Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, has announced that he has scheduled a committee vote Tuesday on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to the post of Secretary of Defense. Sen. John
Obama spokespuppet Stephanie Cutter was the face of many of the worst moments of the 2012 presidential campaign. On ABC’s web extra for This Week, she declined to apologize for her wild speculation that Mitt Romney may have committed a
The bipartisan comity of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has served the country well for several decades, is in danger as Democrats vow to push through Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel on party lines. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ),
It takes greater courage to resign power, when appropriate, than to cling to it. Pope Benedict XVI may be the first to resign since the 15th century, but his example reminds us that resignation need not mean defeat. It is
If the mainstream media, including both the New York Times and CNN, have seemed more eager than usual to entertain corruption accusations against a powerful Democrat, that may be because new details are emerging that are tough to ignore. The
Normally, we at Breitbart News ignore the Huffington Post. It is self-consciously leftist, so there is little point in highlighting its rather comical bias, except when that bias filters into the mainstream media. Sunday night was just such an occasion,
Remember when the mainstream media mocked a politician who had to attend five colleges to graduate, whose academic record was less than outstanding, and whose subsequent success was proof of nothing? Remember how that was supposed to be a threat
President Barack Obama will deliver his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening. Here is a brief recap of each of his previous addresses: 2009: Big Promises for Big Government 2010: Stalled Progress, Supreme Court Rebuke 2011: Invoking Tucson,
New footage of a speech by Chuck Hagel in 2008 has surfaced, in which the former Senator mocked the idea of continuing the U.S. policy of confronting Iran and supporting Israel. “When I hear the talk about–well you can’t talk
In a preview of his re-election campaign, President Barack Obama used his 2012 State of the Union address to describe a horrific past to which he would not let the nation return. “No, we will not go back to an
Three months after his party suffered massive midterm election losses, President Barack Obama addressed the new, divided Congress in his 2011 State of the Union address. He began by referring to the recent Tucson shootings as a reminder of the
President Barack Obama began his 2010 State of the Union address by acknowledging that the country was still going through tough economic times. He took credit for cutting taxes “for 95 percent of working families” (in reality, a payroll tax
In 2009, President Barack Obama addressed both houses of Congress in the midst of the worst of the recession, and delivered what was then one of the most ideological, left-wing addresses by a president in American history. (He has since
The costs of Obamacare are not just hitting businesses this year–they are also hitting the government, and public employees as well. Virginia, for example, is about to limit part-time employees to 29 hours per week in order to avoid triggering
Shortly after one of the worst snowstorms in history (I know, I know, it’s “climate change” now, not “global warming”), the mainstream media is obsessing over the question of whether President Barack Obama will mention climate change in his State
The Atlantic Council, chaired by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), released a list late Friday evening of corporate donors as well as foreign governments that had funded it over the past five years. The list did not shed light on
If the chances of Chuck Hagel withdrawing his nomination as Secretary of Defense are truly “50-50,” as Thomas E. Ricks of Foreign Policy suggests, then time is running out for Democrats to push a vote through the Senate. With each passing
In response to Meet the New Boss: I think it’s true that libertarians generally have been consistent in their criticisms of drone policy (and anti-terror policies in general). But so, too, have the so-called “neoconservatives”–folks like Charles Krauthammer and John
Democrats’ latest defense of Chuck Hagel, whose confirmation as Secretary of Defense has bogged down in the Senate Armed Services Committee, is the argument that the Republicans are holding Hagel to a higher standard than any previous nominee. In fact,
Nick Gillespie has written a brilliant essay on how the media, which once considered Bush/Cheney to be fascist-dictators-in-waiting because of the powers they assumed to fight terror, is now eager to give Obama’s greater and more brazen powers a pass.
Nothing. That is what President Barack Obama did on the night of September 11, 2012, as terrorists attacked the U.S. consulate in Benghazi and killed four Americans, among them Ambassador Christopher Stevens. President Obama’s inaction was revealed in testimony before
Thursday’s testimony by Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Martin Dempsey revealed that President Barack Obama had not been in touch with anyone on Sep. 11, 2012, the night of the Benghazi attacks. Nor had
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) could have stopped the train wreck that is the Chuck Hagel nomination. But he chose, unwisely, to bow to the Obama administration’s wishes (in exchange for what? one wonders) and give the nod to Hagel. After
Breitbart News Editor-at-Large Ben Shapiro reported Thursday that Senate sources believe that one reason Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel has not submitted requested financial disclosures is that one of his funders is called “Friends of Hamas.” While the White
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) has indicated that he wants to schedule a committee vote on the confirmation of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) as Secretary of Defense “as soon as we’re ready to have a vote,”
