The tension between Congress and the president is palpable, and nowhere is that more true than in the controversy over recess appointments.

Wednesday and Thursday mark Egypt’s first post-Mubarak presidential elections. Sadly, what should be a purple-fingered moment brings some hope and much disappointment. Don’t get me wrong – Mubarak was a loathsome stooge, a petty and incompetent rentier tyrant who deserved what he got and more.

President Obama's attempt to appoint Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations Board was perhaps the low point of his dizzying flurry of actions designed to reward organized labor at the expense of everyone else.

A complicated system of filling political positions is starting to negatively affect our government's ability to function in a time of crisis.

Gagging Grenell was a bad play for the Romney team because it guaranteed the issue wouldn't go away. The only way to dispel concerns about the man's fitness for the job was to let him do his job. Muzzling him until he resigned was the worst possible way to handle it because all it did was feed crocodiles like Fischer.

The leadership of the ISI is changing hands at a critical time for both the U.S. and Pakistan.

With change of party control in the Senate last week, doomsayers fear the combination of a Democratic Senate and a Republican president will bring gridlock or trench warfare.

President Obama’s scorn for the Constitution has been expressed most recently in his "recess" appointments of members of the National Labor Relations Board and the chairmanship of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.