June 2, 2012 Dreaming of a Superhero By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON ON Friday night, the nation’s capital was under a tornado watch. And that was the best thing that happened to the White House all week. As the president was being slapped by Mitt Romney for being too weak on national security, he was being […]
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Two, Three, Many Obamas By Victor Davis Hanson May 29, 2012 4:00 A.M. As the campaign heats up, one problem is that we continue to meet lots of different Barack Obamas — to such a degree that we don’t know which, if any, is really president. I think the president believes
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Our Age of Anxiety Romney’s challenge is to address the deep uneasiness in America and point the way to a comeback. Yuval Levin Yuval Levin is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard, Hertog fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and editor of National Affairs. May 28,
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Vulture Capitalism? Try Obama’s Version A profit-driven economy is preferable to one run by political favoritism. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Mr. Obama’s knock on free enterprise is that it is driven by “profit,” and that this experience makes Mr. Romney too heartless to be president. The alternative is an Obama capitalism
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May 15, 2012, Obama may be ‘flexible.’ But the U.S. owes Russia nothing. By JON KYLMr. Kyl, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Arizona. Within hours of reassuming the Russian presidency this month, Vladimir Putin demanded that the United States provide “firm guarantees” that a U.S.-led missile-defense system in Europe won’t be aimed against
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Reuel Marc Gerecht May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Is Barack Obama a warrior president? Not in the British tradition, of course, which gave us Winston Churchill, with his crazy cavalry charge against Sudanese spears, or the more cerebral Harold Macmillan, shot to pieces in World War I,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Waiting for the U.N. The Obama administration embraces international paralysis. John Yoo April 30, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 31 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: ….the United States did not just advance its own interests, it also benefited global welfare by containing the spread of communism and ending human rights catastrophes.
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May 18, 2012 Vampire Capitalism? Please GST Steel would have failed much earlier without Bain. By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL This week the Obama campaign debuted its attack on Bain Capital, the private-equity firm Mitt Romney founded. Its two-minute ad purports to tell the story of GS Technologies, a Kansas City-based Bain investment that went bankrupt
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May 15, 2012, Nobody should be surprised if voters also give Angela Merkel and David Cameron the boot at the next ballot. By BRET STEPHENS Readers presumably understand that Europe’s economic crisis is also the crisis of social democracy—of the idea that markets must be made to co-exist with high levels of taxation, regulation, unionization,
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Rise of Rubio Will a longstanding friendship block his vice presidential prospects? Stephen F. Hayes May 14, 2012, Vol. 17, No. 33 Shortly after Mitt Romney won the Wisconsin primary and, in effect, the Republican nomination, I asked a prominent Republican strategist whom he thought Romney would choose
