Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire
The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...
The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...
Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...
On Thursday night, something historic took place in Egypt: The first televised presidential debate ever held in the Arab world. This was four-and-a-half hours of real cut-and-thrust on sensitive...
When Barack Obama selected Joe Biden to be his running mate in 2008, the media lauded the decision as the perfect choice to beef up a ticket in need of foreign policy credentials. Announcing his...
It’s not about smugness and narcissism. It’s about shouldering responsibilities that no other nation can or will.
Because President Obama has got it ass-backwards. Ryan Lizza in the New Yorker says that our seemingly incoherent policy — which Krauthammer calls “ad hoc” — is driven by...
Imam Feisal Rauf, the cleric behind the provocative Ground Zero Mosque (GZM) project, as one critic put it, “is no moderate. He presents himself as a peacemaking Islamic Gandhi, but he is i...
With debt exploding, joblessness climbing, growth stagnating, and sharp tax increases looming, the economy has dominated the midterm campaign that finally ends on Tuesday. National-security conce...
We Americans should be ashamed! What an intolerant, bigoted, hateful lot we are! Or so we are being told by our political and media elites. Lawrence Wright, in The New Yorker – yes, The New...
Gwen Ifill's conflict for thee, but not for me.
Tiny Delaware barely registers in the Electoral College, but Barack Obama selected Joseph R. Biden Jr., the state’s senior senator, as his running mate. There’s one explanation: forei...
An always thoughtful reader writes: Rick also misses something here: “You would have thought the base was energized by being in a war. If not, perhaps we...
I don’t often disagree with Peter, but there is nothing elegant about Rick’s assertion that “Conservatives love Palin because she has a Downs baby and an M-16.” It&r...
They say it’s confirmed by high campaign officials....
I think Peter really nailed the biggest upside here: “she has thrilled the GOP’s conservative base, which can now in good conscience give itself to the McCain candidacy with enthusias...
It is outrageous that McCain’s choice of Sarah Palin for Veep has overwhelmed Obama campaign news after that historic, moving celebration of change and hope last night. I, for one, wi...
His Maverickness drives us crazy, and we’ve — I’ve — complained plenty about any number of cases in point. So I just want to say thank you, Sen. McCain, on this one....