Governing with Malice and in Bad Faith
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell sent out a memo instructing agency heads not to consider whether the cost of shutting down a government website is…
Who caused the Shutdown?
by Charles Krauthammer The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths. The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the perpetrators and the origins of the current…
Obama: Ducking a leader’s duty
A vast scholarly literature spanning more than six decades exists on the subject of leadership. The characteristics of effective leaders have been pored over, cataloged and debated. Among them, one…
Shutting down World War II Memorial: A Symbol of Malice
The mainstream media is in the midst of one of its regular exercises in completely missing a wave of groundswell conservative anger — this time over the closing of the…
Why President Obama and Democrats Want a Government Shutdown
by Peter Roff The short narrative, compiled by people with even shorter memories, is that the United States government got to the brink of a shutdown because the unreasonable House…
Weakness matters
Projecting weakness ultimately ties the hands of the weak leader and pushes him into small thinking and reflexive action. I usually stay away from using current polls to gauge how…
Stubborn and Selfish on Healthcare
The majority of Americans don’t want the flawed ObamaCare, so why is the president pushing it? So the Republican-controlled House of Representatives — with the help of a couple of…
Getting Serious about Syria
Dr. Miklos K. Radvanyi Even in the best of times the greater Middle East had been beset by political instability, economic suffering, social discontent, and a permanent psychological oscillation of…
Obama’s First Two Defense Secretaries Pan His Leadership
President Barack Obama spoke at the United Nations yesterday. As has become his habit, he speaks without saying much. His is speech added no new substance to the current world…
Economic Malpractice
It’s amazing how little President Obama has learned about economics in his four and a half years in the White House. Growth, incentives, tax reform, tax increases, private investment, the…
Going to War against . . .
The President finds an enemy he’s willing to bomb – the Republicans. President Obama likes to invoke his predecessors in the Oval Office, as all Presidents do, but in one…
One of the most tasteless presidential moments …
Editor’s Note: The author of this open-letter, Michael Goodwin, voted for Barack Obama in 2008 and had high hopes that Obama would be an effective leader and a uniting force…
American Ineffectualism
Every American ally is cringing with embarrassment at the amateurishness of the last month. by Mark Steyn For generations, eminent New York Times wordsmiths have swooned over foreign strongmen, from…
Wing-it Diplomacy Undermines U.S. Credibility
by Michael Barone Here’s how the Obama folks have been starting to spin Syria. The president made a credible threat to use military force in Syria. At the same time,…
Stunning and Inexplicable Foreign Policy Incompetence
The President’s uneven Syria response has damaged his office and weakened the nation. On the eve of the 12th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Barack Obama made the strongest…