Can Obamacare Be Repealed ‘Plank by Plank’?

By Marc Thiessen February 8, 2011

In the Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel (whom I respect enormously) celebrates the repeal of Obamacare’s 1099 tax reporting requirement, and argues that this is the first step in the ...

Schumer, Feinstein Support Prosecution of WikiLeaks

By Marc Thiessen August 5, 2010

The Left has been up at arms over my suggestion that the Obama administration indict and arrest Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, for his illegal disclosure of more than ...

Troubling Talk of Defense-Budget Cuts

By Marc Thiessen July 23, 2010

The New York Times has a front-page story today on the growing momentum on Capitol Hill to cut defense spending. It is not surprising that in an age when the ...

No Greater Sacrifice

By Marc Thiessen June 16, 2010

Recently, a wonderful organization called No Greater Sacrifice, which provides college scholarships to the children of our fallen and wounded warriors, held its Freedom Award Dinner in Washington. In the ...

Awlaki and 9/11

By Marc Thiessen June 8, 2010

In today’s Washington Post, I write about how the wolves are circling the CIA’s Predator program, and how the Obama administration is endangering the CIA officials involved in the program ...

Could a Captured Taliban Leader Have Warned Us of the Times Square Plot?

By Marc Thiessen May 11, 2010

In today’s Washington Post, I write about the fitful interrogation the highest ranking Taliban leader ever taken into custody in the War on Terror, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.  Baradar was captured ...

Jane Mayer’s Defenders Chime In

By Marc Thiessen April 14, 2010

Over at True/Slant, Conor Friedersdorf comes to Jane Mayer’s defense, claiming Mayer didn’t really mean that the CIA interrogations “yielded no appreciable intelligence benefit” because — aha! — I left ...

Mayer: Wrong Again

By Marc Thiessen April 14, 2010

Jane Mayer has already responded to my piece this morning, telling Mike Allen of Politico in an email that “[Thiessen] cites John Brennan as a supporter of his torture obsession” ...

Eric Holder vs. John Adams

By Marc Thiessen March 11, 2010

I have a piece up for the Washington Post explaining why the al-Qaeda lawyers are wrong to wrap themselves in the mantle of John Adams. Thanks to the spade work ...

Hoyer’s Abortion Gambit

By Marc Thiessen March 5, 2010

In the Washington Post this morning, I explain how Speaker Pelosi plans to game the Stupak 12 on health-care reconciliation. The problem is that there is no way to fix ...