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Michelle Malkin: The Obama Way - Bluster, Bully, Bribe
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The Obama Way: Bluster, Bully, Bribe
by Michelle Malkin
The White House took great offense this week when conservatives suggested President Obama might be trading a judicial appointment for a wavering Democrat’s vote on his health care reform plan. “Absurd,” a miffed administration official told Politico.com. Wherever could the American people get such an [...]
Dennis Prager: John, Chuck, Kathleen, and … Mr. President
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John, Chuck, Kathleen, and … Mr. President
by Dennis Prager
There was something particularly annoying — even harmful to society — during the health care summit held last week between President Obama and leading members of the House and Senate.
It was the president’s calling all the congressmen and senators by their first names.
It is [...]
Michelle Malkin: Oba-Kabuki - A Box-Office Bomb
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Oba-Kabuki: A Box-Office Bomb
by Michelle Malkin
The Oba-Kabuki health care show at Blair House kicked off with a big lie on Thursday morning — and it all went downhill from there. The taxpayer-funded infomercial backfired by exposing the president’s thin skin, the Democrats’ naked disingenuousness and the ruling majority’s allergies to political and [...]
Victor Davis Hanson: Obama - Too Little, Too late, Too Cynical
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Obama - Too Little, Too late, Too Cynical
by Victor Davis Hanson
The United States may very well owe a crushing $20 trillion by 2020. And thus President Obama last week named a bipartisan commission to find ways to address our national debt.
Such a Periclean response might sound sincere and worthwhile. But it comes [...]
Michelle Malkin: Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s National Security Cover-Up
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Corruptocrat Eric Holder’s National Security Cover-Up
by Michelle Malkin
The White House wants to play Transparency Olympics with the Tea Party movement. President Obama’s Chief Technology Officer Andrew McLaughlin dared Tea Party activists and conservatives last week to “push the administration to make its policies more open” and make it a “political competition … [...]
Michael Barone: Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient - Intuition
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Obama Lacks One Crucial Ingredient - Intuition
by Michael Barone
No president enters office knowing everything he needs to know. His experience is limited to some greater or lesser extent; his knowledge of the people from whom he will choose appointees is incomplete; his mastery of the substance of public policy, after years on [...]
Charles Krauthammer: Ungovernable? Nonsense.
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Ungovernable? Nonsense.
by Charles Krauthammer
In the latter days of the Carter presidency, it became fashionable to say that the office had become unmanageable and was simply too big for one man. Some suggested a single, six-year presidential term. The president’s own White House counsel suggested abolishing the separation of powers and going to [...]
Michelle Malkin: The Other Stupid Things John Brennan Said
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The Other Stupid Things John Brennan Said
by Michelle Malkin
It’s bad enough that John Brennan, President Obama’s national security deputy, thinks Gitmo jihadi recidivism is “not that bad.” But in his talk last week with Islamic law students at New York University, Brennan made even more reckless comments about our counterterrorism programs while [...]
Thomas Sowell: Playing Freedom Cheap
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Playing Freedom Cheap
by Thomas Sowell
If eternal vigilance is the price of freedom, incessant distractions are the way that politicians take away our freedoms, in order to enhance their own power and longevity in office. Dire alarms and heady crusades are among the many distractions of our attention from the ever increasing ways that [...]
Michael Barone: Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day
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Under Obama, Crony Capitalism Again Rules the Day
by Michael Barone
In his bestseller “Inside U.S.A.,” the hugely readable journalist John Gunther described America as it was in the last year of World War II. He interviewed hundreds of politicians, businessmen and journalists, but only four men rated a separate chapter — three politicians [...]