Skip the investigations, win the election
At a certain point, you have to realize you can't hit a fastball. House Republicans don't quite get that they are hopeless at oversight hearings. They keep losing — and...
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Iran marches, Russia rules, Obama watches
Guess who just popped up in the Kremlin? Bashar Assad, Syrian dictator and destroyer, now Vladimir Putin's newest pet. After four years holed up in Damascus, Assad was summoned to...
Game over for Dems: Clinton has no competition
I repeat: Unless she's indicted, Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. I wrote that six weeks ago, amid fevered dreams of a Clinton collapse and a Joe Biden...
Another massacre, another charade
There's the cycle of poverty. There's the cycle of violence. And then there's the cycle of gun talk. It starts with a mass shooting. Gun control advocates blame the deaths...
Obama’s Syria debacle
"Russia hits Assad's foes, angering U.S." — Headline, The Wall Street Journal, Oct. 1 If it had the wit, the Obama administration would be not angered, but appropriately humiliated. President...
Trouble on the left, trouble on the right
Meanwhile, on the Democrats' side: *They are running a presidential campaign decrying wage stagnation, income inequality and widespread economic malaise — as if they've not been in office for the...
Putin’s gambit, Obama’s puzzlement
Once again, President Barack Obama and his foreign policy team are stumped. Why is Russian President Vladimir Putin pouring troops and weaponry into Syria? After all, as Secretary of State...
The Iran charade on Capitol Hill
Congress is finally having its say on the Iran deal. It will be an elaborate charade, however, because, having first gone to the United Nations, President Barack Obama has largely...
Why Hillary Clinton remains, yes, inevitable
Unless she's indicted, Hillary Clinton will win the Democratic nomination. That kind of sentence is rarely written about a major presidential candidate. But I don't see a realistic third alternative...
GOP mired in immigration swamp
"This was not a subject that was on anybody's mind until I brought it up at my announcement." — Donald Trump, on immigration, Republican debate, Aug. 6 Not on anyone's...