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Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 11:34:54 -0400<![CDATA[The more I think about Hillary Clinton&#8217;s question yesterday&#8212;&#8220;what difference does it make?&#8221;&#8212;the more important it becomes; a sort of leitmotif, not only for this administration, but for our times in general.]]>Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:59:08 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2013/01/24/yeah-what-difference-n176211<![CDATA[When faced with a crime as chilling as the Newtown school massacre and a perpetrator as inscrutable as Adam Lanza, perhaps we have a need to explain the violence in a rational way, to blame a set of circumstances we can label, understand, and then attempt to control.]]>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:15:59 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2013/01/15/with-mass-murderers-a-different-profile-n9175<![CDATA[Try as I may, I cannot recall any president prior to Obama implying that criticism of the statements of an ambassador to the UN, acting in his/her official capacity as spokesperson, should be off-limits &#8212; and especially the approach Obama took, which was to say that the men who criticized Rice (McCain and Graham) were somehow &#8220;besmirching&#8221; her reputation (Rice is a vulnerable little woman, not just a gender-neutral official, when it suits Obama&#8217;s political purposes) and that such comments are &#8220;outrageous&#8221; and beyond the pale. Should those on the left who criticized Colin Powell for presenting information about WMDs to the UN, information &#8220;based on intelligence that he had received,&#8221; have been admonished to shut up because they were &#8220;besmirching his reputation&#8221; in an &#8220;outrageous&#8221; manner? Of course not, as they&#8217;d be the first to tell you. But Rice is apparently off-limits, because Obama says so.]]>Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:00:22 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/11/17/obamas-outrage-n175152<![CDATA[It comes as no surprise to learn that Obama was one of a small minority in the Senate who voted against the bill that sought to waive the Stafford Act in order to make assistance funds available to the New Orleans Katrina victims without their having to match them with a 10% contribution.]]>Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:47:11 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/10/03/obama-voted-against-katrina-waiver-n172930<![CDATA[We’re used to sob stories about politicians, meant to tug at the heartstrings, both to laud politicians and to attack them. But usually they are about the supposed results of policies those politicians have promoted or blocked: Romney&#8217;s Bain caused the death of my wife; Obamacare meant I got health insurance despite my pre-existing condition. That sort of thing is standard]]>Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:55:37 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/08/31/do-gooder-romney-n170833<![CDATA[Bridget Johnson points out that Obama has a new catch-phrase that he&#8217;s used five times in recent speeches, &#8220;trickle-down fairy dust.&#8221; A typical example:]]>Thu, 09 Aug 2012 14:07:25 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/08/09/more-on-that-trickle-down-fairy-dust-business-n169666<![CDATA[The official citation for the medal, as described by the White House, read that Karski had &#8220;worked as a courier, entering the Warsaw ghetto and the Nazi Izbica transit camp, where he saw first-hand the atrocities occurring under Nazi occupation.&#8221;]]>Thu, 31 May 2012 11:45:42 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/05/31/one-more-thing-about-obamas-polish-death-camp-remark-n165886<![CDATA[In the latest New Yorker, John Cassidy writes:]]>Wed, 16 May 2012 13:27:08 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/05/16/liberal-tunnel-vision-why-vote-for-romney-n165266<![CDATA[Obama&#8217;s remarks about the Supreme Court and ObamaCare have been criticized by conservative pundits as intemperate, inflammatory, and ignorant. What was he thinking when he said the Court would be taking an &#8220;unprecedented, extraordinary step&#8221; if it overturned a law duly passed by Congress? How could a constitutional law professor not have heard of Marbury v. Madison, which long ago established that the Court may do exactly that?]]>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:33:25 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/04/06/whats-obama-thinking-wickard-not-marbury-n10110<![CDATA[Winston Churchill&#8217;s joke in response to a question about why he was traveling on an Italian cruise ship when a British one was available appears to be prescient commentary on the Concordia disaster:]]>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 00:00:11 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/01/21/where-does-women-and-children-first-originate-n10409<![CDATA[The crowd was huge and enthusiastic and grassroots. The obligatory hecklers were heckling obligatorily. The locust-like press attended in multitudes.]]