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Obama's latte salute vs. Bush's dog salute

In response to Obama’s Disrespectful ‘Latte Salute’ Shocks and Offends: It’s illuminating how quickly Obama dead-enders made fools of themselves trying to excuse the President for this.  Sally Kohn was the first to smash  herself in the face with a

Flashback: Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize citation

As President Obama drops bombs on a record-breaking seventh country, let’s look back to 2009 and remember what the Nobel committee said when it bestowed a Peace Prize upon him for simply existing.  You’ll need a heart of stone to

Israel shoots down a Syrian warplane

Just to add to the fun over in Syria – where the stated goal of taking down ISIS has already expanded into airstrikes against their al-Qaeda rivals, who might very well have been the more urgent target – a Syrian

Hatred is a renewable resource

In response to The Grotesque Consumerism of People’s Climate March Attendees: I love the sheer block-headed stupidity and soaring hypocrisy of a big eco-march.  Green activists leaving mountains of stinking trash for other people to clean up?  Check.  Socialists selling

Science, celebrity, and Neil DeGrasse Tyson's tall tales

It’s probably not how he planned to spend his September, but Sean Davis of The Federalist has become the go-to guy for puncturing the tall tales of celebrity scientist Neil DeGrasse Tyson.  Davis began noticing that several stories Tyson routinely

The War on Poverty; Failure redefined as success

We just hit the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty, and the numbers are grim: $22 trillion spent, but according to the Census Bureau, a slightly greater percentage of Americans fall below the poverty line. On the other hand,

Fallout from the Wisconsin witch hunt

As John Sexton related on Friday, the Justice Department hasn’t been able to find anything liking New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to the “Bridgegate” scandal (and you know Eric Holder’s people were very, very keen to find such a linkage.)

Beat cops aren't the problem in a 'police state'

Despite all the controversy over encounters between cops and citizens after the Ferguson incident, “police states” really aren’t about random meetings between uniformed police officers and regular folks going about their lives.  It’s all about the steady expansion of laws

Central planners don't like old people

It’s disconcerting enough to see an article entitled “Why I Hope to Die at 75.”  When the author is Ezekiel Emmanuel, one of the architects of ObamaCare, it’s time for the Twilight Zone theme music.  Here’s a sample: I am

An exit strategy in search of a war

In response to Rand Paul: Obama Starting An Unconstitutional War ‘Not An Unusual Thing For Him’: I know it’s fashionable to hit Senator Paul from both Left and Right for the tortured evolution of his position on ISIS, and particularly

Outlawed in America: The American flag

I’m old enough to remember when the big controversy surrounding American flags was whether or not we should make it illegal for dim-bulb protesters to burn them in public.  There was quite a bit of energy behind flag-burning bans for

Maxwell needs backup

In response to Rep. Cummings: Maxwell Never Mentioned Sifting by State Dept. (Update: Sharyl Attkisson on Rep. Cummings’ Denial): I’ve been somewhat lukewarm towards the Ray Maxwell revelation about Hillary Clinton’s operatives scrubbing the Benghazi documents, not because I doubt

ISIS and the unsteady trumpet

In response to Muslims Will Support Muslims Over Infidel-Led Mission Against ISIS: As it happens, this morning the new Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, just made a big show of announcing that Iraq doesn’t want or need foreign troops to

Who wants to sign up for an endless no-win non-war?

In response to “Human Rights Foundation Chair Explains Why Allies Don’t Trust Obama“: Kasparov is right, of course.  The message blasting out of the Obama White House, louder than almost any message ever sent by a President, is: This man

ISIS beheads another hostage

The not-Islamic Islamic State we’re not at war with just beheaded another hostage on video, this time a citizen of the United Kingdom, another member of the non-coalition our hideously incompetent President forgot to put together before he announced it