Each day, each one of us chooses not to do many things that would be legal but offensive to those around us.

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.

Make no mistake: the anti-war voices long for us to lose any war they cannot prevent.

I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.

The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.