June 22, 2011
Huntsman
Candidly, I don’t know what to make of the Jon Huntsman announcement yesterday. It wasn’t the smoothest of starts. Apparently, his announcement press release misspelled his first name (he doesn’t use an H in Jon, an omission that I have...
June 21, 2011
The Bachmann Conspiracy
Midway through the first debate, I got an email from a reporter. “What do you think of Michele Bachmann’s performance?” she asked. I missed the first portion of the debate because I was putting my son to bed, so I...
June 20, 2011
The Global Society
It used to be said that domestic differences stop at the water’s edge. That was never less true than it is today. The fact of the matter is that foreign policy and domestic policy are the same thing. It is...
June 17, 2011
The Real Scandal
I heard Congressman Steve Israel, the head of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, on television this morning talking about the real scandal. His point was that the real scandal wasn’t Anthony Weiner. The real scandal was the fact that Republicans...
June 16, 2011
Golf Summit
First, there was the beer summit. Now there is the golf summit. Where other Presidents had summits to negotiate nuclear arms deals or budget compromises, Barack Obama has chosen to meet his opponents in a more relaxed setting. The beer...
June 15, 2011
Collapse of Cold War Consensus
It took awhile, but the Cold War consensus is finally shattering. The Cold War consensus centered around a basic proposition: America was going to both pay and provide the military might to insure the national security of the free world....