According to the Washington Post, this is “Obama’s last campaign”; he’s brought back his polling director from the campaign, David Simas, to run the largest sales effort of its kind: an effort to sell expensive health insurance policies to an estimated 2.7 million young and healthy people who don’t use much health care. If that […]

Welcome to another installment of No Obama Bundler Left Behind. This chapter stars an elite Hollywood fundraiser who scored a plum diplomatic appointment, slacked off on the job and left her public office in disgrace, and then rebounded from failure as a new Obamacare promoter. Nice crony “work” if you can get it. This failed […]

Sometimes I marvel at President Obama’s apparent lack of an embarrassment sensor. How can he stand before the American people and deliver speech after speech making the same tired points and pretending he is delivering the speech of the century? Is he truly impervious to feelings of self-consciousness, or is he trying to play us […]

“My rival in this race,” President Obama announced early in 2007, “is not other candidates. It’s cynicism.” Sadly, it’s now evident cynicism won. In a much-hyped speech at Knox College on Wednesday, Obama sought to pivot back to the economy — as the journalistic cliché goes — and shape the issue environment for the 2014 […]

We have a president who loves to give campaign speeches to adoring crowds, but who doesn’t seem to have much interest in governing. That was apparent Wednesday, when Barack Obama delivered the first of several promised “pivot to the economy” speeches at Knox College in Galesburg, Ill., where he spoke eight years ago as a […]

It must be hard for young black males to always be viewed as criminals by people who notice crime statistics. We’ve jawboned that sad story for 40 years. Last week, President Obama ran it around the block again in another speech about himself in reaction to the George Zimmerman verdict. Let’s give that beloved chestnut […]

We may be in the era of Facebook and fracking. But 2013 is still beginning to look a lot like the cataclysmic century we just left behind. More people probably died from the wars of the 20th century than from the battles of the prior 2,500 years combined. The bloodiest century saw the rise of […]

“I think you should check out the APEX program,” my high school counselor, Mrs. Workman, suggested. APEX stood for Area Program Enrichment Exchange, and involved several L.A. area high schools, including Fairfax High. Intended for “advanced” students, the program allowed them to take courses not offered at their home school. In my case, I had […]

Huma Abedin has graduated from sympathetic victim to pathetic enabler. I felt bad for Abedin in 2011 when, as a newly married and pregnant wife, her congressman husband, Anthony Weiner, embroiled her in his sexting scandal. With a baby on the way, she chose to stick with the marriage — a decision others must respect. […]

Now for some good news, and it has nothing to do with the birth of the royal baby. According to a USA Today/Bipartisan Policy Center poll, “Americans by more than 2-1 say the best way to make positive changes in society is through volunteer organizations and charities, not by being active in government.” Even better […]

It takes a fair bit of gall to accuse the media of lying about a sex scandal. It takes even more gall to then admit to the sex scandal, resign, claim you’ve redeemed yourself and decide to run again. And it takes the most gall to do all of those things, even as you’re engaged […]

The Ambassador for Israel to the United Nations, Ron Prosor spoke at the annual Christians United For Israel conference (CUFI) in Washington, DC and thanked them for their vital support.: : As he said “the new offensive against Israel — a campaign of delegitimization — was “Chinese torture” that would slowly have a real and adverse effect.” […]