David Axelrod has made an admission in his new book: Barack Obama misled Americans for his own political benefit when he claimed in the 2008 election to oppose same sex marriage for religious reasons, his former political strategist David Axelrod … Continue reading →
Obama is preparing to veto the Keystone pipeline bill, issuing the first of what promises to be a blizzard of vetoes of legislation due to be passed by the current Congress. Never mind that the Keystone bill was bipartisan, passed … Continue reading →
I get weary when I read things like the text of President Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast: And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the … Continue reading →
President Obama sees everything through the prism of race combined with whatever political advantage he can obtain from the use of race in his rhetoric. Thus, an early political utterance (June, 2008) emphasized his race and insinuated that his opponents … Continue reading →
We often talk about Obama’s approach to Iran, offering theories that run the gamut from “fool” to “knave” to various combinations of the two. Here’s an excellent article by Michael Doran in Mosaic that fleshes out the details of a … Continue reading →
One of the most disturbing things about the Obama administration’s reaction to the prospect of Netanyahu’s addressing Congress isn’t just the discord it reveals between Obama and Israel; that’s old, old news. For example, as early as May of 2009 … Continue reading →
Andrew J. McCarthy attempts to figure out why Obama is so very reluctant to call the Taliban terrorists. In his opinion, it seems to boil down to this: Obama wants you to believe that there is just a dizzying array … Continue reading →
And middle-class savings smells like blood in the water to him, according to Glenn Reynolds: When a government is desperate for cash, it goes after the middle class, because that’s where the money is. Yes, the rich are rich, but … Continue reading →
…really, the guy seems to be highly addicted to nicotine. I would guess he still smokes cigarettes in private, too, “occasionally” or even more frequently, because his need for Nicorette gum when he can’t go near a ciggy seems to … Continue reading →
I hadn’t thought of this, but Caroline Glick makes a good point about the significance of Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu: With Obama’s diplomatic policy toward Iran enabling rather than preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear power, members of the House … Continue reading →
…at Netanyahu: “We thought we’ve seen everything,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed senior US official as saying. “But Bibi managed to surprise even us. “There are things you simply don’t do. He spat in our face publicly and that’s no … Continue reading →
Byron York points out that Obama’s SOTU speech featured a lot of denial of reality: Obama described the world as he wishes it were, not as it actually is. Indeed, in Obama’s State of the Union, things are going so … Continue reading →