The waves of change are indeed sweeping across the shores of the Middle East and North Africa. However, the Islamist regime in Iran is better geared to suppressing internal dissent than other regional autocracies and, therefore, has better prospects of surviving the crisis--for now at least.

Unfortunately, the rising threat of an Iranian Winter--nuclear or otherwise--is likely to outlast and overshadow any Arab Spring.

The time is coming for Romney to get angry, very angry, with what is increasingly, quaintly called "the mainstream media."

Military bloggers and their homefront supporters take aim at the New York Times.

Colorado"s Amendment 41 and the national Real ID Act are two examples of sloppy legislative drafting and a lack of appropriate deliberation.

The ever more menacing North Korean nuclear program has in practice encountered only token resistance from the United States and others.

The United States and its allies have exacerbated the danger that North Korea poses to international security by failing to sanction Pyongyang meaningfully.

Housing markets will continue to go sideways, on average, during 2012, then they will begin their cyclical recovery in 2013.