Redacted truth, subjunctive outrage
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 17, 2013
WASHINGTON --
On Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals, stop the talk of Watergate, Iran-contra, bigger than both, etc. Hyperbole simply plays into the hands of Democrats desperately claiming this is nothing but partisan politics. Let the facts speak for themselves.
Pink line over Damascus
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 10, 2013
WASHINGTON -- You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight.
Obama: the fall
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, May 3, 2013
WASHINGTON --
President Obama turned his inaugural address into a left-wing dream factory, from his declaration of war on global warming to the invention of new entitlements—e.g., universal preschool for 5-year-olds—for a country already drowning in debt. It was part of the re-election juggernaut, but the story, or narrative, has lasted exactly six months. The Big Mo is gone.
The Bush legacy focuses on safety
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 26, 2013
WASHINGTON --
With George W. Bush's presidential library opening in Dallas and his legacy being reassessed, it's important to note that he did not just keep us safe. He created the entire anti-terror infrastructure that continues to keep us safe.
The language of terror
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 19, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The president's nonuse of the word “terrorist” when he first talked about the Boston bombings was no big deal. Why so sensitive that he came out to correct it the next morning? Answer: Benghazi, in which the administration has been roundly and correctly criticized for going weeks refusing to call it terrorism.
The Obama budget and the appearance of reform
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 12, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called "regular order," using normal, routine, constitutional process to arrive at, for example, a budget.
If you don’t build it, they will come
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, April 5, 2013
WASHINGTON --
A bipartisan immigration deal is close. But are Democrats really serious about border enforcement?
What really happened in Jerusalem
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 29, 2013
WASHINGTON --
So what was the point of Obama's Jerusalem speech encouraging young Israelis to find the will to make peace, a speech the media drooled over? It was mere rhetoric, a sideshow meant to soften the impact on the Arab side of the really important part of Obama's trip: the radical recalibration of his position on the peace process.
The 50 percent solution
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 22, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Curbing entitlements is the key to their own solvency and that of the country. President Obama has endorsed it on various occasions, and he could make it happen. If he wants.
Codify the drone war
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 15, 2013
A war conducted quite similarly by Presidents Bush and Obama has forged a broad national consensus. What we need now is a president willing to lead and a Congress willing to take responsibility for the conduct of a war which, however wishful the thinking of Rand Paul and his acolytes, will long be with us.
Why we give foreign aid
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 8, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The unhappy truth is that we cannot and should not cut off aid to Egypt. It's not that we must blindly support unfriendly regimes. But Egypt is not an enemy, certainly not yet.
Hail Armageddon
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, March 1, 2013
WASHINGTON -- "The worst-case scenario for us," a leading anti-budget-cuts lobbyist told The Washington Post, "is the sequester hits and nothing bad really happens."
On immigration, take the lesser of two evils
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 22, 2013
WASHINGTON --
Regrettably, there appears to be zero political will to undertake a kind of definitive solution on immigration reform. Democrats have little real interest in border enforcement. They see a rising Hispanic population as the key to a permanent Democratic majority. And Republicans are so panicked by last year's loss of the Hispanic vote by 44 points that they have conceded instant legalization.
Obama’s drone war is defensible
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 15, 2013
WASHINGTON --
The nation's leading chatterers, left and right, are greatly vexed over the morality and legality of President Obama's worldwide drone war. The resulting debate is salutary, but hopelessly confused.
Call Obama’s sequester bluff
By CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER - Friday, Feb. 8, 2013
WASHINGTON -- President Obama has urgently called on Congress to head off the sequester with a short-term fix. What should Republicans do? Nothing.
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