Goldman Sachs cannot argue that the proceeds it received from the AIG rescue did not constitute an indirect bailout any more than can auto parts makers who are saved by Detroit's bailout.

The wisdom of universal health care is proven and accepted all over the world except in the minds of partisan ignoramuses defending the indefensible.

Perhaps some of Madoff's "victims" are nothing more than serial launderers who leap from one money laundering scheme to another?

Cars are not longer just big business; companies have to build vehicles, but also be able to create multilateral partnerships which include workers, politicians, civil servants and investors.

Canadian politicians have been in capable of ending this primitive practice - the largest killing of marine mammals in the world - even as damage to the country's reputation grows.