Obama: Modest about U.S., not himself
WASHINGTON — Remember NASA? It once represented to the world the apogee of American scientific and technological achievement. Here is President Barack Obama's vision of NASA's mission, as explained by...
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Surge with an expiration date is a problem
President Obama was fully justified in dismissing Gen. Stanley McChrystal. The firing offense did not rise to the level of insubordination — this was no MacArthur undermining the commander in...
President Obama: The nation’s dreamer in chief
Barack Obama doesn't do the mundane. He was sent to us to do larger things. You could see that plainly in his Oval Office address on the Gulf oil spill....
Iran still a threat despite sanctions
In announcing the passage of a U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran, President Barack Obama stressed not once but twice Iran's increasing "isolation" from the world. This claim...
Blockade of Gaza rational and legal
WASHINGTON — The world is outraged at Israel's blockade of Gaza. Turkey denounces its illegality, inhumanity, barbarity, etc. The usual U.N. suspects, Third World and European, join in. The Obama...
U.S. foreign policy: Crushing verdict
It is perfectly obvious that Iran's latest uranium maneuver, brokered by Brazil and Turkey, is a ruse. Iran retains more than enough enriched uranium to make a bomb. And it...
Miranda Rights get a consensus
WASHINGTON — It's not often that I agree with Attorney General Eric Holder. But, then again, it's not often that Holder publicly embraces an anti-terrorism measure I proposed 48 hours...
Public safety should trump Miranda rights
"(Law enforcement) interviewed Mr. Shahzad … under the public safety exception to the Miranda rule. … He was eventually … Mirandized and continued talking." John Pistole, FBI deputy director, May...
Obama’s almost-useless summit
There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Barack Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945. That meeting...
Obama’s almost-useless summit
There was something oddly disproportionate about the just-concluded nuclear summit to which President Barack Obama summoned 46 world leaders, the largest such gathering on American soil since 1945. That meeting...