Print Joel B. Pollak Follow Read Full Bio Women in Combat: Why Did Obama Avoid Congress? The most curious thing about outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s decision this week to allow women to assume combat roles in the military was the timing. It was announced just as departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attack--and came without any advance notification to Congress, much to the annoyance of Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee. 25 Jan 2013 Bobby Jindal Is Only Half-Right About the GOP The Republican Party does need to face some hard truths, and Jindal deserves credit for encouraging a vigorous debate. Yet his address was the kind only a governor could give--optimistic about the impact of good policy, impatient with high-falutin’ principles. The immediate task facing Republicans is to prove to their own voters that they can provide strong opposition to Obama’s radical agenda. The “zeros” are here to stay. 25 Jan 2013 Big Money, Big Protest, Big Muscle: Obama's New Left-Wing Political Machine While Republicans contemplate how to improve their party’s political performance at the Republican National Committee (RNC) winter meeting, which opens today, Democrats are already taking politics to a new level, creating parallel organizations to advocate for President Barack Obama’s agenda and using their political clout to rearrange private business relationships to their liking. American politics has never seen anything like it. 25 Jan 2013 The hermeneutic circle of Media Matters 24 Jan 2013 Kerry disagrees with Hagel on Iran, nuclear arms... what else? 24 Jan 2013 One possible weakness of a constituency system 24 Jan 2013 Peace in Our Time? Obama's New Foreign Policy Team Faces First Test with Kerry In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama spoke of “peace in our time” as a foreign policy goal. The next steps toward pursuing that lofty--if ill-starred--ambition will unfold at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, where Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will face hearings on his confirmation as Secretary of State. The other two Obama nominees, Chuck Hagel (Defense) and John Brennan (CIA), face hearings in the next several days. 24 Jan 2013 A Shameless Secretary, a Spineless Senate “What difference does it make?” Hillary Clinton shouted, her words echoing off the walls of the hearing room, outraged that a Senator would dare to ask why she spread the lie that a video provoked the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. At that point, the presiding chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), should have rapped the gavel sharply: “Madam Secretary, you are out of order.” 23 Jan 2013 Exclusive - Trump Counsel 'Cannot Confirm or Deny' Interest in Buying New York Times Michael D. Cohen, executive vice president and special counsel to Donald Trump, told Breitbart News that he "cannot confirm or deny that Mr. Trump is interested in acquiring the New York Times. Only time will tell." 23 Jan 2013 Exclusive: Christian Group to Lobby Every Senator to Vote No on Hagel for Defense Christians United for Israel (CUFI), which describes itself as "the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States and one of the leading Christian grassroots movements in the world," will bring over two hundred Christian leaders from around the country to Washington, DC early next week to lobby the Senate against the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense. CUFI, which is organizing the effort through its 501(c)4 offshoot, is arranging meetings with every one of the one hundred Senate offices. 23 Jan 2013 Previous 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Next
Women in Combat: Why Did Obama Avoid Congress? The most curious thing about outgoing Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s decision this week to allow women to assume combat roles in the military was the timing. It was announced just as departing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was testifying on Capitol Hill about the Benghazi attack--and came without any advance notification to Congress, much to the annoyance of Republicans on the Senate Armed Services Committee. 25 Jan 2013
Bobby Jindal Is Only Half-Right About the GOP The Republican Party does need to face some hard truths, and Jindal deserves credit for encouraging a vigorous debate. Yet his address was the kind only a governor could give--optimistic about the impact of good policy, impatient with high-falutin’ principles. The immediate task facing Republicans is to prove to their own voters that they can provide strong opposition to Obama’s radical agenda. The “zeros” are here to stay. 25 Jan 2013
Big Money, Big Protest, Big Muscle: Obama's New Left-Wing Political Machine While Republicans contemplate how to improve their party’s political performance at the Republican National Committee (RNC) winter meeting, which opens today, Democrats are already taking politics to a new level, creating parallel organizations to advocate for President Barack Obama’s agenda and using their political clout to rearrange private business relationships to their liking. American politics has never seen anything like it. 25 Jan 2013
Peace in Our Time? Obama's New Foreign Policy Team Faces First Test with Kerry In his second inaugural address, President Barack Obama spoke of “peace in our time” as a foreign policy goal. The next steps toward pursuing that lofty--if ill-starred--ambition will unfold at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today, where Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) will face hearings on his confirmation as Secretary of State. The other two Obama nominees, Chuck Hagel (Defense) and John Brennan (CIA), face hearings in the next several days. 24 Jan 2013
A Shameless Secretary, a Spineless Senate “What difference does it make?” Hillary Clinton shouted, her words echoing off the walls of the hearing room, outraged that a Senator would dare to ask why she spread the lie that a video provoked the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. At that point, the presiding chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), should have rapped the gavel sharply: “Madam Secretary, you are out of order.” 23 Jan 2013
Exclusive - Trump Counsel 'Cannot Confirm or Deny' Interest in Buying New York Times Michael D. Cohen, executive vice president and special counsel to Donald Trump, told Breitbart News that he "cannot confirm or deny that Mr. Trump is interested in acquiring the New York Times. Only time will tell." 23 Jan 2013
Exclusive: Christian Group to Lobby Every Senator to Vote No on Hagel for Defense Christians United for Israel (CUFI), which describes itself as "the largest pro-Israel organization in the United States and one of the leading Christian grassroots movements in the world," will bring over two hundred Christian leaders from around the country to Washington, DC early next week to lobby the Senate against the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense. CUFI, which is organizing the effort through its 501(c)4 offshoot, is arranging meetings with every one of the one hundred Senate offices. 23 Jan 2013
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