Campaign for Liberty, the political action group founded by Ron Paul, led the fight to audit the Federal Reserve. Now the IRS is demanding information about its donors. But no one receives a tax deduction for donations to Campaign for Liberty and the IRS is not...
Over at The Dish, Andrew Sullivan notes the difference in opinion between the elites and the general public on foreign policy. Elites in New York and Washington, DC are upset that Obama hasn't been forceful enough, whereas the public, as I noted yesterday, in greater...
It is regrettable that the Washington Post's editorials on foreign policy are rarely as profound as its editorial cartoons. Someone could easily compile a list of Washington Post editorials and guest articles by bellicose nitwits urging U.S. preemptive strikes for...
Israel's primary criticism of the Palestinian side is that they are not engaging in "good faith negotiations," they are not "partners for peace." As I've noted several times in the past few weeks, that critique rings hypocritical given Israel's negotiating positions....
This morning's Wall Street Journal has the following headline on the front page: "Americans Want to Pull Back From World Stage, Poll Finds." Americans in large numbers want the U.S. to reduce its role in world affairs even as a showdown with Russia over Ukraine...
Jon Utley, the publisher of American Conservative and one of the most dedicated and principled pro-freedom and antiwar activists in the nation, celebrated his 80th birthday last month. Hundreds of folks gathered at D.C.’s Metropolitan Club to hear him speak about his...
Here is a tweet from Foreign Policy's Twitter feed: https://twitter.com/foreignpolicy/status/461272472734945280 If you have to worry that your proxy militias will turn your own weapons against you, maybe it's not such a good idea to give them weapons in the first...
Paul Pillar, a 28-year CIA veteran and now senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security Studies, writes in The National Interest about how ridiculous and self-serving is the reaction of Israel (and the U.S.) to the Fatah's announcement of political...
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party's admired front-runner for the 2016 presidential elections, made headlines last week when she spoke out against NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden. At an event at the University of Connecticut she hit him...
According to a report at Foreign Policy, a new piece of legislation due for a vote on Wednesday of this week would force Voice of America, the federally funded news media organization, to toe the U.S. line even more closely and become an explicit propaganda tool of...
