The Pomo Presidency: Obama, the appeaser

Con Underground: "Breaking: We were right, Obama GAVE Iran the Drone!"

A couple of days ago Conunderground.com was the first to point out that the circumstances surrounding the “crash” of the top secret RQ170 Sentinel drone simply didn’t add up. And we were right! The story continues to develop and it doesn’t look good! (...) >>>

Dec. 11, 2011
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Taking Israel bashing to new level -

WaPoOpinions: "Panetta’s antagonistic speech on Israel"

Just when you think that the Obama administration hasn’t annoyed the American Jewish community quite enough or publicly insulted our democratic ally Israel sufficiently, along comes an administration figure willing to stick his finger in the eye of the Jewish state. On Friday, that task fell to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. (...) >>>

Dec. 5, 2011
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How the mighty have fallen -

NewsMax: "Schoen, Caddell: Supercommittee Fiasco Shows Obama Needs to Go"

Barack Obama has shown such poor leadership as president that he needs to step down before the next election for the good of the country, Democratic pollsters Patrick Caddell and Doug Schoen say.

They made their call on the day that Obama was criticized anew for failing to prevent the collapse of the congressional budget supercommittee, which is on the verge of announcing that it has failed to reach agreement on ways to solve the country’s debt crisis.

"One year ago in these pages, we warned that if President Obama continued down his overly partisan road, the nation would be 'guaranteed two years of political gridlock at a time when we can ill afford it.'" Caddell and Schoen write. "The result has been exactly as we predicted: stalemate in Washington, fights over the debt ceiling, an inability to tackle the debt and deficit, and paralysis exacerbating market turmoil and economic decline."

Now the pair say Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has to be prodded into taking Obama’s place as the Democrats’ candidate in November next year.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Schoen, Caddell: Supercommittee Fiasco Shows Obama Needs to Go
Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now! (...) >>>

Nov. 23, 2011
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We're all commies now -

FoxNation: "Obama Science Czar Giving China U.S. Technology"

A congressman says he's alarmed that President Obama's science "czar," John Holdren, apparently has been collaborating with the Chinese even though Congress specifically prohibited that activity in a bill signed into law by his boss, Obama. The accusations from U.S. Rep. Frank Wolf. R-Va., came this week in a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations. (...) >>>

Nov. 7, 2011
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Gunwalker's alfabet soup of agencies -

TWT: "FARAGO: Gunwalker is only the tip of a scandal iceberg"

On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee subpoenaed the Department of Justice. “Top Justice Department officials, including Attorney General Holder, know more about Operation Fast and Furious than they have publicly acknowledged,” committee chairman Darrell E. Issa said. “The documents this subpoena demands will provide answers to questions that Justice officials have tried to avoid since this investigation began eight months ago. It’s time we know the whole truth.”

In fact, the committee’s legal assault on the stone wall surrounding the Justice Department’s collusion with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) is only a waypoint in an epic, ongoing battle to uncover a scandal that involves nearly a dozen federal agencies. (...) >>>

Oct. 15, 2011
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Furious fast -

This is the most corrupt and criminal administration in American history. And their contempt and disgust for the American people is degenerate, rotten, scandalous. Holder must be fired. Obama should be impeached for Fast and Furious. The Republicans must uphold the laws of this country - read it all in:

Atlas Shrugs: "DIRECT EVIDENCE: HOLDER LIED, BRAGGED ABOUT PROJECT GUNRUNNER IN MEXICO IN 2009"

Oct. 11, 2011
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License to kill -

Alternative source: DProgram - recommended - "We are about to lose the Republic to total tyranny" lists the Obama regime's other transgressions -

Salon: "Execution by secret WH committee"

Here is what the Democratic President has created and implemented, and what many party loyalists explicitly endorse (when there’s a Democrat in the White House) (...) So a panel operating out of the White House — that meets in total secrecy, with no known law or rules governing what it can do or how it operates — is empowered to place American citizens on a list to be killed by the CIA, which (by some process nobody knows) eventually makes its way to the President, who is the final Decider. It is difficult to describe the level of warped authoritarianism necessary to cause someone to lend their support to a twisted Star Chamber like that; I genuinely wonder whether the Good Democrats doing so actually first convince themselves that if this were the Bush White House’s hit list, or if it becomes Rick Perry’s, they would be supportive just the same. (...) >>>

Oct. 6, 2011
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Update on the developing scandals -

WashingtonExaminer has more on #LightSquared: "Soros turns up in Obama's LightSquared imbroglio". Heritage looks at #Fast&amp, Furious and #Solyndra in general. Even more in "Will Scandal Drive Obama Off the 2012 Ticket?" by Monty Pelerin -

MorningBell: "Morning Bell: The Obama Investigations"

You wouldn’t know it if you solely paid attention to the mainstream media, but while President Barack Obama attempts to sell the country on hundreds of billions in new stimulus spending and $1.5 trillion in new taxes, his Administration is smack in the middle of several growing scandals: the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running debacle and the crony capitalism wrongdoing involving Solyndra and LightSquared. (...) >>>

Sept. 22, 2011
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The madness of the Libya policy -

PrisonPlanet: "Obama to Approve ‘Al-Qaeda Embassy’ in Washington"

The Obama administration is preparing to follow Britain in recognizing the rebel National Transitional Council as the official government of Libya by approving an embassy in Washington DC, which given the fact that the rebel army is spearheaded by Al-Qaeda militants who have killed U.S. troops would equate to Obama handing terrorists a diplomatic outpost on U.S. soil. “The United States said Wednesday it was reviewing a request by Libya’s rebels to open an embassy in Washington, following Britain which expelled diplomats from Moamer Kadhafi’s regime,” reports AFP. (...) >>>

Sept. 11, 2011
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Is it intentional or inadvertent?-

WSJ: "Obama and the Burden of Exceptionalism", by Shelby Steele

If I've heard it once, I've heard it a hundred times: President Obama is destroying the country. Some say this destructiveness is intended; most say it is inadvertent, an outgrowth of inexperience, ideological wrong-headedness and an oddly undefined character. Indeed, on the matter of Mr. Obama's character, today's left now sounds like the right of three years ago. They have begun to see through the man and are surprised at how little is there.

