The Berlin speech revealed more starkly than ever the most dangerous weaknesses in Barack Obama's thinking about the world.

Washington is already in mini-crisis mode over North Korea’s planned launch of a “satellite” (actually, an intercontinental ballistic missile)...Now comes word from South Korea that Pyongyang may also be planning another nuclear test.

It has become obvious that the shooter of Gabby Giffords and thirteen others was crazy, the follower of no political movement, motivated only by the bizarre ideas ricocheting through his head.

The character of the laws of the global financial system is such that a common thread ran through the behavior of individuals, institutions, authorities, and economies.

Netanyahu supporters are a decisive majority of the American public, stretching far beyond the confines of one faith, they can reshape the domestic American debate on Israel and the region. This is critical, since, thanks to Obama, U.S.-Israeli relations are more politically strained than ever before, a public division inevitably providing our adversaries with dangerous opportunities for trouble-making.

If Ryan ran, he would probably drive the other candidates further away from his own plan while forcing them to come up with serious alternatives of their own. If he got the nomination, many think he would clean Obama's clock in the debates.

Alex J. Pollock was interviewed by Institutional Risk Analytics to discuss his ideas for abolishing the Financial Accounting Standards Board and the need for meaningful financial reform legislation.

In his speech in Tucson on Wednesday, Barack Obama put to rest the libel that political incivility is responsible for the shooting.