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Trust Our Generals -- By: Pete Hegseth

Posted on December 07, 2009
Following President Obama?s Afghanistan speech at West Point on Tuesday, my organization -- Vets for Freedom -- issued a statement of support for the president?s troop increase, but I waited on a personal statement. The speech seemed mediocre and generally uninspiring, but I wanted to give the underlying plan time to sink in...

With God as Their Cover -- By: Kathryn Jean Lopez

Posted on December 07, 2009
EDITOR?S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through United Media. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact Carmen Puello at cpuello@unitedmedia.com.Liberal feminist Democrats are as mad as hell and they?re not going to take it any more...

Building Peace Without Obama's Interference -- By: Tom Gross

Posted on December 07, 2009
It is difficult to turn on a TV or radio or pick up a newspaper these days without finding some pundit or other deploring the dismal prospects for Israeli-Palestinian peace or the dreadful living conditions of the Palestinians. Even supposedly neutral news reporters regularly repeat this sad tale...

A hard Iraqi to lose, &c. -- By: Jay Nordlinger

Posted on December 07, 2009
Well, this was an arresting opening, to an Associated Press report: ?He compared al-Qaida in Iraq to wolves, urging that the terrorist group be crushed since he believed its members would never reject violence. But the wolves got to the Iraqi counterterrorism officer first...

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The Unrealistic Realist -- By: Mark Steyn

Posted on December 05, 2009
If you happen to live in Kabul or Jalalabad, Ghurian or Kandahar, then a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is, indeed, about Afghanistan. If you live anywhere else on the planet, a U.S. presidential speech about Afghanistan is really about America -- about American will, American purpose, American energy...

Emptiness and the City -- By: Katherine Connell

Posted on December 04, 2009
Many fans of the television series Sex and the City are shocked and disappointed when they read the Candace Bushnell book that inspired it. In the print version of the tale, there is no supportive sisterhood of single friends, no light-hearted banter, no suggestion that anyone actually finds fulfillment in cocktails, casual sex, and Manolo Blahniks -- only a cast of cynical, lonely, and alienated men and women jaded by the predatory New York dating scene...

The Perversion of Language; or, Orwell Revisited -- By: NRO Staff

Posted on December 04, 2009
One of George Orwell?s most famous and frequently republished articles, ?Politics and the English Language,? originally appeared in 1946. It deals mainly with the use of clichés and obscurantism in the writing of our language, quoting (with embarrassing effect) some of the great literary names of the day...

Impure Thoughts -- By: The Editors

Posted on December 04, 2009
Ronald Reagan is said to have told his staff that someone who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is an ally, not a 20 percent traitor. Now some conservative activists want to add a corollary to Reagan's dictum: A 70 percent ally is someone who should be drummed out of the Republican party...

Alinsky Does Afghanistan -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on December 04, 2009
If there is one word that captures President Obama?s much-anticipated Afghanistan speech, it is ?cynical.? Yes, the speech was also internally contradictory, counter-historical, and premised on fatally flawed assumptions about Islam and the Afghan people...

New Perspectives on Mike -- By: David J. Sanders

Posted on December 04, 2009
A lot of Republicans were surprised last weekend to discover that Maurice Clemmons, the thug who killed four Washington state police officers, had been granted clemency from a long Arkansas prison sentence by leading GOP presidential prospect (and former Arkansas governor) Mike Huckabee...

Senatorial Worries in Virginia -- By: Jim Geraghty

Posted on December 04, 2009
If your state absolutely must be represented by a pair of Democratic senators, you could do a lot worse than Jim Webb and Mark Warner. Warner was a popular governor earlier this decade and has displayed a knack for avoiding controversial stances. Webb, a former Reagan administration official, has demonstrated a willingness to buck his party from time to time, voting against immigration-reform proposals in 2007 and saying he opposes the cap-and-trade legislation currently before the Senate...

Skeptic Man -- By: Robert Costa

Posted on December 04, 2009
He?s been named the world?s number-one conservative idiot by left-wing bloggers. European protesters have stuck his mug on ?Wanted? posters for calling man-made global warming a ?hoax.? And the mainstream media has consistently ridiculed him as an ornery Archie Bunker type, calling him, among other things, ?the noisiest climate skeptic in the U...

Resetting the Reset Button -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on December 04, 2009
After ten months of ?Bush did it? diplomacy, the Obama administration needs to reset its reset button.   EUROPEOn substantial issues, relations with Europe have not improved. The governments in France, Germany, Italy, and, soon, Great Britain are conservative, and increasingly skeptical of Obama?s diplomacy...

Assessing Pre-Blame for Climate-Change Summit -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on December 04, 2009
Next week?s Copenhagen summit on climate change already seems doomed to failure, and voices on both sides of the global-warming debate are trying to pin the blame on Climategate. Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to use Climategate to scuttle the Democrats? cap-and-trade legislation...

Does Obama Listen to Himself? -- By: Mona Charen

Posted on December 04, 2009
Barack Obama is demonstrating bottomless reservoirs of gracelessness. A full 13 months after his election, in the course of justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan, President Obama could not spare a word of praise for George W. Bush -- not even when recounting the nation?s ?unified? response to 9/11...

Uncertain Trumpet -- By: Charles Krauthammer

Posted on December 04, 2009
We shall fight in the air, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields, we shall fight in the hills -- for 18 months. Then we start packing for home.      We shall never surrender -- unless the war gets too expensive, in which case, we shall quote Eisenhower on ?the need to maintain balance in and among national programs? and then insist that ?we can?t simply afford to ignore the price of these wars...