Yet there is something more than inexperience or lack of character that defines this presidency: Mr. Obama came of age in a bubble of post-'60s liberalism that conditioned him to be an adversary of American exceptionalism. In this liberalism America's exceptional status in the world follows from a bargain with the devil—an indulgence in militarism, racism, sexism, corporate greed, and environmental disregard as the means to a broad economic, military, and even cultural supremacy in the world. And therefore America's greatness is as much the fruit of evil as of a devotion to freedom. (...) >>>

Sept. 1, 2011
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#gunrunnergate #fast&furious -

The total sum of $$ 53,5M was stimulated on the taxpayer's dime in the Porkulus Bill - "Bite Me"  was apparently in charge -




WND: "BELTWAY GUNRUNNERS - Obama stimulus funded 'guns-to-drug-lords' plan - Spending bill gave $10 million of taxpayers' funding to effort"

Just a day after U.S. Rep. Allen West, R-Fla., called for Attorney General Eric Holder's removal, alleging a White House connection to the "Project Gunrunner" that allowed weapons to be delivered to Mexican drug lords, confirmation has come that the program originated at the highest levels of the Obama administration.

The link is the $10 million in taxpayer dollars designated to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives for Project Gunrunner in Obama's 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, otherwise known as the Stimulus Bill. (...) >>>

July 9, 2010
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Libya, Obama's war -

While the House of Rep. could move as early as next week to stop US participation in the war on Libya invoking the War Powers Act, Alex Jones has received alarming reports from within the ranks of military stationed at Ft. Hood, Texas confirming plans to initiate a full-scale U.S.-led ground invasion in Libya and deploy troops by October. As House members are suing on account of the War Powers Act the White House is negating on account that "no troops have been put at jeopardy". That ploy is also no longer working -

Infowars: "U.S. Invasion of Libya Set for October"

(...) A caller identified as “Specialist H” working for mortuary affairs under USCENTCOM revealed that there have already been American casualties inside Libya. He confirmed that at least 2 soldiers and 3 civilians have died from combat bullet wounds, something the media has yet to report, and needs to investigate and address. (...) >>>

June 16, 2011
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Whatever happened to war=evil? -

Glenn Beck: "Congress irrelevant? War #4 is here in Yemen"

Why is no one talking abut the bombings in Yemen? One would think that with wars going on all over the world, that a FOURTH war would be a big deal. Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq…and now Yemen.

The Blaze reports:

WASHINGTON (The Blaze/AP) — The New York Times says the Obama administration has intensified the covert U.S. war in Yemen, hitting militant suspects with armed drones and fighter jets.

The newspaper says the accelerated campaign has occurred in recent weeks as conflict in Yemen has left the government there struggling to cling to power.

The report, posted on the newspaper’s website late Wednesday, says Yemeni troops who had been battling militants linked to al-Qaida in the south have been pulled back to the capital. American officials hope the strikes will help prevent militants from consolidating power. (...) >>>

June 9, 2011
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The truth of Op. Geronimo and Valerie Jarrett emerging as the White House's pomo queen -

Socyberty: "White House Insider: Obama Hesitated – Panetta Issued Order to Kill Osama Bin Laden"

"What Valerie Jarrett, and the president, did not know is that Leon Panetta had already initiated a program that reported to him –and only him, involving a covert on the ground attack against the compound."

Note:This update comes some 24 hours after our longtime Washington D.C. Insider first outlined shocking details of an Obama administration having been “overruled” by senior military and intelligence officials leading up to the successful attack against terrorist Osama Bin Laden. What follows is further clarification of Insider’s insights surrounding that event. (...) >>>

May 3, 2011
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Ironic Surrealism: "[Audio] Rep. Allen West: Obama’s Arrogance Is Like A “Third World Dictator”

Salute! Allen West boldly going where no Congressman has gone before… (...) >>>

Apr 20, 2011
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The root of evil - Socialism is once again running its natural course to shared misery -

CFP: "Blind Leftist Devotion to Obama Results From Marxist Critical Theory"

Recall, Obama was declared a genius of geniuses by the elites when he ran for president, based on admittance to Harvard Law and a few stirring speeches. Yet, once upon a time, some effort was made to connect education to that holy grail called “intelligence.” After all, wasn’t that the entire argument behind the support and development of the “Ivy League”? But as the average—meaning intellectually guileless—person now sees daily and proved by incontrovertible evidence, being an elite simply means you have been trained into sneering, illiterate idiocy.

There is no longer any credible evidence suggesting elites and liberals understand, let alone are committed to, the good life all normal Americans desire. And after rejecting a second Obama presidency—the way a stomach turns on Tijuana water—we must utterly rethink our cultural goals and strategies for their achievement. The first step for this is to defang the serpent by de-funding the Ivy League, or at least cleaning the decks of its illiterate Marxist masters (...) >>>

Apr 10, 2011
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Duped by the stooges -

ESR: "Duped! Relentless Marxist deception", by Alan Caruba

The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism', they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened." Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Party president candidate

Those of my age—I am in my seventies—have a strong recall of the Cold War, fought from the end of World War Two in 1945 until the fall of the infamous Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989 and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. We grew up knowing that the Communists—Marxists—were the enemy.

All throughout that period, American liberals—Leftists—did what they could to ridicule efforts to rid the government of Communists, attacked those like Sen. Joseph McCarthy who spoke out against them, defended the likes of Fidel Castro who turned Cuba into a prison-state, and worked to "improve" U.S.-Soviet relations.

