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President Diva
16 May 2012 12:03 am

According to President Obama, he’s a historic figure. That’s no figure of speech. This week, journalist Seth Mandel discovered that President Obama had authorized his staff to add his name to the biographies of former presidents from Calvin Coolidge to George W. Bush on the White House website.
For example, Calvin Coolidge, it now states at WhiteHouse.gov, created the Federal Radio Commission; President Obama “became the first president to hold virtual gatherings and town halls using Twitter, Facebook, Google Plus, LinkedIn, etc.” Franklin D. Roosevelt created Social Security; President Obama says …

Obama Evolves, Politics Devolves
10 May 2012 12:01 am

This week, Vice President Joe Biden and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan essentially endorsed same-sex marriage. The Obama campaign, however, wary of minority and blue-collar voters, promptly announced that President Obama was against same-sex marriage — sort of — but that his position was “evolving.” Like a flower waiting to bloom, eventually Obama?s support for same-sex marriage would spring full-fledged into existence.
I tried this rhetorical trick on my wife the other day. She asked me to take out the garbage; I told her that my thinking was “evolving” on the …

Obama’s Savage Administration
4 May 2012 12:01 am

President Barack Obama hates bullying.
That’s why he took time out in the middle of a Congressional election cycle — in peak season, actually — to cut a video for a little-known group called the It Gets Better Project. The It Gets Better Project was designed to protect children, particularly lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender children and teens, from bullying. Its suggested pledge states, “Everyone deserves to be respected for who they are. I pledge to spread this message to my friends, family and neighbors. I’ll speak up against hate and …

America Won’t Get Rich by Relying on the Permanent Poor
18 Apr 2012 12:03 am

America is a land of class mobility. That’s what makes America a magnet destination for people all over the world: Come to America and make something of yourself. If you want great welfare benefits, try to bust into Europe; if you want to work for a living and get rich, come to the United States.
But for some Americans, there is no class mobility. There is a permanent economic underclass, and those who inhabit it have no ability to rise above their fiscal fate.
There is a reason for that: They make …

Can Mitt Romney Win?
11 Apr 2012 1:42 am

For months, we’ve heard the chattering class tell us that Mitt Romney was the only acceptable Republican nominee. He was the only candidate who could beat Barack Obama; he was the only one smart enough, savvy enough, and milquetoast enough to defeat Obama in a general election. While Newt Gingrich was too hot and Rick Santorum was too cold, Romney was the Goldilocks candidate, everyone’s second choice.
The question now is whether Romney will be Americans’ first choice.
He faces an uphill climb. President Obama rides at about 50 percent in the …

His Royal Imperial Highness, Barack Obama II
4 Apr 2012 12:03 am

America’s constitutional structure is built on checks and balances. The idea behind these checks and balances is simple: We want interest counteracting interest, ego counteracting ego. We don’t want any one person to gain too much power — or any one faction or any one way of thought.
Gridlock, for lack of a better word, is good.
President Barack Obama, however, has a different idea. He believes that America must be fundamentally transformed. That fundamental transformation cannot be effectuated without a fundamental transformation of the system of American government.
The most important part …

Obama’s Big Trayvon Lie
30 Mar 2012 12:01 am

The facts of the Trayvon Martin case are still unclear. But that hasn’t stopped the all-knowing, all-seeing President Obama from voicing his opinion of the situation. “You know,” said Obama, “if I had a son, he’d look like Trayvon. All of us have to do some soul-searching to figure out how does something like this happen.”
Leave aside the fact that Obama’s race is completely irrelevant to the situation — when French Jews were killed in Toulouse last week, Joe Lieberman didn’t see fit to announce that those Jews looked like …

How to Beat Obama
22 Mar 2012 12:02 am

With President Obama’s approval rating hovering at 49 percent according to the latest Rasmussen tracking poll, it is becoming increasingly clear that he is a formidable threat for re-election. Gas prices are through the roof, the economy remains in shambles, the situation in the Middle East has never been so tenuous and yet nearly half of all Americans think Obama’s doing a decent job — which shows that nearly half of Americans are either dependent on the government or devoid of common sense or both.
It gets worse for conservatives. …

Why the Bell-Obama Connection Matters
14 Mar 2012 12:03 am

The verdict is in: The mainstream media believes that Derrick Bell is not a story. They believe it so deeply that they’ve had members of the Breitbart.com team on national television repeatedly; they’ve spent thousands of words covering it; and they’ve mentioned it on radio and the Internet incessantly. All to say that there’s nothing to see here.
Unfortunately, for President Obama, there’s something to see here.
Back when President Obama was a 28-year-old student at Harvard Law, he gave a speech in support of controversial racialist Professor Derrick Bell. The raw …

My Friend, Andrew Breitbart
7 Mar 2012 2:31 pm

I recently became editor-at-large of Andrew Breitbart’s empire, but I first met Andrew when he was still the unnamed other half of Matt Drudge’s monster website. The year was 2001. I’d just entered college at UCLA, and after seeing the anti-Israel bias of the student newspaper, The Daily Bruin, I had become their token conservative columnist. My specialty was throwing bombs. The reaction to my pieces was absolutely unanimous: The liberals on campus hated them.
One day, I opened my email to find a missive from some guy named Andrew. No …

