Someone needed to say it...John Bolton was right about Iran, after all.

The Democrats find themselves way behind on the generic ballot among Independents. The tsunami is coming.

President Obama has decided on a strategy in Afghanistan, which he will announce next week. This story indicates he may add 30,000 troops.

Gloria Borger says the Afghanistan decision may be the political tipping point for the Obama Presidency.

Jeff Jacoby hopes Massachusetts voters will choose one of the non-politicians when they elect Ted Kennedy's replacement. Having grown up in the Bay State, I predict they will send one of the career pols.

You may have heard the story about the Belgian man who has been in a coma for 23 years, and has now emerged and is communicating, saying that he could see and hear everything going on through all that time. There is now some skepticism about the claims.

NBC's The Biggest Loser (my wife and daughters never miss it) gets some skeptical treatment in this article in The New York Times.

The official charged with closing the detention center at Guantanamo Bay has resigned. The President's policy regarding these terrorists continues to disintegrate as his campaign rhetoric collides with reality.

Speaking of collisions, the doctors who have been in charge of the NFL's committee that studies concussions have quit. It seems their efforts to minimize the link between playing football and the debilitating effects of head injuries later in life has finally become a political liability with the NFL as it seeks a new collective bargaining agreement with the NFL Players Association.