Howarth doesn’t have to convince anyone he’s right to devastate New York’s budding shale industry and put tens of thousands of jobs into question. He wins if he muddies the waters enough to give cautious Albany bureaucrats reason to stall.

Samir Khan was not "collateral damage." He was a sworn member of al-Qaeda who trained terrorists to kill his fellow Americans. And it is appalling that a representative of the US government he sought to destroy--whose citizens he wanted to "mow down" like grass--would offer "condolences" for his death.

The death of Yemeni-American militant, Anwar al-Awlaki, will likely degrade AQAP’s ability to recruit foreign fighters and to conduct attacks against America in the near term. However, over the long term killing Awlaki will probably not reduce AQAP’s capabilities significantly.

CPSC commissioner Anne M. Northup will speak about recent steps taken to reduce the burden of over-regulation.

As breathtaking as the details of the raid are, they may be equally sensitive in their implications for the future of the war on terror, the war in Afghanistan, and America’s relationship with Pakistan.

The temptation to declare victory in the "global war on terror" is, a decade after 9/11, very strong. But Osama bin Laden was only a part of the problem of the "greater Middle East," and the so-called "Long War" will continue.

Our national security would be better served if the United States captured al-Asiri and kept him alive for questioning, so we can find out what he knows.