Ed Lasky

Ed Lasky

  • January 29, 2023

    Google warning viewers about watching Jesse Watters on Fox News

    We get our channels through Google/You Tube TV. I record Jesse Watters and I tried to watch Friday night and this censorship showed up!  I guess their video of the Memphis beating was on the show Friday night and that might have precipita...

  • January 24, 2018

    Media lying about McConnell to help save face for Chuck Schumer

    Chuck Schumer has a huge problem, and his friends in the mainstream media are pitching in to help – with lies.  Now that he has caved in on the Schumer Shutdown, the radicals who dominate his party are angry and demanding protect...

  • October 19, 2017

    The Democrats are filling up their own swamp with more lobbyists and hacks

    Remember how Donald Trump attacked lobbyists and the swamp that Washington has become?  He will have plenty of targets in the years ahead as Democratic Party leadership plans to name lobbyists and Democratic operatives as "superdelegates....

  • September 8, 2017

    How to Dry Up Hollywood Funding for Democrats

    Tired of Hollywood powers that be attacking Republicans in the most insulting and ignorant (see Barbra Streisand tweets, for example) way?  You can strike back, YUGELY. Tom Hanks and Oprah routinely promoted Barack Obama. Have you had enough ...

  • August 29, 2017

    Is the National Anthem the next target of the left?

    It is only a matter of time before the politically correct thought police target the National Anthem. With statues falling across the nation and flags being furled and put to rest, why hasn't our most sacred song gone the way of, let's say...

  • July 29, 2017

    Spot the 'morally grotesque administration'

    Trump-hater Bret Stephens, recruited to the New York Times to add even more Trump hatred to its opinion pages, today calls the half-year-old Trump stewardship "the most morally grotesque administration in American history," while ...

  • April 1, 2017

    The Dems just handed Trump and the GOP a gift

    Can they be this dumb? As we approach the ever enjoyable tax deadline, Democrats are pushing one of the most absurd and potentially politically damaging agenda items I can recall: a push for the Internal Revenue Service to have the largest budget ...

  • February 7, 2017

    Does the New York Times editorial board bother to read its paper’s own news reports?

    Yet another belly flop from what used to be called the paper of record. Evidently, the authors of this editorial are among the overwhelming majority of Americans who no longer bother reading the news pages of the New York Times.  Th...

  • January 31, 2017

    Sabotage: Washington Post prods government workers to derail Trump’s presidency

    The Washington Post’s leftward tilt is accelerating under Jeff Bezos.  The mainstream media cannot handle the fact that Donald Trump was elected president and have been on their own campaign to derail his presidency. The Post’s la...

  • January 30, 2017

    Trump's orders on immigrants bring hypocritical and hysterical uproar

    The mainstream media and opportunistic politicians are in high dudgeon over President Trump’s executive order to ban immigrants form certain terrorist-infested regions from entering America.  Journalists are putting blinders on to justify ...

  • January 28, 2017

    Patriots Day movie a minor miracle

    I am shocked that Hollywood let this one be produced.  Not only is Patriots Day very well done, but it is not politically correct.  After watching it, the natural tendency of viewers is to support Trump in his views on refugees. There is...

  • January 20, 2017

    So my doctor's practice called...

    My internist and his fellow doctors no longer trust me!  Thanks to Obamacare, everyone is considered a fraud until proven otherwise. My doctor is part of a larger practice with branches throughout the city and suburbs of Chicago.  I rece...

  • December 16, 2016

    Russian motives in hacking not what the Dems and media say

    The media have pointed the finger at the Russians as the villains behind the hacking of Hillary’s email system and those of the Democratic National Committee.  There have been differences of opinions regarding the true culprits, but it ser...

  • November 18, 2016

    How Trump Can Stop Obama from Closing Gitmo

    Donald Trump can stop Barack Obama from continuing to free terrorists, and the sooner he acts, the better. Barack Obama is a lame-duck president and, empowered by his pen and a phone (the only weapons he has ever held, no doubt) is determined to ...

  • November 16, 2016

    Little-noticed law gives Trump unexpected power to undo the mischief of bureaucrats

    Nobody was counting on this. Barack Obama infamously said that he would govern by a “pen and a phone.”  He has circumvented Congress and the laws for years.  The Democrats (and much of the media, but I repeat myself) have not...

  • November 13, 2016

    Mitch Daniels for Secretary of Education

    He would be a great choice to head the Department of Education -- if President Trump keeps that department. Speculation swirls regarding whom President-elect Trump may choose to fill his Cabinet positions. One person who has been off the radar scr...

  • November 7, 2016

    The ‘progressives’ are sending intimidating emails threatening to ‘out’ you

    I happen to live in a suburb and district that, too often, votes for Democrats (Illinois's 10th, where we are currently represented by a Republican, Bob Dold).  This year, people in my suburb are getting mailed notices with their names ...

  • October 21, 2016

    Hillary’s Plot Against America

    Recent news and leaks make it clear that a plot is afoot. A smoking gun has been found. Republicans are committing political malpractice by not making it clear they are the last line of defense. ObamaCare is imploding, as was widely predicted upon...

  • October 8, 2016

    Why Clinton and Democrats Are So Keen on Early Voting

    Democrats are out in force to ensure their supporters vote early. Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook boasted that he had hopes to build an insurmountable lead in early voting in key battleground states that will cut off any viable path for Donald Tr...

  • September 27, 2016

    Trump supporter targeted by feds

    It's back to weaponizing government to boost Clinton's chances Peter Thiel, prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump supporter, has apparently been targeted by a federal agency under Barack Obama’s control.  We have be...

  • September 21, 2016

    The Ecology of the Clintons

    A scientist recently discovered a parasite and named it after Barack Obama, Baracktrema obamai. But considering the level of exploitation of their host they have accomplished, that honor should have gone to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Parasite ...

  • September 20, 2016

    The Debate Tactic Trump Should Use

    There have been two recent instances when major television networks edited out comments made by Bill and Hillary Clinton, respectively, that would harm her chances to win the presidency. Clearly that is precisely why the Pravda-like monitors in the m...

  • May 27, 2016

    NPR: ‘The Art Of Living At The Poverty Line’

    Listen to this NPR podcast.  They are so proud of  it that they re-posted it: Meet a single mother who makes $16,000 a year and managed to fund a vacation at a Caribbean resort with an interest-free loan from one of the world's large...

  • May 12, 2016

    The Man Who Can Make Sure Trump Beats Hillary

    There is one man who could doom Hillary Clinton's presidential chances against Donald Trump.  And there is no pressure that could be brought against him by the infamous Clinton Machine to dissuade him. Conventional wisdom, which has had a...

  • March 3, 2016

    Trump and the Democrat crossovers

    There has been a recent flurry of news items regarding Donald Trump’s ability to appeal to a diverse crowd of Republicans, dissolving the ceiling that many pundits had declared would limit Trump’s primary victories.  The next issue i...

  • February 29, 2016

    The Case for Marco Rubio

    What would William F. Buckley do? Conservative icon William Buckley promulgated what has become known as the Buckley rule: “Nominate the most conservative candidate who is electable.”  Among the current candidates the only one wh...

  • February 1, 2016

    Trump screws everyone but himself

    As we approach the Iowa caucus one line of criticism seems to be sticking to Trump, but it is only one example of his modus operandi: enrich himself at the expense of the people.  Philip Klein of the Washington Examiner reports that one ad criti...

  • December 20, 2015

    The next affirmative action group will be Muslims

    Barack Obama continues to fundamentally transform and tilt our nation to favor one of his favorite groups – Muslims -- at the expense of everyone else. Early in his presidency, Barack Obama’s plans to control the Census Bureau unleashe...

  • December 14, 2015

    Is Trump a Democrat?

    From The Hill last July: “I probably identify more as a Democrat” so sayeth Donald J Trump a few years ago during a CNN interview. During the same interview he opinionated (he does a lot of that) that “It just seems that the ec...

  • December 7, 2015

    Gun violence has plummeted in America

    To quote Dragnet’s Joe Friday, “just the facts, Ma’am.” For years, every time there has been a high-profile gun killing or killings in America, Barack Obama and the usual suspects blame the guns, not the perpetrators (unles...

  • November 20, 2015

    Marco Rubio has killed ObamaCare

    Marco Rubio conceived and pushed a plan that will all but kill ObamaCare -- and he did it years ago. Thank you. United Health Care, the nation’s largest HMO, delivered bad news to shareholders but good news for ObamaCare opponents yesterd...

  • November 19, 2015

    Obama Really Doesn't Like People

    A comment made by one of President Obama’s closest aides explains his blasé attitude toward the lives of Americans. In late 2012, Neera Tanden, who had been one of President Obama’s closest aides, observed: Clinton, being Clin...

  • November 14, 2015

    Remember the good old days when ISIS was the 'JV'?

    Obama’s perfect record of foolishness continues. His predictions are always wrong. In a New Yorker interview published in late January, 2014, President Obama dismissed concerns regarding ISIS: I think the analogy we...

  • October 15, 2015

    Another triumph for Obama diplomacy

    How’s that Cuba outreach working out for you, Barack?  Via Fox News: Top Cuban general, key forces in Syria to aid Assad, Russia, sources say Cuban military operatives reportedly have been spotted in Syria, where sources believe th...

  • October 5, 2015

    Hillary Clinton's Multiple Personality Disorder

    Most politicians change their positions for political purposes. Only one national politician routinely changes her own identity -- her accents, her name, her personality and even her height -- to become likeable enough to get elected. She is flailing...

  • October 1, 2015

    Tom Friedman's most ridiculous paragraph of the month, September edition

    It is always a crowded field, but the New York Times’ star columnist, Tom Friedman, outdid himself with a last day of September entry: Meanwhile, Obama’s Republican critics totally lack the wisdom of our own experience. They blithely...

  • September 15, 2015

    Hispanic Democrats thank Trump for leading surge in Hispanic voter registration

    The backlash is happening, and it will be long-lasting.  As we learned from the rise of Barack Obama, we live in an age of identity politics; that is unfortunate, but it is the reality.  As a nation, we are disuniting.  Barack Obama...

  • September 8, 2015

    Wordclouding Hillary

      “What is the word that comes to mind when you think of Hillary Clinton?” was the question posed by the pollsters at Quinnipiac University a short time ago. A host of answers was the result from the 1563 respondents. Here is what...

  • August 14, 2015

    And the White House's next argument for the Iran deal will be...

    It’s coming, and coming soon.  The arguments so far have not worked because they are flawed.* But here is the next likely reason they will proffer to support the deal with Iran.  And it is a base one: the price of a gallon of gas w...

  • August 12, 2015

    Is the New York Times this crazy or this stupid or this biased?

    The former newspaper of record is advocating a policy that led to a major war.  Is the editorial board ignorant, or is its mendacity just overwhelming its common sense? The New York Times uses its editorial page to push for a very dangerous i...

  • August 7, 2015

    Obama and the Flippancy of Fools

    Over the last 7 years of the Obama era, Barack Obama and his team have regularly responded to serious questions with flippant responses. Don’t Americans deserve better than the flippancy Obama and his top officials dish out to us? The below ...

  • August 7, 2015

    What if the media had treated Barack Obama as Fox journalists treated Donald Trump?

    We might have had a different president, and America would be far better off. However one feels about the Republican Party, the multitude of candidates for president, and Donald Trump, last night’s debate was an example of how journalism sho...

  • July 20, 2015

    Fisking a pathological president's latest pack of lies

    Barack Obama is pushing the pedal to the metal to get Congress to agree to pass a bill that will pave the way for Iran to have a nuclear weapons arsenal and continue its reign of terror around the world.  Iran has the blood of over 1,000 America...

  • July 16, 2015

    Obama values an American deserter/traitor more than 4 innocent Americans held hostage by Iran

    Last year, Barack Obama ordered that five bloodthirsty terrorist masterminds be traded to the Taliban for Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, whose desertion and possible traitorous activity were known by the White House prior to the exchange.  The White House ...

  • July 14, 2015

    Obama's 'Better Ideas'

    When Republicans dared to question Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign he warned them to stop criticizing him. He sent a shot across the bow: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.” He confirmed his animus whenev...

  • July 5, 2015

    Obama in 4 Quotes by his favorite person: Barack Obama

    It does not take many words to sum up the character (or lack thereof) of the current president.  The best part is that they are his own words. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher som...

  • June 25, 2015

    Libs unfairly dissing the South (again)

    Liberals have long insulted Southerners.  The facts show them to be wrong. Jonah Goldberg has written a column contrasting the character of the people of Charleston with the character of pundits and others who pounced on the horrendous murder...

  • June 24, 2015

    Obama's Addiction Problem

    His choom gang days are over, but Barack Obama still needs to get high -- just in a different way than smoking pot. An early sign could be found in his boast as he stepped forward onto the stage during the 2004 Democratic National Convention -- hi...

  • June 11, 2015

    Obama's diversity push coming to neighborhoods by you

    Barack Obama is out to fundamentally transform your neighborhood and schools – and the House of Representatives. Last September, I wrote The Plot to Create a Permanent Democratic Majority outlining steps Barack Obama and his fellow Democrats...

  • June 2, 2015

    What is wrong with Democrats?

    They elected Obama -- twice!  And will nominate Hillary Clinton.  But that is just a smidgen (as Barack Obama might say) of what is wrong with Democrats. The question of what motivates Democrats and what their values are has bedeviled me...

  • May 23, 2015

    Obama's Synagogue

    Barack Obama chose the perfect synagogue, Congregation Adas Israel, in which to deliver a rebuke of Israel, couched in an address commemorating Jewish American Heritage Month, using some fuzzy throwaway lines designed to lull the gullible into apathy...

  • May 21, 2015

    Barack Obama peddles one more ridiculous explanation for Islamic terrorism.

    Over the years Barack Obama and his team have gone to great lengths to explain away the rise of Islamic terrorism across the world. They have studiously avoided the “I “  word whenever possible. They have called the Ft. Hood massacre...

  • May 13, 2015

    Obama's post-presidency shakedown cruise

    Hey, if shakedowns work for Al Sharpton, why not try it on a grander scale befitting a former president? As has been reported (though not by MSNBC), Al Sharpton has made millions shaking down corporations by intimating that he will charge them wit...

  • May 6, 2015

    Obama's not done with America yet

    Anyone who thought Barack Obama’s boast that he would transform America would shrivel after he leaves the Oval Office is wrong. He will not retire to the golf course, as did Dwight Eisenhower to some extent. He stated Monday night that his ...

  • May 5, 2015

    The Obama Deceit Doctrine

    Americans (at least those paying any attention) know that Barack Obama routinely lies to fulfill the one promise he has not broken: to “fundamentally transform America.”  But what he has done to empower Iran and pave its way to devel...

  • April 26, 2015

    Outrage is not a strong enough word

    The Boston Marathon bomber’s family was flown into America - and is staying here courtesy of the good old American taxpayer. As the penalty phase of the trial of convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev proceeds, survivor...

  • April 23, 2015

    Clinton charities now re-filing years of tax returns after Reuters found 'errors'

    Clinton rules mean they feel entitled to…well…everything. Now that Hillary Clinton has announced her candidacy, even the mainstream media has started to raise questions regarding the Clinton Foundation.  In the wake of reports o...

  • April 9, 2015

    Was Obama's Fixer also behind Obama's 'Fact-Sheet' on the Iran?

    Wherever Ben Rhodes goes, lies follow. Obama’s foreign policy is cooked up by a very small group of people, among them Ben Rhodes, his deputy national security adviser. This should trouble Americans. I have been writing about Rhodes for year...

  • April 9, 2015

    Obama snatching defeat from the jaws of victory over Iran

    President Obama’s CIA chief said Tuesday night that Iran was on its knees before Obama lifted them up and gave them billions and a path to nuclear weapons. Nowhere have Barack Obama’s many failures been as clear and dangerous as they h...

  • March 31, 2015

    Obama wants to turn America against Israel

    Barack Obama wants to fundamentally transform something besides America. As most informed Americans know by now, Barack Obama is a man with grandiose visions of himself. According to Barack Obama, President Obama’s accomplishments have va...

  • March 27, 2015

    NYT opines: Bergdahl 'violated military regulations' - let him go

    Apparently, the New York Times has no problem with deserters in the military and no problem with the deaths of soldiers who tried to retrieve them from their captors. In an editorial in today’s New York Times, the paper joins the chorus...

  • March 26, 2015

    What the GOP can learn from the Church of Scientology

    How about the idea of employing “best practices” that work, regardless of the source? Out of the blue, I recently received a slickly produced magazine called Freedom.  I read it from cover to cover and found the stories compelling...

  • March 23, 2015

    Democrats for a Dictatorial Presidency

    Members of Congress from both parties once jealously guarded its power against the executive branch, but under President Obama, this is no longer true for Democrats. There are very good reasons Democrats have ceded their power to President Obama and ...

  • March 22, 2015

    The slandering of Scott Walker continues apace while Hillary gets a pass for doing far worse

    The New York Times mocks Scott Walker on the front page of Saturday’s edition. The paper “accuses” Scott Walker of toning down his Wisconsin persona to suit whatever particular audience he happens to face. The horror! The column...

  • March 21, 2015

    The frenenemies in the White House damn Hillary Clinton with faint praise

    Hillary Clinton’s bumbling and foolish (and amateurish) response to her email problems continues to take its toll on her. Not only have her popularity ratings plummeted but calls are increasing for other Democrats to start mounting campaigns (E...

  • March 19, 2015

    Why not charge 'Hands up, don't shoot' liars with perjury?

    Now that even Eric Holder’s DOJ cleared Darren Wilson and found that one liar, the friend of Michael Brown, lied about his claim that Brown was surrendering to Darren Wilson, why not charge him with perjury? As The Smoking Gun reported:...

  • March 2, 2015

    NYT attacks Barack Obama (in a way)

    It all has to do with Obama’s paucity of manners and abundance of ego. A few weeks ago, Barack Obama took full credit for the fall in gas prices over the last 6 months.  To paraphrase Barack Obama: “He didn’t build that....

  • February 23, 2015

    Rudy is Right

    “America’s Mayor” Rudy Giuliani was right about Obama not loving America. Who supports his view? Barack Obama himself.   Last week at a small private dinner, Rudy Giuliani openly questioned whether Barack Obama “loves ...

  • February 17, 2015

    Obama the Clown

    Beclowning is unbecoming for an American President. But for Barack Obama the clown suit fits fine. Our enemies are laughing; we are not. The past week has seen the latest manifestation of the disgraceful way Barack Obama has acted as President....

  • February 15, 2015

    Erdogan says, 'Jump!' and Obama asks, 'How high?'

    Obama’s BFF and an admirer of the Nazis.  Adam Taylor of the Washington Post reports: In the wake of a shooting in Chapel Hill, N.C., that left three young American Muslims dead, Turkish President Tayyip ErdoДџan made an unusual pu...

  • February 13, 2015

    Obama the fool

    When even the Washington Post realizes that we have a fool as president -- a man who has disgraced the office of the presidency -- we have crossed the Rubicon. Barack Obama sat down (well, not really as you will see) for an interview with Buzzfeed...

  • February 10, 2015

    Manufacturing Outrage

    Manufacturing outrage is the modus operandi of Obama and Democrats.  Liberal media are their tools.  The result has been destruction, pain and murder.  And the worse is yet to come. The last six years have seen an explosion of faux ...

  • February 10, 2015

    More geography problems for Obama

    Hawaii is not in Asia, America does not have 57 states, they do not speak Austrian in Austria, America is not one the largest Muslim countries, and America is not the largest country on earth. From President Obama’s interview with Vox: ...

  • February 5, 2015

    Soon will police be limited to shooting spitballs?

    This is getting silly.  Police deal with deadly assailants at times.  They need protection. In the wake of the faux scandal ginned up by the Obama administration and race hustler, tax cheat, anti-Semite pogrom leader and welcome guest at...

  • January 31, 2015

    Story that Boehner blindsided Obama on Netanyahu invitation was manufactured agitprop

    A correction appearing in the New York Times quietly unravels what has become a major story as phony agitprop, intended to discredit the leaders of Israel and the House of Representatives.  Of course, the story is still believed by many, and has...

  • January 27, 2015

    How to fight Obama (and Hillary Clinton)

    The strategy is a simple one: ignore Obama. He will respond in ways that will further damage the Democratic Party and the prospects of a Clinton presidency. Conservative pundits have responded to Republican control of Congress by suggesting myriad...

  • January 26, 2015

    Obama's grand plan playing out, with Hillary Clinton as the first victim

    A few months ago I speculated that Barack Obama’s actions could be interpreted as part of a plan to control the agenda of the Democrats going forward (see Obama’s Grand Plan).  Giving up on support from most of America, he was seekin...

  • January 24, 2015

    Bibi not the first to face Obama threats of retaliation

    Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s invitation to speak before a joint session of Congress revealed again the dark side of Barack Obama’s personality. “Netanyahu spat in our face.  There will be a price.”...

  • January 18, 2015

    Why doesn't the Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion go to Muslim reformers?

    It is far past the time when religious reformers in the Muslim world should be honored. The Templeton Prize is an award presented by the Templeton Foundation. The foundation was created in 1972 by a billionaire investor. The name of the prize was ...

  • January 14, 2015

    Obama will fight media to protect Islam from critics

    The spread of Islam apparently trumps the First Amendment in the view of President Obama. By now, most of America should realize that Barack Obama has a special mission in life to shield Islam from criticism. But pressuring the media should be ...

  • January 13, 2015

    The Empathy Epidemic

    One of the most overused and abused terms is “empathy.” It has reached epidemic levels and is killing us. As is true of many aspects of modern politics the problem started with Bill Clinton.  In his 1992 campaign statement he emot...

  • December 20, 2014

    Obama waives ethics rules for the 61st time to appoint a lobbyist

    Barack Obama’s modus operandi is to make a bold and highly touted statement of high principle and then, behind closed doors, gut it.  He has just done so again.  Remember when he pledged to not appoint lobbyists?  The Hill report...

  • December 15, 2014

    Obama's Grand Plan

    The lame duck has plans to be a powerful player after he leaves office. He is not done with us -- not by a long shot. Many presidents suffer a shock when they leave office. The trappings of fame and power are missed.  The spotlight no longer ...

  • December 10, 2014

    Obama believes racial equality has improved during his presidency

    Those are not the facts but facts never matter when Barack Obama is involved. Barack Obama has been in overdrive in trying to boost his appeal to his base (blacks and Hispanics, in particular) as he loses the respect of the rest of America. ...

  • December 9, 2014

    Obama curses out media when criticized

    Journalists finally are stepping up to report instances of Barack Obama lashing out at them for daring to criticize his policies and actions. Former ABC White House correspondent Ann Compton said that President Obama went on a “profanit...

  • December 7, 2014

    Obama: Racism 'Deeply Rooted' In US

    President Obama always thought this of America; now he feels free to go full Bulworth since he never has to run again for office. Addressing protests over minorities killed by police officers, President Obama said racism is "deeply rooted...

  • December 6, 2014

    An unflattering portrait of Hillary Clinton by the NYT

    The New York Times published on Saturday a somewhat scathing portrayal of Hillary Clinton by Peter Baker and Amy Chozik, focusing on her time as First Lady. Anger, paranoia, temper-tantrums, ego, ambition -- all there and more.  The paper points...

  • November 20, 2014

    Thank you, Mr. President

    America can certainly blame a lot of our problems on Barack Obama and the Democratic Party:  trillions of dollars in debt, an eviscerated military, the ruin of our healthcare system through “reform” (now the world’s biggest fra...

  • November 16, 2014

    Obama claims Obamacare 'not deceptively marketed'

    How about the gall of the recipient of the Lie of the Year thinking people are even more stupid than Gruber thinks they are? Barack Obama can run but he cannot entirely escape. While in Asia - conveniently times to happen after midterm el...

  • November 5, 2014

    Obama: 'Don't think we're not keeping score, brother'

    The failure of some presidencies can be encapsulated in a phrase. Richard Nixon’s “I am not a crook” was one of them. Barack Obama provided us with another when he threatened a Congressman who was reluctant to vote for Obamacare wit...

  • November 3, 2014

    Barack Bulworth Obama

    Last year, President Obama mused “longingly” of “going Bulworth” -- a reference to a 1998 Warren Beatty movie where a senator said what he really thinks, without restraint.  What the fictional Senator Bulworth thought, wh...

  • October 28, 2014

    The Sayings of Barack Obama

    Herewith readers will find a voter’s guide to the midterm elections, relying entirely on the some of the more disgraceful statements made by the President of the United States over the years. Voting gives Americans a way to register their disap...

