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- Don't Add to Debt with Health Reform - July 8, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Around midnight on April 15, 1912, there were a few minutes when Capt. Edward Smith of the Titanic realized his ship was going down -- six watertight...
- Success and Failure in Iraq - July 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It may seem strange to Americans, so close to our independence celebration, that Iraqis should break out the fireworks when our troops withdraw. We are not...
- Cap-And-Traitors - July 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- With the cap-and-trade bill passing the House of Representatives last week by seven votes, the eight Republicans who supported it were bound to feel some...
- The Revenge of the Freedom Agenda - June 26, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In early 2005, the advance of freedom in the Middle East had an air of inevitability. Hundreds of thousands demonstrated in Beirut to demand an end to...
- Latte' and Communism - June 24, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I have always disliked dogs. All animals, really -- but especially dogs. Perhaps this has roots in the traumas of childhood, when a German shepherd seemed...
- Freedom Now - June 19, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Presidents dealing with foreign uprisings are haunted by two historical precedents. The first is Hungary in 1956, in which Radio Free Europe encouraged an...
- Meetings with a Murderer - June 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Zimbabwe's Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is attempting something rare and difficult -- sharing power with the man who tried to murder him. Every Monday...
- Why the Jews? - June 12, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It so happened that this week, on the day I wrote about Holocaust denial in the Middle East, a homegrown denier took a rifle into the United States...
- Obama and Holocaust Denial - June 10, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is President Obama's defining rhetorical strategy. For every contending thesis and antithesis -- Islam versus the West, Iran versus America,...
- Getting to the Main Health Care Course - June 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is a political fact that all the divisive debates and massive expenditures of the early days of the Obama presidency -- from stimulus spending to bank...
- Obama's Middle East Test - June 3, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- I last saw Ayman Nour in a dingy Cairo conference room in 2005 while he was running for president against Hosni Mubarak, Egypt's military ruler. During a...
- A Disturbing Judicial Philosophy - May 29, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is a trap. Republicans are now poised to oppose an accomplished Latina federal judge for the Supreme Court, further alienating Hispanic voters the GOP...
- Colin Powell's Truths - May 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Last week's explosive Cheney-Obama rhetorical showdown ended in a damp fizzle of substantive agreement about the continuation of military commissions,...
- The Sultan and the Archbishop - May 22, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- It is not every day that one dines with the Sultan of Sokoto -- a direct descendant of Usman Dan Fodio, who was declared "Commander of the Faithful" in...
- Democrats' Assault On the CIA - May 20, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- In a little over 100 days, the Obama administration and the Democratic Congress have delivered a series of blows to the pride and morale of the Central...
- The Rhetoric of the Rant - May 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- The first response to the performer on a public stage wishing the death of a stranger for political reasons was discomfort. Wanda Sykes had "crossed a...
- The Driving Desire for Defeat - May 13, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Of the two main American political parties, Republicans are now clearly distinguished by their driving desire to lose. Every faction seems determined to...
- Religion and Our Civic Behavior - May 9, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- There is a book that everyone will be talking about -- when it appears over a year from now. "American Grace: How Religion Is Reshaping Our Civic and...
- Head and Heart - May 5, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Some deaths make the world feel old, like they have stolen a part of youth itself. Normally this applies to those who die in their prime. But Jack Kemp's...
- The Invisible Epidemic - May 1, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- As I was waiting for the results of my AIDS test, the health lecture from my counselor Anthony was calm, explicit and, um, informative. The five bodily...
- Lines on a Slippery Slope - April 27, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- By releasing the Justice Department memos on coercive interrogations, the Obama administration has produced an unintended effect: Revealing the context and...
- Red Faith, Blue Faith - April 17, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Is "Christian America" dying? And if so, should we mourn or cheer? These questions, raised in a recent cover story written by Newsweek editor Jon Meacham,...
- God and Your Brain - April 15, 2009
- WASHINGTON -- Religion has often unintentionally enabled scientific skepticism. The faithful will issue a challenge to science: Ha, you can't explain the development of...
- A War Fighter's Budget - April 10, 2009
- The initial remedies were necessarily ad hoc, including mine-resistant vehicles and better intelligence. "In every case," Gates told me, "the problem had to be...
- Obama Has Been a Divider, Not a Uniter - April 8, 2009
- The Pew report notes that this is the extension of a long-term trend. Decades ago, a majority of Democrats approved of Richard Nixon's job performance early in his...
- 'Dead Aid,' Dead Wrong - April 3, 2009
- Moyo is on firm ground in criticizing decades of direct foreign assistance to African governments. Such aid has often propped up corrupt elites, shielded leaders...
- Why Catholics Are Worried About Obama - April 3, 2009
- The office of the president has meaning and importance that transcend the views of its current occupant. Though elected by a part of America, the president becomes...
- What the Teleprompter Teaches - March 27, 2009
- Coverage by Ron Fournier of The Associated Press began: "What kind of politician brings a teleprompter to a news conference?" A recent Politico story asserted,...
- Shooting the Hostages - March 25, 2009
- Dr. Mohammed Ahmed Abdalla, a physician and human rights advocate in Darfur, described to me a region "on the verge." Without international aid groups to organize...
- Government Versus Confidence - March 20, 2009
- AIG executives were foolish to use this loophole to "retain" employees, some of whom nearly destroyed the American financial system. But the company did not act with...
- Caution and Confusion on Iran - March 18, 2009
- First, Iran has a presidential election set for June 12, in which the apocalyptic populist Mahmoud Ahmadinejad faces a strong reformist opponent. Ahmadinejad's...
- Wrong Move: Obama's Liberal Agenda - March 13, 2009
- Following Obama during the New Hampshire primary, I saw a candidate who -- though I disagreed with him on many issues -- defended idealism and rhetoric against the...
- Obama's Messenger for Moral Incoherence - March 11, 2009
- Taxpayers will now likely fund not only the use of "spare" embryos from in vitro fertilization, but also human lives produced and ended for the sole purpose of...
- GOP at the Abyss - March 6, 2009
- First, it is conceivable that conservatives are hyperventilating, as they did in 1993. President Clinton's budget, which included tax hikes, was attacked by Republicans...
- A Week of Revelation - March 4, 2009
- On domestic policy, the revelation was different. Candidate Obama was a tonal moderate -- a pragmatist determined to muddle the old divisions of blue and red into a...
- A Limited Dose of Reassurance - February 27, 2009
- But national morale was not economically decisive in defeating the Great Depression (though it came in handy defeating Hitler). Economic historian Amity Shlaes reminds...
- The Jindal Phenomenon - February 25, 2009
- Some have compared Jindal to Obama, but the new president has always been more attracted to platitudes than to policy. Rush Limbaugh has anointed Jindal "the next...
- Recession's Hidden Virtues - February 20, 2009
- There is, however, an unexpected counterargument. Studying decades of public health data, Christopher Ruhm of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro...
- A Bad, Necessary Bill - February 18, 2009
- But while the legislation was deeply flawed, there was little alternative to action. The usual recession remedy -- the lowering of interest rates by the Federal...
- A Chance to Sway Sudan - February 13, 2009
- While in government, I was skeptical of the usefulness of ICC indictments in situations such as Sudan. Indictments are a blunt diplomatic instrument -- once imposed,...