(the second) "The world has no room for cowards. We must all be ready somehow to toil, to suffer, to die. And yours is not the less noble because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields, and no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat." — Robert Louis Stevenson

I would add these two as all citizens are soldiers by political contract: War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling, which thinks that nothing is worth war, is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertion of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other." John Stuart Mill (1806 - 1873)

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish." – Mother Teresa "Thousands of ethicists and bioethicists, as they are called, professionally guide the unthinkable on its passage through the debatable on its way to becoming the justifiable, until it is finally established as the unexceptional." - Richard Neuhaus "[T] he very basis of the Roe v. Wade decision -- the one that grounds abortion rights in the Constitution -- strikes many people now as faintly ridiculous. Whatever abortion may be, it cannot simply be a matter of privacy. But for the liberal justices involved, the question was not whether abortion rights are to be found in the Constitution; it was whether or not they wanted to legalize...

The incoming Congress better do more then move the furniture around the room as suggested in the article.

So if I follow your confused logic...if one believes that there is a transcendent being that operates in, around and beyond our senses one abhors all scientific and technological advancement? You are a person lacking in judgment or prudence, as well as intellectually dishonest.

"Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy and conviction to defend itself." - Jean-Francois Revel

Thank you David for your service to our country. We are eternally indebted to you and all who given of their time, treasure, family and lives to serve in the armed forces. I do have to disagree with your idea that political rhetoric doesn’t matter to the soldier in the field. Whether or not the pen is mightier then the sword depends on the time line being considered. If one were to ask a Vietnam veteran or POW what impact Jane Fonda topped in NVA head gear, seated at anti-aircraft armament in Hanoi or who suffered through the Tet narrative hoax perpetrated by the MSM had on their...

"a healthier America through prevention, wellness, and innovation;" Show me one "scientific article" that supports that claim. I've been providing health care for 30 + years and scientific literature fails to support that argument, ie statistically significance with p-value at even 0.5%.Please provide article.