Peggy Noonan
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Joe Biden's voting rights speech backfired more than he ever could have imagined
The speech itself was aggressive, intemperate, not only offensive but meant to offend. It seemed prepared by people who think there is only the Democratic Party in America, that’s it,...
What we learned about President Biden through the Afghanistan crisis
Although he's in just is first year as president, the stain of Afghanistan and the havoc it has caused will leave a stain on Biden's reputation.
It's time for Dems and GOP to work together to fix ObamaCare
We are coming up on a great American holiday. There will be fireworks and children frolicking in pools; there will be baseball games, cookouts and flags. America will be looking...
Putin twists knife in outfoxed Obama
He twisted the knife and gloated, which was an odd and self-indulgent thing to do when he was winning. Vladimir Putin, in his essay in The New York Times, may even...
A sermon in humility
It is disquieting, the resignation of the pope. “We are in uncharted territory,” said a historian of the church. An old pope is leaving but staying within the walls of...
His way or no way
Presidential inaugurations are rare and notable events, coming only once every four years since April 30, 1789, when George Washington raised his right hand and took the oath on the...
Peggy Noonan on his debates and negotiations
We all say Ohio, Ohio, Ohio. But it’s all still Denver, Denver, and the mystery that maybe isn’t a mystery at all. If Cincinnati and Lake County go for Mitt...
Famous last(?) words
From a friend watching the Olympics: “How about that Michael Phelps? But let’s remember he didn’t win all those medals, someone else did. After all, he and I swam in...
What we’ve learned
So what have we learned? The GOP presidential contest of 2012 is over. Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee. What do we know now that we didn’t know in...
TIME TO KILL OBAMACARE
Looking back, this must have been the White House health-care strategy: Health care as a subject is extraordinarily sticky, messy and confusing. It's inherently complicated, and it's personal. There are...
O UNITES THE OPPOSITION
The big, complicated, obscure, abstruse, unsettling and ultimately unhelpful health-care plans, proposals and ideas keep rolling out of Washington. Five bills, thousands of pages, "as it says on page 346,...
DEMS GET DESPERATE
We have entered uncharted territory in the fight over national health care. There's a new tone in the debate, and it's ugly. At the moment the Democrats are looking like...
GHOSTS OF PRESIDENTS PAST
If Franklin Delano Roosevelt, president of the United States through the Great Depression and World War II -- if FDR, that canny old political operator, that shrewd judger of men,...
OBAMA LOSES TOUCH
This is big, what's happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the nation's mood, which itself is news: He rose...
SUPREME SILLINESS
The Sotomayor hearings were unsatisfying and relatively unilluminating. She was moderate in tone and manner, said little, will be confirmed, and over the years, decision by decision, we will find...
WITNESSES TO HISTORY
It was like "The Canterbury Tales." That's what it was like last Saturday, in LaGuardia Airport, on the shuttle to Washington packed full of people going to the inauguration of...
SOBER TALK OF CHALLENGE TEMPERS A JOYFUL MOOD
WASHINGTON - Teddy Kennedy is gallant. He at tended the swearing-in of the new president yesterday in the midst of serious illness, white-haired and frail - in his jaunty fedora,...
SIGNS & WONDERS
Flying in, we take the route over the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson, the Tidal Basin: the signs and symbols of the great republic. And you've seen it all a thousand...
NOBODY HOME
It's become a status symbol in New York to know someone who lost everything, as we now say, with Bernard Madoff, and to provide the details with a tone of...
BUSH KEPT US SAFE
To drive through the suburbs of Northern Virginia is to marvel still at the widespread wealth, the mansions and mini-mansions that did not exist a quarter-century ago and that now...