THE WEEKLY STANDARD podcast with senior writer Stephen F. Hayes and why President Obama's rambling post-election press conference reveals that he has no idea what just happened.
Political candidates backed by the controversial Middle East advocacy group J Street were trounced at the polls on Tuesday, with J Street’s endorsees losing in almost every competitive race.
The American presence is ending but the war in Afghanistan continues with the Afghan government’s forces taking casualties that “cannot be sustained, according to a top officer within the international coalition.”
It is often claimed that conservative religious voters, especially white evangelicals, are going the way of the dinosaur, consigned to demographic irrelevance. But they were a key component of the Republicans’ 2014 midterm victories. According to exit polls, Conservative religious voters made up as big a percentage of the electorate as ever, and they backed Republicans at least as strongly as ever.
The way out of the Great Depression was neither smooth nor continuous. In 1937, the Fed tightened and the economy went back into recession. There is fear, in some quarters, that the Fed may again be putting on the brakes a bit prematurely.
The warmongers are at it again. In case you haven’t heard, the Pentagon has declared a global war on global warming. It’s our armed forces vs. the forces of nature, and we are the enemy. Those entrusted with protecting us from suicide bombers are now trying to protect the environment from us.
When President Obama finally offers his executive action on illegal immigration, the Department of Justice's Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) is going to get a bit busier.
The EOIR is tasked to "adjudicate immigration cases by fairly, expeditiously, and uniformly interpreting and administering the Nation's immigration laws."
During the first Gulf War in the early 1990s, the U.S. military used a new generation of technological weapons that left the rest of the world far behind.
There is "no one" on the Democratic bench to step up if Hillary Clinton does not run for president, claims for Bill Clinton adviser Paul Begala. He made the comments last night on CNN:
"If Hillary Clinton doesn't run," someone on CNN asked, "who's on the bench then?"
"No one," said Begala. "No one. My party--it's not fair, there are impressive people, that I think could be good presidents, but don't have I think the electoral prospects that Hillary does."
President Obama has always wanted to be a historic president. In an election that was driven by Obamacare, he took another big step toward that end on Tuesday — just not in the way he intended.
President Obama labeled the U.S. government "the most important organization on earth" and said that he'd "squeeze every last little bit of opportunity" from his position as president of the United State over the next two years. Watch here: