Op-Ed

President Obama opened his State of the Union address paying tribute to our military and invoking the miracle of post-World War II America. 

During his State of the Union address, the president announced his intention to seek a ban on campaign contribution bundling by lobbyists. 

The Supreme Court’s disastrous decision in the Citizens United case has done enormous damage to our political system.

Kim Jong Il has been dead eight weeks, and commentators are still treating his successor, Kim Jong Un, as if he’s the latest celebrity teen star. 

It's time to put the proposed Pentagon cuts and the new Western Pacific national security strategy in perspective

“If not now, when?” It’s one of the most famous maxims of history, attributed to the great Rabbi Hillel, who’s also credited with a down-to-earth version of the Golden Rule: “What is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the Torah. All the rest is commentary.”

On the Internet petition to free my mother, Yulia Tymoshenko, Bishop Paul Peter Jesep quoted the French thinker Montesquieu: “There is no greater tyranny, than that which is perpetrated under the shield of law and in the name of justice.”

With U.S. troops out of Iraq, the U.S. presence there will fall to 5,000 private security contractors charged by the State Department to guard American diplomatic installations and convoys, provide emergency medical evacuation and rescue U.S. diplomatic personnel if they fall under attack, among other tasks. 

“I call it the Madman Theory, Bob. I want the North Vietnamese to believe I’ve reached the point where I might do anything to stop the war. 

Now is the time for a fight over the do-nothing Federal Election Commission (FEC). While President Obama missed a golden opportunity in his State of the Union address to announce that he was sending five names to the Senate for confirmation to the FEC, he should do so now.