The Chinese manage to insult the President who, along with his advisers, remained clueless throughout.

Amir Taheri has some thoughts on the protests that are erupting throughout the Arab world.

Michael Barone says the old rules concerning the Presidential nominating process in the GOP will not apply in 2012.

Robert J. Samuelson points out that the President had an opportunity during the State of the Union Address to educate the American people about the tough choices that need to be made to "win the future'. Instead, he fed us the usual diet of platitudes.

E.J. Dionne was pleased that the President is politicking.

Michael Gerson is not.

Meanwhile, the head of the CBO projects a U.S. budget deficit of $1.5 trillion in 2011, the largest ever recorded. The politicians and pundits continue to fiddle while the country burns.