Ramesh Ponnuru makes the case for a bipartisan compromise on Social Security reform. Charles Krauthammer: “it is both false and deeply injurious to this country to draw a historical line dividing America under Obama from a benighted past when Islam was supposedly disrespected and demonized.” A war Obama wants to win. Kimberley Strassel has more on Democratic stealth care. Tom Daschle, Obama’s nominee for secretary of HHS, failed to pay $101,943 in taxes that he owed for accepting a chauffeur service from a “wealthy Democratic friend.”