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.

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 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."

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.

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.

Scientific evidence is only as reasonable as it is accurate.