More people expect to see E.T. round the corner than their Social Security check in the mailbox 40 years from now.

Many religious leaders and, more sporadically, the government have tried for a long time to stem the tide of divorce, without any success. Maybe it's time to let private industry, and the Invisible Hand, have a go at it.

So four out of five Americans think we are heading in the wrong direction as a country?

"It is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly, whether they are big banks or small borrowers."

Why would we even think about raising our already-high corporate taxes?

When politicians start looking at corporations with a greedy eye, it may sound appealing - but it's your pocket they'll be picking.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.

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.