I am more worried about a conflagration in the East China Sea than in the Taiwan Strait.

The Navy will need congressional and administration leadership in finding creative solutions for the submarine program, or the current course will continue.

You make it pretty impossible when you go to a foreign government and say you have to fund the entire [program] without actually seeing a design. The effect of that is to freeze the program.

Generally, social networking sites can be hugely promising and beneficial in opening new friendships and vistas and knowledge of the world, but they are also fraught with peril, when young people are reckless or headless.

I think the smart money would say we're going to have another heavy season of West Nile virus this summer because of the wet spring, (which means) a lot of mosquitoes,

We have no idea what factual or legal basis there could be for naming the attorney general of the state, ... Neither I nor my office has played any role whatsoever in this ongoing controversy, which seems to be an internal religious dispute.