Iran's new Bolivarian buddies--Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales, and Rafael Correa --are not the most cautious cats in the Western Hemisphere. But they look like Bismarkian "satisfied powers" by comparison to the drug cartels that are an increasing part of Iran's anti-American network.

Jamie Dimon had no difficulty understanding one of the cardinal rules of Chicago politics, "Don't back no losers." That makes his apparent move to the Republicans very interesting.

If Romney were more adept and philosophically grounded, he could make the case that he’s the guy to turn around government. You can hear him trying, but he’s not there yet.

Obama has a long-standing habit of seeing failure to support his agenda as a failure of character. Meanwhile, it’s Obama and his allies in Congress who’ve been at the forefront of the effort to make America less competitive.

Wearing a veil is not a personal decision for a Muslim woman. The fundamentals of modern civil society are at stake.

President Obama and his spokesmen on the campaign trail are charging that the Chamber of Commerce is smuggling foreign money into the campaign, just as they attacked the Supreme Court for ruling that corporations and unions have First Amendment speech rights in January.

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.

Obama's Chicago way fosters a culture of crony capitalism and assumes that there will always be a bounteous private sector for politicians to plunder.