America is battling a Chinese exchange rate that is forcing thousands of jobs abroad and making American goods more expensive in overseas markets. In a political climate when Obama is under massive pressure to turn around the economy and the economic signals are mixed at best, the temptation to protect American jobs by trade tariffs and policies can be huge.

You arrest my Son and I'll go Jihad on your country's ass. So said Colonel Gaddafi of Libya. Okay, maybe not in so many words but it seems a pretty good description of his latest outburst.

A governments intentions and commitment to it's people can be easily gauged by how it treats the opposition. In democracies, free speech is paramount and criticism of the government by the people and opposition is a liberty we take for granted. If  you needed any further proof of how undemocratic and evil the Chinese regime is we just need to look at it's handling of an academic who made a call for reform of the political system. Today, he was sentenced to eleven years. ELEVEN years.

Anderson Cooper, covering the Haiti disaster for CNN did more than just bring viewers the events as they unfolded - he jumped in and helped drag a young boy to safety. Reporters, especially those covering harrowing and dangerous scenes are often caught in a moral dilemma - keep filming and capture the news or jump in and miss capturing the news. It's not an easy choice to make, particularly when scenes of innocents being injured are unfolding before you.