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Steve Huntley biography
Steve Huntley is a commentary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of its editorial board.
He served as editor of the editorial page …
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East Coast media elites pile on Romney
With less than two weeks before the election, Mitt Romney enjoys considerable momentum thanks to the debates that showed him to be a responsible, sensible problem-solver with a reasonable economic agenda to address the weakest economic recovery in modern history and get millions of unemployed …Read More
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Christians should support Israel
Tens of thousands of Syrians killed by their government. Persecution of Christians in Muslim nations so widespread that the faithful are literally running for their lives. The genocidal fanatics in Iran working overtime to make a nuclear bomb. With such turmoil in the Middle East …Read More
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Asking questions about Benghazi isn’t ‘playing politics’
In Tuesday’s debate, President Barack Obama proclaimed he was offended by any suggestion that politics influenced his administration’s account of the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya. Well, Obama can shout his anger to the rooftops, but that doesn’t relieve him of accountability for …Read More
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Libya security problems will erode Clinton’s legacy
Poor Hillary Clinton. Either the secretary of state is being thrown under the bus by the White House for the security failure in Libya leading up to the Sept. 11 killing of Ambassador Christopher Stevens or she was a partner in the Obama administration’s misleading …
Easy blame misses the point in Libya
In assessing the complexities and dangers of the war on terrorism, President George W. Bush would say we have to be right 100 percent of the time but the terrorists have to be lucky only once to inflict death and destruction. That — better than …
Romney’s foreign policy: peace through strength
In a time of chronic unemployment and falling household income, foreign policy probably won’t sway many voters. But in a close election, every vote counts, so Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney took aim at those in the electorate for whom international issues count and delivered …
Jobless rate looks nice — until you look under hood
The debate saga of Campaign 2012 moves to the vice presidential level Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden takes on Republican Paul Ryan with the twin goals of altering the narrative of debate failure by President Barack Obama and touting the September decline in the unemployment …
Romney carves up Obama’s record
Asignature achievement of Mitt Romney’s debate triumph over President Barack Obama in Denver was to nudge the presidential campaign back toward being a referendum on Obama’s failed policies that have left the nation in an economic quagmire of lost jobs, falling family income, a stagnating …
Emperor Obama has no clothes
The conventional wisdom is that Wednesday night’s presidential debate is a huge opportunity for Republican nominee Mitt Romney. The emperor-has-no-clothes reality is that the political forum would be meaningless if President Barack Obama could stand on the stage and boast his administration had ushered in …
Netanyahu draws red line for Iran
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opened his U.N. speech Thursday by reminding the world that King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the Jewish state 3,000 years ago. That was a rebuke to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who used his visit to New York …
Obama must stand up for U.S. values at U.N.
Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi says the United States must change its thinking and policies about the Middle East and demonstrate more respect for Arab values and culture. Maybe Morsi was napping when President Barack Obama made his famous 2009 Cairo speech promising “a new …
Media cover for Obama’s failures
Each new day seems to bring further evidence of the unremitting failure of President Barack Obama’s economic and foreign policies. Yet the presidential contest remains even, due in large part to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney’s failure to articulate a specific economic reform agenda and …
Deja vu on ‘Mission Accomplished’
Democrats should be worried that their national convention’s breast-beating over the killing of Osama bin Laden may go down in history as President Barack Obama’s “mission accomplished” moment. The administration isn’t helping matters by insisting time and again that the violence sweeping through Muslim countries …
Must wage war on islamic fanatics
The war on terror is back. The notion that an attack by thugs armed with rocket-propelled grenades and antiaircraft weapons killing a U.S. diplomat on the 9/11 anniversary was a spontaneous mob reaction to some Internet video nonsense is itself nonsense. Osama bin Laden is …
Declare Jerusalem capital of Israel
The tempest over the initial failure of the Democrats to include the status of Jerusalem in their platform and the messy way they fixed it demonstrated how both political parties tend to treat the subject of the capital of Israel in hollow election rhetoric. The …
Huntley: Obama can’t run on record, so Dems double down on lies
Anyone hoping for a retreat from mudslinging and falsehoods in the presidential campaign as it goes into the stretch is going to be disappointed for two reasons. The latest unemployment report showed that for every person who got a job in August, four were so …Read More
Huntley: Here’s a goal — trade Obama’s excuses for Romney’s results
Hope needs more time. That was President Barack Obama’s message in his acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention Thursday night. But a country that was forced to live on hope for four years and rewarded with dreary unemployment, falling middle class income and depressed …Read More
Huntley: Clinton reminded us that Obama is no Clinton
Out on the campaign trail in recent days, President Barack Obama accused Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney of wanting to take America back to the 20th Century. The problem with that is most Americans remember the last couple of decades of the old century as …Read More
Huntley: Better off than four years ago? Absolutely — not
After a weekend of hemming and hawing and trying to duck the issue of whether Americans are better off now than four years ago, Democrats now boast the country is better off. “Absolutely,” declared Stephanie Cutter, deputy campaign manager for President Barack Obama. All right! …
Huntley: Obama loses in this numbers game
Look for Democrats to tout a lot of big numbers to churn up excitement about their national convention starting Tuesday. Already the party leadership is crowing that more than 10,000 volunteers from every state have flocked to Charlotte in a show of enthusiasm. President Barack …
