Charles Krauthammer from CaglePost.com Columns by Charles Krauthammer from CaglePost.com http://rss.caglepost.com/columns.aspx?name=Charles+Krauthammer Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss RSS.NET: http://rss-net.sf.net/ Iran: Desperately Seeking Yeltsin Iran today is a revolution in search of its Yeltsin. Without leadership, demonstrators will take to the street only so many times to face tear gas, batons and bullets. They need a leader like Boris Yeltsin: a former establishment figure with newly re... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4b83f387-6f4e-489d-97c0-a36d99c524dc.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Hope And Change -- But Not For Iran Millions of Iranians take to the streets to defy a theocratic dictatorship that, among its other finer qualities, is a self-declared enemy of America and the tolerance and liberties it represents. The demonstrators are fighting on their own, but they... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6f97a5a9-49a6-41a8-985e-a1454d57d128.html Fri, 19 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama Hovers From On High "And the Spirit of God hovered upon the face of the waters" When President Obama returned from his first European trip, I observed that while over there he had been "acting the philosopher-king who hovers above the fray mediating" between America and... http://www.caglepost.com/article/d79b9721-1f8a-465c-877b-a719767d942e.html Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Settlements Myth President Obama repeatedly insists that American foreign policy be conducted with modesty and humility. Above all, there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/53efbfdf-c958-4934-91be-52b6ced272fe.html Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:00:00 GMT Sotomayor: Rebut, Then Confirm Ricci is a New Haven firefighter stationed seven blocks from where Sotomayor went to law school (Yale). Raised in blue-collar Wallingford, Conn., Ricci struggled as a C and D student in public schools ill-prepared to address his serious learning disa... http://www.caglepost.com/article/16b98c75-5e98-48ab-852f-7ec0319c476e.html Fri, 29 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama In Bush Clothing "We were able to hold it off with George Bush. The idea that we might find ourselves fighting with the Obama administration over these powers is really stunning." -- Unnamed and dismayed human rights advocate, on legalizing indefinite detention of al... http://www.caglepost.com/article/86f614a6-9208-465e-b64d-c4dcd1bb8c61.html Fri, 22 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Torture Debate, Continued This month, I wrote a column outlining two exceptions to the no-torture rule: the ticking time bomb scenario and its less extreme variant in which a high-value terrorist refuses to divulge crucial information that could save innocent lives. The colum... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2613ff0b-9420-493e-9634-1cb52babc355.html Fri, 15 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Hamas 'Peace' Gambit "Apart from the time restriction (a truce that lapses after 10 years) and the refusal to accept Israel's existence, Mr. Meshal's terms approximate the Arab League peace plan . . ." -- Hamas peace plan, as explained by the New York Times "Apart from t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cdf461c0-20df-4719-a75f-6086db124ff4.html Fri, 08 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Torture? No. Except . . . Torture is an impermissible evil. Except under two circumstances. The first is the ticking time bomb. An innocent's life is at stake. The bad guy you have captured possesses information that could save this life. He refuses to divulge. In such a case... http://www.caglepost.com/article/de15293e-8787-44a1-8713-8206f2ded30e.html Fri, 01 May 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama: The Grand Strategy Unified theory of Obamaism, fifth (final?) installment: In the service of his ultimate mission -- the leveling of social inequalities -- President Obama offers a tripartite social democratic agenda: nationalized health care, federalized education (ul... http://www.caglepost.com/article/5d99dff3-694e-496b-a82a-ad2c6fe9c39a.html Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Sting, In Four Parts Franklin Roosevelt gave us the New Deal. John Kennedy gave us the New Frontier. In a major domestic policy address at Georgetown University this week, Barack Obama promised -- eight times -- a "New Foundation." For those too thick to have noticed thi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0956fecd-36b1-4612-9621-5aa772390812.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT It's Your Country Too, Mr. President In his major foreign policy address in Prague committing the United States to a world without nuclear weapons, President Obama took note of North Korea's missile launch just hours earlier and then grandiloquently proclaimed: "Rules must be binding. V... