The Spine
Obama's Failures Are More Disastrous Than You Think: More On "The GOP Takeover In The States"
I wrote a while back about how state legislatures and governorships had fallen like rocks in a landslide. Of course, I know that Democrats don't like to acknowledge that Barack Obama has been an utter flop. Not only in policy but in his numbers. But numbers don't lie. The fact is that the Republicans won big, very big. And Republicans are, if anything, less responsible and more ideological in state politics than the Democrats. READ MORE >>
Fleeing The Democratic Disaster, Obama Makes Nice In Indonesia
TNR bloggers are arguing among themselves and in the blogosphere generally whether the gargantuan loss of House seats by Democrats is a massacre or just a disaster. The only real consolation for the party is what happened in New York and California. They are still true-blue. And the only consolation for the country is that a few of the nuttier Tea Party waiters lost. But the true enormity came where intellectual liberals and liberal intellectuals almost never really look or act: in the 50 states and their representative bodies. As a friend wrote me: READ MORE >>
Obama Loves Gandhi: Another Mendacious Delusion
I am no Gandhian. And neither is Barack Obama. But he is the president of the United States, and he can get his speechwriters to put into speeches any nonsense he wants. READ MORE >>
Bleeding The West, Al Qaeda’s True Toll Of Terror
Paul McGeough has made a comprehensive accounting of the cost of jihadist terror in the world. Not exactly in dollars or pounds or READ MORE >>
The I.A.E.A Is Trying To Get An Inspection of Iranian Nuclear Facilities. Syrian Atomic Capacities Are Almost As Important...And More Concealed.
"So why not Israel?" you undoubtedly will say. But we know that Israel has nukes. And Jerusalem told us its intentions long ago when it refused to sign the convention that set up the monitoring mechanism. Other governments also did not sign, among them France which, however, advertised its designs with the force de frappe. READ MORE >>
Culture Notes From Tel Aviv: I Didn't Need "The Lonely Planet" To Tell Me That "The White City" Is The Third Most Wonderful City In The World
When I spent almost half a year here a decade ago, I came to my own conclusion that Tel Aviv was one of the world’s most splendid cities. READ MORE >>
The Vital Prelude To The Yemeni Bomb Story
It was first reported by ABC News on Monday night. I read it (in Tel Aviv) in a Washington dispatch by Scott Shane and Robert F. Worth on The New York Times web site Tuesday morning. (Then I went off to my high school English class. But that's another story.) The headline told the stunning revelation: "Earlier Flight May Have Been Dry Run." Here are the salient details: READ MORE >>
Yes, This Was Another Instance of Muslim Terror...And It Was Directed At Americans, At American Jews, In Fact.
The Obama administration has acted with dispatch in dealing with this last episode of Al Qaeda terror. No equivocations, no hesitations. READ MORE >>
These Are Not Toy Soldiers. They Are Child Soldiers...And The Obama Administration Has Given The Countries That Impress Them Another Pass
This is certainly not a vote getter, this permitting Democratic Congo, Chad, Sudan and our heroic ally Yemen to conscript children as young as 14--and who really knows whether they aren't even younger--to fight. READ MORE >>
