Poor Harold Camping. He was so certain, so determined that Saturday was the day — the final reckoning. The end of the world.

No doubt you’ve already seen the birth certificate. Can we put the issue to rest now?

When President Barack Obama belatedly reported to the American public last Monday night about the Libyan intervention, he detailed his rationale for action, but left open the much larger issue of when he thinks the United States could and should exercise military power again.

The United States was supposed to open its border to Mexican trucks as part of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) more than a decade ago.