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4fb71481-b4be-48dc-8a82-50c99f5f5838.html Fri, 10 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Ultimate Agenda Five minutes of explanation to James Madison, and he'll have a pretty good idea what a motorcar is (basically a steamboat on wheels; the internal combustion engine might take a few minutes more). Then try to explain to Madison how the Constitution he... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3748a87a-4429-4e07-831a-39dc05fb4501.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 07:00:00 GMT Bonfire Of The Trivialities A $14 trillion economy hangs by a thread composed of (a) a comically cynical, pitchfork-wielding Congress, (b) a hopelessly understaffed, stumbling Obama administration, and (c) $165 million. That's $165 million in bonus money handed out to AIG debt ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b11d0060-c792-4612-8528-ac2db1392b63.html Fri, 20 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT Obama's 'Science' Fiction Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush (43) executive order on stem cell research. I assume this was because I have long argued in these columns and during my five years on the President's Council on Bioethic... http://www.caglepost.com/article/3c7991eb-6d04-4fa5-a30c-29421bcbc917.html Fri, 13 Mar 2009 07:00:00 GMT The Great Non Sequitur Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the "2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b9cc4b0c-91ef-4daa-b326-657805f50377.html Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Obamaist Manifesto Not a great speech, but extremely consequential. If Barack Obama succeeds, his joint address to Congress will be seen as historic -- indeed as the foundational document of Obamaism. As it stands, it constitutes the boldest social democratic manifesto... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6056d88f-72fa-4183-b364-a5a908e164e1.html Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Supine Diplomacy The Biden prophecy has come to pass. Our wacky veep, momentarily inspired, predicted in October that "it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama." Biden probably had in mind an eve-of-the-apocalypse drama like the Cuban missile cri... http://www.caglepost.com/article/755da156-34c5-46e4-be66-e6facda81244.html Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Iraq: Good News Is No News Preoccupied as it was poring over Tom Daschle's tax returns, Washington hardly noticed a near-miracle abroad. Iraq held provincial elections. There was no Election Day violence. Security was handled by Iraqi forces with little U.S. involvement. A fab... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9f338f76-fdc7-452c-b9e1-87e2c50b9e05.html Fri, 13 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT The Fierce Urgency Of Pork "A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe." -- President Obama, Feb. 4. Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared "we have chosen hope over fear." Until, that i... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1bffc804-887f-4101-b573-459bf0d22768.html Fri, 06 Feb 2009 08:00:00 GMT Outreach, Yes. Apology, No. Every new president flatters himself that he, kinder and gentler, is beginning the world anew. Yet, when Barack Obama in his inaugural address reached out to Muslims by saying "to the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/089c9b19-eead-4e4e-9454-d704750f715c.html Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Obama's Inaugural Surprise Fascinating speech. It was so rhetorically flat, so lacking in rhythm and cadence, one almost has to believe he did it on purpose. Best not to dazzle on Opening Day. Otherwise, they'll expect magic all the time. The most striking characteristic of B... http://www.caglepost.com/article/65ebb595-8580-4893-9401-41b12687ae78.html Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Exit Bush, Shoes Flying Except for Richard Nixon, no president since Harry Truman has left office more unloved than George W. Bush. Truman's rehabilitation took decades. Bush's will come sooner. Indeed, it has already begun. The chief revisionist? Barack Obama. Vindication ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8c22bfbd-d644-4d70-83ee-0420de80049c.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Endgame In Gaza Israel's leaders have purposely obscured their war aims in Gaza. But there are only two possible endgames: (A) a Lebanon-like cessation of hostilities to be supervised by international observers, or (B) the disintegration of Hamas rule in Gaza. Under... http://www.caglepost.com/article/42bb7894-b8aa-472f-a0fc-8c82b28be9a8.html Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT Moral Clarity In Gaza Late Saturday, thousands of Gazans received Arabic-language cell-phone messages from the Israeli military, urging them to leave homes where militants might have stashed weapons. -- Associated Press, Dec. 27 Some geopolitical conflicts are morally com... