Mon05202013
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Smart power.
He’ll be handing over leadership of the mission to someone at some point, but the details are still as vague and gassy as one of those “jobs created or saved” graphs. Adm. Gary Roughead, the Chief of Naval Operations, said that he has received no guidance on the path ahead for command and control of [...]
"There'll be a deal. It's in everyone's best interest."
Have Republicans and Democrats used the newly-found bipartisanship forged in anger over Barack Obama’s arrogant treatment of Congress on Libya to reach a deal on the FY2011 budget? Reuters hears whispers around the campfire that both sides may move towards a compromise that will finally end the six-month-plus wait for a federal spending plan for [...]
"Little-known story."
Is this a “little-known story”? If so, it’s a rather damning indictment of the American media, given its rather splashy initial reporting in December 2003. As I wrote at the time, Moammar Gaddafi’s decision to voluntarily surrender his nuclear-weapons program made the US significantly safer as a direct result of the Iraq War. Had we [...]
Plus, House to schedule first hearings into Libyan adventure.
Barack Obama has repeatedly insisted that the American role in the Libyan war will only last “days, not weeks,” although he has also said that US forces will remain engaged, and that the purpose of the operation is to “install a democratic system” while somehow not aiming at the removal of the dictator at the [...]
The Battle of Mad Town will go national.
With the situation in Wisconsin stabilized, if not settled, there is time to examine the National Education Association’s strategy for its short-term future. Though reasonable arguments can be made that the collective bargaining measures in Wisconsin, Ohio and Idaho aren’t significantly different from the status quo in other states, there should be no mistake about [...]
Happy birthday.
Think the White House will be lighting a candle on a cake to celebrate the one-year anniversary of ObamaCare today? If so, the only real way to celebrate would be to use a 3,000-page recipe for a cake that got drafted in the dark and baked in, say, eight minutes or so of daylight. If [...]
3 pm ET.
Today on The Ed Morrissey Show (3 pm ET), we will speak with three Israeli officers from the IDF — all women — live via Skype from the Israeli consulate in New York, courtesy of Act for Israel. The appearance was arranged prior to today’s terrorist attack in Jerusalem, which will be an obvious point [...]
Through the looking glass.
Barack Obama tried to convince Univision last night that the US has an exit strategy from the Libya conflict, and that strategy is to, er, stick around and fight. Jake Tapper calls it a Lewis Carroll moment, while others might consider it more Orwellian: In an interview with Univision Tuesday, President Obama re-defined the term [...]
Unexpectedly.
The steep drop in new starts in single-family residential homes announced last week signaled that sales of newly-constructed houses had fallen sharply in February. Sure enough, the Census Bureau confirms that sales of new homes has hit another record low in the 48 years that the US government has tracked this economic indicator, sliding to [...]
First terrorist attack in Jerusalem in 7 years?
Yes, this is definitely a bombing, as Reuters reports today. A small suitcase set outside a bus stop exploded when a bus stopped to exchange passengers, wounding dozens. The bombing could signal the start of a new terrorist offensive against Israel following an uptick in rocket attacks from Gaza in the last few days. CNN [...]
Too late.
Barack Obama insists that the mission in Libya is to protect civilians, not to wage war against Moammar Gaddafi. If so, the Washington Post reports that the results thus far indicate that the Western coalition needs to rethink its strategy: Four days of allied strikes have battered Libyan leader Moammar Gaddafi’s air force and largely [...]
AWOL.
My new column for The Week focuses on the, er, unique handling of the launch of a new war by Barack Obama. Before we get to my take on Obama’s absence on a South American tour during the start of hostilities against Libya, though, let’s first get Dana Milbank’s take on what he casts as [...]
