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By Petrarch | Jan 24, 2008 |
14
George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 23, 2008 |
2
It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 22, 2008 |
5
Rich people are voting with their feet: they're grabbing their wallets and running away.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 22, 2008 |
2
Government ought to be able to help the economy - assuming that politicians want the economy to grow and assuming that the government is able to do what the politicians promise.
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By Petrarch | Jan 18, 2008 |
5
The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 18, 2008 |
29
We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 16, 2008 |
19
Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars? The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 11, 2008 |
5
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.
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By Will Offensicht | Jan 10, 2008 |
11
A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.
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By Demosthenes | Dec 31, 2007 |
7
The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."