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f71ec20e-a43b-4ebc-b5f4-77809e3f2f23.html Mon, 05 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT The U.S. House Of Lords? "I don't know what Caroline Kennedy's qualifications are. Except that she has name recognition, but so does J-Lo." -- Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-N.Y.) Right idea, wrong argument. The problem with Caroline Kennedy's presumption to Hillary Clinton's soon-to... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4a5d23f4-c586-4d5f-bcfd-c86c8c5d2272.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Real Obama Barack Obama has garnered praise from center to right -- and has highly irritated the left -- with the centrism of his major appointments. Because Obama's own beliefs remain largely opaque, his appointments have led to the conclusion that he intends ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7b54e9a9-aefb-498d-970f-fb3b7485dcc5.html Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT Milestone In Baghdad The barbarism in Mumbai and the economic crisis at home have largely overshadowed an otherwise singular event: the ratification of military and strategic cooperation agreements between Iraq and the United States. They must not pass unnoted. They were... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89ee900b-18a9-4b39-93e2-1ebce700d44a.html Fri, 05 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT From Market Economy To Political Economy In the old days -- from the Venetian Republic to, oh, the Bear Stearns rescue -- if you wanted to get rich, you did it the Warren Buffett way: You learned to read balance sheets. Today you learn to read political tea leaves. If you want to make money... http://www.caglepost.com/article/35c7907e-0ed8-47b1-98ab-a06f2c33998a.html Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:00:00 GMT A Lemon Of A Bailout Finally, the outlines of a coherent debate on the federal bailout. This comes as welcome relief from a campaign season that gave us the House Republicans' know-nothing rejectionism, John McCain's mindless railing against "greed and corruption," and B... http://www.caglepost.com/article/76f91b75-4741-465f-b830-d3c72bb0a70a.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Campaign Autopsy In my previous life, I witnessed far more difficult postmortems. This one is easy. The patient was fatally stricken on Sept. 15 -- caught in the rubble when the roof fell in (at Lehman Brothers, according to the police report) -- although he did ling... http://www.caglepost.com/article/f5f7d0ad-a45a-47af-b862-19ac1a050a5b.html Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:00:00 GMT McCain For President, Part II Last week I made the open-and-shut case for John McCain: In a dangerous world entering an era of uncontrolled nuclear proliferation, the choice between the most prepared foreign policy candidate in memory vs. a novice with zero experience and the wob... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c017a6b5-d03f-4f9b-8635-c9458a0f75a0.html Fri, 31 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain For President Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/cfb58f97-3cdc-442b-bee9-f35e39cd5ecf.html Fri, 24 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Who's Playing The Race Card? Let me get this straight. A couple of agitated yahoos in a rally of thousands yell something offensive and incendiary, and John McCain and Sarah Palin are not just guilty by association -- with total strangers, mind you -- but worse: guilty according... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7e99f885-7302-4548-ad4c-f71a66bf1b9f.html Fri, 17 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama & Friends: Judge Not? Convicted felon Tony Rezko. Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers. And the race-baiting Rev. Jeremiah Wright. It is hard to think of any presidential candidate before Barack Obama sporting associations with three more execrable characters. Yet let the McC... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b8c50301-933e-4b9d-bdb0-5719f78be509.html Fri, 10 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Hail Mary Vs. Cool Barry Krauthammer's Hail Mary Rule: You get only two per game. John McCain, unfortunately, has already thrown three. The first was his bet on the surge, a deep pass to David Petraeus who miraculously ran it all the way into the end zone. Then, seeking a ga... http://www.caglepost.com/article/06e2d3f6-ea0c-4750-8234-d77ffb88051f.html Fri, 03 Oct 2008 07:00:00 GMT Catharsis, Then Common Sense Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson went to Capitol Hill seeking $700 billion. He got an earful. Now, $700 billion is a serious sum, and Congress has the fiduciary responsibility to make sure the money it appropriates goes for a good cause. But from the... