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.

The left-wing blogsphere claim that Hillary's people stole the election from Obama. The evidence, if true, is staggering.

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

One of the supreme ironies of our time is that a religiously-motivated US president went to war in the name of God to set up a non-religious state in Iraq to protect Americans against a highly religious movement known as Al Qaeda.

Here, we propose some resolutions for the major candidates to consider.

Of course Mr. Musharraf doesn't want to share power. Who does? Does The Times want to share power and influence with the LA Times or with the Washington Post? Of course not.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, the head of the Church of England, stirred up a storm when he spoke of the Nativity as a "myth." The Pope didn't have that problem. Perhaps the Pope has a stronger brand identity than does the Church of England?

Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.

The Omaha mall incident adds 9 more victims onto this year's tally of innocents who died because of gun control.

Armed citizens make it a bit harder to do evil.