I always keep a firewall between my own travails and my perception of public-policy issues; otherwise I would retain no credibility as a commentator.

Although his personality is generally quite agreeable, Mr Murdoch has no loyalty to anyone or anything except his company.

Given the genocidal belligerence of Iranian threats against Israel, it is hard to take issue with Israel's right to preemptive self-defense.

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can .

Watergate enabled the Democrats to cut off all aid to South Vietnam and ensure American defeat in a war their party entered and had effectively lost, before Nixon salvaged a non-Communist South Vietnam while effecting a complete American withdrawal.

Perhaps the gravest under-publicized atrocity in the world is the persecution of Christians.

The U.S. prosecution service is eating at the soul of the American republic. It is an absolute danger to everyone.