Last week, in a courtroom in New York City, U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan handed down a life sentence without parole to Ahmed Ghailani, a conspirator in the bombing of two U.S. embassies in Africa and the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be tried in civilian court. The...

Eight years ago, on June 1, 2002, I sat in the bleachers at West Point's Michie Stadium as an active duty Major General and Chief of Infantry. I was there to see my youngest son graduate from the nation's oldest military academy and become an infantry lieutenant. President George W....

Columnist Michael Gerson writes in the Washington Post today, "The most basic test of democracy is not what people do when they win; it is what people do when they lose."

By that measure, our Republic and our two party system are at risk.

The parade of pundits...

Yesterday's outburst by Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter where he attacked the integrity of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mullen and Secretary of Defense Gates, was disappointing on several levels.

First, it is yet another indicator of how the GOP is distancing itself from America's Armed Forces....

Retired Colonel (Representative) Joe Wilson's conduct last night is a breach of military protocol and represents a further departure from the historic good order and discipline I expected, in the past, to see from the GOP, pre-conservative talk show entertainers. Recent GOP performers have proven embarrassing to the New Republican...