A book I wish everyone would read, liberals and conservatives alike, Dupes by Paul Kengor, went into a second printing in January of this year (ISI Books, Intercollegiate Studies Institute, Wilmington, DE). Kengor, a PhD, is a professor of political science at Grove City College. His book runs just over 600 pages, all thoroughly documented, and tells the history of the effort to impose communism on America and worldwide, dating back to the Bolshevik revolution in 1917. (...) >>>

Mar 8, 2011
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The rhetoric of futility -

The Weekly Std: "Two More Devastating Indictments of Obama's Inaction on Libya"

Two scathing must reads today on the Libya situation are out today from two eminent journalists. Here's Christopher Hitchens (...) And here's The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier (...) >>>

Feb. 25, 2011
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'Smart' diplomacy is terrifying! -

This the O-Team's intelligence community! The same Clapper who was uninformed about what was the great news on that day -

Roger's Rules: "Ouch! More Smart Diplomacy", by Roger Kimball

(...) someone called James Clapper came on. He, it turns out, is Director of National Intelligence. The Director of National Intelligence sat in front of a House Intelligence Committee and asserted publicly, to adults, that the Muslim Brotherhood was a “largely secular” organization.

The term “Muslim Brotherhood” . . . is an umbrella term for a variety of movements, in the case of Egypt, a very heterogeneous group, largely secular, which has eschewed violence and has decried Al Qaeda as a perversion of Islam. (...) there is no overarching agenda, particularly in pursuit of violence, at least internationally.

Will wonders never cease? I thought the Muslim Brotherhood called itself the Muslim Brotherhood because, you know, it was a Muslim, i.e., a religious, i.e., not a secular, organization. And I thought the group did have “an overarching agenda,” namely the establishment of Islamic law world wide. Perhaps our Director of National Intelligence should take time to ponder this state from a document called Jihad is the Way (...)

one might have thought that the big news yesterday was coming out of Cairo. But no. It was Washington. It involved folks like James Clapper and Leon Panetta, director of the CIA, who said yesterday that “U.S. intelligence indicates that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is on his way out.”

I have come to cherish the phrase ““U.S. intelligence indicates.” Leon Panetta told us Mubarak was going. The perky newscasters kept telling us that Mubarak was going. President Obama (head left: utter a cliché; slowly pan right, emit another cliché) thought that too. The one person not on board with this scenario was Hosni Mubarak — and his army. He let James Clapper, Leon Panetta, the whole of the Western media, and Barack Obama make fools of themselves for a few hours.

Then he announced that he wasn’t going anywhere until he was good and ready, which was in September when an election was scheduled in Egypt. (...) Among the many benisons Barack Obama was supposed to usher into the metabolism of American politics — we were going to get rid of lobbyists, establish a post-racial, post partisan, government that would be “the most transparent in history” etc. etc. — and we were going to embark upon smart diplomacy, unlike whatever kind it was that George Bush practiced.

I’d say that Hosni Mubarak made his American “allies” (some allies!) look like fools. That wouldn’t be fair. They made themselves look like fools. That smart diplomacy, it turns out, wasn’t “smart” as in clever. It was “smart” as in how your cheek feels when it’s been slapped hard. (...) >>>

Feb. 11, 2011
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Update It has just become known this was a full scale astroturf campaign. The Obama team actually put “applause” prompts on the Jumbotron during the rally -

Beyond shame -

"Sneaking in commie propaganda" was the original subtitle of this entry. But that was before I heard a recording of Obama's Tucson 'memorial' speech. I have never seen a more thinly veiled political event masquerading as something else, much less a memorial of a massacre in which 6 people died and 12 were injured. I've seldom heard something so shameless ... oh, and it's 'civility' he's calling for -

American Thinker: "Clarice's Pieces: Another Memo from Leni Riefenstahl", by Clarice Feldman

From: Leni Riefenstahl

To: Barack Obama und Frau Obama

Subject: Politische Kundgebung getarnt als eine Gedenkfeier (Political rally masquerading as a memorial service)

It's been two years since I last wrote. Then it was about the Invesco Field Rally in Denver. Now it's about that rally in Tucson. If you don't mind a few harsh words from someone seasoned in such things, no matter that you tried hard, the tragic incident in Tucson was no Reichstag Fire, and while you made as much of it as you could, you need to hone your shtick a bit better in future. I keep writing to you out of admiration for your political inclinations and skills, of course.

I want only for you to succeed, and I hope you take my words to heart. (...) >>>
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The Blaze: "Rush: AZ Memorial T-Shirt Slogan Came From DNC’s Organizing for America"

The presence of tee-shirts branded with the tragedy of last weekend’s Arizona shootings raised the eyebrows of many onlookers who worried the shooting was being subjected to politicization. A group of Arizona students has taken credit for the tee-shirt design and motto, but many are suggesting the “Together We Thrive” motto actually came from Organizing for America, the campaign arm of the Democratic National Committee. (...) >>>

Jan. 16, 2011
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"The president of the United States is a socialist" -

The American Spectator: "Boehner Takes On Radical-In-Chief", by Jeffrey Lord

Within hours, John Boehner, a son of the Ohio working class, will become Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. Just in time.

In an exhaustively researched book Radical-In-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, released at the end of 2010, longtime journalist Stanley Kurtz provides a thorough documentation of what so many have suspected of President Barack Obama. Although he was initially skeptical, Kurtz's extremely detailed research done over two-years in archives and with information from fresh and knowledgeable sources has led him to a disturbing conclusion. In Kurtz's concluding, blunt words:

The president of the United States is a socialist.

Kurtz also focuses on the late American socialist Michael Harrington's "socialist realignment strategy" -- deliberately dividing Americans by class "with Republicans marked out as the aggressors," forcing the "have-nots" to act as a unified, pro-socialist -- and electorally dominant -- force. (...) >>>

Jan. 4, 2011
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#fail -

RedWhiteBlueNews: "Obama may be in deep trouble… Chief Justice John Roberts, U.S. Supreme Court"

According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much, if not all of Obama’s major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government.

