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 →
…for people whose policies were cancelled due to Obamacare: Some insightful commentary (and no, that “insightful” part is not sarcastic) by Ezra Klein, who seems bewildered: Today, the Obama administration announced that people whose insurance plans were canceled this year … Continue reading →
So, Peggy Noonan just started to perceive this a few weeks ago? I would add that in recent weeks I have begun to worry about the basic competency of the administration, its ability to perform the most fundamental duties of … Continue reading →
[Bumped up.] The wording of this WaPo headline caught my eye: “Obama Suffers Most From Year of Turmoil, Poll Finds.” Accompanying it is this photo: The article goes on to describe the precipitous decline in Obama’s standing in approval polls … Continue reading →