Politics
Obama’s Cairo Speech
President Barack Obama tried to strike a conciliatory tone with his June 4 speech at Cairo University. The president referred to such developments...
Is Sotomayor Obama’s “Gift” to the GOP?
Will Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, be for Republicans and for conservatives in general what many...
Read moreTrying Too Hard to Stimulate the Stimulus
The Obama administration on May 27 released a 28-page report trumpeting all that has been accomplished in the first 100 days since the...
Read moreAbuse Photo Controversy Reveals Obama Lies
The New American reported last Friday that the Obama administration and Pentagon were engaging in "non-denial denial" when they supposedly denied British newspaper...
Read moreGates Meets Foreign Defense Ministers, Requests More Aid
The “international community” needs to do more to help Afghanistan, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the eighth Asia Security Summit this weekend. The...
Read moreAbu Ghraib’s Suppressed Rape, Abuse Photos
The Obama administration has often promised a more open and less secretive presidency, but on May 28 Obama was again on both sides...
Read moreU.S. General: 10 More Years of Iraq War
U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. George Casey told reporters earlier this week that a “reality scenario" for Iraq means “we're going to...
Read moreWhite House Restructures National Security
President Obama announced the merger of the Homeland Security Council with that of the National Security Council in order to make Americans safer,...
Read moreSotomayor: Discriminating to Not Be Discriminatory
The nomination of U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the U.S. Supreme Court is bound to produce some interesting confirmation hearings....
Read moreObama’s Foreign Policy Described As Pragmatic
Item: A May 6 Reuters article, detailing President Obama meeting with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, described the...
Read moreJudge Sonia Sotomayor’s Shadowy Thinking
There may soon be more “penumbras formed by emanations” in the invisible, unpredictable “living Constitution” if President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee, Sonia...
Read moreLeftists in Tizzy Over Exposure of KGB Ties
The Left is in a tizzy over Izzy. More precisely, they are in a tizzy over the latest revelations exposing the late I.F....
Read moreObama, the Soldiers, and Memorial Day
In his weekly Internet and radio address on Saturday, President Barack Obama said that Memorial Day is “a time to reflect on what...
Read moreRachel Maddow’s Critique of Obama
Left-wing MSNBC pundit Rachel Maddow has aired a surprisingly penetrating critique of President Barack Obama’s new prolonged detention, or preventive detention, policy, a...
Read moreCheney Defends “Enhanced” Interrogation
In a speech given on May 21 at the neoconservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney said President...
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