  • October 28, 2014

    Facebook's Insidious Influence on Low-Information Voters

    Republicans and others bemoan the fact that low-info, no-info, and wrong-info voters put Democrats into power.  They are right.  Blame these people. "Narrowcasting" is a word used to describe the delivery of news, sliced ...

  • October 17, 2014

    Why won't Obama impose a flight ban from Ebola-stricken nations?

    As America’s Ebola panic spreads and demands mount to impose a flight ban on nations in Africa where Ebola is spreading, Barack Obama is adamant that he will not impose one. Other nations in Africa have imposed such a ban and credit the clos...

  • October 15, 2014

    President tells people to 'stick it to climate change deniers' (and other gems)

    The greatest orator and inspiration of our time has a mean streak. Barack Obama likes to insult people and agitate his cult-like followers. He has just done it again with a tweet lambasting climate change skeptics (or as he calls them, deniers). H...

  • October 14, 2014

    Not Even JayVee Level: Obama's Juvenile Communications Team

    We are led by a bunch of juveniles -- led straight into a ditch that will take a long time to crawl out of, assuming we get a good president in 2017 (a big assumption given the ongoing slow motion Clinton coronation). The White House apparently be...

  • October 6, 2014

    'Voting's the Best Revenge'

    The only advice Barack Obama offered that is worth following is a bit of one he gave to supporters in 2012. Days before Barack Obama was reelected, he fired up a crowd of supporters at a campaign rally -- inside a public high school, no less -- wi...

  • October 6, 2014

    Obama allowing ISIS terrorists into America?

    President Obama’s lax enforcement of our immigration laws combined with this philo-Islamic approach towards foreign and domestic policy could create a truly combustible situation. The Washington Post reported in late September that Barack Ob...

  • October 2, 2014

    Obama's Loose Lips

    The World War Two-era motto “Loose lips sink ships” was meant to save lives and prevent harm to America. It is also an admonition that Barack Obama, Commander-in-Chief, has been wilfully contravening for years when it comes to America...

  • October 1, 2014

    The promised 'fundamental transformation of America' rolling out as planned

    The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House plans to offer refugee status to some minors from Central America who illegally crossed the border into America: The Obama administration is launching a program to offer refugee status to some...

  • September 29, 2014

    Democrats think we are stupid

    Many Democrat leaders, led by President Obama, have a low opinion of Americans. They are trying to trick us into believing our local Congressmen and Senators are not his enablers. They are and should be treated as such in the voting booth. Jay Cos...

  • September 29, 2014

    Obama blames intelligence officials for the rise of ISIS

    Obama the Blamethrower strikes again This time our president says that American intelligence is at fault for underestimating the threat of ISIS. It is never his fault-never ever.  As Ronald Reagan would say, there he goes again. Barack Oba...

  • September 25, 2014

    Obama told the Israelis to reflect on their attitudes yesterday. Again.

    How many times has Obama told the Israelis to reflect on their attitudes? He just did it again yesterday: “The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace,” he said. “T...

  • September 23, 2014

    The Plot to Create a Permanent Democratic Majority

    President Obama and his fellow Democrats are scheming to use immigration and housing policy to fulfill their dream to fundamentally transform America forever. Over a decade ago, two liberals-John Judis and  Rus Teixeira-wrote a book, The Emer...

  • September 22, 2014

    David Horowitz dishes it out to liberals (i.e., tells the truth)

    David Horowitz, free-thinker and speaker and head of the Freedom Center  delivers another of his eye-opening presentations on C- Span in this 1 hour video. While featured as a discussion of his latest book, Take No Prisoners: The Battle Plan for...

  • September 15, 2014

    The Democrats are boasting of their success in controlling America for decades to come

    The takeover will get worse if the Democrats retain control of the Senate come November. The Democrats have plotted, planned and taken steps to control the federal judiciary. They have done this by using their majority control of the Senate to cha...

  • September 13, 2014

    Somebody get these guys in the White House a map

    So called “smart power” strikes again - and shows itself  to be embarrassingly dumb. There is a great deal of focus on the Middle Easy and has been for years. One would hope our leadership would have at least the basics down. Not ...

  • September 10, 2014

    Obama: Copping Out and Checking Out

    Years ago, a trustworthy friend told me a story about then-state senator Barack Obama and himself.  Both were members of the East Bank Athletic Club -- a ritzy health club miles and a lot of money away from Barack Obama’s district and chur...

  • September 5, 2014

    Romney's stinging op-ed

    America’s Department of Defense has become Obama’s Department of Common Humanity. Mitt Romney, for all his weaknesses, has come out with a muscular column in the Washington Post on “The Need for a Mighty U.S. Military." He p...

  • August 25, 2014

    Obama's Willful Blindness

    In America justice is supposed to be blind not our commander-in-chief. In Obama’s topsy-turvy America justice is not blind but our President is-and willfully so-when it comes to threats facing Americans. Will he remove his blinders?  Only ...

  • August 23, 2014

    Race-hustler, anti-Semite Al Sharpton is Obama's Go-To Guy

    Anyone else find this disgraceful and immoral? Al Sharpton has a sordid history. First of all, though he uses the rubric “Reverend” to give him some degree of respectability, he never attended a seminary. He just made up the title and ...

  • August 22, 2014

    Obama and Reid's machine will damage us for decades

    The Democrats’ plan to dominate at least one key branch of government is rolling out fine for them.  When Harry Reid went nuclear and eliminated the filibuster for federal judges, Obama’s left-wing judicial nominees were readily appr...

  • August 22, 2014

    Dems target federal judiciary to ensure Obama's leagacy

    Obama and Reid’s machine will damage us for decades until they are stopped. The Democrats plan to dominate at least one key branch of government is rolling out fine for them.  When Harry Reid went nuclear and eliminated the filibu...

  • August 16, 2014

    We are truly in the best of hands.

    President Obama is vacationing again in Marta Vineyard - playground of the 1% of the 1%. We have been assured that he is just as in charge there as he is in Washington, which is not very reassuring. He purportedly brought his brain trust with h...

  • August 12, 2014

    Scorched Earth Politicians

    Barack Obama’s poll numbers are plummeting -- for many good reasons -- as the midterm elections approach. Republicans naturally are trying to nationalize the election, since the GOP can legitimately claim every Democrat has empowered Barac...

  • August 10, 2014

    The war on inspectors general

    Where to begin? Barack Obama promised he would preside over the most transparent administration in history. Lackeys in the liberal world even gave him an anti-secrecy award (given to him behind closed doors). This is the most transparent administr...

  • July 30, 2014

    Obama the Blamethrower

    Is Obama the most pathetic president in American history? That was a rhetorical question. Barack Obama promised so much: to heal our racial divisions, slice the deficit, provide health care that was cheaper, more widely available and that would no...

  • July 24, 2014

    Obama rewarding terror

    Hamas builds tunnels and rockets to kidnap and kill Jews, has a charter that calls for the killing of all Jews wherever they live, launches missile attacks against Israelis, uses UNWRA facilities to hide rockets, spreads anti-Semitism and claims of w...

  • July 23, 2014

    Dirty Harry's hypocritical killing of the filibuster helped stack federal courts with liberal partisans.

    Don’t expect the Halbig decision in the DC Circuit Court overturning Obamacare subsidies to be affirmed when the en banc court considers it. A few months ago I wrote “Obama and the Democrats Plot to Control America” regarding the...

  • July 17, 2014

    Feds pressuring business to rescue Obama and Dems from another failure of OCare

    The latest consequence of the man-caused disaster known as ObamaCare is leading the feds to another cover-up. When ObamaCare was passed by the Democrats, non-partisan experts predicted there would be a host of problems. Among those problems would ...

  • July 3, 2014

    Anti-Catholic full-page ad in the New York Times today

    The Hobby Lobby decision has ignited liberals and unleashed their prejudice. And this ad is shameful. The New York Times has a full-page ad in its print edition today that should elicit protests around the nation (but likely won’t). Here ...

  • July 1, 2014

    Obama has got to be kidding

    He actually said this: the system “is so broken” that “folks don’t know what the rules are." He was referring to the children’s crusade on our borders that has caused chaos as tens of thousands of people try to i...

  • June 25, 2014

    The Compromise Canard

    Barack Obama and many Democrats routinely accuse Republicans of being incapable of compromise.  Journalists follow their orders and spread the message.  Nothing can be farther from the truth.  In fact, Tea Party members often object...

  • June 24, 2014

    A GOP Senate would do Significant Damage to Obama

    Time to put aside differences and topple the tyrants. Sam Baker writes about the prospects for Obama’s agenda should the GOP take the Senate and hold the House in the National Journal: Here's how a Republican-controlled Senate's...

  • June 21, 2014

    Hey, Democrats, You Have Him, You Can Keep Him

    President Obama bragged to a retiring Congressman that he and other Democrats should not worry about their futures because they have him and his popularity will assure their re-elections. How does that albatross feel now, Democrats? Now safely ret...

  • June 15, 2014

    Obama To America: Screw You

    As President Obama revealingly said, politics is about rewarding your friend and punishing your enemies . The invaluable TaxProf blog notes that Obama has proposed a steep increase for the IRS 
-- a 10.5% budget increase. The IRS basically ha...

  • June 12, 2014

    Obama Thinks You're Stupid, that's Why

    The latest scandals from the White House have prompted speculation trying to determine why President Obama screws up so much. There is a simple answer. Obamacare, a failed trillion dollar stimulus, sky-high food stamp usage, disability rolls soari...

  • May 29, 2014

    The <em>Being There</em> President

    A key to understanding Barack Obama and his presidency may be found in a simple-minded character from a twenty-five year old movie. Truth can be stranger than fiction -- and less enjoyable to experience. In March, 2007, I wrote this about then-pre...

  • May 27, 2014

    The Dems' plot to control America rolls on

    Harry Reid’s nuclear option has caused a lot of damage -- and the worst is yet to come. In March, I wrote a piece entitled “Obama and the Democrats Plot to Control America,” detailing actions they have taken to cement a legacy of...

  • May 17, 2014

    Is this the dumbest editorial - Ever?

    Since Business Week was bought by the Bloomberg corporation (yes..that Bloomberg), it has taken a sharp turn to the left. They recently published an editorial that called for America to welcome rapists, murderers, thieves and dope dealers to our shor...

  • May 14, 2014

    Inside the Obama Frat House

    Tommy “Dude” Vietor, former National Security Council spokesman, did America a favor when he dismissed a question from Fox News’s Bret Baier about Benghazi with the Lebowskian “Dude, that was like two years ago.”  S...

  • May 5, 2014

    How the Benghazi cover-up is keeping the killers at large

    While Obama and Clinton allies in the Democratic Party and media (but I repeat myself) dismiss Benghazi scrutiny as a partisan witch-hunt, the cover-up has tied the hands of the Pentagon in its hunt for the murderers. As I wrote earlier this year ...

  • April 29, 2014

    The 'Don't Worry, Be Happy' President

    Presidents have been known for slogans that came to symbolize their agendas. There were the New Deal, Great Society, and New Frontier presidents. There was the president who spoke softly but carried a big stick. Then there is the president who sho...

  • April 29, 2014

    Ben Rhodes at center of plan to whitewash White House on Benghazi

    We finally know who orchestrated the phony story that an internet video was behind the Benghazi attack.  From Judicial Watch: Judicial Watch announced today that on April 18, 2014, it obtained 41 new Benghazi-related State Department docume...

  • April 12, 2014

    The New York Times' contempt for 'ordinary Americans.'

    The New York Time elites hold very little respect for the rest of America. This is particularly true for Republicans who are routinely depicted as greedy bigots. The paper routinely burnishes Islamic terrorism and terrorists - including the Boston Ma...

  • March 17, 2014

    Obama and The Democrats Plot To Control America

    Barack Obama’s presidency will come to an end.  The legacy of pain he will leave behind will not -- at least for years to come. He and his fellow Democrats plan to keep their grip on the levers of power-even if they lose control of Congres...

  • March 15, 2014

    The political equivalent of a solar eclipse

    Obama and the passel of Democrats who passed the Affordable Care Act told a pack of lies when they peddled it to the American people. They have tried to disguise the damage via delays, non-enforcement of various provisions, waivers and the like. B...

  • March 11, 2014

    Obama to cut AWACS fleet by 25%

    Adam Kredo reports for the Washington Free Beacon that Obama is planning to cut America’s key reconnaissance fleet by 25 percent: A key fleet of U.S. reconnaissance planes used to detect enemy aircraft in hostile settings will to be cut by...

  • March 7, 2014

    A Pence for your thoughts

    I have long followed and been a supporter of Mike Pence, first as a Congressman, then a Governor. Time for a three-peat. I have written about Mike Pence in the past (Mike Pence and The Winning Back of America; The Mike Pence I Know). He is the mos...

  • February 24, 2014

    Shut up, they explained

    The Democrat-Media complex works to in effect silence conservative critics rather than engage their criticisms and debate the issues.  They employ a variety of programs and techniques to ensure that substantive points from the other side will ei...

  • February 19, 2014

    Soros-backed Malley to direct Middle East policy at NSC

    Robert Malley has landed a prime spot to do mischief on Obama's National Security Council. He's been hired as the point man for policy in the Middle East. I wrote about this George Soros-supported man back in early 2008 when he was a foreign pol...

  • February 10, 2014

    Obama's Loafer Nation

    President Obama has broken many promises. One that he has not broken is his boast that he would "fundamentally transform America." He and his fellow Democrats are on the verge of doing just that by turning us into a nation of loafers. A loafer is an...

  • February 1, 2014

    State Department 'goes MSNBC'

    Imagine if a Republican president's State Department had featured a guest on a webcast available throughout the world who had used racial insults against leading black Democrat public officials. The cries of racism and demands for firings would be in...

  • January 31, 2014

    Dinesh D'Souza was Right about Obama

    See also Bill Ayers Fizzles at Dartmouth Debate with Dinesh D'Souza Dinesh D'Souza, the political commentator, author and movie-maker came under fire four years ago when he wrote a column for Forbes Magazine, "How Obama Thinks" that speculated Presid...

  • January 24, 2014

    ObamaCare D-Day in March

    A document coming from the administration has recently come to light that discloses the entire ObamaCare program is in jeopardy of collapse.  Of course, the White House did not inform the American people of this prospect but was compelled to pos...

  • January 17, 2014

    To protect his image, Obama has tied Pentagon's hands in hunting for Benghazi attackers

    Barack Obama and his minions have done everything they can to mislead Americans regarding Al Qaeda and its role in the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans serving their nation. The attack was called by the administration a spontaneous demon...

  • January 10, 2014

    Gates reveals Obama coldness regarding our soldiers

    Obama's eyes never welled up, writes former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates. But that is just the latest example of Obama's lack of empathy for Americans serving their nation. Jim Geraghty writes at National Review: Gates writes that, unlik...

  • December 16, 2013

    Our Bored President

    Valerie Jarrett, Obama's Rasputin, unwittingly provided us an answer to the question of why the Obama Presidency is such a man-caused disaster. There are few people who are close to the notoriously insular Barack Obama (a former aide, Neera Tanden, ...

  • December 14, 2013

    The hidden premium hike in ObamaCare

    Generally, ObamaCare bars insurers from charging higher premiums for people with pre-existing conditions. But there is an exception, as John Tozzi writes in Businessweek: ...for the 19 percent of American adults who smoke: Insurance companies can ...

  • December 11, 2013

    Dirty Harry Strikes Again

    Senate Majority leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) has run interference for Barack Obama for years. He has also done the same for the 1% when he can benefit.  He has done so again by using his power to force the Department of Homeland Security to do h...

  • December 7, 2013

    Obama is a Disgraceful Nobel Peace Prize Laureate

    President Obama helped Syria violate Geneva Protocol of 1925, Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 and violated them himself. Investors Business Daily explains how Obama's secret negotiations with Tehran and his "red line" posturing on Syria led to th...

  • November 26, 2013

    Obama's pal Buffett enriched again by govt; taxpayers lose

    Suddenly, the government has dramatically raised the profit potential of a company, Da Vita, that Obama donor Warren Buffett has a huge investment in. DaVita runs dialysis centers across America. From the Wall Street Journal: The Centers for Me...

  • November 19, 2013

    Barack Obama, Derelict

    Derelict: ('derЙ™ЛЊlikt/) neglectful of duty, delinquent; a person guilty of neglect of duty; a bum. SYNONYM-see Obama, Barack. A thought experiment can be useful to explain why America is in a mess. Let's take Barack Obama at his word -- a stretch...

  • November 4, 2013

    Will Obama invite this woman to the next State of the Union address?

    Barack Obama likes to create propaganda events -- including using invitees to the annual State of the Union address to push his agenda. Will he invite Edie Littlefield Sundby, a cancer patient-losing her doctors, hospitals, and possibly her life, bec...

  • October 20, 2013

    The most depressing statistic of the week

    Since the government shutdown (or more accurately, the very minimal shutdown designed by Obama to spite and punish people) delayed a boatload of depressing stats about our Obama economy, here is one for you from Forbes magazine: More 18-24 yea...

  • October 16, 2013

    Obama in Wonderland

    Many people criticize President Obama for spending too much time campaigning, traveling or on the golf course. They are wrong.  He spends too much time in a far more removed and unique place: Wonderland. Indeed, he seemingly lives in Wonderland....

  • October 9, 2013

    Obamacare personal data used for law enforcement and to collect taxes

    At least one state's Obama marketplace can use personal data collected for "law enforcement and audit activities."  Jeryl Bier of the Weekly Standard reports on Maryland's state Obamacare on-line marketplace: Should you decide to apply for h...

  • September 24, 2013

    Obama the Storyteller

    President Obama unwittingly disclosed his modus operandi in a single statement back in 2012. The sentence explains why he has been able to both win elections and been such a failure once in office. In the summer of 2012, President Obama refused to t...

  • September 18, 2013

    Obama and criminal background checks

    President Obama wants the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to restrict employers' use of criminal background checks in hiring decisions. In the wake of the massacre of the innocents at the Washington Naval Yards does he feel differently now? ...

  • September 14, 2013

    Connected Crony Capitalists at Exelon Help Themselves

    Exelon, the Chicago-based utility giant had a problem last year. The company's profits came up short -- below the level needed to trigger huge bonuses for its executives. What did management in cahoots with its board of directors do? They fudged the ...

  • September 4, 2013

    Obama's Missing Pressure Group

    Barack Obama has enlisted various groups to pressure Congress to give him authority to take military action in Syria. But one particular group has remained off his list, apparently -- and it is the one group that should be the most committed. Why are...

  • August 29, 2013

    Obama's rhetoric comes up short compared to past presidents

    Over the ages leadership in democracies has been symbolized by ringing declarations. We have, for example, John Kennedy's magisterial: Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet ...

  • August 23, 2013

    Obama's 'kick me' sign

    How is this for a flashback?  Barack Obama, full of arrogance as usual, was flying high in 2010 when the BP well in the Gulf started leaking crude. When he was asked how he would handle the event, he responded that he had met with experts to "le...

  • August 15, 2013

    Progressive radio show host insults short people

    Rush Limbaugh was attacked for calling Sandra Fluke a "slut" who argued that women should be provided taxpayer provided birth control. Will Stephanie Miller be treated the same for repeatedly insulting short people? Today, liberal talk show host S...

  • August 1, 2013

    The Fate of Trayvon Martin's Hoodie

    Is the grievance industry trying to create a racial Shroud of Turin? The Smithsonian wants to display the hoodie worn by Tayvon Martin the night he was shot by neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman. Really, is this what we need now? A moder...

  • June 18, 2013

    Psaki painfully out of her depth

    WFB: "During Monday's State Department briefing, spokesperson Jen Psaki failed to explain if cannibalism is a violation of international law." About what you'd expect from a campaign hack put in a job that requires refined knowledge of foreign ...

  • June 13, 2013

    One sentence that could keep the House in GOP hands

    In all the hubbub of scandals that have been erupting in Obama's Washington these days a sentence made by Congressmen Elijah Cummings (D-Maryland), one of Obama's key supporters, has potential to play a key role in keeping the House in Republican han...

  • June 11, 2013

    The Ambassador and the underage hooker?

    A couple of years ago, Howard Gutman, America's Ambassador to Belgium, ignited a storm of criticism when he blamed Israel for generating anti-Semitism. There were calls that he be removed from his post, though partisan groups such as the National Je...

  • June 6, 2013

    Where in the world is Samantha Power's Atrocities Prevention Board?

    Samantha Power, President Obama's pick to be America's Ambassador to the United Nations, had previously been in charge of the Atrocities Prevention Board. How did she do in that role? The Atrocities Prevention Board is another "board" that Obama ...

  • June 5, 2013

    Samantha Power, Obama's pick as America's Ambassador to the UN, will fit right in

    Samantha Power has been a notorious critic of Israel for years and that, naturally, makes her well-qualified under President Obama's criteria to serve in such a crucial post. She will be welcomed with open arms at the United Nations. We at American...

  • June 4, 2013

    Sharpton and MSNBC - perfect for each other

    For years, Al Sharpton has been dishing out something - and.it sure is not news. And that makes him perfect for MSNBC. Stuart Stevens, prompted by a New York Times and Retropreport.org documentary, writes in the Daily Beast an expose of the sord...

  • May 28, 2013

    Obama's Most Dangerous 'Enemies' are Being Targeted

    There is a pattern emerging in the Obama Presidency. He is at war with reality; his greatest enemies are facts. And he has been targeting for years a small group of people whose duty is to expose the truth. Their loyalty runs to the citizenry and not...

  • May 22, 2013

    The State Department's New Mouthpiece

    The new State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, has a history of serving as Barack Obama's mouthpiece. People will yearn for the days of Victoria Nuland -- who actually had a long bipartisan and impressive career. She has been replaced by a hack. ...

  • May 19, 2013

    Will the scandals hurt Obama and the Democrats?

    They won't among a large group of Americans--and that explains a lot about our nation and about why Obama was elected. Scandals may be multiplying as quickly as the national debt has under President Obama but he can be rest assured: his base is obl...

  • May 13, 2013

    Ben Rhodes: Obama's Fixer behind the Benghazi Cover-Up

    Barack Obama's "Tower of Fabrications," as Peter Wehner describes the Benghazi scandal, is beginning to crack. And that crack will soon reveal a central figure behind the cover-up, a man close to Barack Obama for years but generally unknown to the pu...

  • May 5, 2013

    The man behind the Benghazi cover-up?

    Stephen Hayes of the Weekly Standard has a must read column regarding the Benghazi cover-up by White House officials.  CIA career officials clearly and repeatedly identified Al Qaeda and Al Qaeda-linked Islamic terrorists as the culprits behin...

  • May 2, 2013

    The ESPN President

    Barack Obama, by all accounts, runs the most insular presidency of modern and maybe not so modern times. His coterie of advisers is quite small and limited. An upcoming book ("Prisoners of the White House" by highly regarded U.S. News corresponde...

  • May 2, 2013

    Harry Reid ignorant of basic federal law

    Yet another Democratic Senator, this time Majority Leader Harry Reid, has come forth to warn that more funding is needed to prevent ObamaCare from becoming a "train wreck". He calls for more federal funding to get this monstrosity up and running--...

  • April 26, 2013

    The Barack Obama Presidential Library

    The George W. Bush Presidential Library is being dedicated and opened this week. This prompts a thought: what might the future Barack Obama Presidential Library look like? Libraries dedicated to presidents are a combination of shrines, archives, monu...

  • April 24, 2013

    Obama's Chicago crony capitalists target the 'little guy'

    The utter cynicism of the Obama inner circle, if the media ever chose to reveal it to the American public, would stun those who think that Obama stands up for the "little guy." When it comes to paying for electricity, the Chicago cabal that thrust a ...

  • March 24, 2013

    Will Obama's Organizing for America promote school reforms that people demand

    As spring breaks starts, millions of parents are unhappy about the miserable state of public education whose slogan should be: Costs more, teaches less. A shocking poll from a group that Obama once belonged to shows the public is fed up and wan...

  • March 20, 2013

    Why won't Tom Friedman write about this fiasco?

    Tom Friedman has promoted green energy and Chinese communism for years. Now why doesn't he have the basic decency and courage to write about this Chinese green energy disaster? Walter Russell Mead writes: The world's top-selling producer of solar pa...

  • March 15, 2013

    Obama's green energy mania trumps his attacks on Wall Street

    For years, Barack Obama has attacked the "fat cats" on Wall Street. For years his Democratic allies in Congress attacked "securitization" -the packaging of contracts into securities that could be traded. Securitization of mortgages was criticized...

