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.

It's possible that nobody will ever be able to build anything of significance again.

Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.

Rich people are voting with their feet: they're grabbing their wallets and running away.

Government ought to be able to help the economy - assuming that politicians want the economy to grow and assuming that the government is able to do what the politicians promise.

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?

Who needs a "first black president" who is actually white when you can have a "first black president" who really is black?

The Vice President will be leaving a slimy, black legacy.

We don't disparage the motives of politicians, they have the same motives we do. We don't distrust the motives of bureaucrats, we trust them all too well.

We gripe about bias in the mainstream media because freedom of the press is only meaningful if you happen to own a press, but enough people have presses to keep politicians on their toes.