- Thomas Henriksen takes the defense policy, Bill Whalen does the domestic political analysis of the President's address to the nation from Afghanistan.
- Also in Afghanistan this week - make that every week - American drones. Victor Davis Hanson asks: "Have drones killed the traditional American way of war?"
- On the eve of new jobs numbers, John Taylor highlights three graphs of data on the slow recovery. Spoiler alert: "History is not on the side of those who blame the preceeding deep recession and financial crisis."