GM found that when you ask for government help, you'd better be careful - you might get what you wish for, and our guys have a track record of losing negotiations.

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.

How come all the environmentalists keep proposing things people don't want to do? Real solutions nedn't require deprivation.

Poor people often skimp on food so that they will have enough money for things they consider valuable.

Since we peasants couldn't see that Roosevelt's marvelous ideas were for our own good, he believed it was OK for him to lie to help pass his programs. Does that remind you of any modern politicians?

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?

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

Making a small class of citizens into a protected species leads to less employment for that group.