Religious liberty is far more than just liberty for the religious. It is vital for all citizens. Putting religion back into the place where the framers intended it is not just a policy item on the order of tax cuts, health care, and missile defense. It is taking care of our foundation.

The famous appeal to Natures God in the Declaration of Independence augurs well for religious believers, but a note of caution is needed as well

Is America a Christian nation? The answer is both yes and no, depending on what one means by the phrase.

When asked what I thought of this president, I usually replied, in my jaundiced, freedom-of-speech opinion, that from what I can observe, he was the worst man ever to be president, and he was the worst president. Compared to previous presidents both on the score of integrity and accomplishment, I place the president from 1992-2000 at the bottom of both lists.

When Karl Marxs housekeeper bore him a son three months after his wife gave birth to their fourth child, his first thought was his reputation. In what biographer Francis Wheen refers to as one of the first and most successful cover-ups for the greater good of the Communist cause, Marx managed to get his close friend, Friedrich Engels, to take the blame, and the woman to give up her 5-week-old infant for adoption.

Mary Jo Anderson urges us not to be fooled by UN manipulation of religious traditions for its own destructive ends.

By the 1970s, many within Quebec's Catholic Church were forced to recognize that what they had really signed on to was, so to speak, their own death warrant.

The great problem today is not the threat that religion poses to public life, but the threat that the state, presuming to embody public life, poses to religion.

I reply that it must be said that, in order that a war may be just, three things are necessary.

I just returned from a conference in South Korea on "The Effects of Globalization on Politics, Society and the Family."