Tag: Jim Webb

Magazine - Features

The Marines of the future

Mackubin Owens · April 8, 2022 3:00 am

President Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House after a meeting.

Trump denies considering Jim Webb for defense secretary

Caitlin Yilek · January 4, 2019 10:09 pm

Former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb is pictured at an event.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Webb, a possible pick for defense secretary, is right about this

Erin Dunne · January 4, 2019 9:03 pm

Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., center, flanked by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., left, and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., looks on during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 2, 2010, to discuss the terror trials.

Beltway Confidential

Jim Webb yelling at Lindsey Graham in 2007 is exactly why he should be defense secretary

Jack Hunter · January 4, 2019 5:03 pm

Jim Webb served as senator for the Old Dominion State from 2007-13, and before that was secretary of the Navy.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s base would love to have Jim Webb as defense secretary

Ryan Girdusky · December 31, 2018 6:16 pm

Disgrace at the Naval Academy

Tws Staff · April 2, 2017 2:30 pm

Former Democratic Sen. and Navy Secretary Jim Webb announced Tuesday evening that he has declined to accept the Naval Academy Alumni Association's Distinguished Graduate Award following a controversy stemming from a nearly 40-year-old essay in which he advocated against women attending service academies. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Jim Webb declines Naval Academy alumni award amid controversy

Daniel Chaitin · March 29, 2017 1:44 am

Clinton got the plurality of the vote in the 1992 election, with 43 percent of the vote. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Former Senate Democrat: Trump can fix ‘reverse discrimination’

Sean Higgins · January 20, 2017 3:04 pm

Jim Webb lampoons Bill Clinton’s ‘landslide’ victory in 1992

Daniel Chaitin · December 20, 2016 10:26 pm

Jim Webb held too many politically incorrect beliefs, and seemed culturally "retro" by the standards of coastal elites. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

Democrats pushed out Webb and millions like him

Washington Examiner · November 14, 2016 5:01 am

Tim Kaine's career is a symbol of how Virginia, the first Southern state to become reliably Republican at the presidential level and the only one to vote against Jimmy Carter, the home of Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell (Jr. and Sr.), has become bluer in recent years. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Beltway Confidential

Tim Kaine and Virginia’s leftward turn

W. James Antle III · July 23, 2016 1:18 am

Jim Webb served as senator for the Old Dominion State from 2007-13, and before that was secretary of the Navy.

Poll: Webb beats Gilmore in Virginia Lt. Gov. race

Daniel Chaitin · June 17, 2016 9:30 pm