The Hollande-Monti Pact: Growth Over Austerity
Exit polls suggest at the time of writing that Nicolas Sarkozy has suffered the ignominy of being a one-term French president. His loss means that for the first time in nearly a quarter of a century...
View ArticleNo Need To Subpoena Reporters
Peter Suderman over at Reason Magazine has a useful reminder today on how the Obama administration promised to protect whistleblowers but has done quite the opposite and has developed into the most...
View ArticleParlez Vous Francais, Mr President?
President Barack Obama better brush up on his French: Francois Hollande acknowledges in an interview with Slate magazine that he speaks English, “but a French president has to speak French!” The two...
View ArticleBolt From The Blue: I Am Not A Tax Evader
Obama campaign spokesman Ben LaBolt has accused me of evading my U.S. taxes and has implied that I am an unpatriotic American. I am thinking of discussing the matter with an attorney friend to see if I...
View ArticleGay Marriage More Dangerous For Romney
The same-sex marriage issue is going to get complicated for both presidential candidates but Barack Obama is likely to benefit from a more consistent message than Mitt Romney has so far been able to...
View ArticleBush/Romney: Bring It On!
I would have thought Obama advisers would be saying, “bring it on” to the thought of George W. Bush campaigning actively for Mitt Romney. They should be so lucky. As Karen Tumulty reports in the...
View ArticleWill A Better But Not Yet Good Economy Safe Obama?
Democrats hope in a tight election race that marginal improvements in the economy will persuade voters to back their man over Republican nominee Mitt Romney. With the exception of the parties clashing...
View ArticleA Rejoinder to Ignatius on Libya
Should the West start putting boots on the ground to establish law and order in Libya to help the teetering government of Ali Zeidan train a general purpose force that later could maintain security in...
View ArticleAnd Aleppo?
From my Daily Beast dispatch this weekend: “A battle is taking shape that could decide the fate of the Obama administration’s strategy for defeating ISIS, and it’s not around the Kurdish town of...
View ArticleThe Unraveling of Obama Syria Policy
“Only two days ago, President Barack Obama’s envoy to the Syrian rebels, retired Marine Gen. John Allen, explained confidently that the U.S. would help to train and equip Western-backed fighters to...
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