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Syria vote isn’t last word from Congress on war

 As far as Congress is concerned, President Barack Obama’s Mideast war strategy isn’t in the clear yet. The president got what he wanted this past week when the House and Senate overwhelmingly approved arming and training moderate Syrian rebels to fight Islamic State militants. But the go-ahead is good for less than three months. And […] Read More →

Why Liberals Cling to the Gerrymandering Myth

Conn Carroll,  Mother Jones‘ Kevin Drum doesn’t get why so many liberals insist on believing that gerrymandering is to blame for the Democrats’ inability to win back the House. “Gerrymandering is what it is,” Drum writes, “The best studies I’ve seen suggest that it accounts for 6-8 additional Republican seats. The rest of the Republican […] Read More →

Netanyahu vows ‘any means necessary’ to stop Hamas

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will use “any means necessary” to stop Islamic militant group Hamas from bombing civilians, but declined to say when his military action will stop or whether he will continue using ground troops. Netanyahu said on “Fox News Sunday” that his objective was to reach “sustained quiet” and […] Read More →

Russia expects Syria resolution in next 2 days

The U.N. Security Council, long paralyzed by deep divisions over how to deal with the Syrian conflict, is about two days away from agreeing on a resolution to require Damascus to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles, Russia’s deputy foreign minister said Wednesday. Gennady Gatilov told The Associated Press that the text of the resolution will […] Read More →

The US-Russia agreement on Syria weapons

Highlights of an agreement by the United States and Russia establishing a framework for Syria to destroy all of its chemical weapons. — The U.S. and Russia agree to work together on a new, binding U.N. Security Council resolution that would ensure verification of the agreement to secure and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons stocks and […] Read More →

All Military Action undertaken by Democrats for the last half-century has led to Disaster

By: Ann Coulter   Americans unsure what to think about President Obama’s plans for Syria should remember that all military action undertaken by Democrats for the last half-century has led to utter disaster. (With the possible exception of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.” video, which I say still holds up.) Democrats are gung-ho about deploying the U.S. […] Read More →

Obama’s Syria address to the nation flops

Thomas Lifson It was all too obvious last night that the only reason President Obama gave his speech to the nation was that it would have been too embarrassing to cancel it. The result was inconsistent and unsatisfying at any level. (Transcript here) Obama commandeered the nation’s airwaves to call for a “diplomatic pause” in […] Read More →

Obama blends threat of attack, hope of diplomacy

 In the run-up to a prime-time televised speech, President Barack Obama blended the threat of a military strike with the hope of a diplomatic solution Tuesday as he worked to rid Syria of an illicit stockpile of fearsome chemical weapons. Secretary of State John Kerry set a hurry-up trip to Geneva for talks Thursday with […] Read More →

Thomas Sowell: Syria and Obama Parts I and II

I cannot see why even a single American, a single Israeli or a single Syrian civilian should be killed as a result of a token U.S. military action, undertaken simply to spare Barack Obama the embarrassment of doing nothing, after his ill-advised public ultimatum to the Syrian government to not use chemical weapons was ignored. […] Read More →