Conservatives are–of course–mad at Barack Obama, but they are also outraged at a country that isn’t outraged enough at him.
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Sorting Out the Scandals
Putting Benghazi, the IRS’s Tea Party targeting and the Justice Department’s leak-hunting seizure of Associated Press phone records in the same basket is like comparing a mirage to a dishwasher to a diamond. There is no common thread.
Syria: Intervention Will Only Make it Worse
The various schemes that have been proposed for a kind of tiddlywinks intervention from around the edges of the conflict—no-fly zones, bombing Damascus and so forth—would simply make the situation worse.
Syria: Intervention is in Our Interest
The question for another President today, and for all Americans, is whether we will again answer the desperate pleas for rescue that are made uniquely to us, the USA.
Bringing It All Back Home
Why the smartest foreign policy choice for the U.S. now is to focus on domestic affiars
Joel Stein’s Latest, “The Fall and Rise of Mark Sanford”
Can a onetime conservative hero climb back from disgrace? Joel Stein says that in South Carolina, anything is possible.
An Angry Obama. Finally.
Political moderates have stayed quiet for too long. It’s time to speak up.
Homeland Insecurity: After Boston, The Struggle Between Liberty and Security
Do we need to sacrifice privacy to be safer?
Syria: A War Obama Doesn’t Want
Why Obama keeps his distance from the rebels in Syria
Why Congress May Finally Do a Budget Deal
Congress will turn from do-nothing to no-dither
Rand Paul the Rebel
Rand Paul has risen from Tea Party troublemaker to GOP celebrity. Can he reshape a party that never quite took his father seriously?
Why All Republicans are Democrats in Washington
Between the poached lobster at Charlie Palmer and the lunchtime speech at the Omni Shoreham, your typical Republican politician—no matter how carefully he tries to maintain ideological purity—is going to be tempted
Obama, Syria, and Iran
The decisions that the President makes on Syria and Iran in the coming months may be the most important of his presidency.
