The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.

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

Sen Obama is a member of a racist organization which states publicly that the members remain true to another land.

Does Mr. Obama really believe that abortionists are going to be eager to admit their mistakes and keep babies alive?

Is Michelle Obama claiming Reagan's mantle of optimism and patriotic pride for her husband?

Competition keeps the NBS functioning effectively just as competition would help the public schools.

It's easy to see why Ted Kennedy would try to wrap Mr. Obama in the tattered mantle of his older brother, but is that a robe Mr. Obama should wear?

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?

Bush-bashers hate to admit it, but a smaller percentage of active-duty military personnel died during both Bush administrations than during the Reagan and Carter administrations.

Of course Mr. Musharraf doesn't want to share power. Who does? Does The Times want to share power and influence with the LA Times or with the Washington Post? Of course not.