A four-year history of retreat, apology, genuflection and near-total failure, from A to Z: Afghanistan: Obama delayed, then announced a “surge”–but also a timetable for withdrawal, making it clear to the Taliban we were not set on victory. There are
The mainstream media is apparently attempting to label Republican Mitt Romney a flip-flopper on China, on the basis of some remarks he made five years ago that are just as tough in substance, if gentler in tone, than his policies
There are only 24 hours left to claim the $100,000 reward that Breitbart News has offered for the full, unedited, and complete “Khalidi tape”–the video recording of the 2003 farewell party for radical Palestinian-American academic Rashid Khalidi, which featured several
The mainstream media is attempting to deny Mitt Romney any semblance of success in the Second Presidential Debate by invoking the fallacy that the side that complains about the moderator is the side that must have lost. It is, of
The New York Times claimed yesterday, two days before the presidential candidates’ foreign policy debate, that the White House had reached an agreement with the Iranian regime to pursue direct talks. The story could have helped President Barack Obama make the
The Romney/Ryan campaign and the Republican National Committee have moved 60 staffers into Pennsylvania, according to Sam Stein of the Huffington Post, the latest sign that the Republican Party sees the Keystone State as competitive. Recent polls showed the GOP
President Barack Obama has often lamented that he “inherited” a mess from George. W. Bush. His opponents acknowledge that, but argue that Obama made the situation worse. “Did they come in and inherit a tough situation? Absolutely. But we’re going
For several days, reports have circulated that attorney Gloria Allred–who always seems to surface when a Democrat is in trouble–is about to drop an “October surprise” on the Romney campaign. Speculation has surrounded a story published last week by the
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights has warned Americans not to elect Republican Mitt Romney in next month’s presidential election, saying that doing so would be “a democratic mandate for torture.” The UN’s Ben Emmerson was
During the Vice Presidential debate on Oct. 11, when challenged to defend the Obama administration’s failure to protect the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, Joe Biden made two commitments on President Obama’s behalf: Chris Stevens was one of our best.
The Third Presidential Debate on Monday night will have important implications for the 2012 election–not, primarily, because it will shift national polls (though it could if one candidate wins decisively), but because it could shift a few critical votes in
A Republican member of the House intelligence committee is vigorously disputing a new claim by Democrat and fellow committee member Rep. Jan Schakowsky of Illinois that intelligence officials told the committee there had been a “demonstration that was going on”
One of the Obama administration’s worst foreign policy gaffes occurred when Secretary of State presented her Russian counterpart with the gift of a red button that was meant to say “reset.” The international press enjoyed a laugh at President Barack
In June 2008, I happened to be traveling through Washington D.C. on the day then-Sen. Barack Obama addressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). In line at the airport ticket counter, I encountered some of those who had attended.
When it comes to foreign policy, incumbent presidents have the advantages of greater experience and better information. That is why it is particularly important to examine how they have used those advantages in office. In advance of the Third Presidential
Last Thursday morning, the headlines on National Public Radio were jubilant. “Jobless Claims Drop To Lowest Level In More Than Four Years,” they crowed. NPR’s anchors repeated the news in their hourly and half-hourly updates. The sudden, seasonally-adjusted drop–from 369,000
Monday, October 22 is the 50th anniversary of the President John F. Kennedy’s address to the nation in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis, during which he announced that nuclear missiles had been found in Cuba, that the U.S.
For months, President Barack Obama has used the auto bailout as the signal example of economic success under his administration. And he has attacked rival Mitt Romney for arguing, in a New York Times op-ed in November 2008, that the auto industry should
The Second Presidential Debate featured repeated claims by each candidate that the other was not telling the truth–as well as at least one claim of fact by the moderator that turned out to be false. There were even questionable claims
8:45 p.m. EDT: Welcome to our live fact-check of the Second Presidential Debate. I will be fact-checking, in real time, the statements of both candidates and the moderator, as well as–when necessary–the members of the audience who will be posing
As the curtain rises on the second presidential debate, President Barack Obama’s crony capitalist empire is crumbling. First, markets received word that troubled lithium ion battery manufacturer A 123–which received the enthusiastic endorsement of President Obama and Democrats on Capitol
The Obama administration’s decision to block oil drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska (NPR-A) is the latest symbol of an energy policy that could be described as “none of the above.” It is an even worse decision when
If President Barack Obama is hoping to dominate Mitt Romney in Tuesday night’s town hall debate, he needs to rethink his strategy. And if Romney believes he can seal the election with another lopsided performance, he’s also probably wrong. The
CNN’s Candy Crowley recently called Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan the “death wish ticket.” So her bias is no secret. But unlike many mainstream media reporters, she knows better than what she is fed by the Obama administration. That is
For several days, and again on this week’s Sunday morning shows, President Barack Obama’s spokespeople, both at the White House and at the Obama campaign, have claimed that he called the Benghazi attack “terrorism” from the outset, in his Sep.
