It's vital to recruit the best students from every nation to come to the US and found businesses.

What happens when the law forbids a company from firing an employee without a formal meeting, but a court has forbidden the employee from meeting with the company?

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

When government employees stopped setting the beat, the Japanese lost the rhythm and their economy fell apart.

Air bag rules saved fewer than one tenth the lives they claimed they would save and killed people to boot.

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?

Public education has gotten rid of the consequences of failure for both teachers and students, so of course very little education takes place.

Crackpots are thick on the ground and we can't fund them all. How do we decide which upcoming genius/crackpot to fund? Einstein didn't have any peers; he would never have passed "peer review."

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.