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- From Kabul to Baghdad -- and Back - July 1, 2009
- This week, American troops start leaving Iraqi cities in compliance with both former President George W. Bush's negotiated start date for withdrawal and President Barack...
- The Presidency at 5 Months - June 24, 2009
- Last week, both David Broder, The Washington Post's venerable and authoritative political voice, and Chuck Todd, NBC's new important political voice, declared President...
- A Fine Madness in the Washington Air - June 17, 2009
- To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not...
- Europe Asks, Does Tomorrow Belong to Us? - June 10, 2009
- Last weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections were not only a victory for the center-right over the center-left but also, more...
- Death by Deficit - June 3, 2009
- The Roman historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic: "Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus" ("We can bear neither our...
- The Myth of 5 Million Green Jobs - May 27, 2009
- In 1845, the French economist Frederic Bastiat published a satirical petition from the "Manufacturers of Candles" to the French Chamber of Deputies, which ridiculed the...
- Reality and the Two-State Solution - May 20, 2009
- Upon hearing of the death of a Turkish ambassador, the serpentine French diplomat Talleyrand was reputed to have responded, "I wonder what he meant by that." With that...
- Arabs Pressure Obama for Quick Peace Accord - May 13, 2009
- Last Sunday, the British newspaper The Times published an interview with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in which the maturing king demonstrated a deft touch in putting...
- Pakistan Poses a 'Mortal Threat' - May 6, 2009
- Does anyone take serious words seriously anymore here in Washington? News item No. 1 concerns the testimony of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before the House...
- Public's Right To Know? - April 29, 2009
- Several events in recent months bring back to the forefront the perennial assertion that, on grounds of both efficacy and ethics, the public's "right to know" is the...
- Honest Talk About Chinese Currency Manipulation - April 22, 2009
- Last week, the Obama administration declined to cite China for currency manipulation despite the fact that most experts -- including Treasury Secretary Timothy...
- A Nuclear Talibanistan? - April 15, 2009
- Our view of Pakistan's role in the war in Afghanistan has undergone an ominous but necessary series of shifts. At the outset of the war, in October 2001, Pakistan...
- Health Care in the Offing - April 8, 2009
- Also, President Obama wants to digitize and collect all patient health care data initially because such data could assist in assessing best practices. This...
- 'Liberty and Tyranny' Reviewed - April 1, 2009
- And that is the vital lesson that my friend Mark Levin instructs us on in his new book, which is already a best-seller in America -- and also should be so in...
- The Most Dangerous City in the World - March 25, 2009
- When I wrote last week's column, before the AIG fury erupted, I argued that we in Washington should dial back our rhetoric because public passions were...
- Getting Too Ugly, Too Soon - March 18, 2009
- On the president's side, a high-toned prizewinner called the GOP arguments "fraudulent," saying they intend to push the U.S. economy over "the edge of...
- Obama's Gamble - March 11, 2009
- After 50 days on the job, the average of his job approval polls, according to RealClearPoltics, is 60.3 percent -- almost precisely average for such data on...
- Obama Keeps Misrepresenting His Positions - March 4, 2009
- The other difference is that Bush didn't lie about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. He merely was mistaken. Whereas Obama told a whopper when he claimed...
- Always Look on the Bright Side of Life - February 25, 2009
- Perhaps it was with those comments in mind that our former president took the opportunity -- while purportedly complimenting his successor -- to advise...
- Obama's Governing Style - February 18, 2009
- Regarding the Cabinet selection, he famously said he "screwed up." But from a management perspective, the unanswered question is: How did he "screw up"? Did...
- Our Clever President - February 11, 2009
- It can't be good that the president is making his vice president the public butt of his snickering after only three weeks in office. Not that it is Biden's fault....
- Obama's Defense Budget Mystery - February 4, 2009
- "'Business as usual is no longer an option,' according to one of the internal briefings prepared in late October for the presidential transition, copies of...
- Obama's Blank Screen Deception - January 28, 2009
- And it is working. Many of my fellow conservative commentators are embarrassingly eager to search Obama's words, groveling for hopeful signs that he is not a...
- Economic Crapshoot Ahead - January 21, 2009
- Rarely has so much hung on contested economic theories and ambiguous historical references. The first question is whether fiscal stimulus can ameliorate an...
- A Truncated Presidential Honeymoon? - January 14, 2009
- In the past two weeks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Sens. Dianne Feinstein, Jay Rockefeller and John Kerry and Rep. Barney Frank, among others, have...
- Being President 101 - January 7, 2009
- Team Obama lost no time Sunday afternoon turning that embarrassing incident into a classless finger-pointing exercise, as they backgrounded Richardson's...
- Now Sits Expectation In the Air - December 31, 2008
- There are media reports that he is smoking more than usual. Who could blame him? For many of the rest of us, we wake up at 2 in the morning worried about our...
- A Disturbing Book Worth Reading - December 24, 2008
- I discuss some of the findings of Tobin and Ybarra's study in my latest book ("American Grit -- What It Will Take To Survive and Win in the 21st Century"),...
- Clinging to Hope - December 17, 2008
- "So I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my trophies at last I lay down; I will cling to the old rugged cross and exchange it someday for a crown." ...
- Liberals Leave the Watchtowers of Freedom - December 10, 2008
- Of course, what would have been heaven for us would have been hell for the political opposition. But if we Reaganites didn't have such a technology, our...
- Will Obama Really Be a Centrist? - December 3, 2008
- The mainstream media, still warmed by the success of their work electing Obama, comfortably headlined an article on the topic in the National Journal: "The...
- Daschle-Obama Health Care Possibilities - November 26, 2008
- He proposes setting up a board to establish standards for health care delivery in the United States that would be modeled on how the Federal Reserve Board and...
- Who's Going on the Presidential Honeymoon? - November 19, 2008
- I have been on only one honeymoon, with my wife 24 years ago last week. It was very much voluntary, and I didn't need to fake my tender love and devotion. But whether...
- To Battle Stations - November 12, 2008
- If you are on the losing side, then you may find convincing the advice of Alcuin of York, the great English scholar and top adviser to Charlemagne: "Nec...
- Forging a Conservative Agenda - November 5, 2008
- Conservatism always has been and always will be a force to reckon with because it most closely approximates the reality of the human condition, based, as it...
- Is Obama Secretly Sensible? Don't Bet on It - October 29, 2008
- But of course, throughout history when dangerous, radical men have offered themselves up for leadership, their moderate supporters have rationalized their...
- The Birth of the Me-Too Conservative - October 22, 2008
- "Let me warn the nation against the smooth evasion which says: 'Of course we believe all these things. We believe in Social Security; we believe in work for the...
- McCain's Next Duty Call - October 15, 2008
- Obama's first election was described recently by Martin Fletcher, a foreign correspondent for NBC News, in the British newspaper The Times (not on NBC): "Mr...
- Bafflement - October 8, 2008
- Moreover, by Monday, experts were divided on why the markets were going down and what should be done about it. I was in a hotel room in Santa Fe, N.M.,...
- Yet Freedom - October 1, 2008
- Unemployment went from 3 percent in 1892 to 18 percent in 1894 -- not returning to single digits (6.5 percent) until 1899. Many out-of-work middle-class citizens...