…to observe someone like New Republic’s Isaac Chotiner struggle to retain his admiration for Barack Obama’s towering intellect and superb temperament as Chotiner simultaneously realizes that Obama is actually a supremely condescending blowhard who uses a great many more words … Continue reading →
Actually, compared to a lot of ways that Obama and his supporters have used the race card, this is relatively mild and balanced: There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the … Continue reading →
On a Hot Air thread about the desirability of impeaching Obama I saw this comment: Impeachment would be like a child throwing a temper tantrum ”” lots of sound and fury signifying extreme frustration. But in the end Obama would … Continue reading →
Actually (and I didn’t listen to his speech) it appears that he asked Congress to study the situation and make recommendations by the end of March as to how the phone metadata program can work to collect the information without … Continue reading →
I’m not at all sure most people will care, because the left has succeeded in making just the word “Benghazi” a big yawn for way too many people. But for what it’s worth, the Senate Intelligence Committee has issued a … Continue reading →
One possible problem with this gleeful open-field-day-on-Christie business is that those who come down hard on him open themselves up to the charge of hypocrisy if they haven’t been just as tough or even tougher on Obama for all the … Continue reading →
I’ve written before about Obama’s somewhat-lookalike half-brother. Here’s a postscript: Mark Obama Ndesandjo said he was surprised to hear his half-brother President Barack Obama say they had only recently met for the first time. “I was floored by it ”” … Continue reading →
…which we were doing yesterday—there’s an article about her in yesterday’s WSJ. Paglia is a curious amalgam. She prides herself on being unique and iconoclastic, and she certainly defies categorization. She seems to ally with the right on Obamacare, global … Continue reading →
From Victor Davis Hanson, on how the precedents Obama has set could result in a changed America even after he leaves office: So we are living in scary times. The nation has grown used to the idea that what the … Continue reading →
…from ever writing about George Bush again. But instead he brings us this piece with the undeniably correct title, “Barack Obama is not George Bush.” Well, of course not. Was there ever anyone who had a particle of doubt on … Continue reading →
I remember writing about this half-brother of Obama’s a while back. He seemed to be a really decent, straight-up kind of guy—not narcissistic, very different from his brother. Also very smart; a degree in physics from Brown and a Master’s … Continue reading →
The title of Paul Mirengoff’s post on Obama’s announcement of the mandate waiver for those whose policies were cancelled due to Obamacare is “Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off.” Mirengoff is talking about the mandate, and probably about Obamacare too. … Continue reading →