Obama is defining himself in a way that will destroy him.

The sad truth is that you can have peace processes all you like, but if one side is committed to war, then it's war.

Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.

The United States established itself as a trustworthy new nation in its first two decades after the Revolutionary War by paying its debts, even when many in the country believed it had no obligation to do so. Alexander Hamilton, the founder of this newspaper, insisted on it.

The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

Let us now praise Barack Obama.

Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.