No year for the vultures
A little more than a year ago, Gary Williams and his University of Maryland men’s basketball program was under attack. The Washington Post led the charge, with an assist, it seems, from the Maryland athletic department. The word was that Willaims had lost his touch and might well lose his job. [...]
Victory, and a Puzzle
Good news: we have captured the Taliban’s top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Pakistan, and he is now being interrogated. The Obama administration is appropriately proud of this victory:
The commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, is an Afghan described by American officials as the most significant Taliban figure to be detained since [...]
Imagine There’s No Peace Prize, It’s Easy If You Try
So at the very moment that President Barack H. Obama convenes his “war council” to decide whether to accept Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s recommendation to expand operations in Afghanistan — changing to a counterinsurgency (COIN) strategy and adding 40,000 additional troops to the war effort — the Norwegian Nobel Committee announces that the president, who has [...]
Unacceptable
Barack Obama’s radio address today couched the Democrats’ health care proposals as a boon to the economy. On the merits, this is a bad argument. But what I found offensive about Obama’s address was the peroration:
As we move forward in the coming weeks, I understand that members of Congress from both parties will [...]
NAACP: 100 Years, One Historic Night
There are some moments in our lives where we have an "I was there" moment. A moment that despite your best attempts to explain how you felt, what you perceived that others were feeling, the words that were shared and the fanfare of the activity, you still can’t convey how remarkable an experience it was that [...]
“Serious Self-Reflection”
Haaretz reports today: “Obama to U.S. Jewish leaders: Israel must engage in self-reflection”
And not just any old self-reflection. According to the article, Obama told Jewish leaders at the White House yesterday that Israel would need “to engage in serious self-reflection.”
“Serious self-reflection!” It’s really good that Barack Obama is reminding the leaders and people of Israel [...]
