Now this is a way to approach our healthcare problems: increase the number of tax collectors and decrease the number of doctors - brilliant!

If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

Obama is a man of first-class intellect and first-class temperament. But his character remains highly suspect.

History has blessed us with all the freedom and advantages of multiculturalism. But it has also blessed us, because of the accident of our origins, with the linguistic unity that brings a critically needed cohesion to a nation as diverse, multiracial and multiethnic as America. Why gratuitously throw away that priceless asset? How mindless to call the desire to retain it 'racist.

I happen to believe that the preemption school is correct, that the risks of allowing Saddam Hussein to acquire his weapons will only grow with time.

Science has everything to say about what is possible. Science has nothing to say about what is permissible.

In reality, Kyoto was a huge transfer of resources from the United States to the Third World, under the guise of environmental protection.