The State Department spokesperson has the task of defending the president’s foreign policy more often than any other government official. During President Barack Obama’s first term, that unenviable task fell to the opaque Victoria Nuland, whose redeeming feature was that there was a spine behind the smokescreen. (“F*** the E.U.,” she famously said, albeit in private, on Russia and the Ukraine.) Not so with successors Jen Psaki and Marie Harf, the clueless defending the hopeless.
by Joel B. Pollak17 Feb 2015, 4:34 AM PST0
Columnist Charles Krauthammer compared President Obama’s handling of the war on terror to James Buchanan before the Civil War on Monday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox News Channel. “Well, he’s [Obama] told us, he told us in the Vox interview
by Ian Hanchett16 Feb 2015, 6:01 PM PST0
On Saturday, the Fox News Channel’s “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Judge Jeanine Pirro argued “.ISIS doesn’t have a morale problem, they’re not a JV team, they’re not on the run, and we’re not winning.” Pirro stated that unless the
by Ian Hanchett14 Feb 2015, 10:10 PM PST0
(Reuters) – Al Qaeda-linked fighters seized a large army base in a dawn attack in southern Yemen on Thursday, militants and residents said, hours after the United Nations warned that the country was on the brink of civil war.
by Reuters13 Feb 2015, 6:46 AM PST0
Columnist Charles Krauthammer argued that President Obama was attempting “regime change” in Israel on Thursday’s broadcast of “The Kelly File” on the Fox News Channel. “Barack Obama has forsworn regime change in the region, remember when we had the Iranian
by Ian Hanchett12 Feb 2015, 7:50 PM PST0
Ret. Lieutenant General Asa Durrani, who is also former director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Service’s Intelligence (ISI), says Pakistan “likely” knew where Osama bin Laden was and turned him over to the United States in exchange for a bigger say/better role “in the future of Afghanistan.”
by AWR Hawkins12 Feb 2015, 12:29 PM PST0
Clint Eastwood’s biopic American Sniper has owned the box office since its wide release Friday, however its record-breaking success continues to fuel both outspoken critics and outright opponents.
by Kipp Jones19 Jan 2015, 5:40 PM PST0
The science is now settled: Anti-American films are costly box office bombs at a rate of nothing less than 100%. On the flip-side, pro-American films make money. Many are outright blockblusters. Moreover, almost every the anti-American film produced over the
by John Nolte19 Jan 2015, 11:08 AM PST0
On Saturday, Fox News Channel “Justice with Judge Jeanine” host Jeanine Pirro blasted the Obama administration for engaging in “hug diplomacy.” “I believe that war is war. I believe that people who kill deserve to be killed. I believe that
by Ian Hanchett17 Jan 2015, 7:09 PM PST0
In director Clint Eastwood’s best films (“Gran Torino,” “Million Dollar Baby,” “Unforgiven,” “The Outlaw Josey Wales”), the multiple Oscar-winner is able to make us feel both the righteousness of justified violence and the heavy emotional price paid by those committing
by John Nolte16 Jan 2015, 10:25 AM PST0
Monday on CNN, senior political correspondent Brianna Keilar said the White House admitting it was a mistake President Obama did not attend the unity march in Paris on Sunday reflected the president’s disinterest in terror as a political issue. Keilar
by Pam Key12 Jan 2015, 2:10 PM PST0
Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union,” the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), said, “I think there are sleeper cells not only in France, but certainly in other countries, and yes, even in our own.”
by Pam Key11 Jan 2015, 7:49 AM PST0
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” host Chuck Todd noted French Prime Minister François Hollande had declared France is at war with radical Islam and asked Attorney General Eric Holder, “Would you say the United States is at war with radical Islam?”
by Pam Key11 Jan 2015, 7:12 AM PST0
Retired Lt. Col. and Fox News Strategic Analyst Ralph Peters said that the US must avoid nation building and overlitigating the war on terror and instead “leave behind smoking ruins and crying widows” on Friday’s “O’Reilly Factor” on the Fox
by Ian Hanchett9 Jan 2015, 6:45 PM PST0
Hillary Clinton recently gave a foreign policy speech in what seems to be part of her early groundwork for an eventual 2016 Presidential candidacy. In a speech widely panned by conservatives and foreign policy hawks, the former Secretary of State
by Kyle Shideler16 Dec 2014, 12:33 PM PST0
There’s a scene in just about every crossover adventure of Superman and Batman where a villain or henchman must be interrogated to obtain essential information. Superman takes a stab at it first, but even the lowliest pistol-wielding thug laughs in
by John Hayward12 Dec 2014, 3:16 PM PST0
This article originally appeared in the Washington Times: In a remarkable but thus-far unnoticed address on Dec. 5, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, the crown prince of Bahrain (an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf and home to the U.S. Navy’s
by Breitbart News12 Dec 2014, 1:42 PM PST0
It’s probably a good thing the Cromnibus saga blew that stupid hyper-partisan Democrat report on CIA interrogations off the front pages, because it wasn’t working out at all the way Senator Dianne Feinstein and her crew expected it to.
by John Hayward12 Dec 2014, 11:54 AM PST0
The UN voiced “serious concern” about the Taliban’s persistent threat after the group killed seven people in two suicide attacks in Kabul Thursday, including one targeting a play at a French-financed high school. The warning comes with the Afghan capital
by Breitbart News12 Dec 2014, 3:20 AM PST0
Almost 200 staff at the global charity Save the Children have signed a letter condemning its decision to give former British prime minister Tony Blair an award for his work on debt relief. The signatures were collected after the US
by Breitbart News26 Nov 2014, 6:03 AM PST0
Officials at the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have expressed astonishment and confusion over a decision by the United Arab Emirates to include the American-Islamist organization on a list of terrorist groups. “Well this is shocking to us in the first place,”
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT)20 Nov 2014, 6:03 PM PST0
Congressman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) called for a financial war on terror as he kicked off a hearing on terrorist financing and the Islamic State. Hensarling serves as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee. In his opening remarks of the
by Bob Price14 Nov 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
As someone who embraces as much mystery as possible before seeing a movie, especially a Christopher Nolan movie, I’m being careful in my reading of the incoming “Interstellar” reviews, which are so far pretty good. With 18 reviews in (the
by John Nolte27 Oct 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
On Oct. 11, The Daily Beast released an article entitled “The Resurrection of Kristen Stewart” in which Stewart commented on the alleged mistreatment of detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba while promoting her newest film, Camp X-Ray. The following day, Breitbart News
by Kelli Serio25 Oct 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
Marlow Stern of The Daily Beast seems to be upset with a piece on Breitbart’s Big Hollywood, claiming the article is part of a right-wing smear campaign against actress Kristen Stewart for comments she made about how badly the US
by Warner Todd Huston16 Oct 2014, 6:55 AM PST0
