True poverty is a lack of freedom to make your own choices.

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.

The average American knows about as much about Australia as the average Australian knows about the US.

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

Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia.

It's bad enough that we're trillions in debt, shouldn't we at least not give money to murderous terrorists?

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