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Barack Obama held a press conference in Sderot, Israel today. I wouldn't have blamed him if he had stuck to a reasonable degree of pandering, but check out this question and answer from the press conference:
QUESTION: Senator Obama, you said in AIPAC convention that the (INAUDIBLE) Jerusalem could continue ...
Eric Cantor is the House chief deputy minority whip whom we have written about in several posts including "A letter to Speaker Pelosi" and "Cantor on CAIR." Our occasional correspondent Joel Mowbray (jdmowbra@erols.com) writes:
With the speculation machine at full tilt this week that McCain may ...
In his Examiner column War and peace and the Democrats," Paul Mirengoff collects conflicting statements made by Barack Obama on his signature issue of Iraq. Paul's column cites and relies on Peter Wehner's Commentary article "Obama's war," but it distills and updates the evidence of Obama's extraordinary ...
The Observer reports that a team of Hollywood insiders is currently working on a screen adaptation of Mary Mapes's 2005 book Truth And Duty. Mapes was the producer of the the 60 Minutes II story by Dan Rather about President George W. Bush's time in the Texas Air ...
Noah Pollak has written a devastating critique of Bush administration foreign policy in its waning days. Pollak begins with John Bolton's assessment: "Nothing can erase the ineffable sadness of an American presidency, like this one, in total intellectual collapse. Then, after a survey of administration ...
The trial of Salim Ahmed Hamdan got off to a rocky start for the prosecution when the presiding military judge ruled that some of Hamdan's statements could not be used because they were obtained under "highly coercive" conditions. The Washington Post says that these admissions "made up ...
The day after Barack Obama said that the troop surge in Iraq has worked but that he was right to oppose it because we had to change the political debate, Chris Cillizza of the Washington Post proclaims that Obama has, by virtue of his trip to ...
The Politico reports the Obama campaign's background briefing regarding Obama's coming speech this Thursday in Berlin:
At a morning background briefing, reporters parried with senior advisers on the characterization of Obamas speech Thursday in Berlin as a campaign rally. The outdoor speech at the Victory Column could draw ...
When the McCain campaign invited me to meet with Leo Thorsness yesterday, I vaguely recalled him as a Vietnam veteran who had narrowly lost a 1974 Senate race to George McGovern in the toxic afermath of Watergate. That recollection proved accurate, but his record ...
Nothing, apparently. Here is more from ABC News' interview with Obama yesterday. Terry Moran asks Obama about his "open disagreement" with the generals in Iraq about a timetable for withdrawal. In response, Obama tap-dances furiously:
Given that ...