In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

Different regions may require different strategies, as President Bush has noted, but not different basic principles. It's either collective security or selective security.

Of higher value than any one leader is the cause.

George Washington had a tough second term.

Never feel guilty about reading, it's what you do to do your job.

The first ladyship is the only federal office in which the holder can neither be fired nor impeached.