Gonna Sit Right Down and Write Chuck Schumer a Letter
Or may I call you “Chuck”? About 30 years ago when I first met you, you were an informal kind of guy. You had recently been elected to the House from a district in Brooklyn and Queens...
Harry Reid
Congress Can Play a Vital Role in the Iran Talks
Co-authored by Lee A. Casey The Obama administration on Feb. 20 began negotiations for a permanent deal to stop Iran's nuclear-weapons program. There are reasons to worry a...
Op-eds
Pressure Mounts on Reid as 58 Senators Back Iran Sanctions
In a surprise development in Congress, a long-building effort to impose new sanctions on Iran has reached a near-filibuster-proof majority in the Senate. Despite months of White House lobbying ag...
Op-eds
Conservatives Push Congress On Iran
As Congress contemplates passing new Iran sanctions over the objections of t...
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Iran Talks Fail, Of Course
The Times of Israel reports: “Iran became more adamant Monday that the world must remove the sancti...
Op-eds
Operation Phantom Strike
How the U.S. military is demolishing al Qaeda in Iraq.
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The Art of the Flip-Flop
Pity poor Harry Reid. Back in April, the Senate Democratic leader proclaimed the war in Iraq "lost." Two months before Gen. David Petraeus had in place the reinforcements he needed to implement h...
Op-eds
La Gran Estafa
Hágase una simple pregunta: ¿Por qué Irán sigue violando el derecho internacional enriqueciendo uranio? ¿Piensa Ud. que Mahmud Ahmadineyad y sus socios est&aacu...
Op-eds
Confidence Game
If there's a lesson to be learned from the NIE, it's keep the pressure on Iran.
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About-Face
Critics warm to the surge.
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Symposium: Energy Independence and the Terror War
What is the best way for us to achieve energy independence? What is the urgency for us to do so in terms of our conflict with Islamo-Fascism? To discuss this issue with us today, Frontpage Sympos...
Op-eds
Are These Senators Ready to be President?
What passes for the world’s greatest deliberative body is back in session this week, which means it’s time for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton to remember they actually have day jobs...
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A Bug’s Life
Six years after the terrorist atrocities of 9/11/01, 15 years after the first attack on the World Trade Center in New York City, 25 years after the bombing of the U.S. Marines barracks in Beirut,...
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Will Obama Help Carry Jews Away From AIPAC?
Is support for Israel in the US becoming the private domain of Republicans? Would this spell trouble for Jewish organisations like AIPAC? The unprecedented departure from the bipartisan...
Op-eds
End the Immigration Lottery
Last week, the DREAM Act failed. DREAM if the cutesy acronym for Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors. Had Congress, in its lame duck session, passed the bill, young people in the U...
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Muslims + Mainstream Media = Madness
Wow! The Washington Post has identified “rabble-rousing outsiders!” I don’t think I’ve heard language like that since southern segregationists complained about young civil...
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Harry Reid: Offshore Drilling is “snake oil” and “quackery”
Quite a convention speech from the majority leader. [H/t John McCormack at the Standard.] I love how the Democrats keep selectively citing their new favorite oil man, T. Boone Pickens. ...
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Surging: It’s getting harder to deny that General Petraeus is making progress
“The only thing this surge will accomplish is a surge of more death and destruction.” That was the prediction of blogger and anti-war activist Arianna Huffington back in December of l...
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Bush Plummets…As He Wins the Argument
Polls taken through Iraq’s thick prism reflect increasing public disenchantment with the Bush presidency. The economy hums and the stock market climbs daily to heights previously unknown, b...
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Too Many Micromanagers
In January, Gen. David Petraeus was unanimously confirmed by the Senate as the top American commander in Iraq. He and his troops are now on the battlefield pursuing a dramatically different strat...