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.

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."

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

These bridges have needed fixing for 25 years and they're still operating?

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?

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

"It is the duty of every officer of His Majesty's Navy, to discharge powder and shot in the general direction of the enemy."