Words Matter: The President’s Speeches on Israel

By Lanny Davis – 05/25/11 – The New York Times’s headline on Monday, concerning President Obama’s speech on Israel the day before to the national pro-Israel organization AIPAC, read: “Obama Presses Israel to Make Hard Choices.” The story, written by Helene Cooper, began with an unusually non-factual, subjective characterization: “President Obama struck back at Prime […]

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Paul Clement:
 A Profile in Courage

By Lanny Davis – 05/11/11 – Just recently, certain elements of the gay-rights community reportedly succeeded in pressuring the nationally renowned law firm of King and Spaulding to withdraw from representing Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives to defend the constitutionality of the anti-gay marriage statute, the Defense of Marriage Act.

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 A Profile in Courage

Partisans, Hold Your Fire — For Once

By Lanny Davis – 05/04/11 – The stunning news of the death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday night was quickly followed by spontaneous celebrations in front of the White House, Times Square and, most moving of all, at Ground Zero. I sat with my 13-year-old son and my wife, watching President Obama’s moving announcement […]

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