I'm a traditionalist. I'm a Latin mass Catholic, and I hold to traditional views of responsibility.

While anti-immigrant and anti-E.U. parties across Europe may not take power anywhere in 2017, theirs is now a permanent and growing presence, leeching away support from centrist parties left and right.

Much of the hostility toward Putin stems from the fact that he not only defies the West when standing up for Russia's interests, he often succeeds in his defiance and goes unpunished and unrepentant.

A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.

The GOP used to be united on a traditionalist view of social and moral issues.

I don't doubt a number of those ballots, of those votes that were cast for me, probably were intended for Vice President Gore.

Once an entitlement program has been created with millions of beneficiaries, it becomes almost impossible to repeal.

As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

While immensely beneficial to Seoul, is this U.S. guarantee to fight Korean War II, 64 years after the first, wise? Russia, China and Japan retain the freedom to decide whether and how to react, should war break out. Why do we not?

What vital U.S. interest is imperiled in who comes to power in Podgorica, Montenegro? Why cannot Europe handle this problem in its own back yard?

Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal.

The GOP's insoluble problem is that the multicultural, multiethnic, and multilingual country they created with their open borders appears not to like the brand of dog food the party sells.

What happened to the America we grew up in, the America of Truman, Ike, JFK and Reagan?

Where liberals see as an ever-more-splendid diversity of colors, creeds, ethnicities, ideologies, beliefs and lifestyles, the Right sees the disintegration of a country, a nation, a people, and its replacement with a Tower of Babel. Visions in conflict that democracy cannot reconcile.

Anti-Catholicism is the anti-Semitism of the intellectual.

The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.

Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.

Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience stems mainly from having breakfast at the International House of Pancakes.

Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.

Our Founding Fathers who created this republic did not believe in democracy. When did we come to worship this idol?

When the faith dies, the culture it produced begins to die, then the civilization goes, and, then, the population.

As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.