The more menacing North Korea becomes, the smaller its blip appears on our policy radar. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the foreign ministers at the Association of Southeastern Asian Nations...
Lebanon and Israel are trying to resolve their maritime- border dispute peacefully -- for now. But the Hezbollah terrorists who control Lebanon are itching to turn it into a crisis that'll justify...
Yale just announced a new program for studying anti-Semitism, just weeks after it shut an earlier version that called attention to manifestations of Muslim Jew-hatred. The program will let Yale...
The foremost duty of an elected official, especially a fiscal watchdog, is to protect the collective interests of constituents -- that is, all constituents, not just those who'll help him politically...
After inking the scary new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty and pushing to revive the once-dead Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Obama administration is acting like it belongs in a foreign-policy...
President Obama's "lead by example" nuclear-nonproliferation policy of strategic-weapons cuts and treaties (such as the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia) isn't having the desired...
MTA chief Jay Walder dropped a bombshell on Gov. Cuomo and the metro area yesterday, abruptly an nouncing that he's leaving in October after less than two years on the job and just a third of the...
City Hall sent Deputy Mayor Bob Steel yesterday to a Citizens Budget Commission breakfast to pitch public-pension reform. Steel gave a commanding presentation -- but couldn't overcome the timidity...
'Four. . . three . . . two . . . one. We have ignition . . . and lift-off." For more than half a century, that countdown sequence has signaled the start of another daring plunge into the unknown...
Just a year after the BP oil spill, America is on the verge of a new golden era of oil exploration and production -- unless President Obama and his environmentalist friends get their way. This...
It was 90 minutes or so before the first pitch of what would become known as the Jeffrey Maier game of the ’96 playoffs when a commotion broke out aboard a very crowded D train en route to The Bronx....
For firefighters, as with fighter pilots, speed is life. The sooner water is laid on flame, the sooner the fire is out. Get it on quickly enough, and a major blaze might be avoided altogether....
The debt-ceiling crisis is a perfect example of a man made political disaster: Both parties have summoned a whirlwind upon themselves. Earlier this year, conservative Republicans in and out of...
Barack Obama says the federal debt ceiling must be raised, that it would be calamitous and unprecedented and horrible and nightmarish and terrible if it were not raised. Then he says he won't...
Yesterday, rumors were making the rounds in Tali ban circles that Mullah Omar had died. In fact, sources tell me that he is alive and hiding in the Pakistani city of Quetta. But his recent failures...
Each July for the last decade, the Syrian regime has staged North Korean-style "popular marches" marking President Bashar al-Assad's accession to power in 2000 after the death of his father Hafez....
Confused by the manic, frantic activ ity going on inside the Beltway as the days dwindle down to Aug. 2 -- the supposed drop-dead date for an increase in America's $14.3 trillion national-debt limit...
Forget all the numbers being tossed around in Washington -- the millions and billions and trillions of dollars being taxed, borrowed, printed and spent as the country approaches the Aug. 2 debt...
"If he popped up in the pinch he should of made a base hit and the reason he didn't was so-and-so. And if he cracked one for three bases he ought to had a home run, only the ball wasn't lively, or...
“The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.” — Emerson The louder they talked about the disadvantaged, the more money they made. And the more the financial system tottered...
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