Recognizing that the land is a gift, Duvall’s characters embrace redemption and service to self, to community, and (even when misguided) to God.

Pundits have lately been comparing Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, suggesting he is a likely loser in 2012. It's always helpful to be reminded that early polls may not be predictive and that opinion can change, as was the case when Truman won in 1948 and when Carter lost in 1980. But we should also keep in mind that today's polls are better and more frequent than they were 63 years ago.

This nation isn’t great because we work as a team with the president as our captain. America is great because America is free. It is great not because we put our self-interest aside, but because we have the right to pursue happiness.

Three weeks out from the New Hampshire primary and voters in the Granite State don't seem to have settled firmly on one of the Republican presidential candidates.

History does not repeat itself exactly, but polling evidence indicates that Americans today, like Americans in the late 1930s, see big government spending programs as an impediment, not an aid, to job creation.

The so-called Byrd Amendment, under which funds collected from antidumping and countervailing duty cases (which compensate for alleged subsidies) are distributed to affected U.S. companies, has been the subject of great controversy since its passage by Congress in 2001. In January 2003, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization...

IfDemocrats truly wanted to win in 2004,they should have backed the war on terror 150 percent.

Even if you are willing to concede that history has been advancing in a "progressive" direction, it is dangerous and irresponsible to suggest that it must be that way.