Why It’s Great To Be a Psychotic A-Hole
29 Feb 2012 12:06 am

President Obama apologized this week for the U.S. military’s accidental burning of Qurans in Afghanistan. “I wish to express my deep regret for the reported incident,” said Obama. “I extend to you and the Afghan people my sincere apologies. … We will take the appropriate steps to avoid any recurrence, to include holding accountable those responsible.”
The Quran burnings prompted massive riots in Afghanistan, as per the Islamist handbook, page 248, which, incidentally, may be the only book other than the Quran published in most Arabic-speaking countries. U.S. servicemen were murdered. …

Satan Is Not a Campaign Issue
24 Feb 2012 12:02 am

In 2008, Rick Santorum spoke at Ave Maria University in Florida. There, he tackled the crucial issue of moral decline in America and did so in explicitly religious language. “Satan has his sights on the United States of America,” he said. “Satan is attacking the great institutions of America, using those great vices of pride, vanity and sensuality as the root to attack all of the strong plants that has so deeply rooted in the American tradition.
“He attacks all of us, and he attacks all of our institutions,” he stated.
Now …

Video: Is The Tea Party Dead?
7 Feb 2012 6:04 pm

With the imminent nomination of Mitt Romney, many commentators are declaring the Tea Party all but done. In this video, Ben Shapiro explains how the Tea Party was betrayed … and how they should fight back. Follow Ben Shapiro on Twitter @benshapiro

The Republican Party Becomes the Whig Party
2 Feb 2012 4:23 am

In 1831, Henry Clay formed a new political party. He called it the Whig Party. His goal was to ensure Jeffersonian democracy and fight President Andrew Jackson, a Democrat. Over the course of the next 20 years, the Whig Party achieved several presidential victories. But as slavery assumed more and more national importance in the political debate, the Whig Party began to shatter. Southern Whigs were slave owners; Northern Whigs were industrial gurus who hated slavery. In 1849, the Illinois Whig leader, one Abraham Lincoln, quit politics completely in frustration …

The Conservative Response To The State of the Union Address
28 Jan 2012 12:01 am

The Euphemisms of ‘Pro-Choice’ Evil
25 Jan 2012 12:02 am

This week marked the 39th anniversary of the greatest American moral tragedy of the 20th century: Roe v. Wade. And yet the left cheered this anniversary with the enthusiasm of an intoxicated teenager stumbling on a free copy of Penthouse. Planned Parenthood, which rakes in millions each year by performing abortions, asked via Twitter, “How has #Roe changed your life?”
The sample answers were horrifically fascinating. “Because of Roe, I have grown up knowing that my girlfriends won’t die from back-alley abortions,” one young man wrote. The young man might as …

Keep Their Feet to the Fire
12 Jan 2012 5:53 am

Mitt Romney is an enormous squish. On the squish scale, he falls somewhere between Jabba the Hut and Slimer from Ghostbusters. He can’t be trusted on conservative philosophy, and he can’t be trusted to act as a principled conservative while in office.
And that may be the best thing for the conservative movement.
Since the days of Herbert Hoover, conservatives have rallied around Republican presidents. Republicans are their guys. No matter that Eisenhower prompted the growing power of Arabism in the Middle East; no matter that Nixon imposed price and wage controls …

The Great Conservative Sell-Out
5 Jan 2012 2:19 am

Much of the conservative punditocracy has declared that Mitt Romney is the consensus conservative candidate. If he is, he’s the least consensual consensus candidate in modern political history — the man can’t break 25 percent with a sledgehammer. While his supporters shout from the hills that Romney essentially tied for the win in Iowa, his glass remains three-quarters empty, with no-name Rick Santorum winning as much of the vote, Ron Paul winning nearly as much, and Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry combining for as much. The last time a Republican …

America’s Big Loser 2011: Americans
31 Dec 2011 4:34 am

In North Carolina this week, a young man named Mostafa Kamel Hendi hit upon a plan to make ends meet in this rotten economy: He decided to knock over a local gold store. Tape shows this determined and enterprising flower of American youth strolling into the store, hoodie over his head, and then gesturing to the clerk, Derek Mothershead, to shove some money in a plastic bag.
Mothershead, however, not being a member of the liberal effete class who believe that all robbery is a noble redistributionist impulse, had an unexpected …

No on Mitt Romney
22 Dec 2011 7:18 am

In the Meredith Wilson musical “The Music Man,” a small Iowan town faces the sinister wiles of a big city con man, Harold Hill. In introducing themselves, they sing, “We could stand touchin’ noses / For a week at a time / And never see eye-to-eye. But what the heck, you’re welcome, / Join us at the picnic. You can eat your fill / Of all the food you bring yourself.”
By the end of Act Two, Hill has suckered these poor rubes into buying into his scheme. He’s done it …

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