  • March 4, 2013

    Obama's abusive slurs get a pass while Boehner faces media inquisition over 'ass' comment

    The media double standard is flying high, as John Boehner is suffering criticism for language used by both President Obama and the Speaker of the House, while the Commander in chief was largely above reproach in the media for similar language. The he...

  • February 25, 2013

    Hollywood's Pious Hypocrisy

    Hypocrisy is endemic in Hollywood. That is one reason Barack Obama and other Democrats feel so welcome there. Hypocrisy is a wide spectrum disorder in Hollywood. Similar to a virus, it has many types and mutates as time goes by.  There are the o...

  • February 14, 2013

    EPA caught sabotaging fracking

    Once again, government misbehavior is coming to light, this time involving the Environmental Protection Agency, and we can thank the inspector general program -- which President Obama would like to gut. I have written numerous columns regarding Presi...

  • February 14, 2013

    Have Obama's policies led to an Iranian nuclear bomb?

    The Washington Post reports that Iran has ordered banned magnets from a Chinese company that would result in its nuclear program expanding by five-fold and sharply compress Israel's timeline for dealing with Iran: Iran recently sought to acqui...

  • February 6, 2013

    A Way Out of the Wilderness for the GOP

    Republicans hold a weak hand in Washington but a stronger grip in states where voters have entrusted them with power. Performances there can boost not just the Republican image but bring the party back to power in Washington. More importantly, they c...

  • February 5, 2013

    Obama hypocrisy: Example #345,789

    Again, Barack Obama has shown his disregard for the duties that come with his position: "White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said Monday that he had no updates on when President Barack Obama will release his budget for the next fiscal year. ...

  • January 26, 2013

    What is Obama hiding?

    The least transparent administration in modern history is ignoring bipartisan calls to appoint watchdogs who protect taxpayers and enforce the law. Why? The Washington Post reports: A bipartisan group of senators is urging President Obama to ...

  • January 23, 2013

    Obama's choice for SecDef is the Cornhusker from Prada

    President Obama's pick to head the Defense Department has been widely criticized for many reasons: his appeasement approach towards Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah; his plans to slash Defense Department spending; his foreign policy views (blaming Israel fo...

  • January 18, 2013

    Obama red lines crossed: World yawns

    Michael Rubin writes over at Commentary Magazine: Foreign Policy's Josh Rogin reported that the State Department has concluded that Bashar al-Assad's forces have indeed used chemical weapons against civilians in the Syrian civil war. The use of ...

  • December 22, 2012

    Obama can't help but rub our noses in his election victory

    Recall that Barack Obama told voters on the campaign trail not to boo when he mentioned Mitt Romney's name but "to vote for revenge." He was appealing to the lowest common denominator in people: the desire to blame others for their woes. Instead of...

  • December 19, 2012

    The Slackers' Manifesto

    I refuse to pay the New York Times any money so I husband the free internet articles I get every month.  But I knew if I picked this one my views would be confirmed. After Recession, More Young Adults Are Living on Street By SUSAN SAULNY SEATTL...

  • November 14, 2012

    2014 and Beyond: Containment and Rollback

    The election is over. The teeth gnashing and circular firing squads should end, too. Now we have to work together to develop a strategy for the years ahead -- one that Ronald Reagan would endorse: containment followed by rollback. At the onset, there...

  • November 4, 2012

    Obama : 'I am a nice guy' who loves 'working with Republicans'

    As Barack Obama would say, his latest attempt to bamboozle Americans: From the Washington Times: Striking a new tone, President Obama four days ahead of his reelection test told voters Friday that he "loves" working with Republicans. Facing criti...

  • November 1, 2012

    Obama Just Does Not Like People Very Much

    Many Americans find repellent a president who condescends to them, patronizes them, scolds and berates them.  Such a president does not show that he cares about them.  Despite hagiographic media coverage in the 2008 campaign and beyond, Bar...

  • October 29, 2012

    Debasing the Presidency

    Critics are harping that Barack Obama is running a campaign that in its coarseness, smallness, and pettiness[i] marks a new low in American politics.  Why are they so outraged?  He has behaved this way ever since he moved into the Oval Offi...

  • October 24, 2012

    Obama's weird wit

    People are taking offense - as they should - at Barack Obama's insensitive remark that Mitt Romney suffers from third-stage Romnesia (his campaign term for Romney's supposed shifts in positions). Anyone who has experienced or cared for anyone who ...

  • October 22, 2012

    Using Obama's own words against him

    Monday night's debate between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama will focus on foreign policy. And Mitt Romney has a golden opportunity to score points against the president by using his own words against him. I wrote an earlier column (see "Romney's Trump...

  • October 21, 2012

    The Other Cliff

    The cliff we all hear about is the fiscal cliff: the upcoming expiration of the Bush tax cuts and the simultaneous slashing of government spending.  But there is another cliff that Obama has created: the regulatory cliff-the likelihood of a vast...

  • October 19, 2012

    Romney's Trump Card for the Foreign Policy Debate

    Mitt Romney has a chance to upstage Barack Obama at Monday's upcoming foreign policy debate and use the strongest hand he has against Obama.  And it has nothing to do with Libya. Polls after their second debate highlight a source of strength for...

  • October 16, 2012

    All the President's Women and Men

    Among the key responsibilities of a president is choosing highly capable officials to steer the nation's course wisely.  President Obama has failed in this duty.  Romney declared during the debate that Obama only picks losers regarding gree...

  • October 3, 2012

    Obama Trolling for the Knucklehead Vote

    Pundits have ridiculed the string of fluff television, radio, and magazine appearances that Barack Obama has been making the last few months.  They are wrong.  He has a strategy and is executing it well.  He is seeking and winning the ...

  • September 29, 2012

    What do Soros, Abu Dhabi and Barack Obama Have in Common?

    Matt Damon, liberal actor and Obama supporter (a redundancy, I know), has landed funding for his latest movie venture: an attack on the phenomenally successful American effort to tap our vast natural gas and oil resources. The Washington Free Beacon ...

  • September 26, 2012

    Iran's Zone of Impunity

    Experts may debate the prospects of how soon Iran will enter the zone of immunity -- when air strikes will be unable to derail the regime's nuclear weapons program.  However, what are not debatable are the facts.  Iran kills American soldie...

  • September 23, 2012

    The Early Voting Travesty

    Matt Lewis of the Daily Caller outlines the reasons why early voting is bad for America: It doesn't work. Voters are casting ballots before they have all the information. The cost-both to taxpayers and campaigns. Ballot integrity. Community. The ser...

  • September 20, 2012

    The Obama You Don't Know

    The Washington Examiner just published a ten-part series on "The Obama You Don't Know" focusing  on his career in Illinois in ways that the mainstream media never did in 2008 or afterwards. A brief summary of the series can give readers a flavor...

  • September 18, 2012

    What Obama Thinks of Americans

    We know how Barack Obama feels about Mitt Romney. He holds him in contempt -- and, speaking through his proxies, has all but called him a felon, tax cheat, and murderer. Who cares?  Trash talk is Obama's political lingua franca.  He relishe...

  • September 13, 2012

    What's a 'full time' employee?

    ObamaCare legislation lets unelected bureaucrats determine what "full time" means, triggering mandatory health insurance requirements. Even French bureaucrats aren't this crazy. Nancy Pelosi was wrong. We don't have to wait for the ObamaCare legisla...

  • September 11, 2012

    Is Obama sending out anti-Mormon messages

    Have you noticed that President Obama has been pictured drinking a lot of beer lately (here are some snapshots)? Oddly the White House even sent out a beer recipe. What is going on here? Of course, given the parlous state of his presidency one can ...

  • September 9, 2012

    Obama Screws our Soldiers - Again

    Investors Business Daily reports in "Obama to Soldiers Overseas: No Voting for You": Military: The administration thanks the troops for their service by failing to comply with a law requiring that it help soldiers deployed overseas cast ballots in...

  • September 6, 2012

    Obama knew of the omission of God and Jerusalem from the platform before the convention

    Two days into the Democratic National Convention, uproar has emerged as the Democratic Party platform was released. Among the controversial platform positions was the removal from previous years' platforms  of "God," the removal of support f...

  • September 5, 2012

    Obama scapegoats his kids

    Barack Obama's habit of blaming others for the failures of his presidency has reached a new low.  In an interview with Jessica Yellin for CNN's "State of the Union" show, Barack Obama was asked why he did not do more outreach to Republicans duri...

  • September 1, 2012

    Obama's second term: Abolish checks on his power

    From today's Wall Street Journal column on Barack Obama's campaign: The president views a second term in some ways as a second chance, an opportunity to approach the office differently, according to close aides. He would like to tackle issues suc...

  • August 24, 2012

    American Thinker Scoops The New York Times

    We never miss a chance to pay all due regard to the New York Times and what has become over the years (unprintable).  But every once in a while, during slow summer days when editors of the paper are perhaps are on vacation, a story slips in that...

  • August 24, 2012

    Obama's Work Ethic Criticized Again

    Everyone has a hobbyhorse.  Mine happens to be Obama's lack of a work ethic. I first commented on his history of laziness three years ago in "Obama's Work Ethic."  He has been AWOL on some of the most issues of the day (entitlements, fiscal...

  • August 22, 2012

    WH tells reporters what questions to ask Barack Obama

    Now we know why-when President Obama deigns to talk to the media-he chooses local outlets and venues such as Entertainment Tonight and People magazine.  He can overawe them by the chance to talk to a President and he can script the questions the...

  • August 21, 2012

    More evidence of Obama's poor work ethic

    From Glenn Thrush's new e-book on Barack Obama's campaign for reelection (Obama's Last Stand: The president's only complaint about [Peter] Rouse's tenure as temporary chief of staff in late 2010 (admittedly, a big one) was that too many papers and p...

  • August 17, 2012

    Is Obama a Ventriloquist Dummy?

    For years, some people have ridiculed Barack Obama's reliance on the teleprompter. The Presidential teleprompter even has its own blog.  Critics have alluded that perhaps the world's greatest orator is not adept on his feet. Certainly, recent ev...

  • July 16, 2012

    It's Not Fair!

    President Obama is right. There is a lot of unfairness in America. And he is the source of much of it. Last time I heard so much talk about fairness -- as in the plaintive "that's not fair" -- was when my children were toddlers.  But Obama seems...

  • July 5, 2012

    Big Brother set to use eminent domain powers to rip off investors and line the pockets of Obama backer

    Eminent domain powers have long been a rallying point for believers in the primacy of the Constitution and the importance of protecting private property from the rapacious hands of Big Government. A new issue has arisen that may stoke the ire of ...

  • June 15, 2012

    Our Plagiarizing President

    John Podhoretz notes - as have others, including the Obama-worshipping Jonathan Alter over at MSNBC - how boring Barack Obama's speech was yesterday in Ohio. Not only was it long-winded but it just recycled the same rhetoric Obama has been using ...

  • June 13, 2012

    Obama, the insulter in chief

    Move over, Don Rickles, Barack Obama is claiming your turf.  It seems to me that Bush never insulted Democrats, whereas Obama is completely comfortable with dissing his opponents. Daniel Halper in the Weekly Standard: At a fundraiser in Marylan...

  • June 12, 2012

    Obama Wants a Monument

    It figures that a narcissist would want to make a physical impact on the landscape. In a previous column regarding Obama's tax and spend policies, I suggested that Barack Obama suffered from an "edifice complex," suggesting there was a stark desire t...

  • June 12, 2012

    How's that reset workin' out for ya, Barry?

    Remember when Obama's "smart diplomacy" and the "reset button" was going to win Russian cooperation? That could really come in handy in helping to end the civil war in Syria. I guess Obama's charisma and overall wonderfulness proved unpersuasive...

  • June 11, 2012

    Obama believes the most important issue of second term is 'climate change'

    President Obama is quoted in a New Yorker column by hooked-in journalist Ryan Lizza as believing the most important issue to address in his second term would be climate change "Obama has an ambitious second-term agenda, which, at least in broad ways...

  • June 9, 2012

    This nugget regarding Obama explains a great deal

    Daniel Klaidman of Newsweek has written a new book, Kill or Capture, about the Obama administration's anti-terror policies, containing much information that obviously came from insiders, some of which is now the subject of demands for a special prose...

  • June 5, 2012

    What Is Obama Hiding?

    There has been plenty of conjecture regarding Obama's biography.  Clearly, he has a penchant for fiction and does not care to fact-check his own life.  Nor does he care for others to fact-check or scrutinize what he has been doing as presid...

  • May 30, 2012

    Why would Obama's campaign strategist attend Obama's Kill List Meetings

    David Axelrod evidently attended the highest level national security meetings that decided who would be subjected to targeted assasination from above via drone strikes. Daniel Harper reports in the Weekly Standard: The New York Times has a very leng...

  • May 22, 2012

    Obama: AWOL as always when a crisis approaches

    Politico runs a headline story focusing on President Obama's aloofness and how this has damaged his ability to accomplish things in Washington. Manu Raju writes He doesn't call. He doesn't write. He doesn't drop by for a visit. That's what some of...

  • May 22, 2012

    Democrats who cheat on their taxes want us to pay more

    Treasury Secretary  Tim Geithner did not pay the taxes he owed;  Charles Rangel (D-NY) who as chairman of Ways and Means wrote tax laws, has run afoul of tax authorities for years' worth of malfeasance; and the latest:  Democratic Sena...

  • May 21, 2012

    Washington Post dredges up 150 year old Mormon massacre

    Charles Spiering of the Washington Examiner calls out a ridiculous and offensive column run by the Washington Post that questions the depth of support Mitt Romney may have in the "deep South." The Washington Post column dredged up the history of the ...

  • May 20, 2012

    Except for the facts, the New York Times was correct

    Earlier in  the week, the New York Times ran a front-page story regarding the supposed plans of Republicans to run attack ads highlighting Barack Obama's relationship with Jeremiah Wright, Jr. Accusations of racism (again) were raised. The p...

  • May 17, 2012

    More attacks on Romney donors

    Of course, the New York Times goes to bat for Obama in this hit job regarding how members of the Ricketts family of Chicago are helping to fund a campaign against Barack Obama (one member is mentioned in a one sentence aside as funding Obama's campai...

  • May 14, 2012

    The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House

    Edward Klein's new book on Barack Obama, The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, is a withering portrayal of a radical adrift, in over his head, drowning in his own incompetency -- while being weighed down by a small circle of "advisers" who ar...

  • May 11, 2012

    Hugo Chavez, Soros, and the anti-fracking movement

    Our friends over at Investor's Business Daily have a must read column  regarding the actions taken by George Soros, Hugo Chavez, and Barack Obama that have frustrated energy development in America and in Canada. From the editorial that focuses o...

  • May 5, 2012

    Just who is being unreal about the jobs numbers?

    Papers and media outlets across the nation (let alone the plummeting stock market) recognized the job numbers that were released on Friday as being appallingly weak. Not the Los Angeles Times, however. The paper covered the story under this headli...

  • May 1, 2012

    Obama's Chicago-Style Campaign

    Barack Obama has a take-no-prisoners approach when it comes to waging political campaigns.  But perhaps he has taken a step too far this time around.  Not content to attack his opponent, his campaign is going after his opponent's supporters...

  • April 26, 2012

    Obama Getting His News from Andrew Sullivan Now

    As noted by Ben Shapiro over  at Breitabrt.com, President Obama sat down for an interview with Rolling Stone magazine as part of his outreach toward the youth vote.  Among the nuggets was praise for the work of Andrew Sullivan, the Atlantic...

  • April 24, 2012

    Hillary Clinton embraces fake fatwa

    Hillary Clinton recently downplayed concerns over Iran's nuclear program by referring to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's supposed fatwa (there are serious doubts such a fatwa ever even existed ) that nuclear weapons are contrary to Islam.  This ha...

  • April 19, 2012

    Why Obama Lies

    George Will writes that "Barack Obama's intellectual sociopathy -- his often breezy and sometimes loutish indifference to truth -- should no longer startle."  But why do Obama and his supporters feel no compunction when they do so? And does this...

  • April 16, 2012

    Obama admits at summit 'part of my job is to scout out where I may want to bring Michelle back later'

    Barack Obama and his wife have an image of jetting off to deluxe spots courtesy of the American taxpayer. Last week he had a run in with a St. Louis radio announcer who mentioned his callers have a problem with these travels given the costs that are ...

  • April 15, 2012

    White House opens door to big donors and lobbyists come along for the ride

    Remember that early Barack Obama pledge to ban lobbyists from roles in his administration? Remember the promise of transparency? Remember the decrying of the role of special interests? As we now know those were "just words" that were campaign fod...

  • April 11, 2012

    Obama laying the groundwork to tap the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

    Here we go again: Obama playing politics with our future. Austan Goolsbee was Barack Obama's senior economic adviser during his 2008 campaign and went on to serve as chairman of  President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers. He left in mid-...

  • April 9, 2012

    How Obama's 'Recovery Act' paid for transferring military technology to Russia

    When the true history of Barack Obama's "Recovery Act" comes to light there will be many tales of wasted taxpayer dollars, faulty workmanship, bailouts to union allies, and scams and schemes that benefit Democrats and their donors. We already have so...

  • April 6, 2012

    Obama's anti-Israel 'hot mic' moment

    Anti-Israel activist Ali Abunimah in 2008  "Over the years since I first saw Obama speak I met him about half a dozen times, often at Palestinian and Arab-American community events in Chicago including a May 1998 community fundraiser at whic...

  • April 4, 2012

    Obama's laughable scorn

    President Obama described the Republican budget proposed by Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) as "laughable" during a speech at the Associated Press Luncheon on Tuesday. More mockery from President Obama is not a surprise. He prefers to run by insulting others a...

  • March 27, 2012

    President Put-Down

    Barack Obama has had one passion that has been consistent over the years: himself.  His healthy self-regard is well-known by now.  From the omnipresent posters of his jutting face to the spectacle of the Democratic National Convention with ...

  • March 23, 2012

    Obama to use FCC as partisan tool in war on Super-Pacs.

    The Federal Communications Commission, headed by Barack Obama's law school friend and political appointee, Julius Genachowski, is weighing a sudden change in regulations that would cast a shining light on political spending by so-called super-PAC...

  • March 21, 2012

    Obama's Dept of Energy misleading people on gas demand to dampen price rise?

    According to this Wall Street Journal column  written by Carolyn Cui, few market observers believe data from Barack Obama's Department of Energy when it comes to measures of gasoline demand: If the Department of Energy is to be believed, weekly...

  • March 17, 2012

    Big Brother Obama is watching

    Big Brother Obama is watching you on-line despite his claims to want to protect your privacy.  Dave Levinthal of Politico reports on Team Obama's vast efforts to tap people's on-line behavior to gin up votes and money for his campaign : Preside...

  • March 14, 2012

    Coming Soon: The Commercials that Obama Fears

    President Obama knows that every public statement he makes is recorded and lives forever on the internet.  That is cause for serious worry.  The best campaign ad to run against Obama is one that uses his own words -- and those of the offici...

  • March 13, 2012

    Obama urges Cameron to pile on Israel

    The New York Times is reporting that Prime Minister David Cameron will add Britain's voice to that of President Obama when it comes to discouraging Israel from attacking Iran's nuclear program. Barack Obama is concerned that oil prices might strike a...

  • March 10, 2012

    Obama's Treasury Dept. Trying to Chill Anti-Mullah Group Here in America

    Guy Taylor of the Washington Times reports that Barack Obama's Treasury Department is investigating former Pennsylvania Governor Edward Rendell over fees he received for speaking up on behalf of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (MEK) group.  This is a gro...

  • March 9, 2012

    Kofi Annan: accomplice to mass murder does it again!

    Consider Kofi Annan's role in the Rwandan genocide this is particularly offensive: he is a passive observer to two mass murders After years of avoiding scrutiny of his role in allowing the Rwandan genocide to happen under his watch, former U.N. Secre...

  • March 8, 2012

    The Obama Doctrine: seek international permission, not Congressional authority, to employ our military

    We all know Obama likes to outsource work and does not believe as much in national sovereignty as he does in giving power over our actions to foreigners.  This was the principle he followed when he sought permission from the Arab League to engag...

  • March 7, 2012

    Obama and the 'Gravity of War'

    Barack Obama held a news conference yesterday to counterprogram against the GOP's Super Tuesday contest. It was one of his rare news conferences of late, as he has avoided them and preferred using direct means to communicate with his fans if not the ...

  • March 4, 2012

    Premiering Today: 'Daylight: The story of Obama and Israel'

    Today President Obama spoke to the pro-Israel community gathered in Washington for AIPAC's policy conference. At the same time, the Emergency Committee for Israel has released "Daylight: The story of Obama and Israel," a documentary on the U.S.-...

  • March 4, 2012

    Fisking Obama's AIPAC Speech

    President Obama delivered a speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee on Sunday. The text can be found here. Barack Obama's reception was lukewarm when he walked on stage -- and for good reason, given the treatment he has meted out to I...

  • March 2, 2012

    Obama tells the Iranians not to call his bluff - but why shouldn't they?

    President Obama sat down and spoke to a friendly journalist, Jeffrey Goldberg, to chat about Iran's nuclear program.  He again repeated that it was "unacceptable" for Iran to have a nuclear bomb and that on Iran, "I don't bluff." Actually, to pa...

  • March 1, 2012

    One of the few bloggers who President Obama reads goes on an anti-Semitic tirade

    First the Obama tie: As for what Obama reads online, his advisers said he looks for offbeat blogs and news stories, tracking down firsthand reporting and seeking out writers with opinions about his policies. Obama was particularly interested in Atla...

  • February 29, 2012

    Administration admits its goal is not to get the price of gasoline down

    All too often the only truth you get in Washington is when someone makes an unscripted "gaffe" ("spread the wealth" for example). The latest such truth-telling comes courtesy of Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu who admitted in Congressional ...

  • February 29, 2012

    Obama Again Takes a Pass on Trying to Weaken Iran

    True to form, President Obama has not even led from behind when it comes to Iran.  Two years ago, he and his minions in Congress tried to slow the passage of laws that would impose tough sanctions on Iran to dissuade the regime from developing n...

  • February 27, 2012

    Why won't Barack Obama cut ties to a group promoting anti-Semitism?

    Media Matters is a George Soros-funded group that has been promoting anti-Semitism, as well as opposition to Israel. Among its employees is M.J. Rosenberg-who proudly proclaims he popularized the term "Israel-firster." Many Jewish groups, from the An...

  • February 21, 2012

    How Obama Makes Decisions

    There is a cliché in Washington.  There are two things you do not want to see made: sausage and laws.  To those we may add a third: Barack Obama's decisions. Americans were warned by his opponents that Barack Obama was unprepa...

  • February 18, 2012

    Obama's drop in the Gallup approval polling

    Gallup's tracking polling this week reversed President Obama's recent entry into net approval territory (49 approval - 45 disapproval, Feb 6-8), back down into negative territory (46 - 48, Feb. 14-16). Detailed data available on interactive chart her...

  • February 15, 2012

    Why does Gingrich keep name-dropping Lean Six Sigma?

    Newt Gingrich has been criticized for selling his own books at campaign events. He has been criticized for selling his services as a lobbyist for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while trying to obscure his true role. Add one more bit of suspect behavior t...

  • February 9, 2012

    Solyndra Sold Assets Cheap to a New Business closely tied to company's biggest investors

    Does this look suspicious? Jim McElhatton writes in the Washington Times that Solyndra, one of the more prominent Green Scheme failures that the Obama administration funded with taxpayer money - and one closely tied to a huger donor to President ...

  • February 9, 2012

    USDA 'discrimination awards' for Hispanic farmers massively increased

    One can be sure this will get big airplay in the Spanish-speaking media-and be ignored by mainstream media outlets. From Judicial Watch (Via Big Government): The U.S. government's minority cash giveaway for "discriminated" farmers has reached a...

  • February 8, 2012

    WH spokesman: People dropping out of workforce is an 'economic positive'

    Many experts have noted that the "good news" regarding the unemployment rate reported on Monday has to be tempered with the realization that the number was artificially low. So many people have grown discouraged regarding job prospects that they ...

  • February 6, 2012

    President Obama has a very serious short-term memory problem

    During his annual pre-Super Bowl interview America's Commander-in-Chief said that he doubts Iran is seeking to carry out attacks in America. saying, "We don't see any evidence that they have those intentions or capabilities right now." As Josh Gers...

  • February 6, 2012

    The fruits of Obama's 'engagement policy' told in 4 headlines

    Egypt to prosecute Americans in NGO probe  Russia, China veto U.N. resolution on Syria Iran's leader: War would be detrimental to U.S. Obama's Popularity in Arab World Now Lower than Bush's Admittedly, these are just a sampling of what cou...

