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- Sarah Palin: A Case Study - November 17, 2009
- I saw the other day that George W. Bush is raising money for his proposed policy institute at Southern Methodist University. I did some research and found out that there...
- Cutting Our Losses in Afghanistan - November 10, 2009
- Between World War I and World War II, Britain fought all across the Islamic world, battling insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan, to name just two, and usually losing....
- Lessons From Bernie - November 3, 2009
- In his own telling, Bernard Madoff was a version of the serial killer who leaves notes saying, "Stop me before I kill again." In Madoff's case, he was waiting for the...
- Give the General Only What He Needs - October 27, 2009
- Years ago, I bought an old Time magazine -- the issue with the 1965 Man of the Year on the cover. I stuffed it into an old picture frame and kept it around to remind me...
- Does Anyone Know Barack Obama? - October 20, 2009
- If, as the saying goes, the perfect is the enemy of the good, then Barack Obama is his own worst enemy. That becomes clear in the upcoming HBO documentary "By the...
- The Real Winner in Oslo - October 13, 2009
- My love of lo these many years came into the room and asked what I was working on. I detailed some topics, enthralled as usual with my own brilliance, but she scoffed at...
- Obama Doesn't Seem Ready to Lead - October 6, 2009
- Barack Obama's trip to Copenhagen to pitch Chicago for the Olympics would have been a dumb move whatever the outcome. But as it turned out (an airy dismissal would not...
- The Campaign is Over, Mr. President - September 29, 2009
- Sooner or later it is going to occur to Barack Obama that he is the president of the United States. As of yet, though, he does not act that way, appearing promiscuously...
- In the Way and Out the Window - September 22, 2009
- The Defenestration of Prague occurred in 1618 when two royal officials were summarily thrown out of some rather high windows and landed, as luck would have it and...
- Charles Rangel: Above the Law? - September 15, 2009
- Once upon a time, before I began an interview with Rep. Charles Rangel, I was warned by an aide not to bring up the 1970 race in which the upstart Rangel defeated the...
- Our Revenge is Incomplete - September 8, 2009
- This week it will be eight years since I fled my office and rushed down to Lower Manhattan. Two planes had hit the World Trade Center -- I had seen that on television --...
- Are We Giving Terrorists the Upper Hand? - September 1, 2009
- Call him Ishmael. Call him a terrorist or a suicide bomber or anything else you want, but understand that he is willing -- no, anxious -- to give his life for his cause....
- The Burdens of Legacy - August 27, 2009
- In late November of 1979, I flew to Iowa with Edward Moore Kennedy. He was in first class and I was in coach, but at some point an aide came back and summoned me...
- The President Seems Lost - August 25, 2009
- Let's go back to that "teachable moment." It was proclaimed by Barack Obama after he said that police in Cambridge, Mass., had acted "stupidly" in arresting Henry Louis...
- Palin's 'Ism' Factor - August 18, 2009
- Try this on for size: Palinism. What is it? It is an updated version of McCarthyism, which takes it name from the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin liar,...
- On Vick, Excusing the Inexcusable - August 11, 2009
- With team after team turning him down, the question regarding Michael Vick, thrower of football and killer of dogs, is not whether he will return to the NFL or even...
- The Folly of Hate-Crime Laws - August 4, 2009
- James von Brunn, who is alleged to have opened fire and killed a guard at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is apparently a consummate bigot. His former wife said that his...
- No, I Don't Want to Interview Obama - July 28, 2009
- When the Pulitzer committee called to say that I had won the Prize for being the only syndicated columnist, or for that matter touch-typist, who had not had an exclusive...
- Sotomayor Is Smart, Qualified and So-So - July 21, 2009
- A political ad that lucky New Yorkers get to see on television begins with "A million lawyers in America" and goes on to wonder about certain no-bid contracts in nearby...
