When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.

This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.

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.

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.

It is time just to face up to what we know to be the case: Anything goes.

By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.

Who owns your mortgage? It might just be...nobody.

It's the teddy bear being insulted, by being given such a disreputable name.

Unlimited money, unlimited visibility, unlimited clout - what could possibly go wrong?

No nation in the entire history of earth has ever been so blessed as we.