America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.
As pressure grows to ease the financial burden on social security, pressure will also grow to eliminate the elderly and infirm to 'free up' more money for the 'fit' and those who contribute more than they take from society.
Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?
Government has a legitimate function, but the private sector has one too, and it is superior. In other words, people are better than institutions.
In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.
In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
No power on earth is greater than a mind and soul reawakened. Our Constitution begins 'we the people', not 'us the government'.
Once it is established that some lives are less valuable and less meaningful than other lives (as happened in Roe), the rest is merely who's next and how quickly we can move forward with the disposal process.
One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.
Sometimes people need a kick in the pants to get them to do what they would be doing if government weren't there as a perpetual parent.
Squeezing our money out of politicians is more difficult than squeezing blood from a turnip. To paraphrase an Oscar Hammerstein love song, they never let it go.
The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
I wanted to go to sea when I graduated from high school but my folks talked me out of it.
Cal was engaged to actress Christy Carlson Romano in December 2005 but broke off in May 2006.
Cal is the nephew of fashion designer Oscar De La Renta and the brother of actor Eduardo Renta.