UC Berkeley Conference Explores Middle East Violence, Protests
BERKELEY (KCBS) – The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley sponsored a particularly timely conference this week. “Democracy Rising?” sought to address “the challenges of democracy...
View ArticleObama Honors Bay Area Ambassador, Libya Attack Victims
ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, Md. (CBS / AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday honored the four Americans killed in an attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya, recalling their lives in deeply personal terms...
View ArticleOpinion: Mitt Romney’s Terrible Week
W. Mitt Romney had a bad week. Rather, Romney has had another bad week. Prior to this week was the well received Democratic National Convention. The week before was the less well received Republican...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s Security Breach In Libya Is Ignored By American Media
As the liberal American press and ultra-liberal bloggers inundate the Internet and newsprints with criticisms of what Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential challenger to President Barack Obama, said about...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Did The White House Take So Long To Admit Libya Attack Was...
After the deadly attack on the United States Embassy in Libya, it was apparent to many that the attack was premeditated and designed to kill Americans – not to protest an amateur-made movie that...
View ArticleOpinion: Ryan-Biden Vice Presidential Debate Necessarily Spirited
The most difficult part of the sole vice presidential debate of 2012 was for GOP vice presidential challenger Paul Ryan not to appear like a bully, and he accomplished that goal superbly. It would...
View ArticleOpinion: Joe Biden Schooled Paul Ryan With Facts And Substance
Mitt Romney’s apprentice salesman stepped on the stage last night and delivered his talking points, but little more. Throughout the night, Joe Biden delivered lesson after lesson to the ambitious...
View ArticleCBS Local Presidential Forum Romney/Obama: Exchange Barbs Over Obamacare Vs....
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit Obamacare and Romneycare are so associated with President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney that each took time to field a question about their namesake plan...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney’s Performance Was Painful And Unbecoming Of A Presidential...
Governor Romney tonight turned in another performance of Hollywood quality. In an evening full of complaining about time and interrupting the moderator and the president, Romney truly brought the...
View ArticleSF City Hall Service Honors Slain Bay Area Libya Ambassador
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Family, friends and colleagues gathered at San Francisco City Hall Tuesday to honor the life of Christopher Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was killed last month....
View ArticleCBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Appealing To Women Voters
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With this grueling presidential contest heading into the final days, President Barack Obama and former Mass. Gov Mitt Romney are getting in touch with their softer side as...
View ArticleFeinstein: Intelligence Mistake, Inadequate Security To Blame For Libyan...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — The head of the U.S. Senate’s Intelligence Committee said Wednesday that it appeared an intelligence mistake along with inadequate security were to blame for the Sept. 11...
View ArticleOpinion: Crowley’s Obama Favoritism Completely Discredits Her As A Journalist
There were so many blatant signs of Obama-favored bias displayed by CNN political correspondent Candy Crowley that one scarcely knows where to begin. Now that the second presidential debate is history...
View ArticleCBS Local Presidential Forum: Obama/Romney: Push Back On Opponent’s False...
By Carol Cain CBS 62 Detroit With days left in this historic billion-dollar-plus marathon for the White House that polls show tightening, President Barack Obama and Gov. Mitt Romney continued to duke...
View ArticleOpinion: Democrats Pick Another Losing Issue Focusing On Binders
Less than three weeks before the election, quite oddly, the top issue for President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and the Democrats is the binders. The more the “left” talk binders, the...
View ArticleOpinion: Romney Must Answer Tough Questions On His Questionable Foreign...
Once again, a presidential race hinges on what happens in Florida. For tonight, however, it is not about Florida’s votes. Tonight’s debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida, is the third and...
View ArticleOpinion: With Economics Intertwined With Foreign Affairs Romney Will Win The...
GOP presidential challenger Mitt Romney and President Barack Obama will square off one more time on Monday night with the final presidential debate at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. With CBS...
View ArticleOpinion: No News For Obama
One of the obvious methods of trying to win the presidential election of 2012 on President Barack Obama’s part is to make numerous appearances on popular non-news programs across the television dial...
View ArticleOpinion: Benghazi-Gate: Obama’s Unconscionable Actions
Seven weeks after the murder of Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three other Americans at the consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the horrendous story which continually points to President Barack Obama...
View ArticleOpinion: Selectively Presidential: Obama Chooses To Be Presidential When It’s...
President Barack Obama, once again, had an opportunity to have a presidential moment when Hurricane Sandy moved to the nation’s Eastern shores on Monday. This time, the president chose the proper...
View ArticleOpinion: Single-Issue Voting Is Wrong In These Multi-Issue Times
During this election cycle in 2012, like no other time one can remember, Americans tend to be talking about voting due to one single issue or another. Whether it be the Sandra Fluke issue of free...
