Global Crisis: The news these days is filled with stories about the euro zone economies and their ongoing crisis. But another, potentially bigger and even more important crisis is brewing — this one in China. Amid seemingly endless stories about the Ch

Allies: President Obama and France's Nicolas Sarkozy were caught agreeing privately that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is insufferable. History will rank the Jewish state's defender above his two critics. Beware microphones you only think are

Industrial Policy: Not only do taxpayers subsidize failing green energy here, they may soon be on the hook for a Department of Energy loan to a firm owned by a Russian billionaire. Just say nyet. When a foreign firm wants to build a facility in the U.S.

Economy: Wall Street firms are said to be raking in the money. But don't tell investors. They're avoiding big bank and brokerage stocks — along with other industries in which Uncle Sam is involved — like the plague. In a Sunday story that other liber

Politics: Not so long ago, a new kind of superpower came into being. It was said to be a model for us all. Now, to put it kindly, the great experiment in "soft power" has hit a rough patch. For as long as we can remember, a leitmotif of American liberali

Campaign 2011: A fourth woman has come forward to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment. Is this a pattern of egregious behavior or a politically motivated attack on a feared political foe? It's hard to tell. The charges aired Monday by Sharon Bialek a

Politics: The character assassination of GOP candidates by the MSM continues as CBS casts a jaundiced eye on the Texas governor's alleged "bizarre" speech in New Hampshire. Perhaps they prefer liberals drunk on power. When Lincoln appointed Ulysses Grant

Scandal: A House committee has subpoenaed the White House's Solyndra documents. The administration refuses to comply. This isn't the way things work in a government where each branch keeps the other two honest. Last Thursday, the House Energy and Commerc

Nuclear Iran: For many years the Free World has let a terrorist state inch toward full nuclear weapons capability. Now Tehran is nearly there. Is this part of the West's general self-destructive trend? The United Nations' International Atomic Energy Age

Politics: "Occupy" protest propaganda would have you believe the downtrodden are rising up against the rich. But as Wednesday's riots in Oakland showed, it's really the political elites attacking the embattled private sector. Marching under a huge "Death