As the politicians who support the president's health care plans escape back into Washington from America -- and as the politicians who oppose the president's health care plans leave their safe redoubt in the heartland and go once more behind the lines into the hostile territory of the Federal Triangle -- only one thing is certain: We don't know the end of this story.
If we had a plebiscite on it today, polls show the president's plan would lose. But we are governed by representative government, not plebiscite. And our representatives represent many things. They represent their own convictions,...












Impending Washington Deal on Health Care
Singapore is an odd case and tiny and can't be compared to really any place on earth.
Taiwan and South Korea were both military-led authoritatian regimes from the late 1940s until the early 1990s and both now are full-democracies. China won't be able to keep up this game forever.
In 1979, the KMT-led government launched a...