Tomorrow, the George W. Bush Presidential Center will be dedicated at Southern Methodist University in Texas. It's a good time to look back on the performance of the 43rd president, who has been almost entirely missing from the public stage these past four years.

"Whatever they thought they could ultimately achieve, they've already failed," says President Obama of the Boston Marathon bombers.

WASHINGTON -- Terrorism is speech -- speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible.

WASHINGTON -- You know the feeling. You wake up filled with dread but, still groggy, you can't put your finger on the reason.

WASHINGTON -- Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using the normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.

I just found out my children aren't mine -- and by the way, neither do yours belong to you. They are all owned by the community.

We Americans are lucky, though we seldom reflect on it, that we have good neighbors.