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Neocons, House GOPers Demand Obama Take Moussavi’s Side

By | 06.16.09 | 12:11 am

Before voters went to the polls in Friday’s elections in Iran, critics of President Obama’s Iran policy — and of his outreach to the Middle East in general — attempted to pre-empt the possible defeat of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad by pronouncing it meaningless. John Bolton, the former United Nations Ambassador More…

Now That Was What a Liberal Speech About Nuclear Disarmament Sounds Like

By | 04.06.09 | 8:53 am

Just one quick point about President Obama’s speech yesterday in Prague on a U.S.-led global agenda for nuclear disarmament. Did you ever think you would hear the president of the United States say this:

There is violence and injustice in our world that must be confronted.

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John Bolton at CPAC

By | 02.26.09 | 11:48 am

I’m at the Omni Shoreham hotel today for the 2009 Conservative Political Action Conference, where the tone was set by former United Nation Ambassador’s slashing speech on the theme of whether the Obama administration would weaken America. The answer (spoiler alert): yes!

“For those who felt an Obama administration would More…