It's eminently clear to everyone paying even the slightest bit of attention that the recent battle in South Ossetia between Georgia and the South Ossetians, quickly followed by even larger scale battles between Georgia and the Russians, has far more to do with oil pipelines and grand strategic concerns than democracy and self-governance...

During the past several years in which gasoline prices were steadily rising I have run across a few obscure articles, mostly produced by economists, that claimed the actual price of gas is now lower than it was back in the 1970s when we had the nuisance of all those long lines at gas stations...

Beneath all the doom and gloom, what strikes one this late summer is the sheer resurgence of the United States...

Last week, firebombs that exploded minutes apart destroyed a car parked outside the campus home of a researcher at the University of California Santa Cruz, and burned the front door of another's home...