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c65ccf8c-658b-4fc3-977f-5ed68e88ed80.html Fri, 26 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT History Will Judge For the past 150 years, most American war presidents -- most notably Lincoln, Wilson and Roosevelt -- have entered (or reentered) office knowing war was looming. Not so George W. Bush. Not so the war on terror. The 9/11 attacks literally came out of ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1920333d-68f8-4e80-8cc0-aa4f3c106fe3.html Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Charlie Gibson's Gaffe Charlie Gibson got it wrong -- There is no single meaning of the Bush Doctrine.In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one... http://www.caglepost.com/article/18b72508-52b5-47af-a8a5-361a26cc0ca9.html Tue, 16 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Altitude Sickness The Democrats are in a panic. In a presidential race that is impossible to lose, they are behind. Obama devotees are frantically giving advice. Tom Friedman tells him to "start slamming down some phones." Camille Paglia suggests, "be boring!" Meanwh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1545f676-45f5-4411-a4b6-e58f4a433e3f.html Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT Palin's Problem "There are two questions we will never have to ask ourselves, 'Who is this man?' and 'Can we trust this man with the presidency?' " -- Fred Thompson on John McCain, Sept. 2 This was the most effective line of the entire Republican convention: a ring... http://www.caglepost.com/article/67791c87-d816-4628-a030-74997de89cd8.html Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Perfect Stranger Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself. Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is layin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/616ae89a-96bf-47be-9f3b-de6855678c0b.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT NATO Meows Read the first five paragraphs of the NATO statement on the Russian invasion of Georgia and you will find not a hint of who invaded whom. The statement is almost comically evenhanded. "We deplore all loss of life," it declared, as if deploring a bus ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/79553995-7cff-4a58-a6a6-74f63a896834.html Fri, 22 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT How To Stop Putin The Russia-Georgia cease-fire brokered by France's president is less than meets the eye. Its terms keep moving as the Russian army keeps moving. Russia has since occupied Gori (appropriately, Stalin's birthplace), effectively cutting Georgia in two. ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/60c24888-7029-4a89-9270-4c0462c457fc.html Tue, 19 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT No Will To Drill Let's see: housing meltdown, credit crunch, oil shock not seen since the 1970s. The economy is slowing, unemployment growing and inflation increasing. It's the sixth year of a highly unpopular war, and the president's approval rating is at 30 percent... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a6c3eea1-785c-403d-b99c-6ba23b68773f.html Mon, 11 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Pelosi: Save the Planet, Let Someone Else Drill House Speaker Nancy Pelosi opposes lifting the moratorium on drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and on the Outer Continental Shelf. She won't even allow it to come to a vote. With $4 gas having massively shifted public opinion in favor o... http://www.caglepost.com/article/b16c6c10-9ae7-4f40-8cf9-9d4b70618415.html Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:00:00 GMT Maliki Votes For Obama In a stunning upset, Barack Obama this week won the Iraq primary. When Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki not once but several times expressed support for a U.S. troop withdrawal on a timetable that accorded roughly with Obama's 16-month proposal, he did... http://www.caglepost.com/article/1b0dd0dd-8cf8-4617-8876-6248312d99a9.html Fri, 25 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Audacity of Vanity Barack Obama wants to speak at the Brandenburg Gate. He figures it would be a nice backdrop. The supporting cast -- a cheering audience and a few fainting frauleins -- would be a picturesque way to bolster his foreign policy credentials. What Obama d... http://www.caglepost.com/article/89f56c11-eff2-4db5-b18b-149c949c8f3f.html Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT How Hostages, And Nations, Get Liberated On the day the Colombian military freed Ingrid Betancourt and 14 other long-held hostages, the Italian Parliament passed yet another resolution demanding her release. Europe had long ago adopted this French-Colombian politician as a cause celebre. Fr... