Posts Tagged ‘Joe Klein’
Process Is Liberty »
Bruce WalkerThe current endless blather of Obama and his henchmen in the Democratic Party can be summed up thus: Massive health care "reform," as constructed by Democrat leaders, must pass, no matter how the processes of government must be contorted. The media pets of the left echo this message. Despite the overwhelmingly popular opposition to [...]
No Compromise Over Jerusalem »
Steven Plaut No sooner did the Obama administration denounce Israel for its building activities in Jerusalem than hordes of violent Palestinian thugs took to the city’s streets. As usual, the Palestinians decided to show the world how sacred Jerusalem is to them by filling it with violence. That the Arab riots followed so closely after the Obama [...]
Our Reset Reset Foreign Policy »
HVictor Davis HansonThursday, March 11, 2010Almost every element of Barack Obama's once-heralded new "reset" foreign policy of a year ago has either been reset or likely soon will be.Consider Obama's approach to the 8-year-old war on terror. Plans made more than a year ago to shut down the detention center at Guantanamo Bay by January 2010 have [...]
Historical Revisionism via Barack Obama »
From the Editor, William KristolThe Weekly Standard, February 1, 2010In an interview with Time’s Joe Klein last week, President Obama endorsed a mythical version of the early days of his own administration:“I came in expressing a strong spirit of bipartisanship, and what was clear was that even in the midst of crisis, there were those who made [...]
When Peace Is Not a Priority »
David HornikU.S. Middle East envoy George Mitchell is here in Israel again, and it’s not stirring much excitement or even interest. On Sunday he met with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with the latter saying Mitchell had “interesting ideas” on how to get Israeli-Palestinian talks going again but not saying what the ideas were. On Friday [...]
The good and the bad news on the prospects for »
By Peter Feaver The daily news clippings continue to tantalize with tidbits on the intersection between politics and national security. The tidbits fall into a variety of three baskets -- good news, bad news, and ambivalent news -- rather than accumulating only on one side of the ledger for President Obama and the prospects for his policy. In [...]
Those who praised Obama’s work may have some »
Obama had to give up on a $150,000 Simon & Schuster contract Did Bill Ayers Write Obama’s Book?By Online Saturday, November 28, 2009 Given all the blogosphere speculation about Bill Ayers ghostwriting for Obama, one major development at the end of September threatened to break the story wide open. Veteran journalist and bestselling author [...]
Medicalizing Mass Murder »
Charles KrauthammerFriday, November 13, 2009WASHINGTON -- What a surprise -- that someone who shouts "Allahu Akbar" (the "God is great" jihadist battle cry) as he is shooting up a room of American soldiers might have Islamist motives. It certainly was a surprise to the mainstream media, which spent the weekend after the Fort Hood massacre [...]
