Ralph Peters doubts we will hear the words "terrorism" or "Islam" when President Obama visits Fort Hood.

The FBI and the military knew that Major Hasan was in communication with a U.S.-born, radical Islamist cleric now living in Yemen. They ignored it.

We just, as a society (at least the elites), do not want to admit that Major Hasan was, in all likelihood, motivated by his radical, Islamist beliefs.

Even Democrats are now looking at the health bill with alarm, as they do not see mechanisms that would really control costs. Of course, we may look back on the passage of that bill in the House the way the Confederates looked back on Gettysburg.

Jay Cost examines the steps necessary to divide a majority party.

Robert Kagan and Dan Blumenthal see China playing the great power game, and the U.S. in retreat.