Is victory sweet because your side wins - or is it really because the other side loses?

The Middle East Media Research Institute has spent decades detailing the diseased messages emanating from Palestinian TV and textbooks, instructing children in the glories of suicide terrorism against innocent Israelis.

Unquestionably, American political rhetoric can be repugnant, and the Right can certainly be as guilty as the Left.

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.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.