At this point in time, the single most important thing you can do is tell your Congressman to vote "NO" on this bill.

Sports give us a look at heroes in action.

"Man is a great evil", someone declares during the 3-hour tour of Pandora. This sums up Avatar's philosophy, though, as with radical Islam, it's really Western Man that is regarded as evil.

If Reid is guilty of anything, which is his greater offense? Saying something uncouth, or advocating and working hard to bring about the destruction of American liberty?

Despite Scott Brown's claim about being a "new breed" of Republican, he'll soon find himself perfectly at home among the current GOP compromisers in Washington. The road to socialized medicine in America will be paved still farther, with his help. We've already seen the GOP endorse the substance of socialized medicine, while merely quibbling about the process by which it's adopted.

What passes for "reform" in Congress would eliminate health insurance firms.

New Year's Day inspires one to work for happiness.

Who is to object to the states invoking their 'states' rights' and imposing the same powers and regulations as Hatch objects to Congress assuming?

In many ways the bill is a convoluted, uncoordinated list of compromises between thousand of legislators, legislative aides, and lobbyists. Yet the bill has two main thrusts, with one central meaning. The first thrust is a massive increase in government power. The second is the total rejection of the free market. The central meaning of both is the repudiation of individual rights. No longer will Americans have the liberty to preserve their own lives in the way they judge bestfrom now on, they will have to conform to government controls on the most intimate details of their lives.

We the Living is not about Soviet Russia in 1925--it's a novel about any dictatorship, anywhere, and hopefully it will prevent one in the United States.

Making New Year's resolutions does not have to be futile--and to make them is not silly. Done seriously, it is an act of profound moral significance that embodies the essence of a life well-lived.

Democracy, whether pure or directly participatory (as in ancient Greece or New England), or via national plebiscite, is simply mob rule. Politely defined: majority rule. We have what could be said to be a representative government, but what is the chief function of our representatives, as opposed to their perceived function? Their actual, intended function was to serve as guardians of individual rights. Their perceived function, at least for the last century or so, is to patronize the real or imagined wants of the majority and to deliver them through coercive and confiscatory legislation.

Democrats, welfare statists, ambitious censors, and People for the Un-American Way were dealt a triple whammy of telling defeats in a matter of two days.

What drew Mencken's ire was the World's position that one's religious beliefs, should be respected and not subjected to criticism or satire.

The worst film critics happen to be conservative ones.

What has happened to the Republican Party?

A truly progressive idea is a market in health care where the individual is responsible for his own health, the medical profession is truly free to compete for his dollars, and the government has been removed from the equation--the private option.

Christmas as we celebrate it today is a 19th-century American invention. The freedom and prosperity of post-Civil War America created the happiest nation in history. The result was the desire to celebrate, to revel in the goods and pleasures of life on earth.

No better justice to President Barack Hussein Obamas boast in the Washington Post of his political achievements can be done than to adapt portions of the Declaration of Independence to the subject of his accomplishments. Not all of the charges against George III in 1776 listed in Jeffersons masterpiece are applicable. This charge sheet can also be leveled at Congress. I include only those offences which can be annotated. Call it not a parody, but a serious, appropriate, and well-deserved iteration.

Nowhere to run -- except into the custody of the Green Gestapo.