A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.

There is something democratic about grass-roots, widespread money support. There is something anti-democratic about one person propping up a candidate who can't make it.

If you are ever uncomfortable or are unsure of something, you attribute it.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Iraq has tremendous resources that belong to the Iraqi people. And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for ther own reconstruction.

Given the chance to throw off a brutal dictator like Saddam Hussein, people will rejoice.

If Mr. Obama wants to get things done, he must recognize that in Washington only the president has the power to make the first big move.