“Neither a borrower nor a lender be.” (Hamlet).  As in Europe, in America too.  Greeks are rioting to maintain their entitlements, German and French leaders fret about their over-exposed banks and European bailouts come and go.   Meanwhile, the United States is stuck in a debate over whether to raise its debt ceiling, the threat [...]...

If gossip is a sin, the News of the World was the most sinful of newspapers even before it was exposed in the current scandal.  The British Sunday tabloid made its living by revealing the secrets of the famous and the powerful to its four million readers, nonchalantly characterizing them as “scoops”.  After its own [...]...

On the face of it, this has been a good week for President Obama.  First, he dispatched the notion that he is ineligible to serve as president by producing his birth certificate.  Then U.S. special forces caught up with and killed Osama bin Laden, terrorist mastermind of the 2001 attacks against America.  Both developments cast the [...]...