Print Joel B. Pollak Follow Read Full Bio Best/worst presidents! 18 Feb 2013 White House: We're pushing Hagel through 18 Feb 2013 A Compromise: Send Hagel to the UN In reviewing dozens of speeches delivered by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) over the past several years, one common theme emerges: he has very little interest in defense policy, and a great deal of interest in international diplomacy. The delay of Hagel’s confirmation offers a chance for compromise: perhaps Hagel ought to be offered Susan Rice’s UN job, where he would be happier, and do less damage, than at the Pentagon. It would still be a problematic appointment, but certainly a better one. 18 Feb 2013 Auto-response: Out of office 18 Feb 2013 Report: Hagel Invited to Rutgers by Iranian Presidential Candidate When then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) delivered a controversial speech in March 2007 at Rutgers University, he did so at the invitation of Hooshang Amirahmadi, an officially-approved candidate for the presidency of Iran in 2013 and advocate for the Tehran regime, according to a report by Charles C. Johnson at the Daily Caller. 18 Feb 2013 The Best (Left) Bust: Mother Jones Wins Award for '47 Percent' Story David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine and website, has won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his story about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remark about the "47 percent" of Americans who pay no income taxes and would therefore, in his view, be less likely to vote for him. The story relied on a hidden video of Romney addressing an audience at a fundraiser in May 2012. 18 Feb 2013 Because school segregation was such a good idea the first time? Er... 17 Feb 2013 Democrats have a 'Jewish problem' 17 Feb 2013 DNC Vice Chair Brazile Tolerates Maher's Antisemitic Rant on Hagel Former Sen. Chuck Hagel may not enjoy wide national support, but he has the strong support of America’s antisemites, if HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher is any indication. And leading Democrats, like Democratic National Committee vice chair Donna Brazile, are evidently prepared to tolerate the hate. 17 Feb 2013 Obama Reverses Course, Leaks Own Immigration Plan: 'Dead on Arrival,' Says Rubio President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday, preparing an immigration reform bill that was leaked to USA Today and that would allow illegal immigrants to become full permanent residents within eight years. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a leader of the “Gang of Eight” that released a bipartisan plan for immigration reform last month, pronounced President Obama’s plan “dead on arrival in Congress.” 17 Feb 2013 Previous 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 Next
A Compromise: Send Hagel to the UN In reviewing dozens of speeches delivered by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) over the past several years, one common theme emerges: he has very little interest in defense policy, and a great deal of interest in international diplomacy. The delay of Hagel’s confirmation offers a chance for compromise: perhaps Hagel ought to be offered Susan Rice’s UN job, where he would be happier, and do less damage, than at the Pentagon. It would still be a problematic appointment, but certainly a better one. 18 Feb 2013
Report: Hagel Invited to Rutgers by Iranian Presidential Candidate When then-Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) delivered a controversial speech in March 2007 at Rutgers University, he did so at the invitation of Hooshang Amirahmadi, an officially-approved candidate for the presidency of Iran in 2013 and advocate for the Tehran regime, according to a report by Charles C. Johnson at the Daily Caller. 18 Feb 2013
The Best (Left) Bust: Mother Jones Wins Award for '47 Percent' Story David Corn, the Washington bureau chief of the left-wing Mother Jones magazine and website, has won a George Polk Award in Journalism for his story about Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's remark about the "47 percent" of Americans who pay no income taxes and would therefore, in his view, be less likely to vote for him. The story relied on a hidden video of Romney addressing an audience at a fundraiser in May 2012. 18 Feb 2013
DNC Vice Chair Brazile Tolerates Maher's Antisemitic Rant on Hagel Former Sen. Chuck Hagel may not enjoy wide national support, but he has the strong support of America’s antisemites, if HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher is any indication. And leading Democrats, like Democratic National Committee vice chair Donna Brazile, are evidently prepared to tolerate the hate. 17 Feb 2013
Obama Reverses Course, Leaks Own Immigration Plan: 'Dead on Arrival,' Says Rubio President Barack Obama reversed course on Saturday, preparing an immigration reform bill that was leaked to USA Today and that would allow illegal immigrants to become full permanent residents within eight years. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), a leader of the “Gang of Eight” that released a bipartisan plan for immigration reform last month, pronounced President Obama’s plan “dead on arrival in Congress.” 17 Feb 2013
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