Just when Barack Obama's presidency was drowning in BP's crude oil, a megalomaniacal U.S. Army general called Stanley McChrystal, commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan, did him several huge favors. He took the spotlight off the Gulf of Mexico. He gave Obama a marvelous opportunity to act the decisive commander in chief, packing his insubordinate general into retirement. By committing political... Read more.

August 1990 and the War for Modernity The Aug. 2, 1990, Iraqi invasion of Kuwait stunned Washington and the world. Within days, the Bush administration (George H. W. Bush) deployed American military units to thwart further assaults by Saddam Hussein's Republican Guard Corps and forge an extraordinary political coalition dedicated to liberating Kuwait. Operation Desert Shield had begun. Desert Shield... Read more.

For a president who made his bones by ripping his predecessor, Barack Obama sure does a fantastic imitation of him. On Tuesday evening, two years, two months and four days before the 2012 elections, Obama made yet another of his endless primetime speeches on all the major networks. "Tonight, I am announcing that the American combat mission in Iraq has ended," he declared. "We have met... Read more.

This time last week, few Americans had ever heard of Department of Agriculture official Shirley Sherrod. Now she is a household name in households that actually follow the news. A few days ago, Sherrod was fired by the Obama administration for admitting that more than 20 years ago — as an administrator in Georgia — she did not treat a white farmer as fairly as she would have treated a black... Read more.