Bill Kristol’s role in the 1993 health care debate gives him some authority whe he talks about Republican strategy now. His advice for the party on health care:
Go for the kill … This is the week to highlight every problem, every terrible provision, in the Democratic bills: from
In his fevered imaginings, when Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says that the Obama administration is “100 percent” committed to closing Guantanamo Bay, she’s really “(subconsciously?) signaling she doesn’t really expect Guantanamo to be closed.” It’s a great post, and one that entirely forfeits him the right More…
Conservative media mogul Phillip Anchutz, and his Clarity Media Group, has bought the Weekly Standard from Rupert Murdoch’s NewsCorp. That greatly expands Anchutz’s beltway empire — he launched and owned the Washington Examiner, which has been beefing up its staff.
I asked Examiner opinion page editor Mark Tapscott whether More…
Before voters went to the polls in Friday’s elections in Iran, critics of President Obama’s Iran policy — and of his outreach to the Middle East in general — attempted to pre-empt the possible defeat of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by pronouncing it meaningless. John Bolton, the former United Nations Ambassador More…
Bill Kristol has a post up at The Weekly Standard’s blog about what conservatives ought to do about President Obama and Iran:
There have been very good grounds to criticize President Obama’s foreign policy so far. There will be much more to criticize over the next three and a
If you didn’t wade through the details of counterinsurgency strategy in Spencer’s liveblog of Gen. David Petraeus’ keynote speech this morning at the Center for a New American Security conference, you may have missed this interesting nugget: Petraeus tore down a Weekly Standard report that the FBI was More…
The Weekly Standard and Greg Sargent are both reporting that the House Democratic leadership is boldly (my characterization, not the Standard’s) standing up to the White House and the Senate, which last week passed an amendment to the appropriations bill that would allow Obama to keep More…
Jennifer Rubin’s Weekly Standard cover story on Sonia Sotomayor takes the Marvel No-Prize for nonsensical lede-writing.
Not since Rose Mary Woods made “18″ famous has a number so absorbed the attention of the media and political establishment. But with President Barack Obama’s nomination of Second Circuit judge Sonia Sotomayor
All 41 Republican senators have signed an open letter asking Democratic leadership not to use the filibuster-proof reconciliation process to pass health care reform, a sure sign that the threat of reconciliation, which would allow the Senate to pass a health care reform bill with 51 votes instead More…
Hey, which craven appeaser and Obama-apologist wrote the following?
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