In Honduras, Iran, and now Egypt, President Obama chose to side with dictatorships over the democratic resistance. The unrest in Egypt is easily the most critical international crisis of the Obama Administration, and by all accounts the president is not handling it well. His ambiguous and overly cautious statements on the popular uprising in that crucial Middle East nation have managed only to alienate both | Read More »
Just a year into the Obama Administration, things look very different than candidate Obama said they would last November. Both in domestic and international affairs, the first year of Obama’s presidency must by any objective standard be judged a dismal failure. His victories have largely been small and partisan, while his defeats have been large and bipartisan. Obama has been ridiculed even in his moments | Read More »
Over 90,000 Americans were killed in the Pacific during World War II defending the United States and the world from Japanese aggression. Thank God many of the survivors passed on before they had to witness the President of the United States bowing low to the Emperor of Japan. To those veterans of the Pacific still living today, I say thank you. And I apologize on | Read More »
Speaking to a French reporter while on his Middle East trip, President Obama said that the United States would be “one of the largest Muslim countries,” if its Muslim population was the measure. Jake Tapper fact checked that claim and reports that the White House used the CIA World Fact Book as a source for Obama’s erroneous statistic that there are seven million Muslims in | Read More »
President Barack Obama nominated Second Circuit appeals judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the Supreme Court. Sotomayor, when she is confirmed, will become only the third woman and the first Hispanic to serve on the Court, replacing the retiring Justice David Souter. No word yet on the reaction from Pyongyang. Pyongyang? Yes, Pyongyang. North Korea test fired not one, not two, not even | Read More »
Sen. Barack Obama must be very glad to have returned to the United States. After a hero’s welcome in Afghanistan and Iraq, at least from the mainstream press, the last few days of his journey have not exactly earned the Senator much praise and may in fact have done damage to his campaign. First, there was the speech in Berlin, in which Obama didn’t really | Read More »
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