We all remember Saddam Hussein’s feckless pitchman, "Baghdad Bob." The country’s information minister (real name: Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf) made frequent television appearances, repeating the mantra that everything was going according to pla…
Author: Charles Lipson, RealClearPolitics
The Decline and Fall of Newspapers
A few years ago, you would have unfolded your newspaper and read opinion and analysis like this. Those days are gone. Today, most of us get our news and commentary online, perhaps supplemented by network or cable television, although TV viewership is …
Houston, We Have an Energy Problem
President Biden’s return from Saudi Arabia with a nearly empty gas can underscores what we already knew: This administration’s energy policy is not only flailing, but incoherent. The president’s genuflection in Jeddah would have been humiliating even …
Reining In the Fourth Branch of Government
Why America Changed Its War Aims in Ukraine
The Buck Stops…Somewhere Else
John Durham Is Getting Close to the Jugular
Last week, John Durham’s grand jury issued its third criminal indictment in the Trump-Russia collusion hoax. The person who was arrested may be obscure; the news may have been buried after Virginia’s bombshell election results; but Durham’s move is a …
D’oh Biden
So much has gone wrong so quickly, it’s hard to remember we are only nine months into Joe Biden’s presidency. Less than one-third of the country now thinks America is "on the right track," according to the RealClearPolitics average of polls….
The Stain of Afghanistan Will Stick to Biden
The Deep Politics of Vaccine Mandates
The debate over President Biden’s vaccine mandates has focused, understandably, on the tradeoff between individual rights to make medical choices and the…