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- 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." --...
- 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...