Don’t blame Obama for Sarkozy’s petty jealousy
It’s hard for me to work up much if any anger over President Obama’s failure to visit the Normandy on his recent European trip. My first thought when I saw this headline:
The Korean problem
So, after an afternoon of “did they or didn’t they,” we have confirmation that the government in North Korea launched an Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile — you know, one of those things that could drop a multi-megaton-sized firecracker on Tokyo, or Seoul, or … Los Angeles:
Krauthammer delivers the smackdown
Okay, I actually like Mort Kondracke: he’s a reasonable guy and, Lord knows, reasonable people are in short supply these days. Trouble is, he tries so hard to see the other side and meet someone half-way, he winds up conceding the political arena to an opponent who has no interest in compromise — the progressive Democrats.
Humor: Gifts PBO should have given the Queen
The Heritage Foundation ran a contest to see if anyone could come up with better gifts for the Queen than the iPod the Obamas gave her. They divided it into two parts: thoughtful gifts and humorous ones. Some of the thoughtful gifts were truly excellent — Obama’s protocol people should take notes. But one of the facetious gifts was my favorite:
Got me good
Jonah Goldberg posted this earlier at The Corner (via Memeo):
Joe Biden’s foreign policy expertise shines again
José Guardia at the Barcepundit blog has a mini-translation of a story from a Spanish news outlet regarding the meeting VP Biden and Spain’s prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero had yesterday in Chile. Among other things, what did Biden “thank” Zapatero for? His efforts … in Iraq: