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After the unpopular presidency of George W. Bush and big losses in Congress, conservatism is in a tough place right now. Why are you confident the movement will become popular again? Look at the way the economy is going right now. People aren't finding jobs; I don't think Americans will stand for it much longer. American is a center-right country, in general, and people live their lives conservatively - you want to keep the money you earn, you want to provide for your family. I think everything going on right now with the Obama Administration and the policies...
...biggest presidential birthday perk of all, though, may be the presents. In 1912 the people of Staunton, Va., Woodrow Wilson's hometown, gave the President miniature ivory portraits of his parents. George W. Bush in 2006 got a belt buckle from visiting Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and cuff links from his staff. But the best presents of all have been the priceless ones. On Nov. 2, 1920, Warren Harding returned from a golfing excursion to find 55 small pink candles on a frosted white cake. Then he sat back to await the election returns - and learned he had been...
...Human-rights groups say they are not opposed to the facility itself, but what it would represent: a continuation of Bush-era policies that allow some detainees to be held indefinitely, without charge. Such policies "are the reason Guantánamo became an international symbol of injustice," says Jameel Jaffer of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Security Project. "If you [open] a similar facility in the U.S., that doesn't solve any of the problems that closing Guantánamo was meant to solve." (See pictures of life inside a Baghdad prison...
...leadership of Abbas, to which they attribute their movement's political demise, they don't plan to try to unseat him just yet. Instead, they'll seek to tie his hands. But there is a move afoot at the conference to take down Abbas' national-security adviser, the Bush Administration's favorite strongman, Mohammed Dahlan. The conference will hear proposals for an investigation into the events that saw Hamas eject Fatah forces and take control of Gaza by force in 2007 - with many blaming Dahlan for having at least partly provoked the takeover. Demanding an inquiry and targeting...
Still, Obama is not necessarily stuck in a quagmire. Recognizing the limits of what could be achieved in Afghanistan, the President has scaled back U.S. ambitions from the Bush Administration's lofty objective of turning the country into a modern democracy. "We have a clear and focused goal," he said in a policy speech in March, "to disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-Qaeda in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and to prevent their return to either country in the future." That goal does not necessarily require the defeat of the Taliban per se - a goal that many analysts have long deemed unrealistic...