Patients describing the benefits of prayer often talk about how it provides a sense of well being.
Receiving far less attention are the working class heroes, who go about their solitary work routines with quiet dignity, come home from another grueling day, yet still find time to interact with their children.
Sports nurtures dreams of achieving self confidence and masculine striving for the skinny kid watching a boxer dance around the ring with sublime ease.
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
The country remains dependent on oil. But as we are now learning, oil is becoming increasingly scarce.
The greatest job I ever had was working on my family farm. Each morning my father would come into my bedroom around 4:30 am and command me to get up and work the fields. I would spend the next two hours before school slopping pigs and cropping tobacco.
The liberation of Iraq was part of a broader effort to seriously confront the greatest threat to world security: rogue states capable of obtaining long range weapons of mass destruction.
Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!
We cannot solve the problem of terrorism by asserting our will on the world.
We tend to admire the people in our society who have accumulated such wealth as to seem somehow great. But we shouldn't forget that it was the everyday working class man who made this country great.
With the rise of America, the global balance of power shifted away from the old European powers.
