On Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s meeting with President Obama:

The entire production we saw this morning was double domestic theater. Each had his domestic constituency. Obama … needed to show the large numbers of pro-Israeli Americans that he is not anti-Israel. That was the impression from the meeting in March, where he dealt disgracefully with the prime minister of Israel.
So I think he undid a lot of that and gave a lot of reassurance on non-proliferation. He went through a litany of ways of defending Israel having a nuclear arsenal. Remember, this is … after we supported a resolution chastising Israel for not complying with the NPT. So this was a reassurance that Israel should and can maintain the nuclear deterrent.
For Netanyahu, it was important to show he has the support of the United States. It’s the one ally in the world; without the United States Israel is adrift and in danger. So I think it helped Netanyahu as well.
The substance all happened behind the scenes. The Israelis are very eager to have a resumption of direct negotiations with the Palestinians at the highest level — no preconditions, and on the final status on a settlement that will end the conflict. No proximity talks, no intermediate stuff, no halfway measures.
The Israelis want to go for what is possible right now, and it will be interesting to see how the Palestinians respond.

On NASA Administrator Charles Bolden’s interview with Al Jazeera:

It went beyond the Muslim outreach [Ed. See yesterday’s Krauthammer’s Take]. It was about saying how indispensable has been the international assistance in building the space station.
The international space station was the biggest waste in the history of space and he praised it as a kind of a U.N. where everybody hangs together and there is no war or disagreement.
I mean, this is … bizarre. We already have a U.N. on the ground that’s worthless. You want to replicate another in space at the cost of $100 billion?
He thinks it’s a good idea. You can’t make this stuff up.