Dennis Prager: Dear Iranians: Don’t Count on America (or Any Country Led by Left)
“The administration has remained as quiet as possible during the Iranian election season and in the days of street protests since Friday’s vote.” – Washington Post , Monday June 15, 2009 “We’re going to withhold comment. … I mean we’re just waiting to see.” – Vice-President Joe Biden “We are monitoring the situation as it ...
Stephen F. Hayes: Obama’s intelligence chief admits the value of tough interrogations
Admiral Dennis Blair, the top intelligence official in the United States, thanks to his nomination by Barack Obama, believes that the coercive interrogation methods outlawed by his boss produced “high-value information” and gave the U.S. government a “deeper understanding of the al Qaeda organization that was attacking this country.” He included those assessments in a ...
Paul Sheehan: Beware the climate of conformity
What I am about to write questions much of what I have written in this space, in numerous columns, over the past five years. Perhaps what I have written can withstand this questioning. Perhaps not. The greater question is, am I – and you – capable of questioning our own orthodoxies and intellectual habits? Let’s ...
Mark Steyn: Pirate problem joins North Korean missile, Iranian nukes as ‘distractions’ for Obama.
The Reuters headline put it this way: “Pirates Pose Annoying Distraction For Obama.” So many distractions, aren’t there? Only a week ago, the North Korean missile test was an “annoying distraction” from Barack Obama’s call for a world without nuclear weapons and his pledge that America would lead the way in disarming. And only a ...
Charles Krauthammer: It’s Your Country Too, Mr. President
I’m not against gift-giving in international relations. But it would be nice to see some reciprocity. Obama was in a giving mood throughout Europe. While Gordon Brown was trying to make his American DVDs work and the queen was rocking to her new iPod, the rest of Europe was enjoying a more fulsome Obama gift. ...
Dennis Prager: America Has a Naive President
“The basic bargain is sound: countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament, countries without nuclear weapons will not acquire them.” — President Barack Obama, Prague, April 6, 2009 As far as nuclear weapons are concerned, the President of the United States wants America to disarm: “Countries with nuclear weapons will move toward disarmament.” It ...
Charles Murray: The Europe Syndrome and the Challenge to American Exceptionalism
America’s elites must once again fall in love with what makes the United States different. The advent of the Obama administration brings this question before the nation: Do we want the United States to be like Europe? President Obama and his leading intellectual heroes are the American equivalent of Europe’s social democrats. There’s nothing sinister ...
