January 1, 2011 opens President Obama’s campaign for re-election. Everything he does will be calculated to further the objective of re-election. Accordingly, his goal will be to minimize exposure to negative review and to maximize opportunity to capitalize on any
JOE BIDEN: Man, the wingnuts smoked us in midterms. OBAMA: Yeah, they kicked our butts all right. Hey, I’m craving a cigarette. Anybody got one? BIDEN: A cryin’ shame, Boss. Like you said last week, Boehner’ll drive the budget bus
I’m going to take the death panel end-of-life planning conundrum down one point at a time to make this very clear for Americans to understand what the Pelosi-led Democrats have done to your healthcare and their attempt to take cover
Note: On January 9, 2011, Sudan’s Southern population of nearly 16 million – mostly Christians and animists, or practitioners of native religions – will vote on whether to become an independent nation. In a prior interview with Big Peace, Simon
Less than a week after another Border Patrol agent was killed by Mexican bandits, Congress forwarded to the White House a bill that, within two years of its enactment, will result in Customs and Border Patrol heading down the same
On Monday, I wrote here of how President Barack Obama would pretend to work in bipartisan cooperation with the new Congress in deference to the shellacking he received in the November election – while behind the scenes dictatorially ramming through
I’d like to share some thoughts sent to me by my friend, Chad Garland, President of the Illini Veterans Student Organization. Chad writes: A few weeks ago, Sandra Korn wrote a piece in the Harvard Crimson critical of Harvard President
Poor dear. I guess we could call it denial or let me know if you have a better word for this. But when you give a liberal the truth they recoil in disbelief. Seriously. Just watch Kirsten Powers and her
Yes, the MSM is at it again–and really should do their research before sticking to a narrative floated by the most incompetent White House ever. While the Obama White House spoon-feeds the narrative that the end-of-life provision first appeared in
Associated Press: The Library of Congress announced the selections early Tuesday. The goal of the registry, which began in 1989, isn’t to identify the best movies ever made, but to preserve films with artistic, cultural or historical significance. Librarian of
Written into the Declaration of Independence is a simple imperative, “Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” Our nation was built on this concept, but the Obama administration is using its power
The US Senate gave its assent to ratification of the new START treaty but added significant new policy requirements that may require the US to actually improve its nuclear arsenal and modernize its nuclear enterprise even as we reduce our
The so-called “non-partisan” and “independent” fact checkers over at Politifact have named 2010’s “Lie of the year.” The winner was the phrase “A government takeover of healthcare” used by critics of the President’s healt care takeover. A number of issues
The New York Times: Did the bill pledging federal funds for the health care of 9/11 responders become law in the waning hours of the 111th Congress only because a comedian took it up as a personal cause? And does
The November 2nd election results caused in Democrats several strains of mental illness – bouts of depression, delusion, deep-seated rage and others were all exhibited in various Donkey quarters. But going forward, the Obama Administration will exhibit a strategic psychosis
Over at Slate, the always interesting Jack Schafer imagines a world where government always regulated the Internet: In January 1993, idle regulators at the FCC belatedly discover the burgeoning world of online services. Led by CompuServe, MCI Mail, AOL, GEnie,
Buried beneath the avalanche of press coverage about the lame-duck Congress, I found a story about President Obama’s mid-December meeting with twenty corporate CEOs. The purpose of this Blair House get-together was to discuss how to jump-start our still-ailing economy.
At the end of this video montage featuring network, cable and local news anchors all repeating the exact same talking point, you will discover where they heard it first.
Communism is responsible for more deaths in the 20th Century than both world wars, yet liberals have defended it for decades. A new book by Grove City College professor and top Reagan scholar Paul Kengor – Dupes – documents this,
Michael Barone in today’s Washington Examiner: On Boxing Day, it’s worth noting that Barack Obama is down but not out. You could tell as much from the contrast between his petulant postelection press conference and his peppy pre-Christmas press conference.
From the Associated Press: A new health regulation issued this month offers Medicare recipients voluntary end-of-life planning, which Democrats dropped from the monumental health care overhaul last year. The provision allows Medicare to pay for voluntary counseling to help beneficiaries
What should the new Congress do to address America’s energy security challenge? First, insure America against the next oil shock. America is still mired in a recession yet oil, the commodity that lubricates its economy, is already at $90 a
ABC News talking head Cokie Roberts was shilling for the Obama administration once again on Good Morning America during an interview with former Clinton operative George Stephanopoulos. She wasn’t just shilling for Obama but tying to mold the news and
From the Associated Press: Stymied in Congress, the Obama administration is moving unilaterally to clamp down on power plant and oil refinery greenhouse emissions, announcing plans for developing new standards over the next year. In a statement posted on the
Our 111th congress, in its lame duck session, has given America a Christmas present in the way of repeal of the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” law. Signing the repeal into law, President Obama said he’s “never been prouder.” From my
