Even on the Gridiron, Democrats Favor Government Involvement

By Peter Brown
Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, is a former White House correspondent with two decades of experience covering Washington government and politics. Click here for Mr. Brown’s full bio.
Although politics and college football seem to have little in common, the confluence of the two in a recent public [...]

Our Year of Obama

Obama is in a great race: Can he remake America before the next elections?
By Victor Davis Hanson
America is at a day of reckoning that it never quite expected to face.
Not long ago, tired of eight years of Republican rule, terrified by the September 2008 financial panic, unimpressed by the campaign of John McCain, and mesmerized [...]

2009 Chickens and Their 2010 Roost

By Victor Davis Hanson
In the coming year, plenty of our chickens will be coming home to roost.
Take foreign relations. In 2009, the new administration assumed that George W. Bush was largely responsible for global tensions. As a remedy, we loudly reached out to our foes and those with whom we had uneasy relationships.
But so far [...]

Shadow of 9/11 Is Cast Again

By SCOTT SHANE
Published: December 30, 2009
WASHINGTON — The finger-pointing began in earnest on Wednesday over who in the alphabet soup of American security agencies knew what and when about the Nigerian man charged with trying to blow up an airliner.
But the harshest spotlight fell on the very agency created to make sure intelligence dots were [...]

Fear and heroism aboard Northwest Airlines Flight 253 after attempted bombing

By Peter Slevin
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 27, 2009

ANN ARBOR, MICH. — First came an alarming popping sound, followed by silence, and then the unmistakable smell of smoke. Passengers began to shout and scream on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 from Amsterdam.
“People were just running, and they were scared,” said Veena Saigal, who turned [...]

Why The President Went Golfing Today

by Marc Ambinder
In Fahrenheit 9/11, filmmaker Michael Moore juxtaposes images and words of a terrorist attack in Israel with President Bush’s first words about the incident, spoken to a press pool on a golf course, with him leaning casually against a tree. Today, as the nation’s law enforcement agencies respond to an attempted terrorist attack on U.S. [...]

Flight 253: Blunders Demand Answers

By PETER KING
One thing is clear about the attempted terror attack on Christmas Day — we need answers.
There is obviously going to be a full-scale congressional investigation into how Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was allowed to board Flight 253 and head to the United States with plans to incinerate 300 innocent people.
Mere hours after it happened, [...]

A health-care victory that stinks

By David S. Broder
Thursday, December 24, 2009

The health-care reform bill coming out of the Senate presents a real dilemma for spectators: How do you applaud while holding your nose?
There is so much that is wrong with it — and the way it was made — and, at the same time, so much that [...]

Here’s to you, soldiers of the 1-17 in Afghanistan

By David Ignatius
Thursday, December 24, 2009

BASE FRONTENAC, AFGHANISTAN It’s a week before Christmas Eve, and the chow hall of this forward operating base north of Kandahar is decorated with twinkling blue and white lights for the holidays. There are posters of Santa and a snowman on the walls, and in the center of [...]

There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran

By ALAN J. KUPERMAN
Published: December 23, 2009
PRESIDENT OBAMA should not lament but sigh in relief that Iran has rejected his nuclear deal, which was ill conceived from the start. Under the deal, which was formally offered through the United Nations, Iran was to surrender some 2,600 pounds of lightly enriched uranium (some three-quarters of its [...]