Mark Pfeifle

Picture this:

Somebody wants to spend a large amount of money on something that will never work, will never be built, and will never be used. There were a couple of other parties who were willing to share the cost, but now they realize that spending good...

The simple truth: politicians of all parties and backgrounds are guilty of viewing Hispanic voters simply as votes to be used, not people to be listened to.

My friends at the Libre Initiative will tell you they think that's wrong. They exist for two purposes: first, to listen...

In the port city of Damietta, about 200 miles from Cairo at the place where the Nile intersects with the Mediterranean, Amhad Rizq had good reason to fear what might happen as he took his bed-ridden mother to vote in the ongoing Egyptian elections.

The Arab Spring was triggered...

The implications of Iran's growing bellicosity are increasingly more difficult for the United States. Recent weeks have seen the Islamic republic promise to project naval power by sending warships to the edge of America's territorial waters in the Atlantic and Tehran, more recently they announced that it has fitted its...

As the United States government is tightening its belt, some examples of ways to do it stand out more than others.

The Medium Extended Air Defense System (MEADS) is over budget, 10 years late and needs another $804 million to complete its next phase.

President Obama and German...

The domino-like succession of civil unrest that has rocked repressive regimes in the Middle East has been called "the Jasmine Revolution." It might better be known as "the 140-character Rebellion," after the character limits of Twitter, which gave it voice.

In 2009, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube nearly caused the overthrow...