Flotsam and Jetsam
Is the media having buyers remorse too? “Ed Chen, a White House correspondent for Bloomberg News who is president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said he asked for the meeting ‘to clear...
View ArticleRE: The No-Fly List Didn’t Work, Mr. Holder
After discovering that the federal no-fly list failed to keep Faisal Shahzad off a Dubai-bound commercial flight, there is only one thing to say: It’s becoming clear that the system that has been in...
View ArticleThe End of the Welfare-State Model?
Stuart Varney of Fox Business News said Thursday on Fox News Special Report that what we are witnessing with the debt crisis in Greece and the swoon of the markets over the last week and a half is the...
View ArticleBarack Obama “Really Excited” by Helen Thomas
In respect of the comment of the Washington columnist for Hearst Newspapers, Helen Thomas, that the Jews of Israel should “go home” to Germany and Poland, there are two points to be made. The first is...
View ArticleWe Don’t Need Clint Eastwood
It’s now come to this. In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer, President Obama said this: I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the gulf. A month...
View ArticleHillary vs. China
Throwing your weight around is a time-honored tool in the diplomatic toolbox. Some circumstances call for it, but in others, it is cringe-inducingly inappropriate. With an oddly overt poke in China’s...
View ArticleJournolisters Risked Their Integrity
When you read those who were part of the now infamous Journolist group — hundreds of mostly liberal journalists and academics who joined an online listserv — they present their discussions as...
View ArticleObama, the Mosque, and Ground Zero
At Friday’s iftar dinner at the White House, President Obama declared, “As a citizen, and as president, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this...
View ArticleEndorsed by the Mosque Builders’ Cheerleader
Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who not only defended the Ground Zero mosque but also told its critics to shut up, is going to Pennsylvania today to endorse Rep. Joe Sestak. Honest. Sestak, who is fending off...
View ArticleIt Could Be Worse: The Mullahs’ Ground Zero Mosque
Here is the mosque-building crowd that the leftist punditocracy is defending: The developers behind the Islamic center planned for a site near Ground Zero won’t rule out accepting financing from the...
View ArticleBad News, Again
Another dollop of bad news on the economy: Applications for unemployment benefits in the U.S. unexpectedly increased last week to the highest level since November, showing companies are stepping up the...
View ArticleGallup Poll Results in Perspective
Yesterday I referenced the Gallup survey showing that Republicans lead by 51 percent to 41 percent among registered voters in Gallup’s weekly tracking of 2010 congressional voting preferences. The poll...
View ArticleBack to the Future
Robert Reich, President Clinton’s secretary of Labor, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times in which he tries to explain why the recovery from the “Great Recession” has been so sluggish. He fails to...
View ArticleFlotsam and Jetsam
Not even Dana Milbank can make excuses for Imam Abdul Rauf: “He claims he wishes to improve the standing of Muslims in the United States, to build understanding between religions, and to enhance the...
View ArticleAnd These People Used to Like Him
OK, this is one rotten poll for the president: More than 4 of 10 likely voters who say they once considered themselves Obama backers now are either less supportive or say they no longer support him at...
View ArticlePrivate Sector Voicing Outrage at Bankrolling Public-Employee Benefits
Unions are a declining factor in the U.S. economy, but they still wield enormous political clout. Only about 7 percent of American workers in the private sector are union members, while 37.4 percent of...
View ArticleAfternoon Commentary
With the Democratic party’s major losses in the midterm elections, there were predictions that President Obama wouldn’t win re-election in 2012. But during the lame-duck session, the president has...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu distanced himself from his former Mossad chief’s assessment that Iran won’t acquire a nuclear weapon before 2015: “‘I think that intelligence estimates are...
View ArticleTurkel Report Reveals Ankara’s Responsibility for Flotilla Deaths
As Alana noted yesterday, the Turkel Committee’s investigation of Israel’s raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla last May largely confirmed what any fair-minded person already knew: that the blockade of Gaza...
View ArticleCurious Quote of the Day
From a Bloomberg News article on turmoil in the Middle East: In Egypt, where Mubarak, 82, has been a dependable U.S. ally for 30 years, the White House will need “a delicate touch” to “ensure that a...
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