Sarah Palin

September 11, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

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...

September 25, 2012 |

Give Paul Ryan His Foreign Policy Due

Eager to discredit Paul Ryan, liberals can’t decide whether to caricature the Republican vice presidential nomine...

May 15, 2012 |

Egypt’s Presidential Debate was a Historic Triumph for Democracy. So Why Did We Ignore It?

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...

December 21, 2011 |

How Biden Gets it Wrong (Again) in Newsweek

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...

June 1, 2011 | Clifford D. May |

In Defense of American Exceptionalism

It’s not about smugness and narcissism. It’s about shouldering responsibilities that no other nation can or will.

May 1, 2011 | Michael Ledeen Faster, Please!

It’s Not ‘Leading From Behind’; It’s ‘Leading WITH the Behind’

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...

January 19, 2011 | National Review Online

Wrong on Rauf

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...

October 30, 2010 |

It’s Not the Economy, Stupid

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...

September 16, 2010 |

Cry Islamophobia!

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...

October 2, 2008 |

Do As I Say, Not As I Do

Gwen Ifill's conflict for thee, but not for me.

September 29, 2008 |

Biden’s Baggage

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...

August 31, 2008 |

We Need a New Base?

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...

August 31, 2008 |

Re: re: Rick on Palin

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...

August 29, 2008 |

FOX: It’s Palin

They say it’s confirmed by high campaign officials....

August 29, 2008 |

Palin Pros & Cons

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...

August 29, 2008 |

No Obama News? What about the Fairness Doctrine?

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...

August 29, 2008 |

Well Done, Sen. McCain

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....