It almost doesn't matter what the topic is, the argument may already be lost. We've already established there is little national virtue left. We're now just talking about the price.

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.

The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.

A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.

With fifty states in the union, we have fifty different laboratories in which to test different approaches to a problem.

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

It is time just to face up to what we know to be the case: Anything goes.

Can we have a little dignity please?

By taking this preposterous action, the CIA has provided a signal service.