Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

It is a wonderful thing when truly stupid ideas return to bite the people that promoted them.

It's interesting that Bill Clinton is not called the first African-American president.

There is one way in which we can help the Cuban people, and that is by immediately and unilaterally ending the embargo that has been in place for all these years.

Freedom, by definition, includes the freedom to choose to be an idiot.

Anyone who sends their children to a religious school may be permitted an 80% tax deduction of the tuition.

Americans complain about the lack of true leaders and of today's poll-driven politicians. But if American is a democracy, isn't that exactly how it is supposed to work?

Hillary is right in pointing out that most parents could use some help, but it doesn't take a village. It especially doesn't take a village of government-funded social workers, most of whom are either not yet married or divorced.

George W Bush, lambasted as the destroyer of peace in the Middle East, may preside over the most welcome development there since the Second World War.

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.