Foreign Affairs
Power Line on Taking the National Debt Seriously Stephen Spruiell on Obamacare Dissected: Ten things that probably will be in the health-care bill (but shouldn’t) Kevin Williamson on Real Health-Care Reform: Ten things that ought to be in the health-care bill (but probably won’t) Veronique de Rugy on Elinor Ostrom and the Essence of Economics…
Douglas Farrow takes up one of the more difficult questions for the right-wing Catholic: Pope Benedict’s call for a “true world political authority” in his recent encyclical, Caritas in Veritate. Farrow doesn’t fully assuage fear that the pope has erred in the direction of his European intellectual surroundings, but he does provide the context of…
Thoughts on the strategic issues and political agenda driven by Obama’s world view: Power Line: Paul Rahe on Obama’s Agenda Charles Krauthammer on Decline is a choice Peter Wehner links the two concepts of Obama’s agenda and his winning of the Nobel Peace Prize. More thoughts from Jonathan Tobin, Jennifer Rubin and the NR editors.…
One could argue that having Yassar Arafat awarded the Nobel Peace Prize was the true “Jump the Shark” moment for the Nobel Peace Prize…or even that Al Gore winning for a Power Point presentation on Global Warming Climate Change. But at least Arafat had been involved in something–no matter how disingenuously–that looked like a peace…
Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s French Lesson: Sarkozy could not conceal his astonishment at Obama’s naivete Jennifer Rubin on Selling Our Souls Andy McCarthy on If you don’t get Islamic ideology, you don’t get the problem in Afghanistan; follow the links, too Richard Cohen on Does Obama Have the Backbone? Milton Friedman on Greed Steven Hayward…
With such results as this, can there be any question about why Palestinian leaders take the strategy that they do? In the first video images since he was captured by Palestinian militants in 2006, Israeli Sgt. Gilad Schalit — looking thin but healthy, his hair freshly trimmed — sent love to his family, appealed for…
Well isn’t that what always happens? Tension. Ease. Tension. Ease. And always Iran moves a little closer to nuclear capability. With consequences such as this looming over the country’s head, I’m sure Iran understands how serious the United States is: Tehran “must grant unfettered access” to international inspectors within two weeks, he said, warning that…
It gets kind of redundant, doesn’t it? The world bangs a desk over Iran. Iran replies with a zerbert. The news cycle moves on. Missile tests? Eh. Just inconsequential bluster. Iran’s awfully far away. Really, at worst, we have this: Iran’s last known missile tests were in May when it fired its longest-range solid-fuel missile,…
The right wing is not really made up of warmongers, as the radical left and its pals in the entertainment and media fields would have the world believe. Where we advocate for military action without such provocation as makes war unequivocally necessary, it isn’t because we do not value the lives of foreign nationals, but…