http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704103904575336861577522000.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion#printMode How Would Elena Kagan Like to Be Paid? Judges’ salaries were an animating grievance of the American Revolution. By SETH LIPSKY As the Senate Judiciary Committee holds hearings on the nomination of Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, one question I would like to see put to her is this: “General, assuming […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704846004575332754213432126.html?mod=WSJ_hps_SECONDTopStories “He advises Washington to fashion a patient foreign policy toward Iran, understanding that progress in improving U.S.-Iran relations will take years, not months.” By JAY SOLOMON PRINCETON, N.J.—A former lead Iranian nuclear negotiator has taken up residence at Princeton University, marking the highest-ranking member of Tehran’s political elite to relocate to the U.S. since […]
By FOUAD AJAMI There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703615104575328691752054592.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion The chroniclers tell us that Lyndon Johnson never took to the Vietnam War. He prosecuted it, it became his war, but it was, in LBJ’s language, a “bitch of a war.” He fought it with […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704629804575324534190936548.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_world Leadership Change Jolts Australia Rudd Resigns Ahead of Vote to Lead Ruling Party, Clearing Way for Nation’s First Female Leader By RACHEL PANNETT CANBERRA—Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd stepped down on Thursday, amid a mutiny in the once-popular leader’s governing party, clearing the way for the country’s first female prime minister. Getty Images , […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895204575321080522272718.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion “Wikileaks videos do not reveal the myriad cases in which our forces refrain from attacking targets because civilians are in harm’s way.” By GABRIEL SCHOENFELD Reports are circulating that Wikileaks.org is poised to publish a classified U.S. military video of a May 2009 U.S. air strike on the Afghan village of Granai in which […]
A Tale of Two Disasters Bush was blamed for local failures after Katrina. Obama got a free ride for weeks as federal failures mounted during the Gulf spill. By PAUL H. RUBIN http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704895204575320560421570360.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop#printMode In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other. The harm from Katrina was on state […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704198004575311011923686570.html?mod=mostpop#printMode Israel and the Surrender of the West By SHELBY STEELE The most interesting voice in all the fallout surrounding the Gaza flotilla incident is that sanctimonious and meddling voice known as “world opinion.” At every turn “world opinion,” like a school marm, takes offense and condemns Israel for yet another infraction of the world’s […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704009804575308773623569614.html?mod=WSJ_newsreel_opinion# Russia Rises While Kyrgyzstan Burns The violence highlights Moscow’s power in a country with an important U.S. military base. By JAMES KIRCHICK Over the past week in Kyrgyzstan, riots between ethnic Kyrgyz and Uzbeks in the country’s south have left nearly 200 people dead. Some 100,000 Uzbeks have poured into neighboring Uzbekistan. Dysentery has […]
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509404575300420668558244.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion#printMode WHY IS SENATOR LIEBERMAN ANOTHER TWO STATE GROUPIE? THE ENEMIES FACING ISRAEL IN GAZA AND LICKING THEIR CHOPS ON THE “WEST BANK” ARE IDENTICAL TO THE ENEMIES OF AMERICA? IF YOU ARE SO “INDEPENDENT” SAY IT JOE!!!….RSK Who’s the Enemy in the War on Terror? The U.S. is at war with violent Islamist extremism, […]
“JAMIE” AS HE IS KNOWN IS THE HUBBY OF CHRITIANE AMAPOUR AND THE LAPDOG OF MADELEINE ALBRIGHT WHO CREDITED HIM WITH GIVING HER “FASHION ADVICE”…..HE IS LOOKING FOR A JOB IN THE ADMINISTRATION…RSK http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704575304575297002717908716.html?mod=WSJ_hps_LEFTTopStories Obama’s Foreign Policy Success He has repaired our alliances, isolated Iran, unnerved Chávez, and he is systematically destroying al Qaeda in […]
