After Republicans mustered a filibuster to block the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense, the left is raging at… Harry Reid, for backing down on his pledge to “reform” (i.e. remove) the filibuster from the Senate rules (no
The successful effort by Republicans to rally in opposition to the confirmation of Chuck Hagel, blocking the Senate from closing debate with a successful filibuster Thursday afternoon, represents a significant victory for conservative new media, which continued vetting the former
It is shocking that Oscar Pistorius would (allegedly) murder his girlfriend. But such events are all too common in South Africa. In December, I wrote about a South African friend who was stabbed to death by her husband. That culture
As former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) faces a Republican filibuster in the Senate Thursday afternoon against his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, several liberal commentators are starting to wonder openly about his chances, following the release of yet another controversial
If Democrats and Terry McAuliffe are going to make an issue out of Ken Cuccinelli’s new book, in which he states (surprise!) his unabashedly conservative opinions, then turnabout is fair play. McAuliffe’s own book, What a Party! My Life Among Democrats:
New evidence has emerged that a 2008 address to the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, was in fact a formal speech, contrary to the claims of the
In response to MUST READ: Can the Republicans be Saved from Obsolescence?: A quick response to Liz. 1. The New York Times article relies on a fundamentally flawed assumption: that because Republican Party leaders aren’t doing something (using better technology, training
Republicans aren’t going to filibuster the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. They’re just going to make Democrats put 60 votes on the board to close debate. Is there a difference? Well, sort of. A filibuster, as Rachel
It’s a simple trick: describe something strange and radical as if it is traditional and familiar. Obama is no longer into “transforming” America; he’s into “restoring” it. From the State of the Union: It is our unfinished task to restore
As President Barack Obama delivered the State of the Union address, activists involved in his new non-profit advocacy group, Organizing for Action, gathered in local meetings around the country to watch and cheer him on. The new 501(c)4 organization, which
In my State of the Union preview, I listed 10 questions to which Americans had the right to demand answers. Obama only touched on one of them, briefly–namely, the rising cost of health care. He correctly pointed out that the
In his State of the Union address, President Barack Obama failed to mention the late Ambassador Christopher Stevens and the three other Americans who died on Sep. 11, 2012 in the terror attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi. He
In the aftermath of the speech, the very friendly, largely white- and middle-aged crowd of Democrats at the Organizing for America gathering to watch Obama’s State of the Union is gathered eagerly around a laptop computer in a pub, awaiting
President Barack Obama’s State of the Union address included few new or unexpected proposals, but many factually incorrect or misleading assertions. Here are the lowlights. “Corporate profits have rocketed to all-time highs – but for more than a decade, wages
I will be writing about the State of the Union address tonight from a party organized by Obama supporters through the Obama campaign, which is still active and pumping out fundraising and issue-based emails. As much as I detest the
In today’s debate in the Senate Armed Services Committee over the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) engaged in heated debate with committee chair Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) over the question of whether Hagel had
Liberal supporters of Israel such as Alan Dershowitz often justify their support for Democrats, even amidst the anti-Israel drift of the party’s activists and voters, by saying they do not want Israel to become a “wedge” issue. Organizations such as
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), the former Ranking Member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has told the committee that he will vote not to send the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the full Senate for confirmation, citing
During Obama’s presidency, I’ve often had occasion to refer to George Orwell’s dictum that the greatest opposition to a left-wing government is its previous propaganda. So, too, with North Korea’s latest nuclear provocation. In 2008, Obama vowed to “eliminate” the
In 2008, then-candidate Barack Obama promised that he would “eliminate North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.” His campaign manifesto, Change We Can Believe In, described Obama’s North Korea policy, and the philosophy behind it, in great detail: North Korea is an
Archaeologists working at a dig site near the Dead Sea in Israel have uncovered a long-lost ancient text that appears to prophesy doom for the twelve Jewish Democrats in the U.S. Senate for their failure (thus far) to protest or
Steven Emerson’s Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) told Breitbart News Monday that it has uncovered additional speeches given by former Sen. Chuck Hagel, who is awaiting confirmation as Secretary of Defense. The speeches suggest that Hagel may have misled the Senate
To their credit, they canned it. It’s unfunny, clearly. And also just repeats stupid left-wing clichés about Israel. It’s only insightful to those who think Israel controls the U.S. Congress, and to those who don’t know the facts about Hagel’s
It’s the easiest, most painless way to reform entitlements. And they still won’t do it.