  • February 4, 2012

    Documentary exposes the downside of wind power

    We hear a lot from the President, his environmental allies, and crony capitalists regarding the wonders of wind energy. Obama's favorite crony capitalist, who is also a prominent supporter, heads up General Electric, a prime beneficiary of the wi...

  • February 3, 2012

    What would Barry do?

    The book Game Change about the 2008 Presidential campaign noted that Barack Obama's campaign staffers had a nickname for him: the black Jesus. They may not be too far off. We know Obama talked about his election leading to the end of the rise of the...

  • February 1, 2012

    Happy Anniversary, Mr. President!

    Today is the third anniversary of President Obama telling Matt Lauer on the Today show: "I will be held accountable. You know, I've got four years. ... A year from now, I think people are gonna see that we're starting to make some progress, but ther...

  • January 31, 2012

    Obama Exploits Navy Seals

    For a basketball player, Barack Obama sure can stoop low. Leif Babin, a much-decorated Navy Seal, takes President Obama to task for exploiting Navy Seal operations to gain votes. This is not harmless credit-hogging by Barack Obama for the herois...

  • January 26, 2012

    More Obama allies funding anti-Romney ads to help Gingrich in Florida

    Recall the Arabian proverb that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend"? That is certainly true in politics as practiced by Democrats. Democrat-linked groups are pouring money into Florida to help the candidate they would prefer run against Barack Obama...

  • January 24, 2012

    One more sign that Obama is helping Gingrich

    Obama allies are stepping in to help Gingrich's campaign in Florida by funding deceptive anti-Romney ads. Since Gingrich is lacking in funds, the Democrats are gleefully spending some of their own money to smear Romney.  Now it appears that the ...

  • January 24, 2012

    Gingrich evades Medicare taxesis using (updated)

    Newt Gingrich used loopholes -- a type successfully closed when the IRS attacks them -- to avoid paying Medicare taxes. Janet Novack reports in Forbes: Newt Gingrich avoided tens of thousands of dollars in Medicare payroll taxes in 2010 by using a t...

  • January 23, 2012

    Why Gingrich can rely on Democrats to pay for his campaign in Florida

    One more sign Democrats are hoping Newt Gingrich becomes the Republican nominee for President: the key union for public employees are paying for deceptive anti-Romney ads in Florida, the site of the next GOP primary battle at the end of the month...

  • January 22, 2012

    Obama's Poverty Politics Trick to Redistribute even more tax dollars

    Barack Obama is manipulating poverty statistics to cover income redistribution on a massive scale. I covered this subterfuge in a previous American Thinker column, Obama's Poverty Politics. The Census Bureau has redefined "poverty" in a way that vast...

  • January 21, 2012

    Obama's energy policies have us over a barrel

    On the same day Obama kills the Keystone pipeline, the  Saudis announce plans to boost price of oil. Irwin Stelzer of the Weekly Standard explains how America's strategic energy position is weak. Almost literally, Middle Eastern producers have u...

  • January 16, 2012

    Soros's friend in the Oval Office does him a favor

    The Wall Street Journal has an opinion column noting that Barack Obama has done an about face and now seems to be boosting the prospects of natural gas (especially that derived from shale gas fields). The White House has released a report that notes ...

  • January 9, 2012

    Obama's Political Ploys Could Backfire

    Barack Obama is taking a bigger risk than he realizes, testing the limits of the American electorate's patience with his insultingly manipulative political strategies.  He is playing with fire. The president's campaign strategy is to distract at...

  • December 27, 2011

    Obama's Poverty Politics

    Barack Obama's manifold failures over the last three years have left him in a political tough spot as we enter 2012.  He will have a challenging time running on a record that has resulted in massive unemployment, stagnant income growth, a record...

  • December 10, 2011

    Obama's trail of broken promises

    In Barack Obama's 60 Minutes interview to run tomorrow (how many of these free campaign ads has he had to date?) he responds to a question posed to him by Steve Kroft by answering that he "didn't overpromise." How about this whopper from his speech o...

  • December 8, 2011

    Corzine: 'I Simply Do Not Know Where The Money Is'

    This is appalling. A leading Democrat political figure, a former governor and senator, and considered a potential treasury secretary, is pleading ignorance when it comes to the disappearance of over a billion dollars of client money. The WSJ: A cont...

  • December 7, 2011

    A Message from Dems Every GOP Primary Voter Should Hear

    One would expect Democrats to be down in the dumps with approval of Barack Obama's handling of the economy -- and other issues -- underwater. But GOP primary voters have given them a gift: support for Newt Gingrich. All voters in the GOP primaries sh...

  • December 3, 2011

    Obama 'behind enemy lines'

    A nagging fear that many have had about President Obama is moving closer to the mainstream, as evidence accumulates. George Will plucks a key sentence from Barack Obama's "Dreams From My Father" that encapsulates Obama's philosophy and guiding princi...

  • December 2, 2011

    GOP Senatorial candidate takes on Obama's efforts to kill off shale gas and oil jobs

    Josh Mandel, Ohio's Treasurer, Iraqi War veteran (who voluntarily re-upped for a second mission), and Republican Senatorial candidate, takes on Barack Obama and his administration's efforts to stop development of Ohio's vast shale oil and gas reserve...

  • November 22, 2011

    Iran Policy: The Problem Is Obama

    Iran is well on its way to developing nuclear weapons.  Years of sanctions have not stopped them, and now President Obama will not use his most effective tool short of acts of war. The administration opposes new sanctions on Iran's Central Bank,...

  • November 15, 2011

    The Abuser in Chief

    Calling America "lazy" last weekend was only the latest and broadest insult from President Obama. America has become accustomed to Obama's lashing out at entire groups of people.  What has been all too little appreciated is his seeming delight i...

  • November 8, 2011

    Obama promoted two of the three 'experts' who dismissed the nuclear threat from Iran in 2007

    Under President Obama, the Peter Principle appears to have been elevated to policy, at least in the case of architects of an American intelligence disaster.   The International Atomic Energy Agency will soon release a report on Iran's nucle...

  • November 2, 2011

    Obama's unfavorable augury

    Yesterday was a bad day for President Obama in Colorado, a swing state -- and an important one for him come November, 2012.   Coloradans voted to reject tax hikes to pay for more education spending, and this  can be seen as an unfavora...

  • October 22, 2011

    Fisker fiasco in the making

    Solyndra is a solar scandal -- a Green Scheme gone bad that will cost taxpayers over one-half billion dollars.  But these government backed deals are like cockroaches: when you see one, others are likely to follow. Sure enough, on cue we have on...

  • October 18, 2011

    Obama's Uganda Gambit to serve Soros

    Journalist Aaron Klein has an interesting take on Barack Obama's surprising decision to send troops into Uganda to battle a rebel army.  The genesis of the idea may have begun at the George Soros-funded International Crisis Group, one of the "th...

  • October 15, 2011

    What kind of Treasury Secretary becomes a partisan political tool?

    Geithner says "actions against Wall Street" coming. "Stay tuned." Wonderful timing when the pillars of finance are under strain already from Durbin-Frank, EU financial turmoil, poor economic conditions in America, and more. Now they have another prob...

  • October 12, 2011

    Obama 'heartbroken' over delayed NBA season.

    President Obama is "heartbroken" over delayed NBA season. Really? With all the myriad problems the nation faces - many of them being the result of his and his administration's policies - Obama expresses sorrow the NBA season is delayed? This is just ...

  • October 7, 2011

    How much is too much profit? Ask Obama

    Barack Obama believes he should decide how much we should earn. Just in the last few days he went into his favorite mode: attack dog. When Bank of America decided to respond to the Durbin amendment (which cut down the charges they could charge mercha...

  • October 6, 2011

    Quinnipiac poll: Romney 46 Obama 42

    Democrats have been dismissing polls that show a generic Republican beating Obama in a presidential matchup. They justify their derision by saying that when specific candidates are named, polls have shown that Obama is in the lead. Not so much it see...

  • October 3, 2011

    Harry Reid's Solyndra

      Here we go again: another gigantic taxpayer-funded loser, courtesy of President Obama's administration -- and this one seems to have helped friends of Harry Reid. Eric Lipton and Clifford Kraus of the New York Times cover the tale:  In ...

  • October 3, 2011

    Top Democrat wants to gut Government Watchdog that has uncovered vast waste of taxpayer dollars

    Nebraska Democrat Senator Ben Nelson wants to cut the budget of the agency which consistently uncovers waste, fraud and abuse, and saves taxpayers' money.  Ed O'Keefe of the Washington Post: GAO publishes more than 1,000 reports and audits annu...

  • September 30, 2011

    Confession of a crony capitalist

    What Obama donor and Solyndra investor George Kaiser said about federal money is shocking.  Senator Jim DeMint found a gem. In a column in the Washington Times decrying what he calls President Obama's failures in "venture socialism" he dug out a...

  • September 26, 2011

    Obama's strange sense of humor

    Believe it or not, Barack Obama is cracking jokes about the horrific fires in Texas. I guesshe won't be using Bill Clinton's old line, "I feel your pain," when people complain about the terrible economy. How presidential, how empathetic: At a Silico...

  • September 24, 2011

    Dems risk government shutdown so they can fund Democratic-linked 'slush fund'

    The Senate Democrats are playing a high-risk game at America's expense. They are refusing to vote for a House-passed continuing resolution to assure the government stays operating after October 1st. They will pin the shutdown and financial chaos on t...

  • September 21, 2011

    Eric Holder's free-spending way with our money

    Hasn't Barack Obama talked about "shared sacrifice"? Hasn't he talked about the need to trim government budgets and tackle the deficit? We know this is laughable -- and so does our Attorney General Eric Holder and the government employees at the Depa...

  • September 21, 2011

    Obama's Chicago pals get rich off of his fraud-ridden weatherization programs

    The rest of America is just beginning to learn how Cook County politics works.  Barack Obama learned his lessons well.  He said as much when he let slip his real views: that politics is about "rewarding friends" and "punishing enemies."...

  • September 20, 2011

    Obama's solar energy Betamax bet

    President Obama prides himself on being a visionary.  How often have we heard him speak, if not pontificate, about "green jobs," "Sputnik" moments," "high speed trains," and electric cars?  His solar bets have come up a cropper --as we see ...

  • September 17, 2011

    Long term unemployment and Obama (updated)

    Obama's "jobs bill" is primarily a political prop to use against Republicans from Obama's bully pulpit.  That much is clear, as he has telegraphed his desire to run a Truman-like campaign against a do-nothing Congress. But sometimes the details ...

  • September 16, 2011

    WH more concerned about Solyndra's effect on Obama's reelection campaign than taxpayers' money

    At least now we have confirmation of where Obama's priorities lie (at half a billion dollars, an expensive piece of data).  From Mackenzie Weinger at Politico: A White House official worried that the political fallout from pumping more money in...

  • September 16, 2011

    Book shocker: Staff ignored Obama order

    An insider account of the White House's response to the financial crisis reveals a president so inexperienced, amateurish, and radical that he proposed "dissolving" (nationalizing) Citigroup.  The idea was so absurd that even Timothy Geithn...

  • September 16, 2011

    Solyndra Investor admits: we wanted the loan so we could 'go public and cash out'

    A clearer picture of the underlying insider scheme at Solyndra is beginning to emerge. Yuliya Chernova of the Wall Street Journal writes a superb column today regarding all the business problems that beset the scandal plagued Solyndra. There were a l...

  • September 15, 2011

    Solyndra is just the tip of the iceberg

    Obama's Green Tech 38.6 billion dollar boondoggle has created only a few thousand jobs.  The buck never stops at Obama's desk (but bucks flow to donors, allies, blue states, union workers operating under expensive Bacon-Davis mandates, and other...

  • September 14, 2011

    Democrats are blame-shifting again

    The Hill's Andrew Restuccia reports:  Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee blasted top executives at the now-bankrupt California solar manufacturer Solyndra Wednesday, suggesting they misled federal officials about the financial...

  • September 13, 2011

    Political trap buried in Obama's 'jobs' bill

    From Jonathan Allen who writes the Huddle column for Politico, who notes a provision buried in President Obama's "Jobs" bill: Spend $55 billion on schools for construction and 'teacher stabilization.' Almost all of the $30 billion in teacher stabili...

  • September 11, 2011

    The latest from the most anti-Israel President in American history

    First, we had two instances of the Obama team excluding Israel in a very crude and clear way from a list of nations that have suffered terrorism and that have extended aid to Haiti after its severe earthquake. From Martin Peretz, emeritus editor of t...

  • September 9, 2011

    Obama's Crony Capitalism

    Barack Obama has his own stable of Enrons, companies benefiting from close ties to the president, seemingly able to leverage campaign donations, receiving taxpayer dollars to boost their prospects.  They may be unviable on their own (as Solyndra...

  • September 9, 2011

    Obama's Uncle is quietly released from jail and no one is keeping track of him

    Here we go again. Anyone surprised? The Boston  Globe's Maria Sacchetti reports: Officials released President Obama's uncle from Plymouth County jail yesterday after holding him for more than two weeks on an immigration detainer for violating a...

  • September 7, 2011

    Obama Green Jobs Con Job and the Ill Wind That Blows from Spain

    Barack Obama will give yet another major "jobs" speech this week. Ho-hum. For all the ballyhoo, he has been giving these for years.  Most of America will tune out and instead look forward to his speech being over so they can celebrate something ...

  • September 7, 2011

    Solyndra insiders get a second bite out of the taxpayers

    The Obama administration has already granted new investors to the faltering (and now bankrupt) Solyndra priority in bankruptcy relative to the taxpayers' claim. Now, two investors have stepped up to the plate and offered loans carrying an interest ra...

  • September 6, 2011

    Labor Dept. power grab rewards Obama's union allies

    In a stealthy bureaucratic move, an Obama political appointee is rewriting rules to enrich unions, economically harm developers, and hinder future construction.   The Washington Post takes Obama's Labor Department to task for deciding "with...

  • September 4, 2011

    Administration put taxpayers at the back of the line for Solyndra assets

    The skeletons are being dragged out of the closet in the Solyndra scandal, in the face of White House resistance. First came news that over $500 million dollars of loan guarantees were extended to the solar scheme despite outside auditors warning the...

  • September 2, 2011

    Solyndra scandal only the beginning

    The Washington Post is reporting that the Obama administration has made a number of huge bets with our money on more green schemes like the recently bankrupt Solyndra (that one will costs taxpayers over $500 million dollars in the form of loan guaran...

  • August 31, 2011

    Obama blows $535 million dollars on a crony capitalist scheme declaring bankruptcy today

    NBC is reporting on yet another green scheme going belly-up and this one is a big one. Scott McGrew reports: Solyndra, a major manufacturer of solar technology in Fremont, has shut its doors, according to employees at the campus.  "I was told b...

  • August 30, 2011

    Where's the Islamophobia?

    The media, academics, activist groups, and a few politicians have promoted the view that Islamophobia is raging across America. The opposition to the location of the 9/11 Mosque, efforts to criticize the adoption of Sharia law in America, attempts to...

  • August 27, 2011

    The Soros-supported Center for American Progress blames rich Jews for stoking Islamophobia

    The Obama-allied Center for American Progress has released a report that blames Islamophobia in America on a small group of Jews and Israel supporters in America, whose views are being backed by millions of dollars.  This "network", according to...

  • August 26, 2011

    The Comcast-Obama Alliance

    The media is still showing the love for Obama. Not only does the fawning coverage continue but media executives are putting their money where their collective mouths are, by showering the Obama campaign with money. Comcast, the nation's largest cable...

  • August 20, 2011

    Obama bests Bush in finger pointing: Google

    One of the more annoying characteristics of Barack Obama is his habit of blaming others and pointing fingers to shift responsibility for our problems from himself to well...fill in the blank. I never recalled George Bush pointing fingers that often t...

  • August 19, 2011

    Obama's media pals launch the anti-Darrell Issa crusade

    Darrell Issa has been a problem for Barack Obama ever since he took over as chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. He is one of Obama's Public Enemies (he has so many of them now it is hard to identify him as Public Enemy Nu...

  • August 16, 2011

    Washington: A paradise for parasites

    While the rest of the nation suffers from horrendous unemployment numbers and stagnant, if not vanishing wages, one city seems to be awash in money. Washington suburbs are booming as that city sucks up tax dollars from the rest of the nation to feed ...

  • August 1, 2011

    Why did Obama cave in the debt ceiling fight?

    After weeks of threats, rumors, uproar and what passes for wisdom in Washington a debt ceiling deal seems to be on the horizon. This is a victory for the GOP and for America, though some may quibble that that the GOP gave away too much in the deal. ...

  • July 15, 2011

    NY Times hit job on shale gas dealt another blow

    The New York Times war on cheap energy was dealt yet another blow yesterday. BHP Billiton, the Australian-based mining giant, agreed to purchase American oil and gas company Petrohawk Energy corporation at a huge premium to its stock price. Petrohawk...

  • July 13, 2011

    The solar plant to nowhere

    Evergreen Solar stock is plunging this week into a black hole of probable bankruptcy. The losers - aside from shareholders and employees - are the taxpayers from Massachusetts. Their government, just in the last few years, received $58 million in ...

  • July 1, 2011

    Obama continues his war on cheap American energy

    Barack Obama's EPA has been on a crusade to kill off efforts to boost America's domestic energy supplies. We are now among the least attractive nations for energy companies seeking to explore and develop energy supplies. The American people are wakin...

  • June 30, 2011

    Exposing demonizers of shale gas

    As readers of American Thinker may know, I have been a big proponent of  shale gas-a resource that in America is abundant, cheap,  located on-shore.  America developed the technologies that allow us to tap this bonanza: horizontal dril...

  • June 28, 2011

    Soros-supported group behind trumped up choking charge against Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser

    Jonathan Tobin writes at Commentary Contentions that a Soros-supported group is behind the trumped up charges that  Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice David Prosser "choked" a liberal colleague of his, Ann Walsh Bradley: The Associated Press is re...

  • June 26, 2011

    Obama trips promote profits for his donors, not jobs for Americans

    Between golf outings (13 weekends in a row), musical soirees in the East Room, fantasy basketball pickup games, and trips to fundraisers for high rollers, Obama has made numerous trips to promote so-called clean-tech energy ventures. He has touted th...

  • June 24, 2011

    Susan Rice's Whopper on battling 'anti-Israel crap' comes up a Cropper

    When the Obama administration decided to join the execrable United Nations Human Rights Council there was consternation from, among others, supporters of Israel. President George Bush had refused to join the Council because it and its predecessor (Th...

  • June 23, 2011

    The widening racial divide of the Obama era

    Contrary to the expectations of most pundits, the election of Barack Obama has aggravated the racial divide in America between blacks and all other racial groups.  Seth Forman has an insightful column in National Review that concludes Barack Oba...

  • June 21, 2011

    Unbelievable: A 'mistake' in ObamaCare will allow millions of middle-class Americans to get 'free' medical care meant for poor

    So says AP. I guess no one really did read this bill. Now that it has passed we can recall Nancy Pelosi's words that it needed to be passed so we can discover just what is in it. Of course, this is all courtesy of taxpayers and American dollars from ...

  • June 19, 2011

    Why Obama's hometown has the highest gas prices in America

    Think California has the highest gas prices in America? Think again. Chicago: the one party town wears that crown. What are the consequences of living in the last of the one-party machine towns, a town that has hosted the Daley family as well as be...

  • June 15, 2011

    Obama economy good for some people

    While America as a whole slides toward unemployment and poverty, certain well-connected people are doing very nicely indeed. Consider Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and her husband Paul. Kevin Bogardus of The Hill reports:  House Minority Leader ...

  • June 13, 2011

    Crony Capitalism and Obama's Anti-Coal Crusade

    Barack Obama has long sought to bankrupt the coal industry. But, Cook County politician that he is and always will be, the relevant question is: who benefits from his plans wreck a major portion of our economy while also boosting electricity prices a...

  • June 10, 2011

    The President's lies about why employment growth is so anemic

    President Obama has earned quite the reputation for blaming his problems on the actions and policies of others. There is always someone to point the finger at as being the guilty party - the scapegoat. He actually has a history of doing so. In 2008,...

  • June 8, 2011

    Obama's troubled personal relations with foreign leaders

    Carrie Budoff Brown writes in Politico that President Obama has very poor personal relations with most world leaders. Even worse, the one leader whom he "respect[s] and admire[s] is anti-American and anti-Semitic: Obama's demeanor on the internationa...

  • June 7, 2011

    Obama no longer receiving daily economic briefings

    President Obama has given up his daily economic briefings.  Maybe it took too much time away from his leisure activities. From The Hill:  At some point during the first two years of his administration, President Obama stopped receiving the ...

  • June 2, 2011

    Obama and his cronies give his base in Chicago a big favor-free internet and PCs

    If this isn't blatant favoritism I don't know what is.   As part of the White House's deal to permit Comcast to buy NBC Universal, the government forced Comcast to promise to provide, according to  Abby W. Schacter of the New York Post:...

  • May 27, 2011

    New rating shows US 44th in energy competitiveness

    Now it is official: Barack Obama’s animus and actions towards our energy companies are choking off the prospects of America developing our own energy wealth. From Steven Hayward , writing at Powerline: It is almost as if the United States ...

  • May 27, 2011

    Dissed in Sudan: where is the outrage?

    Compare and contrast: Biden in Israel and Susan Rice in SudanJoe Biden was in Israel and a few housing permits were issued for East Jerusalem, resulting in an uproar at the White House.  Condemnations and recriminations followed. There was a ton...

  • May 24, 2011

    Obama, the 'anti-Israel president'

    Wall Street Journal columnist Bret Stephens nails President Obama to the wall in his column: An Anti-Israel President.  Stephens writes about the Obama doctrine: insult and punish friends, reward adversaries and enemies.  His latest target,...

  • May 23, 2011

    Candidate Obama's promise on 'right of return'

    Sorry for the hook in the headline but it is important to point out that critics of Barack Obama who are complaining that he has endangered Israel by not disabusing the Palestinians of the notion that they have a right of return to Israel are missing...

  • May 21, 2011

    Washington Post slams Obama for undermining peace

    The Washington Post takes Barack Obama to task for his latest damaging mistake - calling for negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians to start with an agreement by Israel that it be based on a return to 1967 lines with land swaps between Isra...

  • May 7, 2011

    Why would Obama be interested in the views of anti-Israel blogger Andrew Sullivan?

    Last year, the Washington Post ran a column that delved into the sources Barack Obama uses to influence his decision-making. At the time, I found this excerpt particularly interesting:As for what Obama reads online, his advisers said he looks for of...

  • April 26, 2011

    NLRB continues its crusade to unionize America

    Fresh off its decision to ask an administrative law judge to stop Boeing's move to step up production in South Carolina because Boeing cited its wish to lower the risk of suffering more strikes, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is stepping ...

  • April 25, 2011

    The Porous Pay Wall at The New York Times

    For those who want information to be free -- or at least pay the media the value of the product they provide -- here are a few ways to pay the New York Times the fair value of what they provide: zero.Their ballyhooed "pay wall" (reportedly ...

  • April 24, 2011

    The Chinese Role Model Collapses on the Progressives

    For years, China's high-speed rail and green energy programs have been portrayed as miracles that America must follow to remain "in the game."  During the last two years and counting, American taxpayers have been put on the hook for te...

  • April 22, 2011

    Obama tells Holder to 'investigate' high gas prices

    Really, why is he upset given the fact that he - and key officials in his administration (including the Secretary of Energy) - have long desired high prices on energy? But why accept blame when it can be diverted to straw men, a la his screeds agai...

  • April 21, 2011

    Obama's Apologists

    Barack Obama's leadership poll numbers have been plummeting. Only 52 percent of Americans describe him as a strong leader and the momentum as we head into the heat of the Presidential campaign is heading in the wrong direction .  Predictably, hi...

  • April 20, 2011

    Obama's Executive Order coming to cut off funding to his political opponents?

    From the man who said he would bring a gun to a knife fight, the latest ploy to cut his opponents off at their knees. This one is not based on arguments or facts, but on sheer abuse of the powers he has as President.Kenneth Vogel writes in Politico t...

  • April 19, 2011

    Green schemer parties with Obama at $35,800 a ticket campaign event

    Obama is coming to Hollywood to party at some campaign events, including one where tickets are $35,800 a pop. Among the attendees will be one Elon Musk, founder and major investor in the electric car company, Tesla.Is it a coincidence that his tiny c...

