Next year's elections could be decided on what each party proposes to do in Afghanistan. If President Obama wants to pursue his expensive domestic programs, he has to expand his majorities.

Regardless of what the Army and President Obama would have us believe, common sense indicates that radical Islamist beliefs drove Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan into a murderous rampage.

In a rarely-held Saturday session, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed a comprehensive health bill by a vote of 220-215. Had I been in the House, where I served for nine years (1969-1977), I would have voted yes.

It is clear that much work needs to be done to deal with the nation’s crumbling bridges, roads, and power grid to strengthen our nation for the decades ahead.

Financial institutions continue to bank on the fact that our government still believes in two axioms: “too big to fail” and “too big to jail.”