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- Obama Bows, but the World Refuses to Bow Back - November 19, 2009
- On his 10-day trip to Asia and in his 10th month in office, Barack Obama is beginning to encounter limits on his ambition to change the world. Even as he bowed to the...
- Pushing Health Reform When Job Losses Are Rising - November 16, 2009
- Barack Obama told the House Democratic Caucus before the roll call vote on health care on Nov. 7 that they would be better off politically if they passed the bill than...
- History Is Calling -- Will Obama Answer? - November 12, 2009
- Anniversaries are opportunities to reflect on the past and on what it might mean for the future. Monday saw the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, even if...
- Freewheeling Young Voters Scare Both Parties - November 9, 2009
- In November 2008, 658,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and 782,000 did so in Virginia. In November 2009, 212,000 Americans under 30 voted in New Jersey and...
- Biggest Loser: The Union Agenda - Wall Street Journal - November 5, 2009
- If you were watching television on Tuesday night as the election returns came in showing Republicans capturing the governorships of Virginia and New Jersey, you probably...
- Virginia, New Jersey Races Showing Voters Changing Course - November 5, 2009
- As the final votes were being counted, it was possible to draw some lessons from Republican Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia and the close, three-way governor's race...
- Hold the Champagne -- Happy Days Aren't Here Again - November 2, 2009
- The recession is over, we are told. The Commerce Department announced Thursday that the economy grew in the third quarter of 2009 by 3.5 percent. Great, huh? Maybe not....
- Four Races Will Test the Strength of Obama's Majority - October 29, 2009
- Five days from now the voters of New Jersey and Virginia will elect governors. Voters in the 23rd district of New York and the 10th district of California will elect new...
- Obama at Odds With His Own Vision for the World - October 26, 2009
- Barack Obama, who found time to go on a 24-hour jaunt to Copenhagen on Oct. 2 to seek the 2016 Olympics games for Chicago, apparently cannot find the time for a 24-hour...
- Obama Hits Opponents With Chicago Brass Knuckles - October 22, 2009
- "His father was a great friend of my father." The reference to William Ayers' father was how Mayor Richard M. Daley began his defense of Barack Obama for his association...
- Unlike Obama, Americans Reject European Model - October 19, 2009
- An interesting paradox. Last year, America elected a president who, in attitudes and policies, is closer to the elites of Western Europe than any of his predecessors....
- 'Reform' No One Wants to Pay For - October 17, 2009
- The legislative process can also be a learning process, and as Congress considers health care legislation -- the latest act being the Senate Finance Committee's vote in...
- 'Conceptual Language' Hides Health Care's Costs - October 12, 2009
- Some of the headlines in recent days are not worthy of belief. No, I'm not referring to the headlines that Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize, however odd that many...
- Weak Himself, Obama Draws Strength From Bush - October 8, 2009
- In trying to understand what is happening in the nation and world, we all employ narratives -- story lines that indicate where things are going and what is likely to...
- A War of Necessity Turns Out Not So Necessary - October 5, 2009
- "This is not a war of choice," Barack Obama told the Veterans of Foreign Wars on Aug. 17. "This is a war of necessity. Those who attacked America on 9-11 are plotting to...
- Democrats Win Lobbyists but Lose Basic Reforms - October 1, 2009
- As Sen. Max Baucus tries to squeeze a health care bill out of the Senate Finance Committee, and as Sens. Barbara Boxer and John Kerry race to meet their latest deadline...
- With Obama, Too Much Nuance, Not Enough Power - September 28, 2009
- "It is my deeply held belief," Barack Obama told the United Nations General Assembly, that "in the year 2009 -- more than at any point in human history -- the interests...
- Obama's Time Warp: The U.S. Is Still the Bad Guy - September 24, 2009
- In the early 1980s, while planning a vacation in Latin America, I went to bookstores to look for histories of the region. All I could find were Marxist tracts arguing...
- Strangers to Dissent, Liberals Try to Stifle It - September 21, 2009
- It is an interesting phenomenon that the response of the left half of our political spectrum to criticism and argument is often to try to shut it down. Thus President...
- Job-Killing Policies Could Doom Democrat Hopes - September 17, 2009
- "The level of unemployment is unacceptably high. And will, by all forecasts, remain unacceptably high for a number of years." Who do you suppose said that? A Republican...
