Like all corporate taxes, the cost of import duties will simply be passed on to the consumer.

Why would we even think about raising our already-high corporate taxes?

When politicians start looking at corporations with a greedy eye, it may sound appealing - but it's your pocket they'll be picking.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.

Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?

George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.

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."

By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.

Who owns your mortgage? It might just be...nobody.