The saints, after all, became known as saints not because of their success in fighting political battles, or winning a few news cycles, or funding an anti-abortion super PAC. They were saints purely and simply because of the way they lived. And this, of course, was Jefferson’s deeply American insight: “No man can conform his faith to the dictates of another. The life and essence of religion consists in the internal persuasion or belief of the mind.

Every dollar that our society spends on preventing unintended pregnancies produces us savings of between two and six dollars.

New Rule, the GOP candidates must save us all a lot of time by just telling us which parts of America they don’t hate.
You know, so many Republicans nowadays speak with unbridled disgust for America’s East coast elites, and San Francisco liberals, and the Hollywood cesspool, and the inside the Beltway mentality, and Chicago-style politics. And then they accuse Obama of dividing America.

They say how can we be one nation under God if Democrats keep talking about the two Americas, and the haves and have nots, and the 99% versus the 1%. But there are two Americas. We are a nation of haves and have nots. And when it comes to dividing America, it’s Republicans who in recent years have carved out a nation into two distinct territories. There’s the heartland, and then there’s the rest of the country: a vast nightmarish wasteland of college professors, museums, and people who recycle.