The Threat of ISIS Demands a Global Coalition  —  IN a polarized region and a complicated world, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria presents a unifying threat to a broad array of countries, including the United States.  What's needed to confront its nihilistic vision and genocidal agenda …

Advice on Strategy From Dilbert  —  President Obama can't come up with a strategy to deal with ISIS.  It's just so...complicated.  Here's an idea: how about if we kill them?  —  I don't suppose Obama will go with that one.  But hey: even Dilbert has a better grasp of strategy than our clueless president:

Ferguson isn't about black rage against cops.  It's white rage against progress.  —  Carol Anderson is an associate professor of African American studies and history at Emory University and a public voices fellow with the Op-Ed Project.  She is the author of “Bourgeois Radicals …

War in Europe is not a hysterical idea  —  Over and over again — throughout the entirety of my adult life, or so it feels — I have been shown Polish photographs from the beautiful summer of 1939: The children playing in the sunshine, the fashionable women on Krakow streets.

Rep. Peter King Is Angry President Obama Wore A Tan Suit  —  Rep. Peter King (R-NY) went on an extended rant about President Barack Obama's decision to wear a tan suit during a statement about the terrorist group ISIS he delivered on Thursday at the White House.

EU's Barroso warns Ukraine crisis near ‘point of no return’ AFP 1 hr ago  —  Brussels (AFP) - EU Commission head Jose Manual Barroso warned on Saturday that the crisis in Ukraine was reaching the point of no return, after reports Russian troops were fighting in the east of the country.

Obama pushes green standards for everything but the kitchen sink  —  The Obama administration is working on new efficiency standards for seemingly every appliance but the kitchen sink.  —  Spurred by President Obama's climate action plan, the Department of Energy is pumping out new standards …

Biden fuels '16 talk with New Hampshire visit  —  Vice President Biden will head to New Hampshire next week for an event on the economy that is certain to intensify speculation that he is readying a bid for the presidential nomination in 2016.  —  Biden will be joined at the Wednesday event …

Imminent Terrorist Attack Warning By Feds on US Border  —  Islamic terrorist groups are operating in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez and planning to attack the United States with car bombs or other vehicle born improvised explosive devices (VBIED).  High-level federal law enforcement …

Mitch McConnell's campaign manager resigns after Iowa bribery scandal deepens  —  Jesse Benton, the campaign manager for U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, will resign his post as a bribery scandal from the 2012 presidential campaign threatens to envelop Benton and become a major distraction for McConnell's campaign.

Judge Rejects Texas Stricture on Abortions  —  A federal judge in Austin, Tex., blocked a stringent new rule on Friday that would have forced more than half of the state's remaining abortion clinics to close, the latest in a string of court decisions that have at least temporarily kept abortion clinics across …