Sarah Agonistes By Tony Blankley
Professional politicians and political journalists don't waste energy on political corpses. They reserve their energy -- positive or negative -- for viable politicians.
Commentary by Tony Blankley
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July 8, 2009
June 17, 2009
A Fine Madness in the Washington Air By Tony Blankley
To borrow Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design -- which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not science.
June 10, 2009
Europe Asks, Does Tomorrow Belong to Us? By Tony Blankley
Last weekend's European Parliament and British local county council elections were not only a victory for the center-right over the center-left but also, more significantly, an indication of the growing rejection of the past 60 years of denationalized and consolidating European history.
June 3, 2009
Death by Deficit By Tony Blankley
The Roman historian Livy famously described the terminal plight of the late Roman Republic: "Nec vitia nostra nec remedia pati possumus"
("We can bear neither our shortcomings nor the remedies for them"). As I reread this phrase in Christian Meier's biography of Julius Caesar this past
weekend, I couldn't help thinking of America's current fiscal profligacy -- which has been growing for years at an ever-accelerating rate.
May 27, 2009
Economic Reality of 5 Million Green Jobs By Tony Blankley
In 1845, the French economist Frederic Bastiat published a satirical petition from the "Manufacturers of Candles" to the French Chamber of Deputies, which ridiculed the arguments made on behalf of inefficient industries to protect them from more efficient producers:
May 20, 2009
How About Reality-Based Diplomacy? By Tony Blankley
Upon hearing of the death of a Turkish ambassador, the serpentine French diplomat Talleyrand was reputed to have responded, "I wonder what he meant by that."
May 13, 2009
Arabs Pressure Obama for Quick Peace Accord By Tony Blankley
Last Sunday, the British newspaper The Times published an interview with Jordan's King Abdullah II, in which the maturing king demonstrated a deft touch in putting pressure both on the new prime minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, and on President Barack Obama.
May 6, 2009
Without Preparation, Explanation or Response By Tony Blankley
Does anyone take serious words seriously anymore here in Washington?
April 29, 2009
Public's Right To Know? By Tony Blankley
Several events in recent months bring back to the forefront the perennial assertion that, on grounds of both efficacy and ethics, the public's "right to know" is the best guide to good government and good institutions.
April 22, 2009
Honest Talk About Chinese Currency Manipulation By Tony Blankley
Last week, the Obama administration declined to cite China for currency manipulation despite the fact that most experts -- including Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner during his confirmation testimony -- do not deny the obvious currency-rate fixing by China.
April 15, 2009
A Nuclear Talibanistan? By Tony Blankley
Our view of Pakistan's role in the war in Afghanistan has undergone an ominous but necessary series of shifts. At the outset of the war, in October 2001, Pakistan correctly was seen as a necessary ally -- both politically and geographically -- as it was the primary conduit for our entry and lines of communication into Afghanistan.
April 8, 2009
Health Care in the Offing By Tony Blankley
Of all President Barack Obama's transformative domestic policy proposals, none is more far-reaching and less transparent than health care. What most Washington policy people mean when they talk about his health care proposal was described in the first two paragraphs of Robert Pear's meticulous article in The New York Times on April 1:
April 1, 2009
'Liberty and Tyranny' Reviewed By Tony Blankley
Last Sunday's New York Times reported: "Mr. Obama will confront resentment over American-style capitalism and resistance to his economic prescriptions when he lands in London.
March 25, 2009
The Most Dangerous City in the World By Tony Blankley
In a world growing more dangerous by the week in this dark spring of 2009, Washington may be the most dangerous city in the world.
March 18, 2009
Getting Too Ugly Too Soon By Tony Blankley
In the past few weeks, the language of national political debate has turned too ugly too soon. The temperature is rising, and I have felt it in the rising of my own political blood.
March 11, 2009
Obama Leverages His Political Risk in First 50 Days By Tony Blankley
Many of the media are following the convention of assessing President Barack Obama's first 100 days in office.
March 4, 2009
Obama Lied; The Economy Died By Tony Blankley
I am trying to capture the spirit of bipartisanship as practiced by the Democratic Party over the past eight years. Thus, I have chosen as my lead this proposition: Obama lied; the economy died. Obviously, I am borrowing this from the Democratic theme of 2003-08: "Bush lied, people died." There are, of course, two differences between the slogans.
February 25, 2009
Always Look on the Bright Side of Life By Tony Blankley
I hate to admit it, but I miss Bill Clinton. At least that lecherous old charmer was more amusing than his successor as a Democratic president, our new mortician in chief, Barack "End of the World" Obama.
February 18, 2009
Obama's Governing Style By Tony Blankley
In the Middle Ages, when a young prince suddenly and prematurely became king, the royal court, the church leadership and other senior aristocrats would scrutinize his every word and habit for signs of what kind of mind would be deciding their country's fate and their personal prosperity and safety.
February 11, 2009
Our Clever President By Tony Blankley
President Barack Obama's first presidential news conference was performed feebly by the once-ferocious White House press corps and shrewdly -- if deceptively -- by the president.
