Even "just words" have real consequences.

Unions do get more pay for their members, until they suck up all the money and the employer collapses.

If you aren't quite sure just what you want, they can't really help.

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."

Somewhere in the Great Beyond, Hermann Goering is laughing.

Bureaucracies never die, and India's still uses genuine red tape.