Thinking back to his days as secretary of state, Mr. Shultz is quoted saying: "The world was not ready for a world free of nuclear weapons." It still isn't.

Samir Khan was not "collateral damage." He was a sworn member of al-Qaeda who trained terrorists to kill his fellow Americans. And it is appalling that a representative of the US government he sought to destroy--whose citizens he wanted to "mow down" like grass--would offer "condolences" for his death.

With the UN-mandated imposition of a no-fly zone over Libya, President Obama has now thrust us into our third Mideast shooting war.

L. Douglas Keeney's "15 Minutes" offers a very different picture of what was going on in those early days of the Cold War.

President Obama's decision to issue a blanket moratorium on deepwater oil drilling, inaccurately claiming the policy was recommended by scientists, underscores his fundamental misunderstanding of the role of science in policymaking.

It is often assumed that Afghanistan's warlords are choking off any chance at progress. In fact, they may not be all bad.

It's the oldest trick in PR: If you want to generate publicity, generate a statistic.

Some intelligenceanalysts think there is no covert nuclear-arms program at all, while others are not so sure.