The number of American presidential candidates varies with the sunspot cycle and the phases of the moon.

There are a number of Americans who shouldn't vote. The number is 57 percent, to judge by the combined total of Clinton and Perot ballots in the 1996 presidential election.

Political discourse has become so rotten that it's no longer possible to tell the stench of one presidential candidate from the stink of another.

Mistreatment of al Qaeda members and their friends and hangers-on is something I number among my moral concerns. But it's number 1,000,000,001.

Chinese economic development has cost many American workers their jobs. That's the price of progress.

A fundamental American question is, 'What's the big idea?'