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.

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.

Somehow, we have reached the point where we view democracy and elections as ends in themselves. But they aren't.