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Obama’s Morbid Vanity
22 May 2012 12:04 am

I recently came across Nathaniel Hawthorne’s haunting short story “Wakefield,” and I couldn’t help but notice similarities (and differences) between Wakefield and President Obama.
In “Wakefield,” a man tells his wife he is leaving for a short trip, but instead, he moves in to a rental home a block away, where he remains for 20 years, unbeknownst to his wife and friends. At the end of this period, he waltzes right back into his house “as from a day’s absence, and became a loving spouse till death.”
Perhaps at first Wakefield isn’t …

It’s Not the Same-Sex Marriage, Stupid
18 May 2012 12:03 am

People have asked what Obama could possibly have been thinking to announce the final step in his “evolution” in favor of same-sex marriage right after another state resoundingly rejected the notion and despite the fact that most Americans oppose it.
Whether or not Joe Biden forced Obama’s hand on the issue, which I doubt, there is little question that Obama was going to make the announcement. The only question was when.
Many assume he decided to do it before the election to increase his fundraising among Hollywood liberals and other leftists. But …

Obama Is the Extremist, Not Conservative Talkers
15 May 2012 12:04 am

Some conservatives believe that other conservatives, on talk radio and Fox News Channel, are damaging the cause of conservatism by dishonestly overstating their case against President Obama to increase their ratings and profits.
More reasonable Republican politicians, they argue, would like to cooperate with Obama on bipartisan solutions but don’t have the power to resist these extremists with the megaphones and so have buckled in lock step to their demands and become the party of “no” and the purveyors of gridlock.
The problem is that the presuppositions underlying those allegations are wrong. …

Time for Republicans To Take the Offensive
11 May 2012 12:02 am

Two very important things happened in politics this week. First, the elections underscored just how fed up mainstream America is with extreme liberalism. Second, President Obama, with his formal endorsement of same-sex marriage, is openly casting his lot with his extremist base.
The question is: How will putative GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney interpret and respond to these events? Will he fall into the usual Republican trap of thinking he has to follow his Democratic opponent leftward to appear more moderate? Or will he show his confidence in the reasonableness of …

Truth Is Major Obstacle to Obama’s Re-election
8 May 2012 12:02 am

President Obama formally kicked off his re-election campaign in Richmond, Va., and Columbus, Ohio, Saturday, and his theme was certainly not, shall we say, “it’s morning again in America” — President Ronald Reagan’s optimistic re-election slogan in 1984.
Obama’s central message was more like: “Hey, I realize things look bad, and I’m not going to pretend you want four more years of this. But just think how much worse it would have been without me and how much worse it’s going to get if you get rid of me.”
Interestingly, mainstream media …

Piers Morgan Slays Himself in Goldberg Interview
4 May 2012 12:02 am

There was a silver lining for Jonah Goldberg in Piers Morgan’s ambush interview of him allegedly concerning his new book, “The Tyranny of Cliche’s.” Jonah couldn’t have written a better script to illustrate his book’s theme.
Someone really should explain to Morgan that when a host invites a guest to discuss the guest’s book, the host ought to at least make a good-faith effort to pretend he has the slightest interest in allowing the author to expound on the book’s contents — as opposed to using the author as a prop …

Obama Is Headed Anywhere but Forward
1 May 2012 12:03 am

You have to hand it to President Obama and his cabal of re-election strategists; they are masters of illusion. Their newly released Web video and its accompanying campaign slogan, “Forward,” are science fiction-level fantastical.
We’re all familiar with Obama’s penchant for deflecting responsibility and blaming his policy failures on George W. Bush, but after more than three years in office for Obama, it has gone from childish mischief to juvenile delinquency. This is a question for Guinness: Has any other president run for re-election against the record of his retired predecessor?
Indeed, …

Obama Administration’s Repeated Abuses Are Extension of Extreme Liberalism
27 Apr 2012 12:02 am

Every day, we get a new kick in the gut from the Obama administration. Most recently, Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz was caught on video articulating his view of the agency’s role in enforcing its regulations.
Armendariz said: “It was kind of like how the Romans used to, you know, conquer villages in the Mediterranean. They’d go into a little Turkish town somewhere; they’d find the first five guys they saw, and they’d crucify them. Then, you know, that town was really easy to manage for the next …

Romney Should Choose Bold Colors, Not Pale Pastels
24 Apr 2012 12:03 am

Mitt Romney’s presidential run could turn out to be a test case to resolve the long-running debate inside the Republican Party as to whether the GOP presidential nominee should run as a conservative or more of a centrist.
How often have we heard both Democratic and Republican political “experts” reciting the conventional wisdom that during primary contests, candidates of both parties must play to their respective base voters and then shift toward the center during the general election campaign? Does anyone even challenge this edict?
The first problem with this is that …

Katie Pavlich’s ‘Fast and Furious’
17 Apr 2012 12:03 am

Of all the myriad scandals of the Obama administration, there is one, largely ignored by the mainstream media, that could actually be its worst.
That scandal is the operation run from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, under the Justice Department, known as “Fast and Furious,” through which the federal government actually encouraged and even ordered American gun shops to sell guns — against the store owners’ better judgment — to “straw” purchasers who were funneling guns to Mexican drug gangs while the ATF sat back and watched and …

