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

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.

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

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.

We didn't defeat the Nazis by becoming Nazis.

In my opinion, the president is right to address future funding, even though Social Security will show a surplus through 2018 and will not run out of funds until 2042.

Conventional wisdom holds that setting a timetable for getting American troops out of Iraq would be a mistake.