Mar 30, 2015 – Enthusiasts of honesty, good manners, and functional politics received excellent news on Friday, when Senate Minority Leader Harry … Reid was expected to be one of the Senate Democrats' most vulnerable incumbents in the coming cycle, with national Republicans taking … leadership won't improve drastically after Reid's retirement (this guy and this guy will be left to run the show), his exit from the political…

Mar 29, 2015 – Martin O’Malley pretty much announced he was running for president on ABC News’ This Week, saying “Let's be honest here, the presidency … Some say he should be taken seriously, though it’s unknown if he has the political infrastructure and fundraising capability to stay … In 2013, the National Journal  wrote that he wanted to be part of the “2016 conversation;” his interview on ABC News this morning confirms…

Mar 27, 2015 – A few interesting nuggets in CBS News' new poll, which is all about Democrats' inevitable 2016 nominee: (1) Hillary Clinton's … The less-than-impressive favorables isn't great news for Team Hillary, but I wonder how they view that huge number of uncommitteds. … that the most potent argument the GOP has at its disposal is to highlight how utterly reckless and risky this practice was from a national…

Mar 27, 2015 – critique of candidate Barack Obama — his lack of experience requisite to the presidency — this would-be candidate believes that “political … (Coincidentally, he has no political experience.) … At last year’s national prayer breakfast, Carson decided to embarrass the president, who was sitting mere feet away, with a rousing…

Mar 27, 2015 – A person holding the belief that insuring a strong national defense starts with securing our borders is painted as an anti-immigrant … It’ll be interesting to watch how much Cruz’s words and positions are distorted by his political enemies in the media and in public … Since she can’t compete with Cruz in terms of integrity and honesty, counting on her allies in the news media to provide cover or her…

Mar 25, 2015 – However, Hadi's chief of national security denied to Reuters that the president had fled his home. … General Ali al-Ahmadi told the news agency. … Yet, she does capture how this fledgling political movement is still unfocused.…

Mar 25, 2015 – Ron Fournier is a columnist for National Journal and a cable news mainstay who served as the Associated Press' Washington bureau … acerbic commentary about President Obama's patriotism -- wrongly asserting that Obama would never say such nasty things about his political…

Mar 25, 2015 – This week, the NAACP made national front-page headlines with a local press release demanding that the feds investigate the hanging … News outlets grabbed the bait. USA Today asked ominously: "Was it a lynching?" … Local, state and federal NAACP leaders, amplified by political and media sympathizers, claimed the alleged hate crime "remind(ed) me…

Mar 23, 2015 – · That set off rhetorical fireworks that rivaled the display on the National Mall on the Fourth of July. … If every politician were held to everything they say in a political campaign, obviously that would be a topic of long discussion. … " · Looking for good news? Don't look at Yemen.…

Mar 23, 2015 – We see the horrifying images of prisoners in orange jumpsuits about to be beheaded everywhere now in the news, but not much seems to … by Vice-President Biden, who former Defense Secretary Robert Gates described as “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national … Political writer Michael Brendan Dougherty contrasts the apathy with the noisy American reaction to Russia hosting the Olympic games…

Apr 10, 2015 – Yes, politics rolls downhill from culture to a great extent, but political leaders have a unique opportunity to impact the culture … You go back and you ask (Democratic National Chairwoman) Debbie Wasserman Schultz if she's OK with killing a 7-pound baby that is just … ABC News' George Stephanopoulos used this gambit on candidate Mitt Romney in an interview following a presidential debate in 2012,…

Apr 9, 2015 – In local and national news outlets, every other crime has at least a scintilla of doubt in the reporting. … charges are afforded scant rights to fundamental fairness and find themselves entrapped in a widening web of this latest surge in political … Nevertheless, the orthodoxy within the feminist left seems to automatically believe alleged rape claims, as Charles Cooke of National…

