Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a read more

Someone born in Brazil is an American. Anyone born on the western hemisphere is an American. American is not a nationality.

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.

Hockey is our national theater, our water cooler talk.

Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for read more

Americans should not impose a solution, but this administration will finally have to make it clear what its vision for a two-state solution is. Just saying 'a two-state solution' is too ambiguous. The vision has to spell out the details on final status issues such as Palestinian refugees, borders and Jerusalem.

The response is going well.

The response is going well.

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we read more

Most bureaucracies take a while to get it together, and this is America -- we have so much and we can't get it together [in the face of Hurricane Katrina], ... So imagine a country that's very poor, with a clunky bureaucracy. The ability to coordinate and manage this sort of crisis, especially in a country with corruption, high levels of alcoholism and a top-heavy bureaucracy, is challenging.

What I mean by the Principle of Oneness is this: That we must learn to realize that there's nothing separate read more

What I mean by the Principle of Oneness is this: That we must learn to realize that there's nothing separate or apart. That everything is part of everything else. That there's nothing above us, or below us, or around us. All is inherent within us. Like Jesus said, "The Kingdom is Within.

It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.

It would have been nice, but we took care of what we needed to take care of.

I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.

I could see what God was doing. I had a captive audience.

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn read more

Under the most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure, temperature, humidity, and other variables, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.