Taking advantage of the crisis: House Democrats and other immigration reformers are calling on President Obama to go big when it comes to administrative changes in deportation policy. For months, liberal reform advocates on and off Capitol Hill have urged … Continue reading →
I wish I didn’t have more bad news to report, but I do*: President Obama announced this afternoon that he will bypass Congress to enact “comprehensive immigration reform.” However, at no point did he discuss what his plan would entail. … Continue reading →
The finding of the bodies of the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers is very sad but not unexpected news: The Times reports that senior government officials in Israel said military searchers found the three bodies buried “in a field near Hebron,” … Continue reading →
Opportunity for what? I usually take Sunday off, and I plan to take Sunday off, so this post will be much briefer than the situation warrants. I offer for your perusal this: Saturday at a press conference from the Rio … Continue reading →
They’re excellent questions, and in a way somewhat obvious. So why doesn’t the media ask them? Krauthammer notes that Obama’s actions [in exceeding his constitutional authority] serve as precedents for future presidents, which raises a question I wish our corrupt … Continue reading →
Oh, those stupid climate deniers, they think the moon is made of green cheese: For the White House it’s about getting the liberal base excited for the midterms. It’s a confidence that climate change has shifted in voters’ minds. It’s … Continue reading →
Unanimously. That unanimity is highly unusual, and it shows how very egregious Obama’s actions were when he made appointments to the National Labor Relations Board while the Senate was in what’s known as pro forma sessions, and tried to treat … Continue reading →
Be afraid. Be very afraid (from Walter Russell Mead): A group [ISIS] more radical than al-Qaeda, better organized, better financed, commanding the loyalty of thousands of dedicated fanatics including many with Western and even U.S. passports? And this group now … Continue reading →
[NOTE: This is somewhat of a companion piece to my new article today at PJ.] The administration is refusing to say how many illegal immigrants it’s released in the last couple of months, although it knows: Senior U.S. officials directly … Continue reading →
Obama’s laissez faire attitude towards Iraq has led us from this good news to its opposite: The insurgents came at midday, walking across a canal, advancing under cover of mortar fire toward the cluster of three Iraqi villages. Within eight … Continue reading →
He was wrong about the time frame. He was wrong about the “brilliant” part; we could fill in with a lot of other adjectives, and “inexperienced” and would be among the kindest. Also, perhaps “generated”—with its implication of “manufactured rather … Continue reading →
…if Obama sends 300 advisors there? Think about it. As James Oliphant points out—in a piece which indicates that the writer would answer “fool” to the knave vs. fool question—“the move is a tacit acknowledgment that many of the assumptions … Continue reading →