Yesterday, Secretary Kerry made an off-the-cuff statement in response to a question which derailed the White House’s agenda for the day. Today Kerry claimed during a congressional hearing, when prompted by Rep. Johnson, that he had intended to raise this
Support WW3 today! Why? Because Obama. I don’t know what the soundtrack music is but it’s perfect. [Via Jim Treacher]
The Obama administration has a strategy to bring people over to its side on Syria: Get them to watch a disturbing You Tube video. This morning National Security Advisor Susan Rice opened and concluded her argument in support of a
In this clip from today’s speech, National Security Adviser Susan Rice explains that we do not need to fear “a spiral of unintended escalatory reactions” as a result of our coming military strike. Why not? Because escalation by Assad would
About 100 anti-war protesters mixed with superheroes and stormtroopers at a rally in Hollywood yesterday afternoon. Protesters banged drums and screamed obscenities on the sidewalk where families of tourists come to see the Walk of Fame and the nearby Chinese
Two days ago President Obama claimed “I didn’t set a red line.” When word that Syria was mixing chemical weapons precursors broke last December, Secretary Clinton was in Prague. She was asked by a New York Times reporter about the
With his decision to attack Syria in a “limited” way, some are concerned about the possibility of future escalation. But the truth is we are not at the foot of the Syrian escalator deciding whether or not to get on.
Via NRO’s Andrew Johnson comes this clip of House Armed Service Committee chairman Rep. Buck McKeon telling Lawrence Kudlow the President is less than enthusiastic about having to defend his own Syria policy: The glimpse McKeon gives is of the
Last year the AP reported the Syrian regime had threatened to use their chemical weapons if attacked by a foreign power: The Syrian regime threatened Monday to use its chemical and biologicalweapons in case of a foreign attack, in its
A book published this week titled Under Fire: The Untold Story of the Attack in Benghazi reveals that reports of a “terrorist attack” were sent immediately from a Diplomatic Security agent on site to CIA agents at the Annex and
CNS News posted a clip of Charlie Rangel saying he does not support the President’s “red line” in Syria. What’s most striking isn’t Rangel’s answer it’s the question he’s asked by a host on MSNBC (video below): Are you concerned
Steven Salaita is an associate professor of English at Virginia Tech. Last week he wrote a piece for Salon in which he argued that “support the troops” was merely shorthand for support-the-plutocrats, and for that reason, it should be resisted.
Jen Rubin points out that Obama’s decision to go to Congress about Syria was made Friday afternoon after a long walk with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough: He went with his political chief of staff, Denis McDonough, on a
German investment in small scale green energy has led to significant increases in residential electricity prices, but there are other downsides to the green energy boom. As this clip suggests, living beneath a wind farm is not for everyone. But
Jen Rubin at the Washington Post highlights another inexplicable bungle to add to the list of our semi-involvement in Syria. As reported by Josh Rogin, Syrian rebels wanted gas masks and were told no: despite more than a year of
It’s a story that Newark Mayor Cory Booker has told many times over the years, especially during his first campaign back in 2002. Cory Booker says he befriended a young drug dealer named T-Bone who threatened to kill him but
Democrats eagerly went on the record against launching an attack on Iran without congressional authorization in 2007. Rep. Peter DeFazio had 59 cosponsors on H.Con.Res. 33, a sense of the Congress resolution which stated “the President should not initiate military
You can’t make this stuff up: You are a bad person if you send your children to private school. Not bad like murderer bad–but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad. I am not an education policy wonk: I’m just
In November 2007, Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton were engaged in a public relations battle over who would take the toughest line against President Bush on Iran. Hillary sent a stern letter signed by 30 Democrats while Obama introduced a
Irritated Genie released a new audio clip Tuesday in which he claims that his supervisors were aware of his outside activities since December 2010. According to Genie, whose real name is Ayo Kimathi, his employers found out about his beliefs
Back in 2007 Democrats were very certain about one thing. A President needs congressional authorization to authorize military force against a nation in the Middle East. Here’s Sen. Hillary Clinton saying “President Bush must not be allowed to act without
Following up on Ace’s post here is Biden telling Chris Matthews back in 2007 that he is deadly serious about attempting to impeach Bush if he goes to war in Iran without congressional authorization: Matthews: You said that if the
The left has never had much use for the facts in the Martin case. These days it seems all the same left-wing media types who were outraged by the Trayvon Martin story are now outraged that the right would raise
I’ll give you a quote and you guess whether this is from a story about last night’s VMAs or about the newly built sex drive-in which opened in Zurich this week. (Yes that really happened.) Ready? “in little more than
If I were Maureen Dowd I’d be pretty irritated right now. Last week Dowd got in trouble for mangling a quote given by the wife of one of the candidates for Mayor in NYC. Dowd later blamed the error–reducing a
