$25 billion in National Mortgage Settlement and other policy efforts have worked to prevent the real estate market from clearing.  At the same time, these policies have harmed those who have done the right thing.

The first order of business for a Republican president next year should be corporate-tax reform. But even if Republicans win big in the fall, undoing America's largest policy error will be an almost impossible political lift, unless enough people in both parties come to grips with the counterintuitive economics of corporate-tax reform.

So men and women who faced death at Fallujah or Kandahar or Desert Storm are now to face death panels at home? That’s the upshot of the administration’s plans for military health care.

Just when the mainstream media thought that Barack Obama was pulling ahead in the polls, with positive job ratings, and just after the media have been savaging Republicans for two words Rush Limbaugh uttered on his radio program, Obama's numbers seem to be tanking.

This week, a grassroots organization in Massachusetts announced plans to launch a ballot initiative to repeal the state's individual mandate to purchase health insurance. Massachusetts Citizens for Life is primarily concerned about how the growing cost of health care in the state will lead to rationing and denial of care.

With each passing day, Greece's economic and political malaise deepens despite one massive International Monetary Fund-European Union bailout package after another to keep that country afloat.

Japanese are disappearing in slow motion and so far, there is no rescue plan.

All Washington wants is to continue doing what it has been doing since it became a maritime power: use its Navy to enhance international peace and security, deter conflict, reassure allies, and collect intelligence. LOST undercuts these strategic imperatives, and that is why it has always been a bad idea for the United States.