Obama certainly did not help himself in the eyes of the Court when he used the venue of the State of the Union address early in the year to publicly flog the Court over its ruling that the First Amendment grants the right to various organizations to run political ads during the time of an election.
The tongue-lashing clearly did not sit well with the Court (...) >>>

Dec. 27, 2010
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Messiah abdicating presidency -

PJM: "Fail to the Chief - The impotent POTUS disrespects his job", by Bryan Preston

(...) Mr. I’ll Stop the Rise of the Seas handed the presidency to one of his predecessors on Friday. During a press conference in the White House briefing room, the President of the United States handed the bully pulpit over to Bill Clinton. Obama and Clinton had just held a closed door meeting regarding the Bush tax cut deal and presumably discussed what Obama must do now that he faces a Republican majority in the House. The pair of presidents decided to hold an impromptu press conference. A few minutes in, Obama walks out, leaving Clinton to hold court with the White House press corps. (...) Perhaps Obama was trying to get ahead of this whole silly “No Labels” thing, by shedding his own label: President of the United States. (...) >>>

Dec. 14, 2010
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The death a messiah (hope and change) -

PJM: "Tax Deal: Lefties Go Wild, Obama Presidency Hits Apocalypse", by Bryan Preston

If the commenters at the Huffington Post, and the hosts and guests at MSNBC, are any guide, the Bush tax cut deal has rendered the Obama presidency a zombie. It looks alive and is even able to move and groan a bit, but it’s mostly dead. (...) "The next time I vote for a President, I am going to rank strong negotiating skills right up there with literacy and intellect" - That’s funny. Conservatives brought up the “competency” argument in 2008 and got slapped with the race card. Now here’s a liberal playing competency against Obama. I happened to be watching MSNBC’s Ed Schultz (so you don’t have to) when the deal came down on Monday. His guest was liberal Rep. Keith Ellison. I thought the two might have an on-air rage party. (...) >>>

Dec. 9, 2010
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The warmist agenda, a means to an end -

American Spectator: "Obama to Voters: Drop Dead", by Peter Ferrara

(...) The bad news is how much trouble our country is still in. For after all of President Obama's double talking sweet talk right after the vote, the harsh reality, inconsistent with our very democracy, is that the Democrats and the Washington Establishment are rejecting the message the people sent. Their response is the political equivalent of "Shut Up." (...) There is no scientific justification for this economic suicide for America's economy, which is why even the current overwhelmingly Democrat Congress refused to pass cap and trade. But this doesn't even take into account the full economic effect of the recession that would inevitably result. Indeed, achieving the CO2 targets would essentially repeal the industrial revolution, which would involve a lot more lost jobs than 7 million. If you don't think anyone would ever attempt that, then you don't understand the extremist threat facing our country. (...) >>>

1 Dec. 2010
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2010, the grand analysis -

FEATURE - Standpoint: "Decision Time for Barack Obama", by John Bolton

America's system of separated powers is wondrous to behold. Even considering just the two elected branches, Congress and the Presidency, its complications and intricacies baffle foreigners and Americans alike. Moreover, the 50 states remain politically pivotal, especially immediately after the decennial census. Population changes among states shift their relative weights in the Electoral College, and control of state governments post-census can shape congressional districts and therefore election outcomes.

Not surprisingly, interpreting the biennial elections between presidential years is both critical and highly uncertain. In 1994, an unexpected tsunami gave Republicans control of both houses of Congress for the first time since 1954, and was widely interpreted as signalling Bill Clinton's impending defeat in 1996. Nonetheless, Clinton won re-election easily. By contrast, the 2006 Republican "thumpin'", as George W. Bush described it, did indeed foreshadow Barack Obama's 2008 victory. (...) >>>

Nov. 30, 2010
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Cablesgate, the damage so far -

While some (Rush Limbaugh) has been suggesting the information was leaked purposely, Yid With Lid has gone through the docs released so far, and whereas concluding cablesgate discovered no news at all, Assange/Wikileaks is typified in the news either as a noble whistleblower, or as a terrorist or a hooligan, YWL describes it like this -

"The only real surprise of the Wikileaks documents is the American reaction. For months we have been hearing about a computer virus developed and surreptitiously brought to Iran where it has infected and slowed down the Iranian Nuclear program, it seems to me that it would be an easier task to develop one that wrecks the Wikileaks database. Wikileaks has been leaking our classified information for over a year, one would think that stopping them would be a priority. The reaction of our government is embarrassing. We are the laughingstock of the world, we look impotent. The United States is supposedly a superpower whose only response to the Wikileaks disclosure is pathetically, a sternly worded letter. "

Yid With Lid: "Wikileaks "Bombshells" Confirm What We Already Know"

Nov. 29, 2010
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Mental exercise: Can you imagine what this article would have said had George Bush implemented the underwear check? By the way, where is this coming from, 11 months after the event of the panty bomber? -

LA Times: "Shut up and be scanned"

Would you rather pose for a nude photograph or be groped by a federal employee? To hear many fliers these days, those are the only two choices for air passengers as the Transportation Security Administration installs full-body scanners at airports and introduces a more invasive pat-down technique that some have likened to sexual molestation. We're not wild about the new methods either, but they're a necessary evil in the era of suicide bombers who board planes with chemical explosives in their underwear. >>>

Nov. 21, 2010
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Spiegel: "'Obama Comes Across as Cold, Arrogant and Elitist'"

It was a failure of historic proportions. With US President Barack Obama's Democrats having lost control of the House, there seems little hope for progress during his two remaining years, say German commentators. Obama himself, they say, bears much of the blame.

On Tuesday, US President Barack Obama and his Democratic party were issued a stinging defeat in the mid-term elections as the Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and installed themselves in 22 governor's mansions.

Though the Democrats narrowly were able to keep control of the Senate, the Republicans, who rode the wave of anti-incumbent sentiment and populist anger over the economy into office, now have the power to determine the House's legislative agenda -- and to block Obama proposals. Indeed, Republican leaders in the House have already promised that their first order of business will be to repeal Obama's health care reform -- his signature achievement.