Job Number One: Foster Entrepreneurship -- By: Rich Lowry

Posted on December 04, 2009
EDITOR?S NOTE: This column is available exclusively through King Features Syndicate. For permission to reprint or excerpt this copyrighted material, please contact: kfsreprint@hearstsc.com, or phone 800-708-7311, ext. 246.The White House didn?t invite the firms that will create new jobs to its ?job summit? -- dominated by the CEOs of big firms, Ivy League economists, and union officials -- because they weren?t available...

Fess Up, Ben -- By: Larry Kudlow

Posted on December 04, 2009
Fed head Ben Bernanke got hammered during his reconfirmation hearing in front of the Senate Banking Committee this week. Jim Bunning was Bernanke?s toughest critic, followed by Richard Shelby, Jim DeMint, and yes, Chris Dodd, the beleaguered committee chair who in all likelihood will be defeated in Connecticut next year...

The War for 21st-Century Freedom -- By: Barbara Lerner

Posted on December 03, 2009
Are you worried -- like so many Americans after the Fort Hood massacre -- about the growing threat of Islamist subversion and terror here at home? Worried, beyond that, about what we?re doing -- or not doing -- militarily in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Iraq? Worried about the growing reach and power of Islamist movements in Europe and South America, as well as Asia, the Middle East, and Turkey? Worried about the military alliances Islamist governments are forging with their secular mirror images: socialist-god governments in places like North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela?Then focus like a laser on Iran, now, because Islamists will score major victories in all those places and more if we fail to prevent the ruling mullahs from openly, triumphantly making Iran the world?s first Islamist nuclear power...

The Iran Timeline -- By: Anne Bayefsky

Posted on December 03, 2009
President Obama?s response to Iranian President Ahmadinejad?s announcement that he plans to go full steam ahead on the nuclear front is revealing. It does not matter how many times Iran says no to the offers presented. It does not matter how many Iranian citizens perish in the effort to change the regime?s cataclysmic direction...

Green Is the New Red -- By: Conrad Black

Posted on December 03, 2009
Colossal spending and regulatory programs impend, based on the Al Gore conventional hysteria that unreduced carbon emissions will destroy the earth. This will eventually be seen as one of the modern world?s most inexplicable descents into public-policy madness...

The Problem of Islamic Religious Persecution -- By: Doug Bandow

Posted on December 03, 2009
America, like so many countries in the West, laments its strained relations with the Islamic world. In June, Pres. Barack Obama traveled to Cairo to speak against the ?fear and mistrust? that exist between the West and Islam. Yet Muslim governments demand respect for Islam while refusing to offer similar respect for religious minorities within their own borders...

Get a Job -- By: An NRO Symposium

Posted on December 03, 2009
While President Obama is having his jobs summit today, National Review Online decided to have one of our own. We asked some of our experts: What?s a realistic policy that could actually create jobs? Who could take it up as a campaign?PETER FERRARA Only supply-side economics and reductions in tax rates will stimulate permanent job creation...

Immunity Challenge -- By: Deroy Murdock

Posted on December 03, 2009
Colorado Springs -- ?I sleep like a baby,? says U.S. Air Force Colonel Randy Larsen (Ret). ?Every three hours, I wake up screaming.?It?s little surprise that Larsen has such trouble getting shuteye. As executive director of the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism, Larsen spends his days and many nights visualizing mushroom clouds over U...

Desert Mirage -- By: Clifford D. May

Posted on December 03, 2009
Because the Obama administration is keen to restart negotiations between Israeli and Palestinian leaders, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a ten-month freeze on West Bank settlements. Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas has responded by demanding more -- as a pre-condition, before he will talk...

Voting Present on Iran -- By: Victor Davis Hanson

Posted on December 03, 2009
Iran just announced a radical expansion of its uranium-enrichment facilities. The news followed the recent disclosure of the country?s previously secret nuclear facility near the city of Qom -- and came just two days after the International Atomic Energy Agency?s censure of Iran for its failure to halt enrichment...

Groupthink and the Global-Warming Industry -- By: Jonah Goldberg

Posted on December 03, 2009
By now you might have heard something about the scandal rocking the climate-change industry, though you can be forgiven if you haven?t, since it hasn?t gotten nearly the coverage it should. Computer hackers broke into the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and downloaded thousands of e-mails and other documents...

Mushy Speech, Solid Policy -- By: The Editors

Posted on December 02, 2009
Churchillian it was not. Obama?s long bout of leak-prone agonizing over his Afghanistan policy had a limp end in his strange West Point speech last night. The speech was by turns defensive, graceless, intellectually mushy, and annoyingly self-righteous...

Reversing Obama on the KSM Trial -- By: Andrew C. McCarthy

Posted on December 02, 2009
Is there any way of getting Obama to reverse himself on KSM? If I?ve heard that question once, I?ve heard it a thousand times since Attorney General Eric Holder?s announcement that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other 9/11 plotters will be transferred to New York City for a trial in the civilian justice system...

The Wrong War -- By: John R. Miller

Posted on December 02, 2009
President Obama has finally made up his mind on Afghanistan -- sort of. The clear decision and explanation that would either give meaning and rationale to our troops? efforts or lay the foundation for a reasoned withdrawal has been put off, yet again...

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