In this week’s New York Times Obama administration officials offered stunning and sobering perspective on the growing danger presented by North Korea. Its uranium enrichment program is more advanced than Iran’s. The North’s recently revealed site could not exist without support of a sophisticated network of still undisclosed facilities. And, …

In the early morning hours, as the dawn breaks over the Iranian capital of Tehran, scientists and military officials gather at a weapons facility at Parchin. They are surrounded by a mountainous desert, some distance southeast from the capital. They feel a sharp tremor, which sends a spurt of data …

Negotiations grind on toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran’s nuclear weapons program, even as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrives in New York to address the Non-Proliferation Treaty review conference. Sanctions advocates acknowledge that the Security Council’s ultimate product will do no more than marginally impede Iran’s progress. …

Before you get your hate-mail fingers ready, please know that this column is not an attempt to push you toward religion, nor put down any other religion. So let those little piggies relax, and take a second to soak things in. Then, prepare to be converted and saved from the …

President Obama badly needs to remind Americans how much they disliked George Bush. With soaring unemployment, ballooning budget deficits, ugly wrangling over health care, failure on climate change, indecision on Afghanistan, rising trade wars, churlishness from China, and dead-end diplomacy efforts in Iran, Honduras, Israel and Palestine, a case could …

Fri, 01 May 2009 16:27:46 +0000 – Let there be no secret: I am in the 60+% who thinks President Obama is doing a good job for our country. When Bill Clinton left office, members of the White House Press Corps were sad. No, we were not sad because we …

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:54:46 +0000 – Yesterday the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that public parks can reject the erection of one monument while approving or maintaining another, even when these express diverse religious messages. Justice Samuel Alito wrote for the Court saying Pleasant Grove City, Utah, could retain monuments …

Car by car, family by family, frightened Iraqi Christians by the thousands fled their ancient Iraqi homeland over the weekend. With broken hearts and little more than the clothes on their backs, they’ve left behind their houses, businesses, and churches – everything they’ve known. The Islamic State (ISIS) terror group …

A union representing federal employees at Eglin Air Force base in Florida is demanding that two senior management officials be removed from their posts because they put decals on their personal trucks supporting Duck Dynasty star Phil Robertson. Alan Cooper, the executive vice president of the local chapter of the …

On the rise in national rankings and global reach, the University of Texas — now known as much for its academic rigor as its football team — generally benefits from its location in Austin, a growing urban center of technology and music. Unfortunately, Austin is also the state capital, and …