10:37 AM 09/12/2011
Yesterday our nation paused to remember and pay tribute to the nearly 3,000 people who were stolen from us on September 11, 2001. Unfortunately, we can never recover the lives that were lost in those attacks. But yesterday, amid all of the solemn commemorations, we recovered something almost as important: the sense of national unity and purpose that defined America in the months following 9/11.
4:21 PM 08/08/2011
The Syrian crisis reached a turning point today as Gulf states like Saudi Arabia and Bahrain recalled their ambassadors from the country. These countries intimated that they would sever all ties and support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad if he didn’t stop murdering his own people or resign.
9:27 AM 08/02/2011
The debt ceiling deal is only hours old, and it will be some time before the winners become clear (though I wouldn’t be surprised to see Barack Obama at the top of the list on November 7, 2012). But it’s very clear that the losers are the American people.
3:48 PM 07/12/2011
Middle Eastern students protesting in the streets, demanding their freedom. Oppressed masses chanting “death to the dictator” and calling for political reforms. Violent and brutal crackdowns by a despotic regime.
5:52 PM 06/30/2011
In his press conference yesterday, President Obama essentially argued that Americans shouldn’t question his interpretation of the War Powers Resolution because we’re helping “a lot of people against one of the worst tyrants in the world — somebody who nobody should want to defend.”
5:54 PM 06/20/2011
On NPR’s The Takeaway this morning, host John Hockenberry claimed that although the Taliban doesn’t “love” America, the organization “has never been an enemy of the United States” because “they’re not sending planes over to New York or to the Pentagon.”
7:09 PM 06/14/2011
In his Middle East speech last month, President Obama called on Israel to “act boldly” and make the tough choices that he believes are needed for peace. To the Palestinians, he posed a question: “The recent . . . agreement between Fatah and Hamas raises profound and legitimate questions for Israel -- how can one negotiate with a party that has shown itself unwilling to recognize your right to exist? In the weeks and months to come, Palestinian leaders will have to provide a credible answer to that question.”
4:00 PM 06/09/2011
The unemployment rate is 9.1 percent, jobless claims are up, and every single American owes a $45,000 share of the national debt. But these are not the headlines we see on our computer screens, televisions, or newspapers. Instead, we are bombarded with excessive coverage of Rep. Anthony Weiner, speculation about who might run for president, and the horserace for the Republican presidential nomination (even though the Iowa and New Hampshire contests are eight months away).
10:22 AM 05/20/2011
In his speech about the Middle East, the president correctly stated that “years of pursuing stability to promote peace had left us with neither. Instead, the lack of freedom in the Middle East made the region an incubator for terrorist movements.”
9:48 AM 04/28/2011
When Paul Ryan released his plan to reform Medicare, Democrats and Republicans praised him for engaging the country in a serious debate about entitlement reform. This is a debate that everyone knows we must have because entitlements like Medicare are going broke and bankrupting our country in the process. But now, only weeks later, political cowardice and political opportunism are threatening to end the entitlement debate before it even gets started.
9:29 AM 04/06/2011
President Obama’s supporters have attacked his decision to try 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed via the military commission process. Some of these criticisms have merit and are worthy of debate. But the argument that military commissions won’t be legitimate because members of the Armed Forces will serve as the judge and jury is patronizing, insulting, and demonstrably false.
12:43 PM 04/01/2011
Entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid are on the verge of bankruptcy and are driving our country off a financial cliff. Everyone knows that, you say? Well, in the fantasyland of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, entitlement programs aren’t a serious problem at all.
10:27 AM 03/18/2011
Muammar Gaddafi has a history of using terrorism to get even with his political enemies. And if he retains power, it’s a good bet that he will use terrorism to retaliate against America for our support of the Libyan opposition.
11:27 AM 03/07/2011
Louis Farrakhan was at it again last week, claiming that “Zionists dominate the U.S. government and banks” and that American Zionists are going to push the U.S. into war. But he tried to sanitize his statements by noting that he doesn’t have anything “out for the Jewish people,” just Zionists.
5:01 PM 02/22/2011
As Libyans flood the streets of Tripoli to demand their freedom, they are winning the support of people around the world. But in August 2009, the world was outraged as Libyans flooded Tripoli to celebrate the homecoming of convicted Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi.
6:01 PM 02/14/2011
Americans are clamoring for honesty and action from their leaders. So it has been dispiriting to see the reaction from Democrats and Republicans to our nation’s grim financial outlook.
11:35 AM 02/02/2011
One democratic uprising or vote does not make a country a democracy. This important point is being overlooked in the debate about the U.S. response to the populist uprisings in Egypt and the Middle East. Pundits have filled the airwaves claiming the United States must choose between supporting “democracy” and governments that are friendly to America. This is a false choice.
