You Need to Know

Now They Tell Us
Obama, it turns out, is not Superman. (Paul Starobin, Washington Post, 6/11/10)

Count On It
Last year's stimulus having failed to hold unemployment below 8 percent as predicted, Barack Obama might advocate another stimulus – amending Article I, Section 2 of the Constitution, which mandates a census every 10 years. If it were every year, he could take credit for creating 564,000 -- the current number of census takers -- permanent jobs. (George Will, Washington Post, 6/10/10)

New ‘Strategery’ Needed
From the beginning, the Obama strategy toward Iran and other rogue states had been to offer goodwill and concessions on the premise that this would lead to one of two outcomes: (a) the other side changes policy, or (b) if not, the world isolates the offending state and rallies around us -- now that we have demonstrated last-mile good intentions. Hence, nearly a year and a half of peace overtures, negotiation, concessions, two New Year's messages to the Iranian people, a bit of groveling about U. S. involvement in the 1953 coup and a disgraceful silence when the regime's very stability was threatened by peaceful demonstrators. Iran's response? Defiance, contempt and an acceleration of its nuclear program. (Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post, 6/11/10))