There were not one, but two Breitbart News stories about the allegation that “Friends of Hamas” had donated to organizations connected to former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE). Both ran Feb. 7, and alongside one another, atop the site. The fact
On Wednesday, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) asked Chuck Hagel, the former Republican Senator from Nebraska and President Obama’s nominee to become Secretary of Defense, about a comment he allegedly made in 2010 concerning “apartheid” and Israel. Graham cited a
On Wednesday, the lead police detective that testified for the prosecution in Oscar Pistorius’s bail hearing in Pretoria, South Africa gave inconsistent – and confusing – testimony that may convince the South African judge presiding over the case to allow
Forgivable enough, I suppose. I can see how he missed it. It’s one of those things no one ever talks about, so. “He struck me as sincere, and you know, you have to be sitting there at the meeting obviously,
The White House now claims President Barack Obama called former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at approximately 10 PM on the night of the Benghazi attacks, September 11, 2012. This is “about the same time” Clinton released a statement condemning a
The chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Rep. Ed Royce (R-CA), told the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin that it is impossible for him to see how Chuck Hagel is the right man to lead the Department of Defense.
Filmmaker Michael Moore tugged on his Superman cape today to rush to the rescue of a filmmaker fearing deportation. The director in question, Emad Burnat, flew into Los Angeles to prepare for Sunday’s Academy Award ceremony. He’s nominated for his
According to the Weekly Standard, Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel continues to block access to his archive at the University of Nebraska-Omaha. There are piles of papers, speeches, and multimedia by or about Hagel at the university. Yet reporters
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) has doubled down on Chuck Hagel, though I don’t think he’s helping: Defense secretary nominee Chuck Hagel “almost had tears in his eyes” when Sen. Chuck Schumer explained during a private meeting his objection to Mr.
(AP) What’s different? Pistorius and police on killing By MICHELLE FAULAssociated PressJOHANNESBURG There are several key points where testimony conflicts between the prosecution and the defense in the Oscar Pistorius case. KILLING Police: Pistorius knew his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp was
During the 2012 election campaign, Democrats denied that ObamaCare made $716 billion in cuts to Medicare in order to provide funding toward $1.9 trillion in new entitlement spending over the next ten years. In an announcement on Friday, however, the
A pregnant Texas teen who is unmarried has won her court case allowing her to keep her child, rather than submit to an abortion as her parents preferred. The judge in the case brought by the daughter of Denise and
On Tuesday, Vice President Joe Biden appeared on a Facebook townhall, where he was asked a question about gun ownership by a female viewer from Parent Magazine. Biden’s suggestion: nobody needs an AR-15, especially women. Instead, he stated, “If you
In November of 2011 the President told the press that there would be no “easy off ramps” to get out of the sequester. The White House explained the speech in very partisan terms: “Republicans continue to insist on protecting tax
Will new controversy over 2007 Rutgers speech where defense secretary nominee allegedly said ‘State Department was becoming ‘an adjunct of the Israeli Foreign Ministry’ derail his quest?
This is rather typical of the kind of mail we get supporting Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense: Subj: Hagel is a prophet…An Icon Hagel is a fearless prophet like Isaiah, Hosea, Ezekiel, Micah and other Biblical prophets who warned the
In response to White House: We’re pushing Hagel through: Steve Clemons of the Atlantic reports that a White House source has declared that President Obama will push Hagel through… Last Thursday, The Washington Free Beacon reported on a contemporaneous account
Slate’s Dave Weigel offers an argument in defense of Chuck Hagel’s alleged remarks in 2010 suggesting that Israel could become an apartheid state if it did not make peace with the Palestinians: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said the same thing
Reports have emerged that the growing number of Chinese hacking incidents against the U.S. seem to be the work of Chinese Army Unit 61398. Mandiant, an American computer security firm that tracks sources for attacks like those against the White
In a 2010 speech at Rutgers University, former Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) said that Israel was on the way to becoming an “apartheid” state, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a “radical,” and accused Israel of violating UN resolutions, according
Felix Ortiz, D-Brooklyn has proposed a law that would require gun owners to carry a $1M liability policy. Bill S2353 will require all gun owners in NY to obtain and “continuously maintain” insurance coverage of at least $1 million, or
President Obama has been giving the sequester plenty of negative attention recently. Two weeks ago he made a statement about the sequester in which he called it a “self-inflicted wound” to the economy. Ten days ago he focused on it
We interrupt this bout of media navel-gazing–why does Obama abuse us when we love him so?–to offer some constructive advice to the White House press corps: start showing some common-sense skepticism. Today, for example, President Obama is surrounding himself with
On Tuesday, Oscar Pistorius, the South African sprinter charged with the premeditated murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, said at his bail hearing that he accidentally shot Steenkamp last Thursday when he mistook her for an intruder. “I fail to understand
South African prosector Gerrie Nel charged South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius with premeditated murder on Tuesday in Pretoria central magistrates court, alleging the double below-the-knees amputee and Olympian put on his “legs” and shot his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp through the
