A day before President Barack Obama is due to reveal his own immigration proposals in a speech in Las Vegas, NV, a bipartisan group of eight senators has announced a deal on the “outlines” of an immigration reform deal, according
The truth about immigration reform is that Democrats opposed it when Republicans were in power, only so that they could be the ones to implement it when they held power. Barack Obama played a particularly important role in obstructing progress,
Conservatives are taking a while to rally to the cause after Obama’s re-election. It’s not that we’ve lost faith in our ideas; it’s that we’ve lost some faith in the country. It’s helpful to remember that America has made it
The Nation, a reliable source if you want to know what absurd grievances the left is flogging this week, is urging President Obama to use all executive power conceivably within his means to ignore Congress and push his agenda forward.
The New York Times led the way in declaring Obama’s court defeat over “recess” appointments a Republican victory. The Daily Kos lost no time in pointing out that the three-judge panel that unanimously struck down Obama’s unconstitutional appointments was composed of
Beyond the media fawning over the spectacle of President Barack Obama and outgoing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sitting down for an interview together on 60 Minutes–old rivals, reunited!–there is a message that the president wants to send. Not just
Does Chuck Hagel believe anything? The Washington Free Beacon reported on Friday that former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), facing a tough confirmation battle as President Obama’s nominee to be the next Secretary of Defense, has recanted his recorded belief in
Let’s hope he’s a better shot than he is a bowler. President Barack Obama has revealed that he is a regular shooter, according to an interview posted Sunday at The New Republic: FF: Have you ever fired a gun? Yes,
I’m as enthusiastic as the next conservative about the fact that a federal court has struck down Obama’s faux “recess” appointments as unconstitutional. Yet I can’t help but think of the Supreme Court case that ought to have put an
Rhetorical question, as they’d clearly rather debate linebacker Brendon Ayabadejo’s supposedly controversial view in favor of gay marriage (in a state that has already passed it) than draw attention to the fact that Baltimore center (and Harvard alum, and future Hall
Rich Lowry has pointed out that President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address proves that Rush Limbaugh was right about Obama’s radicalism. Rush wasn’t the only one. As Andrew Breitbart continually argued, and as we illustrated in “The Vetting,” Obama’s intellectual
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
Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana delivered a hard-hitting address to the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee in Charlotte, NC yesterday. The speech was warmly received and has sparked interest and debate across the conservative media. Jindal’s basic point
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
It’s an honor to be at the top of the list of Media Matters targets. And it’s an occasion to reflect on how the left’s media commissars operate. Media Matters has been going on for months about a so-called “right-wing
In his confirmation hearing for the post of Secretary of State, Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) stated that he is “totally” committed to sanctions against Iran–a position that his former colleague, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), now the nominee for Secretary of
Alexis de Tocqueville wrote in Democracy in America that democracies are weak when it comes to foreign policy. The Senate’s failure to hold Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and President Barack Obama himself accountable for the Benghazi disaster is a case
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
“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
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.” The story, first broken
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
I have seen more powerful men than Barack Obama fall. I worked in South Africa during Thabo Mbeki’s presidency, when the ruling African National Congress (ANC) won 70% of the vote and earned the power to change his country’s constitution
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee today on the Sep. 11, 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya that killed four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens. Clinton missed previous opportunities to
Israeli politics were gripped by tension and drama early Wednesday as the center-right and center-left blocs deadlocked in a 60-60 tie for seats in the Israeli Knesset. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party was the clear winner, and he will likely
In the media excitement over his use of the word “gay”–an inaugural first–few noticed that President Barack Obama had used the occasion of his second inaugural address to attack the Supreme Court for the third time. The president’s remarks were not
