Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.

Can we have a little dignity please?

Not only don't we need one, we're better off without one.

Can you really put a price on a lifetime of voting?

We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?

What can the UAW do with $50 billion?

Is there a shortage of conflict in the world today, that we need to dredge up past wrongs?