When I began my summer contract work in rural northeastern Utah, I was expecting a political climate far different than that in my native Los Angeles. But far from the bastion of conservative propaganda I was expecting, I found... well, nothing really. You wouldn't know that a highly...

The international media was all atwitter about Barack Obama's speech in Berlin. What will he say? Will there be a large turnout? Will Obama attempt a JFK-esque statement auf Deutsch? Would he assume too much by doing so?

When it came to Obama's decision to use or not use the...