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

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

Don't regulate campaign finance; just require disclosure.

Can we have a little dignity please?

Not only don't we need one, we're better off without one.

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

Can you really put a price on a lifetime of voting?

We are beginning to see an unholy alliance forming between libel law and a desire to make unpleasant people be quiet.

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?