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Updated: October/31/2009
The power of Palin
FOX News talk show host Glenn Beck has been a thorn in the side of the White House.
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Updated: October/27/2009
Reid weaves 'tangled web' to hide health-reform costs
"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 (D., Nev.) has read "Marmion." But he now has a pretty good idea of what Sir Walter Scott meant.
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Updated: October/17/2009
Suckered by the Russians
HILLARY Clinton was in Russia last week, hoping to "reset" relations with the Russians which, she said, had been damaged by the policies of George W. Bush.
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Updated: October/10/2009
Dithering toward defeat
OUR fortunes in Iraq began to turn around when the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment ran a classic counterinsurgency operation in the town of Tal Afar, between Mosul and the Syrian border.
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Updated: October/03/2009
Rethinking Afghanistan
IF PRESIDENT Obama supports the recommendations of Stanley McChrystal, the general he picked to run the war in Afghanistan, he'll have done a brave thing. The President, in pushing for a health-care plan a majority of Americans really don't want, has shown he'll go against public opinion. But he's never opposed his base. If Mr.
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Updated: September/26/2009
Obama wrong on Honduras
As I write this column, Manuel Zelaya, the Hugo Chavez wannabe who the Obama Administration wants to install as president of Honduras over the objections of the overwhelming majority of its people, is holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa.
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Updated: September/19/2009
Joe Wilson was right
DEMOCRATS in the House of Representatives, with the support of only a handful of Republicans this week voted to formally rebuke Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) for shouting, "You lie!" during President Obama's address to a joint session of Congress on Sept. 9. Mr. Wilson's outburst came after the President said illegal immigrants were not included in his health-care plan.
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Updated: September/12/2009
Exit Van Jones
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."
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Updated: September/05/2009
Stop pretending in Afghanistan
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 and a second column calling for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq as well.
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Updated: August/29/2009
Gutting the CIA
A BLOATED corpse remains, but life and spirit have left the CIA. A troubled agency that can ill afford it has had a very bad week.
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Updated: August/22/2009
Liberals play the race card
THE LAST resort of the liberal scoundrel is the false accusation of racism. It's a sign not just of moral and intellectual bankruptcy, but of desperation.
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Updated: August/08/2009
Real reform
THE second, third, fourth, and fifth most important reasons why private health insurance costs so much are:
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Updated: August/01/2009
Health reform is in trouble
HERE'S a data point that should give liberals pause: There is no statistically significant difference between the proportion of Americans who think ill of Sarah Palin and the proportion of Americans who disapprove of the job Barack Obama is doing as President.
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Updated: July/25/2009
Who's the narcissist?
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 Palin's extravagant self regard.
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Updated: July/18/2009
Not so stimulating
SHORTLY after a Quinnipiac University poll reported July 7 that President Obama's job approval rating in Ohio had fallen 13 percentage points in two months to 49 percent, the White House dispatched Vice President Joe Biden to that crucial swing state to defend the administration's efforts to deal with the economic crisis.
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Updated: July/11/2009
Looking down on Palin
WHAT do Janet Napolitano, Kathleen Sebelius, and Jon Huntsman have in common? All were governors who resigned this year to pursue other opportunities, and did so without a peep of criticism from journalists or their fellow pols for "quitting" on the peoples of Arizona, Kansas, and Utah, respectively.
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Updated: July/04/2009
Green nonsense
AN UNUSUALLY cold winter (it snowed in Saudi Arabia and Iraq; temperatures fell to minus 80 degrees in Siberia) has been followed by an unusually cool spring (it snowed in North Dakota in June for the first time in 60 years).
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Updated: June/27/2009
Our timid President
IT ISN'T exactly like dancing on Neda's grave, but it's close enough to make decent people uncomfortable.
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Updated: June/20/2009
Foreign folly
WHEN it comes to foreign policy, President Obama is a one-trick pony, and the trick isn't working.
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Updated: June/13/2009
Palin power
PRESIDENT Obama is, by far, the most popular politician in America. And there is little doubt who is No. 2.
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Updated: June/06/2009
Undercover turf war
PRESIDEN• •Obama made a surprise lunchtime visit May 29 to a Five Guys hamburger joint in Washington, where he bought cheeseburgers for himself and for NBC anchor Brian Williams, who was filming a "day in the life" program at the White House.
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Updated: May/30/2009
Playing the U.S. for a patsy
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 nations" and then went off to play a round of golf.
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Updated: May/23/2009
Fuel policy is foolish
"IT'S TERRIBLE. Biblically terrible. Possibly the worst new car money can buy. It's the first car I've ever considered crashing into a tree, on purpose, so I wouldn't have to drive it any more. "
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Updated: May/16/2009
Obama's toadies
"Does he even know who … I am?" the petulant young woman asked her companions, throwing in an expletive, when a security guard briefly denied her entrance to the event because she had just two tickets for three people.
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