Any financial adviser will tell you to keep two months' salary in the bank in case of an unforeseen disaster. Shouldn't the country?

They were "only following orders"...

When the paper is not to their liking, bureaucracies tend to have hissy-fits and throw their weight around.

Hillary and Obama might just as well walk down the street throwing rocks into people's living rooms.

The NSF was chartered to fund basic scientific research, it was not chartered to extend affirmative action to the sciences.

More people expect to see E.T. round the corner than their Social Security check in the mailbox 40 years from now.

CPS is another bureaucracy which has lost sight of its product and is caught up in process.

For the stated purpose of reviving our economy, this is nothing more than an exercise in silliness.

Many religious leaders and, more sporadically, the government have tried for a long time to stem the tide of divorce, without any success. Maybe it's time to let private industry, and the Invisible Hand, have a go at it.

If you aren't quite sure just what you want, they can't really help.