Many of us have forgotten what we once knew about our freedoms and our decencies, and we have forgotten why, time and time again, we have had to rally ourselves to the point of ultimate sacrifice to defend them. |
Now we have reason to be grateful once again that Al Gore is not the man in the White House, and never will be. |
On their face, the recent comments of Sen. Trent Lott are offensive, repugnant and inimical to what the Republican Party stands for. |
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. |
Our common language is English. And our common task is to ensure that our non-English-speaking children learn this common language. |
Our Transportation Department has followed the progress of the union contract negotiations closely so we were aware of the potential for a strike for many months. As a result we had been having informal conversations with Penn transportation personnel for well over two months in preparation for how we would respond. |
pointing out that abortion should not be opposed for economic reasons any more than racism ... should be supported or opposed for economic reasons. Immoral policies are wrong because they are wrong, not because of an economic calculation. |
Some of us in college, some of us in high school, you know, did things that we weren't particularly happy about or proud of later, speaking here for myself, |
Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. |
The current controversy that has arisen around comments I made on my radio show, based on a willful distortion of what I said, will take away from the serious discussion I wanted to engage in with the students and community at the University of Cincinnati, |
The elementary school must assume as its sublime and most solemn responsibility the task of teaching every child in it to read. Any school that does not accomplish this has failed. |
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from and a prior task to, the discussion of the great, difficult ethical controversies of the day. |
The history of our nation is intertwined with a certain religious tradition, and that the First Amendment was not intended to result in the complete exclusion of religious beliefs from our public classrooms. |
The Irish say, you know, 'the merry-hearted boys make the best of all men,' |
There are no mental jobs, only mental attitudes. |