View ArticleOpinion: A Few Brave Newspapers Endorse Romney Fighting Tide Of Liberal Press
While many newspaper endorsements of the presidential candidates are expected to be for one candidate or the other due to the newspapers’ past affiliations and endorsements of the candidates’...
View ArticleOpinion: Ten Reasons Mitt Romney Lost The Election
Today, Republicans feel a combination of confusion, disbelief, and anger as to how a slim majority of Americans can possibly want four more years of the Obama administration in the White House. To...
View ArticleOpinion: Quit Gloating And Whining
Even though it’s only three days after the presidential election of 2012 and a certain amount of gloating on the part of President Barack Obama supporters and a certain amount of whining is expected...
View ArticleOpinion: Petraeus Must Testify On Libya
By now, most everyone must know that General David Petraeus, the CIA director, has resigned from his governmental post due to an extramarital affair that he had with Paula Broadwell. Petraeus, 60, has...
View ArticleOpinion: Obama’s Press Conference Extremely Disturbing
President Barack Obama gave his first press conference since being reelected for a second term – as well as being as his first press conference in many months. First and foremost, though sounding...
View ArticleOpinion: Now That Paula Broadwell And Jill Kelley’s 15 Minutes Are About Up
The nation has given Paula Broadwell and Jill Kelley more than their share of time in the spotlight. The unfortunate part is that it’s irritating to see anyone who wants 15 minutes so badly to...
View ArticleOpinion: Republicans Focus On Conspiracy Theories Instead Of Solutions For...
Republicans are spinning all sorts of conspiracy theories about General Petraeus’ unfortunate personal decisions. Revelations surrounding the affair have prompted the tin foil hat crowd on the right...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Benghazi Matters
As the politicians on the “left” and other persons on the political “left” insist that the election is over and that is why the rest of Americans should move on and drop the Benghazi, Libya...
View ArticleOpinion: Why Do The Liberals Keep Complaining?
Liberals and their ilk obviously won the executive branch of the United States government for another four years with the reelection of President Barack Obama, but they still pick fights as much as...
View ArticleOpinion: If Obama Is Impeached Over Benghazi Scandal
As the Benghazi, Libya scandal increases by the day, Americans need to consider what would happen if President Barack Obama is impeached over the events that led to – but allegedly were not honestly...
View ArticleOpinion: Susan Rice’s Meeting With GOP Leaders Made Benghazi Matters Worse
On Tuesday morning, the United States’ Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and acting CIA Director Michael Morell, who has replaced General David Petraeus who resigned over his extramarital...
View ArticleOpinion: Susan Rice Thrown Under Democrat’s Bus And Tied Down
As President Barack Obama, the White House, the Democratic Party politicians and the nation’s “leftists” allege that the Republicans – led by the Senators in Congress – are picking on the United...
View ArticleEgypt Arrests Terror Suspect In Bay Area Ambassador’s Benghazi Killing
CAIRO, Egypt (CBS SF) — Egyptian authorities have reportedly arrested a terrorist cell leader believed linked to the attack in Benghazi, Libya that killed U.S. Ambassador and Bay Area native...
View ArticleLibyan Government Slowing Benghazi Investigation Officials Say
WASHINGTON (CBS/AP) — U.S. counter-terrorism officials say the search for suspects in the death of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans in Libya on Sept. 11 is being slowed by uncooperative or...
View ArticleClinton Reached Out To Libya Embassador’s Bay Area Family To Offer Condolences
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — Ambassador Chris Stevens’ stepfather says Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has reached out to his family to offer her sympathies about the deadly Sept. 11 raid on the...
View ArticleDefiant Clinton Takes On Lawmakers Over Libyan Attack That Killed Bay Area...
WASHINGTON, D.C. (CBS / AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton delivered fiery rejoinders Wednesday to Republican critics of the Obama administration’s handling of the deadly attack on a...
View ArticleMalta Plane Hijacking Ends Peaceful After Hostage Takers Surrender
VALLETTA, Malta (CBS/AP) — Two Libyan hijackers diverted a domestic flight to the Mediterranean island of Malta on Friday to demand asylum in Europe and create a new political party in honor of the...
View ArticleCalifornia Congresswomen Challenge Trump’s Muslim Travel Ban Executive Order
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — U.S. House Minority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi took to the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to lead a protest against President Donald Trump’s executive order banning...
View ArticleRevised Trump Travel Ban Going Into Effect
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration was putting new criteria in place Thursday for visa applicants from six mostly Muslim nations and all refugees, requiring a close family or business tie to...
View Article