The old memento mori left people with this reminder: Life is fleeting, and character matters. When the fake gravestones and giant bones go back to the basement, what will we be left with?
When Senator Kaine recoiled from the idea of rights endowed by a Creator, he was channeling a temptation as old as politics itself: to make government the supreme source of human freedom.
Busy arterials — built for the cars, trucks, and buses that transport the overwhelming majority of people moving through the nation’s cities — are no place for cyclists.
It is worth looking back to reflect on another fateful, anguish-filled Israeli decision in Gaza — one that began the descent into the nightmare the Jewish state now faces.