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[This article was first published at
weeklystandard.com on September 28, 2009]
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President Obama’s foreign policy is now taking visible form and shape, and
what we see so far is not reassuring. In most cases, there are reversals not only
of the policies of former President George W. Bush, but also of earlier presidents,
both Republican and Democratic.
The new president, taking up the mantra of [...]

It has been clear for some time that the old media forms are on the way out,
and that the leaders of this media have been in rapid decline.
But it is the events of the past week, which led to the resignation of President
Obama’s brand-new “green” czar Van Jones, which I think may well mark
their last [...]

Although I wrote previously that President Obama and the Democratic
congress under Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid were provoking a possible
disastrous voter reaction in 2010, and I note that several of my colleagues and
not a few pollsters have made this a talking-head trend in recent days, a word of
prognostication caution.
It is [...]