Doug Bandow | December 11, 2015 After claiming a special expertise in foreign policy, GOP presidential wannabe Marco Rubio finds himself under fire because of his neoconservative tendencies. He’s responded in the usual way for someone whose policies would keep America perpetually at war: accuse his critics of being “isolationists.” Trying to defend his record of supporting […]
President Barack Obama’s statement at the Pentagon on Monday was sadly no more than political theater. Facing a crisis of confidence over the public perception of his handling of Islamic State (ISIS) the president is trying to again make the case that his strategy is the right one. Despite the change (upward) in the threat […]
By Chris Cillizza | December 13 The Iowa caucuses are seven weeks away. Donald Trump is still the Republican front-runner. Sen. Marco Rubio is, for now, the establishment’s best (only?) hope. And Sen. Ted Cruz is the guy who looks best positioned to win.Yes, you heard that right.Cruz (R-Tex.), as of today, has the most direct route […]
Stymied by Republicans in Congress, President Barack Obama is expected to act alone to take executive action to tighten restrictions on gun sales. White House adviser Valerie Jarrett, speaking at a vigil last week for victims of the 2012 Newtown, Conn. shooting, confirmed that the president has asked his staff to complete a proposal that […]
An unidentified man stabbed a 45-year-old elementary school teacher in the side and the throat Monday, at the Jean Perrin d’Aubervilliers school in the northern suburb of the French capital. According to reports, the attacker was dressed in overalls and a balaclava and arrived without a weapon but grabbed what appeared to be a box cutter that was lying in […]
PARIS—Competing national interests and even personal rivalries have cast a cloud over the international summit on climate change meeting here, and the issue of “climate justice” has proven to be a significant stumbling block in the way of any meaningful deal. At various points during the two-week conference, realpolitik took over, overshadowing the summit’s larger objectives. “You don’t come […]
President Obama certainly knows how to use a red-hot news hook to highlight his agenda. This week, during the United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris, he appeared to conflate climate change with terrorism. Coming hot on the heels of the ISIS massacres in the “City of Light,” that kind of rhetoric was bound […]
Kevin Whitson | December 11, 2015 at 12:03pm The attacks in San Bernardino, Calif. shocked the nation. Immediately following the attacks, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly called the terrorist attacks “gun violence.” Earnest then used the attack to reiterate President Obama’s determination to change gun laws and promote his administration’s anti-gun agenda. Western Journalism has […]
Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair strode into Washington last week speaking urgently about the need to have a long-term strategy to defeat Islamist extremism on the ground as well as ideologically, with both superior military force and confident Western values. It was as if he were a visitor not from the U.K., but from […]
Mike Gonzalez wrote earlier this week on the president’s national address: At his national address Sunday night, President Barack Obama lectured Americans at length on the evils of Islamophobia. That is a lofty sentiment, no doubt, but the harangue did strike many as disproportionate. After all, on this score Americans can already be rightly proud. […]
