By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 22 (UPI) -- The United States doesn't enjoy the preponderance of assets needed to go everywhere and settle every dispute.
By JAVIER PALOMAREZ, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 19 (UPI) -- Let's talk about good news. It's called broadband and, as a June 2013 White House report makes clear, there's a lot to celebrate.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Mass., July 18 (UPI) -- Much like a drug addict, the U.S. economy is hooked on the Federal Reserve's easy money policies.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 17 (UPI) -- A specter is haunting the United States. That specter is one of American decline. But this specter isn't merely exaggerated. It is poppycock.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 16 (UPI) -- Leadership in Iran and North Korea leave their countries in a science fiction-type nightmare.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 15 (UPI) -- Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke has convinced financial markets easy money policies will continue as long as needed. That may be forever and those policies place U.S. prosperity and sovereignty at grave risk.
By STRUAN STEVENSON, UPI Outside View Commentator
BRUSSELS, July 12 (UPI) -- How easily the West allows itself to be repeatedly duped by the religious fascist rulers of Iran.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 10 (UPI) -- Regional crises abound. Massive protests in Egypt that ended the flailing Morsi government to continued bloodshed from Afghanistan to Syria are representative of these crises.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 10 (UPI) -- In Egypt, the United States is once again confronted with a tough choice between backing the champions of the status quo ante -- a military-endorsed regime that resembles that of deposed President Hosni Mubarak -- or accepting an Islamic state.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 9 (UPI) -- The tragedy in Egypt is a warning to Americans -- imperious executive power is a threat to liberty everywhere.
By JAMES ZUMWALT, UPI Outside View Commentator
HERNDON, Va., July 9 (UPI) -- Only the Hebrew word "chutzpah" appropriately describes it but a recent demand of the Vatican by Egypt's senior Sunni cleric Grand Imam of al-Azhar Ahmed al-Tayeb screams for its use.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. Labor Department announced last week that the U.S. economy added 195,000 jobs in June. The pace appears to be picking up but it is still not the 360,000 jobs needed each month to bring unemployment down to 6 percent over the next three years.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 5 (UPI) -- Recent events in Egypt put U.S. President Barack Obama in a tough spot, even if not as difficult as that of deposed Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi.
By PETER MORICI, UPI Outside View Commentator
COLLEGE PARK, Md., July 5 (UPI) -- The Internal Revenue Service is dangerous to civil liberties, irrevocably broken and corrupting national politicians.
By HARLAN ULLMAN, UPI Outside View Commentator
WASHINGTON, July 3 (UPI) -- July Fourth, marks the United States' Independence Day. The central celebrated document, the Declaration of Independence, that rejected British rule, was the masterpiece of democratic expression written by Thomas Jefferson in 1776.