The Benghazi Distraction
The Obama administration has committed more foreign-policy blunders than you can count on one hand. Off the top of my head, and in no particular order, I would list the failure to keep U.S. troops in...
View ArticleDude! Benghazi Won’t Go Away Until We Get the Truth
Democrats will probably greet the news that the House of Representatives is assembling a select committee to investigate the Benghazi attack by cheering what they think is a Republican charge down a...
View ArticlePace Max Boot
Here are five words I’m reluctant to write: I disagree with Max Boot. In this case, however, I do. My views are much more in line with what Jonathan wrote here. To be sure, I don’t disagree with Max...
View ArticleBoth Parties Face Traps on Benghazi, IRS
A year ago, as the news of the IRS scandal was breaking and the fallout from Benghazi was also becoming better known, Democrats were on the defensive about possible misconduct by the administration. A...
View ArticleCan Hillary Play the Victim on Benghazi?
If there was one reason why House Democrats have finally decided that they had no choice but to take part in the House Select Committee that will investigate the Benghazi terrorist attack it can be...
View ArticleAbsentee President Is Bad for Veterans’ Health … And the Country’s
What’s the difference between the growing scandal about the mistreatment of patients at Veterans Administration hospitals and previous Obama administration problems at the IRS, the Justice Department...
View ArticleSusan Rice: A One-Woman Credibility Gap
Back in September 2012, there were a lot of people, including many conservative critics of the Obama administration who thought the Obama White House hung Susan Rice out to dry after the Benghazi...
View ArticleLessons From Hillary’s Bad Week
Hillary Clinton’s decision to try to clear the Democratic presidential field this far out from Election Day was widely viewed as her best chance to win the nomination. The drawback, however, was that...
View ArticleA Welcome Win for Obama and the U.S.
I have been quite critical recently of the Obama administration foreign policy that has been associated with one disaster after another in, among other places, Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq. As Bret...
View ArticleMedia Bias and the Benghazi Scandal
Former CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson, writing in the Daily Signal, tells the story of former State Department official Raymond Maxwell, a well-respected 21-year diplomat who...
View ArticleBridgegate, the Media, and Lessons for 2016
The apparent exoneration by federal investigators of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie in the scandal over the lane closures on a bridge last year may be good news for Christie, but other prospective...
View ArticleGoverning Solo? Two Can Play That Game
President Obama is making no secret of his intentions to go it alone in the last two years of his presidency. After insisting his policies were on the ballot in the midterms, he and his presidency...
View ArticleClinton’s Parallel Government and Obama’s Great Miscalculation
When it was revealed last week that the Clinton Foundation accepted money from foreign governments while Hillary Clinton was secretary of state, Fox anchor Bret Baier asked a good question: “How big a...
View ArticleStale Hillary Won’t Benefit From Start of GOP Race
After a steady stream of bad news for Hillary Clinton over the past year, Democrats are taking heart. Senator Ted Cruz’s formal announcement for the presidency officially began the competition for the...
View ArticleHillary’s Nixon Moment Won’t Be Forgotten
Is the Hillary Clinton email scandal over? That’s the spin we’re getting from mainstream media outlets. To the extent that the liberal media paid much attention to the bizarre story about the former...
View ArticleHow Did Clinton Conflict of Interest Schemes Work? Ask Sidney.
For the past two years, liberals have been laughing at Republican attempts to link Hillary Clinton to something incriminating or at least embarrassing about the Benghazi terror attack. But, as we saw...
View ArticleVideo Ban Gave Killers Free Speech Veto
Yesterday a federal appeals court overturned a dangerous precedent on a legal technicality. The judges on the 9th Circuit ruled by a 10-1 vote that a lower court was wrong to grant an injunction to an...
View ArticleDo You Deserve to Be President After Jeopardizing National Security?
Taking a page from the well-worn Clinton playbook, a digest compiled almost entirely before the dawn of the digital age, Hillary Clinton has responded to the deluge of scandalous revelations regarding...
View ArticleWhile Hillary Slept
Only the most conspiratorial among us suspected that the State Department’s decision to release a tranche of Hillary Clinton’s private emails on the Friday before a long holiday weekend just might be...
View ArticleWhy Hillary’s Emails Still Matter
Almost from the moment we first heard the astonishing news that Hillary Clinton conducted business while serving as secretary of state on a secret email account operating from a home server and then...
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