Ralph Peters praises Secretary of Defense Robert Gates for his budget priorities.

Jay Cost takes a look at the numbers, as always, and discovers that President Obama's job approval rating is more polarized than any previous modern President. Cost also believes, and his analysis of the numbers bears this out, that we are becoming more politically polarized as a nation.

In a story that reflects the intensity of the polarization, Republicans have threatened to block Obama's judicial appointments if he releases the "torture memos" that the Bush legal team wrote to give backing to interrogation techniques used against captured terrorists.

Bill Kristol and Anne Applebaum both think President Obama's call for a world without nuclear weapons is a fantasy, and a dangerous one at that.