A good way out of strategic insolvency--a condition a country enters when it is not funding the commitments it has made--would be to properly resource the plans already put out by DOD. But troublingly, the Obama administration is not funding the capabilities the military says it needs to fulfill the missions assigned to it by its civilian masters.

It's comfortable living in a cocoon -- associating only with those who share your views, reading journalism and watching news that only reinforce them, avoiding those on the other side of the cultural divide.

Liberals have been doing this for a long time. In 1972 the movie critic Pauline Kael said...

At this event, panelists discussed the simmering conflict between the nuclear-armed states of India and Pakistan.

John Pomfret's front page article in the Washington Post on the Obama administration's arm twisting of the Dalai Lama is further reason to doubt that the president's "strategic reassurance" policy is anything but a policy of appeasing the PRC.

In the run-up to this weekend's G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European "austerity" with Barack Obama's economic policies.

As Congress weighs the benefits of a new federal insurance regulator, it is worthwhile to pause and consider the weaknesses of the current system, and whether a new regime would effectively fill that gap.

Barack Obama's health policies hamstring community clinics.