AIG's troubles are not entirely their fault; paying the bonuses is actually in the taxpayers' best interest.

The taxpayers profit not only from paying the AIG bonuses, but from hoping that they're even bigger next year.

Our government has finally taken an effective step to deal with our ever-expanding pension liabilities.

Our government is trying to regulate all risk out of our investment system. Unfortunately, the only way to get rid of risk is to get rid of profit.

Obama's appointees are all getting into trouble because they abused power that shouldn't belong to government in the first place.

Illegal immigration harms mostly blacks. Obama should do them a favor and stop it.

The Chinese Communists were too nice at Tiananmen Square, says Obama's new National Council of Intelligence chairman.

California has spent beyond its means for years, and doesn't plan to stop.

The more the government meddles in food, drugs, and nutrition, the worse the confusion becomes.

Sure enough, struggling Americans do cling to guns, religion, and family.