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

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.

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.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

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

We don't defeat evil by becoming evil.

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving.