Our bureaucrats are not morons; quite the contrary.

China's masters are starting to act like they care about ordinary Chinese. Quite a new leaf for Communists.

There are many places around the world where we should "Do Something!"

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

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.

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

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."