Obama’s Year of Living Blamelessly
Barack Obama has figured out what went wrong with Homeland Security this past Christmas: George W. Bush. “It’s becoming clear that the system that has been in place for years now is not sufficiently up...
View ArticleJust a Notch on a Belt
Buried deep inside an angst-filled column complaining that Obama is underappreciated and overly criticized, Richard Cohen concedes what many on both the Right and Left suspect: “He wanted a health-care...
View ArticleLies, Big Lies and Nancy Pelosi Press Conferences
Nancy Pelosi has had a her run of memorable moments — promising to drain the swamp of corruption (no, not anytime soon), warning that we were losing 500 million jobs a month and accusing the CIA of...
View ArticleDefense Spending and Defense Needs: Not in Sync
The Conservative party in Britain has pledged to adopt the American practice of carrying out a “strategic review” every four years. Based on the latest Quadrennial Defense Review, which came out today,...
View ArticleIs Ideology Really Yesterday for the Obami?
The Obama team likes to present itself as nonideological. Whatever works. Respect science. Realism and pragmatism are to rule the day. We’ve heard it for a year now, though in practice the Obami seem...
View ArticleStimulus Spin, Again
Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation has an easy-to-read explanation of why Obama’s claim that the stimulus saved 2 million jobs is hooey. For starters, it’s a bait-and-switch: On the stimulus’s...
View ArticleObama’s Political Prospects and the Claim of 1.5 Million Jobs Saved or Created
Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation examines the new Congressional Budget Office finding that the stimulus package “saved or created” 1.5 million jobs and notes that CBO made a series of assumptions...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Senate candidate Dan Coats thinks Obama is getting ready for a containment strategy for Iran, and he doesn’t like it: “Coats said the ‘only option’ left to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons...
View ArticleCould We Get Rid of It?
Reader Renee asks me whether ObamaCare can be repealed if signed into law. The short answer is yes. First off, if they utilize the ” deem and pass” Slaughter Rule, there will be court challenges. And...
View ArticlePeace in Our Time: Ticker Tape, Early and Often
The hype surrounding this week’s serial announcements of a breakthrough in nuclear-arms talks is palpable. In more than 25 years of analyzing arms-control diplomacy, I don’t recall ever seeing news...
View ArticleIs ObamaCare Enough?
That’s what the White House and its spinners are telling us — that the passage of a “historic,” albeit much reviled, health-care bill will be enough to hold back the tsunami of anti-incumbency...
View ArticleThe Euro and Euro-Legitimacy
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in the Telegraph and Francis Cianfrocca in the New Ledger have must-read analyses of the Euro crisis. Evans-Pritchard’s essay resists easy summary, but it makes the broad and...
View ArticleObamaCare Lawsuit Clears First Hurdle
There was a significant development in the ObamaCare lawsuit today. The attorney general of Virginia Ken Cuccinelli put out the following statement: A federal judge ruled today that Virginia does...
View ArticleIndia’s New Position on UNSC Seen as Test for Permanent Membership
Of the five new countries just joining the UN Security Council as non-permanent members, India will definitely be the one to keep an eye on for the next two years: After a gap of 19 years, India today...
View ArticleIs CPAC Going to Be Hurt by the Recent Calls for Boycott?
A growing number of conservative organizations have been pulling out of the upcoming Conservative Political Action Conference, reportedly in protest of conservative gay-rights group GOProud’s...
View ArticleObama Snubs Britain Yet Again
He just can’t help himself. President Obama has apparently dissed Britain once again by declaring that “[w]e don’t have a stronger friend and stronger ally than Nicolas Sarkozy, and the French people”...
View Article‘Conversing’ About Afghanistan
I had not previously suspected that Grover Norquist has quite the sense of humor. I had thought of him as a dour ideologue, but he shows hidden strains of mirth in responding to my blog post expressing...
View ArticleNew Evidence in Daniel Pearl Murder May Be Useless in a Trial
A new report released by the Pearl Project, based on the group’s three-and-a-half-year investigation into the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, alleges that Pakistani...
View ArticleFixing the Problems at the UN
There was one thing members of Congress and advocates for UN reform all agreed on at the House Foreign Affairs Committee discussion on UN funding today: the United Nations is an expensive disaster. Not...
View ArticleObama’s New Anti-Satellite Weapons Push to Cede Space to the Chinese?
In 2006, the Chinese reportedly used an anti-satellite weapon (ASAT) to blind one of our satellites. In 2007, they definitely used an ASAT to shoot down one of their own satellites. Incidents like...
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