Bush-bashers hate to admit it, but a smaller percentage of active-duty military personnel died during both Bush administrations than during the Reagan and Carter administrations.

Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.

A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.

Of course Mr. Musharraf doesn't want to share power. Who does? Does The Times want to share power and influence with the LA Times or with the Washington Post? Of course not.

Leaders know that there's nothing as disruptive as information.

It would be a very good idea to have a standard system for maintaining health care records, but having the government spend money on this is a bad idea.

The amount of space TIME used trying to mislead us shows how important the court really is.

What does Mr. Gates plan to do with all the extra people that won't die from malaria now that his foundation has found a cure?

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.

The Romans understood nation building, an art we and the British have forgotten.