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Going Rogue?

No, this post will have nothing to do with Sarah Palin. It concerns the hearing held this morning by the Senate Homeland Security Committee regarding the terrorist attack carried out by Maj. Nidal Hassan against his fellow soldiers at Fort Hood, a ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Senate,  House Intelligence Committee,  Sarah Palin,  White House,  New York Times Company

What is NIAC?

On Friday, TNR Contributing Editor and Washington Times national security reporter Eli Lake published a blockbuster scoop about the National Iranian American Council, (NIAC), and it's founder, Trita Parsi. I recently wrote about Parsi's appearance at ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Congress,  United Nations,  J Street,  Federal Bureau of Investigation,  Washington Times

Kirchick: Dems betrayed Lieberman, not the other way around

When Connecticut Sen. Joseph Lieberman announced last week that he would join a filibuster of the Senate's health care bill should it include the controversial "public option," partisan Democrats and others on the party's left flank reverted to form. " ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, New York Daily News,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Joe Lieberman,  U.S. Senate,  Bill Clinton,  Paul Begala

A Question for Hillary Mann Leverett

Last week, I wrote about a panel at the inaugural convention of the self-described "pro-Israel, pro-peace" organization J Street, in which former Bush NSC staffer Hillary Mann Leverett said the following: Too often, Iran's security concerns are ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: J Street,  George W. Bush,  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

The Fork in J Street

The self-declared mission of J Street, the dovish "pro-Israel, pro-Peace" lobby that just concluded its first national conference this week, includes redefining the meaning of the term "pro-Israel." For too long, the organization's founders and ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Walt,  John Mearsheimer,  Michael Oren,  Hamas,  Elie Wiesel

Tom Coburn: An Unwitting Cog of the Gay Agenda

I’m a bit late in getting to this, but I have to disagree with Suzy Khimm’s take on GOP Senator Tom Coburn’s co-authoring a piece for The Advocate with Christopher Barron, Chairman of GOProud. That organization was founded earlier this year (I wrote ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Republican Party,  Tom Coburn,  Ryan White,  U.S. Senate,  U.S. Congress

Obama is breaking his war vow

A steady trope of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy has been the contention that the mission to overthrow the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and install a democratic government in its place was a distraction from the war in Afghanistan. And the ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The Politico,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  Saddam Hussein,  John McCain,  Halliburton

What Price Popularity?

Barack Obama entered the White House riding a wave of popularity around the world unparalleled in recent political history. His margin of victory among American voters in last November’s presidential election was 6 percentage points; outside the United ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, Commentary,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  John McCain,  George W. Bush

Winning popularity contests, not much else

President Obama is following the advice of that great philosopher Woody Allen, who once said that "eighty percent of success is showing up." In health care legislation, foreign relations and, now, the Olympics, Obama believes his very presence is ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, New York Post,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  International Olympic Committee,  Woody Allen,  White House,  David Letterman

Ousting Zelaya

On September 12, the United States government revoked the visas of de facto Honduran President Roberto Micheletti and 14 of the country’s Supreme Court justices. Days earlier, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, a U.S.-government body, voted to cut ...

From JAMES KIRCHICK, The New Republic,  3 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Manuel Zelaya,  Organization of American States,  Jim DeMint,  U.S. Democratic Party

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