Victor Davis Hanson says for President Obama 2011 is beginning to look a lot like 1979 did for Jimmy Carter, and for many of the same reasons.

Amir Taheri is optimistic about the coming change in Egypt. I do not share his optimism.

Tom Friedman says the potential loss of a stable Egypt should make the Israeli government more willing, not less, to negotiate a peace agreement with the Palestinians.

Such an agreement is, in my view, getting less likely because I expect a negative outcome in Egypt. Others agree with this view, including Yossi Halevi in Jerusalem, who writes that many Israelis now worry that they will soon be surrounded by the Islamists.

Maine is now a Red State, at least for the time being, and it is due to a confluence of factors that drove its white, working class voters to the GOP.