…from the Constitution of the United States. Though keep in mind that because this comes from the liberal Newsweek, it is treated not as a point of complaint — evidently, “imperial presidencies” are only a concern when Republicans are in office, which is one of the great benefits of being an anti-foundationalist thinker, this freedom from consistency or charges of hypocrisy — but rather as a kind of non-judgmental study

Andrew McCarthy, NRO: Once again, the problem in Iran is the regime, not the nukes. The foreign policy of the United States should unapologetically and overtly be organized around the goal of regime change. That doesn’t necessarily require military invasion, although we should not shy from that when they kill and threaten us. But Obama — like his predecessors — is using the levers of American power in an effort

Obama slaughtered Romney in  last night’s foreign policy debate, enough so that his obvious trouncing of his challenger will reverse the preference cascade toward the poor bewildered rich cracker who was so obviously out of his depth, and convince every last “undecided” and moderate and independent that the dismal economic and foreign policy results of the last four years really are the fault of Bush and a recalcitrant Republican House,

Victor Davis Hanson When I heard the president in the last debate, I thought I was in Cloud Cuckoo Land: he seemed to be running for office as a fresh challenger — with the same future tenses and subjunctive moods of “I will” and “I would” as he long ago used against Bobby Rush, Alan Keyes, Hillary Clinton, and John McCain, when he was the perennial potential office-holder. In other