Energy
Fighting terrorists, or fighting the climate?
Ian Tuttle of National Review Online examines the federal government’s efforts to wage war on climate change. And by “war,” we refer to actions from the U.S. Department of Defense.…
Chuck Hagel
American military veteran and former politician
Budget, Taxation & Economy
National Review editor decries the extent of proposed military cutbacks
Rich Lowry explains for National Review Online readers why he’s concerned about the Obama administration’s latest military budget proposals. Defense secretary Chuck Hagel unveiled a military budget that will reduce…
Liberty
Commentary’s Tobin dissects Paul’s ‘moment of glory’
Jonathan S. Tobin of Commentary magazine doesn’t share Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul’s concerns about the Obama administration’s drone program. But Tobin explains for readers why he respects Paul’s 13-hour filibuster.…
Liberty
D’oh!
With this breaking, do you think maybe N.C. Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan regrets her premature endorsement of former Nebraska Republican senator Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense?: On Thursday, Senate…
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Wall Street Journal’s Henninger examines what he labels the president’s colossal politics
Daniel Henninger devotes his latest Wall Street Journal column to an examination of the president’s approach to public policy predicaments. Legislative grandiosity predates the Obama presidency. But it has achieved…
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Sen. Hagan backs befuddled, uninformed, anti-Israel Hagel
By almost any measure, former Nebraska senator Chuck Hagel’s testimony on Jan. 31 before the Senate Armed Services Committee was a disaster. The man didn’t know anything, said he didn’t…
Liberty
Latest dispatches from the political trail
? Elizabeth Dole is among several embattled incumbents who face a difficult vote on the federal financial bailout, reports the Wall Street Journal (a media organization that, it’s fair to…
Liberty
Dole’s Freddie-Fannie reform
While the Hagan campaign criticizes Elizabeth Dole for being “unwilling to take the lead in introducing the bills she refers to regarding the regulation of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,”…
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Who favored reforming Freddie and Fannie?
Things are beginning to be written naming who was for and who was against reforming Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Here’s one that names our own Sen. Elizabeth Dole as…
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Kyoto hogwash in Reuters
I saw this snippet in a Reuters article that was already noteworthy for China reaching the bottom of the slippery slope in stop-human-causation-of-global-warming argumentation1: President George W. Bush pulled the…
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Subliminal ad for Hillary and/or Obama
Shortly after Newsweek placed the two Democratic senators on its cover, the magazine’s Jonathan Alter offers in his latest column another justification for supporting Sen. Clinton and/or Sen. Obama in…
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Walter Jones says he didn’t call
U.S. Rep. Walter Jones says he didn’t call Cindy Sheehan, as the anti-war protestor claimed on her blog site. Sen. Chuck Hagel has also denied that he ever called Sheehan.…