- Socialized Medicine? Bring It On - July 15, 2009
- When I was in the Army and known to my friends as "Combat Cohen," I could not get over the fact that the American public supported high Pentagon spending despite...
- It's Settled: Palin is Unfit for Office - July 7, 2009
- In his novel "The Plot Against America," Philip Roth imagined that Charles Lindbergh, an isolationist and an anti-Semite (but a hell of a flyer), ran for president in...
- The Bernie She Never Knew - July 1, 2009
- Among the alumni of Far Rockaway High School in Queens, N.Y., are three Nobel Prize winners -- two in physics (Richard Feynman, Burton Richter) and one in medicine...
- Open the Military Closet - June 30, 2009
- Back during the initial fuss about "don't ask, don't tell," I went over to the Pentagon to see the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. We mostly discussed the...
- A Respect for What We Don't Know - June 23, 2009
- The foreign policy sins of the United States fall into two categories: commission and omission. The commission ones include the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, and a one-time...
- Where Anti-Semitism Is Mainstream - June 16, 2009
- To far more people than we would like to admit, the mystery of James W. von Brunn, the alleged shooter at the Holocaust Memorial Museum, is not that he held such weird...
- Dreams Built in the Projects - June 2, 2009
- With the nose of a trained columnist, I detect the whiff of elitism-cum-racism emanating from the nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. The whiff does not...
- Wordsworth's Lament, Updated - May 26, 2009
- "The world is too much with us," the poet William Wordsworth wrote -- and that, of course, was before Elizabeth Edwards published her book and went on television to...
- In a Nuclear Minefield - May 19, 2009
- In 1947, a British lawyer with no experience in the region arrived in India to draw lines on a map. Within several weeks, Cyril Radcliffe had severed the future Pakistan...
- What if Cheney's Right? - May 12, 2009
- Blogger Alert: I have a written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think -- in...
- A Litmus Test That Counts - May 5, 2009
- As the time approaches for President Obama to choose a successor to Justice David Souter, the term "litmus test" will be heard throughout the land. The White House will...
- We Are All on the Rack - April 28, 2009
- On April 16, President Obama released the now-infamous torture memos along with a covering statement that said the CIA's old interrogation methods not only failed to...
- Hamas's Bloody Hands - April 21, 2009
- Some residents of Gaza were taken from their homes and shot in the legs or feet. Some were brutally beaten and some were simply murdered, sometimes after hideous...
- A Texas-Sized Challenge - April 14, 2009
- Former President Bush and some of his White House aides are gathering in Dallas to plan the future George W. Bush Policy Institute. There, I guess, they will ponder...
- Sacrificing Wealth to Serve in Government - April 7, 2009
- Summers is clearly one of these people. D.E. Shaw paid him $5.2 million last year to meet with important clients. In addition, he lent the firm his expertise as a crack...
- No More Auto Bailouts - March 31, 2009
- The Obama administration has warned both companies that it may let them sink into bankruptcy. In the meantime, though, more money is probably on the way -- along...
- The Stale Air of Business as Usual - March 24, 2009
- The pressure for the legislation was great. In just a day, Charlie Rangel, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, went from opposing the idea to...
- Don't Blame Jim Cramer - March 17, 2009
- Or take Richard Fuld. He is the former chairman of Lehman Brothers, which, as we all know, is no more. He lost about $1 billion. Or take Citigroup's former...
- Obama's Realism Settles In - March 10, 2009
- The Obama administration is talking to the Syrians. It is willing to talk to the Iranians. It will parley with the North Koreans. It has kicked the wheels off the...
- History Roars Back - March 3, 2009
- Then Zweig experienced a stark loss of control over his life. He went from being at home anywhere in Europe to being on the lam, a Jew fleeing the Nazis. He wound up in...
- Israel Must Achieve Equality for All - February 24, 2009
- Weizmann's admonition may not be known to Avigdor Lieberman, an immigrant from the former Soviet republic of Moldova and now one of Israel's most important...