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Barack Obama became the first sitting U.S. president to visit Myanmar on Monday, praising the courage of fellow Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi while also providing a symbolic nod to initial reforms in a nation once notorious for political repression. Read more at CNN
Afghanistan is broken; the Soviet Union broke it, we broke it, the Taliban broke it, al-Qaeda broke it, Pakistan broke it, everyone’s broke it and no one knows how to fix it. Something radical needs to be done, and I’m not talking about bombing it into smaller and smaller rubble, or paying off corrupt Afghan families […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Mitt Romney wants you to believe he’s a moderate, he’s actually the most extreme candidate for president since Barry Goldwater in 1964. While members of the John Birch Society hide their membership because it would instantly disqualify them from office, they can’t hide their positions, and if their positions align perfectly with the extremist […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President Obama was in New Jersey this week comforting those unfortunate people who had to endure Hurricane Sandy. This is not the first time Mr. Obama has responded to a nation in crisis. When confronted with an economy spitting away 800,000 jobs a month, with a stock market careening downward, President Obama provided leadership that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
1. Failing to listen to intelligence report that “Bin Laden was determined to attack the United States” leads to the worst attack on American soil since Pearl Harbor. George W. Bush 2. Bush and his advisors lying to the American people in order to sell the Iraq War. 3. George Bush dismissing the Geneva Convention […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Most people are unaware that Christians were part of the 9/11 anti-American demonstrations at the U.S. embassy in Egypt when the American flag was pulled own. “Despite the growing fears among expatriate Egyptian Coptic Christians in the United States over the potential response by Muslims in Egypt toward the Christian minority, those in the country, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Republican Congressman Darrell Issa is the chairman of the House Oversight Committee. Recently, Issa has been at the forefront of exploiting the murders of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya, despite requests by the families not to turn their son’s deaths into a political cudgel. Issa seems astounded that anyone could ever have thought that an […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In Monday night’s debate on foreign policy, Mitt Romney mentioned the country of Mali four times. Mali was clearly more important to him than Mexico, the European Union, North Korea and a dozen other areas which he failed to mention and where American interests are more at risk. Why Mali, and why does it play […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
President: Some say Mitt Romney knows little about foreign affairs, however he did serve in Paris during the Vietnam War and knows plenty about French fashion. Romney: My first concern is making sure every American has a year’s worth of supplies in case of Armageddon. Personally, I will build a bomb shelter in the White House […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Karl Rove ran cover for Mitt Romney during the Republican primaries. Whenever Gingrich or Santorum or one of the other candidates would get close, Rove would show up on Fox News and shoot them down. Rove was a Romney man from the beginning. It’s no surprise then that Rove has taken the lead when it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The murder of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya set off a witch hunt in Congress for political scapegoats. The most pointed comments were made by Republican members and were directed at President Obama, U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Time after time Republicans took potshots at these prominent Democrats, taking facts out […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Utah Senator Orrin Hatch, member of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, became the highest ranking Mormon in the U.S. government to push the Benghazi conspiracy theory. Saturday in Mesquite, Nevada, Hatch commented on the House Oversight Committee’s investigation into the deaths of four Americans in Benghazi, Libya. Hatch minced no words as he parroted other […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney has a major problem on his hands. His attempt to politicize the unrest in Egypt and Libya has led him to make substantial blunders. One of those mistakes was when he jumped too soon and threw himself headfirst into the protests in Egypt. Before any facts were known, Romney blamed President Obama, it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, the alleged mastermind behind the anti-Islam video that set off the violence in the Arab world on September 11th, has become the fall guy for certain right wing Christian fanatics. He is currently in jail for numerous violations of his parole. ”In June 2010, he was convicted on four counts, including bank fraud […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Four months before the Muslim world erupted and four Americans were killed in Libya, Mitt Romney was getting ready to respond. In the infamous “I don’t care about 47% of America” video, Romney made some very candid statements about the 1980 Iranian hostage crisis. Here’s a transcript of the relevant passages from the video. Questioner: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The House Oversight Committee held hearings yesterday on the terrorist attack in Libya that killed four Americans. One of the prime witnesses was Lt. Col. Andrew Wood, a site commander who provided security in Tripoli from February to August. The terrorist attack occurred in the city of Benghazi approximately a month after Wood left country. Wood […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of California’s most extreme Congressmen, Darrell Issa likes to use American deaths for his political gain. For months he waged a war on the U.S. Border Patrol and Attorney General Eric Holder, holding them responsible for the death of an American border agent. It was all a sham, of course. Issa is an expert […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mitt Romney likes to talk about war, specifically war with the country that has the third largest oil reserves in the world, Iran. Over the years, Mitt Romney has developed a very close relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, who talks up a military strike with Iran every time a microphone is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Host of Morning Joe, influential conservative Joe Scarborough seems to have thrown in the towel on Mitt Romney; “…If we want to win the battle of ideas in the long term, we should be willing to face the fact that Mitt Romney is likely to lose — and should, given that he’s neither a true […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Thanks to Dave Weigel at Slate and The Atlantic magazine, here’s the timeline of the 9/11 riots in Egypt and Libya. Times are all Egyptian local time which is six hours ahead of Eastern Standard Time. 7/1/12 A anti-Muslim video produced in Los Angeles by Nakoula Basseley Nakoula and other right-wing Christian extremists is spread around […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Shaul Mofaz, the opposition leader in the Israeli Parliament, attacked Mr. Netanyahu, accusing him of breaking a cardinal rule by meddling in American politics. “Prime Minister, who do you think is Israel’s greatest enemy? The United States or Iran?” he asked from the podium in Parliament. “Who do you fear more, Mr. Netanyahu — […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Conservative commentator Andrew Sullivan writes about Mitt Romney’s unthinking and reckless remarks about the unrest in Egypt and Libya which just claimed four America lives. The obvious responsible thing to do when American citizens and public officials are under physical threat abroad and when the details are unknown, and events spiraling, is to stay silent. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
We get it– President Obama is a Kenyan socialist who hates the country and wants to kill your grandmother. That’s pretty much what the Tea Party has given us. Yes, they wrap it up in patriotic ribbons and confuse you with talk of freedom, but that basically covers the Tea Party’s contribution to society. You […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, the good life. One day you’re in the Hamptons hobnobbing with America’s aristocracy, the next you’re in Aspen breathing in high society’s rarefied air. Who says running a presidential campaign is tough? Before heading across the Atlantic to court more ultra-rich political donors in London, Mitt Romney had a chance to drop in on his good […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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