Op/Ed

While the media’s November election focus is almost entirely on the U.S. Senate, Democrats will likely take their biggest electoral thumping in the states, especially in the gubernatorial races.

For decades, the primary energy producers have been countries that do not share the major democracies' values. And yet the democracies' economies are dependent on those producers. New drilling techniques have made it possible to reduce or eliminate that stranglehold.

Several have criticized President Obama for being disengaged while the world burns. But why complain? When he returns to Washington they will criticize him for getting it all wrong.

Texas Governor Rick Perry’s indictment could help his presidential prospects if voters see his actions as an effort to stand up for principle and public accountability.

As Iraq melts down it might be instructive, if painful, to remember just how much we have spent, and will spend, in blood and treasure nation building in that collapsing country.

If these three Republican women win their elections in November, there will be a “war of women” when they start shaking up Congress. They are accomplished and knowledgeable in areas where our current president is severely lacking: the health care system, fiscal responsibility and the military.

For decades Congress has taken the “carrot approach” to imposing mandates on them by making certain federal funds contingent on states agreeing to Congress’s demands.

President Obama expressed his “full confidence” Friday in CIA Director John Brennan, which follows yet again the president’s pattern of defending his “confidence men” against charges and revelations of incompetence, corruption and intentional misstatements.

The growing efforts by state and local governments to stop hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” to extract natural gas could end up in the Supreme Court—because they may unconstitutionally limit property owners’ ability to profit from their mineral rights.

Tax flight is a symptom of a larger problem: Tax rates that are out-of-line with other equally adequate locations.