Several German opinion-makers were clear that the election was more of a referendum on the president, who comes across as "cold, arrogant, and elitist," and less of an endorsement of the Republicans and their policies.  (...) >>>

Nov. 13, 2010
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Deep Throat part II -

Examiner: "'Deep throat' strikes again; reveals insider info on Obama, Hillary", by Anthony G. Martin

In a previous report Conservative Examiner delved into the claims of a White House insider who is feeding information to a blogger who goes by the name of 'Ulsterman.'

The report contained revelations of the pending unraveling of the Obama Presidency due to the President's inability to deal with growing opposition among the citizens and in the halls of Congress--and a scandal simmering under the surface that could explode at any moment.

'Deep Throat' also claimed that Obama is so self-absorbed that he actually believes he is adored by throngs of people all over the world. The observation was also made that the President is exhibiting bizarre behavior that suggests emotional instability.

'Ulsterman,' the blogger chosen by 'Deep Throat' to reveal the insider information, has now provided a follow-up to the previous story. (...) >>>

Nov. 11, 2010
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Obama's deluded presser -

NRO: "Obama Doesn’t Get It", by Victor Davis Hanson

President Obama came close, but he still just cannot admit that his radical policies and their effects on the economy are the cause of his devastating political rebuke. For most of his press conference, an oddly depressed Obama voted present, as he all but said that the problems are mostly ours, not his — or at least not his agenda but perhaps an occasional inadequate communication.

In clingers fashion, he once more is talking down to us, explaining that we confused his necessary solutions with a bogeyman increase in big government, and so typically, in fright and ignorance, lashed out at his party. He is claiming the outrage grew from the same frustration that elected him, rather than arising precisely because of him and his agenda. In short, we are angry because his EU-socialist agenda is progressing too slowly and hasn’t delivered as promised — as it will in time. Perhaps then we will thank him for his proper big-government, big-spending solution.

He seems bewildered (for the first time?) that his popularity as a campaign rhetorician did not last when he became responsible for actual governance. For most of the press conference, a humbled but deer-in-the-headlights Obama half-heartedly argued that the populist outrage against his own massive debt, huge wasteful government, and elitism was really outrage against the economy he inherited, an outrage that he shares.

We don’t know it, the president hints, but we are still angry at the Bush years, and yesterday mistakenly took our wrath out on Obama’s methodical, albeit too slow, efforts at recovery. In short, there was little admission whatsoever that Obama’s message and the way he pushed it turned off millions — there was no repentant Clinton, circa autumn 1994, here; instead, a shocked Obama who seems hurt that we do not appreciate him. (...) >>>

Nov. 6, 2010
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Obamists playing the final card -

Leftists poised to play the usual finale, the get-out-of-jail card ... we meant well! Read it all in a great analysis by Shelby Steele -

WSJ: "A Referendum on the Redeemer", by Shelby Steele

Whether or not the Republicans win big next week, it is already clear that the "transformative" aspirations of the Obama presidency—the special promise of this first black president to "change" us into a better society—are much less likely to materialize. There will be enough Republican gains to make the "no" in the "party of no" even more formidable, if not definitive.

But apart from this politics of numbers, there is also now a deepening disenchantment with Barack Obama himself. (He has a meager 37% approval rating by the latest Harris poll.) His embarrassed supporters console themselves that their intentions were good; their vote helped make history. But for Mr. Obama himself there is no road back to the charisma and political capital he enjoyed on his inauguration day. (...) >>>

Oct, 28, 2010
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In the eyes of a Hillary Democrat -

Hillbuzz: "Current president’s brother Malik marries third wife: a teenager"

This is beyond disgusting. Our current, illustrious, light-bringing, oceans-lowering, miracle-working, “The One”, president is now the proud brother-in-law of a teenaged girl…who has become the third wife of his brother Malik in Kenya. Disgusting.

- Caption: Frank Marshall Davis - 

“The current president is a Marxist who was raised in Hawaii under the mentorship of Frank Marshall, an admitted pedophile. Before that, he lived in Indonesia and attended school as a Muslim. He was adopted by a Muslim named Soetoro and to this day refuses to show his birth certificate because of either a name change that happened to it because of that adoption or because of whatever was written on it about the identity or ethnological makeup of his father, who was a Kenyan who would have been listed as “African Arab” on his birth certificate and not “black” the way he wants him to be.

The American media didn’t look into any of this, and won’t talk about it now. They also won’t talk about the fact that no one knows how this president got into Columbia or Harvard when he appears to have gotten Cs and Ds in most of his classes, was made president of the Harvard Law Review without ever writing an article, and published two books that were ghost-written (one by William Ayers, an unapologetic terrorist, and the other by Jon Favreau, but not the director, the one that’s a little punk). The media won’t talk about Jeremiah Wright or the hate-church of black liberation theology this president sat in for over 20 years, or his desire to see America taken off a capitalist system and made into a socialist “paradise” with him as the dictatorial “Dr. Utopia”. This president supports building a Victory Mosque symbol of Islamic conquest at Ground Zero, calls anyone who opposes him a racist, and believes midwesterners are bitter, religion-and-gun-clinging yokels he looks down upon.

- Caption: Jakarta school registration listing Obama's religion as Muslim -

Oh, and his brother in Kenya just married his third wife…who is a teenager”.

I don’t think I’d have enough time in a day with Holly to tell her about Aunt Zetunia in Boston or describe all the things Michelle Antoinette has done since the Obamas moved into the White House.

Shameful. (...) >>>

Oct. 15, 2010
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Ominous signs -

Floyd Reports: "Obama Considering Rule by Executive Order in 2011"

This morning, political commentators are paying a great deal of attention to one of the Los Angeles Times’ stories about Barack Obama’s plans for a Republican takeover of Congress. Unfortunately, they are focusing on the wrong one. Most commentators spent the morning quoting the president’s remarks on a black radio program that a GOP-dominated Congress will result in “hand-to-hand combat.” The reality is most of the action will take place behind their backs and over their heads. All indications are, if Obama cannot get his legislative agenda enacted by Congress, he will impose it by decree.

