
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be waving the white flag on repealing Obamacare. The Tea Party is ready to fight. The Republican National Committee appears to be ready to fight. But the day after the Romney campaign backed
by Joel B. Pollak3 Jul 2012, 9:42 AM PST0

With much of the East Coast still struggling to recover from recent storms that cut power to millions of residents during a heat wave, President Barack Obama is wrapping up a comfortable vacation in Camp David. He was not too
by Joel B. Pollak3 Jul 2012, 5:24 AM PST0

Obamacare is a tax. President Barack Obama lied to the American people when he said it was not a tax, only to turn around and argue at the Supreme Court that it was. Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2012, 2:53 PM PST0

Anne Bayefsky of National Review notes that the Obama administration has effectively backed an extraordinary session at the UN Security Council today, in which the United Nation’s High Commissioner for Human Rights, the notoriously anti-Israel Navi Pillay, will brief the Council
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2012, 10:18 AM PST0

The Obama campaign has seized on remarks made by Romney adviser Eric “Etch-A-Sketch” Fehrnstrom this morning on MSNBC, to the effect that the individual mandate in Obamacare (and Romneycare) is not a tax. Fehrnstrom allowed Chuck Todd to push him
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2012, 9:12 AM PST0

Don’t be fooled by the false praise being heaped upon Chief Justice John Roberts by the mainstream media and its favorite go-to legal commentators. Jeffrey Toobin, no less, of the New Yorker and CNN, lets the cat out of the bag–they are
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2012, 8:32 AM PST0

As Breitbart News suggested last week, it appears Chief Justice John Roberts did, in fact, switch his vote on the Obamacare decision under pressure from President Barack Obama, the Democrats, and the mainstream media. John Fund at National Review has more details
by Joel B. Pollak2 Jul 2012, 5:03 AM PST0

National Public Radio–among other left-leaning outlets–wondered openly, in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold most of Obamacare, why any states would reject the “free” Medicaid funding after the Court had permitted them to do so. I was
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jul 2012, 3:37 PM PST0

We have seen what happens when Barack Obama comes up against real conservative opposition: he loses–and he is a sore loser. There was Paul Ryan in 2010, demolishing the Obamacare’s fuzzy math at Blair House. There was Benjamin Netanyahu in 2011, giving
by Joel B. Pollak1 Jul 2012, 12:54 PM PST0

While President Barack Obama is celebrating the survival of his so-called “Affordable Care Act,” he is busy making health care less affordable for the nation’s military families. As the Washington Free Beacon reports, the President is threatening to veto a defense
by Joel B. Pollak29 Jun 2012, 2:06 PM PST0

Remember in 2008, when journalists claimed that Sarah Palin was using her children as props–that is, when they weren’t claiming they weren’t her children to begin with? Now, Obama campaign adviser David Axelrod is exploiting his own daughter’s epilepsy in
by Joel B. Pollak29 Jun 2012, 10:56 AM PST0

The first poll numbers released on yesterday’s Obamacare decision show that the public opposes the ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts that the law is constitutional. SurveyUSA polls of adults in Kansas, Florida and California show widespread opposition to the
by Joel B. Pollak29 Jun 2012, 8:16 AM PST0

Conservatives who are trying to salvage a little “hope and change” from Chief Justice John Roberts’s disastrous ruling in the Obamacare case yesterday argue that the limits the Court placed on the Commerce Clause and the power of the federal
by Joel B. Pollak29 Jun 2012, 6:11 AM PST0

by Joel B. Pollak28 Jun 2012, 3:26 PM PST0

by Joel B. Pollak28 Jun 2012, 12:05 PM PST0

According to Chief Justice John Roberts and his liberal colleagues on the Supreme Court, Congress does not have to call a tax a tax in order for it to be a tax. Congress can, in fact, create a penalty instead
by Joel B. Pollak28 Jun 2012, 8:42 AM PST0

Not content with attacking the impartiality of the Supreme Court and the legitimacy of judicial review, the Obama campaign is already fundraising off today’s decision on Obamacare–with just a few hours to go before the decision is released. An email
by Joel B. Pollak28 Jun 2012, 4:47 AM PST0

The ascent of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt has destroyed the self-delusions of the mainstream media and the liberal foreign policy establishment. Martin Kramer has been compiling some of the most ridiculous predictions (e.g. Tom Friedman of the New York
by Joel B. Pollak27 Jun 2012, 12:24 PM PST0

Stung by criticism–from both Republicans and Democrats–of their “dinner with Barack” fundraising contests, Barack and Michelle Obama have decided to call it quits. But the leader that senior strategist David Axelrod calls the “black Jesus” is planning to have just
by Joel B. Pollak26 Jun 2012, 2:30 PM PST0

Former White House social secretary Desiree Rogers is nothing more than a vulture capitalist who, as CEO of Johnson Publishing, is laying off hundreds of workers so that she and a clutch of greedy investors can walk away with the
by Joel B. Pollak26 Jun 2012, 11:03 AM PST0

Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO), who leads the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), has refused to condemn the antisemitism of Democrat congressional candidate Charles Barron. Moreover, Cleaver and the CBC are staying neutral in the New York congressional primary tomorrow between Barron and
by Joel B. Pollak25 Jun 2012, 12:55 PM PST0

In a 5-3 decision (Justice Elena Kagan had recused herself), the Supreme Court has struck down the form–but not the substance–of the controversial Arizona immigration law, SB 1070. The opinion by Justice Anthony Kennedy held that immigration law–including the decision
by Joel B. Pollak25 Jun 2012, 7:58 AM PST0

One of the causes Andrew Breitbart cared about most passionately was disproving the lie that Tea Party members had hurled the “N-word”–not once, but more than a dozen times–at black members of Congress as they marched through a large crowd
by Joel B. Pollak24 Jun 2012, 7:34 AM PST0

To absolutely no one’s surprise, Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is now officially being vetted by the Romney campaign as a potential running mate and Vice President. Ryan, the chair of the House Budget Committee, has not only led the national
by Joel B. Pollak22 Jun 2012, 6:26 PM PST0

In April, Breitbart News reported that the White House had hosted members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood–the radical, anti-woman, anti-American, anti-Israel and pro-terror organization busy taking power in the grim aftermath of the Arab Spring. Now, the Obama administration has gone
by Joel B. Pollak22 Jun 2012, 1:21 PM PST0