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- The Electorate vs. Obama's Agenda - February 5, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- "I am not an ideologue," protested President Obama at a gathering with Republican House members last week. Perhaps, but he does have a tenacious commitment...
- The Real Detainee Scandal - January 29, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- The real scandal surrounding the failed Christmas Day airline bombing was not the fact that a terrorist got on a plane -- that can happen to any...
- The Meaning of Brown - January 22, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- On Jan. 14, five days before the Massachusetts special election, President Obama was in full bring-it-on mode as he rallied House Democrats behind his...
- The Fall of Obama - January 15, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- What went wrong? A year ago, he was king of the world. Now President Obama's approval rating, according to CBS, has dropped to 46 percent -- and his...
- The Gitmo Obsession - January 8, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- On Wednesday, Nigerian would-be bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was indicted by a Michigan grand jury for attempted murder and sundry other criminal...
- Hollow Words on Terrorism - January 2, 2010
- WASHINGTON -- Janet Napolitano -- former Arizona governor, now overmatched secretary of homeland security -- will forever be remembered for having said of the attempt to...
- 2009: The Year of Living Fecklessly - December 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- On Tuesday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad did not just reject President Obama's latest feckless floating nuclear deadline. He spat on it, declaring...
- An Anniversary of Sorts - December 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Twenty-five years ago this week, I wrote my first column. I'm not much given to self-reflection -- why do you think I quit psychiatry? -- but I figure once...
- The Environmental Shakedown - December 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the 1970s and early '80s, having seized control of the U.N. apparatus (by power of numbers), Third World countries decided to cash in. OPEC was pulling...
- Uncertain Trumpet - December 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills -- for 18 months. Then we start...
- Quintessential Andrew Sullivan - Washington Post - December 1, 2009
- Blogger Andrew Sullivan charged Sunday that, whereas in December of last year I advocated a gasoline tax, in my "latest column" on climate change, "the gas tax idea is...
- Kill the Bills. Do Health Reform Right - November 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The United States has the best health care in the world -- but because of its inefficiencies, also the most expensive. The fundamental problem with the...
- Travesty in New York - November 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- For late-19th-century anarchists, terrorism was the "propaganda of the deed." And the most successful propaganda-by-deed in history was 9/11 -- not just...
- Explaining Away Mass Murder - November 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might...
- The Myth of '08, Demolished - November 6, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Sure, Election Day 2009 will scare moderate Democrats and make passage of Obamacare more difficult. Sure, it makes it easier for resurgent Republicans to...
- Obama's Bush Blame Game - October 30, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Old Soviet joke: Moscow, 1953. Stalin calls in Khrushchev. "Niki, I'm dying. Don't have much to leave you. Just three envelopes. Open them, one at a time,...
- White House Tactics Go Too Far - October 23, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Rahm Emanuel once sent a dead fish to a live pollster. Now he's put a horse's head in Roger Ailes' bed. Not very subtle. And not very smart. Ailes doesn't...
- Debacle in Moscow - October 16, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- About the only thing more comical than Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize was the reaction of those who deemed the award "premature," as if the brilliance of...
- Young Hamlet's Agony - October 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The genius of democracy is the rotation of power, which forces the opposition to be serious -- particularly about things like war, about which until Jan....
- Obama's French Lesson - October 2, 2009
- "President Obama, I support the Americans' outstretched hand. But what did the international community gain from these offers of dialogue? Nothing." -- French President...
- A Great Good Man - September 25, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- After the plain pine box is lowered into the grave, the mourners are asked to come forward -- immediate family first -- and shovel dirt onto the casket....
- Does He Lie? - September 18, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He ... well, you judge. Herewith three examples within a single speech -- the now-famous...
- Van Jones and the 'Truthers' - September 11, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- So Van Jones, the defenestrated White House green-jobs czar, once called Republicans "a--holes." Big deal. I've said worse about Democrats. I've said worse...
- Obama, The Mortal - September 4, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than...
- Can Dems Rescue ObamaCare? - August 28, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Obamacare Version 1.0 is dead. The 1,000-page monstrosity that emerged in various editions from Congress was done in by widespread national revulsion not...
- The Truth About Death Counseling - August 21, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Let's see if we can have a reasoned discussion about end-of-life counseling. We might start by asking Sarah Palin to leave the room. I've got nothing...
- More Health Care Nonsense - August 14, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In the 48 hours of June 15-16, President Obama lost the health care debate. First, a letter from the Congressional Budget Office to Sen. Edward Kennedy...
- Health Care Reform: A Better Plan - August 7, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In 1986, Ronald Reagan and Bill Bradley created a legislative miracle. They fashioned a tax reform that stripped loopholes, political favors, payoffs,...
- Obamacare in Retreat - July 31, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he's fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy -- and half...
- Rhetoric Meets Reality - July 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- What happened to Obamacare? Rhetoric met reality. As both candidate and president, the master rhetorician could conjure a world in which he bestows upon...
- The Moon We Left Behind - July 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Michael Crichton once wrote that if you had told a physicist in 1899 that within a hundred years humankind would, among other wonders (nukes, commercial...
- Our Foreign Policy Neophyte - July 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The signing ceremony in Moscow was a grand affair. For Barack Obama, foreign policy neophyte and "reset" man, the arms reduction agreement had a...
- 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." --...