The evidence comes buried elsewhere in today’s L.A. Times in a piece by Peter Nicholas and Christi Parsons under the hum-drum headline, “Obama Reshapes Administration for a Fresh Strategy.” The story makes clear the “fresh strategy” borders on government by executive fiat. It begins, “As President Obama remakes his senior staff, he is also shaping a new approach for the second half of his term: to advance his agenda through executive actions he can take on his own, rather than pushing plans through an increasingly hostile Congress.” This rule by divine right of kings is confirmed by no less an Obama insider than David Axelrod, who said, “It’s fair to say that the next phase is going to be less about legislative action than it is about managing the change that we’ve brought.” The Times states candidly (...) >>>

Oct. 9, 2010
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Obama's shocking intellectual deficit -

American Thinker: "A Natural Law Lesson for Obama", by Jason McNew

President Obama's editing out of the words "...by their Creator..." from the Declaration of Independence Friday night (video and transcript here) is a remarkable act for sitting president. It suggest that the purported constitutional law expert needs some remedial education.

The Declaration of Independence was drafted by Thomas Jefferson (when he was 33 years old), based on a list of points laid out by a 5 person committee which also included Benjamin Franklin and John Adams. The most famous part (for good reason) of the Declaration of Independence reads (...)

Thomas Jefferson's notion of a Creator in The Declaration of Independence does not have anything to do with establishment religion or dogma (theology); it is strictly a philosophical construct. Further, the idea that all men are equal was a very radical idea in 1776, and its purpose was two fold (...) >>>

Sept. 19, 2010
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The inside story ...

... probably from the Hillary camp - Part II

NewsFlavor: "White House Insider on Obama: “the President is Losing It.”"

A longtime Washington D.C. insider, and former advisor to the Obama election campaign and transition team, speaks out on an administration in crisis, and a president increasingly withdrawn from the job of President. (...) >>>

Sept. 17, 2010
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The looong short list so far -

Examiner: "Pure Insanity of the Looney Left", by Dean Chambers

Evan Sayet, a comedian and former writer for the leftist Bill Maher, is a former liberal who now calls himself a “9-13 Republican.” Sayet realized just how wrong and anti-American the far left is while observing their behavior after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. After some intense thinking about how leftist liberals hate everything that is right, he realized that is why they are wrong not just many or most issues but EVERY issue. I think he’s absolutely right. A look at just a few of the current example of leftist liberalism in the news really does show Evan Sayet is right. (...) >>>

Sept. 7, 2010
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The British on the US Sun King's Presidency -

Telegraph: "The Obama presidency increasingly resembles a modern-day Ancien Régime: extravagant and out of touch with the American people", by Nile Gardiner

What the great French historian Alexis de Tocqueville would make of today’s Obama administration were he alive today is anyone’s guess. But I would wager that the author of L’Ancien Régime and Democracy in America would be less than impressed with the extravagance and arrogance on display among the White House elites that rule America as though they had been handed some divine right to govern with impunity. It is the kind of impunity that has been highlighted on the world stage this week by Michelle Obama’s hugely costly trip to Spain, which has prompted a New York Post columnist Andrea Tantaros to dub the First Lady a contemporary Marie Antoinette. (...) >>>

Aug. 8, 2010
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The Kenyan embroglio (once again) -

Gateway Pundit: "Obama-Supported Kenyan Constitution Forces Sharia Law", by Jim Hoft

Yesterday, it was reported that Barack Obama is illegally funding a pro-abortion referendum in Kenya.
But, it gets worse… The Constitution Obama is supporting forces Sharia Law in the country. Kathryn Jean Lopez at National Review reported:

U.S. financial and rhetorical support for this constitution has some members of Congress calling for an investigation. In a letter to inspectors general of the U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the Government Accountability Office (GAO), Republican representatives Chris Smith of New Jersey, Darrell Issa of California, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida raised questions about American constitutional lobbying in Kenya: “The Obama Administration’s advocacy in support of Kenya’s proposed constitution may constitute a serious violation of the Siljander Amendment and, as such, may be subject to civil and criminal penalties.”

Administration officials have denied the lobbying charge. But, as the letter points out, our ambassador to Kenya has been quoted as saying that the U.S. has given Kenya $2 million for “civic education” about the constitution, and that we’re committed to more. (...) >>>

Jul 17, 2010
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Taking stock -

NRO: "Obama’s Second Act", by Charles Krauthammer

In the political marketplace, there’s now a run on Obama shares. The Left is disappointed with the president. Independents are abandoning him in droves. And the Right is already dancing on his political grave, salivating about November, when, his own press secretary admitted Sunday, Democrats might lose the House. I have a warning for Republicans: Don’t underestimate Barack Obama. Consider what he has already achieved. Obamacare alone makes his presidency historic. (...) >>>

Jul 16, 2010
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The recess coup against we the people -

WSJ: "Berwick: Bigger Than Kagan", by Daniel Henninger

Barack Obama's incredible "recess appointment" of Dr. Donald Berwick to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is probably the most significant domestic-policy personnel decision in a generation. It is more important to the direction of the country than Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court. The court's decisions are subject to the tempering influence of nine competing minds. Dr. Berwick would direct an agency that has a budget bigger than the Pentagon. Decisions by the CMS shape American medicine.

