President Obama got rid of his top Afghanistan war commander, General Stanley McChrystal, following the publication of an article in Rolling Stone magazine containing insulting comments by the general and his aides about the president, the vice president, U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan and members of President Obama’s national security team.
There is no question that General McChrystal showed [...]

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton dropped a bombshell during an interview in Ecuador, speaking about Arizona’s illegal immigration law, which shocked Arizona Governor Jan Brewer. Clinton told her Ecuadorian interviewer:
President Obama has spoken out against the law because he thinks that the federal government should be determining immigration policy. And the Justice Department under his [...]

Just when you thought it couldn’t get any worse – unless you watch “Glenn Beck” every day – a bill is making its way through Congress that would give the President of the United States the authority to seize control of the world wide web in response to a “national cyber emergency.”  It would [...]

President Barack (“Barry”) Obama delivered his first televised address from the Oval Office, trying to reassure the nation that he was fully in control of the Gulf oil spill crisis and that it will be fixed.
As usual, Obama gave a slick performance. However, his speech was short on credible details demonstrating how he intended to [...]

Democrat Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-NC) attended a fundraiser headlined by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and had an unpleasant altercation.  Not with Pelosi or his fellow Democrats and the moneybag shadow Democrats, of course.  Rather, on the public sidewalk ouside the D.C. event, Etheridge ran into some individuals identifying themselves as students, one of whom had the nerve to ask him this question [...]

The United Nations is pushing to launch yet another of its one-sided anti-Israel “investigations.” The goal is this time to rationalize its pre-determined conclusion that only Israel is to blame for the fatalities aboard the Turkish ship that was part of the ill-fated blockade-running Gaza flotilla. Pressure is also building on Israel to abandon its blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza, of course without requiring any concessions from [...]

President Obama met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the White House earlier this week and invited press photographers to take their picture shaking hands.  Quite a contrast from a few months ago when Obama would not allow photos  of himself with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at their White House meeting.
Abbas had good reason to be [...]