Why do we look to politicians to fix things they only ever make worse?

Take careful stock of where we are, and where we're heading.

Too many voters are surprised at what they get from who they voted for.

America has never allowed the "heckler's veto" - and we shouldn't tolerate it now.

In many ways, Martin Luther King was a good man - certainly a highly intelligent man. Well read, well spoken, influential well beyond his life. But equal to all the Presidents of the nation?

The recent, less-than-informed coverage of the death of Benazir Bhutto reminds us of Neville Chamberlain's infamous comment about Czechsolovakia as " a faraway country about which we know nothing."