The Buck Stops Elsewhere?
A new Pentagon proposal would place more discretion in the hands of field commanders, removing the need for Presidential approval.
A new Pentagon proposal would place more discretion in the hands of field commanders, removing the need for Presidential approval.
The announcement of a new Muslim travel ban Executive Order has been delayed once again.
Stephen Miller said something very stupid on “Meet The Press” this morning.
Another judicial slap at the Trump Administration.
Two new polls show that most Americans oppose President Trump’s ban on travel from seven majority Muslim countries, but that most Republicans support it.
An initial setback for the Federal Government in its appeal of the ruling putting President Trump’s Muslim travel ban on hold.
A legal victory, at least for now, for opponents of Donald Trump’s ban on immigration from seven majority Muslim nations.
The first day of implementation of President Trump’s order barring immigration from certain Muslim nations did not go smoothly for the Administration.
As expected, Donald Trump yesterday signed Executive Orders targeting Muslims and refugees.
One professor is suggesting that Bernie Sanders played a role in 2016 similar to the one that Ralph Nader did in 2000. It doesn’t pass even cursory examination.
A surprising name is emerging as the likely pick for the nation’s top diplomatic position.
Even if you’re not sure who you should vote for, it’s obvious who you shouldn’t vote for.
According to reports, Vice-President Biden is on a Clinton campaign short list for Secretary of State.
North Korea continues to advance its nuclear program but it’s unclear what anyone can do about it.
House Republicans are vowing to continue their investigations even if Hillary Clinton wins the White House.
Libertarian Party Presidential candidate Gary Johnson doesn’t get much national press attention, and it doesn’t help when he flubs an answer like he did this morning.
Another set of revelations shows that the Clinton campaign has yet to put the email story behind it.
President Obama will leave office as the first two term President who presided over eight years of war. It didn’t start with him and it won’t end with him.
The wave of Ramadan attacks continues, including a strike near the second holiest site in Islam.
As with each previous committee that investigated the 2012 attack on the U.S outpost in Benghazi, the House Select Committee finds that mistakes were made but no evidence of wrongdoing or cover-ups.
A revered Republican foreign policy guru has endorsed the Democratic nominee for president.
Voters in the United Kingdom are headed to the polls in a vote that will have widespread consequences.
Stopping the next Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Syed Farook, or Omar Mateen is likely to be a lot more difficult than the politicians on either side of the aisle are leading us to believe.
A respected scholar has an interesting suggestion for fighting the Forever War.
Even as Hillary Clinton heads toward winning the Democratic nomination for President, there’s an server-sized shadow over her campaign.
The U.S. is poised to send troops to the front lines of yet another war we have no reason to be involved in.
Hillary Clinton crushed Bernie Sander last night in South Carolina, pushing the race further down the path that leads to an inevitable outcome.
If last night’s debate is any indication, Hillary Clinton’s campaign is about to get much more aggressive in its critique of Bernie Sanders.
Get ready for an expansion of the war against ISIS into Libya, because it’s probably not far away.
Jim Webb’s recent criticism of Hillary Clinton is renewing speculation about an independent bid for the White House, but he hardly seems like a viable candidate for such a run.
After more than three decades, the men and women held hostage in Iran for 444 days will receive at least some compensation.
We won’t have Lindsey Graham to kick around anymore.
If you were looking for evidence that the race for the Democratic nomination is basically over, you need look no further than last night’s Democratic Debate.
The Fifth Republican Debate, and the last of 2015, was marked by expected clashes between the candidates, and one that never happened.
The attack in San Bernardino has seemingly left the Administration’s anti-terror strategy in disarray, so the President is addressing the nation tonight to say, well, something I guess.
The German Parliament has approved expansion of the nation’s involvement in the campaign against ISIS, but that doesn’t make the current campaign any less incoherent.
A former staffer for the House Select Committee investigation the attack in Benghazi is suing the Committee for improper employment practices, and Chairman Trey Gowdy for defamation.
The United States and Europe are giving everything the perpetrators of the Paris attacks hoped for.
An apparent ongoing terrorist attack in Central Africa.
Much more so than in the past, the race for the Republican Presidential race has become a battle to define what it means to be a ‘conservative.’ Especially on issues like immigration and national security, one side seems to be winning the battle.
We are legally, morally, and practically obligated to respond. Let’s not do so stupidly.
A Saturday night debate wasn’t likely to get much attention to begin with. A Saturday night debate in the wake of a major terrorist attack, and a major football game for Iowa’s premier college football team, likely got even less attention. That’s probably good news for Hillary Clinton, and bad news for her two remaining rivals.
We can draw a rather direct line from the Iraq war to the rise of ISIS.
Last night’s debate in Wisconsin was arguably the most substantive we’ve seen so far between the Republican candidates, and one that displayed quite starkly the policy differences between them.
Republicans haven’t really moved beyond the legacy of George W. Bush’s failed Administration as much as they’d like to think, but it doesn’t seem to be hurting them very much.
President Obama came to office inheriting the legacy of one unnecessary war, and another that had faded from memory. He will leave office with Iraq and Syria in crisis, Europe uneasy, Yemen and Libya unstable breeding grounds for terrorism, and China doing whatever it is they’re doing.