It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

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

Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.

Once again, lawbreakers get a nice fat Christmas present, while the longsuffering voters get "nothing but hooks and some wire."

By thumbing their nose in the fact of the overwhelming majority of Americans, the Democrats are running a very serious risk.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Why such a difference between the handling of the California fires, vs Katrina in New Orleans?

In recent years, the dream of home ownership has gotten farther and farther out of reach, as house prices have escalated. According to a recent study, the primary cause is excessive zoning laws - that is, government over-regulation.

Is American citizenship of such little concern that we don't mind it being awarded as the result of a crime?

Brazil serves as an object lesson in how government incompetence - not greed, not really bribery even, certainly not totalitarianism, just simple incompetence - can make life difficult on an otherwise free and vibrant economy.