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a706a810-9406-4083-bc74-c01b0495f0f8.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT A Man of Seasonal Principles You'll notice Barack Obama is now wearing a flag pin. Again. During the primary campaign, he refused to, explaining that he'd worn one after Sept. 11 but then stopped because it "became a substitute for, I think, true patriotism." So why is he back t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a86ee082-08b8-4ec2-ad49-fbbe359835b9.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Ever-Malleable Mr. Obama "To be clear: Barack will support a filibuster of any bill that includes retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies." -- Obama spokesman Bill Burton, Oct. 24, 2007 That was then: Democratic primaries to be won, netroot lefties to be seduce... http://www.caglepost.com/article/9f8aac19-bc21-4113-8214-1e2f4858ba94.html Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT McCain's Oil Epiphany Gas is $4 a gallon. Oil is $135 a barrel and rising. We import two-thirds of our oil, sending hundreds of billions of dollars to the likes of Russia, Venezuela and Saudi Arabia. And yet we voluntarily prohibit ourselves from even exploring huge domes... http://www.caglepost.com/article/4f73800c-274e-4244-b507-4bdbd50ff40a.html Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Make The Election About Iraq In his St. Paul victory speech, Barack Obama pledged again to pull out of Iraq. Rather than "continue a policy in Iraq that asks everything of our brave men and women in uniform and nothing of Iraqi politicians, . . . [i]t's time for Iraqis to take r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/36b07404-c8a1-42e2-991e-4ba5409b993d.html Fri, 13 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT At $4, Everybody Gets Rational So now we know: The price point is $4. At $3 a gallon, Americans just grin and bear it, suck it up and, while complaining profusely, keep driving like crazy. At $4, it is a world transformed. Americans become rational creatures. Mass transit ridershi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/81e4b715-a5fd-4d6e-821b-d67e18444214.html Fri, 06 Jun 2008 07:00:00 GMT Carbon Chastity: The First Commandment Of The Church Of The Environment I'm not a global warming believer. I'm not a global warming denier. I'm a global warming agnostic who believes instinctively that it can't be very good to pump lots of CO2 into the atmosphere but is equally convinced that those who presume to know ex... http://www.caglepost.com/article/0fdc66db-622d-4d89-94c8-4672f31bc165.html Fri, 30 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's Metastatic Gaffe When the House of Representatives takes up arms against $4 gas by voting 324-84 to sue OPEC, you know that election-year discourse has entered the realm of the surreal. Another unmistakable sign is when a presidential candidate makes a gaffe, then, r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7dd06cd1-10dd-4297-9249-1de654c00b46.html Fri, 23 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Miracle, At 60 Before sending Lewis and Clark west, Thomas Jefferson dispatched Meriwether Lewis to Philadelphia to see Benjamin Rush. The eminent doctor prepared a series of scientific questions for the expedition to answer. Among them, writes Stephen Ambrose: "Wh... http://www.caglepost.com/article/8ef54e1d-d090-446c-949f-a945c5c07f6c.html Fri, 16 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Too Late To The Duck Hunt By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7fe7776e-f4ff-463a-aa26-8477ab4d31c7.html Fri, 09 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT The 'Race' Speech Revisited "I can no more disown him [Jeremiah Wright] than I can disown my white grandmother." -- Barack Obama, Philadelphia, March 18 Guess it's time to disown Granny, if Obama's famous Philadelphia "race" speech is to be believed. Of course, the speech was n... http://www.caglepost.com/article/636f4b3b-7c19-46de-bccf-1b5f23a04a8f.html Mon, 05 May 2008 07:00:00 GMT Obama's 'Distractions'? Real change has never been easy. . . . The status quo in Washington will fight. They will fight harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November. -- Barack Obama, Pennsylvania primary night speech With that, ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c7125b8e-17b5-4dac-a58d-663442b25a39.html Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT Deterring The Undeterrable The era of nonproliferation is over. During the first half-century of the nuclear age, safety lay in restricting the weaponry to major powers and keeping it out of the hands of rogue states. This strategy was inevitably going to break