Respect and affection for animals, particularly those who share our homes, recognize no geographic borders.

Those who actually hate animals to the point of being cruel to them are outcasts to the rest of us, no matter where in the world they live.

The worst thing that can happen to us in an ideological struggle is to become what we are fighting.

It is impossible to exaggerate the wide, and widening, gulf between the American attitude on the Iraq war and the view from our friends across the Atlantic.

It is statesmanlike for the administration and Congress to look to our nation's welfare beyond their terms in office.

Whatever its other limitations, the Big Apple and those who live there make room for their dogs and cats, take good care of them and abide by the rules made necessary by a huge population.

When runaway inflation and bank failures struck in Germany in the 1920s, the middle class was destroyed, which led directly to the rise of the Nazis.