Big Defection
Majority Leader Harry Reid opposes building the Ground Zero mosque (H/T: Weekly Standard). I suspect many other Democrats running for office are going to follow his lead. The president seems to be...
View ArticlePolitical Crack
Jay Cost, who has been analyzing poll data for Real Clear Politics for the past six years, has joined the Weekly Standard as a staff writer and filed the first of what will be a daily morning report on...
View ArticleObama’s War
Ever since President Obama came to office, conservatives have been expressing concern about his level of commitment to the war in Afghanistan. The deadline he announced last fall to begin a troop...
View ArticleVast Right-Wing Conspiracy, Redux
Some liberals — including the New Republic’s Jonathan Chait, who insisted in late 2008 and early 2009 that ObamaCare would be a great political success for Obama and the Democrats — continue to claim...
View ArticleArticle of the Week…
…is by COMMENTARY’s own Andrew Ferguson, in the new Weekly Standard. Entitled “The Roots of Lunacy,” this superb piece of political analysis and cultural takedown considers the way in which political...
View ArticleWe Are Not Defensive!
Yesterday, in typically measured and tightly reasoned fashion, Michael Gerson made the case that the president is a snob. This is not an observation unique to Gerson. Every outlet from the New York...
View ArticleHow Talk Radio Rose
A fascinating account from John Carlson on the Weekly Standard’s website mourning the decision of the Seattle radio station that pioneered an all-conservative format to go all Oldies instead...
View ArticleCan’t Anybody in the Obama Administration Talk Without Saying Embarrassing...
This morning, State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley responded to a question on Fox News about the new administration report on how, to quote Tom Joscelyn on the Weekly Standard website, “150 former...
View ArticleSo Much for Twuth
The year’s most retweeted tweet on Twitter (sorry for that ridiculous string of words) was Stephen Colbert’s June 16 gag,”In honor of oil-soaked birds, ‘tweets’ are now ‘gurgles.’” It’s a great line,...
View ArticleThe Moral Case for Conservative Economics
I wrote a piece for the Weekly Standard that attempts to explain what’s wrong with the liberal affinity for class warfare. In response to it, one of the really bright political minds I know wrote me...
View ArticleBiden’s Talk of Withdrawal in Afghanistan Makes Troops’ Task Harder
In this week’s Weekly Standard, I have an editorial praising President Obama for the toughness and resolution he has shown in Afghanistan by refusing to waver from the surge. The latest sign of his...
View ArticleIs Obama Staging a Comeback?
Is President Barack Obama “staging a comeback in the eyes of the American people,” to quote from Politico? Probably not, replies the Weekly Standard’s Jay Cost. He lays out his arguments here. Cost’s...
View ArticleThe South’s Past Haunts Barbour’s Candidacy
Haley Barbour may be among the smartest men in contemporary politics, as well as one of the most able governors in the country. But there’s no denying that his potential presidential candidacy has...
View ArticleAfternoon Commentary
A member of the Iranian Qods force, an elite branch of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard corps, was found to be moonlighting as a Taliban commander. As Stephen Hayes points out at the Weekly Standard,...
View ArticleAfternoon Commentary
Vladmir Putin’s political opponent Mikhail Khodorkovsky was convicted of money laundering and embezzlement yesterday in what many have denounced as a show-trial. The verdict came as no surprise to...
View ArticleThe Limitations of Holocaust Education
In the Forward last week, Donald Snyder puzzled over an apparent contradiction in German society: despite the country’s mandatory Holocaust-education programs and laws against Holocaust denial, recent...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
It looks like President Obama has finally found some backbone in his diplomatic spat with Hugo Chavez. The Venezuelan president rejected the U.S.’s choice for ambassador to Caracas and dared Obama to...
View ArticleMorning Commentary
House Republicans announced a vote to repeal health-care reform on Jan. 12, naming their bill the “Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act.” But even if the legislation passes the House, it’s...
View ArticleDefense Cuts Invite Someone to Test Our Will — and Power
My editorial in the new Weekly Standard criticizing plans to cut back defense, and especially to cut back ground forces, has sparked a fair amount of Internet chatter. Leaving aside the vast volume of...
View ArticleChina and Those Tensions that Remain
Hu Jintao’s visit to Washington has been accompanied by the usual swooning. The New York Times, for instance, finds “Subtle Signs of Progress in U.S.-China Relations.” Very subtle indeed: In a joint...
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