Stand Up to Bullies of the NRA
E.J. Dionne, The New Republic
WASHINGTON — “My administration has not curtailed the rights of gun owners,” the president boasted, “it has expanded them, including allowing people to carry their guns in national parks and wildlife refuges.”No, that wasn't George W. Bush. It was President Obama in an op-ed piece published Sunday in the Arizona Daily Star that practically begged the gun lobby to support modest reforms of our lax gun laws. Receive news alertsHe wasn't even asking for a ban on those large gun magazines, which would almost certainly have saved lives on that January day in Tucson…
Twin Threats Stalk the Economy
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph
We are discovering once again that the country is the world's top creditor by far with nearly £2 trillion of net assets overseas.The risk is doubly dangerous when combined with the fast-escalating conflict in the Persian Gulf, where Saudi Arabia's use of troops to suppress Shi'ite dissent in Bahrain risks a showdown with Iran.”People had thought global recovery was self-sustaining and now equity markets are starting to ask whether it might be snuffed out,” said David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC.
Obama Looks More Gimpy Than Gipper
Steven Hayward, National Review
David Brooks makes the case in his Times column today that Obama has embraced his own inner Eisenhower, emphasizing prudence over boldness and change, partly out of political instinct, but partly out of calculation looking ahead to a tough reelection fight next year. And, he thinks, "It's likely that he can win the next election simply by force of personality, by overshadowing his opponent."
