about addressing it, is to radically change the culture.
Civil society begins with the family.
Ronald Reagan was the best Ronald Reagan ever, and Ronald Reagan was a cool guy. You're not Ronald Reagan. You can't run as him; you can't relive his career. You can't just have somebody else's career. You have to be you.
Ronald Reagan was very successful.
All of the American presidents, certainly all of the notable ones, have been pretty original.
Wealthy parents have long relied on a properly timed donation to improve their children's chances at admission to college.
Legacies, athletes, and favored racial minorities all receive preferential treatment from admissions committees to the exclusion of academically better-qualified students.
American universities have never considered academic merit the sole criterion for admittance.
The people participate in votes in their states to choose electors to elect the president, but the people don't elect the president. We are not a democracy; we are a democratic republic. We have a representation system of government.
According to the politics of fantasy, mankind is on the verge of perfectibility, if only we give the government just a little bit more money and power.
The Left relies upon the politics of fantasy to tempt voters.
Criticism does not constitute violence.
In democratic republics such as ours, citizens rely on public criticism of ideas and people to determine national policy.
Liberation tolerates no limits, be they political, cultural, religious, or even natural.
Beauty is not generic, bland, and clinical. It isn't all things to all people. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in its endlessly intricate detail was beautiful. Modern office buildings are not.
Democrats in sanctuary states support amnesty for illegal aliens, just so long as those illegal aliens don't wind up in sanctuary states.
President Trump's greatest political liabilities revolve around questions of personality and character.
President Trump committed obstruction. From the moment he defeated Hillary Clinton, Democrats have tried to overturn the 2016 election, and President Trump has obstructed their efforts every step of the way.
We do not gain or surrender our personhood as we age. We live one life from conception to death.
Even leftists can appreciate the beauty of traditional religion and culture. Unfortunately they tend to reject the spirit that animates that beauty.