Thank You, Ms. Rosen
13 Apr 2012 12:02 am

Though everyone is talking about Democratic strategist and Obama confidant Hilary Rosen’s insolent remarks about Ann Romney, I want to discuss them, too, because they reveal her leftist mindset. Rosen didn’t misspeak; she spoke deliberately and with passion. And when given a chance to retract or soften her remarks, she doubled down — at least initially.
Her comments came in a segment on CNN with Anderson Cooper. Cooper pointed out that in the current economy, “women are seeing jobs come back much more slowly than men are,” and he asked Rosen, …

Holder’s Corrupt Opposition to Voter ID Laws
10 Apr 2012 12:04 am

Can anyone think of an innocuous reason that President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder oppose state voter ID laws?
Obama and Holder appear to view almost everything through the prism of race or, at the very least, use race as an excuse to justify otherwise very dubious policies, from immigration enforcement to voter intimidation actions to strong-arming banks to make loans via allegations of racism.
In December, along these lines, Holder criticized redistricting maps that had been drawn by the Texas Legislature and used the opportunity to call for an …

Obama Has It Backward; Striking Down Obamacare Would Protect Our Republic
6 Apr 2012 12:02 am

Is President Obama such a die-hard leftist ideologue that he can’t get it right on judicial review, despite having time to reflect and regroup after his impertinent comments designed to intimidate the court?
As everyone knows, Obama said Monday, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress.” That, he said, would be “judicial activism.”
For a man who promised to upgrade the dignity of the office and …

Obama Touts His Record
3 Apr 2012 12:03 am

In his excellent daily Web news summary, “The Transom,” Ben Domenech says that President Obama’s speech at the Portland Museum of Art on Saturday “is likely to be Obama’s campaign speech from here on out.” He’s probably correct, so let’s take a look, with an eye to whether it’s likely to work.
Obama’s template is nothing new. He first repeats his claim as to the catastrophic conditions he inherited from President Bush. “It’s hard to remember sometimes how perilous things were when I was sworn in.”
So Obama took immediate action “to …

Obama Doubling Down on His Leftist Radicalism
30 Mar 2012 12:02 am

You can’t even casually surf the Internet on any given day without numerous reminders of just how radical President Obama is — and this is during an election year, when it should be in his political interest to mask his radicalism.
Minding my own business, I happened on an article by Jacob Laksin on FrontPageMag.com, titled “Obama’s Pick for World Bank Hates Capitalism.” I’d heard a bit about this before but hadn’t yet studied it. I’m so used to Obama’s extremism that such revelations hardly move me, much less surprise me. …

Obamacare: Will the Court Vindicate Itself?
27 Mar 2012 12:03 am

If there has ever been a case that could vindicate the Supreme Court as a guardian of liberty or incriminate it as freedom’s thief, it is the court’s present consideration of the Affordable Care Act.
At the founding of the republic, the Anti-Federalist opponents of the Constitution warned that to grant the power to declare laws unconstitutional to an unelected and life-tenured Supreme Court could subvert the democratic republic and threaten our liberties.
In the Anti-Federalist papers, “Brutus” argued that though there would be strong checks on the other two branches of …

Liberal Opposition to Ryan Plan Is Delusional Demagoguery
23 Mar 2012 12:02 am

It’s one thing for good-faith conservative Republicans to challenge the Ryan plan from the right if they believe its cuts are too small and too slow, but these liberal attacks are something else again.
How catastrophic would the nation’s fiscal condition have to be before liberals recognized its urgency? Is there any scenario under which they’d consider setting aside their partisan populism to come to the nation’s rescue? Are they capable of even temporarily setting aside their redistributionist myopia long enough meaningfully to address the main drivers of the national debt?
As …

Obama’s Health Care Duplicity No Longer Debatable
16 Mar 2012 12:02 am

President Obama said, “The package we’ve put together” will “start bending the cost curve on health care” and “cut the deficit by a trillion dollars.” Even a sympathetic Congressional Budget Office has finally put the nail in the coffin of that howler.
At the time Obama made the claim, we all knew it was specious, and study after study came out showing just how fraudulent it was. There was the double counting on Medicare, the “Doc Fix” scam and a host of others. When Rep. Paul Ryan asked the CBO to …

Big Lies on Big Oil
9 Mar 2012 12:02 am

How much truth is there in President Obama’s latest favorite mantra that we consume a disproportionate share of the world’s oil, especially considering how little of the world’s reserves we have?
Recently, Obama said: “But here’s the thing about oil. We have about 2, maybe 3, percent of the world’s proven oil reserves. We use 25 percent of the world’s oil. So think about it. Even if we doubled the amount of oil that we produce, we’d still be short by a factor of five.”
First, let’s look at the raw numbers …

Rush: At the Tip of Liberty’s Spear
6 Mar 2012 12:03 am

If you’ll indulge me, I need to express this beyond my Twitter posts: I am proud of my brother, Rush, for his multiple sincere apologies to Sandra Fluke. I am not even slightly surprised that so many on the left refuse to accept his apology.
I think this entire incident is instructive. Rush is heartsick over the direction this country is going and that we arrived at a place where many people don’t even bat an eye over the alarming development that our government is mandating insurance coverage — and forcing …

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