  • April 15, 2011

    Obama: I voted as a Senator to help my career, not the country

    The GOP has just found a campaign sound bite for the Presidential campaign of 2012 and it came from the world's greatest orator himself: Barack Obama.Here is what President Obama told ABC News George Stephanopoulos regarding his Senatorial vote in 20...

  • April 13, 2011

    Does Obama tell the truth about anything?

     Barack  Obama pledged that if elected he would make it a goal to have much more transparency in his administration than those Presidents who preceded him. There was going to be Change. The transparency would bring about ‘accountabili...

  • April 9, 2011

    Ditch high-speed rail-All Aboard Megabus!

    While Barack Obama and Joe Biden (the sole member of the Amtrak fan club) tout high speed rail, private enterprise is already tackling the problem of transporting people between big cities in a reasonably priced and efficient way. Business Week has a...

  • April 8, 2011

    Obama hit the snooze button when that 3 AM phone call came in about Yemen

    I guess Obama was too busy passing ObamaCare, too busy on the links or attending the musical soirees in the East Room, too busy on the vacations and playing basketball with the dream team of NBA superstars. The Washington Post reports:Influential Yem...

  • April 6, 2011

    Two top Obama officials denigrate Congress and us

    Anyone see a pattern here?Yesterday, Attorney General Eric Holder complained that his decision to try Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay was forced on him by Congress .From the Wall Street Journal: Members of Congress hav...

  • March 28, 2011

    Soros Wins Under Obama's Energy Policies

    Are Barack Obama's energy policies influenced by hedge fund billionaire and political patron, George Soros?Abby Wisse Schacter, in the New York Post, notes that the Obama administration is clamping down on oil and gas development in America (both ons...

  • March 23, 2011

    Soros heavily involved in the 'Responsibility to Protect" movement

    Barack Obama's adoption of the "Responsibility to Protect" justification for bombing Libya will create problems. Not only will this lead -- and has led to attacks against Israel and calls for international intervention in the conflict betw...

  • March 23, 2011

    America at the service of the UN

    An excerpt from today's Wall Street Journal article on the propriety of Obama ordering military attacks on Libya:"As the President told the country, the US military operation in Libya will be limited in duration and scope, and conducted in par...

  • March 23, 2011

    The Power of Samantha Power

    Barack Obama seems to have outsourced foreign policy and national security issues to Samantha Power. John Podhoretz noted her influence with the President when she played a key role in his decision to bomb Libya-pursuant to a trendy concept among for...

  • March 22, 2011

    Palestinians use R2P to call on international community to clamp down in Israel

    I have been warning the last few days that Barack Obama's endorsement of the trendy Responsibility to Protect Doctrine (R2P) was opening a Pandora's Box and could be used by groups to attack Israel. Yesterday we had Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister cal...

  • March 21, 2011

    Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister calls for bombing of Israel

    Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister has called for the bombing Of Israel.Michael Rubin reports at Commentary Contentions After assuring both Libyans and Turks that Turkey was not involved in airstrikes on Libya, Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Ar脹n...

  • March 21, 2011

    Pawlenty, the Presidential Campaign, and the Evangelicals

    People close to former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty have announced that he has formed a Presidential exploration committee.Gov. Pawlenty made a comment not too long ago that if people thought he was pro-Israel, they should meet his wife, Mary. ...

  • March 20, 2011

    The Rise of Samantha Power and the risks for the American- Israel relationship

    As stories leak out regarding who was responsible for Barack Obama's sudden pivot from passivity regarding Libya towards military engagement (albeit with England and France being in the lead) one name has emerged as playing a key role in persuading h...

  • March 18, 2011

    Obama treats whistleblowers as if they were enemies of the state

    President Obama betrays his promise of transparency once again: a whistleblower who spilled the goods regarding politicization of the Department of Homeland Security suddenly finds herself marginalized in an all too transparent move to have her quit....

  • March 13, 2011

    Why Obama has no business being President of the United States: Reason #2,558

    From the Dan Balz column in the Washington Post: On the budget, Obama remained above the fray. He offered this advice: "Both sides are going to have to sit down and compromise on prudent cuts somewhere between what the Republicans were seeking t...

  • March 9, 2011

    'Just words,' Mr. President?

    Are these ‘just words," President Obama? Barack Obama "Under my plan of cap and trade plan makes electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket"'; "coal powered plants, natural gas, you name it..whatever the plants were...they...

  • March 9, 2011

    Inside the Obama Administration

    Barack Obama's executive ineptitude is on display at the highesty level of government. While he has been repeatedly meeting with union leaders over the last two years and playing golf, he has not been so attentive to his cabinet members, and all is n...

  • March 8, 2011

    Obama's Edifice Complex

    Barack Obama proclaimed on the eve of his primary triumph in 2008 that future generations would look back and remember: "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal...this was the time we came toget...

  • March 7, 2011

    Obama's commitment to fight anti-Semitism questioned

    Barack Obama faced criticism during the campaign when videos came to light showing the pastor of his church, Jeremiah Wright, spewing anti-Israel invective. Wright was also close friends and had his church give an award to the nation's worst anti-Sem...

  • March 4, 2011

    Academic 'superstar' professors who sell out to tyrants

    The professorial class has a lot of sway in America. Not only do professors play a role in deciding what our elites know and how they think, but their counsel often is taken for gospel by the media. What if these professors are in the pay of tyrants?...

  • March 2, 2011

    George Soros Handicapping American Energy

    George Soros has been a brilliant investor over the years. As befits many hedge fund operators, he uses leverage to magnify his returns. But in his case, leverage has a double meaning.Leverage can refer to the debt Soros assumes when he makes his inv...

  • March 2, 2011

    Our patronizing President lectures the Jews

    President Obama just can't seem to be able to stop scratching that itch. At a meeting with Jewish leaders regarding his approach toward Israel he delivered a lecture, patronizing in tone and foolish in content.From the JTA:President Obama reportedly ...

  • March 1, 2011

    Washington Post punctures another Obama boast

    Barack Obama has mishandled the American response to the revolutions sweeping the Muslim world. He voted present when the Iranian people (the only population, apart from the Israelis who like Americans) protested against the mullahs. He flip-flopped ...

  • February 28, 2011

    Even the Oscars are not an 'Obama-free zone'

    The One was on our boob tube again last night. Barack Obama made an Oscar cameo appearance at the Academy Awards. Groan.The Hill:President Obama made a cameo at the 83rd Annual Academy Awards, broadcast on Sunday. The president appeared in a montage ...

  • February 26, 2011

    LA Times op-ed shows liberal's muddled thinking on Wisconsin

    The Los Angeles Times has an opinion column that slams Wisconsin Governor Walker for his decision to take on public unions in his state. The column is an illustration of how the "wise men and women" who run the editorial boards of many ne...

  • February 26, 2011

    NYT columnist to Republicans: Your tribe is willfully ignorant on global warming

    New York Times columnist Judith Warner delivers some zingers in her column on Republicans who are skeptical of the claims of climate change:President Obama has made scientific innovation the cornerstone of his plans for "winning the future,...

  • February 25, 2011

    The UN finally gets tough on Gaddafi

    From Colum Lynch at Foreign Policy magazine:With Col. Moammar Qaddafi allegedly unleashing a campaign of mass killing against his people, the United Nations has decided it might be best to put a little distance between itself and the Libyan leader.At...

  • February 25, 2011

    Soros green hedge fund hires Obama crony

    Yesterday, I blogged that Cathy Zoi, acting undersecretary of Energy at the Department of Energy, was leaving office to go to work for private industry. The New York Times article that mentioned the transition failed to note where exactly she would ...

  • February 25, 2011

    Stim bill jobs cost at least $228,055 - each.

    Question: at what point does major media lose all of its credibility?CNS News reports on the cost of each job "created and saved" by the stimulus act: The jobs created and saved by the economic stimulus law that President Barack Obama signe...

  • February 23, 2011

    Rats leaving sinking ship: DOE loses a crony capitalist

    With Republicans controlling the House  of Representatives and able to subpoena officials, certain Obama administration officials are heading for the hills. The New York Times reports on the latest exodus of Obama appointees. This time the Depar...

  • February 20, 2011

    David Plouffe's ties to GE and Boeing

    This just in...White House adviser David Plouffe (who also served as Obama's campaign manager) made millions before he joined the White House staff, with a good chunk of that coming from "management contracts" with General Electric and Boei...

  • February 17, 2011

    Pushing Al Jazeera on Americans

    Recently, the Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) published an op-ed by Juliette Kayyem advocating that more American cable companies carry Al Jazeera What could go wrong? What harm could more inflammatory misinformation cause? Al Jazeera is f...

  • February 16, 2011

    Obama cuts off VOA funding for China; gives it to NPR

    President Obama's propaganda priorities are becoming clearer. Does the community activist-in-chief care about a billion Chinese and what they know about their dictatorial government? Community organizers are supposed to speak truth to power. How can ...

  • February 16, 2011

    Issa has reasons to crow

    Darrell Issa is a man who takes his responsibilities to taxpayers seriously. For quite a while he has focused on mismanagement regarding how the Interior Department manages federal oil and gas resources. He spotted the problem there before others and...

  • February 15, 2011

    Liberal operatives have launched an anti-Issa crusade

    Here we go again -- the politics of personal destruction. Liberal operatives have launched an assault on Congressman Darrell Issa (Republican Congressman) to try to silence him and put an end to the investigations he has started to reveal what the Ob...

  • February 14, 2011

    Obama administration official urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera

    AL Jazeera is filled with anti-American propaganda. It is also awash in anti-Semitism. The material broadcast stokes terror and violence.Why would the person who Barack Obama appointed to be the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Se...

  • February 14, 2011

    Obama's drilling moratorium causes major company to go bankrupt

    On top of tens of thousands of workers losing their jobs when Obama imposed a drilling moratorium by executive order (and fudging what scientists and experts believed in order to justify his moratorium) now comes news that Seahawk Drilling, a major p...

  • February 11, 2011

    Oprah demands R-E-S-P-E-C-T -- for Obama

    Oprah Winfrey doesn't like those mean critics of President Obama.  (I do not remember her addressing critics of President George W. Bush the same way.) According to Politico:Oprah called on President Obama's critics on Friday to "show some ...

  • February 10, 2011

    Obama's Director of National Intelligence thinks Muslim Brotherhood is 'largely secular'

      This is the caliber of personnel we have come to expect from the Obama Administration.From Josh Gerstein at Politico :During a House Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper called Egypt's branch...

  • February 9, 2011

    Obama gutted funding for Egypt human rights activists

    President Obama has all but ignored human rights in developing his foreign policy. He stood down when Iranians were protesting against the regime that oppresses them. He has shafted the Tibetans when it comes to standing with them against their Chin...

  • February 8, 2011

    President Stealth Strikes Again

    How Obama and his merry band are trying to evade the will of the peopleThe people spoke in November when they delivered a shellacking to Democrats and Barack Obama.  They had grabbed too much power in ways that ran afoul of tradition, the law, a...

  • February 7, 2011

    Obama's Role in Empowering the Muslim Brotherhood

    The Obama administration is claiming that the president has been out in front of the crisis in Egypt.  The facts prove otherwise.  He has been behind the curve and has badly damaged American interests -- perhaps irretrievably so.Barack Obam...

  • February 5, 2011

    Barack Obama's 'Ostentatious Display of Faith'

    Charles Krauthammer has been dead on regarding Barack Obama. Here is his latest opinion , delivered on Fox News, regarding Barack Obama's sudden and very public talk about his faith. A couple of key points from Mr. Krauthammer. He calls Obama's displ...

  • February 4, 2011

    Obama the Polarizer

    The man who ran on a promise to bring us together has polarized Americans like no other president 2 years into his term. Jennifer Epstein of Politico writes: President Barack Obama's approval ratings during his second year in office were the mos...

  • February 3, 2011

    Another Two Steps in the Obama Extreme Makeover

    The unfurling of Barack Obama 2.0 (or the re-election version) continues according to plan. I speculated in January (Obama 2.0: The reinvention Begins) that among the steps Barack Obama would take to boost his appeal among Americans would be to play ...

  • February 2, 2011

    Soros blames Israel, encouraged by Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

    The Washington Post shamefully allows George Soros to run one of his op-ed screeds in its pages. This one focuses on the tumult in Egypt and sees a promising future of freedom in the Arab world. This is doubtful. A mere look at the history of the reg...

  • February 1, 2011

    Obama's Ongoing War on Inspectors General

    A cloud of suspicion hangs over the data Barack Obama and his team have been presenting us regarding the purported success of their own programs. The figures presented regarding "jobs created and saved" have been contested.  The new me...

  • January 31, 2011

    A unique form of double dipping by 'retired' IL school superintendents

    While this story focuses on Illinois, I can assure you the problem is common in other states. School superintendents retire and start collecting big pensions and then become superintendents in another state and start collecting a big salary there (on...

  • January 31, 2011

    The Media, Reagan, and Obama

    As we approach the 100th anniversary of the birth of Ronald Reagan, the former president has been in the news once again.  One way he has been used is to boost the image of Barack Obama.Some presidents have been used to degrade the image of othe...

  • January 30, 2011

    President Stealth

    In Britain, unions were given unprecedented power over their managers. The end result was an economy in downfall, falling living standards, and investor capital fleeing -or never coming. Margaret Thatcher broke the back of this economic regime and gr...

  • January 29, 2011

    Axelrod spins Egypt

    Obama was confronting Mubarak about human rights to "get ahead of this," according to David Axelrod. Josh Gerstein in Politico:To hear soon-to-depart White House senior adviser David Axelrod tell it, President Barack Obama has long taken a ...

  • January 28, 2011

    DoJ has some curious budget priorities

    Hey-what a concept! The Department of Justice proposes to save money by releasing prisoners and discouraging fugitives from turning themselves over to the law? That will teach those law and order Republicans and budget cutters!From the Wall Street Jo...

  • January 26, 2011

    Obama 2.0 - the SOTU

    Barack Obama shape-shifting to a  President who displays pride in his nation and also into a "softer, gentler" man is proceeding according to the plan I speculated about in Obama 2.0: the Reinvention Begins.My column suggested he would...

  • January 25, 2011

    All together now sing 'Infrastructure'

    Can anyone think of a shrewder way to garner support that to tout "infrastructure investment. These are Barack Obama's plans for the State of the Union address and for winning the White House in 2012. Again, as he did with the AMA and AARP durin...

  • January 25, 2011

    The juvenile president

    The notion that the White House team has been bereft of ideas on the jobs front is the focus of  a new, forthcoming Sunday's New York Times Magazine article by reporter Peter Baker.  Baker takes a journey down the White House Rabbit Ho...

  • January 24, 2011

    Obama 2.0: The First Big Lie

    President Obama made a big splash with his recent Wall Street Journal column, "Toward a 21st-Century Regulatory System."  He wrote that he had issued an executive order to review federal rules with the goal of eliminating those that st...

  • January 22, 2011

    What hath the greenies wrought?

    Utopians have always been a potentially dangerous group of people. In their quest for what they view as a perfect future they are willing trample over people and facts that stand in their way. They often cause more problems than they help to solve...

  • January 21, 2011

    What Reagan thought his kids should know; what Obama thought his kids should know

    The mark of a leader is what he believes. Beliefs are the foundation of his life. This is one reason presidential biographies are so revealing and why so often they serve as guides to explain presidential actions. This is often why candidates have th...

  • January 20, 2011

    Green Follies Escalate in the Face of Failure

    Those widely heralded compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) turn out to be a bit of dud in the real world.For years, we have seen traditional light bulbs vanishing from shelves of hardware stores and Home Depots across America.  They have been replac...

  • January 19, 2011

    Obama adds to his 'enemies list'

    Obama's approach towards his opponents is to view them as "enemies." One of his more revealing Kinsleyian gaffes (these occur when a politician tells the truth) happened during the 2008 campaign. He announced his modus operandi during pol...

  • January 18, 2011

    Obama 2.0: The Reinvention Begins

    The year 2012 looms large in the mind of Barack Obama.  After two years of decline in the number of those who view his policies, his performance, and his personality favorably, Barack Obama has begun yet another process of reinvention on the roa...

  • January 17, 2011

    Obama's Solar Nightmare

    The Democrats have been busy the last two years, and not just reengineering the health care industry, restructuring the auto sector, assaulting Wall Street and the financial sector, and harming our public finances.  They have also been trying to...

  • January 15, 2011

    NY Times blames Israel for Tunisian revolution

    President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, the autocrat who ruled with an iron hand over Tunisia for decades is forced by street protests to flee in the wake of discontent over repression, frustration over lack of economic opportunity, and high food prices. ...

  • January 11, 2011

    The Soros propaganda machine and shale gas

    America's huge reserves of natural gas-bearing shale offer lower energy prices, and the hope of increasing our energy independence. George Soros is determined to use his wiles and network of grant recipients to hobble development of America's energy ...

  • January 8, 2011

    Oversight of the Department of Justice finally begins

    The Department of Justice has been heavily politicized by Eric Holder and those officials he has appointed and overseen as our Attorney General. He has not only bumbled the terrorism issue, Federalism issues regarding Arizona's enforcement of immigr...

  • January 6, 2011

    More Dems express reservations about ObamaCare

    Apparently Democrats are getting nervous about their electoral chances in 2012, as opposition to ObamaCare continues to grow and the number of self-declared Democrats continues to decline (to a 22-year low) .  Earlier, I reported that one of Oba...

  • January 5, 2011

    2012 looking mighty close to endangered Democrats

    One of the manifold benefits behind the shellacking of the Democrats in November is that it can sober them up enough to learn and to listen.Democrats have more Senators coming up for re-election in 2012 (23) than do Republicans, and several of the mo...

  • January 4, 2011

    Signs point to Mike Pence bowing out of presidential race to run for governor

    Pundits have been speculating regarding the plans of my favorite Congressman, Mike Pence, after he won the straw poll for President at the Values Voter conference a few months ago  and when he resigned as the Chairman of the Republican Conferenc...

  • December 24, 2010

    How our vast reserves of shale gas can feed millions

    One of the most ignored benefits flowing from the tapping of our nation's vast shale gas reserves has been its key role in helping to grow the bountiful American crops that feed the world.Fortune Magazine reports that producing fertilizer depends o...

  • December 21, 2010

    Regulation by prosecution

    Barack Obama is on a permanent campaign to not only win reelection but also to transform America. A new tactic has come to my attention via our friends at Investors Business Daily.An IBD op-ed by James Copland, "Government Regulation by Prosecut...

  • December 20, 2010

    Stopping Obama: A Republican Game Plan

    Barack Obama may have had a licking, but he keeps on ticking.  How will the new Congress deal with a president who is relentless in his agenda to create a transformed America?Barack Obama faces new challenges when the new Congress takes power on...

  • December 10, 2010

    UN Human Rights Commissioner skips Peace Prize ceremony

    From the Boston Globe :UN Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay has made a mockery of her office by skipping today's Nobel Peace Prize ceremony for laureate Liu Xiaobo. Pillay's office first said she couldn't be in Oslo because of a previous commitme...

  • December 9, 2010

    Obama: Americans 'confused' about tax deal

    We are bitter clingers to guns and religion, we are too reptilian-minded to understand his plans, we let fear overwhelm our intelligence, and Valerie Jarrett said that the Obama team should try talking in simpler terms (you know....because we are d...

  • December 8, 2010

    UN report: US can quickly become a vast energy power and exporter of cheap energy

    For the past year or so I have been writing about the vast wealth America has beneath our feet in the form of shale gas. We have huge amounts trapped in shale rock that can be liberated by blasting it open via a process called hydraulic fractioning (...

  • December 6, 2010

    Obama's War on Chris Christie

    New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has swiftly become a superstar in the political firmament. His stands for the taxpayers and against wasteful government spending have exhibited the type of tough decision-making people have been waiting for among ou...

  • December 6, 2010

    White House pressured businesses to drop their Chamber membership

    The bullying, the threats, the pressure continues apace. Barack Obama -a weakling when facing our nation's adversaries-has reserved his strength to wield it against his own political adversaries.The Chamber of Commerce has been quite active in opposi...

  • December 3, 2010

    Dead man walking

    Julian Assange will soon have blood on his hands. From Haaretz:  Lebanon's Defense Minister offered advice on how Israel could defeat Hezbollah if a new war erupted on Israel's northern border, a classified U.S. diplomatic cable shows.In a futur...

  • December 3, 2010

    Obama up to his old tricks

    President Obama wants unprecedented authority to spend money the way he sees fit without Congressional or citizen input. Politico reports:A two-week stopgap spending bill cleared Congress Thursday night, averting a threatened shutdown Friday and buyi...

  • December 2, 2010

    Democrats give one more big favor to George Soros

    While Congressional Democrats dawdle away on deciding our tax rates and refuse to pass a budget, they still find time to pass on favors to special interest groups and people. The latest big favor comes to the sugar daddy that has funded so many of t...

  • November 30, 2010

    The aftershocks of the Democratic shellacking

    The ripples from the Republicans painting the country red on Election Day continue to spread among the states. The sweep that brought Republicans to power in many states (the party picked up 690 seats in state legislatures -- and counting) will have ...

  • November 29, 2010

    Obama Announces Federal Pay Freeze

    Stop the presses! Barack Obama just announced a freeze on federal civilian salaries. From the Washington Post:The freeze applies to all Executive Branch workers -- including civilian employees of the Defense Department, but does not apply to military...

  • November 20, 2010

    Pension management 'The Chicago Way'

    There has been a lot of attention given to the pension crisis afflicting our states. The same problem also effects cities. Often the government bureaucrats who peddled these pension plans used gimmicky accounting tricks or overly optimistic (if not d...

  • November 18, 2010

    Your tax dollars at work

    This problem will only get worse as Leviathan grows under Barack Obama.  The Washington Post gives numbers to what we all assumed to be the case; The government just gives away our hard-earned dollars: The federal government's improper payments ...

  • November 17, 2010

    Soros's CAP gives Obama his marching orders to subvert the will of the people

    George Soros funds the Center for American Progress, which has been characterized as Barack Obama's Ideas Factory. John Podesta, its head, led the transition team when Barack Obama became President. The Center has also become a hiring hall for the Ob...

  • November 16, 2010

    Soros's Next Target: Your State

    George Soros -- hedge fund billionaire, major funder of so-called 527 groups, early supporter of Barack Obama, and sugar daddy of the Democratic Party -- is one of America's most powerful political players. He had a bad November 2 when Republicans to...

  • November 14, 2010

    Rep. Issa's oversight committee is going to be busy for a long time

    For weeks there has been a great deal of speculation regarding the future actions of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that will now be chaired by Republican Congressman Darrell Issa.He will be holding hearings and sending subpoenas...

  • November 12, 2010

    Did You Know There is Something Called the Federal Salary Council?

    The Federal Salary Council is one of those obscure federal agencies that operates behind the scenes and performs a vital role. In this case, recommending raises for federal employees that are supposed to ensure that government salaries for workers in...

  • November 11, 2010

    The GOP's First Target Should Be Government Worker Salary and Benefits

    America has woken up to the fact that much of our fiscal crisis at the state and federal levels has been caused by the rich salary, benefit, and pension packages of government workers. Chris Christie, Republican Governor of New Jersey, has become a Y...

  • November 11, 2010

    Obama's 'Model of religious tolerance' denies Israelis the right to enter their country

    Here's a CNN headline regarding Barack Obama's speech in Indonesia that praised that nation for its religious tolerance  Obama lauds Indonesia as a model of religious toleranceI guess he doesn't care about Indonesia denying Israelis the right t...

  • November 11, 2010

    Thanks, Karl Rove, for the tip

    Last night on the Bill O'Reilly show, Karl Rove suggested that viewers check out an article that says much about how the Department of Justice has become subverted. He is right - in more ways than one.Eric Holder has been a disaster as Attorney Gener...

  • November 10, 2010

    Report on offshore oil drilling ban was doctored to mislead the public

    In the wake of the BP oil spill, the Obama White House rushed out a report from an independent group of scientists and engineers that strongly suggested they supported a six-month ban on offshore oil drilling. Economic damage resulted throughout the ...

  • November 8, 2010

    More skeletons in Waters' closet

    The hits keep on coming for Congresswoman Maxine Waters (whose House Ethics trial , delayed by the Democrats until after the midterms, is coming up): From the Washington Times A lobbyist known as one of California's most successful power brokers whil...

  • November 7, 2010

    What do Americans want?

    The people have spoken via the ballot box regarding the politicians they want in power (and, notably, many of the politicians are people like us - not "politicians"). What policies do we want followed? Frank Luntz, the highly regarded polls...

  • November 6, 2010

    US Chamber targeting George Soros?

