There's love that declares itself quietly, love that speaks poetically, love that is longing, yearning, desperate, heartbroken. But this, here, is love soaring, triumphant, shouted to the rooftops; it's love that won't be denied. Does she love you? You better...

The Love of Power vs. the Power of Love [Mackinac Center for Public Policy].I commend to you for your Valentine's Night reading, this little essay by Lawrence W. Reed of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. He expresses elegantly what...

Justice Michael Kirby, about to retire from the High Court of Australia, emphasizes his most important discovery - love.Love for one another. Love for our community. Love for others everywhere in the world.Well, it's a way of talking. In some...

Ok, I must admit I'm quite wary of Tory plans to encourage marriage via a £20-a-week tax break for married couples.  Not because I don't think marriage is a positive social force.  I do.  And Iain Duncan Smith's usually excellent Centre for Social Justice - who are pushing the tax break proposal, along with other, more convincing, ideas, in their recent Every Fam...

Let me count the ways... I love the excitement she brings to the base. I love how her rallies outdraw Barack Obama. And, for that matter, Joe Biden in his hometown. I love how she handles hecklers: "Bless your heart,...

To know, know, know him, is to love, love, love him ... I do love that song. And it often pops into my mind when I'm swimming; Zen-like rhythmic splashing is a mental magnet for songs with a hypnotic beat...

Are you serious? How do I love Sarah Palin? Let me count the ways… I love the excitement she brings to the base. I love how her rallies outdraw Barack Obama. And, for that matter, Joe Biden in his hometown. I love how she handles hecklers: “Bless your heart, sir, my son’s in Iraq fighting for your right

I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld – Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...

Well, it's not heartbreak exactly, and if it's love, it's love on the way out. But it belongs to this series and how. It's one of the true accents of love - the regret, the resignation, the what could have...

In the American sense of the l-word. In the Los Angeles Times, David Blankenhorn writes: I'm a liberal Democrat. And I do not favor same-sex marriage. Do those positions sound contradictory? To me, they fit together. Many seem to believe that marriage is simply a private love relationship between two people. They accept this view, in part, because Americans have increasingly emphasized and come to...