Things happening around the world are affecting you and me.

I am an American, not by accident of birth but by choice. I voted with my feet and became an American because I love this country and think it is exceptional.

In the 1990s, we were certain that Saddam Hussein had a nuclear arsenal. In fact, his factories could barely make soap.

Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.

Intelligence is called the world's second oldest profession for a reason. Everyone does it.

One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.

You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.