Obama expanding diplomatic relations with Burma
Or is it Myanmar? For the first time in 50 years, the US will send its Secretary of State — our highest-ranking diplomat — to the nation of Burma, whose military junta had been shunned by Western...
View ArticleInhofe to climate conference: Nobody’s listening any more
“You are being ignored, and you are being ignored by your biggest allies in the United States.” Two years ago, the Obama administration practically staged an airlift of leading Democratic officials to...
View ArticleWaPo critic oddly not in love with new NBC News correspondent
Unfair? When NBC announced that it would hire Chelsea Clinton as a new correspondent for their Rock Center show with Brian Williams, I was critical of the decision — mainly because the 32-year-old...
View ArticleTime for another Draft Hillary argument?
Unelectable? It’s December. We have three weeks left before the Democrats’ first primary contest in New Hampshire. It must be time to make one more pitch to draft Hillary Clinton as the nominee, and...
View ArticleRussia: What Iranian nuclear-weapon program?
Smart power. Say, remember when the Obama administration sent Hillary Clinton to Geneva with a “reset button” for Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov to show that they would improve US-Russian...
View ArticleChris Matthews to DWS: What I really want to know is, will Obama drop Biden...
Anything to recapture the thrill … Chris Matthews hasn’t been happy with President Barack Obama — and he’s kept up no pretenses that he is. The thrill is long gone. Now, it looks like he, like other...
View ArticleWrite-in campaign for Hillary underway in New Hampshire
Could she pull off a Eugene McCarthy moment? Theoretically, Barack Obama is running unopposed for his party’s nomination for president in New Hampshire and across the country. In reality, he shares...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Scandal. “Senior military officials in Kabul and at the Pentagon confirmed that the video was authentic and that they had identified the Marines as members of the Third Battalion, Second Marines,...
View ArticleRussia “resets” to nuclear-weapons, “military-purpose spacecraft” expansion
Smart power. In early 2009, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presented Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov with a supposed “reset button,” intended to symbolize a new era of friendship between...
View ArticleHillary: These Republicans are inflaming the situation in Afghanistan by...
Uh huh. I can see why she’s “somewhat troubled.” If there’s one thing the Democratic Party stood for between 2003 and 2008, it’s the principle that the opposition party should tread lightly when...
View ArticleDid Obama ignore plea for help from Iranian opposition in 2009?
Asked, answered … and ignored. Lost in the debate over whether the US should use military force to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons is the opportunity that arguably arose nearly three years...
View ArticleObamateurism of the Day
Doubletalk. After Barack Obama denied approval to the Keystone XL pipeline, he spent the next two weeks blaming Republicans for forcing him to make a decision on it — at least when he wasn’t blaming...
View ArticleThe other primary in Oklahoma: Pro-life Democrat Randall Terry to challenge...
The pro-life banner is broad. As I wrote earlier today, Oklahoma is the reddest state in the country. In the 2008 election, every single county voted for John McCain. Barack Obama wasn’t popular in...
View Article“Game Change” author: “Totally pleased” with HBO’s adaptation of his book
As he would be. According to Townhall.com’s John Hanlon, HBO’s much-hyped “Game Change” was “everything conservatives feared it would be,” but author Mark Halperin is still pleased with it. It’s not...
View ArticleThe obligatory “Hillary has a beer in Colombia” post
Plus: Dancing. The photos are here in case you missed them elsewhere, and here’s the obligatory pun-tastic New York Post cover. Two camps on this one: Team Gardiner, which thinks she’s an...
View ArticleVideo: Former Dem VP candidate goes on trial today
Hiding behind his dead wife’s skirts? Eight years ago, he ran on the Democratic ticket for the second-highest political office in the country. Four years ago, he vied for the nomination in a tough...
View ArticleFlashback to 2008: Obama campaign outrageously outraged over Hillary’s use of...
“It’s ironic that she would borrow the President’s tactics in her own campaign and invoke bin Laden to score political points.” I had honestly forgotten all about this kerfuffle, but ABC News’ Michael...
View ArticleChen: I can’t help feeling like the U.S. lied to me “a little”
“If you can talk to Hillary, I hope she can help my whole family leave China.” I’ve been following this story all day since Ed’s post this morning and I still can’t keep straight what happened....
View ArticleThe State Dept: Saving the world, one clean cookstove at a time
Priorities. Last week, much of the news revolving around Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s diplomatic visit to China was focused on the human-rights concerns surrounding blind Chinese dissident...
View ArticleNew book explains why Hillary won’t be replacing Biden on the ticket this year
“Amateur,” “incompetent.” Still think that Barack Obama might pull a convention surprise and put Hillary Clinton on the ticket and bounce the human gaffe machine Joe Biden out of his administration?...
View ArticleJeremiah Wright claims Obama ally offered $150,000 bribe in 2008 to shut up
And I said, ‘No, what’s my problem?’ And he said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ Hey, guess who’s back? In his new book on Barack Obama titled The Amateur, Edward Klein caught up with Jeremiah Wright,...
View ArticleQuotes of the day
Allies. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday denounced as “unjust and unwarranted” the treatment of a Pakistani doctor who was jailed for 33 years for helping in the hunt for Osama bin...
View ArticleClinton’s team throwing him under Obama’s bus?
“He’s 65 years old.” Maybe it was Charles Krauthammer’s snide dig about Bill Clinton being a “double agent” for the Mitt Romney campaign, or perhaps the angry reaction from the former President’s...
View ArticleWill Hillary hit the reset button for 2016?
The empty bench. Will she or won’t she? Normally, one would expect the focus in an election year to be on the election at hand. Yet, as the Washington Post reports, the media and a number of analysts...
View ArticleHillary Clinton: I’m obviously quite excited about the ObamaCare ruling
“That’s how I hoped it would turn out.” With the many trials and tribulations we’ve seen witnessed throughout President Obama’s tenure, Democrats and Republicans alike have oft pondered, how would...
View ArticleSo Congress did something. The Highway bill passes
On the road again… So much for the theory that Congress can’t get anything done, eh? While the nation was fixated on the Supreme Court decisions, Hillary Clinton backstabbing the president and Aaron...
View ArticleBad news: Russia not terribly fond of Romney
“In the first year of his presidency, we may have a full-scale crisis.” Okay, okay, I admit it: I led with the bad news. The good news? Alexey Pushkov, a key ally of Vladimir Putin and chair of the...
View ArticleGaffe-tastic week for Biden fuels speculation of Hillary swap
Did Palin cut off the escape route? He’s in North Carolina when he’s in Virginia. He thinks Paul Ryan is governor of … one of the states numbered 51 through 57. He’s not even clear in which century...
View ArticleToo good to check: Hillary turned down VP slot … two weeks ago
Biden sent home. Did Hillary Clinton turn down the opportunity to replace Joe Biden as soon as two weeks ago in a White House lunch with Valerie Jarrett? Ed Klein, author of “The Amateur,” says his...
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