In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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