As cringeworthy as it is to admit, Ezra Klein’s opinion that Americans really do love the benefits of federal spending, is very valid. Klein sites a recent report by the Pew Research Center, a report worth reading. The report which
The Senate has voted, 71-27, to end debate on the confirmation of Chuck Hagel as Secretary of Defense. Hagel’s confirmation will be voted on later Tuesday afternoon. The 27-vote margin represents a floor for opposition to Hagel’s confirmation; the final
When someone attacks a joke my gut instinct is always to defend the joke and its teller. Well, not always. It depends on where the joke comes from. As George Carlin once explained, “There is absolutely nothing wrong with the
Monday night, the Boston Herald ran an editorial calling for President Obama to pull Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel: The fact Chuck Hagel’s nomination for defense secretary has dragged on so long and caused so much teeth-gnashing means it’s
The Embassy of India criticized Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel for remarks he made in 2011 at Cameron University in Oklahoma, in which he alleged that India was using Afghanistan to sponsor terrorist attacks against neighboring Pakistan. The remarks
New picks to lead the Pentagon and the US Treasury face key hurdles Tuesday in the Senate, as President Barack Obama fleshes out his second-term cabinet amid trying times for defense and finance. If they are confirmed as expected, as
On Monday, the Steering Committee of the Alabama Republican Party passed a resolution demanding that Sen. Richard Shelby retract his support of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be Secretary of Defense, according to a report in the American Spectator. The
Baltimore Ravens starting center Matt Birk has retired leaving a gaping hole in the middle of their offensive line. Birk, who exits the league with 112 consecutive starts, was a six-time Pro-Bowler and one of the league’s best interior lineman
Barack Obama, eager to use the sequester and its attendant budget cuts as a weapon against the GOP, and his Defense Department have asserted that the cuts would threaten vital national security interests, but there is evidence to suggest that neither
Having recently confessed that, yes, the sequester was a White House proposal, progressives are now trying to downplay that admission in any way possible. Ideally, they’d like us all to ignore the fact that the White House has been lying
At the Nation of Islam Annual Saviours’ Day Convention, keynote speaker Louis Farrakhan took his usual Anti-Semitic tone with a current affairs twist. Farrakhan endorsed Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense saying Hagel’s controversial “Jewish lobby” comments were a good
A new speech by former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) has emerged–a 2011 address at Cameron University in which the Secretary of Defense nominee accused India of using Afghanistan to fight a proxy war against Pakistan by sponsoring terror attacks against
In the first installment of this series, we asked about the prospects for a third party in the US, noting that the voters are mad as hell at everyone in Washington. Some 73 percent of Americans, for example, trust the federal government
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), who awaits a vote this week on his confirmation as Secretary of Defense, had failed to provide the Senate Armed Services Committee with more than a few speeches dating to January 2008. Since then, at
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) has launched a new campaign titled, “Equal Gun Rights.” The Foundation aims to show that gun rights are being unequally protected, and actually infringed, in different areas of our country–particularly in areas with a high
The American policy of eschewing one-on-one negotiations with the North Korean dictatorship was secretly ignored last year, as two missions in April and August were launched to convince Kim Jong Il‘s son and successor, Kim Jong Un, to move away
This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Afghanistan’s Karzai expels U.S. special forces from province Death of Palestinian prisoner threatens third intifada against Israel West Bank demonstrations are not yet a third intifada Historical analogy: 1936 Spain to Syria today Afghanistan’s
Former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE), President Barack Obama’s nominee for Secretary of Defense, co-authored a 2009 report that called for U.S. troops to lead a peacekeeping force that would patrol the future borders between Israel and a Palestinian state. The
For years, the left has claimed that they want marriage to be a state issue. But now the rubber has met the road on gay marriage, with the Obama administration issuing a request to the Supreme Court to strike down
Chris Wallace during an interview with Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) Wallace “Just on the question of competence, just on the question of knowledge, do you really have no second thoughts about Chuck Hagel as secretary of defense?” McCaskill “He’s qualified,
The Obama administration conducted two secret diplomatic missions to North Korea in 2012, according to reports in the South Korean press that were confirmed by the Los Angeles Times. The talks failed to dissuade the regime of Kim Jong Un
Unless you’ve been holed up in a Buddhist monastery these past few weeks it’s a sure bet you’ve heard something about Michael Jordan turning 50. The all-time greatest NBA player’s milestone was met with fanfare and hullabaloo like we’ve never
B’nai Brith International, the oldest Jewish service organization in the world, has released a statement on President Barack Obama’s nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) to be Secretary of Defense, asking Senators “to carefully review Hagel’s record and hearing responses
The liberal media have their knives out for Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) after his textbook cross-examination of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel at the latter’s confirmation hearing Jan. 31. Jane Mayer of the New Yorker seized on a speech Cruz
Speaking on Feb. 22, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta said a portion of the 66,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan will be withdrawn this spring, leaving 32,000 through April of 2014 and an unknown number who will remain beyond 2014. The
