Every two years the American politics industry fills the airwaves with the most virulent, scurrilous, wall-to-wall character assassination of nearly every political practitioner in the country - and then declares itself puzzled that America has lost trust in its politicians.

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

Post-Watergate morality, by which anything left private is taken as presumptive evidence of wrongdoing.

In the course of his presidency, Obama has gone from an almost magical charismatic figure to an ordinary politician. Ordinary. Average.

Clashes of values and the struggle for primacy constitute a constant in human history that accounts for that other constant - conflict and war.

Fox News is no monopoly. It is a singular minority in a sea of liberal media. ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, NPR, CNN, MSNBC vs. Fox. The lineup is so unbalanced as to be comical - and that doesn't even include the other commanding heights of the culture that are firmly, flagrantly liberal: Hollywood, the foundations, the universities, the elite newspapers.

Increasing public safety almost always means restricting liberties.