Bush's national security doctrine and the threat of pre-emption it contains are warnings to dictators and terrorists: WMD will not protect you.

In November, the Supreme Court will have the chance to rule in favor of Food and Drug Administration "pre-emption."

The recent kidnapping of a handicapped French woman from a Kenyan resort, initially attributed to Somali pirates, was the second such kidnapping in a month. Kenyan authorities now blame al-Shabab, the Somali terrorist group affiliated with al Qaeda. Why should we treat the growing menace of Somali piracy differently from terrorism?

Obama's Stakhanovite efforts to transform America's economy and society into something akin to European-style social democracy are undergoing considerable analysis and debate, especially as the 2012 campaign steams towards November. Most presidential re-election contests are referenda on the incumbent, and this year will be no exception.

States have considerable discretion in setting policy on issues ranging from education to criminal justice. Why, then, pre-empt their rights to regulate financial privacy?

In his support for the Obama administration's lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of Arizona's immigration law, a deputy secretary of state had the troubling stance that criticism by foreign governments is sufficient to affect constitutional adjudication.

So the Democrats' drug-safety concerns were about enriching the plaintiffs' bar?

State tort law, not legislation, now produces the most serious impositions on interstate commerce and on sister states.