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'Secure America Now' Drops 'Daisy 2' Attack Ad on Obama

'Secure America Now' Drops 'Daisy 2' Attack Ad on Obama

Secure America Now, a 501(c)4 nonprofit focusing on defense and foreign policy issues, is dropping a bomb on President Barack Obama–figuratively, anyway–as national security becomes an issue in the midterm elections. Its new ad, “Daisy 2,” recreates Lyndon B. Johnson’s

Pelosi: No 'Boots on the Ground' to Stop Genocide in Iraq

Pelosi: No 'Boots on the Ground' to Stop Genocide in Iraq

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Tuesday that Democrats support President Barack Obama’s new military intervention in Iraq to attack some forward positions of Islamic State forces, deliver arms to Kurdish peshmerga fighters, and provide humanitarian aid to Yazidis

Catalina: Bacall's Island Paradise

Catalina: Bacall's Island Paradise

AVALON — When I learned that Hollywood icon Lauren Bacall had passed away, I was on board the Catalina Express, pulling out of the harbor in Avalon with a boat full of nearly 400 vacationers and fellow day trippers.  I had

Obama Wants a Weaker Israel

Obama Wants a Weaker Israel

Tucked towards the end of his otherwise vapid interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, President Barack Obama offers his own bizarre theory about what would bring about peace between Israelis and Palesitnians: namely, Israeli weakness. According to the president,

Obama's Interview with NYT's Friedman: An Essay in Impotence

Obama's Interview with NYT's Friedman: An Essay in Impotence

President Barack Obama’s weekend interview with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is a stunning portrait of incoherence and inadequacy. Friedman–a shameless promoter of Obama since the 2008 campaign, whose books have allegedly influenced Obama’s foreign policy views–tries his mightiest to

Forget High-Speed Rail–California Still Needs Low-Speed Rail

Forget High-Speed Rail–California Still Needs Low-Speed Rail

The San Joaquin Train is a glorious conveyance. It runs straight through California’s majestic Central Valley, which manages–even in this drought-stricken season–to burst with bounty, rows of corn alternating with vineyards and orchards. The Amtrak service from Sacramento to Los

Media Suddenly Discover Hamas War Crimes

Media Suddenly Discover Hamas War Crimes

Throughout the war between Israel and Hamas, western journalists in Gaza failed to report anything other than civilian casualties caused by Israeli air strikes. It took the accidental, frightening appearance of Hamas rockets being fired on live TV–using journalists as

CNN Has Two Israel Critics Debate Israel

CNN Has Two Israel Critics Debate Israel

With due respect to CNN’s Jake Tapper, who is one of the best and fairest journalists in the American media today, it was more than a bit odd to see him host a debate Monday evening between Israel critic Reza

Israel Kept Hezbollah out of the War

Israel Kept Hezbollah out of the War

To borrow a phrase from Sherlock Holmes: the “dog that didn’t bark” in the Gaza conflict (thus far, anyway) was Hezbollah. The Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militia has rockets and tunnels that equal or surpass the Hamas arsenal, and in 2006

Jen Psaki Is 'Appalled'–and Appalling

Jen Psaki Is 'Appalled'–and Appalling

State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki declared Sunday that the United States was “appalled” by Israel’s apparent shelling of a UN-run school in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. You’ll remember Psaki–she’s the former Obama campaign spokesperson who lied in 2012 about