Year: 2012

On Wednesday, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said the President would not extend current marginal tax rates for those Americans who make $250,000 or more annually, even on a temporary basis. With major debt ceiling, sequestration and tax policy debates on the horizon, should conservatives call the President’s bluff on the matter? Or should […]

Free speech is under fire. Online thugs are targeting bloggers (mostly conservative, but not all) who have dared to expose a convicted bomber and perjuring vexatious litigant who is now enjoying a comfy life as a liberally subsidized social justice operative. Where do your elected representatives stand on this threat to our founding principles? On […]

Watching Bill Clinton act as Barack Obama’s “No. 1 surrogate,” in the words of National Public Radio, is as exquisitely painful as watching a runaway monkey with a paintball gun at a museum. Most of the pundits have focused on Clinton’s motivations for refusing to read his lines from the White House script. That’s understandable […]

On my book “tour” to promote my new book, “The Great Destroyer,” hosts keep asking me to explain how President Obama can maintain high personal approval ratings when his policies are unpopular and his record is abysmal. I first want to challenge the underlying assumption. I don’t believe that President Obama is as well-liked or, […]

On the heels of New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s latest stupid regulations commanding a shrinkage in the size of sugary drinks in restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums, the Walt Disney Co. has announced it will ban ads for products on its broadcast and online platforms that it has scientifically determined are “junk food” and do […]

Mayor Michael Bloomberg ignited a firestorm of debate with his proposal to ban super-size sugary drinks in New York City. Critics bashed his nanny-statism, but supporters like first lady Michelle Obama hailed his courage. Nationally, just 24 percent of American adults think the ban is a good idea, while 65 percent oppose it. This response […]

As a proud Zionist who owns one of the 25 largest independent: public relations firms: in the United States, I can find no other way to spin this: Israel’s communications are lacking, and poorly managed.: Even a few years after the flotilla’s terrible mismanagement, there’s no wake-up call in sight, no explanation.:  Unfortunately, there’s no sign the next […]

Last week in an interview on CBS Network News, Economist Mark Zandi, the chief economist for Moody’s, unwittingly revealed a central error of the global economic establishment. Zandi has made a career out of finding the middle ground between republican and democrat economic talking points. As a result of this skill, he has been rewarded […]

Barack Obama lately has been accusing presumptive rival Mitt Romney of not waging his campaign in the nice (but losing) manner of John McCain in 2008. But a more marked difference can be seen in Obama himself, whose style and record bear no resemblance to his glory days of four years ago. Recently, the president […]

President Barack Obama’s re-election turns on his ability to convince voters that 1) Obama inherited a “Great Recession,” 2) every “independent” economist supported the “stimulus,” 3) “bipartisan” economists agree that Obama’s stimulus worked, and 4) as actor Morgan Freeman puts it, racist Republicans say, “Screw the country … we’re going to do whatever we can […]

While Republican attacks on Obama over the economy are multiplying, the president’s real troubles may be the other end of the spectrum among his natural supporters on the left. There, dissatisfaction, disillusionment, and concerns about whether he is up to the job dog him. Obama’s poor showing in West Virginia, Kentucky, and Arkansas offers quantitative […]