I have not yet seen Sicko, Michael Moore's documentary indictment of the American health care system, and therefore cannot comment on it. But all the ballyhoo about its Cannes premiere and Cuban connections does remind me of one thing about free, universal, directly-government-funded health care: it sucks.

So, of course,...

Frankly, I don't care whether Virginia's lax gun laws were entirely, partly, somewhat or not at all responsible for the April 16 massacre at Virginia Tech. I wanted much stricter gun control before that catastrophe happened, I wanted much stricter gun control during the whole media circus that went to...

I'm so glad that Daniele Mastrogiacomo of Italy's La Repubblica was the only journalist trying to operate in Afghanistan. Otherwise, there is no way the Italian government would have responded to Mastrogiacomo's kidnapping, and the decapitation of his driver, by making a deal to swap out -- or...

I know I should be passionately following the showdown between Congress and the president over legislation tying the funding of American troops in Iraq to a timetable for the troops' withdrawal from Iraq. Honestly, though, I find it hard to follow it at all. Showdowns are all about certainty,...

You know what I hate about Barack Obama?

He's so bright and fresh and new. So young, so idealistic, so untainted by the dirty dealings of Washington. He may or may not get bogged down in all that policy crap, but he sure will inspire us.

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Although I have never been hired as a speechwriter for the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton, I have magnanimously gone ahead and drafted the remarks that she can and should give to Democratic primary voters by way of explaining herself on Iraq.

"Good morning.

As you are all...