From the tone of President Obama’s post-Paris remarks, you’d think that a sophisticated terrorist assault on a major Western city is a setback; sentiment in the U.S. against taking more Syrian refugees is an atrocity. Obama warned this week against “that dark impulse inside of us,” as if we were debating whether Syrian refugees should […]
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Obama’s phony war on terrorism
WASHINGTON — Tell me: What’s a suicide bomber doing with a passport? He’s not going anywhere. And, though I’m not a religious scholar, I doubt that a passport is required in paradise for a martyr to access his 72 black-eyed virgins. A Syrian passport was found near the body of one of the terrorists. Why […]
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U.S. can be choosy about energy sources
The Obama administration has finally passed judgment on the Keystone XL pipeline, and it’s a thumbs-down. The environmental arguments against it have always been impeccable. But it took America’s turn toward energy independence to cut down the economic case for it. Americans still need oil, but we can choose to reject the dirtiest kind. A […]
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President rejects facts, job creation
President Obama’s unilateral rejection of the proposed KeystoneXL oil pipeline that would have brought petroleum and jobs to the U.S. is another in a long list of issues dominated by politics rather than common sense, economics and science. After seven years of dithering on Keystone, the president said he was following the recommendation of Secretary […]
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Dream of more unified America was an illusion
Seven years ago, months before he won the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama delivered a speech about race. Celebrated by many and derided by some, it addressed head-on the role of race in his campaign. At the time, I was most struck by his willingness to acknowledge those white Americans who objected to the very […]
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Less doom, gloom and Obama hatred
In her letter (Sept. 29), Marjorie Rose blames President Obama for “The destruction of the U.S.” She advises people to watch Fox News and vote for Donald Trump, Ben Carson or Carly Fiorina. I would advise her to watch less of Fox and broaden her television viewing to include CNN and MSNBC. She will find […]
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Obama and his clan must go
President Barack Obama is a very dangerous man. He and his clan have caused the release of five terrorists for the return of a traitor, Bowe Bergdahl. There are homegrown Islamic radical extremists now in this country but Obama doesn’t care about that danger. Obama and his clan made deals with a country whose people […]
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Obama leaves no choice on Iran nuclear deal
If only President Barack Obama were as hard-nosed and clever in undermining our adversaries as he is in kneecapping the U.S. Congress, the country’s strategic position might be transformed. The Iran deal went to the United Nations Security Council for approval Monday, months before Congress will vote on it, and got unanimous approval. The U.N. […]
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Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan
At his press conference last Wednesday, our president of self-regard again linked himself with Ronald Reagan, seeking to equate his supposed success in gaining a deal with Iran not to build a nuclear weapon for 10 years to Reagan’s arms control negotiations with the Soviet Union. There is at least one major difference, which causes […]
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Even worse than I could imagine
WASHINGTON — When you write a column, as did I two weeks ago, headlined “The worst agreement in U.S. diplomatic history,” you don’t expect to revisit the issue. We had hit bottom. Or so I thought. Then on Tuesday the final terms of the Iranian nuclear deal were published. I was wrong. Who would have […]