Dr. Berwick's ideas on the design and purpose of the U.S. system of medicine aren't merely about "change." They would be revolutionary. One may agree with these views or not, but for the president to tell the American people they have to simply accept this through anything so flaccid as a recess appointment is beyond outrageous. It isn't acceptable. (...) >>>

Jul 15, 2010
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The Watergate conspirators were choirboys -

Examiner: "Sources say smackdown of Obama by Supreme Court may be inevitable", by Anthony Martin

According to sources who watch the inner workings of the federal government, a smackdown of Barack Obama by the U.S. Supreme Court may be inevitable. Ever since Obama assumed the office of President, critics have hammered him on a number of Constitutional issues. Critics have complained that much if not all of Obama's major initiatives run headlong into Constitutional roadblocks on the power of the federal government. (...) >>>

Jul 11, 2010
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Hey, we didn't want it that socialist! -

The Daily Beast: "The Elite Turn Against Obama", by Lloyd Grove

Even the Aspen Ideas Festival, an annual gathering of the country's brightest lights, isn't Obama country anymore. Lloyd Grove on the president's waning support among the intelligentsia. (...) Obama’s top economic adviser, Larry Summers, and his departing budget director, Peter Orszag, can expect heavy weather when they land in Aspen later this week to make their case to this civic-minded clique of wealthy skeptics. (...)

Zuckerman added that he detects in the Obama White House “hostility to the very kinds of [business] culture that have made this the great country that it is and was. I think we have to find some way of dealing with that or else we will do great damage to this country with a public policy that could ruin everything.” (...) Brolin’s assessment: “Mind-blowing.” (...) >>>

Jul 8, 2010
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Obama’s Resignation Petition launched -

Examiner: "July 4th: The Founders would revolt", by Robert Moon

Everything the Founding Fathers put in place to protect our citizens from government tyranny has now been thrown down and torn to shreds by corrupt class warfare extremists on a war path against the free market. They have illegally seized the banks, the housing market, the insurance industry, the auto industry, health care, student loans...and are now taking over Wall Street, the energy industry and the Internet. There will soon be nothing left for them to steal, and as I have noted, they are utterly annihilating the economy in the process. They have used one self-created crisis after another to increase their own power and control, creating maximum dependence through (...) >>>

July 4, 2010
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Obama’s Resignation Petition launched -

The Post & Email: "Demand for Obama’s Resignation Petition has been launched - PETITIONS TO BE DELIVERED TO HOUSE AND SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEES AS WELL AS OBAMA", by Sharon Rondeau

Chalice Jackson, owner of Patriots Heart Network, in tandem with Scott Winchell and Maj. Gen. Paul E. Vallely (Ret.) of Stand Up America and formerly a military analyst at the Fox News Channel, have announced the launch of a new initiative which demands the resignation of “Barack Obama, his appointees, and his administration forthwith” for “High Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The “NO CONFIDENCE! We Demand Resignation Petition Letter for High Crimes and Misdemeanors” can be found here and is downloadable and printable. (...) >>>

Jun 28, 2010
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The Left and the BP nexus -

A Time for Choosing: "Barack Obama, George Soros, Petrobas, And The Real Reason Why Obama Is Trying To Halt American Oil Production: A Crime Inc. Update", by Gary P Jackson

We first reported on the fact that Barack Obama and his boss George Soros teamed up to make billions of dollars in the oil business, the day the $10 billion dollar gift to Brazil was announced almost a year ago. Sadly, outside of the blogs, no one has reported on this major scandal at all, except Glenn Beck, who has recently taken notice.

I mean how hard is this one to put together? You’ve got Nazi sympathizer George Soros, the self proclaimed “owner of the democrat party” purchasing controlling interest in Brazilian oil giant Petrobas, then just a couple of days later, Barack Obama “loans” the country of Brazil $10 billion, which is then given to …. wait for it …. Petrobas. Glenn keeps saying it’s $2 billion, but the commitment is for $10 billion. You can read our most previous offerings on this incredible corruption here and here. (...) >>>

Jun 26, 2010
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Jon Voight speaking for many -

TWT: "An open letter to President Obama from Jon Voight"

June 22, 2010

President Obama:

You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the only Democratic state in the Middle East, against all their enemies. You have done just the opposite. You have propagandized Israel, until they look like they are everyone's enemy — and it has resonated throughout the world. You are putting Israel in harm's way, and you have promoted anti-Semitism throughout the world. (...) >>>

Jun 24, 2010
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Family history and the problem with the British special relationship -

Mail Online: "The real reason President Obama loathes the British... his grandfather was tortured in a high-security Kenyan prison"

The Kenyan bowed his head as his captors opened the prison cell door to deliver another brutal whipping - a punishment meted out after he was accused of taking part in the independence movement against the British colonial authorities. The man had been working as a cook for a British Army officer. And his name? Hussein Onyango Obama - President Barack Obama's paternal grandfather. He had been arrested in 1949 and jailed for two years in a high-security prison. There, according to his family, he was subjected to horrific violence. They say British soldiers used torture in an effort to get him to reveal rebel secrets. (...) >>>

June 19, 2010
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The O team flunking diplomacy too -

TWT: "Obama's diplomatic flop - The O Force can't match the Bush record in diplomacy"

During the campaign, then-Sen. Barack Obama made light of what he saw as his predecessor-to-be's lack of diplomatic skill. As Wednesday's U.N. Security Council vote on sanctions over Iran's nuclear program showed, Mr. Obama's team could learn a few things about diplomacy from George W. Bush.

The vote sent "an unmistakable message" to Iran about the international community's commitment to stop nuclear proliferation, according to the White House. The vote tally also communicated a secondary point: President Obama is losing the international consensus that Mr. Bush once had. In three rounds of Bush-led U.N. votes on sanctions from 2006 through 2008, there were no negative votes and only one abstention, from Indonesia. By contrast, the resolution Mr. Obama spearheaded was met with two "no" votes, from Turkey and Brazil, and one abstention, from Lebanon. This is a very poor showing, especially given Mr. Obama's smugness about his ability to improve America's image before the world. (...) >>>

Jun 13, 2010
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The Chicago way comes to DC -

Townhall: "Obama's 'Chicago Way' Plunders the Private Sector", by Michael Barone

An interesting thing about Barack Obama is that he chose, on two occasions, to live in Chicago -- even though he didn't grow up there, had no family ties there, never went to school there. It was a curious choice. Chicago has a civic culture all its own and one that is particularly insular. Family ties and personal connections are hugely important. Professionals who have lived and worked there for a quarter-century are brusquely reminded, "You're not from here." Nonetheless, Obama moved upward in the Chicago civic firmament with apparent ease. (...) >>>

