Mass killing has very clearly not been eliminated, nor has the 'international community' developed a response that will avert it or bring it to a quick end.

For the entire first term, Obama and his people blamed Bush for everything - which is another way of saying they felt Bush and the Bush years were the inescapable reference point for everything they were themselves doing.

America was not founded to improve health care or housing; it was founded for freedom.

The ransoming of captives has been practiced by Jews for many centuries and has been regarded as a greater obligation than charity for the poor.

During most of the Bush administration, human rights and democracy in Egypt were on the front burner.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

As the Palestinian leadership never seems to pay any penalty for its words, America's seriousness about the peace process is in doubt.