The UK Takes a Powder on Palestine

British Foreign Secretary William Hague says that the UK will abstain at the Security Council on the Palestinian Authority's request for recognition as a state. France has previously said the same. The British action won't alter the outcome: the US will veto the measure, quashing it as a …

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Written by David Frum on Wednesday November 9, 2011

He's Back! Arnie's Austrian Comeback

His triumphant homecoming has led some to speculate whether Austria's most famous export since strudel might return to his birthplace to extend his political career. He’s back! After having fallen from grace back in the US due to revelations he fathered an out-of-wedlock child with a household …

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Written by Robin Tim Weis on Friday June 24, 2011

Where Were Qaddafi's Critics All This Time?

Switzerland has frozen Qaddafi's assets and human rights groups are urging intervention. But where were they a month ago when Qaddafi was just as heinous? It's been a bad 24 hours for Mu'ammar al-Qadhdhāfi (as Daniel Pipes tells us to spell the name): The Obama administration has urged that …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday February 24, 2011

Honduran "Coup": Blame Zelaya, Not Congress

Currently, deposed Honduran president Manuel Zelaya is holed up in Tegucigalpa after a harrowing overland escape into his own country. He is attempting to stir up anti-democratic populism to overthrow the current government. Yet, the United States still won’t budge from it's stance that his …

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Written by Tyler Montgomery on Thursday September 24, 2009

Me, Me, Me, Me, Me

Increasingly, Barack Obama's speaking style inspires a reaction borrowed from the narrator of the Raymond Chandler novel, The Long Goodbye : "You talk too damn much, and too damn much of it is about you." Of the first seven sentences Obama delivered to the United Nations General Assembly on …

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Written by David Frum on Thursday September 24, 2009