...I don't give a rodent's rear end what kind of government Iran has. If the whole country were truly united against a clique, it would be overthrown in short order, and why should Americans care either way? The media only show us the disturbances that fit their corporate agenda.

Cliff May has no better knowledge of how rigged the elections were than Simon Cowell. He is typical of the professional stirrers-up who want to distract us from the appalling problems facing our own country. The oil companies, the armaments makers and the pro-Israelis are the ones agitating against a state that will sell all its gas to Russia and China if we keep trying to destabilize it.

We can't get ourselves free and clear of Iraq, so why make...

Once upon a time Republicans nominated candidates of the intellectual prowess of Teddy Roosevelt, the emollient shrewdness of Ike, the brilliant empathy of the Gipper.

Now your last best hope is an airhead who took five years to get through J-school, and whose family life is a disaster area?

Come on, get real. Even last fall, Palin was considered an insult to their intelligence by many Republican-leaning voters south of the ice line.

My 2c: the next GOP presidential pick won't emerge till 2011, won't be any of the disaster-era names being touted now, and might just be Bobby Jindal.

But it hardly matters. Real conservatism is over in the 50-state USA. The boat's been missed once for all: no matter how badly...

Roll together the functions of ceremonial head of state, chief exec of the government and commander in chief in war (and we have wars all the time these days) and of course the media will grovel, star-struck, at the foot of this absolutist king.

Separate those duties as most sensible countries do, be they monarchy or republic, and it's way different.

Take Great Britain. The Queen endures criticism and praise alike silently-- she's above it. The Prime Minister, a political animal, is endlessly assaulted, both by Britain's scurrilous press (they have far more choice and competition than we do) and once a week in the bear garden of "Prime Minister's Questions" in the House of Commons, when anyone can grill him about...