A day of reckoning is fast approaching for President Obama. Iran shows no sign of yielding to diplomacy and abandoning its nuclear weapons program, so the burden will fall to Obama to organize the kind of tough international sanctions that can avoid the forbidding alternatives of an Islamist atom bomb or a military strike to prevent it.
Now the Senate has its 2,000-plus-page health-care "reform" bill to go with the House's 2,000-plus-page package. Both are chock full of mandates, taxes, regulations, penalties and unsustainable promises to make health care better and cheaper.
The notion that America has to prove itself a just society by putting the 9/11 terrorists on trial in a civilian court shouldn't come as a surprise from a president who never seems to miss an opportunity in his global travels to apologize for this nation.
Illinois is careening toward a California-style economic meltdown, says a new report. Gov. Quinn promotes what one expert calls a "fiscally reckless" borrowing scheme to fund the CTA. The Legislature passes a "reform" bill that concentrates power in the hands of Democratic Party bosses.
In a bit of political irony, the administration of President Obama is turning out to be the mirror image of the White House of President George W. Bush.
All the pretty words in the world and all the high-sounding sentiments, no matter how eloquently expressed, can't change the hard, cold facts of life. On the contrary, good intentions divorced from reality can make matters worse. President Obama is learning that unhappy lesson in the collapse of his high-profile drive to jump-start peace negotiations between the Israelis and Palestinians.
Organizing for America, the permanent Obama campaign apparatus, plans events across the nation this week celebrating the one-year anniversary of President Obama's election. Most Americans likely aren't in a celebratory mood at the moment or see much to cheer about.
Well, that didn't take long. The misnamed U.N. Human Rights Council, fresh from smearing Israel for the offense of defending its citizens from terrorist rockets, has set its sights on the U.S. war effort. A council "investigator" says the United States must prove the use of drones to kill our enemies in Afghanistan and Pakistan does not violate international law.
An ominous turn of events in Iraq: Sunday's bombings in Baghdad, with at least 155 dead in the worst violence in two years, were attributed to al-Qaida in Iraq. That's the murderous band of terrorists who were run out of the country by President George W. Bush's military surge and counterinsurgency strategy.
