Let Me Be Equally Clear
The media coverage of the shooting in Tucson raises the question of why the media so badly misreported the objective facts of the event — so badly that the president ...
Is American Journalism Islamophobia-philic?
Today, on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, the latest editor-in-chief of Time magazine (I didn’t catch his name) alerted the nation to the latest Time cover story. He was very proud of ...
Cry Racism!
In the last fortnight: 1) The NAACP called the tea party racist; 2) Andrew Breitbart called the NAACP racist; 3) Shirley Sherrod called Republican opponents of Obamacare racists; 4) Secretary ...
Is It Enough for the GOP to Just Say No?
Over the past year, the Democrats fixed on what they thought was a devastating four-word slogan to defeat Republicans in 2010: “The Party of No.” Unlike many campaign slogans, it ...
Will It Be Lincoln or Kagan?
Abraham Lincoln, address in Independence Hall, Philadelphia, Feb. 22, 1861: “I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence.
“That ...
The Anatomy of Defeat
The Afghan war may be the first one we lose primarily because our civilian leadership did not understand the effect of its public words on our government, our allies, and ...
Stay Out of the Mainstream
There seems to be one thing on which everyone can agree. From archconservative pundits to archliberal White House staffers responsible for Solicitor General Elena Kagan’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, ...
Obama the Isolationist?
Is it possible for an American president to accidentally carry out an isolationist foreign policy? That odd question crossed my mind last week as I talked with various foreign-policy experts ...
Obama Channels Churchill
President Obama’s call to arms against the oil spill, in the style of Winston Churchill:
“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in the gulf, we shall fight ...
The Afghanistan War Is a Farce
Since last summer, President Obama has publicly doubted whether Afghan president Hamid Karzai’s corruption and incompetence make him a fit partner for our policy goals in Afghanistan. Now, according to ...