Trump piles on Bill Kristol as Weekly Standard as publication announces shut down
The Weekly Standard is shutting down after 23 years in circulation, the publication’s parent company announced Friday. Beforehand, editor in chief Steven Hayes had met privately with Ryan McKibben, CEO of the More...
John McCain attacks President Trump, team in ‘disarray’ during this ‘dangerous time’
Arizona Sen. John McCain has been a vocal opponent of President Trump from the Republican side of the aisle and now the former GOP candidate for President used his speech at the Munich Security Conference to attack More...
What is a neoconservative? Neocons and liberals are two sides of the same coin
Occasionally when I participate in political message boards, someone (certainly a liberal) will respond to my post by calling me a neoconservative. That is truly offensive to me because I am so far from that philosophy, More...
Rand Paul says no to John Bolton, a bomb now & think later leader
President-elect Donald Trump often spoke during the primaries and the general election as a man who wants a more restrained foreign policy; however, with the name of flaming neocon, John Bolton, floating out there More...
Kelli Ward bashes John McCain ‘responsible for rise of ISIS’ and ‘Invade the World, Invite the World’ agenda
Dr. Kelli Ward Dr. Kelli Ward called out Arizona’s incumbent Republican Sen. John McCain following his fumbled criticism of President Barack Obama’s role in the rise of Islamic terror group ISIS and how More...
Ted Cruz: Slippery on positions, a neoconservative and Glenn Beck
The unfortunate thing during the GOP presidential primary season today is for people that love liberty, smaller government both in foreign and domestic spending and a more reasonable foreign policy, there is truly More...
Hillary Clinton the most interventionist, Rand Paul the least
John Quincy Adams, as Secretary of State in 1821 said the following: “Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers More...
Chris Christie wants to ‘run the country’, Does that line up with the Constitution?
Fidel Castro runs his country. Kim Jong Un runs his country. I could go on, but you get the point. photo/donkeyhotey Although he is not alone in this ambition and power among candidates, Democrat or Republican, More...
Ted Cruz: Peeling back the layers of a politician
Texas Senator and Republican Presidential candidate Ted Cruz is known generally as a small government conservative and has garnered great support, including from the cast of the Glenn Beck Radio Show, who sing the More...
Lindsey Graham drops out of 2016 GOP race
South Carolina Senator and Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham has said he is dropping out of the race for his party’s nomination. “Today, I’m suspending my campaign for president,” More...
Max Boot Quotes
In Iraq, Sunnis need to be offered a Sunni regional government, akin to the Kurdish regional government, with its autonomy protected by its own militia and ultimately guaranteed by the United States. If Baghdad More...
Rand Paul reiterates ‘neoconservative’ label for Clinton, Rubio
Just two days after telling MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, “I think Hillary Clinton is a neocon” because of her foreign policy history, Kentucky Senator and Republic presidential candidate Rand Paul stressed More...
Paul Krugman tops MRC list for Worst Reporting Quote of the Year
Media Research Center released their “twenty-fourth annual awards for the year’s worst reporting.” A panel of 48 radio talk show hosts, magazine editors, columnists, editorial writers, and expert More...
The Battle of Texas: No love lost between Rick Perry and Ron Paul
Off-camera confrontation captures tension The scrap between Rick Perry and Mitt Romney may have gotten more attention in Wednesday’s presidential candidates debate, but it was tame compared to the dust-up More...
Ron Paul does not speak nonsense
In a piece in the neoconservative rag, Commentary, published Aug 31, a blogger by the name of Peter Wehner came out swinging on some statements Texas Congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul made More...
Max Boot: ‘The problem isn’t that we are engaged in nation-building. The problem is that we do it so poorly’
Here is Max Boot doing what he does best from his perch at the Council of Foreign Relations, trying to scare the bejesus out of people with threats largely imagined. And the fact that Boot claims the necessity of More...
Neocons Losing Hold Over Republican Foreign Policy
photo donkeyhotey Nearly ten years after seizing control of Republican foreign policy, neoconservatives and other hawks appear to be losing it. That is at least the tentative conclusion of a number of political More...
Obama and Clinton: US preparing a ‘full range of options’ on dealing with Libya
With Libyan madman, Colonel Moammar Gaddafi, killing 100s if not 1000s of his people, the Obama administration is looking at a variety of options to respond and condemn the Gadhafi regime’s “outrageous More...
David Broder perpetuates the fallacy that war is good for the economy
Last Sunday’s Washington Post had veteran journalist David Broder suggesting that President Obama starting a war with Iran could be the trigger to bring us out of our economic doldrums. He of course uses FDR and More...
Former Ambassador, Neocon John Bolton considers presidential bid
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton says he’s considering a White House run. President George W. Bush’s top arms control official and later the nation’s top diplomat at the More...
