Richard Cohen

Type: Person

Name: Richard Cohen

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

The Truth, if You Can Find It

To The Editor: Recent congressional hearings on the Benghazi debacle served to reinforce my own perceptions of this sorry affair. First, the cooked-up story blaming it on an anti-Islamic video had one main purpose: to mitigate any possible damage to Obama’s ... [Published Cape May County Herald - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Benghazi, Deception, Republican Party (US), Richard Cohen

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Reasonable Expectations

Search inOccasionally, an emergency arises where the authorities are called. When that happens there are reasonable expectations for how we assume they will respond. For example, locally, if someone dials 911 and says, âHelp (gasp), Iâm having chest pains,â ... [Published Lafayette Journal & Courier - May 22 2013]

Entities: emergency, Dispatcher, Bandicoot, Richard Cohen, Libya

First reported May 22 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 1 reports

Barack Obama

Obama’s flagrant assault on liberty

There are various reasons you might not care about the and labeling him a co-conspirator and/or aider and abettor in an espionage case.Liberals may not be particularly bothered because the targeted journalist works for Fox News. Conservatives may not ... [Published Washington Post - May 22 2013]

Entities: Dana Milbank, Barack Obama, Assault, First Amendment, Affidavit

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Minnesota Public Radio

What's cut, kept in divisive Legacy bill

ST. PAUL, Minn. The bill passed with a 43-21 vote in the Senate and a 77-57 vote in the House. While House members have opposed the final Legacy bill in the past, no senator had ever voted against the overall Legacy spending package. "For the first time ... [Published Minnesota Public Radio - May 21 2013]

Entities: Bill Ingebrigtsen, Richard Cohen, Phyllis Kahn, Minnesota Public Radio

First reported May 20 2013 - Updated May 20 2013 - 1 reports

Macho Posturing Without Empathy

I'm just not sure it's different than sadism. Sure, supporting the Iraq war was serious, but going door to door with giant guns telling Iraqis to suck on this, or supporting the war because you thought "the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic"(Richard ... [Published Eschaton - May 20 2013]

Entities: Richard Cohen, War in Iraq, Foreclosure

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation

Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases

Six years ago, the FBI took on a challenge: To review what it called cold case killings from the civil rights era. The investigation into 112 cases from the 1950s and 1960s is winding down, and civil rights activists are weighing the FBI's efforts.The ... [Published NPR - May 18 2013]

Entities: FBI Federal Bureau of Investigation, Richard Cohen, Civil Rights

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Republicans overplay their hand

At the end of a truly dismal week in his presidency, President Obama remains lucky in one crucial category: his opposition.It has been only a few days since two administration scandals the and the dropped into the Republicans lap. But instead of turning ... [Published Washington Post - May 17 2013]

Entities: Dana Milbank, Obama Administration, Tea Party Movement

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Obama?s Travesty of Leadership: The News Media Share Culpability

The Wall Street Journal’s Peggy Noonan has correctly called the Obama administration’s Benghazi and IRS scandals for what they are: gross failures of leadership characterized by a bold—even boastful—policy of criminal activity (my words, not hers).But ... [Published Redstate - May 17 2013]

Entities: Barack Obama, Dan Rather, Peggy Noonan, David Axelrod

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Investigate the Benghazi intelligence failure

Richard Cohen [, op-ed, May 14] made a valid point: that some Republicans appear to have exaggerated the Benghazi debacle. But he overlooked a crucial aspect of the controversy. The drafts of the talking points released by the White House indicate that ... [Published Washington Post - May 17 2013]

Entities: Benghazi, Richard Cohen, White House, Michael Mullen, Thomas Pickering

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Tumult: Washington uproars

Warring national politicians and TV talking heads endlessly nitpick over trivia.Morgantown native and WVU graduate Michael Tomasky, now an international political writer, predicts that far-right Republicans will try to impeach President Obama because ... [Published Charleston Gazette - May 17 2013]

Entities: Republican Party (US), Benghazi, Michael Tomasky, Tea Party Movement

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Legacy deal hinges on rural vs. urban fight over parks money

ST. PAUL, Minn. The fight is alive and well in the last few days of this legislative session as the House and Senate work out their differences in hopes of sending a bill to Gov. Mark Dayton by Monday's adjournment. A commission charged with coming up ... [Published Minnesota Public Radio - May 16 2013]

Entities: Richard Cohen, Bill Ingebrigtsen, Minnesota Department of Agriculture, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Minnesota Department of Health

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

Local library could see fewer programs under Senate proposal

BEMIDJI — Local officials fear the Bemidji Public Library would host fewer events under a funding proposal moving through the state Senate.Paul Ericsson, the Bemidji Public Library branch manager, said the Senate’s $1 million proposed appropriation to ... [Published Bemidji Pioneer - May 16 2013]

Entities: Fiscal Year, Richard Cohen, Sustainment, Environment

Quotes

"what concerned me at the time was raising false hopes in so many family members for whom justice had long been denied" says Cohen, whose group was among the most vocal in calling for the FBI to review these old cases...

Turning Up The Heat On Civil Rights-Era Cold Cases [Published NPR - May 18 2013]

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Priya Sankaran: Part 1: My Struggle With the Wh... [Published Huffington Post Canada - May 16 2013]
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Senate legacy funds debate turns rural-urban [Published Worthington Daily Globe - May 16 2013]
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The aftermath of the Benghazi debacle [Published Gulf News - May 15 2013]
Ex-Gay Group Claims Ban On Harmful Treatment Wi... [Published Think Progress - May 15 2013]
Angelina Jolie went public to help other women [Published Washington Post - May 15 2013]
May 15: Dr. Joyce Brothers, Benghazi and bicycles [Published New York Daily News - May 15 2013]
The Obama administration: Death and taxes, roun... [Published Daily Maverick - May 15 2013]
President Passerby [Published Washington Post - May 15 2013]
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Obama: Controversy over talking points after Be... [Published Washington Post - May 14 2013]
Republicans' Benghazi Syndrome [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 14 2013]

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Macho Posturing Without Empathy [Published Eschaton - May 20 2013] I'm just not sure it's different than sadism. Sure, supporting the Iraq war was serious, but going door to door with giant guns telling Iraqis to suck on this, or supporting the war because you thought "the prudent use of violence could be therapeutic"(Richard ...
Ex-Gay Group Claims Ban On Harmful Treatment Wi... [Published Think Progress - May 15 2013] A group of ex-gay therapy advocates are objecting to a proposed ban on the treatment for minors in New Jersey, claiming that such a law would help protect pedophiles. The so-called “ Citizens Against the Jerry Sandusky Victimization Act ” has been ...
Republicans' Benghazi Syndrome [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 14 2013] Richard Cohen, Washington PostThe American Psychiatric Association's latest handbook -- the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) -- is about to be published. It is the handbook of mental health and if you're not in it ...
At a Loss for Words on Syria [Published RealClearPolitics - Homepage - May 07 2013] Richard Cohen, Washington PostIt turns out that President Obama did not mean to say "red line" after all. The New York Times tells us the president misspoke. Maybe like a lot of people new to Washington, he got confused by the Metro system.Maybe he meant ...
An Israeli Strike in Syria and a No-Fly Zone in... [Published Eunomia - May 07 2013] The Israeli strike in Syria has given Syria hawks their latest bad talking point in favor of war. Richard Cohen uses it today: As for the use of air power, the Israelis seem to hit targets in Syria with impunity — probably from outside Syrian airspace ...