I Think People Are Beating Each Other

Gas Prices In Many Parts Of The Country Are Nearing $4 A Gallon; It Could Get Even Worse As Unrest Spreads Throughout The Oil-exporting Middle East. Yet The Obama Administration Once Again Seems To See No Crisis. It Has Curtailed New Leases For Offshore Oil Exploration For Seven Years And Exempted Thousands Of Acres In The West From New Drilling. It Will Not Reconsider Opening Up Small Areas Of Alaska With Known Large Oil Reserves.

Did Either The Nonexistent Or The Measured Response After A Series Of Attacks On Americans The Past Decade - In Lebanon, Africa, Saudi Arabia, New York, And Yemen - Suggest To Our Terrorist Enemies That It Was Wrong And Unwise To Kill Reasonable And Affable People, Or Did The Easy Killing Imply That Self-absorbed And Pampered Lotus-eaters Would Not Much Care Who Or How Many Were Butchered As Long As It Was Within Reasonable Numbers And Spread Out Over Time?

Obama's Immigration Legacy Will Be The Juxtaposition Of His Serial Insistence That He Was Not A King Or An Emperor, And Could Not Contravene The Constitution By Granting A Blanket Amnesty, With His Efforts To Do Just That When It Was No Longer Politically Inexpedient. I Don't Think A President Has Ever Quite So Habitually Warned The Country Of The Dangers That Would Soon Emanate From Himself.

We Have Had Raucous Moments In Our History. And I Think We're In One Now. But It's Not Going To Endanger The Future Of Democracy.

I Think Everybody Realizes Some Things Went Wrong In The Middle East And That Most Of The Terrorism Is Emanating From That Area.