This is not a plea for help, but a warning about what we'e going to have to deal with soon. The patience of the Russian people is wearing thin. With whom will the West side in this coming battle, the Russian people or the KGB?

President Obama frequently confuses explanation for persuasion, as if simply telling Americans that because he thinks X, then X must be the way to go, and nearly all of his explanations assume that disagreement with him must stem from ignorance or villainy.

The House Judiciary Committee's hearings on executive power last week turned out to be a showcase of anti-Bush arguments.

Will the new rich ever convince those who don't have as much that the system that disproportionately rewards its most entrepreneurial citizens is not merely efficient but also just?

Today, more than half a century later, after the fall of the communist regimes and after so much effort by so many, we like to believe that a United Europe, if it can be brought about, will permanently remove the specter of war from our horizon.