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- The Meaning of Ricci - July 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court's ruling on the Ricci case -- that white firemen suffered illegal discrimination when a promotional test on which they did well was...
- What Will Mousavi Do Next? - June 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons...
- Obama Clueless on Iran - June 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and...
- Hovering on High: Obama Surveys the World - June 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the...
- Obama the Humble - June 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Obama the Humble declares there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he...
- Sotomayor: Rebut, Then Confirm - May 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sonia Sotomayor has a classic American story. So does Frank Ricci. Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law...
- Pick Puts Focus on Identity Politics - FOX News - May 26, 2009
- Obama's Deeds Vindicate Bush - May 22, 2009
- "We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning." --...
- Why Pelosi's Hypocrisy Matters - May 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Earlier this month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which...
- The Hamas 'Peace' Gambit - May 8, 2009
- "Apart from the time restriction (a truce that lapses after 10 years) and the refusal to accept Israel's existence, Mr. Meshal's terms approximate the Arab League peace...
- Pelosi: Utterly Contemptible - May 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have...
- Obama: The Grand Strategy - April 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Unified theory of Obamaism, final installment: In the service of his ultimate mission -- the leveling of social inequalities -- President Obama offers a...
- Obama's Faulty 'Foundation' - April 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University this week,...
- It's Your Country Too, Mr. President - April 10, 2009
- The obligatory emergency Security Council session produced nothing. No sanctions. No resolution. Not even a statement. China and Russia professed to find no...
- Obama's Ultimate Agenda - April 3, 2009
- Despite these astonishments, I remain more amused than alarmed. First, the notion of presidential car warranties strikes me as simply too bizarre, too comical, to...
- Bonfire of the Trivialities - March 20, 2009
- For this we are going to poison the well for any further financial rescues, face the prospect of letting AIG go under (which would make the Lehman Brothers collapse...
- Morally Unserious in the Extreme - March 13, 2009
- I am not religious. I do not believe that personhood is conferred upon conception. But I also do not believe that a human embryo is the moral equivalent of a...
- Deception at Core of Obama Plans - March 6, 2009
- All presidents do that. But few undertake the kind of brazen deception at the heart of Obama's radically transformative economic plan, a rhetorical sleight of hand...
- Obama Proposes a European U.S. - February 27, 2009
- Reagan came to office to do something: shrink government, lower taxes, rebuild American defenses. Obama made clear Tuesday night that he intends to be equally...
- 'Kick Me' Diplomacy - February 20, 2009
- (a) Pressuring Kyrgyzstan to shut down the U.S. air base in Manas, an absolutely crucial NATO conduit into Afghanistan. (b) Announcing the formation of a "rapid...
- Iraq: Good News Is No News - February 13, 2009
- Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki went from leader of a small Islamic party to leader of the "State of the Law Party," campaigning on security and secular nationalism....
- So Much For Hope Over Fear - February 6, 2009
- The Daschle affair was more serious because his offense involved more than taxes. As Michael Kinsley once observed, in Washington the real scandal isn't what's...
- Obama's Unnecessary Apology - January 30, 2009
- Astonishing. In these most recent 20 years -- the alleged winter of our disrespect of the Islamic world -- America did not just respect Muslims, it bled for them....
- Obama's Inaugural Surprise - January 23, 2009
- Which seems to me the only way to understand the mediocrity of his inaugural address. The language lacked lyricism. The content had neither arc nor theme: no...
- Exit Bush, Shoes Flying - January 16, 2009
- It is the repeated pledge to conduct a withdrawal from Iraq that does not destabilize its new democracy and that, as Vice President-elect Joe Biden said just this...
- Two Endgames for Israel - January 9, 2009
- That would be a terrible mistake. It would fail on its own terms. It would have the same elements as the phony peace in Lebanon: an international force that...
- A Real Cease-Fire Needed in Gaza - January 2, 2009
- Israel is so scrupulous about civilian life that, risking the element of surprise, it contacts enemy noncombatants in advance to warn them of approaching danger....
- Chance for a Net-Zero Gas Tax - Weekly Standard - December 29, 2008
- Camelot is Not a State - December 19, 2008
- I hate to be a good government scold, but wasn't the American experiment a rather firm renunciation of government by pedigree? Yes, the Founders were not...
- Obama's Plan to Transform America - December 12, 2008
- Similarly his senior economic team, the brilliant trio of Tim Geithner, Larry Summers and Paul Volcker: centrist, experienced and mainstream. But their principal...
- Historic Progress in Iraq - December 5, 2008
- For the United States, it represents the single most important geopolitical advance in the region since Henry Kissinger turned Egypt from a Soviet client into an...
- The Washington Stock Market - November 28, 2008
- As economist Irwin Stelzer argues, we have gone from a market economy to a political economy. Consider seven days in November. On Tuesday, Nov. 18, Paulson broadly...
- A Lemon of a Bailout - November 14, 2008
- Underlying the policy differences is a philosophical divide. The Bush administration sees the $700 billion rescue as an emergency measure to save the financial sector...
- The Campaign Autopsy - November 7, 2008
- This was not just a meltdown but a panic. For an agonizing few days, there was a collapse of faith in the entire financial system -- a run on banks, panicky...
- McCain for President, Part II - October 31, 2008
- Both McCain and Barack Obama have assembled fine economic teams that may differ on the details of their plans but have reasonable approaches to managing the crisis....
- McCain for President - October 24, 2008
- First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory. The...
- Who's Playing the Race Card? - October 17, 2008
- The search for McCain's racial offenses is untiring and often unhinged. Remember McCain's Berlin/celebrity ad that showed a shot of Paris Hilton? An appalling...
- A Question of Barack Obama's Character - October 10, 2008
- McCain has only himself to blame for the bad timing. He should months ago have begun challenging Obama's associations, before the economic meltdown allowed the...
- Hail Mary vs. Cool Barry - October 3, 2008
- When the financial crisis hit, McCain went razzle-dazzle again, suspending his campaign and declaring he'd stay away from the first presidential debate until the...
- Catharsis, Then Common Sense - September 26, 2008
- Some disdain that assessment as hypothetical. Paulson and Bernanke, who actually peered into the abyss on Black Thursday (Sept. 18), think otherwise. They're not...