Dowd Dumps Obama
Maureen Dowd, the grande dame of snark, knows when her man is yesterday’s news. A sample: Obama’s Oneness has been one-upped. Why settle for a faux populist when we can have a real one? Why settle for...
View ArticleThe Real Culture War
Bret Stephens takes us through a parallel history in which 13 innocents were not butchered by the jihadist Major Nadal Hasan: Suppose that on Nov. 4, 2009 — the day before he would open fire on his...
View ArticleIs This Post-Traumatic Cooking Syndrome?
Fox News reports: The U.S. Army is investigating allegations that soldiers were attempting to poison the food supply at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. The ongoing probe began two months ago, Chris...
View ArticleWas There a Fort Jackson Cover-Up?
I spoke with a source knowledgeable about the Army’s anti-terrorism training and the progress of the Fort Jackson investigation. He makes several key points. First, while Army spokesman Chris Gray...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Christopher Hitchens is out hawking his book with tales of his Oxford escapades. Alas, now “he’s a Dorian-Gray picture of his former self invoking the memory of it all to sell books this time around,...
View ArticleTrying to Reinvent Obama
Dee Dee Myers is the latest Democrat to step forward offering advice to Obama. Her bottom line: change your personality. She finds him “calm,” “cool,” and “self-possessed.” The result, she says: But...
View ArticleObama OKs Assassination of American Citizen
…and no, it’s not Rush Limbaugh. Mr. Awlaki, who was born in New Mexico and spent years in the United States as an imam, is in hiding in Yemen. He has been the focus of intense scrutiny since he was...
View ArticleNot the Most Transparent Administration Ever: The Fort Hood Stonewall
Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins, the chair and ranking minority leader on the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, have been stymied in their effort to investigate the Fort Hood...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Harry Reid has even managed to stiffen Olympia Snowe’s spine: “For a second day in row, Democrats failed to open debate on a Wall Street reform bill after Senate Republicans held ranks to block it. The...
View ArticleThe Least Transparent Administration
Among the Obama administration’s wildly inaccurate self-descriptors is that it is the most “transparent administration in history.” That is — as we have repeatedly seen in the national security and...
View ArticleEzra Klein: The Foreclosure Made Him Do It
Ezra Klein is one of the lefty horde of bloggers the Washington Post has taken on board in an effort to remain relevant. Or get eyeballs on the Internet. Or something. Anyway, he writes mostly on...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
“Recovery” means something other than a steady, predictable improvement in the economy: “The Dow Jones industrial average plunged nearly 1,000 points in afternoon trading before recovering...
View ArticleThe Enemy We Dare Not Name
Stephen Hayes and Thomas Joscelyn explain the Obama administration’s now-predictable rhetoric, which runs through the series of jihadist attacks that have occurred on its watch – Fort Hood, the...
View ArticleThe Obama Team’s Criminal-Justice Model Fails
The Obama administration came into office convinced that the Bush approach to fighting terrorism was flawed and that instead we could apply criminal-justice rules in the war against Islamic terrorism....
View ArticleRE: Judicial Victory
Max, I agree that it’s good news when the circuit court declines to apply to a foreign battlefield the constitutional protections afforded to Americans in criminal proceedings. (They should have done...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
A couple of good questions (which should have been asked before the bill was passed): “Now that Congress has imposed new requirements on health insurance plans, regulators are trying to resolve another...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Where is the administration when Israel is being savaged? Hiding at the UN: “Where was she this time? The United Nations Security Council held an emergency Security Council meeting Monday on Israel’s...
View ArticleRE: Darrell Issa And the Criminalization of Politics
Pete, you sound a helpful warning on the dangers of overreach and the disturbing tendency to summon special prosecutors as a cure-all for bad government. There are a couple of issues that, I think, are...
View ArticleA Class War or War?
The day before the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, President Obama was asked why there seemed to be a recent uptick in American distress about Islam. “At a time when the country is anxious...
View ArticleThe Policies That Keep Us Safe
The foiled package-bomb plot originating in Yemen is the latest sign of how determined Islamist extremists remain in trying to strike the United States. Just in the past year, we have seen the shooting...
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