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Hope Burns a Bit Brighter for a Positive Ending in Libya
No comments on Hope Burns a Bit Brighter for a Positive Ending in LibyaToday is my birthday, and the entire Northeast seaboard is preparing for Hurricane Irene. So what’s on my mind on this Kirk-and-Irene-focused day? Libya, of course. Specifically, whether President Obama deserves any credit for what…
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Astonishment at Obama’s War-Making Overwhelms Consideration of the Merits of It
It was nearly three years ago that Senator Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination, in part on the strength of having the purest “surrender-at-any-cost” position on Iraq. Who then could have predicted the following headline:…
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George Will Has Obama’s Back on Egypt
George Will is often out of step with other conservatives. Sometimes I’m glad of this, and sometimes I’m not. He speaks wisdom in his latest column, taking on the Righties who use every news peg…
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Jennifer Rubin Decamps from De Contentions
One of the two hardest-working, conservative, female bloggers (how’s that for a micro-niche?) packed up her pixels and migrated to a new cyber-home this week, where she’ll have a chance to build a much bigger…
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“America’s Teetering Tower of Unkeepable Promises”
George Will, on the enormity of what just occurred: On Sunday, as will happen every day for two decades, another 10,000 baby boomers became eligible for Social Security and Medicare. And Congress moved closer to…
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Going Back to Old Nassau
Today I had the high privilege and distinct honor of fighting the wind with the parade banner for the Princeton Class of 1980, leading a hardy band of quintagenerians in an off-year reunion march at…