Apr 8, 2015 – knowledge of the provisions his country agreed to in its nuclear accord with world powers, a negotiator said," according to Bloomberg news … Iran's goal: To install an Iranian client state in Yemen that the Saudis fear would threaten their country's national security. … "The political understanding with details that we have reached is a solid foundation for the good deal we are seeking," Kerry announced…

Apr 7, 2015 – #rand2016 https://t.co/gQ3pss8FGC — Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) April 5, 2015 CBS News: The slickly produced video runs … just under three minutes long and highlights his political rise over the last two years. … It cuts together excerpts from his speech at the 2015 Conservative Political Action Conference along with television clips in which…

Apr 5, 2015 – Thanks to political correctness and leftists’ bullying tactics, it is entirely possible for people to live their entire adolescence … By their own account, these reporters set out not to report the news, but to manufacture it. … “News anchor” Brian Dorman, in setting up the “package” on Memories Pizza, said, “We went into small towns tonight for reaction to…

Apr 5, 2015 – Thanks to political correctness and leftists’ bullying tactics, it is entirely possible for people to live their entire adolescence … By their own account, these reporters set out not to report the news, but to manufacture it. … “News anchor” Brian Dorman, in setting up the “package” on Memories Pizza, said, “We went into small towns tonight for reaction to…

Apr 4, 2015 – How can you oppose what Secretaries of State of both great American political parties have embraced? … Hillary Clinton famously cackledon national TV when Qaddafi was killed by a vengeful mob of his fellow Libyans in 2011. … Hat tip to Jon Karl, ABC News White House Correspondent, for not swallowing that particular camel.…

Feb 9, 2017 – Because it happens to be in our national security interest to fight ISIS does not change the fact that it’s in their interest as well … The political left is more than willing to ignore that reality in the name of blackening the eye of the president. … But if their political score-settling puts American lives at risk, it will be important to remember come the next election.…

Feb 8, 2017 – Let's start with the one Trump will like -- and not dismiss out-of-hand as "fake news." … All in all, these numbers represent decent political news for the Trump administration, which has been dogged by endless media criticism … But wait, Quinnipiac's new national poll finds Americans narrowly opposed (46/51) to the travel ban: US Voters Oppose #ImmigrationBan…

Feb 8, 2017 – coordinate the "elements of national power." … But there are always political costs. Some costs are immediate and tangible. … Other political costs, however, emerge over time.…

Feb 8, 2017 – Justin Trudeau, one of the few Western leaders staying the globalist course while other countries opt for a greater degree of national … So that's good news for Canadians worried about national security, right? … leverages discrepancies between image and reality -- illusions that can be used to appease both the left and right sides of the political…

Feb 7, 2017 – That is inevitable, although regrettable, but if there is any political leader on the planet who is more concerned with acting on convictions … been tremendously heartened by some key choices you have made, and we were encouraged by the forcefulness of your speech at the National … Pence – when the vice president recently appeared on ABC News with George Stephanopoulos, discussing this very issue, Mr.…

Feb 6, 2017 – National Review’s Ed Whelan took Bridge’s claims to the woodshed: In labeling Gorsuch a “threat to privacy” (p. 14), American … So, Gorsuch is qualified, he’s getting endorsements from both sides of the aisle, some of the icons in news media are accepting that … be confirmed 100-0, but if Democrats try and fail to defeat him, the world should know that they are the authors of their own political…

Feb 5, 2017 – Sure, he’s name is all over the news after he issued the stay on Trump’s order, but he also ruled against the Seattle Police Union … deem to be appropriate Second, Andrew McCarthy noted how this doesn’t violate Hart-Celler since this order was issued as a national … The fact is that while former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates clearly had a political opinion, and not a legal one in her letter…

Feb 4, 2017 – @paolobacigalupi Are you at all concerned that Trump is undermining our national security? Kremlin links? Australia fight? … Long story short, there could certainly be problems with how Trump handles our national security, but so far, so good. 6) Alex … Since that’s political suicide, nobody will openly make that argument, but eventually politicians will sneak in a VAT or some other…