Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. BY Winston Groom July 5 – July 12, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 40 Point Clear, Alabama The most breathtaking irony in the whole sorry oil spill
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JUNE 28, 2010 Petraeus and Obama’s Uncertain Trumpet There is a mismatch between the general’s Afghan mission and the president’s summons to his countrymen. By FOUAD AJAMI 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
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JUNE 28, 2010 Why Lift the Travel Ban to Cuba Now? Waves of Canadian, European and Latin American visitors haven’t changed a thing. By MARY ANASTASIA O’GRADY Today marks the one-year anniversary of the Honduran Supreme Court’s decision to order the arrest of Manuel Zelaya, a power-hungry Hugo Chávez acolyte who tried to remain president
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Wall Street Journal Video – Daniel Henninger http://online.wsj.com/video/perils-of-the-media-presidency/7E810B38-0CB7-4592-8CDA-FB814E71D8E0.html
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THE WEEKLY STANDARD Beyond Pathetic BP’s Gulf disaster was no surprise to those who understood the corporate culture. BY Andrew B. Wilson June 28, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 39 Shortly after lunch on November 27, 2003, Oberon Houston was in his office beneath the helideck of BP’s Forties Alpha oil platform in the North Sea,
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Mark Steyn: Learning the rules of an unengaged president By MARK STEYN 2010-06-25 10:43:51 What do Gen. McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic Party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Turkey of a Policy Obama makes the Middle East an even more dangerous place. BY Elliott Abrams June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 The Gaza flotilla incident is not over. American demands for some “international role” in investigating Israel’s conduct (but not, it seems, Turkey’s) and for
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Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) A Period of Consequences Our dangerous Iran policy. BY Jamie Fly and William Kristol June 21, 2010, Vol. 15, No. 38 The passage last Wednesday of a fourth U.N. Security Council resolution imposing sanctions on Iran was the latest act in the tragicomedy that is U.S. policy toward Iran.
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JUNE 22, 2010 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 In many respects, the Deepwater Horizon disaster and Katrina are mirror images of each other. The harm from Katrina was
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The Antidrilling Commission The White House choices seem to have made up their minds. “Under my Administration, the days of science taking a back seat to ideology are over. . . To undermine scientific integrity is to undermine our democracy. . . I want to be sure that facts are driving scientific decisions, and not
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