Peggy Noonan
PEGGY NOONAN: This Is No Ordinary Scandal – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 17, 2013 | 12:34 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONS Updated May 16, 2013 Political abuse of the IRS threatens the basic integrity of our government. We are in the midst of the worst Washington scandal since Watergate. The reputation of the Obama White House has, among conservatives, gone from sketchy to sinister, and, among liberals, from unsatisfying to dangerous. No one likes what ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Peggy Noonan , Politics
PEGGY NOONAN:The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 10, 2013 | 5:00 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONSMay 9, 2013 Peggy Noonan: The Inconvenient Truth About Benghazi Did the Obama administration's politically expedient story cost American lives? he Benghazi story until now has been a jumble of factoids that didn't quite cohere, didn't produce a story that people could absorb and hold in their minds. This week that changed. Three ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Islam , Middle East , Military , News , Peggy Noonan , Politics , Terrorism
PEGGY NOONAN: Is Obama a Lame Duck Already? – WSJ
By MB Snow at May 3, 2013 | 2:30 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONS May 2, 2013 Not quite, but he sure is quacking like one. I think we're all agreed the president is fading—failing to lead, to break through, to show he's not at the mercy of events but, to some degree at least, in command of them. He couldn't get a win on gun control with 90% public support. When he speaks on immigration reform you ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Featured , General , News , Peggy Noonan , Politics
PEGGY NOONAN: The Presidential Wheel Turns – WSJ
By MB Snow at April 26, 2013 | 11:38 am
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONS Updated April 25, 2013, 7:25 p.m. ET Disaffection for Bush gave us Obama. That explains the new affection for Bush. Barack Obama was elected president in 2008 because he was not George W. Bush. In fact, he was elected because he was the farthest thing possible from Mr. Bush. On some level he knew this, which is why every time he got in ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Featured , General , Peggy Noonan , Politics
PEGGY NOONAN: Britain Remembers a Great Briton – WSJ
By MB Snow at April 18, 2013 | 5:41 pm
By PEGGY NOONAN- DECLARATIONSApril 18, 2013, 7:37 p.m. ET Mrs. Thatcher is with Wellington and Nelson now. London The funeral of Margaret Thatcher was beautiful, moving, just right. It had dignity and spirit, and in that respect was just like her. It also contained a surprise that shouldn't have been a surprise. It was a metaphor for where she stood in the ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Peggy Noonan , Politics
NOONAN: A Statesman’s Friendly Advice – WSJ
By MB Snow at April 4, 2013 | 9:37 pm
By PEGGY NOONAN, DECLARATIONS April 4, 2013 Singapore's Lee Kwan Yew on what makes America great—and what threatens its greatness. I found myself engrossed this week by the calm, incisive wisdom of one of the few living statesmen in the world who can actually be called visionary. The wisdom is in a book, "Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the ... Go To Article
Commentary , Economy , Featured , General , Peggy Noonan , Politics
PEGGY NOONAN:: The First Days of Francis – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 21, 2013 | 12:50 am
It really is quite wonderful, what we’re hearing and seeing from Rome. The plain shoes. The plain watch. The slightly galumphy look as he does his walkabouts. The reason he took his name: “How I wish for a poor church, and for a church for the poor.” The report I received of his taking the employee elevator in the Vatican, not the papal one— “Your Holiness!” ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , New Pope , Peggy Noonan
PEGGY NOONAN:: ‘Go and Repair My House’ – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 15, 2013 | 12:55 am
I'll tell you how it looks: like one big unexpected gift for the church and the world. Everything about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio's election was a surprise—his age, the name he took, his mien as he was presented to the world. He was plainly dressed, a simple white cassock, no regalia, no finery. He stood there on the balcony like a straight soft pillar and ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , New Pope , Peggy Noonan , Politics , Religion
PEGGY NOONAN: Kissinger at the Council on Foreign Relations – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 9, 2013 | 9:55 am
PEGGY NOONAN'S BLOG HOME PAGE »March 8, 2013, 6:03 PM Friday morning Henry Kissinger took questions at the annual corporate conference of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. The room was packed. Kissinger of course is an iconic figure in the history of foreign affairs, a statesman and historian of statesmanship. He will be 90 soon but he’s taken the ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , News , Peggy Noonan , Politics
PEGGY NOONAN:: The Anti-Confidence Man – WSJ
By MB Snow at March 8, 2013 | 12:50 am
By PEGGY NOONAN -- It's not a debt and deficit crisis, it's a jobs crisis. The debt and the deficit are part of it, part of the general fear that we're on a long slide and can't turn it around. The federal tax code is part of it—it's a drag on everything, a killer of the spirit of guts and endeavor. Federal regulations are part of it. The administration's inability ... Go To Article
Commentary , Featured , General , Peggy Noonan , Politics
