Imagine what would happen if this happened on the first day of a Barack Obama or a Mitt Romney presidency, from the New York Times: An attack on a political rally killed the Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto near the capital, Islamabad, Thursday. Witnesses said Ms. Bhutto was fired upon Read more…
UPDATE: My friend Erick at Redstate makes the same point. Today, John McCain got some press for stating, as a number of people had already, that David Petraeus should be Time’s Man of the Year, not Vladimir Putin. He is transparently correct. But there is a broader point that should Read more…
We might have just found the issue and story that crystalizes the anxieties of all Americans around a protectionist message. The story is: Citigroup Inc., the biggest U.S. bank by assets, will receive a $7.5 billion cash infusion from Abu Dhabi to replenish capital after record mortgage losses wiped out Read more…
Today, John Bolton spoke to Rob Bluey’s and Heritage’s Conservative Blogger Lunch. Allegedly, we were talking about Bolton’s new book. Rather than focus on the book, Bolton urged us to make foreign policy an issue in 2008 and then took questions. I asked two sets of questions, one about the Read more…
Today, Governor Mitt Romney called for the US to pull out of the UN Human Rights Council. According to the AP: "The United Nations has been an extraordinary failure of late," Romney said in response to a question at a pancake house along the coast of early voting South Carolina. Read more…
Democratic Congresional leaders campaign against trade in Latin America. Appalling.
The Democrats talk about restoring America’s role in the world. Hillary Clinton, in particular, talks about her ability to do so. Of course, for all of her husband’s post-White House international fame, it is worth remembering how low his international reputation was. This was a guy who used his veto Read more…
Senator Thune introduced John McCain at the Americans for Prosperity reception last night. I thought it was a very good introduction. It highlighted McCain’s record as a anti-spending guy. Thune calls him the "lobbyist for the taxpayer" in contrast to the "lobbyist for the spending groups." He also makes the Read more…
This weekend, I was an attendee at the European Ideas Network, an annual 3 day seminar of center-right European politicians, think tankers, academics, and business leaders. There were sessions about a huge range of topics. I can’t imagine a similar forum in the states in either party. One of the Read more…
Even though I follow and try to be involved in European center-right politics, I have mostly avoided the Sarkozy love-fest on the American right. However, I think that E.J. Dionne had a nugget that I think captures the deep truth of what happened: And where Royal won by almost 3 Read more…