Most of us who watched the McCain-Obama debates remember when then candidate Obama responded that acknowledging when life began was "above his pay grade." We all know that such an answer was essentially his way of refusing to answer this deeply complex and divisive [...]
The people of Israel of course strongly identify with the United States in its confrontation with the forces of Islamic extremism. President Obama to the contrary notwithstanding, the feeling is largely reciprocated among the people of the United States. A new 9/11 memorial built in Israel, designed by an Israeli, [...]
Over the weekend Redstate's Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in "How is Obamacare to be stopped?" Today Republican [...]
Minnesota's Governor Tim Pawlenty was in New Hampshire yesterday. He gave a long interview to the Manchester Union Leader:
"President Obama was here in New Hampshire on New Hampshire primary night and said he was going to fix health care by bringing Republicans and Democrats together," he said. "Well, here" [...]
I may have spoken too soon. The Obama administration is making a last-gasp effort to put together a deal in Copenhagen:
The United States today pledged support for a $100 billion annual climate protection fund in a move that could clinch a global deal just as the Copenhagen summit [...]
Latest and greatest news is just how much the public has soured on ObamaCare, even MSNBC polls are showing anemic support. Ann Althouse addresses part of the problem with :
People just don’t want this bill. I think the big mistake was skipping the step of winning public [...]
Yuval Levin points out that the way the health care legislative process has played out makes it easy to miss the forest for the trees. The trees were the public option, Medicare expansion, and abortion language; the forest is the legislation that exists now that nearly all of [...]
Over the weekend Redstate's Erick Erickson made an impassioned plea that Republican Senators avail themselves of every parliamentary device at their disposal to obstruct the nationalization of health care. We posted a long response from a GOP Senate source in "How is Obamacare to be stopped?"
Today Oklahoma's [...]
Internet news entrepreneur Andrew Breitbart broke the story of the Obama administration's planned relocation of the terrorist detainees held in Guantanamo to the Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois. This past Friday at Big Government Breitbart posted the draft of the presidential directive to the Attorney General and' [...]
Fresh off their public humiliation at the hands of Lieberman, Obama and the Democrats were able to announce they are close to victory.
President Obama, surrounded by Senate Democratic leaders, said today “we are on the precipice” of major health care changes, though “there are still some differences that [...]
"Obamacon" was a category created by E.J. Dionne, or someone like him, to accommodate conservatives who supported and found substantial merit in Barack Obama. It was populated, thinly, by Doug Kmiec, Jeffrey Hart, Christopher Buckley, and perhaps a few others.
Where do the Obamacons stand now that Obama has [...]
Where did all that stimulus money go? No one knows, really, but every now and then information comes to light about the bill's beneficiaries. Like, for example, the fact that a Minneapolis puppet theater got $25,000.
What's stimulating about sock puppetry? To some, that's a silly question. Barack Obama displayed his' [...]
No one would accuse Barack Obama of speaking softly, but he carries a heckuva big shtick. The shtick was audibly on display in his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech last week. The speech has won the plaudits of many conservatives; at times Obama actually sounded like he was representing [...]
Details of two adult content painting requests from SA's Laissez's Faire subforum-Robert Kagan argues that President Obama's Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech signals that "the world had better get ready for a tougher, less forgiving, more quintessentially American approach from a man who certainly gave the soft touch a try." Kagan sees the speech as a turning point not [...]
A reader points out a remarkable bit of revisionist history in Barack Obama's Nobel Prize speech. No doubt others have commented on it and I've just missed it; but, in any event, it bears repeating. Here is the excerpt from Obama's speech:
Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam' [...]
My Examiner column is about President Obama's handling of Afghanistan -- his prolonged decisionmaking process, his West Point speech, and his plan for a surge. I conclude with this:
It is possible that Obama's plan will succeed. . . But the president has not used his three months [...]We noted yesterday that President Obama had reached the lowest point of his administration in Rasmussen's "approval index," the difference between the number of voters who strongly approve and strongly disapprove of his performance. Yesterday's index was -16. Today, Obama nose-dived again, all the way to -19, with 23 [...]
Over at Redstate, Erick Erickson makes an impassioned plea for Republican Senators to stop Obamacare in its tracks. Erickson essentially argues that unused parliamentary devices could and should be used by Republicans to oppose Obamacare in the Senate.
It's a terrific post and I couldn't agree more with' [...]
Story in today’s Pioneer Press highlights how most DFL candidates for Governor have already committed to raising taxes on every Minnesotan. A hike in taxes is exactly what Minnesota doesn’t need. Even members of President Obama’s Economic team on the Sunday talk shows said that raising taxes in a [...]
