I think it was the best speech of his career, as President Obama accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Read the whole thing. Many things in the speech could have been said by George W. Bush, or Reagan, or Kennedy. The President, correctly, alluded to the fact that he did not really deserve the prize, but most importantly, he asserted the fact that it is the United States which has, with its economic and military power, underwritten the security of the world for the last 60 years, and continues to do so.

As the Senate continues to debate the health reform bill, here is a passionate argument against the plan, which the author believes will surely result in the end of private health insurance in America.

What are they smoking up in Canada? Can the author of this piece in The National Post really believe that the whole world should adopt China's one child policy? Does she not understand that such a policy requires the existence of a brutal, totalitarian regime to enforce it? Does she not understand that the people who control the levers of such a totalitarian machine will not stop at simply controlling one's reproductive choices, but will dominate all other aspects of life?

James Cameron's news movie Avatar gets a glowing first review.

NFL announcers are getting serious when they talk about the violent collisions that can result in concussions, and the consequences that result for the men who play the game.

The Sun in Great Britain is reporting that Tiger's wife has demanded he quit golf to save their marriage.

One of my favorite movies as a kid was George Pal's version of War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells. The star of that movie was Gene Barry, who passed away this week at age 90.