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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad clearly is impervious to international criticism of his brutal war against his own people. Perhaps Wednesday’s announcement of sanctions by the Obama administration and six other Syrian officials to isolate the regime will make a difference. We’ll see. So far, rebukes by the U.N. Human Rights …

Washington will soon be engulfed by twin fiscal fights that will largely define the size and scope of the federal government moving forward. The first fight is over federal debt ceiling, and the need to pair any increase in the overall level of federal indebtedness with real, serious spending reductions. …

The Friday jobs report was dismal. President Obama’s response was more dismal. Sounding like a man completely bereft of ideas, he talked of expediting the patent process and pushing Congress to pass the trade agreements that have become hostage to endless bickering. In fairness, he also suggested putting our million …