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Hillary Clinton's State Department Report Card is a Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook April 17, 2013 CommentAmong the U.S. State Department's perennial challenges is to live down the hackneyed sobriquet of "striped-pants cookie-pushers," with its implied weakness, elitism and ineffectual foppery. Another is to overcome what it sees as its perennial under-funding.
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Allowing Priests to Marry Isn't the Solution to Catholic Abuse Scandals
Tweet Share on Facebook March 26, 2013 CommentThe Catholic Church has received ample focus in the last two months, between Pope Benedict's surprise resignation and the election of Argentine Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio as Pope Francis, the first pope from Latin America.
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Congress Should Nix Barbara Lee's Peace and Nonviolence Act
Tweet Share on Facebook March 6, 2013 CommentLast week, Democratic California Rep. Barbara Lee introduced the Peace and Nonviolence Act—a bill to create a cabinet-level department dedicated to these laudable goals. And that's where the Washington fun begins.
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Why Did Obama Scrap Nuclear Disarmament in the State of the Union?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 26, 2013 CommentOn Sunday, February 10, the New York Times reported prominently that President Obama's State of the Union address would feature a renewed drive by the president for nuclear weapons reduction toward his avowed goal of a nuclear-weapons-free world. There were ample details: U.S. nuclear forces to be cut by one third, taking our arsenal of actively deployed weapons down to a level of 1,000—well below the New START goal, ratified in 2009, of 1,550 such weapons by 2018.
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Will Hillary Clinton Ever Pay for Her Benghazi Blunder?
Tweet Share on Facebook February 4, 2013 CommentWho would have thought that the most frequently quoted person at a weekend-long leadership retreat of a venerable conservative intellectual society would have been Hillary Rodham Clinton? How could it be that, one after another, these pillars of the conservative movement—people who, in an earlier time, Hillary dismissed as "a vast right-wing conspiracy"—would be citing her rhetoric?
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How Stupid Do Obama and Biden Think We Are?
Tweet Share on Facebook October 22, 2012 CommentIn Tuesday night's debate, President Barack Obama was asked what misperception about himself he would most like to dispel. His answer? That he was someone who believed "government creates jobs, that that somehow is the answer." On the contrary, Obama said. "That's not what I believe. I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk takers being rewarded."
After his now-famous 'you didn't build that' verdict on small businesspeople and entrepreneurs, it's obvious why Obama would want to restyle himself as a devotee of the private sector, a disciple of the marketplace. The trouble comes when he actually starts talking about markets and economics.
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Why Barack Obama Is Beating Mitt Romney in the Polls
Tweet Share on Facebook September 24, 2012 CommentReports last week that President Barack Obama leads Republican nominee Mitt Romney in the polls are confounding many Republican analysts and Obama critics. Nationally, the Real Clear Politics average shows Obama up by almost 4 points, and polls in a dozen battleground states show him leading in 10, by margins ranging of 2-8 points, and Romney up in only two. How is Obama doing it? Given his record, what is keeping the president afloat politically?
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Obama's Nuclear Arms Control Approach Won't Make Us Safer
Tweet Share on Facebook August 3, 2012 CommentImagine that you're a graduate school international relations professor and one of your grad students has turned in his seminar paper. It outlines a new and imaginative, supposedly fool-proof plan for ridding the world of the specter of nuclear terrorism.
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Media Ignores Leftist Bolivian President's Assault on Justice
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2012 Comment"A good man is hard to find." So goes the old adage. But not, it turns out, in Bolivia—South America's poor, landlocked country in the heart of the continent.
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Obama's Remarkable Silence on Latin American Press Abuses
Tweet Share on Facebook May 29, 2012 CommentFreedom of the press is a cardinal American right—a pillar of our democracy, a guarantor of our freedom and our free institutions. Cherished by all Americans, it is perhaps especially sacred to American liberals and the left. Without it, the injustices exposed by the civil rights movement, the government's duplicity about the Vietnam War, the abuses of the Nixon administration and the Watergate scandal—to name but a few landmarks—might never have come to light.
