For e- books, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix would be the Killer App of All Time.

If Congress did only what it's constitutionally authorized to do, influence-peddling would be a non-issue because Congress wouldn't have the power to grant favors.

If Shays-Meehan becomes law, its supporters will tell their constituents they have reduced the influence of special interests in politics. But what they will really have done is increase their own influence over electoral outcomes. Some citizens may like the idea of "quieter" elections, with fewer outside groups running obnoxious ads, not as much money spent. But they should understand that it will come at a price. In most districts and states, voters won't be given a real choice at the polls. They will merely be ratifying the continued tenure of career politicians for whom the quest for campaign finance reform has become convenient political cover for entrenchment in office.

Asked whether the cold war was still going on when it comes to figure skating, Sale replied, "It's always going on. That's the way skating works."

Millions of Americans spend billions of dollars on Ritalin for youth, Prozac and Viagra for adults, and caffeine, nicotine or alcohol, but none of these drug dollars fuel terrorism. Thus, it is not the drugs but the illegality of the drugs that creates profits for terror - profits that also fuel organized crime, corruption and violence around the globe.