From the standpoint of politics, this decision makes no sense. According to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll released Monday, only 34 percent of Americans support the...
Army Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan has shined a spotlight on the intellectual and moral shortcomings of America's self-anointed elite.
Some liberal journalists and Obama...
Why should I die on this hill he's chosen?
If you were a cavalryman with Custer at the Little Big Horn on the afternoon of June 25, 1876, it was a little late to be...
Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive," wrote Sir Walter Scott in his 1808 poem, "Marmion."
I doubt Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid,...
Most liberals aren't very religious. But they are people of faith. When reality clashes with a cherished belief, they cling to the cherished belief.
It snowed in...
The contempt with which the president of France regards the president of the United States was displayed in public last week.
Nicolas Sarkozy was furious with Barack...
Around midnight on the Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, the White House announced Van Jones had resigned as President Obama's "green jobs czar."
"On the eve of...
The attention of the punditocracy was diverted from Obamacare this week by conservative columnist George Will's call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan...
In his hit piece on Sarah Palin for Vanity Fair, Todd Purdum wrote:
"More than once in my travels in Alaska, people brought up, without prompting, the question of...
You probably haven't heard about the Andijan massacre, because it happened in Uzbekistan, which I doubt many journalists can find on a map. But it has important...
On Memorial Day, North Korea tested a nuclear weapon for the second time. President Obama issued a statement describing this as "a matter of grave concern to all...
Hey, old farts. Hurry up and die!
That, in a nutshell, is how President Obama hopes to save large sums of money through health care "reform."
But that isn't how the...
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Cal) has been in the forefront of those Democrats who've been urging that the Justice Department lawyers who declared lawful the "enhanced...
Has Barack Obama made an enemy who can sabotage his presidency?
The presidency of George W. Bush began to unravel when some in high positions at the Central Intelligence...
Little better illustrates that this administration has pretty much forgotten what happened on Sept. 11, 2001, than the idiotic publicity stunt it attempted in New York...
"Can somebody please tell us how U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano got her job?" asked Canada's National Post in an editorial April 22. "She appears...
Barack Obama visited the CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia Monday in an apparent effort to mitigate the harm he did by making public the so-called "terror" memos...
"Sure, he doesn't seem to fill his suit, and he talks too quickly, and he swallows the ends of his sentences, and he gives the impression of a grad student taking an...
Most puzzling has been the back of the hand treatment the president has given to our closest ally.Most in Britain were ecstatic when Mr. Obama was elected. None more so...
Mr. Obama is fond of the appearance of bipartisanship. He nominated three Republicans to his Cabinet. He's dined with conservative columnists, and invited several GOP...
Only two other of our 43 presidents (Grover Cleveland is counted twice) took office under more controversial circumstances than Mr. Bush did after the prolonged recount...
But as a matter of both policy and politics, the dinner was exactly the right thing for both Mr. Obama and his frequent critics to do.Mr. Obama spoke often in the...
Moonbats in Europe and America are agitated, but protests against Israel in Sunni Muslim countries have been muted. In the West Bank, there's barely been a peep of...
Mr. Obama originally had planned to tap John Brennan, who was head of the National Counterterrorism Center at the time of his retirement in 2005. But the rumored...
Her Ivy League education and her experiences as a mother of three children qualify her for the job, her many admirers said."I'd vote for her in a second," gushed Boston...
The deaths of Ms. Sheetrit and Mr. al-Mahdi passed largely unnoticed outside of Israel, as had the deaths of dozens of others in preceding months. Outside of Israel,...
An example of moral and intellectual bankruptcy is the $1 trillion "stimulus" package Congress is contemplating to encourage us to continue the behaviors that got us...
I doubt Mr. Obama would have fired Mr. Fitzgerald in any event. He said he would keep him on during a meeting with the Chicago Tribune's editorial board back in March. ...
The colonial mistakes in Africa and the Middle East were driven by arrogance and greed. But the most dangerous mistake was caused by an excess of political...
The second is $7.6 trillion. That, according to the Bloomberg News Service, is the current amount for which taxpayers could be on the hook for the bailouts to date of...
Mr. Obama told the editorial board of the San Francisco Chronicle in January his energy plan likely would bankrupt the coal industry and send electricity rates...
Marty Peretz, editor in chief of the influential liberal magazine The New Republic, thinks it would be a bad idea:"Hillary is not a person of principle. She is a person...
Average global temperature peaked in 1998, and has been cooling since 2002. Global warming, apparently, is not all that it has been cracked up to be.This is important,...