Yesterday, the Defense Department announced it would have to furlough over 600,000 workers come July, claiming it “has no choice” because of the automatic budget cuts known as the sequester. Yet, other agencies have been able to find ways to make the required spending cuts without furloughing any employees. Did the Pentagon really try “everything they could” to avoid furloughing workers? A recent GAO report showing that millions were wasted on new camouflage patterns indicates that ...

“Obama’s Dangerous New Narrative”

Alexander Burns and John F. Harris write in POLITICO, “No contemporary American politician has benefited more from the power of good storytelling than Barack Obama. He vaulted from obscurity to the presidency on the power of narrative — invoking his biography and personal values to make a larger point about how he would lead the nation. So presumably no one understands more vividly than Obama and his close ...

As the Obama administration confirmed the use chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war, the White House said initial intelligence reports of chemical weapons use needs further proof as all options for response remain on the table.

In a letter to Senators Carl Levin and John McCain, the administration said that any use of chemical weapons in Syria would very likely have originated with the Assad regime.

“Our intelligence community does assess ...