A nation has to be unified enough that people want to share a government.

Never ascribe to hostility what can be explained by stupidity.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

Are boaters deliberately trying to kill manatees?

It does seem slightly odd that the famous Nobel Peace Prize should go to someone who is famous, more or less, for talking loudly.

What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

A chain of progression - one leads to the next, then the next...

There's no simple cure for loneliness, but there is a simple answer to the #2 question, "Why are men such couch potatoes?" What does a man want more of that he could have more of if he were in better shape?