The global financial network provides a loophole for Tehran. Jan 31, 2012 WSJ Efforts to impose tough sanctions on Iran have gathered momentum in the last month, first with bipartisan legislation in the U.S. that targets Iran’s central bank, then with the European Union’s embargo (joined by signs of import reductions from Japan and South [...]

A Western ideal transformed into a shield for terrorists. Jan 31, 2012 WSJ By BRET STEPHENS What is a human right? Consider the case of a Romanian man named Ionescu—not the absurdist playwright himself, but very much in the master’s tradition—who once took the 2,000-mile bus ride from Bucharest to Madrid. His seat did not [...]

Will our “polarizing” president attract more voters than he repels? Jan 30, 2012 WSJ By JAMES TARANTO Barack Obama is, according to the headline of a Pete Wehner post at Commentary, “The Most Polarizing President Ever.” Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cilizza and Aaron Blake‘s headline disagrees with Wehner only on what part of [...]

Jan 31, 2012 Pat Buchanan At the end of Sunday mass at the church this writer attends in Washington, D.C., the pastor asked the congregation to remain for a few minutes. Then, on the instructions of Cardinal Archbishop Donald Wuerl, the pastor proceeded to read a letter. In the letter, the Church denounced the Obama [...]

By Arnold Ahlert (Archive) · Tuesday, January 31, 2012 If two recent court decisions are any indication, technology and privacy are at increasing loggerheads with each other. Last Monday, the Supreme Court of the United States (SOTUS) ruled that attaching a Global Positioning System (GPS) device to a suspect’s vehicle cannot be done without first obtaining a search [...]

By Dennis Prager (Archive) · Tuesday, January 31, 2012 The Muslim world is threatened by religious fanaticism. The Western world is threatened by secular fanaticism. Both seek to dominate society and to use state power to do so. Both seek to eliminate the Other — for Islamic fanatics, that means non-Muslim religions and secularism; for [...]

By Thomas Sowell (Archive) · Tuesday, January 31, 2012 California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Governor Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system. Most of us might be a little skittish about spending [...]

By Cal Thomas (Archive) · Tuesday, January 31, 2012 One of the memorable slogans from the Reagan administration was “peace through strength.” Reagan believed a strong defense was a safeguard against enemy attacks and the best hope of victory should America go to war. President Obama is taking the opposite approach. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta [...]

January 31, 2012 Obama’s Dismal Job Performance By William L. Gensert Hanlon’s Razor states that one should “never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”  It’s a fitting adage for Barack Obama. It’s easy enough to demonstrate Obama’s incompetence as president.  You would think he would get something right for America every [...]

Posted 01/30/2012 06:44 PM ET  Climate: Global warming alarmists won’t give up their campaign to spread fear and backward thinking until an ice bridge stretches from New York to Paris. Science, though, says they should. Al Gore, who invented global warming hysteria, has most recently been found planning a trip to Antarctica where he will [...]