    It looks like George Soros will be the target of investigations on his role as a behind the scenes funder. From the current issue of Business Week magazine's cover story on Tom Donohue, head of the US Chamber of Commerce (titled, " Tom Donohue: ...

  • November 5, 2010

    Memo to the White House: Lawyer Up and Don't Shred Documents

    One of the consequences of the GOP takeover of the House will be a series of hearings by various committees to explore how the Obama team ran the executive branch over the last two years. The media (with the notable exception of a few outlets) certai...

  • November 4, 2010

    The Unheralded Energy Victory in Tuesday's Election

    There was a lot of good news Tuesday, but one important victory did not get much play: proponents of developing our nation's  vast shale gas reserves scored a victory in Pennsylvania.The state of Pennsylvania sits atop the giant  Marcellus ...

  • November 3, 2010

    Green wave receding

    Solyndra is a solar company with a checkered past and cloudy future that recently received 500 million dollars in taxpayer aid. The firm is connected to Democratic Party bigwigs. The latest news? After being showered with hundreds of millions of our ...

  • November 3, 2010

    Now for some real transparency

    Barack Obama promised transparency: that bills would be posted for review by Americans; that negotiations over the health care bill would be broadcast on CSPAN. Politics would be changed forever and the old ways of Washington would be over.Well..as w...

  • November 3, 2010

    The Question Everyone is Asking: Who gets the first subpoena?

    There are many reasons to celebrate the Republican takeover of the People's House this morning. One of them will be the ability of Republicans to pull away the curtain and see what the Obama team has really been up to as it bullied Americans over the...

  • November 2, 2010

    Restoring transparency

    Barack Obama promised transparency: that bills would be posted for review by Americans; that negotiations over the health care bill would be broadcast on CSPAN. Politics would be changed forever and the old ways of Washington would be over. Well, as ...

  • November 1, 2010

    The GOP Trap

    The Red Tide is spreading across the nation but we should be wary what it might carry to shore. As Republicans look forward to sweeping the House and increasing the number of Republicans in the Senate will they hear the voices of the people regarding...

  • November 1, 2010

    Irony: Obama to be interviewed by American Idol co-host Ryan Seacrest

    Barack Obama was once the biggest American Idol and now he has to plead for young people to go to the polls -- because he threw them under the bus after securing their votes in 2008. The youth feel he is a passing fad and feel he has jilted them over...

  • October 31, 2010

    Why is Ohio Dem Hanging with Islamic Extremists?

    One of the most promising Republican candidates is Josh Mandel, Iraq War veteran (and Marine) who is running for Treasurer of Ohio.His opponent, incumbent Kevin Boyce, has not only made a mess out the current finances of Ohio taxpayers but has all b...

  • October 30, 2010

    Special IG for TARP Neil Barofsky at the top of Obama's enemies list

    Neil Barofsky is a lifelong Democrat who was appointed by George Bush to be the Special Inspector General of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (SIGTARP). He has done superlative work over the last two years in uncovering vast waste of taxpayer dolla...

  • October 27, 2010

    Democrats tap vast amount of secret money

    From the Washington Post: Unions and other Democratic interest groups are rapidly closing the gap with their conservative opponents in spending on the midterm elections, using fresh support from well-heeled donors to quicken the pace of expenditures ...

  • October 27, 2010

    Pot initiative in California designed to turn out youth vote

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  • October 26, 2010

    The best quote ever about journalists -- from one of their own

    The late, great Michael Kelly (killed while covering the Iraq War) described the media mentality perfectly eleven years ago:Reporters like to picture themselves as independent thinkers. In truth, with the exception of 13-year-old girls, there is no s...

  • October 26, 2010

    Rain may wash away Dem hopes

    The Democrats will be washed away in more ways than one on November 2nd, according to not just pollsters but weather forecasters as well.The Hill paper reports:In more bad news for Democrats, rain is in the forecast for much of the country on Electio...

  • October 26, 2010

    Mike Pence signals possible presidential run

    One of my all-time favorite Congressman, Mike Pence (R-Indiana), may be contemplating a run for the Presidency.From Politico:House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) is considering stepping down from his post in the GOP leadership in pr...

  • October 25, 2010

    IG: Treasury 'uses questionable methods and may be too optimistic'

    Why Inspectors General are worth their weight in gold. From Bloomberg:The Treasury Department's plan to recoup taxpayer funds from the bailout of American International Group Inc. uses questionable methods and may be too optimistic, the Troubled Asse...

  • October 24, 2010

    Why Soros gave his $1.8 million NPR grant

    The almost two million dollars George Soros gave NPR was carefully targeted, and part of a broader strategy to add to the political power of the Great Puppeteer.George Soros and his efforts to influence the federal government have elicited much comme...

  • October 23, 2010

    The New York Times discovers Democratic dirty campaign tactics

    We have been lately writing that the Democrats are engaging in an orgy of dirty tricks to win elections across America.   One of the tactics we have been highlighting is their sponsoring of third parties or faux Tea Party candidates to si...

  • October 22, 2010

    All the News that Fits Soros's Agenda

    Are three liberal billionaires trying to control what we think of as news in America?Hedge fund billionaire George Soros, the sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, has given NPR an initial grant of $1.8 million to begin a project called Impact of Gove...

  • October 20, 2010

    Dems running nastiest personal ads ever

    Howard Kurtz, the highly regarded media critic who recently left the Washington Post to hang his shingle at the Daily Beast, has a great column about the Democrats' running very nasty ads throughout the nation against their Republican opponents:We're...

  • October 20, 2010

    The Unsung Heroes of the Federal Government

    Some federal government heroes were honored yesterday, and Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. For good reason. From Ed O'Keefe of  the Washington Post:Politicians talk plenty about rooting out waste, fraud and abuse, but the folks who actually...

  • October 19, 2010

    Obama's bribe-a-thon

    Barack Obama is facing plummeting popularity and many Democrats are going to be washed away by the coming red tide. What to do when Obama demagoguery and stoking divisiveness and paranoia is no longer working? When insults to the Tea Party and basele...

  • October 18, 2010

    Democrat Dirty Tricks: The Next Round

    As we gallop toward the date of the Democratic apocalypse, Democrats are pulling more tricks out of their bag to bamboozle (as Barack Obama would say) voters into pulling the lever for them come November 2. "How low will they go?" is the qu...

  • October 16, 2010

    The voting machine as slot machine

    The Democrats are having serious problems with seniors who fear, with very good reason, that ObamaCare will be detrimental to their concerns. Medicare and Medicare Advantage will be slashed - and that is just the beginning.To generate support. Demo...

  • October 14, 2010

    Obama and Company trying to pull a fast one to keep his old seat in the D column?

    There is a very tight Senate race going on for the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama before his Ascension. The Republican, Mark Kirk (a military reservist), is in a tight race with the Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, the Illinois state treasurer who ...

  • October 13, 2010

    What Planet is President Obama Living On?

    President Obama's level of detachment from reality is on display in a long article for to appear in next weekend's Sunday NYT magazine, as excerpted in Politico's Playbook:PETER BAKER cover story of Sunday's N.Y. Times Magazine, "Education of a ...

  • October 11, 2010

    The Soros Web and the Spiders Within

    Barack Obama's latest straw-man style of attack is focused on the United States Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber has earned his ire by being a free-enterprise group, and one that is practicing its First Amendment rights to criticize an administration...

  • October 8, 2010

    Obama promises 'hand to hand combat' if GOP wins

    After hearing VP Biden discuss strangling Republicans, Barack Obama promises hand to hand combat if Republicans win big in November. From the Los Angeles Times: A Republican majority in Congress would mean "hand-to-hand combat" on Capitol H...

  • October 7, 2010

    Democrat Dirty Tricks: A Primer on Stealing Elections

    Halloween is approaching, but the true horror for Democrats will happen two days later on Election Day. Democrats have much to fear, and they have already reached into their bag of tricks to try to derail Republicans across the nation.Democrats are d...

  • October 7, 2010

    Blacks and whites far less optimistic about race relations under Obama

    Bringing us all together. Wasn't that the promise of Barack Obama. Wasn't that promise,made in the speech that made him a serious candidate given at the 2004 Democratic National Convention ("there is no white America, there is no black America...

  • October 5, 2010

    Viacom shills for Obama

    If anyone doubted that Hollywood is in the pockets of Barack Obama and the Democrats, doubt no more.Politico reports:EXCLUSIVE: Viacom will announce today that its cable networks BET, CMT and MTV will air a one-hour, commercial-free youth town hall w...

  • October 3, 2010

    More J-Street revelations; moneymen and more Soros connections

    When Eli Lake's story regarding J Street's donor list was published the role of George Soros created controversy. Soros has a long history of funding anti-Israel activism so his role at J Street was deliberately hidden by the group for years. Now mor...

  • October 3, 2010

    Sending a message to the Postal Service

    The United States Postal Service has been on life support forever, losing money hand over foot every year. Meanwhile, it has been eclipsed by the efficient service of privately-owned Federal express and UPS. Its government imposed monopoly on the de...

  • October 3, 2010

    How Obama views community organizers on the right

    I am currently reading Steven Malanga's superb new book , " Shakedown: The Continuing Conspiracy Against the American Taxpayer" and came across this quote from Barack Obama (circa 1995) when a reporter asked him about the trials and travail...

  • September 29, 2010

    More J Street Revelations (that have nothing to do with Soros)

    Scrolling through the Form 990 listing the major contributors to J Street, an anti-Israel group with close ties to the Obama administration, that described itself as Obama's blocking back in dealing with Israel supporters in America,   I ca...

  • September 28, 2010

    Obama BFF SEIU's Andy Stern Part of Fed Corruption Investigation

    So was it hush money that Stern played a role in paying? Paul Pringle and Patrick J. McDonnell of the Los Angeles Times:Former L.A. labor leader investigatedProbe focuses on $150,000 in consulting fees paid by one ex-SEIU official to another to under...

  • September 27, 2010

    The Soros-Axelrod Axis of Astroturf

    In politics, things can be other than what they seem on the surface - especially when George Soros and David Axelrod are involvedLast year at about this time, I scripted a column suggesting that George Soros, billionaire sugar daddy of the Democrats,...

  • September 26, 2010

    Citizen groups unmasking Dem voter fraud

    We do the job because the government and media lackeys will not. Massive alleged voter fraud is uncovered by a group of concerned citizens down in Texas. The culprit? The Democrats and Barack Obama's favorite "union" - the thugs at the Serv...

  • September 24, 2010

    SEIU pushes rapists, thugs as home health care aides in CA

    Now we know - as if the Bell salary and pension scandal has not already taught us - why California is a mess. The bigger the government, the more absurd the taxing and spending becomes. From the Los Angeles Times:  Scores of people convicted of ...

  • September 23, 2010

    Obama's small circle of friends

    Barack Obama betrays a certain parochialism and infantile approach towards governing and reinforces the theme that he was completely unprepared to be President. He had no contacts, no relationships.From Anne E. Kornblut and Scott Wilson of the the Wa...

  • September 21, 2010

    Obama's Empathy Deficit

    Barack Obama talks a lot about empathy, but, as is true of many liberals, he does not practice what he preaches.Obama has the palaver down about empathy -- for him, it was a campaign prop to humanize himself and mark him as being different from cold-...

  • September 21, 2010

    Boston public unions raise $1.3 million to fight cut in taxes

    Stressed to pay off your bills? Who cares? Not public unions, whose workers already have wage, benefit and pension packages far superior to private workers, as well as job security worthy of envy. The Boston Globe reports that public unions are spen...

  • September 20, 2010

    The Mike Pence I Know

    Indiana Congressman Mike Pence was on fire over the weekend at the Values Voters Summit in Washington. This was a conservative crowd, and they found a candidate to rally behind. They showed their enthusiasm in a very American way: a straw poll that p...

  • September 16, 2010

    Libs targeting advertisers on conservative media

    Two liberal Congressmen are trying to cool the revenues of Fox News and talk radio by targeting for hearings a type of advertising that seems to pop up on the with some frequency: ads for gold. Reports Seeking Alpha, a stock website:A press release f...

  • September 13, 2010

    Obama to kill more jobs

    The latest job killing initiative by Barack Obama: focus new taxes on the oil and gas industry.Joseph Mason writes in a New York Post op-ed:Just last week, President Obama explicitly targeted the industry for two massive tax hikes. First, he'd ban oi...

  • September 12, 2010

    The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity

    David Brog has written a compelling new book, titled In Defense of Faith: The Judeo-Christian Idea and the Struggle for Humanity, that is a passionate rebuttal to those critics who assault the Judeo-Christian tradition as a source of evil and who do ...

  • September 11, 2010

    Soros' latest gambit

    George Soros, patron saint of Democrats everywhere, sugar daddy of their party, early backer of Barack Obama, funder of influential think tanks (such as the omnipresent Center for American Progress, a group that has become a media mouthpiece), and th...

  • September 11, 2010

    Obama seeks to create a post-American world via the IMF

    Barack Obama believes in spreading the wealth (he said so and he is doing so). He also believes that America is not an exceptional nation - or , if it is, every nation is exceptional only to some of its own people. He also has a belief that colonial...

  • September 11, 2010

    Maxine Waters' favorite bank violated its pledge to help the poor

    The Boston bank that is at the center of controversy involving Congresswoman Maxine Waters, who intervened with regulators to protect and reward the bank (her husband had a financial interest in the bank), apparently lied about helping poor people, r...

  • September 10, 2010

    Obama enriches hedge funds

    The hedge fund candidate has become the hedge fund President. Obama's mortgage moves will enrich hedge funds (such as those run by Obama supporter, George Soros, sugar daddy of the Democrats) who speculated by buying up underwater mortgages to b...

  • September 10, 2010

    Obama White House employees owe $800,000 in back taxes

    Gee...Obama's team was all supposed to be about the little guy and snaring every single dollar they can from Americans to fund their social engineering dreams and delusions. Not only did they have problems with their appointees paying taxes (led by T...

  • September 9, 2010

    Dim-Bulb Dems Doom Edison's Baby

    Light bulbs sprang from the brilliant mind of Thomas Edison -- a true American hero, right up there with Benjamin Franklin. But his legacy is coming to an end. General Electric, the company that he founded, is closing America's last factory for makin...

  • September 8, 2010

    Obama brags about how hard he works in Labor Day speech

    From his speech over the weekend where he once again lambasted Republicans with a metaphor that is as dull and wrong as it is tiresome: They drove our economy into a ditch. And we got in there and put on our boots and we pushed and we shoved. And we ...

  • September 7, 2010

    'They talk about me like a dog'

    The most thin-skinned, whiny, name-calling and weak President EVER. We see the true character and personality in gaffes - when he is not plugged into the teleprompter or reading off the prepared remarks. And Congresswoman Gwen Moore D-Wisconsin) coul...

  • September 4, 2010

    Unions in top heavy electoral states beneficiaries of Obama's largess

    Barack Obama has given the keys to the bank where taxpayer money is stored to unions. A flurry of executive orders within days of entering the Oval Office, the stocking of government with union officials, Obamacare that favors union members, the enr...

  • September 4, 2010

    Angry voters want to take it out on Democrats at record levels

    Wasn't Barack Obama supposed to unite us? Wasn't his speech at the Democratic National Convention a declaration that he did not see us as a "Blue America" or a "Red America" but as the United States of America? Fine words..but in ...

  • September 3, 2010

    Young people disenchanted with Obama and the Democrats

    Barack Obama and the Democratic sweep in 2008 was powered in part by legions of young people - among them many first time voters - coming out in droves to campaign and vote for him. Buyers' remorse seems to have set in as the young see the error of t...

  • September 2, 2010

    Obama 'seemed to have it in for for the automakers' -- Car Czar

    Steven Rattner, Obama's handpicked car czar,  has written a forthcoming new book, Overhaul, which makes some interesting admissions, according to a report in the HuffPo. Though Rattner praised Obama's thoughtful manner when he calmly executed hi...

  • September 2, 2010

    Christina Romer's True Confessions

    Christina Romer, the departing chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisors, was at a complete loss of words when it came to explaining the state of the economy when she appeared at her valedictory lunch before her returns to her teaching...

  • September 2, 2010

    The Mask Slips

    The leftist establishment is slipping ever closer to outright derangement, driven mad by the public turning against the leftward push of Obama, Pelosi and Reid. These people cannot handle rejection. John Podhoretz notes a revealing moment on Bos...

  • September 2, 2010

    Rep. Waters turns political endorsements into a family business

    Legal or not, this looks to be tainted money. Nice work if one can get it, though :Rep. Maxine Waters has turned political endorsements into a family business, using federal election laws to charge California candidates and political causes to inclu...

  • September 1, 2010

    Obama's lawyerly evasions on Iraq

    Rick Richman notes that Barack Obama used a lawyer like locution to obscure his own history regarding the Iraq War:Barack Obama used a lawyer-like locution last night to avoid acknowledging the courage of his predecessor in initiating the surge that ...

  • August 31, 2010

    Covering up for George Soros

    The sinister, omnipresent moneybags of the American left, George Soros, knows that distraction and misdirection make for a good defense. So do his many lackeys and sympathizers in the American media.Recently, the left has built up two conservative bi...

  • August 29, 2010

    One payoff to pass Obamacare not paying off

    We know about the backroom deals made to get Congressmen to vote for ObamaCare but there were also favors cut out for unions, drug makers, and even small business to get them to support the program. Guess what? The "credit" offered to smal...

  • August 25, 2010

    Guess which special interest is number one in campaign donations?

    While Barack Obama lashes out at special interests spending money on campaigns in 2010, one group is in overdrive when it comes to pouring out money. Number One in spending is....the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, accor...

  • August 25, 2010

    Soros Has a Pastor Close to Obama On His Payroll

    The tangled web woven by George Soros served as a safety net for Barack Obama when he needed rescue from the exposure of Jeremiah Wright as an America-hating radical. Pastor Jim Wallis lied about receiving money from George Soros's Open Society ...

  • August 23, 2010

    Why Jews are Deserting Obama and the Democrats

    One little-noticed trend that speaks volumes: the decline in Democratic Party identification and support for Barack Obama from American Jews, once among their most reliable and enthusiastic backers.There has been a steady drip-drip-drip of Jews leavi...

  • August 22, 2010

    Obama passing the buck on ownership of health care reform

    Guess what, Democrats? Obama does not have your back - but will put a knife into it."I know this is a tough vote," President Obama told House Democrats at a March pep rally merely hours before they passed national health care. But he added ...

  • August 20, 2010

    Another Obama recess appointment, another radical avoids scrutiny

    Another controversial Obama recess appointment without Senate scrutiny. And one of those appointments has a suspect history, reports the Washington Post The most contentious of the appointments is Maria del Carmen Aponte, the administration's pick f...

  • August 15, 2010

    Dems breaking out the 'scare the seniors' card again

    Seniors come out in droves during elections. The midterms are approaching and many seniors are undoubtedly worried about how ObamaCare will affect them. Since ObamaCare redirects resources away from Medicare to fund the medical care of millions of yo...

  • August 12, 2010

    Her highness has some popularity problems

    The White House has grand plans (because, the President and his gang hail from Chicago they "make no small plans") to deploy Michelle Obama to help them with midterm elections. Barack Obama is becoming radioactive and Democrats have started...

  • August 11, 2010

    Taxpayer funding that builds and restores mosques overseas may violate law

    The Washington Times has a column up reporting on the 9/11 Mosque Imam's taxpayer funded trip throughout the Middle East. There is a further revelation in the article. America has been funding the construction of mosques overseas (also covered at Am...

  • August 10, 2010

    Imam Rauf's membership in group that sponsored Gaza flotilla.

    The 9/11 Mosque Imam is a prominent member of a group that played a big role in sponsoring and paying for the Turkish Gaza flotilla. According to the New York Post: The imam behind a proposed mosque near Ground Zero is a prominent member of a group t...

  • August 9, 2010

    Soros steps up his war against American energy independence

    George Soros is continuing his assault on America's shale gas industry. His latest step is to mobilize MoveOn.Org, a so-called 527 group that he liberally funds, to join forces with the very left-wing Working Families Party of New York in an effort t...

  • August 7, 2010

    Will Holder investigate Obama pal for providing material support to Hamas?

    Jonathan Schanzer writes a very good , brief article in the Weekly Standard regarding efforts by some Americans -- including Barack Obama's old friend, Rashid Khalidi -- to send a ship to break the blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza. This is a block...

  • August 7, 2010

    Dems talk racial equality but legislate racial preferences

    Senator Obama, circa 2004 (tellingly on a stage):There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.But President Obama and his allies in Congress see America through racially-tin...

  • August 6, 2010

    The Zealot heading up the DOJ's Civil Rights Division

    Has anyone ever heard of Tomas de Torquemada, the fanatical leader of the Spanish Inquisition ? Well...he is back. He has been re-incarnated as Thomas Perez, the head of the Civil Rights Division in the Obama-Holder Department of Justice. Not surpri...

  • August 6, 2010

    Emergency Committee for Israel's new TV ad focuses on Ohio Rep. Kilroy's record

    A new organization has emerged that seeks to publicize the record of various candidates running for office on the issue of U.S. policy in the Middle East. The first ads created and run on cable focused on the checkered record of Pennsylvania's Democr...

  • August 5, 2010

    DoJ steers money to favored groups to fund lawsuits

    The Justice Department continues its path towards race-based policymaking. The latest revelation? The Department's Civil Rights Division is using its power "to not just win compensation for victims of alleged discrimination but also to direct la...

  • August 4, 2010

    GOP senators bribed to cave in on Dem boondoggle

    Another  multi-billion dollar boondoggle to buy off that most Democratic of groups, the teachers unions, gets passed in the Senate, courtesy of two Republican Senators from Maine -- who get a bribe for their state. Lori Montgomery writes in the ...

  • August 4, 2010

    ObamaCare referenda on state ballots can reap big returns

    The Missouri GOP was very clever, placing on yesterday's ballot the question of whether the government can require citizens to buy health insurance. This was a straight yes or no vote on how voters feel about ObamaCare. The results? Overwhelming they...

  • August 3, 2010

    Your stim dollars at work; I-phones for kids in Utah

    From a report being issued by Senators Tom Coburn and John McCain:Stimulus money is going toward iPods for high school students in Utah, cellphones for smokers trying to quit in Washington and advertising devoted to the promotion of ... the stimulus...

  • August 3, 2010

    Harry Reid pulls a fast one to sabotage shale gas development

    Shale Gas has the potential to bring manifold benefits to Americans: cheap and plentiful, relatively green and clean burning, located in vast swaths underneath our feet (and not offshore or in foreign lands filled with people happy to take our mone...

  • August 1, 2010

    Special Money for Special Interests

    Here is an excerpt from The Speech That Made The One a candidate for president:There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America.Here is the latest on yet another super-sized fund...

  • July 31, 2010

    Maxine Waters in ethics trouble too

    Far left liberal nutcase Maxine Waters has ethics problems - big time. The Los Angeles Times is reporting: One of Los Angeles' most enduring black politicians, Waters came under scrutiny last year after Massachusetts-based OneUnited Bank, one of the ...

  • July 30, 2010

    Obama's Mean Streak

    Barack Obama seems to have a pattern of using ceremonial or stately events as opportunities to ambush and humiliate people. This behavior is unpresidential and reveals a vindictive streak that makes Richard Nixon look like Mister Rogers.A few example...

  • July 28, 2010

    Obama's Empty Gestures on Israel

    Martin Indyk, America's former Ambassador to Israel, pulls back the curtain and reveals that Obama's recent show of courtesy towards our ally Israel is just for domestic policy purposes. In a Q and A, Indyk, who is an Obama supporter and a sympathize...

  • July 28, 2010

    Wind power bailout coming?

    Science and economics show claims that wind energy can substitute for fossil fuels to be just so much hot air. Wind power installations have plummeted in the reality-based world. In a story headlined "wind installations drop 71% in the first hal...

  • July 27, 2010

    Dems nervous about potential GOP investigations if they take over House

    Congressman Issa already criticized the administration's plans to remove oversight of the spending undertaken by their Small Business Loan program; I wrote just two weeks ago that investigations were the Democrats worst nightmare if Republicans too...

  • July 24, 2010

    Onward Christian Zionists

    Jennifer Rubin has written a superb, brief article on the phenomena of Christian Zionism whose adherents are the fastest growing, and least understood, Israel support group in the nation. An excerpt regarding the founder of Christians United for Isra...

  • July 23, 2010

    PA Mission in Washington upgraded to diplomatic status

    The Palestinians received a welcome surprise this week from the Obama team: a major upgrade of their diplomatic status.I suppose the ending of anti-Semitic incitement and the ending of Palestinian lobbying for boycotts of Israel were not even broache...

