Obama, Romney should take debate lesson from Reagan "Are you better off?" Ronald Reagan rhetorically asked the audience during his 1980 debate with President Jimmy Carter. President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney should each take a lesson from Reagan's performance.
New ROK-US security partnership New leaders of the Republic of Korea and the United States may begin strategic discussions on shaping a new role for their security partnership by examining two critical issues: reunification of the Korean Peninsula and revision of the Mutual Defen..
Gang of Eight hopes to ride to deficit rescue While most lawmakers are preoccupied with the election campaign, some members of the Senate, dubbed the Gang of Eight, have not been totally idle.
Mitt Romney pulls October surprise WASHINGTON Isn't politics fun! We've been expecting an October surprise, and we got one!
Europes trial by crisis BERLIN Some 2,500 years ago, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus concluded that war is the father of all things. He might have added that crisis is their mother.
We ignore environment as an issue at our peril This election is all about jobs and the economy, right? That's what the candidates are saying, and that's clearly what the American public is demanding. We all want a strong economy with a lower unemployment rate. But to me that's not the most pres..
Cafe Hayek — a website that educates Traditional news media are in decline, the Internet is on the rise, and wandering in the blog fog means going down wrong paths and falling over cliffs, right? Not entirely. There's hope, no small sign of which is "Cafe Hayek," an economics-oriented..
Restrictive voter-ID laws suffer setback A state judge has barred Pennsylvania from enforcing an unduly strict voter-ID law, at least for this election.
Korea can host global golf match I spent considerable time over the last three nights staying up till dawn to watch the Ryder Cup. I never left home but the jet lag is huge. The golf competition took place in Chicago time this year. Thus, in Seoul, it began when we normally fall a..
Education reforms stall in California There's a tale behind the death of California's proposed school funding allocation overhaul. The measure, Assembly Bill 18, was one of the casualties as Gov. Jerry Brown waded through hundreds of bills from the hectic, final hours of the 2012 legis..
In Iran, sanctions begin to bite The West's stiffened sanctions against Iran are apparently starting to bite.
Why the United Nations endures In a major address at the United Nations on Tuesday, President Barack Obama emphasized challenges of violence, especially but not exclusively in the Islamic world. Equally important, he reconfirmed the durable importance of the U.N.
North Korea defies reform predictions Pyongyang once again disappointed those predicting it was about to change its ways. For months, experts and major media organizations have proclaimed imminent economic reform, even declaring that North Korea has virtually abandoned the planned ec..
Ballot measures test whether voters are tough on crime and taxes California's voters turned sharply to the right on taxes and crime during the 1970s, and the two visceral issues dominated its politics for the next two generations.
Getting the story straight on Libya In the public relations business there is said to be a maxim for handling disasters: Get the information out right; get it out first and get it out your way.
A one-question campaign quiz on Iran The first "Debate Week" of the fall campaign has interrupted the traditional majesty of our democratic presidential selection process, in which accusations and insults have been flung, yet again, with the frequency (if not accuracy) of meatballs at..
Double tap Double tap is what mobsters do when they put somebody down. One bullet in the heart, one in the head. That way they stay down. Its practically standard operating procedure among hitmen.
