Iran's Revolutionary Guards Commander fears attack against Iran and warns Hezbollah not to attack Israel for fear of reprisal

The U.S. debt ceiling must certainly be raised. In all likelihood, it will be lifted sometime before the critical hour. But at home and abroad, there is disbelief that such an easy problem cannot be dispensed with more quickly.

The Dodd-Frank Act was sold to the American people by the media and the Obama administration as necessary to prevent another financial crisis, but the financial crisis was not caused by weak or ineffective regulation. On the contrary, the financial crisis of 2008 was caused by government housing policies--sponsored and promoted by many of the same people who framed and ultimately enacted the DFA.

At this event, a reading of Civil War veteran and Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s "In Our Youth Our Hearts Were Touched with Fire" will serve as the starting point for a discussion of the meaning and importance of Memorial Day.

It’s depressing to watch, but it is missing the point that the Volcker rule would not have prevented the loss and is probably unworkable.

The $2 billion loss by JPMorgan Chase has reawakened debate about whether banks are taking excessive risks, but many facts have gotten lost in the breathless media coverage.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was but one campaign in what we have come to call "The Long War" in the Greater Middle East.