Monday July 23, 2012
Nearly everyone agrees that these letters went too far and many have likened Bachmann to Senator Joe McCarthy, seeking out the communist threat in the 1950s. But we rarely discuss how we got here, and what conditions exist - mainly within the Republican Party as Rollins warned - which led us to this point. Read More »
Friday July 06, 2012
According to Rick Santorum, Obama is so weak on the question of Iran that he’s practically encouraging them to develop nuclear weapons, yet so opportunistic and desperate to win the upcoming election that he just might bomb Iran. Read More »
Friday June 29, 2012
After making an important statement about the strength of organized and motivated Arab American communities in the New Jersey primary between Reps. Bill Pascrell and Steve Rothman, Arab Americans around the country are looking to replicate their success in a number of key congressional races. One such race is in Ohio’s 9th Congressional district, where Rep. Marcy Kaptur will face Samuel “Joe the Plumber” Wurzelbacher. Read More »
Tuesday June 05, 2012
By Nicole Abi-Esber
Political pollster John Zogby published two pieces recently on Forbes.com, indicating which factors will be most crucial in determining the winner of the upcoming presidential elections. He argues that, for both the Obama and Romney campaigns, it will be more important to attempt to maximize votes from usually supportive demographic groups than to attempt to sway the middle. Read More »
Monday March 05, 2012
By George Doumar
Arab American Republican George Doumar weighs in on the Republican nomination contest in Virginia and beyond. Read More »
Monday March 05, 2012
Michael Akrouche
Arab American Republican Michael Akrouche weighs in on the Republican nomination contest in Ohio.
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Monday February 27, 2012
DEARBORN, Michigan – February 27, 2012 – Michigan’s Arab American Republican leadership has endorsed Congressman Ron Paul for President today ahead of the State’s Republican Primary election. Congressman Paul will join Arab American community representatives from Southeast Michigan, including Detroit, Dearborn, Southfield, Warren and Ann Arbor to accept the endorsement. Read More »
Wednesday February 22, 2012
The four remaining Republican presidential candidates will gather tonight in Mesa, Arizona for a high-stakes debate. While candidates and voters alike have been suffering from debate-fatigue, tonight’s debate could well be the final debate of the GOP presidential race. Read More »
Wednesday February 01, 2012
While the candidates performed in the expected order in Florida’s Republican Primary results, the wide gaps between them were a bit surprising. Romney won by a very comfortable margin, earning over 46% of the vote. Gingrich came in at second place with 31.9% of the vote. Santorum had a mere 13.4%, while Paul came in with a shabby 7%. Read More »
Monday January 30, 2012
by Abraham Hassan
Palestinian American Republican Abraham Hassan follows up on his question from the CNN Florida debate on January 26th. Mr. Hassan, a Republican from Jacksonville, FL asked the candidates how they would achieve peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. Referring to a controversial statement made by Newt Gingrich weeks earlier where he said Palestinians were an "invented people," Mr. Hassan asserted before the debate audience: "As a Palestinian American Republican, I'm here to tell you we do exist." Read More »
Monday January 23, 2012
The RNC thinks they just did Israel a favor by whitewashing the illegality of its occupation of the Palestinian territories, but failed to notice that they just demanded that all these Palestinians living under occupation be granted equal rights as Israelis. In effect, the RNC just endorsed the maximalist position of the most ardent supporters of Palestinian rights: the one-state/one-man/one-vote solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read More »
Thursday January 19, 2012
The GOP has chosen Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, a public official we’ve praised for his principled stances and success as a public administrator, to deliver the party’s response to the President’s State of The Union address next Tuesday. There are few better suited for the task than Governor Daniels, a governor with an impressive fiscal record the party will use to validate its message on the economy. Read More »
Friday January 13, 2012
Three key endorsements by Arab American elected officials have bolstered the campaigns of three GOP candidates seeking the Republican nomination for President. Former New Hampshire Governor John H. Sununu, Freshman GOP Congressman Justin Amash (MI -3) and Congressman Richard Hanna (R-NY) have all thrown their weight behind the candidates they believe should win the republican nomination and the presidency. Read More »
Monday January 09, 2012
By Jamila Benkato
Saturday night’s debate in Manchester, New Hampshire covered everything from Romney’s record as a job creator, to Ron Paul’s controversial old newsletters, to a wide array of foreign policy issues. We have collected the most relevant statements of the evening below. Read More »
Friday January 06, 2012
The Iowa caucuses have shaken up the Republican primary race as the candidates head to New Hampshire. This weekend, the candidates will meet for two debates, the first on Saturday in Manchester and the second in Concord. Here are some things to watch for in both New Hampshire debates Read More »
Friday January 06, 2012
With the way some politicians talk about race, it is sometimes hard to believe that we’re in the 21st century. Consider what Rick Santorum, the 2nd place GOP candidate in Iowa (some argue he came in 1st), said while talking about welfare. Read More »
Tuesday January 03, 2012
No matter who wins in Iowa today, the caucuses will have a profound impact on the presidential race going forward. This impact, however, will not occur in ways that conform with our conventional political wisdom and established scripts for primary battles. A week before the primaries officially start, all signs indicate that the Iowa caucuses will sow the seeds for a long, drawn out race for the Republican nomination. Read More »
Monday December 19, 2011
By Jamila Benkato
Just weeks away from the Iowa Presidential Caucus, Republican Presidential candidates met in Sioux City, Iowa to discuss everything from to economy to Ronald Reagan. Below are key quotes from the evening concerning Iran, Israel, Iraq, immigration and foreign policy in general.
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Friday December 16, 2011
Was Marianne Gingrich soliciting a $10 million bribe to get the House Speaker to lift Iraqi sanctions or was she just soliciting a donation on behalf of her former boss? And what kind of guy actively seeks a donation from a known arms dealer nicknamed “The Merchant of Death?” We’ll tell you… and you may not be so surprised. Read More »
Friday December 16, 2011
So no longer is she only alleging that Iran said things they actually didn’t, but now we know “without a shadow of doubt” that the attack will happen, unless we do something about it. That’s the sort of lying that makes the Iraq war propaganda of Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld seem like honest straight-talk by comparison. Read More »
#NC lawmaker equates Islamic prayer w/ terror http://t.co/G9sp1NeLC1 @mostrolenk @aaiusa h/t @ozzyformayor
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Latest poll to be released Friday finds Americans are divided on continuing aid to #Egypt: http://t.co/1spZM1m9d2
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RT @MaiE_89: In the 1990’s, #Egypt had a 60% favorable rating among Americans, while today only 36% of US views the country positively via @AAIUSA
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Looking at Iran by James Zogby
Kahlil Gibran Awards Gala - April 16, 2013President Obama got it just about perfect in his Jerusalem speech when he urged Israelis to see the world through the eyes of Palestinians. That portion of his remarks was so compelling it deserves to be quoted in full: Read More »
Air Date: 5/31/2012
Fellows from Syracuse University’s “Leaders for Democracy Fellowship Program (LDF); Bill Press, Host of the “Bill Press Show” and author of the new book, The Obama Hate Machine: The Lies, Distortions, and Personal Attacks on the President---and Who Is Behind Them. Read More »
The story of Arab Americans coming of age as an organized community is a classic American tale of immigrants seeking opportunity, benefiting from America’s freedoms, but also experiencing, at times, the dark side of exclusion and discrimination that has so often been a part of our nation’s history. Read More »
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