The decade of the 1980s when Pope John Paul II was just beginning his service as pontiff, and Ronald Reagan became America's 40-president, began a major transition in world affairs that is still unfolding. Together and separately, those two leaders helped to bring about the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Will we continue to show forbearance to Saudi Arabia's domestic policies because of its oil and, now, its importance to us in the battle against Osama bin Laden and jihadist Islam?

David Hume correctly predicted 250 years ago that the government would infallibly abuse the privilege of incurring debt.

Such anti-American thinking is nothing new in Europe, but it seems on the rise these days, much on display during the Bush visit to Europe and seemingly exemplified, as well, by the EU's blocking of the merger of General Electric and Honeywell, two American companies whose marriage had been approved by the U.S. government.

Romney was the big, big winner in delegates, but that doesn't mean that he'll be handed the nomination.

In 1933, the United States intentionally defaulted on its Treasury debt, an action supported by both Congress and the Supreme Court.

If American mortgage borrowers act in their own narrow interests, as "knaves," they might yet cause an economic collapse worse than anything we have suffered.

Terrorism is more easily fought when its underlying ideology is weakened; when neighboring countries support the terrorists' moderate, not militant, faction; when there is firm public opinion from those who are being attacked; and through suppression and penetration.