What can force accomplish against Iran's nuclear program? There is little doubt that we could set it back, maybe for years. But that would not eliminate the threat, and would almost certainly stiffen Iran's resolve to proceed.  Full story »

An effective, affordable insurance program spreads the risks. What's ironic is that many Republicans in the past have agreed with this inescapable logic. They were for the mandate before they were against it.  Full story »

Actions to enforce trade laws will keep jobs in America by bolstering U.S. manufacturing, and will contribute to a greener global environment. The best place to make things is not in China, but here in the United States.  Full story »

Unless the Obama White House finds more realistic ways of paying for the promises included in the House's health care bill, it is simply setting the public up for more frustration -- and itself for a political backlash.  Full story »

The sweeping overhaul of the health care system -- which Congress is halfway toward enacting -- would create new, open-ended medical entitlements that threaten higher deficits and would do little to suppress surging health costs.  Full story »

Attorney General Eric Holder is displaying an exaggerated respect for the work of federal prosecutors in New York by asking them to make the case against five 9/11 conspirators, in a circus atmosphere, with an uncertain chain of evidence.  Full story »

Is there any way to get around Afghan President Hamid Karzai? A bottom-up strategy that deals more directly with effective governors and officials in troubled provinces would help. Smarter diplomacy might even bring Karzai on board.  Full story »

After the Fort Hood shooting, people rushed to understand why. The truth is that it was not unreasonable to at least consider that the attacker might have been following the violent dictates of a most extreme form of Islamic Jihad.  Full story »

A new book suggests that some of the adulation for US Airways Capt. Chesley B. Sullenberger III may have been misplaced. Sully's feat in landing a crippled jetliner on the Hudson River owed a lot to (dare we say it?) the French.  Full story »

Gold increasingly looks to be a more reliable investment than governments' bonds are, especially U.S. bonds as the U.S. government threatens to pile a mammoth health care entitlement onto the nation's Ponzi welfare state.  Full story »

A House bill that would cover millions of uninsured Americans also would strip millions of U.S. women of reproductive health converge. If pro-choice Democrats give in, it proves that they can be rolled by intransigent opposition.  Full story »

With every day waiting for an elusive nuclear agreement, Iran is not only moving forward with its nuclear program, it is also destroying the opposition. And it is diminishing America's standing as a defender of human rights.  Full story »

Over its first 10 months, the Obama administration has skillfully improved U.S.-China relations and is establishing a framework which will allow these two nations to try and resolve the myriad problems confronting them both.  Full story »

Lower-cost imports from China subsidize living standards for many of America's lower- and middle-class consumers. And low-cost Chinese imports aren't the reason U.S. manufacturing jobs have declined. Keeping trade moving.  Full story »

China has consistently been one of our most disingenuous trading partners, manipulating its currency and using World Trade Organization trade rules to their advantage. We must negotiate better trade policy.  Full story »