Mike Gallagher

Liberals don't think parents can be left to their own devices when it comes to raising our children.

I continually ask myself if a decision I'm about to make falls short in the eyes of God or my family or my colleagues. It's actually a pretty simple litmus test: am I doing the right thing or not? The answer is generally an easy one.

The belief that government must be the ultimate nanny to our children is one of the fundamental philosophical disagreements between the Right and Left.

School systems now routinely have more administrators than classroom teachers. They have armies of counselors and therapists and nutritionists and 'multi-cultural learning facilitators.'

Education means teaching kids how to do stuff and how to think about stuff. Education is a pretty simple concept with a very clear way to measure results: you give some kind of an exam - maybe it's one of those standardized tests all kids hate, maybe it's some kind of essay, but whatever it is, it'll measure the results, and the kids will hate it.

I've made mistakes, usually when I felt backed against a wall or faced enormous pressure. I'm human and flawed.

The Daily Show' is a cultural phenomenon.

The public can't be fooled all the time.

I think that the tea party, grassroots ideology will win every time.

Evil is everywhere. But to believe that this is a country that resembles the Jim Crow-era is ludicrous and disingenuous.

The failure to readily identify the battle between good and evil is a nagging, ongoing, dangerous pattern that shows no sign of easing up any time soon.

When your spouse is given a bleak prognosis, you become an expert in soaking up every moment of every day.