>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 12:09:14 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2012/01/09/the-romney-christie-show-2-n159093<![CDATA[You can&#8217;t say the message of Obama&#8217;s December 6 speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, should have been a surprise to anyone. After all, he&#8217;s been beating the class warfare drum for much of his administration, and the idea of higher taxes on the rich to promote income redistribution is something he telegraphed as far back as the 2008 campaign, with his impromptu reaction in the famous Joe the Plumber incident. During the 2008 presidential campaign Obama also stated an interest in using the capital gains tax primarily as an instrument of &#8220;fairness&#8221; &#8212; even if a rise in the rate would cause a decline in the amount of tax taken in.]]>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:08:25 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/12/10/whats-the-matter-with-obamas-kansas-speech-n10552<![CDATA[It&#8217;s interesting to see how Ginger White&#8217;s cell phone history with Herman Cain has morphed. Think he&#8217;s on record as making late-night or early morning phone calls or sending late-night or early-morning texts to her? So do a lot of people.]]>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 11:18:55 -0500<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/11/30/the-cain-allegations-notice-the-word-or-n157288<![CDATA[It&#8217;s open season on Republican front-runner Rick Perry.]]>Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:44 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/09/18/rick-perry-versus-the-true-believers-n10883<![CDATA[Memo to politicians such as Louis Magazzu, Democrat of New Jersey: not really such a good idea to send naked photos of self to online acquaintances.]]>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 12:32:10 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/08/03/the-naked-memo-n151304<![CDATA[Trond Berntsen was not only the stepbrother of Norway&#8217;s Crown Princess Mette-Marit. He was also an off-duty policeman and former amateur boxing champion who was working as a security guard on Utoya island that fateful day when Andres Behring Breivik, dressed as a policeman, blew away as many people as he possibly could &#8212; including Berntsen.]]>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:50 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/07/28/gentle-justice-meets-mass-murderer-n11084<![CDATA[The stark facts of Leiby Kletzky&#8217;s murder are so dreadful that they conjure up the plot of a horror film. An innocent 8-year-old boy going for a 7-block walk in an area known to be among the safest in New York. A killing and dismemberment. A grieving family and a shocked Hasidic Jewish community. A perpetrator from the closely-related Orthodox community, who had no previous record of violence.]]>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 00:00:59 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/07/15/in-kletzky-killings-wake-we-cant-lock-up-our-kids-n11144<![CDATA[Now that Weiner is damaged goods, the Democrats&#8217; knives are coming out. Case in point, this Salon article by Steve Kornacki, which digs up an incident from the beginning of Weiner&#8217;s political career in which he won his first Democratic primary with an attack against his opponents that appealed to racism. The incident reminds me&#8212;not in its charges of racism, but in its implication that Weiner was probably a ruthless bastard from the start&#8212;of another story you don&#8217;t hear much about, involving Obama&#8217;s political beginnings: how he managed to knock previous mentor Alice Palmer and all his other Democratic rivals off the ballot in his very first primary.]]>Wed, 08 Jun 2011 11:54:15 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/06/08/weiner-damaged-goods-n148401<![CDATA[&#8220;Brutal.&#8221; &#8220;Cruel.&#8221; &#8220;Chilling.&#8221;]]>Tue, 17 May 2011 13:06:39 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/05/17/perp-walk-the-ruling-class-lhorreur-n11432<![CDATA[Today&#8217;s the one-year anniversary of the Gulf oil spill, and here&#8217;s my question: so, if scientists couldn&#8217;t even foresee the effects of the oil spill on the Gulf, how are they going to figure out what&#8217;s going on with climate change?]]>Wed, 20 Apr 2011 12:27:40 -0400<![CDATA[Neo-Neocon]]>https://pjmedia.com/neoneocon/2011/04/20/gulf-oil-spill-anniversary-question-n146316