Roger Cohen makes a very good point in his New York Times column today. There are no Arabs or Persians on Barack Obama’s Middle East negotiating team–at least not yet. And most of those who have been named or rumored are Jewish males. I suppose that it falls to Jewish males like Cohen (and me) [...]

Guys, I know things have been tough around here lately, what with the cost-cutting and all. But might it be possible to do something about the banner at the top of this blog? It makes the President-elect look like he should go down in the basement and find a flashlight until the power company gets [...]

Following up on Karen’s post – Speedy Gonzales beat me to it! Voinovich makes the third GOP senator to retire this cycle. If Senate Republicans thought 2006 and 2008 were bad, the spate of retirements is making 2010 look pretty painful. First there was Florida Senator Mel Martinez – because Florida’s always an easy state [...]

Obama today sent a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, House Minority Leader John Boehner and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell asking them to allocate the second half of the $700 billion TARP funds passed by Congress last year. House Banking Committee Chairman Barney Frank introduced a bill Friday that [...]

Marc Ambinder thinks that Ohio Senator George Voinovich’s not-unexpected decision not to seek a third term in the Senate could be liberating: Voinovich’s retirement clears the way for him to vote his conscience over the next two years without much regard for the exigencies of party discipline. Democrats believe that he might be willing to [...]

From a Monday morning press conference, just completed: QUESTION: Four years ago, you were asked if you had made any mistakes. And I’m not trying to play “gotcha,” but I wonder, when you look back over the long arc of your presidency, do you think in retrospect that you have made any mistakes? And, if [...]

I thought Barack Obama gave a strong, confident performance on This Week with George Stephanopoulos this morning–especially when you remember how halting and cautious he could be in these interview settings during the campaign. The guy has grown. So far as I could tell, there was nothing “eye-popping” in the interview, to use his phrase [...]

There has been an awful lot of nonsense written about Gaza from both the left and right. There are those on the left who simply believe that Israel does not have the right to defend itself against a terrorist enemy that relentlessly attacks its civilians and refuses to acknowledge its right to exist. There are [...]

The story is called “The City Where the Sirens Never Sleep.” It is about Detroit. It is written by Matt Labash of the Weekly Standard. Read it here.