  • July 23, 2010

    Obama has dismantled fund raising channels on Wall Street

    Barack Obama is getting the cold shoulder from what were his biggest supporters: financiers. But he is not alone: he is dragging down the Democratic Party with him.President Obama will travel to New York this month to survey the ruins of the Democra...

  • July 21, 2010

    Disenfranchising those who serve us valiantly

    In the wake of controversy regarding the Department of Justice complacency regarding violation of voting rights by New Black Panther Party members comes news that the DOJ is also freely granting waivers that allow states to ignore the votes of our ci...

  • July 19, 2010

    Obama seeking dominion over nation's waters

    From the Los Angeles Times President Obama on Monday is set to create a national stewardship policy for America's oceans and Great Lakes, including a type of zoning that could dramatically rebalance the way government regulates offshore drilling, fis...

  • July 18, 2010

    In defense of Eric Holder?

    There got your attention, didn't we?America - at least Americans who keep up on current events (and not the "sanitized" and "censored" versions delivered up by the usual suspects) - know that Eric Holder's Department of Justice h...

  • July 18, 2010

    Obama's vacations

    Personally, I am inclined to give him a bit of a break on the vacation issue - if only family vacations were at issue. However, the vacations are only part of the problem with Obama's laxity and aversion to work. His obsession with gold, the musical ...

  • July 18, 2010

    A preview of what Obamacare has in store for us

    Massachusetts was the role model for ObamaCare and has provided us a glimpse of the future that awaits us. Not only has the state been forced to clamp down on payments to health care providers and tried to bully health insurance companies into bankru...

  • July 17, 2010

    Maryland will offer federally funded abortions

    ObamaCare is leading to taxpayer dollars being used to pay for abortions. One state after another is ripping away the pretense that such use of taxpayer dollars would not be used for abortions. The latest is Maryland - a state with one of the highest...

  • July 15, 2010

    Our post racial president thinks al-Qaeda is racist.

    Barack Obama was caught without his teleprompter and was asked about the Al Qaeda attack in Uganda that killed over 70 innocent people, including white missionaries from America:Speaking about the Uganda bombings, the president said, "What you'...

  • July 15, 2010

    Christmas is a year around holiday for unions and other Democratic special interests

    Democrats continue to ram through more favors - at our expense - for their allies in the unions. The latest payoff for the $400 million of union dues invested in Democrats are plums put in the so-called "financial reform" bill.From the Wash...

  • July 14, 2010

    Health care rationing advocate gets free health care for life

    I guess Dr. Berwick won't have to worry about his health care. Byron York reportsAs it turns out, Berwick himself does not have to deal with the anxieties created by limited access to care and the extent of coverage. In a special benefit conferred on...

  • July 14, 2010

    The new Emergency Committee for Israel brings forth foolish foes

    A new pro-Israel group has been formed, the Emergency Committee for Israel, that hopes to channel support for that nation that comes from the Republican and from evangelicals in America. Ben Smith of Politico has a report outlining the genesis and go...

  • July 13, 2010

    Confidence in Obama reaches a new low

    America is waking up from its dream. Dan Balz and Jon Cohen of the WaPo write:Public confidence in President Obama has hit a new low, according to the latest Washington Post-ABC News poll. Four months before midterm elections that will define the sec...

  • July 13, 2010

    Could Evangelical Christianity in Africa have been the target in Uganda bombing?

    The Islamic terror bombings that took so many lives in Uganda over the weekend has generated some surprise.Sheik Yusuf Isse of the Islamist al-Shababb group provides one possible answer, "Uganda is a major infidel country supporting the so-calle...

  • July 12, 2010

    The Democrats worst nightmare if the GOP takes over the House? Investigations

    If the Democrats lose the House, they may very well lose not just that sword but also the shield that has prevented inquiring Congressmen from investigating the shenanigans of the Obama administration and its minions in Congress.From the Washington P...

  • July 11, 2010

    Gore also beneficiary of federal green dollars in PA

    Yesterday, I blogged about Barack Obama's granting of two billion dollars of federal loan guarantees to two green schemes that benefit big Democratic donors and the nephew of Democratic Pennsylvanian Congressman Paul Kanjorski. Apparently, one mor...

  • July 11, 2010

    Obama Team rewards Hollywood donors

    The administration is focusing on helping its Hollywood pals make even more money. The Department of Homeland Security is stepping up its seizure of websites trafficking in illegal movie downloads (yep..the Department of Homeland Security. After all,...

  • July 11, 2010

    Green groups seeking to milk the Washington cash cow

    The Boston Globe has an interesting article on how green groups are coming together to work Washington. Gone are the days of innocent flower children drinking Boone's Farm jugs of fruity wine. Now, it's the hiring of high powered lobbyists more ac...

  • July 10, 2010

    Green Schemes benefits Democratic 'friends and family' program members

    File under Green Schemes: Abound Solar received a $400 million grant to ramp up production of cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels. Here's a coincidence: Russ Kanjorski, nephew of Pennsylvania Democratic Rep. Paul Kanjorski, is a marketing executive...

  • July 9, 2010

    Dems hiding the financial mess they created

    First, The Democrats won't pass a budget. Then they delay release of the 2010 Social security and Medicare Trustees Report to hide the financial problems there. So much for the most transparent administration in history. What are they trying to hide?...

  • July 8, 2010

    What's the question?

    Why does Obama avoid reporters?From the Wall Street Journal, excerpting from a piece in the Columbia Journalism Review:Message control is central to every administration . . . [b]ut the Obama White House has actually regressed in some troubling ways....

  • July 8, 2010

    The Unionized States of America

    We now live in the Unionized States of America -- a phrase that evokes how Obama and company have gone into overdrive to empower their union allies at our expense. Lee O'Hanian, a professor of economics at UCLA, weighs in at the Wall Street Journal o...

  • July 7, 2010

    The Voice of America has become Voice of Tehran (updated)

    Fresh from declaring NASA's mission to be outreach towards and glorification of Islam, comes news that the Voice of America-long a beacon of hope to oppressed people around the world-has become a big mouthpiece for the mullahs via with the administra...

  • July 2, 2010

    A Dem losing faith in Obama's Iran policy?

    A leading Democrat said something very interesting about President Obama yesterday, though few seem to have noticed. The Iran Sanctions Bill was finally passed by Congress and President Obama signed off on it yesterday. The bill has been long in comi...

  • July 1, 2010

    Obama silent as Louis Farrakhan spews hatred

    Louis Farrakhan on Jews: Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan has written to the leaders of more than a dozen major U.S. Jewish groups and denominations seeking "repair of my people from the damage" he claims Jews have caused blacks for...

  • June 27, 2010

    Jeremiah Wright teaching at Univ. of Chicago (updated)

    The institution which found Barack Obama capable of teaching constitutional law, also finds Rev. Jeremiah Wright classroom-worthy. Maureen Callahan of the New York Post reports on some of what the Rev is teaching at the Chicago Theological Seminary, ...

  • June 25, 2010

    Convicts are smarter than government bureaucrats

    They, after all, figured out the intricacies and potential of the first-time house buyer credit and the ones who designed it and enforced it did not. Furthermore, thousands of IRS agents took advantage of the credit (and us) even though they were not...

  • June 23, 2010

    Race-based financial reform

    The Democrats are trying to palm off a race-based bill under the guise of "financial reform" and they may just succeed.As was true of ObamaCare, the intentions of the drafters are buried in the bill. But Investors Business Daily has the rea...

  • June 23, 2010

    Report: Gen. Petraeus will replace Gen. McChrystal

    AP writes that "sources" tell it that General David Petraeus will replace Gen. McChrystal as commender of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, in the wake of his being relieved from duty by the president.  How ironic that "General Betray U...

  • June 23, 2010

    IRS Blocks 10% of First-Time Homebuyer Tax Credits After Audits

    Great job, Democrats! Another huge program rife with fraud. John Gittelsohn of Bloomberg writes:The Internal Revenue Service blocked almost 10 percent of U.S. claims for the first-time homebuyer tax credit after receiving erroneous or fraudulent fili...

  • June 21, 2010

    Mike Pence and the Winning Back of America

    As the political landscape shifts, one congressman in particular is helping lead us forward to win back America: Mike Pence, Republican of Indiana.What are the talents that leaders need in this environment to rally the troops and lead us to victory i...

  • June 12, 2010

    The 'Doc Fix' is in

    ObamaCare was scored by the Congressional Budget Office to reflect cuts in Medicare payments to doctors and other healthcare providers. This was absurd. Everyone knows this is just a tactic used by politicians to make healthcare plans appear to be mo...

  • June 9, 2010

    Teen jobs worst situation in 41 years

    Buried in the very poor job numbers released on Friday was even worse news for youth seeking jobs, who now face the grimmest summer job market in 41 years. Joseph Pisani of CNBC reports:Employment among 16-to 19-year olds in May grew by just 6,000, t...

  • June 9, 2010

    Obama team silent in the face of UN blood libel against Israel

    Didn't  Obama said it was a good idea to join the UN Human Rights Council? "Meeting today in Geneva, the UN Human Rights Council heard the following statement from the Syrian representative, First Secretary Rania Al Rifaiy: ‘Israel ...

  • June 8, 2010

    The hits keep coming: Hillary dissed by the President of Peru

    A symbol of America's diminished standing. Even Peru is unconcerned about snubbing Hillary Clinton. Sometimes even diplomats get stood up. The stage was set for a news conference: two chairs and two microphones on a table in the ornate neo-Baroque Sa...

  • June 8, 2010

    How to Fight Back against Public Unions: A Primer

    We have reached a potential turning point in the relationship of public employee unions and the electorate they ostensibly serve. Over the past year, there has been a steady drumbeat of criticism focused on public unions and the havoc they have wroug...

  • June 8, 2010

    Public employee unions have the pedal to the metal on campaign spending

    The major public employee union, the Association of Federal, State, County, and Municipal Employees (ASFSCME), is now stepping up efforts to swing elections to politicians who will do their bidding. Recall, how Barack Obama rebuked the Supreme Court ...

  • June 8, 2010

    Barry Butches Up

    Unable to lead, or even emote, the President of the United States apparently believes that vulgarity will convince the American people he is in command of the disaster in the Gulf.A video 26 second video says it all about the master orator:"I do...

  • June 7, 2010

    Anti-Israel former Senator, Chuck Hagel, was Obama's preferred pick for Director of National Intelligence

    So reports the very hooked in Marc Ambinder of the Atlantic magazine:Not only was SecDef Robert Gates happy with Clapper's appointment, he recommended Clapper after Obama's preferred candidates, Leon Panetta and Chuck Hagel, passed on the job. ...For...

  • June 4, 2010

    95% of new jobs from Census hiring

    The Labor Department released sobering news this morning. Payrolls rose by 431,000 last month. That may sound good on the surface, but is far less than the median forecast of 536,000 jobs. But it gets worse: of the 431,000 jobs, 411,000 of them were ...

  • June 4, 2010

    What is it with these administration guys and failure to pay taxes?

    Rahm Emanuel just recently paid a tax bill that was more than 60 days past due.It's almost like they're allergic to taxes, or something. How much do you want to bet those 16,000 new IRS agents will have better things to do than go after Obama adminis...

  • June 4, 2010

    Obama's 'malaise' speech

    President Obama's speech at Carnegie Mellon University is rightfully being compared to Jimmy Carter's notorious "malaise" speech. All that was missing was the cardigan sweater. So the anxiety that's out there today isn't new.  The rece...

  • June 2, 2010

    Government workers taking taxpayers to the cleaners

    I have written quite often regarding the sweet deals many government workers enjoy because of the power the public employee unions have over Democratic politicians and the public purse. The government employees union's political action committee is...

  • May 31, 2010

    Truth-telling on offshore oil development

    It is always nice when center-left or left-wing publication engage in some truth-telling. From the Economist magazine, a few facts:The Gulf of Mexico accounts for almost a third of America's oil production and the lion's share of new discoveries. Mos...

  • May 31, 2010

    Obama's line-item veto gambit is a reach for more power

    George Will had a perceptive column on Sunday regarding Barack Obama's gambit to be granted the line-item veto . This is a power to kill individual spending allocations when budgets are presented to the President. The power to do so was given to Pre...

  • May 29, 2010

    Sestak cover story starts to unravel

    Crafting a cover story that is consistent with awkward facts is hard. Did the best and the brightest miss this? Sestak was not eligible to serve on the Intelligence Advisory Board. Byron York of the Washington Examiner reports:In a little-noticed pas...

  • May 28, 2010

    A 'war on terror' by any other name

    John Brennan, Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism,speaking at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, titling his talk , 'Securing the Homeland by Renewing American Strength, Resilience and Values': 'The ...

  • May 27, 2010

    Opposition to Kagan climbing

    For someone who was supposed to be a relatively "safe" choice, Elena Kagan's approval numbers are heading south rather quickly.From Rasmussen: Voters have an increasingly unfavorable opinion of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan but are more...

  • May 26, 2010

    Dems leave out military in ObamaCare provision

    Democrats are telling us a lot about their priorities: take care of union members, but not the but not military in the health care "reform" bill passed by a partisan vote. I guess they may have figured out a way to lower these costs -- by s...

  • May 23, 2010

    UN Ambassador Susan Rice - another failure

    America's Ambassador to the United Nations has been a failure. Perhaps, Susan Rice should spend less time career-climbing in DC to replace Hillary Clinton (she has been "wildly inattentive" according to the non-partisan The Hill magazine) ...

  • May 22, 2010

    Barney Frank has a history of denying his role in housing meltdown

    On May 20th, Congressman Barney Frank (a promoter of the Community Reinvestment Act, a promoter of increased Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exposure to risky mortgages - in other words, he helped cause the financial crisis) again denied that he pushed fo...

  • May 21, 2010

    Susan Rice: Another Obama Failure

    America's Ambassador to the United Nations has been a failure. Perhaps Susan Rice should spend less time career-climbing in DC, angling to replace Hillary Clinton (she has been "wildly inattentive" according to the non-partisan The Hill mag...

  • May 21, 2010

    ICE chief won't process illegals from Arizona

    In the age of Attorney General Eric Holder - who not only won't pursue the case against the New Black Panther Party, who won't investigate the allegations that Joe Sestak was illegally offered inducements by the Obama administration to drop his prima...

  • May 16, 2010

    Democrats bring death by a thousand new regulations

    Democrats love regulations and rules. Their desire to impose them goes beyond a desire to create a nanny state. They desire a bully state where they control major aspects of society.The upside for them: they can count the dollars coming in as busines...

  • May 15, 2010

    Obama's choice to head Medicaide/ Medicare wants to distribute health and wealth

    Recall, one of the few times Obama has been honest was his campaign era gaffe when he touted his desire to spread the wealth. More recently, he hectored us (which he often does) that sometimes he thinks people just earn too much money. Now his OMB ...

  • May 13, 2010

    Welcome to the Era of Expensive Energy

    Gas prices are marching steadily upwards -- past three dollars at my local suburban station, and a couple of dimes more than that in Chicago. Why? Part of the rise is seasonal in nature: Demand increases going into summer to fill up those cars going ...

  • May 10, 2010

    EPA seeks to stifle shale gas industry

    I have written a few columns regarding the manifold benefits that tapping our nation's rich, onshore, and clean-burning reserves of shale gas can bring us. Nations such as Iran and Russia will feel the heat as natural gas flows from our own well...

  • May 9, 2010

    The World Turned Upside Down

    (A review of The World Turned Upside Down, by Melanie Phillips)Melanie Phillips, the columnist for the British newspaper the Spectator, has written a fine new book: The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle Over God, Truth and Power. Ms. Philli...

  • May 8, 2010

    Barackracy

    I was talking with my wife about the newest wave of rules and regulations that Washington is imposing on us, such as this doozy:"An all-but-overlooked provision of the health reform law is threatening to swamp U.S. businesses with a flood of new...

  • May 8, 2010

    Government as bully - microchips in recycling bins?

    Government officials at all levels seem to believe their job in life is to annoy us - high taxes, absurd rules and regulations, traffic cams, tax agencies touting their power to track us down (with satellite imagery and ominous voices being used in c...

  • May 6, 2010

    Big Brother? More Like Big Bully

    Government at all levels is becoming more and more contemptuous of citizens. A few weeks ago I penned a column, Big Brother Becomes Big Bully" about our governments (state and federal) bullying us more and more to obey them...or else. I noted th...

  • May 5, 2010

    Key Democrat to retire from House in 2010

    David Obey, a major power in the Democratic Party and chairman of the powerful House Apprpriations Committee is retiring.  He is a left-wing Congressman who may have shifted too far to the left for his increasingly right-leaning state (Senator F...

  • May 1, 2010

    How the Justice Department is sticking its nose into the MA governor's race

    Yesterday, I wrote a blog regarding the Department of Justice being used as a political tool. Among the actions taken was a recent move to open an investigation into Partners Healthcare System of Boston, Massachusetts to determine if the hospital n...

  • April 29, 2010

    Obama's Politicized Justice Department

    Another new example surfaces today of how Obama's Justice Department, under the leadership of Attorney General Eric Holder, is being used as a political tool. The Department has already been used to advance Democratic partisan plans (the egregious ef...

  • April 27, 2010

    Obama and the Anti-Semites

    The most politically correct President (I still recall his using the term ‘First Americans" instead of Native Americans) in history has one big blind spot:  insults towards Jews. The latest example is an anti-Semitic joke told by his ...

  • April 27, 2010

    Our 'Insulter-in-Chief' about to go into overdrive

    Debates over immigration reform (to take but one example) are derided as polarizing. Commentators deride the lack of civil discourse in our political speech-especially if articulated by Republicans or tea partiers (who are derided as bitter and gree...

  • April 26, 2010

    Obama breaks another promise

    He was going to bring us all together; there was no black America, no white America. How things have changed:In the video message to his supporters, Obama said his administration's success depends on the outcome of this fall's elections and warned th...

  • April 25, 2010

    Dems seek to gut Citizens United SCOTUS decision

    Respect for the Constitution? Respect and deference to the Supreme Court of the United States? That was so 2008 and before. We know how Barack Obama has a fetish for attacking groups, including the Supreme Court justices during the State of the Union...

  • April 25, 2010

    Obama administration continues its war on free enterprise

    Early last year, I penned a column "Inmates in Charge of the Asylum " that sketched out a program that Barack Obama and his allies on the left would undertake to choke off free enterprise in America. That prediction was not prescient. After...

  • April 22, 2010

    Union head threatens legislators

    Steve Bartin, who heads up the great site Newsalert, sends a fascinating YouTube clip (below) of a leader of the AFSCME (American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees) threatening Illinois lawmakers in order to get them to send more m...

  • April 19, 2010

    Pelosi cheers on new ambassador to Hungary - her husband's crony

    Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi famously declared that she's running the "most ethical Congress ever." Beyond the continuing series of ethical problems faced by the likes of Charles Rangel and Eric Massa, and past problems with Congress...

  • April 19, 2010

    Obama's 'peace' plan

    Journalist Joel Mowbray, last seen on the pages of American Thinker commenting on a Congressional race in Florida , pens a piece for the Washington Times on Obama's attempt to ram a "peace" deal with the Palestinians down the throats of the...

  • April 9, 2010

    Does it bother anyone that this person is the Deputy National Security Adviser?

    Another empty suit in a key Obama Administration policy position was in the news today, as another Obama policy fails. In reading an article today on Russia saying "nyet" to  refined petroleum sanctions on Iran,  I was remind...

  • April 6, 2010

    Our fatalistic Iran policy

    How is that for fatalism, leadership, etc (I could use other words)? Why does the Jordanian king now say that relations between Jordan and Israel are at an all-time low? The Israelis have not really done anything differently, but America certainly ha...

  • March 29, 2010

    Big Brother Becomes Big Bully

    The government in the Age of Obama has gone beyond the big brother that watches out and cares for us. Instead, it has becomes the big brother that torments and bullies us and then takes what is rightfully ours: our savings, our freedom, and our futur...

  • March 28, 2010

    Children and parents are not first in most school systems

    School district officials in Los Angeles are using a scalpel to cut their budget to meet a revenue shortfall. Are they slicing generous salaries and health/retirement benefits for teachers and legions of administrators? Nope. Instead days are being s...

  • March 19, 2010

    Obama's unfulfilled pledge to restore Black-Jewish relations

    During the 2008 campaign, questions arose over Barack Obama relationship to his long-time race-baiting Pastor, Jeremiah Wright Pastor. Obama had praised Wright, whom he called at various times as his "moral compass", "sounding board...

  • March 19, 2010

    How Obama Is Turning America against Israel

    At best, Barack Obama committed the latest big mistake in his conduct of foreign policy last week. At worst, the president carried out a deliberate operation intended to weaken the U.S.-Israel relationship and turn the public against the Jewish ...

  • March 12, 2010

    Byrd may be key figure in reconciliation debate

    Robert Byrd, an unacknowledged king of earmarks, who has scores of federally financed projects named after him in his home state of West Virginia, is routinely considered the senate's unofficial historian. He will play an important role in judging th...

  • March 11, 2010

    Obama's Car Czar in Pay-to-Play probe (updated)

    New York is a fiscal basket case. One major reason: the black hole of pension fund promises made to government workers by pliant politicians always eager to serve the public employee unions. These promises are so munificent that they amount to giveaw...

  • March 10, 2010

    Do Blue Dogs Bark when they get a Treat?

    Is the following mere coincidence? One doubts it in a Congress known for Cornhusker Kickbacks, Gator Aid; the Louisiana Purchase  and other tricks of the political trade. Daniel Foster on NRO:Two Blue Dogs Get New Subcommittee Chairs From T...

  • March 10, 2010

    The bullies in the White House

    Many people have wondered why Barack Obama and his team seem to have a soft spot for tyrants. Was it just the anti-Americanism and radicalism imbibed by Barack Obama from his youth and stoked by the ministrations of his minister, Jeremiah Wright and...

  • March 9, 2010

    The folly of rushing into green energy schemes

    Environmentalists, renewable energy advocates, and solar energy promoters tout the supposed benefits of solar energy. We know the problems: inefficient conversion of sunrays into electricity, intermittent energy generation, the NIMBY (Not In My Back ...

  • March 5, 2010

    The Rapper and the White House Situation Room

    Is Barack Obama a serious man? The Obamas started a regular music series at the White House so they and their friends and family can enjoy some tunes; Barack Obama flies off to Copenhagen to push the global warming story; flies off to promote Chicago...

  • March 5, 2010

    Rep. Sensenbrenner wants answers in wind energy scandal

    I previously reported on secret meetings between employees of the Department of Energy and a wind power industry group that led to a rebuttal of a study critical of green jobs programs. A Spanish study showed that such programs lead to a net loss ...

  • March 4, 2010

    Obama administration protecting the 'green' investments of its friends

    Crony capitalism is alive and well in Barack Obama's Washington. Business for lobbyists on K Street is booming as never before. Green energy promoters are raking in our tax dollars, often for wasteful "investments ." Al Gore is certainly ra...

  • March 2, 2010

    Pro-democracy Iran activists accomplish more than the Obama administration

    We have had one year of dilly-dallying by the Obama administration on efforts to stop Iran from becoming a nuclear power. The Obama team has ignored its own deadlines; weakened efforts at sanctions; delayed and derailed efforts in Congress to tighten...

  • March 1, 2010

    Public Sector Unions and their Political Donations

    Governments across the nation, including the one headquartered in Washington, D.C., are approaching their fiscal death throes. Most of the states that are on life-support got transfusions from the stimulus bill that showered money on areas painted bl...

  • March 1, 2010

    Obama's Envoy to the Muslim World: A Soros Tie?

    The naming of Rashad Hussain as President Obama's new special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference has sparked criticism. Hussain has been close to the President and was recruited to help draft Barack Obama's Cairo address (hat tip: Jo...

  • February 28, 2010

    Hop on board the public employee union special

    File in the annals of how public employee unions and weak-willed and corrupt politicians are spending us into penury: Madison's highest paid city government employee last year wasn't the mayor. It wasn't the police chief. It wasn't even the head of M...

  • February 28, 2010

    Soros betting on Euro collapse

    Let me count the ways George Soros, hedge fund billionaire, has become enriched through his trading "strategies". Years ago, he broke the Bank of England by wagering against the British pound, pressuring it in such a way that England had to...

  • February 26, 2010

    Obama: Health care reform is all about him

    Barack Obama is bitter that his mother had problems paying for cancer care. He revealed this during his speech at the health care summit. His drive to push for government takeover of health care should be more than about him and his ideological and e...

