Good thing we didn't elect this guy. This speech against tyranny and in support of the Iranian people might make the terror-supporting, nuclear bomb-wanting regime sad -- and they might accuse the U.S. of "meddling." That would be bad.
Good thing we didn't elect this guy. This speech against tyranny and in support of the Iranian people might make the terror-supporting, nuclear bomb-wanting regime sad -- and they might accuse the U.S. of "meddling." That would be bad.
Iran is in turmoil after the ruling mullahs apparently erred in handing incumbent President Mahmoud Imadinnerjacket a decisive victory -- nearly 2-to-1 -- that obviated the need for a runoff election. The loser, Mir Hossein Mousavi, called for protests, that quickly turned to riots. There have been reports that Mousavi has been arrested. At a […]
It appears that President Barack Obama will finally buck the unions and move forward on the Colombia Free Trade Agreement. It started Saturday, when he put himself next to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at lunch and then studiously exchanged notes. Having listened to Uribe, (and that must have been a nice dose of sanity after […]
President Barack Obama's worldwide apology tour is getting old -- and it's barely even started. It's one thing to strike a tone and take positions different from a previous administration, especially one of a different party. But Obama has gone around the world apologizing for every real and perceived slight this nation has ever visited […]
In a speech last week in France, Obama displayed a troubling ignorance of history: In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, […]
President Barack Obama has been campaigning in Europe in recent days -- how else do you characterize having a "town hall" event in France? -- and the media covered with much aplomb his ability to get NATO to cough up 5,000 troops for this summer's elections in Afghanistan. For those who haven't been paying much […]
Last week, California Sen. Dianne Feinstein confirmed news media reports that those Predator drones that are causing terrorists in the lawless Pakistan tribal regions to come down with bad cases of death are actually based in Pakistan. In a just world, this would get blabbermouth Feinstein kicked off the intelligence committee and possibly censured. Instead, […]
Buried on page A32 of today's New York Times (according to Tom Maguire) is word that the generals President Bush put in charge of winning the war in Iraq won't be taking Barack Obama's 16-month withdrawal timetable as gospel -- and Obama's apparently OK with that. A new military plan for troop withdrawals from Iraq […]
There's taking pride in your profession, but at some point reality has to intrude. The spread of information on the Internet has given the world a new tool to forestall conflicts, Nobel literature prize winner Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clezio said Sunday. In his Nobel lecture to the Swedish Academy, the 68-year-old Frenchman said an earlier […]
President-elect Barack Obama announced the people he plans to nominate for a variety of positions in his administration earlier today. Oddly enough, it appears that he is going to pay Hillary Rodham Clinton less to serve as Secretary of State than he would just about anyone else for the same job. (See the "Saxbe fix" […]