About a year ago, in a speech before a left-leaning religious group, Barack Obama delivered a fairly provocative speech urging progressives to do more to “acknowledge the power of faith in the lives of the American people.” Last week, Obama chatted with TV preacher Pat Robertson’s Christian Broadcasting Network and had some advice for the […]
Today’s installment of campaign-related news items that wouldn’t generate a post of their own, but may be of interest to political observers: * Jerome Hauer, who served as Rudy Giuliani’s emergency management director in NYC, is criticizing his former boss’ presidential ambitions. “Rudy would make a terrible president and that is why I am speaking […]
One of the points emphasized in the “No End in Sight” documentary, which is excellent, is that through carelessness, the Bush administration inadvertently helped provide weapons to the Iraqi insurgency. The most well known example was the debacle at Al Qaqaa, but as we learned in March, the administration’s faulty planning left millions of tons […]
I guess I shouldn’t be too surprised that the White House would try to punish a whistleblower with criminal charges, but this is nevertheless startling. The controversy over President Bush’s warrantless surveillance program took another surprise turn last week when a team of FBI agents, armed with a classified search warrant, raided the suburban Washington […]
The past few years, we’ve taken to highlighting certain anniversaries, many of them painful. The fifth anniversary of 9/11, the fourth anniversary of the Iraqi invasion, the third anniversary of the “Mission Accomplished” speech, etc. It hasn’t received much recognition in previous years, but today, Aug. 6, is a noteworthy anniversary as well — six […]
Thanks to a rush-job from Congress, and some help from a couple of dozen craven Dem lawmakers, the president signed into law yesterday a new bill that offers him broad surveillance powers, including the ability to eavesdrop on American citizens’ international communications without a warrant. How bad is the new law? Details are a little […]