If Russia shot down Malaysian Airlines Flight MH-17, as seems likely, how do we force Barack Obama to acknowledge and stop their brutality?; Why is insouciance Obama’s first response to international crises?; Playing pool in Colorado rather than visiting the Texas border is not very presidential, but it is dictatorial; Amnesty forces may finally have gone too far; Rarely does international politics present a moment of such moral clarity as in Gaza; and a future without electricity for the rest of us is what radical Greens want — and Barack Obama’s policies are moving us toward.