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Mona Charen

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Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C., area.

Mona Charen: Stephen Hawking visited Iran, but boycotts Israel

Mona Charen

Published: Thu, May 9, 2013

Stephen Hawking, the world-renowned physicist and celebrity, has cancelled a planned trip to Israel to participate in a conference sponsored by Israeli President Shimon Peres. His explanation: "I have received a number of emails from Palestinian academics. They are unanimous that I should...

Whistleblowers poking holes in Obama's Benghazi story

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, May 6, 2013

My iPhone buzzes on a regular basis with "news alerts" from Politico, The Hill and other sources. Politico provides breathless, this-cannot-wait-till-you-get-to-your desk "breaking news" sirens on every hiccup emanating from the White House. On April 22, for example, the news flash permitted me...

Mona Charen: Muslims versus Islamists

Mona Charen

Updated: Fri, May 3, 2013

The Obama administration is quite worried about stereotyping Muslims as violence-prone terrorists. They fear that any acknowledgment that some Muslims commit acts of terror because they are religiously motivated (however twisted the terrorists' interpretation of Islam may be) is to encourage a...

Obama gets better with age

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, Apr 29, 2013

"Personal charm may be Obama's last best hope" headlined the Washington Post on Monday. That charm was on ample display at the annual vanity fest called the White House Correspondents Association dinner over the weekend. The dinner always features two comedians -- one professional, and the...

Mona Charen: Obama's Muslim outreach has failed

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, Apr 22, 2013

If there was one thing the left was certain about in 2008 it was this: George W. Bush had catastrophically undermined America's world reputation with his unprovoked aggression and use of torture. The advent of Obama would reverse the damage. As Andrew Sullivan wrote in 2007, among best assets...

Obama doesn't care about dead children

Mona Charen

Published: Wed, Apr 17, 2013

Obama doesn't care about dead children. He's indifferent to the suffering of their parents. There isn't a single coherent argument on his side of the case. He lies about the issue. It's pure politics. That's the way the dispute would be presented if Obama's opponents deployed the kind of...

Mona Charen: In praise of a courageous Egyptian columnist

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, Apr 15, 2013

To understand the magnitude of what Egyptian columnist Khalid Muntasir has done, it helps to get a taste of what most Egyptian and Arab media are like. In Egypt, expressions of vicious anti-Semitism are not just acceptable, they are commonplace. Mohammed Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood leader and...

Mona Charen: An examination of America's national psychosis

Mona Charen

Published: Thu, Apr 4, 2013

I plunged into Thomas Sowell's latest book "Intellectuals and Race" immediately upon its arrival but soon realized that I needed to slow down. Many writers express a few ideas with a great cataract of words. Sowell is the opposite. Every sentence contains at least one insight or fascinating...

Mona Charen: Liberal compassion does not extend to babies

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, Apr 1, 2013

It's a deeply felt conviction among liberals that they are the caring party. It's not too much to say that liberals are quite confident that they are nicer, more moral people than conservatives. It must require truly titanic powers of denial for the "moral" and "compassionate" party to...

Mona Charen: A festival of denial?

Mona Charen

Published: Mon, Mar 25, 2013

This week, together with about 13 million Jews worldwide (yes, that's all there are), our family will celebrate the Feast of Passover -- perhaps the oldest continuously celebrated religious holiday in the world. Passover is primarily a holiday of the home, not the synagogue. The preparations...