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.

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

Meet the new Russia, same as the old Russia.

Muslim women may be second-class citizens, but they are obligated to fight jihad too.

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

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

Pension plans all over America are about to collapse.

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

How a religion prefers to be spread has a profound influence on how well it gets along with other religions.