- Tom Friedman Hails China's One-Party Autocracy - September 14, 2009
- The dwindling number of readers of The New York Times were treated Wednesday to a column by Thomas Friedman extolling China's "one-party autocracy," which, he told us,...
- The Convenient Fantasies of President Obama - September 10, 2009
- The resignation over the Labor Day weekend of White House "green jobs" czar Van Jones tells you some interesting things about the Obama administration. One of them is...
- Obama Cannot Escape Hard Choices in September - September 7, 2009
- "Very active." That's what White House aides say Barack Obama is going to be this month. That's probably an understatement. Obama faces September deadlines on three...
- New Facts Undercut Old Positions on Immigration - September 3, 2009
- Before leaving for his vacation on Martha's Vineyard, Barack Obama said the next big item on his legislative agenda -- well, after health care and cap-and-trade and...
- The End of America's Experiment With Royalty - August 31, 2009
- Edward Kennedy was buried Saturday, the last son of Joseph and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, the longest-serving member of the only royal political family our democratic...
- Obama's Lyrical Left Struggles With Liberalism - August 27, 2009
- As it becomes clear that a large percentage of Americans are rebelling against the prospect of a larger, more intrusive government, including many whom Democratic...
- Democrats' Colorado Gold Rush Turns Into a Bust - August 24, 2009
- Colorado, where the Great Plains meet the Rocky Mountains, has some claim to be on the leading edge of American politics. It produced antiwar, pro-environment Democrats...
- The Netroots Put Winning Ahead of Convictions - August 20, 2009
- "I am a pessimist by nature, which is why I have spent my life as a journalist instead of trying to be a leader, which requires optimism." So wrote Robert Novak, who...
- Young Voters Should Take Another Look at Obama - August 17, 2009
- Dear Young Obama Voter, Congratulations. You have truly changed America. Those of you under 30 voted 66 percent to 32 percent for Barack Obama, an unprecedented margin....
- When Liberal Leaders Confront a Centrist Nation - August 13, 2009
- There are more conservatives than Republicans and more Democrats than liberals. That's one of the asymmetries between the parties that helps to explain the particular...
- Government Health Care in Stealth Mode - August 10, 2009
- One video is worth a thousand words (or, as in this column, about 730). The video in question, put together by a group called Verum Serum, shows public statements by...
- Obama Would Stifle Military and Medical Creativity - August 6, 2009
- We Americans tend to take the great strengths of our country for granted. In the hubbub of political debate, we concentrate on things that are allegedly wrong with...
- Beware the High Cost of Unintended Consequences - August 3, 2009
- A teachable moment last Thursday night -- no, I'm not referring to the beer-in-the-garden session featuring Professor Henry Gates and Sgt. James Crowley and the...
- Obama Has Aura but Doesn't Know How To Legislate - July 30, 2009
- Aura dazzles, but argument gets things done. Consider the debate on the Democrats' health care bill and the increasingly negative response to Barack Obama's performance....
- Stumbling Governors Signal Trouble for Democrats - July 27, 2009
- With polls showing a drop in Barack Obama's job rating and sinking support for the Democrats' health care plans, there is evidence of collateral damage where you might...
- Gloomy Days for Obama's Health Plan - July 23, 2009
- Thursday is the day things tend to come to a boil on Capitol Hill. Members of Congress have been in town for three or four days; they're planning their exits on Friday...
- Britain and United States Go in Different Directions - July 20, 2009
- Once upon a time, British and American politics seemed to operate in tandem. Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan came to office, both supposedly little experienced and...
- The Price of Leaving the Details to Congress - July 16, 2009
- "Never let a crisis go to waste," Barack Obama's Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said last November. The crisis he referred to was economic: the financial collapse and the...
- Chaos on Capitol Hill: All Politics is Loco - July 13, 2009
- Disarray. That's one word to describe the status of the Obama administration's legislative program as Congress heads into its final four weeks of work before the August...
- Getting Cold Feet Over Big Government - July 9, 2009
- The financial system collapsed. Housing prices cratered. Unemployment is at a record high for the last quarter-century. The Democratic president has a solidly positive...