May 29, 2010 What we owe to the fallen, and to those now serving. By MARK HELPRIN In American military cemeteries all over the world, seemingly endless rows of whitened grave markers stand largely unvisited and in silence. The gardeners tend the lawns, one section at a time. Even at the famous sites, tourism is [...]

May 29, 2010 The former president as political cutout. At his Thursday press conference, President Obama said that “I can assure the public that nothing improper took place” in the curious case of Joe Sestak and the Pennsylvania Senate primary—but he declined to say what, exactly, took place. After yesterday’s pre-Memorial Day weekend news dump, [...]

May 28, 2010 Barack Obama explains his job. By JAMES TARANTO What exactly is the job of the president of the United States? Let’s ask the man who currently holds that position, Barack Obama: My job right now is just to make sure that everybody in the Gulf understands this is what I wake up [...]

May 28, 2010 As Economic Worries Worsen, White House Puts on the Glitz by Byron York You know the basics. The unemployment rate is 9.9 percent. Jobs are still being lost. Worries about the global economy are causing breathtaking volatility on Wall Street. And millions of Americans who still have jobs are worrying more than [...]

May 28, 2010 Conservative Media Fiddle While the Military Burns by Robert Knight Barney Frank and his friends are rolling their tanks through Congress while everyone is talking about something else. As we reel from one crisis to the next, homosexual activists and their allies are muscling through their agenda, with nary a peep from [...]

May 28, 2010 Tinkering With the Truth by Rich Galen President Obama used about an hour of his press conference yesterday trying to explain how – in spite of his handlers’ having spent the past month trotting out the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Homeland Security, and the Commandant of the Coast Guard [...]

By Roy Exum (Archive) · Saturday, May 29, 2010 In a most fitting prelude to Memorial Day on Monday, a property management company in Oshkosh, WI, has just had its tail tucked between its legs and been sent squalling after threatening to evict an Army veteran for his display of the American flag. Midwest Realty [...]

By Peggy Noonan (Archive) · Saturday, May 29, 2010 I don’t see how the president’s position and popularity can survive the oil spill. This is his third political disaster in his first 18 months in office. And they were all, as they say, unforced errors, meaning they were shaped by the president’s political judgment and [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, May 29, 2010 There was a time when people could disagree about politics and still feel mutual respect and even affection for one another, but I think that time has passed. Although there are still a few liberals in my circle of friends and acquaintances, the circle keeps getting [...]

May 29, 2010 By Jerry Philipson President Obama’s recently unveiled National Security Strategy is a recipe for disaster, not only for the United States but for the free world as well. It diminishes rather than enhances our security and is an abdication of America’s role as leader and protector of free nations and champion of [...]