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On Obama's Watch
by William Kristol

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The 'Argentine Firecracker'

ARTICLES
Questioning Sotomayor
by Robert F. Nagel

Reversing Sotomayor
by Terry Eastland

A Good Niebuhr Policy
by Matthew Continetti

Tehran Needs to Stop Meddling
by Jonathan Schanzer & Howard Gumnitzky

What If Writing Were Like TV?
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The Triumph of Crony Capitalism
by Fred Barnes

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To Board or Not to Board?
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Seeing It Now
by Terry Teachout

Additional Splendor
by James Gardner

Touch of Evil
by Stephen F. Hayes

Sacha Kidder
by John Podhoretz

CASUAL
Michael and Me
by Jonathan V. Last

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Obama Blames America

On Fox News yesterday, Obama, asked about Iran, said:

"The fact that we have not talked to them means that they have been developing nuclear weapons, funding Hamas, funding Hezbollah."

This statement goes to the very heart of what's wrong with Obama's foreign policy view, and the leftward swing of the Democratic party back toward the orthodoxies of McGovern and Carter. The fact is, the Iranians have not been developing nuclear weapons and funding terrorist proxies across the Middle East because "we" won't talk to them. They are doing these things because their country is run by a fanatical, revolutionary regime that wants to dominate the Middle East.

But, as Jeane Kirkpatrick once said, "They always blame America first."

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