Why can't we Americans buy cheap cars? The cheapest car in the US costs about $20,000, about 8 times the cost of Tata's offering.

Some idealists suggest that election campaigns be paid for by the Treasury -- taxpayers would pay for campaigns intended to elect people we don't like. In fact, we DO have public campaign funding but nobody wants to admit it.

A president is supposed to be emotionally stable, not a weeping willow.

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.

Can we have a little dignity please?

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

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?