The criticisms of Gen. McChrystal and other American generals are unjust; the reality is that America's commanders over the last eight years have consistently given their best professional military advice, making the recommendations they thought would achieve the goals set for them by their political masters.

The Paycheck Fairness Act looks like common sense, but instead of helping women it will hurt all workers. The legislation, built on 30 years of spurious advocacy research, will impose unnecessary and onerous requirements on employers.

Greater transparency in health-care financing and more skepticism regarding the purported rationales for hidden cross-subsidies and regulatory protections are sorely overdue.

The Geneva meeting thus marks the worst political abuse of the four Geneva Conventions in their history, and a new low point for "humanitarian law" in the international system.

We must engage with China when it is in our interests to do so. But our most urgent task is to successfully play balance of power politics in Asia until a new regime emerges in China that is more accepting of the international order and less afraid of its own people.

By penalizing old-fashioned morality you do not make toleration of the new morality more likely.

The Ahmed Ghailani case underscores the necessity of Obama's quiet decision to change course and lift the ban he imposed after his inauguration on new military commission trials at Guantanamo.

The instinct of some liberal voices to lay blame for the Arizona shootings on the right, before any facts were known, is unseemly and potentially more divisive that the spirited rhetoric that is their target.