As the president has ramped up into campaign mode, he has studiously avoided mentioning most of his signature accomplishments. One can see why. The one thing President Obama always seems to mention is the auto bailout. His implication that the bailout is succeeding-that it will not ultimately be a loss for taxpayers-is a constant theme of Democrats.

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.

MacArthur, a new PBS television biography,is must viewing for armchair generals commanding NATO forces in the Balkans from their Barcaloungers.

Ever since its founding in 1948, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has maintained an aggressive and bellicose international security posture. Today, fully two decades after the end of the Cold War, North Korea's external defense and security policies look arguably more extreme and anomalous than ever.

You know politicians are serious when they move from campaigning to governing. Something like that may be happening on the Republican campaign trail -- but, unfortunately, not at the Obama White House.

John Boehner is caught between a rock and a hard place in order to get the House of Representatives to vote on his debt plan.

The economic policies of the Obama administration have not helped the economy rebound. His policies have instead hurt job creation and has led to a hiring freeze.

It's highly unusual in a presidential debate for two Republican candidates -- the two leading in current national polls -- to heap praise on a liberal Democratic senator. But in the Fox News debate in Sioux City Thursday night both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney had very good words to say for Oregon's Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden.