According to Teenage Research Unlimited, 51 percent of 13-15 year olds say they will be faced with making a decision regarding alcohol in the next three months.

African Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population but comprise 32 percent of patients treated for kidney failure, giving them a kidney failure rate that is 4.2 times greater than that of white Americans.

We cannot undo the past in this misguided war in Iraq.

California is a very important state. As goes California, so goes the nation. We need to have strong leadership. Someone who can hit the ground running.

At its root, 'God of War' was always the promise of adventure.

We are in a global war with a radical and violent form of the Islamic religion, and it is irresponsible and dangerous to deny it.

The Ahmadinejads of the world, the bin Ladens of the world, will not change their ways, regardless of how hard we try to explain to them that peace begins with them.

I believe the American people spoke loud and clear to the Bush Administration in yesterday's election that they disapprove of the current direction in the war in Iraq. As a result, the President wasted no time in dumping Secretary Rumsfeld.