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Obama’s Neoconservative Right Flank

By | 09.22.09 | 9:32 am

Back on March 31, a new neoconservative think tank called the Foreign Policy Initiative launched with a conference on the subject of “Afghanistan: Planning for Success.” Yesterday and today, the FPI has been holding another star-studded series of panels on the need for a muscular foreign policy in general More…

Tony Perkins and Frank Gaffney React to Koh Cloture Vote

By | 06.25.09 | 4:01 pm

A vote on Harold Koh’s nomination to be legal adviser to the State Department is scheduled for 4:10 p.m. Yesterday, after cloture passed on Koh, I asked Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council for a reaction on a nominee his group had campaigned hard against.

“I thought the vote More…

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…

Neocons vs. Bob Gates, With Special Guest Appearance by KKK Founder

By | 04.08.09 | 11:45 am

Tom Donnelly and Gary Schmitt of the American Enterprise Institute, members in good standing of the neoconservative cabal to eat your babies and conquer the world and then eat more babies, have an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal arguing against Defense Secretary Bob Gates’ program cuts. While they More…