Washington was abuzz last week when former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin turned down a personal appeal from PresidentBush for help with a bipartisan commission to reduce entitlement costs.

The U.S. Supreme Court recieved an amicus brief on FDA regulation.

If there is one success story since 9/11, it has been the efforts to combat terror finance. If military action is sometimes akin to conducting surgery with an axe, efforts to dry up sources of funding are like wielding a scalpel.

If we can provideIraq with security, Iraq has a good chance of creating a decent, representative government that takes its responsibilities at home and abroad seriously.

If assassination was most noxious to the progressive left, the fact that a president they supported embraced the strategy has permanently nullified what otherwise would have been a staunchly partisan issue

Alas, if a story in The Guardian is correct, it appears the Obama administration really has no more moral grounding on Syria than the gadfly congressman.

Diplomacy can never supplant the importance of military victory. Obama may want to bring the troops home, but the diplomacy-first strategy hampers peace. As the history of drinking tea with the Taliban shows, talk is not only cheap; it is deadly.