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

A government giveaway that actually solves a problem!

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.

Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to choose to be an idiot.

I thank God that I've got enough sense to own a gun and that I was able to use it to prevent a possibly serious crime against my family.

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.

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?

A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.