Inspecting IDs is a waste of time and money, but it's ideal from the bureaucratic point of view because it doesn't solve the problem.

We now know that Nancy Pelosi's Democrats are a bunch of crooked politicians, just like the ones they replaced last November.

Virtually everyone who is anyone in American politics and media has roundly condemned any thought that Iran's President Ahmadinejad should be allowed to desecrate Ground Zero with his noisome presence. They are making a mistake.

Now comes what may be the solution to the global warming hysteria, and from a most unexpected source.

On the sixth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the Grey Lady of journalism stands revealed, not merely as leftist; not merely as liberal; and not even as socialist or Communist; but, in fact, explicitly anti-American.

The only real reason that ethanol finds its way into our gas tanks, is the one we know to look for whenever something stupid is going on - government interference.

Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.