The big winner of the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense is not President Barack Obama, but Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY). Democrats have called Paul’s views on Israel “deeply disturbing” because he wants to end foreign aid
A new speech by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) has emerged–a 2011 address at Cameron University in which the Secretary of Defense nominee accused India of using Afghanistan to fight a proxy war against Pakistan by sponsoring terror attacks against
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), who awaits a vote this week on his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, had failed to provide the Senate Armed Services Committee with more than a few speeches dating to January 2008. Since then, at
The City University of New York (CUNY) is sponsoring an anti-Israel colloquium called “Homonationalism and Pinkwashing” on April 10-11. It is, as Alan Dershowitz points out, quite obviously geared towards the charge that Israel “pinkwashes” its supposedly awful treatment of
From the doyenne of Hollywood bloggers, Nikki Finke, live-blogging the Oscars: As if Hanoi Jane wasn’t fuel enough. Oh My God – the Academy actually fans the fire by drafting First Lady Michelle Obama to help present Best Picture from
That extra “¡” seems appropriate to indicate the sheer cultishness of what happened at the Oscars tonight. I am perfectly willing to acknowledge that Michelle Obama has some appealing qualities. That does not mean those qualities must be omnipresent. Her
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, co-authored a 2009 report that called for U.S. troops to lead a peacekeeping force that would patrol the future borders between Israel and a Palestinian state. The
Presidential leadership is a prominent theme at this year’s Oscars–and a lacking theme in American politics today. Three contenders for the Oscar provide an alternative: Lincoln, Argo, Zero Dark Thirty (Obama). Each was written with a view to current (Democratic) politics. Tony
The Obama administration conducted two secret diplomatic missions to North Korea in 2012, according to reports in the South Korean press that were confirmed by the Los Angeles Times. The talks failed to dissuade the regime of Kim Jong Un
B’nai Brith International, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, has released a statement on President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be Secretary of Defense, asking Senators “to carefully review Hagel’s record and hearing responses
The liberal media have their knives out for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after his textbook cross-examination of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel at the latter’s confirmation hearing Jan. 31. Jane Mayer of the New Yorker seized on a speech Cruz
I don’t care for her views, and I think she’s the archetypal liberal hypocrite (explain those vacations to Spain and Aspen, as well as the healthy appetite for junk food the rest of us aren’t supposed to eat). But she’s
In an interview with the Georgetown Public Policy Review in 2011, former Sen. Chuck Hagel indicated that he opposed President Barack Obama’s policy in Libya, arguing that “Libya was a mistake” and that President Obama been wrong to declare that
What is it about Hagel that attracts these people? And will any Democrat speak out against them? From the mailbag. Subject: Bunch of crybabies Pollak and Shapiro, grow up and be real men. You just don’t want to lose the Hagel
Religion can an amazing source of positive inspiration–often, counterintuitive inspiration. This weekend marks the Jewish holiday of Purim, celebrating the miraculous salvation of the Jews of ancient Persia from extermination. (The story’s told in the “Megillah,” the Book of Esther, a
Throughout the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination as Secretary of Defense, a devoted group of pro-Hagel journalists has been determined not only to defend Hagel, but to attack his critics and their credibility. They have gone beyond the “normal” mainstream
A Hagel interview with Al-Monitor, March 2012: Al-Monitor: Do you still consider yourself a Republican? Hagel: I don’t know what the Republican Party is. I know why I registered a long time ago; my first vote was in the Mekong
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel declined to sign a letter circulated by Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) in 2007 calling upon then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to press Arab allies of the U.S. to recognize Israel’s right to exist “and not use
Dems believe guns and minimum wage neatly showcase GOP’s unwillingness to tackle the country’s problems: t.co/DvUnH8mDOs — Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 21, 2013 @theplumlinegs listen to yourself.. Because others don’t agree they don’t care about the country? Really? Sad…… —
It’s rather rich being lectured on journalistic accuracy and the use of anonymous sources by a magazine whose impassioned, almost polemical reporting on the Iraq War was often based on anonymous sources–and one, moreover, that recently fired a writer for
There were not one, but two Breitbart News stories about the allegation that “Friends of Hamas” had donated to organizations connected to former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Both ran Feb. 7, and alongside one another, atop the site. The fact
It would be wrong to tarnish all Hagel supporters, or Hagel himself, with the prejudices of a few–wrong, say, just like it was wrong for the media to tarnish the Tea Party based on the prejudices of–well, none. But there’s a
In a speech to the Cato Institute in July 2007, then-Sen. Chuck Hagel claimed that relations with North Korea were “moving in a positive” direction because of multilateral talks with the regime of Kim Jong-Il, rather than the path of confrontation the
In response to John Kerry: Greatest Challenge To US Foreign Policy is Congress: I would note that Senator John Kerry–I mean, Secretary of State John Kerry–only recently left the very institution he blames for our greatest foreign policy challenge. I
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has doubled down on Chuck Hagel, though I don’t think he’s helping: Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel “almost had tears in his eyes” when Sen. Chuck Schumer explained during a private meeting his objection to Mr.
