President Barack Obama’s decision this week to suspend deportations of certain young illegal immigrants is as empty, and as cynical, as his support for gay marriage this past spring. On a policy level, it means nothing: the suspension only lasts
The root of Operation Fast and Furious is gun control. And the root of Barack Obama’s obsession with gun control is not typical left-wing politics, but the burning memory of the only political defeat in his career: his failed primary
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith criticizes President Barack Obama for falsifying a significant portion of his first autobiography, Dreams from My Father. Smith builds his case on the research in David Maraniss’s new book, Barack Obama: The Story. But even when joining
As Egypt votes for its new president, Israel’s left-wing daily, Ha’aretz, reports that Israeli officials blame the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood for a Hamas rocket attack on Friday, June 15. Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is
Even as RightOnline bloggers headed to the bars and the blackjack tables, the words of pollster Scott Rasmussen at the conference’s final dinner echoed in our minds. On the one hand, he explained, the vast majority of Americans agree that
In this week’s Torah portion, read by millions of Jews in congregations around the world, we learn the story of Joshua and the spies. These were twelve representatives of the people of Israel, one from each tribe, sent by Moses
National Public Radio reported this morning on shocking evidence of ethnic cleansing in Libya. After the war ended last year, and former dictator Muammar Qaddafi was killed, and the global media departed, the residents of the predominantly Arab town of
President Barack Obama may claim (somehow) to know more about Judaism than any president in American history, but the latest Gallup poll of Jewish voters suggest he has less support from the Jewish community than his recent Democratic predecessors. 64%
Blogger Lindsay Leveen at Green Explored explains, in layman’s terms, how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has created data “that disobey the laws of thermodynamics so that the worthless government policy of favoring plug in vehicles over gas or diesel powered
The Obama campaign wants to make the 2012 contest a “choice” between its candidate and the Republican party; the Romney campaign wants to make the vote a referendum on Barack Obama. Mitt Romney is laying low, letting the election revolve around
Israeli officials who were placed at risk by the Obama administration’s leaks about the Stuxnet virus are disputing American claims that the cyber-weapon was jointly developed by the U.S. and Israel. Rather, they say, Israeli intelligence first started developing cyberspace
Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith now concedes that Barack Obama sought the socialist New Party’s endorsement in 1996–but continues to give Obama, and the New Party, the benefit of the doubt on whether Obama was in fact a member. While admitting the Obama campaign misled
On Tuesday, against the backdrop of the Wisconsin recall election, Breitbart News interviewed Ed Klein, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. We discussed Klein’s own politics, his methods in researching
Senior Obama campaign political strategist David Axelrod played dumb this afternoon when confronted by Breitbart News about President Barack Obama’s membership in the socialist New Party in the mid-1990s. Earlier today, author Stanley Kurtz released proof that Obama had been
Barack Obama was, in fact, a member of the socialist New Party in the 1990s and sought its endorsement for the Illinois senate–contrary to the misrepresentations of Obama’s presidential campaign in 2008, and in spite of the efforts of Politico’s
The mainstream media continues to spin last night’s victory for Scott Walker in Wisconsin’s recall election as a win for President Barack Obama–either because faulty exit polls showed him ahead of presidential challenger Mitt Romney, or because he didn’t expend
Legislators from both parties are condemning a string of leaks from the “highest levels” of the White House about the Osama bin Laden killing, President Barack Obama’s oversight of a terrorist “kill list,” and U.S. cooperation with Israel in creating
As Wisconsin voters stood by Governor Scott Walker and his collective bargaining reforms, voters in California–of all places–passed pension reforms by voter initiative in both San Diego and San Jose. It is yet another sign that Americans–even in traditionally liberal
Last night, Breitbart News contributor Rabbi Shmuley Boteach won the Republican primary in New Jersey’s 9th congressional district-and his campaign received an additional boost when his most likely opponent, incumbent Democrat Rep. Steve Rothman, lost to Rep. Bill Pascrell, a
The Democrats, unions, and community organizing groups that laid siege to the state capitol, depicted Governor Scott Walker as a fascist dictator, and tried to prevent the legislature from voting on collective bargaining reforms are reaching out to Wisconsin voters
As polls opened this morning for the Wisconsin recall election, long lines formed in downtown Milwaukee–the core area of Democratic support for Mayor Tom Barrett, who is challenging incumbent Republican governor Scott Walker. Down the street, a few volunteers manned
Today’s New York Times is covering the Wisconsin recall election…on page 11. Not even the editorial page could be bothered–only op-ed columnists Joe Nocera and David Brooks weigh in. (Nocera laments the decline of unions; Brooks can’t quite bring himself
As a presidential candidate in 2008, Barack Obama disavowed any connection with former domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, the Weather Underground radical who was one of Obama’s early backers and his colleague on the board of the Woods Fund in Chicago.
As investors panic over the debt crisis in Greece, Italy, and Spain, Germany has emerged as a safe haven for investors–so much so that the interest rate on ten-year German government bonds dropped below zero on Friday. That means investors
