Raise the gas tax: Good for U.S., bad for Russia
For 32 years I've been advocating a major tax on petroleum. I've got as much chance this time around as did Don Quixote with windmills. But I shall tilt my...
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U.S. got nothing in the Cuba deal
There's an old Cold War joke — pre-pantyhose — that to defeat communism we should empty our B-52 bombers of nuclear weapons and instead drop nylons over the Soviet Union....
Fighting the new national nightmare: The lone-wolf terrorist
The lone wolf is the new national nightmare, dramatized and amplified this week by the hostage-taking attack in Sydney. But there are two kinds of lone wolves — the crazy...
The rigged critique of a CIA that kept us safe
The report by Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee regarding CIA interrogation essentially accuses the agency under George W. Bush of war criminality. Committee chair Dianne Feinstein appears to offer...
After six years of Obama’s damage, Democrats are at war with Democrats
Old habits die hard. The media are so enamored of the continuing (and largely contrived) story about the great Republican civil war that they fail to appreciate that the real...
The fraudulent Obama-Xi climate pact
Historic. Such is the ubiquitous description of the climate agreement recently announced in Beijing between Barack Obama and Xi Jinping in which China promised for the first time to cap...
Obamacare was sold on a pack of lies
It's not exactly the Ems Dispatch (the diplomatic cable Otto von Bismarck doctored to provoke the 1870 Franco-Prussian War). But what the just-resurfaced Gruber Confession lacks in world-historical consequence, it...
Republicans’ agenda must be urgent, determined and relentless
WASHINGTON — Memo to the GOP: You had a great night Tuesday. But remember: You didn't win it. The Democrats lost it. This is not to say that you didn't...
Why Democrats face a bad night Tuesday
Is this election really about nothing? Democrats might like to think so, but it's not. First, like all U.S. elections, it's about the economy. The effect of the weakest recovery...
Barack Obama, the bewildered bystander
The president is upset. Very upset. Frustrated and angry. Seething about the government's handling of Ebola, said a front-page headline in The New York Times. There's only one problem with...