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.

Here, we propose some resolutions for the major candidates to consider.

With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

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.

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