When some great benefactor donates a huge sum of money to a university, what is the response by the university? Is it not usually to name a school or a building after that person? And when some wealthy landowner gives an estate to a city or state for a park, isn’t the park usually named after the one who donated it? In our culture do we not generally honor those who so generously give of themselves back to the community? [More]

The drama unfolding over this tragedy isn't just happening on the left. While the left is busy trying to lay blame for a deranged psychopath at the feet of talk radio, Sarah Palin and every other conservative voice they want to silence, the right is acting just as crazy. While I don’t believe, and facts in the case are starting to prove, that the monster Loughner was politically motivated, violence sometimes is politically motivated. And sometimes, that violence is warranted. [More]