Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist for mass murder.

March and April still roller-coast quite a bit, but I don't see any reason why the temperatures won't stay here for the remainder of the spring. These temperatures are really quite normal for March.

Neoconservatives and the Pentagon have good reason to fear the return of the Vietnam Syndrome. The label intentionally suggests a disease, a weakening of the martial will, but the syndrome was actually a healthy American reaction to false White House promises of victory, the propping up of corrupt regimes, crony contracting and cover-ups of civilian casualties during the Vietnam War that are echoed today in the news from Baghdad.

The president looks across the cabinet table at the vice president and has to realize, 'The only reason he's there is in case I die.

There is just something to be said for the value of tradition, and even our faith is not just something we thought up today. It's been around for a while.

Some people think my father was a spy, because of working for that government agency in Vietnam, but he can't find his car keys, much less keep a national secret.