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In response to Obama’s latte salute vs. Bush’s dog salute: First of all, this picture of ‘W’ holding Barney is one of my favorites of all time. Notice how Barney’s right ear is also at the position of attention. I

Senator Marco Rubio told Fox News host Neil Cavuto that if he were President of the United States, he would deploy more U.S. troops to the Middle East. Rubio, who contends that Obama dropped the ball by pulling the U.S. military out

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

With the prospect of more beheading videos out of the Middle-east and the Obama administration now taking action against ISIS in Syria, foreign policy is likely to take an increasingly significant role in this year’s Mid-term elections. In fact, recent

The National Education Association has jumped into the Colorado Senate race with a new $200,000, two week ad buy across the Denver and Colorado Springs areas. The ad targets Republican Rep. Cory Gardner in his race against incumbent Mark Udall, D-Colo. Udall

 A new poll out from Democrat-leaning Public Policy Polling has Republicans on top in both the Arkansas governor’s race, as well as the race for the U.S. Senate. It finds Republican Tom Cotton ahead in the U.S. Senate race, 43% to

Given facts like this, one has to wonder if Barack Obama’s audience was at the UN today, or were they the type of deep pocketed Democrat donors needed to try and gin up their base before November’s elections? Political ads

Columbian coffee growers have been using a fictional character, Juan Valdez, to hawk coffee in the U.S. since 1958. In October, 2013, the Washington Post pointed out that Starbucks would be taking on Juan in his own country. But now

Former President Bill Clinton offered a defense of corporate inversions today during an event at the Clinton Global Initiative. The NY Times reports that Clinton defended the practice saying, “Like it or not, this inversion, this is their money.” Clinton

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

Democrat Congressman Joe Garcia has just endorsed his Republican congressional candidate Carlos Curbelo to replace him in the U.S. Congress. Hard to believe Garcia would endorse Curbelo over himself, right? According to the newest Curbelo for Congress campaign digital attack

In response to U.S. Airstrikes Against ISIS Already Comparatively Less Than Daily Strikes During Gulf War: I am going to assume that everyone realizes that there were far more Iraqi targets to hit during the Gulf War than were, and

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

The climate consensus may be “crumbling” as John Fund recently put it at NRO, but that just causes the alarmists to ramp up their rhetoric. One such alarmist is the leader of the free world, Barack Obama, who took the opportunity

Counter terrorism expert Patrick Poole noted on Twitter Monday night after reports surfaced the United States hit up to 20 ISIS targets that the U.S. led Gulf War campaign was hitting 1,000 targets a day in 1991. Oh boy! We

In response to Issa Calls On Lois Lerner To Testify Before Congress Under Oath: Having followed the IRS scandal closely since Day One, I had a number of less-than-flattering thoughts about her big interview with Politico, which I could summarize

With one Democrat-aligned Georgia group having collected 85,000 voter registration applications and around 20,000 registration forms collected by another – and from 25 – 50 of them thought to be fraudulent – an ongoing investigation is resulting in partisan charges

President Barack Obama ordered air strikes against ISIS targets inside Syria overnight. He received the full backing of Republican leaders in Congress. The attacks raise a number of military–and political–questions: 1. When did Congress authorize U.S. attacks in Syria? It

House oversight committee Chairman Darrell Issa renewed his call Monday for ex-IRS official Lois Lerner to testify before Congress, following her Politico interview in which she reasserted her innocence, and said she’s “not sorry for anything.”  In the first media

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

Terry Gilliam is the writer and director behind some of the most creative and darkly humorous films of the last 30 years including Time Bandits, Brazil and 12 Monkeys. In a recent interview with Collider to promote his new film,

The story of White House fence-jumper Omar J. Gonzalez continues to grow more… involved, as the original reports that he was completely unarmed were amended to reveal that he had a knife, and then… well, I’ll let Reuters tell the

If Barack Obama was the candidate of Facebook, and has governed as the President of Selfie, then Hillary Clinton is the “Snapchat” candidate–i.e. one who is eager to erase the past from collective memory. Tony Lee reminded me today that

Pro-Iranian Shia rebels in Yemen, who have overrun the American-friendly Yemeni government, has announced  a ceasefire with government forces. The group has already sacked both the Defense and Finance ministries in the capitol of Sanaa.  If Yemen falls to the