No Time for Tea-and-Crumpet Interrogations By Michael Barone
When former Vice President Dan Quayle scheduled a big speech, President Bill Clinton didn't hop in and schedule one for the hour before.
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May 27, 2009
May 26, 2009
When Navigating the Health Care Desert, Choose a Camel By Senator Mike Enzi
We’ve been wandering in the health care desert for years and if we’re to find our way out a good camel sure would come in handy.
May 26, 2009
Obama's War on Talk Radio By Dick Morris
Obama's liberal philosophy dictates that when the news is bad, shoot the messenger. The newest data from Arbitron, the company charged with measuring the size of radio audiences, suggests that listenership to hip hop, inner city, and minority radio has been overstated in the past and that the popularity of conservative talk radio has been under-reported.
May 26, 2009
Obama's Halfway Change on Stem Cell Research By Froma Harrop
President Obama often tries to defuse divisive debates by talking of "false choices." A false choice implies that by restating the argument, both sides can get what they want.
May 25, 2009
The Death of Israel By Dick Morris
From Caroline Glick, deputy editor and op-ed writer for the Jerusalem Post, comes alarming news.
May 24, 2009
A Naked Million By Debra J. Saunders
In 1992, after he stopped wearing clothes to his UC Berkeley classes, Andrew Martinez was something of a walking only-in-Bezerkeley joke as the campus' own Naked Guy. But his life was no laughing matter.
May 22, 2009
No Home for Savage By Debra J. Saunders
Britain's Parliament has been mired in a political scandal so damaging that Speaker Michael Martin resigned from office Tuesday. He's the first House speaker to step down in more than 300 years. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's Labour Party is dreading the next election -- which must be held before June 2010 -- as members of Parliament have been snared in a series of Daily Telegraph stories detailing how they filed bogus claims of up to $40,000 to cover their expenses needed to maintain two homes.
May 22, 2009
Cheney and the Iraq-Torture Link By Joe Conason
Defending their record in office these past eight years, figures from the last administration seem especially touchy on the subject of torture. Led by the former vice president, Dick Cheney, they have argued that there was no torture, preferring more vague and delicate terms such as "enhanced interrogation" or simply "the program." They have insisted that any harsh tactics were used only to extract "actionable intelligence" from recalcitrant terrorists in order to save "thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands" of innocent lives.
May 22, 2009
Dick Cheney? By Susan Estrich
Come on, my Republican friends, you can do better than this.
May 21, 2009
Why Pelosi Must Go By Dick Morris
It's obvious that either Leon Panetta, Obama's head of the CIA, or Nancy Pelosi, his party's Speaker of the House, has to go. No administration can tolerate a permanent, public civil war between two such high-ranking officials.
May 21, 2009
Why the U.S. Should Listen to India's Voters By Michael Barone
Last November, 131 million Americans voted, and the whole world took notice. Over the last month, about 700 million Indians voted, and most Americans, like most of the world, didn't much notice.
May 21, 2009
Cars: What We Need vs. What We Want By Froma Harrop
The new fuel-efficiency and emission standards may lead to smaller cars with lighter engines. This is not what consumers prefer, auto analysts tell us.
May 20, 2009
The Michelle of It All By Susan Estrich
She is the most popular and most admired woman in the world. She has smarts, beauty, style, a great husband, a great mother, two beautiful children and a very handsome dog.
May 20, 2009
How About Reality-Based Diplomacy? By Tony Blankley
Upon hearing of the death of a Turkish ambassador, the serpentine French diplomat Talleyrand was reputed to have responded, "I wonder what he meant by that."
May 20, 2009
Audit The Fed By Howard Rich
I’ll be the first to admit that the notion of Washington politicians auditing the Federal Reserve initially struck me as a little bit kooky – and more than a little bit backward.
May 19, 2009
New Standards for Credit-Card Decency By Froma Harrop
By the time you read this, the Senate may have passed a bill to put a leash on the nastiest credit-card company tactics. Lenders warn that changing the rules would make it harder for people to get credit.
May 19, 2009
Political War Vets By Debra J. Saunders
Members of President Obama's Cabinet are three times more likely to have attended law school than boot camp. How things have changed since 2004, when Democrats were outraged that, in time of war, the GOP White House could be run by men with no combat experience.
May 18, 2009
When Will Obama Own the Recession By Dick Morris
When will the economy stop dropping because of the recession and start dropping because of the harm Obama's cure to the recession is inflicting?
May 18, 2009
Text of Representative Harman's letter to CIA General Counsel Muller
Last week's briefing brought home to me the difficult challenges faced by the Central Intelligence Agency in the current threat environment.
May 18, 2009
Obama Changes Course on Antiterrorism By Michael Barone
Step by step, Barack Obama has been reversing himself on antiterrorist policy. Last month, he announced he would not appeal a federal court decision ordering the government to release photographs of terrorist interrogations. This was in line with his decision to release on April 16 four memoranda prepared by the Bush administration Justice Department on that subject.