Jun 3, 2010
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True to type, Obama dumps on the good guy -

See also book review entry "Why Wilders and Hirsi Ali are right about Islam" on Mar 6, 2010 -

Publius: "President Obama Finally Found His Deportee: A Palestinian Convert to Christianity", by  Warner Todd Huston

After a desperate search of the country, President Barack Hussein Obama is ready to deport someone at long last. And that deportee is a dangerous, horrible man, indeed. His name is Mosab Hassan Yousef and he is a convert from Islam to Christianity who hails from Palestine. To show how dangerous he is, he has written a subversive new book named “Son of Hamas,” a book that denounces Islamic terror and violence and warns Americans of dangers posed them. One other thing is interesting about this man. He is the son of the founder of the Palestinian-based terrorist group Hamas and has turned against those terrorists, his former comrades, and family members. Yeah. A terrible man, indeed. Yet, here we have President Barack Hussein Obama’s administration looking to deport this man who stands against Islamic terror, this man that wants an end to radicalized Islam, this man that has converted to the very religion that the bulk of American’s observe. (...) >>>

Jun 1, 2010
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The rising odor of fish -

Examiner: "White House-Clinton-Sestak deal: now everyone is lying", Anthony G. Martin

The latest revelations on the White House-Bill Clinton-Joe Sestak bribery case make it clear that the official explanation fails to pass 'the smell test' of authenticity. Upon a close examination of the 'official version' of the story--on which all of the parties involved suddenly agree after months of stonewalling--the scenario is rife with the rank stench of dirty backroom deals. Apparently now that the main players in the scandal have gotten their heads and stories together, everyone is now lying. (...) >>>

May 30, 2010
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Sparks in the powder keg -

WSJ: "Iran and North Korea March On - Pyongyang's behavior shows why we must stop the mullahs from getting the bomb", by John Bolton

Last week, while meandering toward a fourth U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against Iran, Washington was blindsided by the revival of a previously discarded plan to enrich some of Iran's uranium to higher levels for use in the Tehran research reactor. This proposal—a good deal for Iran when it was proposed last year by the misguided Obama administration—is even better in its latest iteration and does nothing to stop Iran's uranium enrichment program.

The Iranian enrichment deal was brokered by Brazil and Turkey, two of the 10 current nonpermanent Security Council members, and it could pose difficulties for getting the council to adopt another resolution on sanctions. To forestall the debilitating effects of the Brazil-Turkey deal, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promptly circulated to other council members the draft of a sanctions resolution the five permanent members and Germany had spent months negotiating. Unfortunately, the damage was done. (...) >>>

May 25, 2010
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On the lighter side -

The Dartboard: "Obama Radicals, Socialists, and Marxists in their Own Words", by Terrell Clemmons

Barack Obama admitted in his first book “Dreams of My Father” that he used to carefully seek out Marxist friends. These two are great fun (...) >>>

May 23, 2010
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Morning Bell: "Congress’ Historic Decision to Ignore Its Basic Duty"

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) once said that the “most basic responsibility of governing is to pass a budget.” Yesterday it became clear that Congress has decided to shirk that responsibility, as word broke that the House likely will not pass a budget resolution for the first time since the modern budget process was created in 1974.

That’s earthshaking news, especially given the ballooning federal spending, which soared to an $82.69 billion deficit in April, a projected $1.5 trillion deficit in 2010, and even more deficits as far as the eye can see. Like any American’s household budget that tracks income and expenses, budget resolutions set a framework for Congress’ taxing and spending. But it’s a framework that the leadership in the House would rather do without. (...) >>>

May 14, 2010
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Trouble brewing at the UN Security Council? -

FoxNews: "Obama and Israel: Showdown at the UN?", by Ben Evansky

The Obama administration is reportedly signaling another major shift in policy towards one of its staunchest allies, Israel, and this shift could change the way it votes at the Security Council. The change would mean an end to the US' use of its veto power in the United Nations Security Council when certain anti-Israel resolutions are introduced for a vote. (...) US officials at the UN told Fox News that there is no such initiative before the Security Council and they are not "pursuing or encouraging such action", but some critics believe they are playing a game of smoke and mirrors. (...) >>>

Apr 18, 2010
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Axelrod reveals anti American agenda - In the US the people are sovereign. This is why polls matter. And it is in essence what constitutes America. Who goes against the will of the people is acting as a tyrant. Obama mouthpiece David Axelrod - off his guard - has revealed the Obama administration's anti American agenda. Clinton adjusted his policies because he wanted to be re-elected, but this lot - like suicide terrorists - don't care whether they live or die, because they are nihilists and have no values but their foul ideology. They will foist their global socialist program by hook or by crook. Because that is what leftists do: they coerce.

PJM: "Tea Partiers Get Valuable Lesson from … David Axelrod", by Kyle-Anne Shiver

(...) This priceless gem was delivered by David Axelrod as he did an ObamaCare post-passage interview on the Democrats’ blitzkrieg strategy. Just hours after the House vote, Axelrod gave an interview to the Huffington Post (one of Axelrod’s sons is an editor), and he let his guard down enough to give all Americans a glimpse into the true soul of this administration.

Speaking of inside-the-White-House deliberations in the immediate aftermath of the Scott Brown victory, Axelrod noted:

Some of the steam went out of the opposition after that [Brown’s victory]. … I think that people felt like they had made a statement. Perhaps they felt like they had killed health care reform … They thought the fight was over. And that [the president] couldn’t now succeed. I do believe that. And it is almost as if they had made the statement that they thought they had stopped the thing. And so it created a breathing space for us to regroup.

In this brief moment of candor lies the most crucial enlightenment the people are going to get from this administration: (...) >>>

Apr 15, 2010
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