So it's perfectly consistent to support a public option and find Obama's plan lame.

No responsible gun owner would ever endanger a crowd of hundreds in a crowded urban setting by recklessly strapping on a piece and parading around calling attention to himself.

That huge disparity distorts incentives and encourages everyone to transfer their savings from banks to securities. It had precisely the intended effect of making securities traders richer, at the expense of workers whose jobs were eliminated for the sake of an extra penny per share.

Our bipartisan track record of successfully choosing the right friends and helping them, without getting played for suckers and/or having the whole thing blow up in our face, is really poor.

If we didn't have to maintain the ability to snake a missile down any chimney on 3 hours notice then maybe our judgment wouldn't be clouded by the constant temptation to launch a few.

Maybe our government would be more self-aware of its bipartisan ignorance, and stop imagining itself capable of divining who is our loyal friend, who is playing us for a sucker and who genuinely needs a missile down their chimney.

Maybe the rest of the world would worry more about growing their own economies and building their own prosperity, and less about deterring and thwarting an arbitrary and capricious United States.

Maybe we could afford universal health insurance.

The Israeli government needs to wake up fast. To the Bush syndicate, they are just another crony. And Bush cronies who don't keep secrets find themselves outside the circle in a hurry.

If the cost to assemble iPods is such a small portion of the total price, then Apple could just as well assemble them in the United States. Whatever money the Chinese factory saves is going to Apple, not consumers.

Lots of people just aren't smart enough to go to college and become symbolic analysts. They deserve living-wage jobs, too. Manufacturing should be a part of that.

It's too bad for the people who are going to suffer, but they voted (or consented by default) to make examples of themselves.

You might as well argue whether Brett Favre is more like Bart Starr, Joe Namath, Terry Bradshaw or Dan Marino, and I wouldn't want to read that book either.

Entities that reject the maximum spread should be forced to compete in a truly free market. They should be ineligible to incorporate in the United States or hold intellectual property in the United States. No limited liability. No Chapter Eleven bankruptcy protection. No patents. No trademarks. No copyrights.