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Americans reacted with dismay, and rightly so, last week upon learning that President Obama has yet to meet or talk on the phone with BP CEO Tony Hayward about the Gulf-gush oil disaster. Instead, the President has decided to summon BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg from Sweden to the White House for a meeting this coming Wednesday, his first with BP executives since the rig exploded nearly 60 days ago. Why did the White House reach out first to Chairman Svanberg instead of man-on-the-scene Hayward? Many will surmise that the president, who has said he'd fire Hayward, wants to avoid an...

Something very good al ready has happened as a result of President Obama's strange entry into the health-care sweepstakes. Think of it as the death of a myth. The myth was that Obama was an innocent bystander caught between evil forces. As supporters describe it, the president was trapped on one side by tone-deaf Democrats and on the other by obstructionist Republicans. If only the leaders of the two parties were as smart and honest as Obama, Washington would be a marvel of efficiency and progress. As Exhibit A, Obama dead-enders promised the sun of health care would shine on...

In the conclusion of his web commentaries on the U.S. presidential debates, the National Review's Jay Nordlinger wrote something that truly resonated with me: "Some of our critics are taunting us with, 'Bush is going to lose, ha, ha, ha. Face up to reality, NRO boys, Kool-Aid drinkers.' All that. Frankly, I don't talk much about who will win. I talk about who should win. What the people do is their business. I'm not all that worshipful of the people, frankly. This is part of the joy of not being a politician. This is the people that voted for Clinton...