A computer can only do what it's told, or programmed, to do - it can't force people to do anything, unless they allow it to do so.

Reuters reports trouble at the North Pole.

It is time just to face up to what we know to be the case: Anything goes.

No nation in the entire history of earth has ever been so blessed as we.

Scientific evidence is only as reasonable as it is accurate.

Antiwar movies are all losing money by the truckload.

The statements and actions of the Westboro Baptist Church are precisely the sort of offensive, unpopular, marginal viewpoint that the First Amendment was designed from Day One to protect.

What are we to make of the news that career State Department staffers are refusing to go to Iraq?

Obesity has now reached the point where serious engineering consequences are required.

It's a far better thing, as well as much easier, for government to act to prevent a disaster, or at least to warn residents loudly and clearly of the potential consequences of their foolish choices.