The prospect of Iran achieving nuclear breakout capability is becoming more imminent. Reports this past weekend indicate that Iran has built the infrastructure needed for operating more efficient and advanced centrifuges at the Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant.

Tokyo is expected to announce Friday that it will buy America's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), the clearest statement yet that Japan will not be left behind in Asia's arms race.

The failure of the Congressional Super Committee means that major economic policy decisions are likely to wait for 2013. The government will be funded and not bump up against the debt ceiling, and perhaps some modest initiatives might go forward such as renewing payroll tax cuts or extended unemployment insurance benefits.

Business can provide the leverage, expertise, and leadership that will help educators and public officials make tough decisions and take hard steps they may not take on their own.

Obama's passivity begs the question, "Is he a golfer playing president, or a president playing golf?"

While some Republicans have been distancing themselves from Rep. Paul Ryan's proposed Medicare overhaul, Florida's junior senator, Marco Rubio, has emerged in recent weeks as Ryan's most ardent public defender.

Public radio and television are defensible to the extent that they serve the public good by enriching the arts. NPR and PBS, however, wandered far from this mission.

The governments of U.K., Ireland and Greece have embarked upon ambitious, sometimes painful efforts to restore their economies Of the three, the U.K. and Ireland took their medicine, while Greece decided the taste was just too awful, and its irresponsibility threatens every euro-zone country.