When in American history has a step backwards been viewed as progress?

McCain's plan to buy and reduce failed mortgages is a gift not just to foolish and fraudulent homebuyers, but to bloated local town bureaucracies.

Our schools need reform. Obama is opposed.

He tried to pull a rabbit out of a hat in the debate. He came up with a skunk.

The Times explained the current financial crisis before it happened.

Either this bailout is urgently needed to save our economy, no matter the cost; or it is not, and our elites are merely exercising self-dealing as usual. Which is it?

We need innovation to continue living at all.

Our partisans need to step back and think of each other as a "loyal opposition." Don't they?

What should have been said, by a wiser candidate than the two we have.

This "bailout plan" isn't a plan at all; it's a political fire drill at your expense.