Obama Faces Revolt From Generals Over Strategy In Afghanistan
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
In early October, as President Obama huddled with top administration officials in the White House situation room to rethink America's failing strategy...
Andy Ostroy | Posted 10.13.2009 | Politics
Republicans are using the Obama-McChrystal episode as an opportunity for fear-mongering. Sen. John McCain said ignoring McChrystal's troop request would be "an error of historic proportions."
Andy Ostroy | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics
The speech was brilliantly crafted, forcefully delivered and very specific about the benefits and the costs, while also dispelling the "bogus claims spread by those whose only agenda is to kill reform at any cost."
Mike Smith | Posted 09.27.2009 | Politics
I arranged for Placido Domingo, the great tenor, to sing to Ted Kennedy on his 72nd B-day. Of course, Teddy loved to sing and joined in two-part harmony. He had a great baritone.
Andy Ostroy | Posted 09.10.2009 | Politics
I don't care whether Karl Rove himself packs town hall protesters on a bus, provides them scripts and hands them lunch. What is of concern is when they act in a bullying and violent manner.
Huffington Post | Lila Shapiro | Posted 08.21.2009 | Politics
Sen. McCain was on Fox News today where he called the new hate-crime amendment an "abuse of power." In a nice back-patting moment at the end of the s...
Michelle Schweiger Schecter | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics
Hart Senate Office Building, Room 216 was the venue for a skirmish that at times got awfully mean. Judge Sonia came in earnest, her cards laid out on the table.
Sandy Goodman | Posted 05.27.2009 | Politics
The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.
Gary S. Chafetz | Posted 05.04.2009 | Politics
After the dark days at the Department of Justice under President Bush, not surprisingly integrity seems to have returned under President Obama and Eric Holder. But how far will that integrity go?
Judith Ellis | Posted 03.19.2009 | Politics
Senator Judd Gregg withdrew his name from nomination as Commerce Secretary. I do not buy his reasons for withdrawing for one second. It appears that ...
Beverly Davis | Posted 12.05.2008 | Home
There's a fierce battle underway in the red state of Montana with its sparse population, big sky prairies and snow-capped mountains. The 'Treasure Sta...
Richard Walden | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics
Knowing the Bush Administration's line on Cambodia's long serving government led by Prime Minister Hun Sen, I inquired as to the nature of the Intl. Republican Institute's presence in the country during election time.
John Tomasic | Posted 04.17.2008 | Home
What did we learn from General Petreaus this week? As expected, perhaps, we learned less about the future of Iraq than we did about the future of this year's presidential campaigns.
Washinton Times | Posted 04.15.2008 | Politics
The striking thing about Sen. John McCain's series of speeches this week was how often he apologized for or explained youthful indiscretions, his temp...
Reuters | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics
Arizona Sen. John McCain has surged in New Hampshire in the past month and is now tied with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in the state race fo...
Rolling Stone | Robert Dreyfuss | Posted 11.04.2009 | Politics