Though the White House won’t want to admit it, Bush lawyers were protecting the executive’s power to fight a vigorous war on terror. By JOHN YOO Barack Obama may not realize it, but I may have just helped save his presidency. How? By winning a drawn-out fight to protect his powers as commander in chief […]
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By KARL ROVE There has been a lot of talk about combining the tea party movement with the Republican Party. And on a small scale, that seemed to happen last week in South Carolina after state GOP representatives agreed to create a “Tea Party Republicans” group to coordinate activities with tea partiers in Greenville and
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By OMAR FADHIL AL-NIDAWI AND AUSTIN BAY The defeatists have finally acknowledged that Iraq is well on its way to establishing a peaceful democracy. But that recognition comes with a catch: The public is asked to forget everything these strategically benighted cads said and did—or didn’t do. We are referring, of course, to Vice President
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FEBRUARY 13, 2010 The Greek Tragedy That Changed Europe Greece’s dysfunctional economy is now at the heart of a rescue effort that could be disastrous for the entire continent—and the rest of the world. By SIMON JOHNSON and PETER BOONE Associated PressGreek firefighters protest government spending cuts on Jan. 29. Plutus, the Greek god of
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What I Saw at the Tea Party Convention The attendees want politicians who will deliver on Obama’s promise of clean and open government. By GLENN HARLAN REYNOLDS Nashville, Tenn. There were promises of transparency and of a new kind of collaborative politics where establishment figures listened to ordinary Americans. We were going to see net
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FEBRUARY 11, 2010, 9:12 P.M. ET Debt-to-GDP ratios over 90% have significant impact on the pace of economic growth. By MICHAEL J. BOSKIN President Barack Obama’s 2011 budget lays out a stunningly expensive big-government spending agenda, mostly to be paid for years down the road. He proposes to increase capital gains, dividend, payroll, income and
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