For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

The development of the Roth functionality highlights the benefits of DST's collaborative approach to working with major retirement services organizations. We view this development effort as critical to keeping our partners current with regulatory initiatives and industry trends.

I believe, based on the activities, and I am not an expert on terrorism by any stretch, but I believe that when they attacked the United States and they attacked New York and Washington, D.C., they thought they could defeat us.

I believe Congress has a duty to do so as well; not simply as a body of legislators, but more importantly as a community of friends, neighbors, parents and Americans.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis.

How many times have you changed rooms in the past two years?

Certainly, we need to support the communities around the country, and we do.

I had been in a lot of Irish pubs all over the world, and I didn't know why we didn't have any here. I wanted to have an authentic Irish pub in town ... and I wanted it to be in Waterloo.

In this day and age, there is no public official or government office that wants to get caught in the situation that, following a terrorists attack, it is found out that they didn't tell folks they were supposed to tell about it. So what we have is a flood of information. Every little scrap of into that suggests there might be a threat is put out there and I think that is a mistake.

I logged another first in my reporting career last week. Your humble correspondent was booed.