In a fitting commemoration of their relationship, Europe's "Odd Couple" is preparing for yet another argument. This time, though, the bombs, barbs and shots will be verbal.

Rivalries between what are now known as France and Germany -- two countries with a combined 33 percent of the population of...

Unless the Obama administration intervenes, the United States may soon have to depend on one of China's wealthiest and most politically-connected Communist party leaders for access to taxpayer-funded technology that will power the next generation of space satellites and unmanned military vehicles.

In the world of advanced lithium-ion batteries, the...

Two decades ago, with the Soviet Union in ruins, Americans could finally take some measure of comfort that, for the first time since the Cold War began, our nation no longer seemed in danger from ballistic missiles. How fast times have changed.

North Korea successfully launched a three-stage...

From Detroit to Cincinnati, President Obama is hawking his General Motors (GM) bailout like a used car salesman at the end of the month. Trouble is, he rolled the odometer back.

Taxpayers will get a case of sticker shock when they check out the cost and read the fine print....

With the Pentagon eyeing $500 billion in mandatory defense cuts that even Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says go too far, the United States Senate Appropriations Committee seems intent on doing even more damage to America's military by squandering precious resources on a missile system that will never be...

The Urban Dictionary defines "Slacktivism" as "the ideology for people who want to appear to be doing something for a particular cause without actually having to do anything." It's an apt description of those who click the Facebook "like" and "share" buttons for everything from neutering pets to...

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...