President Obama’s plan, announced last Thursday, to aid Syrian rebels was spectacularly ill-timed as well as wrong-headed. Ill-timed not just because we’re entering the battlefield very late in the...
At 6 a.m. last Thursday, Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger called UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to report his government’s decision to pull out its troops from the Golan Heights,...
Never mind what will happen in 2013. Here’s what surelywon’t: * In preparation for 2016, Mitt Romney will tour the nation, slamming the 47 percent of Americans who are moochers — with his dog tied...
A struggling economy. Cash shortfalls at City Hall, in Albany and Washington. A turbulent Mideast. A fateful US presidential election. The coming year is shaping up to be absolutely . . ....
Will the National Defense Authorization Act get policies and spending priorities right? Congress is expected to “drop” (introduce) the bill soon; if it gets things wrong, the nation could pay a very...
The shocking video of the arrest of an alleged CIA agent in Moscow this week on espionage charges certainly won’t rank as one of most heralded moments in the vaunted agency’s long history of derring...
After crime, commuting is the top quality-of-life issue for the vast majority of New Yorkers. That’s why, even though the mayor doesn’t control the MTA, the next resident of Gracie Mansion needs to...
In September 2008, Lehman Bros. collapsed, sending the world into economic meltdown and calling time on a quarter-century-long Wall Street boom. But the crash of New York City’s gravy train hardly...
Some say Edward Snowden is a hero and a patriot. Others say he’s a fool and a traitor. The evidence is mounting that the guy who leaked the details about the National Security Agency’s Internet...
Of all the scandals swirling around the Obama administration these days, the most misunderstood is the one involving supposedly skyrocketing sexual assaults in our armed forces. A Defense Department...
‘Lord, make me chaste,” wrote Augustine of Hippo, “but not yet.” Sort of like Andrew of Albany, who wants to “reduce the influence of money in politics” — but not until after he’s safely re-elected....
Boston Not much remains along Boston’s Boylston Street to recall that afternoon eight weeks ago, when bombs erupted and three people died — one an 8-year-old child. One exception stands in Copley...
Now that Mayor Bloomberg has decided we, all 8 million of us New Yorkers, should all go through our garbage to separate out the biodegradable stuff and “compost” it, the time has come to retire a...
First off, let me assure you that the Obama administration isn’t interested in your phone calls. You’re interested in your phone calls. Your mother is interested in your calls — especially if she’s...
A month ago, Iran’s “Supreme Guide” Khamenei demanded that last Friday’s presidential election be transformed into an “epic” endorsement of his regime, appealing for a record turnout and a clear...
Better late than never? President Obama’s new tune on Syria policy is still marked by tones of equivocation. With almost everyone agreed that the Damascus despot Bashar al-Assad has used chemical...
The “revelations” of National Security Agency data-mining of phone records and Internet use were no news to those who’d been paying attention. It’s only the rest of the Obama “scandalanche” that...
Abolish the Internal Revenue Service? So says Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas): “We ought to abolish the IRS and instead move to a simple flat tax where the average American can fill out taxes on postcard,”...
In 1986, just 26 and fresh from the University of Illinois law school, Al Salvi sank $1,000 of his own money, which was most of his money, into his campaign to unseat an incumbent Democratic...
“He has, acting personally and through his subordinates and agents, endeavored to . . . cause, in violation of the constitutional rights of citizens, income-tax audits or other income-tax...