When a man doesn't know the meaning of the word 'fear', that might just be a deficiency in his education.

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.

If the IMF is correct (a big if), China will be the planet's No.1 economy by 2016. That means whoever's elected in November next year will be the last president of the United States to preside over the world's dominant economic power.

The law functions as formal embodiment of a moral code, not as free-standing substitute for it.

How ridiculous! You're going to have the first black president apologize for slavery?

What can Americans learn from the Olympics spectacle? According to the IMF, China will succeed America as the dominant economic power in the course of the next presidential term, so Howard Fineman, editorial director of the Huffington Post and MSNBC mainstay, was anxious to pick up tips. 'Brits long ago lost their empire,' he tweeted, 'but overall show us how to lose global power gracefully.' So there's that.

We are the source of our problems not mysterious sinister foreigners overseas.