The Obama administration has a lot of fights on its hands. Putting aside real wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, there's the battle against leaking oil in the Gulf, the struggle against 9.7 percent unemployment across the country, and clashes over the president's agenda on Capitol Hill. Despite all that, the White House has found time to issue a new declaration of war, this time against an unlikely enemy: the state of Arizona. Read More

You can fault President Obama for not making sure his offshore drilling regulators were up to the job. And you can say he was foolish to believe that pumping an explosive mix of natural gas and oil 2 1/2 miles up to a platform floating 41 miles offshore was "absolutely safe." But no one can say that he wasn't unlucky in his timing. Read More