http://www.deseretnews.com/home/ Charles Krauthammer en-us Copyright 2013, Deseret News Publishing Company Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:00:01 MDT Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:28:11 MDT Newspapers http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765632178/NSA-not-helping-Obamas-war-on-terror-narrative.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765632178/NSA-not-helping-Obamas-war-on-terror-narrative.html Thirty-five years ago in United States v. Choate, the courts ruled that the Postal Service may record "mail cover," i.e.,... Sun, 16 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631724/Obamas-response-in-Syria-is-too-little-too-late.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631724/Obamas-response-in-Syria-is-too-little-too-late.html On Wednesday, Qusair fell to the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. Qusair is a strategic town that connects Damascus with... Sun, 09 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631137/Obama-thinks-he-can-just-end-the-war-on-terror.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765631137/Obama-thinks-he-can-just-end-the-war-on-terror.html "This war, like all wars, must end. That's what history advises ..." Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630545/IRS-scandal-was-more-than-bad-customer-sevice.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765630545/IRS-scandal-was-more-than-bad-customer-sevice.html Both the acting and the previous IRS commissioners insisted that the singling out of groups according to politics was in no... Sun, 26 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765629956/Americans-deserve-the-facts-not-conditional-truth.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765629956/Americans-deserve-the-facts-not-conditional-truth.html Note to GOP re Benghazi: Stop calling it Watergate, Iran-Contra, bigger than both, etc. First, it might well be, but we don't... Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765629377/Obamas-red-line-with-Syria-is-looking-rather-pink.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765629377/Obamas-red-line-with-Syria-is-looking-rather-pink.html You know you're in trouble when you can't even get your walk-back story straight. Stung by the worldwide derision that met... Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765628787/President-Obama-went-from-king-of-the-world-to-lame-duck.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765628787/President-Obama-went-from-king-of-the-world-to-lame-duck.html Fate is fickle, power cyclical and nothing is new under the sun. Especially in Washington, where after every election the... Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765628150/Future-generations-will-revere-the-Bush-legacy.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765628150/Future-generations-will-revere-the-Bush-legacy.html Clare Boothe Luce liked to say that "a great man is one sentence." Presidents, in particular. The most common "one sentence"... Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765627539/Using-the-word-terrorism-makes-Obama-uneasy.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765627539/Using-the-word-terrorism-makes-Obama-uneasy.html Terrorism is speech — speech that gathers its audience by killing innocents as theatrically as possible. Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765626830/The-Obama-budget-and-the-appearance-of-reform.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765626830/The-Obama-budget-and-the-appearance-of-reform.html Well, at least we're starting to get the procedure right. Washington has rediscovered the beauty of the boring. It's called... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:00 MDT