MAY 12, 2011 Remembering the First Blow Against al Qaeda Ten years before the SEALs there were the men and women of Flight 93. By KARL ROVE EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: This is the only 9/11 memorial that is a national park and a private-public partnership. The federal and state governments have given $31 million,
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MAY 11, 2011 Removing troops from Afghanistan will be seen in Islamabad as weakness. By JOHN BOLTON Duplicity has been a hallmark of Pakistan’s approach to the U.S. for years. Beginning in the 1970s, Islamabad denied it was pursuing nuclear weapons, even as Washington repeatedly confronted it with concrete evidence. Presidents and Congresses fulminated, but
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MAY 11, 2011 The foul outpouring of sneering anti-Americanism and concern for bin Laden’s human rights has left me deeply ashamed. By ANDREW ROBERTS I never thought I’d say this, especially less than a fortnight after the Royal Wedding, but my countrymen’s reactions to the death of Osama bin Laden have made me doubt my
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NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com Jonah Goldberg May 11, 2011 12:00 A.M. Why the Hurry? The president should have given intelligence analysts more time. For a week, people have been asking, “Why won’t the president release Osama bin Laden’s photo?” That’s the wrong question. We should be asking, “Why was Barack Obama in such a hurry
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MAY 12, 2011 Obama’s Running Mate Mitt Romney’s ObamaCare problem. Mitt Romney travels to Ann Arbor today to deliver what his campaign bills as a major address laying out his “2012 principles for health-care reform.” These are likely to be sensible, but what we’ll be listening for is how he explains his health-care principles of
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MAY 11, 2011 Shrinking Oil Supplies Put Alaskan Pipeline at Risk By RUSSELL GOLD As less oil runs through the Alaska Pipeline, the crude it carries is cooling. This is raising the risk of ice formation and waxy buildup. WSJ’s Russell Gold reports from Alaska. FAIRBANKS, Alaska—When the famed Trans Alaska Pipeline carried two million
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MAY 4, 2011 From Guantanamo to Abbottabad The bin Laden mission benefited greatly from Bush administration interrogation policies, but President Obama still prefers to kill, rather than capture, terrorists. This costs valuable intelligence. By John Yoo In the space of 40 minutes on Sunday night, two Navy SEAL teams descended on a compound in Abbottabad,
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RASMUSSENREPORTS.COM Obama Values: Kill But Don’t Waterboard A Commentary By Debra J. Saunders Tuesday, May 10, 2011 At the end of his “60 Minutes” interview, President Obama said of Osama bin Laden’s death, “Justice was done. And I think that anyone who would question that the perpetrator of mass murder on American soil didn’t deserve
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Sandstorms Barack Obama and the Great Arab Revolt. Reuel Marc Gerecht May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 We may never know whether the conjecture of the historian Fouad Ajami is correct: that President Barack Obama sought the approval of the Arab League for the air war against Muammar
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Real Mediscare Obama’s rationing is the thing to worry about. Mark Hemingway May 9, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 32 EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Unlike other federal agencies with regulatory powers, IPAB is subject to no external review process—no public notification in advance of proposed rules, no opportunity for
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