Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

Negativity drove me out of politics in the mid-Nineties.

Democracy is but an experiment in the long history of the world.

There's no question that many factors contribute to voters' perceptions about debates and who wins and who loses.

Every day I am being told to sign up for Tumblr, Yammer, Friendfeed, Plaxo, Last.fm, ping.fm or the hot social-media tool du jour that happened to get mentioned on Mashable.com. It is like a social-media arms race. Each one of these new tools is like a cool new night club. Hot today, gone tomorrow, replaced with something else.

As history has repeatedly proven, one trade tariff begets another, then another - until you've got a full-blown trade war. No one ever wins, and consumers always get screwed.

As a Republican, I never expected to be working with Hillary Clinton.