The U.S. military faces a readiness crisis - one confronting not just its people and end-strength cuts - but pushing equipment to the breaking point. Across all services, long-standing readiness problems are worsening and breakdowns are happening more frequently.

Tension between the United States and Iran reached levels not seen in more than 20 years when, on Wednesday, Iranian military officials threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz, the 34-mile wide channel through which more than one-third of the world’s oil tanker traffic passes. 

I said it three months ago, and I’ll say it again: It’s high time for a reset on healthcare reform. Four things have happened since last November’s election that reinforce the wisdom of doing so.

The legal and political forces that achieved this very significant initial victory will need to reassemble for the next legal kickoff, and avoid acting like the proverbial political equivalent of a "suicide squad."

We support President Obama's commitment to the aid and reconstruction of Haiti, but it underscores our need for additional military capabilities.

We have to clear a heaping pile of recent and older health policy debris before moving in a careful and determined manner to the "replace" side of long overdue solutions to chronic, preexisting U.S. healthcare conditions. The clock's running, but we can and we will do this much better, and we have to.

This event will discuss the future of the Supreme Court.