Mr. Washington said, "Government is like fire - an uncertain servant and a fearful master," but he missed the essence. At its core, governance boils down to two questions: "Who says?" and "Who pays?"

Virtually everyone who is anyone in American politics and media has roundly condemned any thought that Iran's President Ahmadinejad should be allowed to desecrate Ground Zero with his noisome presence. They are making a mistake.

China and India are adopting personal automobiles. If they follow our path, each country will put itself in a position of its entire economy being vulnerable to interruption of its oil supplies.

There aren't any really poor people in America.

This year's episode of Civility Strikes Back relates to the baggy-pants half-moon.

Barack Obama's people joined my social network and asked, "How can government help small businesses?" The answer's extremely simple, but nobody wants to hear it.

Now comes what may be the solution to the global warming hysteria, and from a most unexpected source.

If we're going to talk about "nation building," it would be extremely helpful to define the word "nation."

It is unfair, and it is unconstitutional.

On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Grey Lady of journalism stands revealed, not merely as leftist; not merely as liberal; and not even as socialist or Communist; but, in fact, explicitly anti-American.