Book-burnings: not just for Nazi Germany anymore.

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.

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?

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."