Opinion – The Weekly Standard – Yahoo! News
Opinion – The Weekly Standard – Yahoo! News
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Obama Pretends to Get Tough on Yemen
Washington (The Daily Standard) – Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director, took to the official White House blog Wednesday to post a response to critics of Barack Obama and his handling of counterterrorism. Full Story;
Washington (The Daily Standard) – An intriguing name has surfaced in the worldwide investigation into Christmas Day bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab's life. That name is Moazzam Begg, and it is a name that is well known to those left-wing journalists and human rights lawyers who take everything former Gitmo detainees say at face value. Full Story;
Washington (The Daily Standard) – No sense wasting too much of this year-end report on what you already know. Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – Journalists, long on confidence but chronically short of knowledge, have been lately offering end-of-decade summations. The fact that the first decade of the 21st century doesn't actually end until this time next year hasn't slowed them down; and there's universal agreement that this was, as Andy Serwer wrote in Time, “the decade from hell.” Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – Was 2009 the dawn of a new liberal era? Or was it, rather, the apogee of Democratic power (for now)? In November 2008, when Barack Obama was elected president, liberals weren't content to say his sweeping victory was due to public disapproval of President Bush and the deepening recession. They insisted the electorate had been transformed. The country had changed, in a fundamental way. Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – The title of the legislation is innocent enough: the Free Flow of Information Act. The motivation behind it is a seemingly worthy one. It would give anyone in the media a shield–special protection–against being forced to reveal the names of confidential sources of information. And the result would be more and more information flowing freely to the American people, satisfying their right to know. Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – When I first encountered the Persian word mofangi, I struggled to grasp its meaning. Full Story;
Inside Our 'Secret' Afghan Prisons
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – Kabul, Afghanistan Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – “They have ardent supporters who are nearly hysterical at the very election of President Barack Obama,” Senator Sheldon Whitehouse roared about his Republican opponents in the closing hours of the Senate health care debate on December 20. “The birthers, the fanatics, the people running around in right-wing militia and Aryan support groups. Full Story;
Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 015, Issue 16 – 1/4/2010 – As a candidate, Barack Obama pledged to meet with leaders of rogue states “without preconditions.” He said the foreign policy of the United States had become too aggressive, even domineering, under George W. Bush. We had made too many demands and spent too much time lecturing and too little time listening. An Obama administration would use “smart power” to change all of that. Iran would be the first and most urgent test. Full Story;
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