A fascinating letter in its entirety. Key sections: Dear Charles: As you know, over the years, I was so impressed with your near-daily documentation of developments in the Islamist world that I twice had you on my national radio show — both times face to face in my studio. And…
“No man is an island,” says Stephen Colbert in his show prelude, “but I have one hell of a peninsula.”
Colbert began his show on Comedy Central recently with a look at President Barack Obama’s trip to Norway earlier this month to accept his Nobel Peace Prize, which is now apparently being awarded for top-notch political [...]
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Think Quentin Tarantino instead of Frank Baum. When the curtain is pulled back, Oz has a gun. In an imaginary Tarantino version of the “Wizard of Oz,” Dorothy and her pals are in mortal danger for exposing the fraud which was the Wizard. But deception in our times does not lead to reflection and redemption, as it did in the [...]
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The consensus, Left and Right, seems to be that President Obama’s speech was less than stirring. On Fox News’s excellent news hour, Special Report with Bret Baier, Charles Krauthammer paraphrased Winston Churchill’s famed battle cry to sum it up this way
“We will fight them in air, we’ll fight them on the beaches, we’ll fight them [...]
September 4, 2009
Obama, The Mortal
By Charles Krauthammer
WASHINGTON — What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?
The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a [...]
