Opinion - The Weekly Standard

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 34 - 5/19/2008 - To the question of the moment--What did Barack Obama know and when did he know it?--I answer, Obama knew everything, and he's known it for ages.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 34 - 5/19/2008 - What are we going to do about Iran? When Hillary Clinton surreally promised to obliterate the Islamic Republic if the mullahs nuked Israel, she at least recognized that a nuclear-armed clerical regime is a serious menace, and that successful diplomacy with Tehran without the threat of force is fantasy.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 33 - 5/12/2008 - Much has been written about John McCain's presidential campaign, about his conservative ideology (or insufficient supply thereof), about his age, his military service, and his remarkable life story.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 33 - 5/12/2008 - 'Strange new respect' is the term coined by Tom Bethell, an unhappy conservative, to describe the press adulation given those who drift leftward, those who grow "mature," "wise," and "thoughtful" as they cause apoplexy in right-wingers, and leave their old allies behind.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 33 - 5/12/2008 - Last week's highly entertaining episode of the Jeremiah Wright Show didn't tell us anything new about the demagogic reverend. He stands by his sick notion that American foreign policy and jihadist terrorism are equivalent, his defense of Louis Farrakhan, and his wacky conspiracy theory that the AIDS virus was cooked up by the federal government.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 32 - 5/5/2008 - E.J. Dionne's column in the Washington Post asked this question about Barack Obama: "Is he Adlai Stevenson or John F. Kennedy?" In the New Republic online, John Judis wondered if Obama might be "the next" George McGovern, the 1972 Democratic presidential nominee who lost in a landslide. Both are interesting questions. But there's a more relevant and important one: Is Obama who he says he is?

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 32 - 5/5/2008 - New HavenCalifornia governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, once the proud owner of a fleet of gas-guzzling Humvees, got religion on global warming pretty quickly after taking office. And in one of the great political reversals of the decade, he has emerged as a major figure in the environmental movement.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 32 - 5/5/2008 - The president's nomination of generals David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno to take command of U.S.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 32 - 5/5/2008 - "Senator Obama does not agree with President Carter's decision to go forward with this meeting because he does not support negotiations with Hamas until they renounce terrorism, recognize Israel's right to exist, and abide by past agreements."

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 31 - 4/28/2008 - Landing on an aircraft carrier is...To begin with, you travel out to the carrier on a powerful, compact, and chunky aircraft--a weight-lifter version of a regional airline turboprop. This is a C-2 Greyhound, named after the wrong dog. C-2 Flying Pit Bull is more like it. In fact what everyone calls the C-2 is the "COD." This is an acronym for "Curling the hair Of Dumb reporters," although they tell you it stands for "Carrier Onboard Delivery."

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 31 - 4/28/2008 - On the eve of Prime Minister Gordon Brown's visit to Washington last week, a British pollster suggested Brown's meetings with presidential candidates Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and John McCain would be more important than his talks with President Bush.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 31 - 4/28/2008 - A war-torn country with a democratically elected government, plagued by militias, terrorists, and drugs--but one that is steadily making progress against all these evils--wants to strengthen its ties to the United States.

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 30 - 4/21/2008 - The McCain campaign was offended last week, mightily offended. Democratic senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said McCain didn't care about the people he dropped bombs on during the Vietnam war. "You have to care about the lives of people," said Rockefeller, who supports Barack Obama for president. "McCain never gets into those issues."

Washington (The Weekly Standard) Vol. 013, Issue 30 - 4/21/2008 - On April 18, 2007, a series of five car bombs hit Baghdad, killing almost 200 people.