The typical white American woman in 1800 gave birth seven times; by 1900, the average was down to 3.5.

Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth were slaves by birth, freedom fighters by temperament.

A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.

Just because we eat together does not mean we eat right: Domino's alone delivers a million pizzas on an average day.

We know what the birth of a revolution looks like: A student stands before a tank. A fruit seller sets himself on fire. A line of monks link arms in a human chain. Crowds surge, soldiers fire, gusts of rage pull down the monuments of tyrants, and maybe, sometimes, justice rises from the flames.

The White House should always be a friend to American freedom.