The Cynicism and Intellectual Corruption of the Left
You would have to be living on another planet not to be aware of the effort by some on the left and in the media to blame conservatives for creating a “climate of hate” that encouraged a suspect, Jared...
View ArticleSilence Is Preferable to Speculation as to Loughner’s Motives
Megyn Kelly of Fox News skillfully interviews Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik about the motivation of the suspect, Jared Loughner, in the assassination attempt of Representative Gabrielle Giffords...
View ArticleToppled Palestinian ‘Landmark’ Symbolized Hate
It says something about the way much of the world views the rights of Jews to live in Jerusalem that the erection of new homes in parts of that city is considered such a terrible provocation. Thus, the...
View ArticleAre Chinese Mothers Superior?
A certain essay appeared in the Wall Street Journal last Saturday, titled “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” to which one excerpted reaction from the Journal community itself was “I am in disbelief...
View ArticleIraqi Clerics May Issue Fatwa — Against Sectarian Violence
This is a promising development. A gathering of Iraqi Sunni, Shiite, and Christian leaders met in Copenhagen today to discuss whether to issue a religious decree condemning the recent tide of violence...
View ArticleThe Left Is Still Unwilling to Work Toward Balance and Moderation
In his column today, E.J. Dionne Jr. writes, “It’s disappointing that the House did not wait a bit longer before bringing up an issue [health care] that has aroused so much division, acrimony and...
View ArticleSen. Conrad’s Retirement and a GOP Senate Majority in 2012
Sen. Kent Conrad (D-N.D.) announced today that he won’t be seeking re-election in 2012, and chances look good that Republicans will be able to pick up the seat, helping them inch closer to a Senate...
View ArticleLiberals’ Civility Test
A week after President Obama’s stirring remarks at the Tucson memorial service comes an important Civility Test for liberals. ABC’s Jonathan Karl reports that Democratic Representative Steve Cohen went...
View ArticleWEB EXCLUSIVE: America: The Left’s Dispensable Nation
It takes a world-class imagination to believe that the cause of democracy will not suffer from American neglect. Luckily for Peter Beinart, it takes only political bias to assert it. And so Beinart’s...
View ArticleIrving Kristol and Republican Virtue
On C-SPAN’s series After Words, David Brooks hosted an engaging and wide-ranging interview with William Kristol on The Neoconservative Persuasion: Selected Essays 1942-2009, a collection of essays by...
View ArticleColin Powell: Budget Cutter
On CNN yesterday, in discussing the budget, Colin Powell said that “the real money [is] in the entitlements … and unless we do something about those, you can’t balance the budget.” He added, “You can’t...
View ArticleObama’s Moment to Redefine the Modern Middle East
Somehow it’s hard to get too worked up about the formalized rituals of the State of the Union when real news is happening half a world away. In the Middle East, revolutions, for good and for ill, are...
View ArticleObamaCare Continues to Unravel
According to the AP, two of the central promises of President Barack Obama’s health-care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare’s independent economic expert told Congress today. The...
View ArticleReid vs. Ryan
ABC News broadcast a short, favorable profile on Representative Paul Ryan, which can be found here. I thought the most delicious part was when Majority Leader Harry Reid — a man of blinding...
View ArticleIt’s Not Now, Nor Has It Ever Been, About Israel
In the New York Post today, I argue that the Egyptian street revolution will bring to an end the decades-long argument that the causes of instability in the Middle East have their root in the relations...
View ArticleThe Slap Heard Round the World
It is amazing that the political revolution now sweeping across the Middle East and North Africa was started by a 26-year-old unemployed Tunisian man who self-immolated. On December 17, 2010, Mohamed...
View ArticleBirthright Confusion Caps Off Worst Week Ever for J Street
If 2010 was a bad year for J Street, 2011 looks like it’s shaping up to be even worse. In the past week, the organization has been denounced by its most prominent supporter in Congress — Rep. Gary...
View ArticleInsights on Egypt from Israel
Maj. Gen. (Res.) Yaakov Amidror, who held several senior posts in the Israel Defense Forces, including head of the IDF division preparing Israel’s National Intelligence Assessment, held a conference...
View ArticleSoros Cites Israel as Main Obstacle to Democracy in Egypt
In a Washington Post column today, George Soros seems quite optimistic about democracy taking root in Egypt — that is, as long as the Egyptians are able to overcome the Israel obstacle: The main...
View ArticleRand Paul Repeats Calls to End Aid to Israel
Sen. Rand Paul has doubled down on his call to cut foreign aid to Israel, despite the complete lack of political support for the proposal on the Hill: I’m not singling out Israel. I support Israel. I...
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