By Will Offensicht May 13, 7:09 PM
Judges which rule based on feelings rather than the law, cause unintended consequences quite the opposite of what they wanted.
By Petrarch May 12, 8:19 AM
There are many places around the world where we should "Do Something!"
By Will Offensicht Mar 3, 2:48 PM
Mr. Obama's goal of eliminating extreme global poverty and halving global poverty would cost nearly half our entire federal budget.
By Petrarch Feb 22, 4:41 PM
It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.
By Petrarch Feb 19, 3:14 PM
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.
By Will Offensicht Feb 19, 8:24 AM
It's vital to recruit the best students from every nation to come to the US and found businesses.
By Will Offensicht Feb 11, 9:22 AM
When government employees stopped setting the beat, the Japanese lost the rhythm and their economy fell apart.
By Hobbes Feb 8, 1:12 PM
The Archbishop of Canterbury believes not only that his religion is dying, but his country's legal and political structure are doomed as well.
By Petrarch Feb 5, 3:16 PM
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?
By Hobbes Jan 31, 8:54 AM
When Commodore Matthew Perry opened Japan to the west, he took American and British missionaries along. In addition to translating, they also helped with education.
By Hobbes Jan 30, 8:20 AM
This video just gave us the best news we've heard out of the Middle East in a long, long time -- Iraqis are beginning to laugh at their leaders.
By Will Offensicht Jan 25, 2:15 PM
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.
By Petrarch Jan 24, 12:22 AM
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.
By Demosthenes Dec 31, 2:15 PM
The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."
By Petrarch Dec 5, 10:07 AM
By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.