William J. Bennett and Brian T. Kennedy have these recommendations for our foreign and national security policy as we head into the next Administration. Of course, what they don't say is that a John McCain Administration is far more likely to implement these recommendations than a Barack Obama Administration. I agree with most of the recommendations, but I wish they had added something about creating a national energy policy to deal with our "friends" in OPEC.

Here is an idea on what can be done to defeat OPEC before they defeat us.

Amir Taheri has some thoughts on what is behind the Israeli-Syrian peace talks.

There is more talk a possible Obama-Clinton ticket. I don't think it will happen.

Eugene Robinson thinks that Hillary is really going forward because she wants nothing less than to be President. We will know more, of course, after the rules committee resolves the issue of the Michigan and Florida delegates on May 31. If they choose to seat only a portion of the delegates (or none at all, which I think unlikely) and Hillary responds by vowing to fight the ruling at the convention, then we can properly assume that she is serious about going all the way, despite any negative consequences for the Party.

An Appeals Court has ruled that Texas authorities illegally seized the children from that Mormon Sect's compound. I have had a bad feeling about this thing from the beginning.

Another special election, another Tory victory.

Charles Krauthammer thinks the Obama policy of negotiating without preconditions is really the result of a gaffe that he has refused to admit. If so, it is an even worse indicator of what kind of President Obama might make.

John McCain rejects a controversial pastor's endorsement. Some have tried to maintain that this is equivalent to the Wright situation, but it doesn't fly, since McCain (to my knowledge) does not have any pastor who can be seen as a life-long mentor, as Wright was for Obama.