The Chinese dare not call in their loans to the US - their economy would collapse.

Far from being evil, sweatshops are a blessing for impoverished peasants - they're a huge step up for them.

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.

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

We call fundamentalist Islam "barbaric" only because we cannot find a harsher word.

Even "just words" have real consequences.

Pension plans all over America are about to collapse.

Unions do get more pay for their members, until they suck up all the money and the employer collapses.

Islamic terror is uncivilized. We are in a Fight Against Barbarism, and should call it such.