down. The inevi... http://www.caglepost.com/article/df4876e4-748c-46f3-aa9d-656905396be9.html Fri, 18 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Holocaust Declaration On Tuesday Iran announced it was installing 6,000 more centrifuges -- they produce enriched uranium, the key ingredient of a nuclear weapon -- in addition to the 3,000 already operating. The world yawned. It is time to admit the truth: The Bush admin... http://www.caglepost.com/article/930e6d38-e1b3-49b9-84f8-620b87949471.html Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Fabulist Vs. The Saint Hillary Clinton met her Waterloo at Tuzla. She'd been regaling audiences with tales of a dangerous landing under sniper fire in Tuzla 12 years ago and then running for cover. None of this occurred. When CBS provided the tape, she was forced to admit ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/ca5c66f2-225e-4861-984a-206960b7744f.html Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:00:00 GMT 'A Rank Falsehood' Asked at a New Hampshire campaign stop about possibly staying in Iraq 50 years, John McCain interrupted -- "Make it a hundred" -- then offered a precise analogy to what he envisioned: "We've been in Japan for 60 years. We've been in South Korea for 5... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6dfb5db6-0bbc-4601-baee-88211acba830.html Fri, 28 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Speech: A Brilliant Fraud The beauty of a speech is that you don't just give the answers, you provide your own questions. "Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes." So said Barack Obama, in his Philadelphia speech abo... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a073dd61-3d3c-4da9-89a5-00c037f99c26.html Mon, 24 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT Adventures In Identity Politics Elections can be about policy, personality or identity. The race between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton is surely not about policy. The differences between the two are microscopic. It did not start out that way. Last year, when Hillary was headed t... http://www.caglepost.com/article/6d224d92-6b11-40b7-a493-38b211eac84f.html Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:00:00 GMT The Great Non Sequitur She threw the kitchen sink at him. Accused Barack Obama of plagiarism. Mocked his eloquence. Questioned his truthfulness about NAFTA. Wasn't enough. Hillary Clinton still faced extinction in Ohio and Texas. So what do you do when you have thrown the ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/c153ae3a-a0dd-4889-ad33-2405cbed8d5e.html Fri, 07 Mar 2008 08:00:00 GMT Democrats Dug In For Retreat "No one can spend some 10 days visiting the battlefields in Iraq without seeing major progress in every area. . . . If the U.S. provides sustained support to the Iraqi government -- in security, governance, and development -- there is now a very real... http://www.caglepost.com/article/61142f47-3db1-4de0-9408-9724dfbeb827.html Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Audacity of Selling Hope There's no better path to success than getting people to buy a free commodity. Like the genius who figured out how to get people to pay for water: bottle it (Aquafina was revealed to be nothing more than reprocessed tap water) and charge more than th... http://www.caglepost.com/article/7aeccbc7-da5c-45a7-87bd-769b7bc8b6da.html Fri, 15 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT The Apostate Sheriff On Super Tuesday, John McCain secured the Republican nomination. How did that happen? Simple. In the absence of a compelling conservative, the Republican electorate turned to the apostate sheriff. In the beginning, there were two. There was Americ... http://www.caglepost.com/article/a48a7b1d-ff21-4253-ad42-6bf76a55bc8b.html Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Clawing For A Legacy There was general amazement when (the now-muzzled) Bill Clinton did his red-faced, attack-dog, race-baiting performance in South Carolina. Friends, Democrats and longtime media sycophants were variously perplexed, repulsed, enraged, mystified and sho... http://www.caglepost.com/article/2e2b7843-9f6c-4106-a914-2dcb2f7b8bf4.html Fri, 01 Feb 2008 08:00:00 GMT Black Dreams, White Liberals Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. . . . It took a president to get it done. -- Hillary Clinton, Jan. 7 So she said. And then a fight broke out. That remarkable eruption of r... http://www.caglepost.com/article/bbe2eb1c-ed88-4530-9a0d-98d24b05a5cf.html Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:00:00 GMT Losing Ugly There's losing. There's losing honorably. And then there's John Edwards. Mike Huckabee is not going to be president. The loss in South Carolina, one of the most highly evangelical states in the union, made that plain. 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