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Don't Misread Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2011 Comment (3)CAIRO--“There is no monolithism,” Chinese statesman Zhou Enlai once said to Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger after their historic visit to Beijing in 1972. He was referring to the uniquely American habit of reducing distinct, if not conflicting parties—in this case the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China—into a seamless confederation hostile to U.S. interests.
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Congress Fails to Hold Obama Accountable for Libya Mistakes
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2011 Comment (11)President Barack Obama seems hellbent on reigniting the centuries-old battle between the executive and legislative branches over which has the final say over the authorization of military force and for how long. Obama’s stubbornness and intransigence, like that of Wilson, LBJ, Nixon, and Bush 43 before him, may render his successors less, rather than more able to assert American power in defense of real and readily identifiable national security interests. Such proved the case when Congress re-asserted itself in the aftermath of previous wars the nation waged in pursuit of abstract and ill-defined objectives.
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GOP Waits on Perry, Palin, Giuliani for 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook June 23, 2011 Comment (19)Anyone who claims to know at this point what is going to happen in the Republican presidential nominating contest doesn’t know what they are talking about.
This is not just because it is early in the race and early polls are a poor predictor of the eventual outcome. It’s that the field is incomplete.
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Obama Must Make Libya Case to Congress, American People
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2011 Comment (3)The reaction to President Obama's forthcoming speech on Afghanistan is proof that our Founding Fathers knew something very important more than 200 years ago that the current commander in chief is learning now: It’s a lot harder to stop a war than it is to start one.
When the Founders wrote the Constitution in 1787, they had just finished a gruesome war for freedom, in which patriots had to fight and kill their brothers, the Tories, and their cousins, the British. The Revolutionary War ended officially in 1783 with the Treaty of Paris, but British troops still occupied U.S. territory in the Midwest and encouraged Indian raids on American settlers on the frontier.
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Media Matters Declares War on Fox
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2011 Comment (17)Media Matters for America is a left-leaning media watchdog group noted for their aggressiveness.
Their targets? Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Fox News, and anything to the right of Michael Moore.
When it was learned that Fox News hired respected White House correspondent Ed Henry away from CNN, Media Matters sprang into action with a document attacking Henry.
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FDA's New Cigarette Warning Labels Won't Stop Smokers
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2011 Comment (9)The images are so distasteful that television outlets reporting on them issued an advance warning that small children might want to look away. There was a person smoking through a hole in his throat. Another showed a stomach-churning picture of lungs made black by chronic smoking. The most jarring was the cadaver, with stitch marks on his chest to show where the autopsy had been done.
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Obama Should Withdraw From Afghanistan
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2011 Comment (6)Tonight, the president will address the nation from the White House. The topic? The withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan. How many? Well, we won’t know until the president shares that with us this evening, but most speculate 10,000.
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Rick Perry's Good--But Not Sure--Shot at 2012
Tweet Share on Facebook June 22, 2011 Comment (26)It’s beginning to look more and more like Texas Gov. Rick Perry is going to throw his hat back into the presidential ring.
He’s been acting like a reluctant candidate for months, starting with his barn-burner of a speech last February to the Conservative Political Action Conference, the nation’s largest annual gathering of conservative political activists.
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Conservatives Should Stop Taking Ayn Rand Steroids
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2011 Comment (21)Jonathan Chait spotlights this long and compelling reckoning, by Slate’s Stephen Metcalf, with the work of Robert Nozick, one of libertarianism’s intellectual godfathers.
It’s well worth your time.
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Poll: Romney and Huntsman Face the Voters' Mormon Problem
Tweet Share on Facebook June 21, 2011 Comment (21)What do Mitt Romney and Jon Huntsman have to do to convince voters they would not force Americans into polygamy, ban alcohol, or impose other social conditions some people (often wrongly) associate with the Mormon faith?
