Soft money is not a monster; it consists of contributions to political parties for party building, getting out the vote, and issue advertising.

The world is becoming increasingly scary at the very time that the military will be facing 20% reductions. With each passing day, the world closes in; with each passing day, our ability to manage that world degrades.

Obama has a long-standing habit of seeing failure to support his agenda as a failure of character. Meanwhile, it’s Obama and his allies in Congress who’ve been at the forefront of the effort to make America less competitive.

Conventional wisdom holds that the Navy and Air Force escaped the budget drill mostly intact while the Army endured the bulk of cuts. But the truth is that all of the services are shrinking and aging under the Obama budget.

Finding plasticizers in dust is neither surprising nor necessarily a cause for alarm. Evidence that phthalates cause harm in humans is scientifically thin, and campaigners never directly address that hypothesis.

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) is calling for a 10-15 percent reduction in this years defense plan, but it is doubtful whether it will make an impact.

The policies of the Obama administration are designed to subject the people to what Alexis de Tocqueville called "soft despotism."

There's still a big loophole for Democratsin campaign finance reform, one that they might have to depend on between now and the Democratic National Convention in July.