  • February 26, 2010

    George Soros, the Democrats, and the Little Guy

    In the case of George Soros, the rich really do get richer while the poor get poorer. Let me count the ways hedge fund billionaire has enriched himself through his trading "strategies." Years ago, he broke the Bank of England by wagering ag...

  • February 26, 2010

    Rep. McDermott tries to sneak anti-CIA amendment into bill in the dead of night

    Liberal Democrats may tout openness, reform and transparency on the campaign trail but those promises never seem to make it past the Beltway when they return to Washington.In one of the more egregious examples of this truism, one needs to look no fur...

  • February 26, 2010

    Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund

    The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama's rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was...

  • February 25, 2010

    Dems moving through 5 stages of grief over rise of the tea parties

    The Democratic and media smear machines have responded to the fast growth of the tea party movement in a variety of ways -- mostly unwelcome ways. One can follow the Kubler-Ross model of the five stages of grief: Defense (this can't be happening to m...

  • February 23, 2010

    Why do we call them 'public servants?'

    Have you ever noticed the steps cities and states take to make our lives miserable in order to extract tax increases from us? When budgets are cut back because of fewer taxes, what goes first in the triage that politicians engage in? Libraries shut ...

  • February 23, 2010

    Public workers unions have it backwards

    Numerous articles and blog posts at American Thinker and elsewhere have begun to highlight the time bombs that are exploding state and federal budgets across our nation. These are the demands made on the public purse (and our wallets) by public emplo...

  • February 22, 2010

    When public employees act badly

    Public sector unions bring out the worse behavior in "public servants." Why should New Jersey taxpayers - a state with severe financial problems - have to put up with this taxpayer abuse and with a sheriff under the color of authority who b...

  • February 22, 2010

    Only 39% of Americans have a favorable personal opinion of Barack Obama

    Barack Obama's one remaining asset, his personal reputation, is depreciating rather quickly. A little self-deprecating humor might leaven the somewhat pompous and testy impression more and more Americans are getting. However, he is too vainglorious t...

  • February 22, 2010

    Obama's phony faith

    Barack Obama routinely laced his campaign speeches with words and phrases that resonated with voters, particularly those who practiced their faith more often than others in the body politic. His outreach to the Christian community became more fervent...

  • February 21, 2010

    Hey! Wouldn't Obama make a great Supreme Court Justice?

    Obama for the Supreme Court? Jeffrey Rosen of the Washington Post: He's too detached and cerebral . Too deferential to Congress. Too willing to compromise . And he's too much of a law professor and not enough of a commander in chief, as Sarah Palin r...

  • February 21, 2010

    Rashad Hussain admits making anti-terror prosecutions statements

    Rashad Hussain made the statements criticizing terror prosecutions of Muslims, then denied them (and the White House supported him, calling the journalist who attributed them to him wrong) and now admits he made them. Even more shocking, Hussain admi...

  • February 20, 2010

    Obama pulls definitional switcheroo on jobs number in stim bill

    Note again a change in terminology by the administration to go along with all the other euphemisms:Only 6 percent of Americans believe the stimulus bill passed a year ago this week has created jobs, a CBS News/New York Times poll reported last week. ...

  • February 19, 2010

    News from the public employee front

    As cities and states face increasing prospects of bankruptcy, who is looking out for the public good ? Not teachers' unions - the bedrock of the Democratic party and a major beneficiary of the so-called stimulus bill that channeled hundreds of billi...

  • February 18, 2010

    Businesses abandoning climate change alliance

    Sunshine..the best disinfectant. As we finally learn about the fraudulent "science" and personal corruption behind the global con game that is known as "Climate Change," Americans are growing more skeptical about the claims made ...

  • February 18, 2010

    The 'What's in it for me' presidency

    I guess the hard work of peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians is a turn off to the president. Here is Ben Smith on Steve Rosen's column regarding Obama's distancing himself from the Middle East peace process: Obama invested heavily in the ...

  • February 15, 2010

    Hillary's 'security umbrella'

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is touring the Middle East-one of a long line of Washingtonians now on pilgrimage tours this month of the region. Her gambit: try to reassure our allies and pseudo-allies that we have their back. How do we reveal th...

  • February 12, 2010

    Europe ahead of America in ditching the bio-fuels boondoggle

    The European Union seems to be ahead of America when it comes to the issue of climate change. The nations' of that "union" were early proponents of that particular myth. They gave vast subsidies to solar power producers in Germany and plann...

  • February 12, 2010

    Obama and the Government Employees

    Barack Obama may not have learned much at Harvard regarding the Constitution, but he did learn in Chicago how politics works: the Chicago way. Reward supporters, and keep the bribery as opaque  as possible. Chicago mores have been brought to Was...

  • February 11, 2010

    What the future would look like with Obamacare

    I have often looked to Massachusetts to develop insight regarding a variety of federal policies. That state, along with California, are the epitome of liberal-think. Regimes that tax and spend with abandon usually lead to fiscal collapse. In the case...

  • February 9, 2010

    Blue dogs running for cover over NLRB nominee

    Senator Ben Nelson, whose popularity is plummeting in Nebraska because of his support for Obama and the disgraceful Cornhusker Kickback, will oppose Barack Obama's nomination of Craig Becker to the National Labor Relations BoardNebraska Sen. Ben Nel...

  • February 9, 2010

    Soros influence on Obama politics and policy

    Barack Obama has been trying to justify his anti-terror policies by likening them to those of George Bush. Aside from the hypocritical irony can we discover anything else of interest from statements, particularly this one:"I think that the most ...

  • February 8, 2010

    Obama the Scold

    Politico has a very good column that characterizes our President as a scold.For a president who ran on uplifting themes like change and hope, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they'll change. He has advise...

  • February 4, 2010

    Cheap Natural Gas and Its Democrat Enemies

    We have the power to tap vast shale gas reserves that lie under our feet through large swaths of America, but special interest groups aligned with the Democratic Party are trying to frustrate plans to bring this cheap, plentiful, and clean energy to ...

  • February 2, 2010

    Business loans in Obama's budget another form of pork

    Obama rolled out his massive $3.8 trillion budget yesterday and, as Politico writes, it "shows that, like any politician, he's focused on rewarding friends and not enemies. Just take a look at the huge increase in education. Teachers unions ar...

  • February 2, 2010

    Barney Frank wakes up and smells the coffee

    Barney Frank played a large role in the mortgage bubble, battling attempts to reform Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, who were pushing subprime and other questionable mortgages, with taxpayers on the hook.From The Atlantic: I think the answer is you separ...

  • January 29, 2010

    Obama's magicians trick - misdirection

    Well..this should come as a big surprise. Barack Obama says one thing in a speech and does the exact opposite it in real life. The man who famously scolded Hillary Clinton by saying "Words Matter" only meant they matter when his patter can ...

  • January 29, 2010

    Does Obama know the difference between the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence?

    From Gateway Pundit: Modern Conservative reported, via Free Republic:In last night's State of the Union Address, President Obama said:We find unity in our incredible diversity, drawing on the promise enshrined in our Constitution: the notion that we ...

  • January 28, 2010

    The New Jeremiah Wright?

    Barack Obama's reading habits and sources of news have been revealed in a recent Washington Post article: The article mentioned only one blogger by name that President Obama read: Andrew Sullivan. The Atlantic's Sullivan is notorious for his tirades ...

  • January 27, 2010

    Obama's education increases to benefit teachers' unions

    Barack Obama will propose major increases in funding for education in his State of The union speech tonight, according to reports. Federal education spending will be set to rise by at least 6.2 percent, with much of the funds flowing to elementary a...

  • January 25, 2010

    Another veteran Democrat Senator in trouble

    Congressman Mike Pence (Republican-Indiana 6th district) leads long-time Democratic Senator Evan Bayh in a Rasmussen Poll released over the weekend. This is a significant development and reflective of a mood that sees even moderate politicians, such ...

  • January 22, 2010

    Who is running the country?

    When it comes to "getting tough" on the big banks on Wall Street, the administration is about to turn its populist, class warfare rhetoric into actual policy proposals to "rein in" the risk taking potential of the largest firms.Wh...

  • January 19, 2010

    More White House involvement in New Black Panther-DOJ scandal than first thought?

    On election day in 2008, the New Black Panther Party had a group of people intimidating voters in Philadelphia. The case was a slam dunk: there is a video of the Party members outside the polling place; dressed in military-style uniforms while one is...

  • January 17, 2010

    Picture emerging of Obama as arrogant, bored, and 'peevish' about campaign

    As I read Game Change , a recurring motif is how often Barack Obama would be bored or annoyed by either his Senatorial duties or the rigors of campaigning. He is not infrequently "fatigued" or "tired" or "peevish." If we...

  • January 16, 2010

    More on Obama from Game Change

    This book by page 30 (where I am at) comes down pretty hard on Obama. Aside from today's post, just a couple of pages later he describes how bored he was with the Senate.Excerpt: The glacial pace, the endless procedural wrangling, the witless po...

  • January 15, 2010

    Game Change on Obama

    Within a few pages of the new book:"He could come across as cocky, that was for sure. He knew he was smarter than the average politician and he not only knew it but wanted to make sure everyone else knew it, too. He would interrupt aides at meet...

  • January 13, 2010

    Obama's war on Inspectors General

    The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating the Office of Management and Budget for threatening an inspector genera l that if he did not keep quiet regarding slashes in his department's budget "they'd make life miserable...

  • January 13, 2010

    Mitchell uses suspect poll to pressure Israel

    George Mitchell, President Obama's Middle East envoy, is using a suspect poll regarding Israelis' views of Barack Obama in order, apparently, to pressure Israel.Here is an excerpt of the Q and A between Charlie Rose and George Mitchell:Charlie Rose:...

  • January 9, 2010

    The number Democrats should fear the most

    Friday's poor employment number will cause political problems for the Democrats as the touted benefits of their policies fail to pass the spin zone. The numbers "saved" ruse will become increasingly absurd as the unemployment number remains...

  • January 8, 2010

    Obama and the White House Chicago Boys

    Barack Obama has a problem. His polls numbers are dropping and his policies are fueling an angry backlash across America. The Democratic party is held in disrepute, and congressional Democrats are dropping like flies. This imperils Obama's radical ag...

  • January 6, 2010

    Massachusetts governor race another sign of Democratic weakness

    While much attention has been focused on the Massachusetts Senatorial contest to take over the seat held by the late Ted Kennedy (where the Republican candidate in this bluest of blue states may only be trailing the lackluster Democratic candidate by...

  • January 5, 2010

    From leader to laughingstock

    Really?Well, President Obama continues going from leader to laughingstock by continually bowing, metaphorically speaking, to the Iranian mullahsHe said at one time there was a September deadline for Iran to show its bona fides regarding negotiating ...

  • December 31, 2009

    Obama moves to eliminate superdelegates

    Breaking rules, changing rules, manipulating rules, ignoring rules: this politician learned a great deal in Chicago.When one looks back at the origin of the Democratic Party endowing so-called super-delegates with power to influence nominations for t...

  • December 28, 2009

    Obama's Image: What a Difference a Year Makes

    Almost a year has passed since January 20, 2009 -- when the waters of the ocean no longer rose and America began to heal from the depredations of Republicans. Barack Obama has been our president for that long, and the people have started to wise up.T...

  • December 21, 2009

    Cheap Natural Gas and Its Enemies

    A vast reservoir of clean-burning natural gas could be available at reasonable cost in the coming years, freeing us from some of our dependence on imported energy. Yet there are those who  consider such a development a threat.A small group of bi...

  • December 19, 2009

    Obama, the laughingstock

    Is our President, and America itself, becoming laughingstock of the world to be ignored and dismissed, if not ridiculed, as Hugo Chavez and Fidel Castro have? The world has taken measure of the man and he has fallen short.Chavez calls Obama "the...

  • December 14, 2009

    Using taxpayer money to subsidize electoral victory

    I am sure Joe Biden's son's running for the Senate from Delaware to take his dad's old seat has nothing to do with the Department of Energy's award of 500 million dollars in loans (taxpayer money) to Fisker Automotive after it agreed to manufacture i...

  • December 14, 2009

    The Youth Vote Moves On

    Barack Obama was the Political Pied Piper of 2008. His campaign motivated millions of young people to finally come to the polls and pull the levers -- and not just for Obama, but other party members down the ticket. This upsurge in activity yielded s...

  • December 12, 2009

    Soros climate change activity benefits his hedge fund investments

    George Soros has funded a wide variety of efforts to propagate the view that Climate Change poses perils to the planet and that this mandates measures that include so called clean fuels. His efforts include his sponsorship of think tanks, for example...

  • December 7, 2009

    Obama's fantasies about the press now go beyond Fox News

    The trope that Bush and the Republicans have been the roadblock to everything has been carried to its most absurd lengths now; Obama claims this adversarial relationship existed over the past few years between business and the Republicans in the Whit...

  • December 6, 2009

    Export-Import bank opposes Iran sanctions

    Michael Goldfarb is reporting over at the Weekly Standard that the Export-Import Bank is attempting to scuttle Iran sanctions legislation that is working its way through the House . This set of sanctions would target Iran's import of refined oil pr...

  • December 1, 2009

    Alienation growing on campus

    College-age Americans are waking up to the fact that their interests are not being protected by the politicians they helped elect. As cities and states seek to confiscate more of their citizens' wealth to fund gold-plated pension for government emplo...

  • December 1, 2009

    NIAC's Parsi recipient of award from left-wing fund

    Trita Parsi, is the founder and President of the National Iranian American Council. This is a group that may be illegally serving as an unregistered lobbying group for Iran and an organization whose goals certainly show little daylight between those...

  • November 29, 2009

    A dearth of private sector experience in Obama's cabinet

    Can we be surprised that Barack Obama would chose a Cabinet so unreflective of America? After all, Barack Obama thinks that raising capital gain taxes will not harm economic growth; he taunts bankers with the prospect of pitchforks coming towards th...

  • November 22, 2009

    Iran's lobby exposed

    Last week, I wrote about the National Iranian American Council (NIAC), and called it a de facto lobby for Iran, intent on influencing legislation and placing its supporters in key positions of power in Washington. I pointed out that the new Iran Man ...

  • November 18, 2009

    Who engineered the Ross-Limbert switch in the Iran chair at State?

    The controversy regarding the National Iranian American Council (NIAC) - whether it violated US law by not registering as a lobbying group, whether it's views are too closely aligned with those of Tehran, whether it is too close to George Soros, an...

  • November 17, 2009

    Trita Parsi: Iran's Nuclear Helper?

    Trita Parsi, the controversial founder and head of the National Iranian American Council (that may or may not have failed to follow the law in its failure to register as a foreign lobbyist) seems to have had a bit of a career advocating one thing the...

  • November 17, 2009

    The real reason we're trying terrorists in civilian courts

    Monte Kuligowski and others at American Thinker, indeed all across the country are asking why did Attorney General Eric Holder decide that five of the (alleged of course, except for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed who has admitted guilt) 9/11 terrorists sho...

  • November 16, 2009

    Soros tentacles wind through pro-Iranian groups

    The Campaign for a New American Policy on Iran was a group formed under the auspices of The National Iranian American Council (NAIC), a controversial group that has been accused of acting illegally as a lobby for the Iranian regime, to promote engage...

  • November 14, 2009

    Get ready for 'Amnesty II - The Sequel'

    Barack Obama faces falling poll numbers across almost all demographic groups in America How to boost numbers not just for him but for the Democrats, who are also experiencing problems in polls? Answer? Legalize millions of immigrants who, beholden t...

  • November 14, 2009

    The Parsi-Ney relationship and the faux Iranian 'peace offer'

    Periodically, George W. Bush was attacked over the years for refusing to negotiate with Iran. Promoters of engagement with Iran (who soft-pedaled Iran's nuclear program and support of terrorism) often cite the so-called Guldimann Memorandum as "...

  • November 13, 2009

    The Republican and the Iranians

    I wrote about former Republican Congressman Jim Leach (Iowa) last year. He was a Republican for Barack Obama.  . He was rewarded by being named Chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities.He also has cool views towards Israel. His name...

  • November 13, 2009

    Who's running our Iran policy?

    John Limbert, Obama's new man who occupies the Iran chair at the State Department, is now subject to some controversy because of his ties to the National Iranian American Council -- which appears to be illegally serving as a lobby for Iran. Trita Par...

  • November 13, 2009

    Pro-Iranian group may have violated lobbying guidelines

    Eli Lake, of the late, lamented New York Sun, is a superb journalist. And in an article in today's Washington Times, Lake fleshes out the details regarding the National Iranian American Council's curious lobbying activities. Now a lawsuit has brough...

  • November 12, 2009

    US Attorneys seek to seize Iran-linked mosques and real-estate

    US Attorneys are seeking to seize mosques and real estate assets owned by a non-profit Muslim group with alleged ties to the Iranian regime. The assets are owned by the Alavi Foundation and an alleged front-company, the Assa Corporation.US Attorney P...

  • November 11, 2009

    Obama's type of anti-Semitism fighter

    Who better to fight anti-Semitism for President Obama than someone who is not too keen on Israel defending itself from its anti-Semitic neighbors? Laura Rozen, one of the most astute foreign affairs journalist, is reporting that Barack Obama may...

  • November 11, 2009

    Now the GOP are sexist pigs

    First, Representative Wasserman-Schultz; now Rep. Kilroy. Anyone see a pattern? Not just condemn the GOP as being ruled by Rush, as being composed of people who "do as they are told" (in Obama's words), as being stupid "tea-baggers,...

  • November 11, 2009

    Breaking Promises and Betraying an Ally at the U.N.

    The American Ambassador to the United Nations, Susan Rice, lobbied for the United States to join the egregious United Nations Human Rights Council -- a body dedicated to bashing America and Israel and shielding true human rights violators around the ...

  • November 9, 2009

    Productivity rise masks the indentured servitude of workers

    From Randall Forsythe writing in  Barron's (subscription required): THE RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL SHIPS, but the galley slaves aren't feeling it. They're rowing harder than ever to make up for their colleagues who have been thrown overboard (g...

  • November 9, 2009

    Raiders of the SEIU

    Barack Obama's favorite union, the Service Employees International (SEIU), has been on a roll. After boasting of spending tens of millions of its members' dues to elect Barack Obama (a fact that might account for union president Andy Stern's freque...

  • November 9, 2009

    Obama's 'conditions' to talk to Prime Minister Netanyahu

    Barack Obama famously declared there were no conditions for talks with the mad mullahs of Iran, despite them being responsible for the murder of many Americans over the years (Beirut barracks, Iraq, Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia). How about the lates...

  • November 7, 2009

    The New Iran Man at the State Department's Iran Desk

    John Limbert will be the senior Iran official at the State Department, replacing Dennis Ross, who has moved to the National Security Council (and who has not been heard from publicly since). Should America be concerned? Yes. Limbert is not a neutral ...

  • November 6, 2009

    Loopholes in reform bill will mean fewer people covered, higher premiums

    In the Democrats rush to push through ObamaCare (particularly the Pelosi bill) before wavering Blue Dog Democrats interpret this week's election results, are our Congressmen overlooking a key feature that will massively expand the already high costs ...

  • November 6, 2009

    Another Soros stooge causing problems for Israel at State

    From an article by Akiva Eldar in Haaretz , an Israeli newspaper: Israel dismally fails the requirements of a tolerant pluralistic society, according to a new report from the U.S. State Department.Despite boasting religious freedom and protection of ...

  • November 4, 2009

    Another radical judge gets a lifetime appointment

    Underneath the radar screen, Barack Obama has continued his campaign to radically shift American policies and practices. A key target has been the judiciary branch of the government, nominally supposed to be an independent branch of the government th...

  • November 4, 2009

    Our 'President of Leisure' can't be bothered with the world's problems

    Iranian reformers take to the pages of the Wall Street Journal today to beseech the President to help them..instead of spurning them as he has throughout his Presidency. Well...join the ever-expanding crew of people being disrespected by our Presiden...

  • November 4, 2009

    Obama didn't follow election returns?

    Hmmm. On Sunday President Barack  Obama (D) traveled to New Jersey to help the state's embattled governor Jon Corzine (D) in his re-election bid against Chris Christie (R). The next day Vice President Joe Biden (D) visited a small town in New ...

  • November 3, 2009

    Soros action group looking to limit small arms exports

     David Kopel, writing at the Volokh Conspiracy: Reversing the position of the Bush administration, the Obama administration recently announced support for the global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which is currently being drafted by the United Nations...

  • November 2, 2009

    Obama's Mideast tutor bemoans Hamas' inability to fire more rockets into Israel

    In a front page Los Angeles Times article "Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Obama", at a going away party for Rashid Khalidi, a Palestinian academic and activist with a long-record of anti-Israel action, Barack Obama gave a special tr...

  • November 2, 2009

    Taking care of the home folks - Chicago style

    A president is supposed to represent all of America. Recall Senator Obama made his mark in a speech that began his presidential plans when he said at the 2004 Democratic convention that there was not a red America or a blue America but only a United...

  • November 2, 2009

    Democrats attempting a coup at new Consumer credit protection agency

    The Obama administration has proposed yet one more massive change for our nation: the proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency that will be given vast powers to regulate credit in America. Byron York of the Washington Examiner notes that Democr...

  • November 1, 2009

    NYT op-ed by 'expert' bought and paid for by overseas Arab money

    The New York Times neglects to inform its readers that an op-ed writer slamming Israel earns a handsome living courtesy of overseas Arab money. Henry Siegman is a self-styled Middle East expert who has a simplistic view of the Middle East: Israel is ...

  • October 30, 2009

    Narcissism - Obama style

    I just finished reading Malcolm Gladwell's new book ‘What the dog saw and other adventures", a collection of his stimulating essays from the New Yorker. One essay is titled "The Talent Myth" and refers to an essay written by thre...

  • October 29, 2009

    Progressives who 'out' Jews

    The Center for American Progress is a powerful Washington, D.C.-based think-tank that has as its main benefactors George Soros and his allies and political soul-mates, Herbert and Marion Sandler, who are also major benefactors. The Center (CAP) has b...

  • October 29, 2009

    Pay to play ambassadorships

    The pay to play nature of how Ambassadorships are chosen (big donors are among the small pool of people who are tapped to be Ambassadors) has long been a disgrace, practiced by both Republicans and Democrats. But the hypocrisy when Barack Obama engag...

  • October 29, 2009

    Unionized States of America: Now it's the nurses

    A key goal behind efforts to nationalize nurses' unions into one all encompassing union is the desire to increase their power to lobby for the interests of nurses and push for health care reform (i.e., more nurses, higher pay, fewer hours). This may ...

  • October 27, 2009

    Signing away sovereignty

    Americans concerned about the decline of American power under the presidency of Barack Obama should turn their radar on and keep it on. We should be aware that Obama intends to roll out for Senate approval a series of international treaties that will...

  • October 24, 2009

    Worrisome softness on radical Islam

    A worrisome portent disturbing attitudes in White House toward radical Islam surfaced yesterday, as an official participates in a broadcast discussion with the type of person who should be shunned.This past week I wrote a column regarding how Obama c...

  • October 23, 2009

    Does gerrymandering for racial purposes lead to apathy and low African-American voter turnout?

    A few days ago I wrote about the attempts by the Justice Department to force  the city of Kinston, North Carolina to label candidates by party affiliation. The Justice Department adopted a paternalistic (and insulting) rationale when they justif...

  • October 21, 2009

    On with the Permanent Campaign!

    While Obama dithers on major decisions he needs to make regarding Afghanistan, shoves off the Iran issue to others, outsources health care to Congress, and otherwise does very little other than vote present as President, there is one area that he dev...

  • October 21, 2009

    Obama channels Castro

    When I read that health insurers, the American Medical Association, bankers, utilities, and the Chamber of Commerce were chumming up with the Obama administration, I was skeptical that they would be able to work with him to moderate his radical agend...

  • October 21, 2009

    Who benefits from the rising stock market?

    This morning I heard a financial commentator discussing the rise in the stock market. He pointed out how the well-off, who generally are invested in the stock market, are benefiting from the flood of money the government (and the Federal Reserve) are...

  • October 20, 2009

    Soros gets closer to drug legalization in America

    George Soros, the kingpin of the Democratic Party and early and generous supporter of Barack Obama, scores one for the Soros Agenda: we are moving closer to the legalizing of drugs in America. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. directed federal pros...

  • October 20, 2009

    DOJ forces town to put party labels on candidates for racial reasons

    A small North Carolina city is getting a taste of what life is like now that the Justice Department is run by Attorney General Eric Holder. When the city voters decided to do away with the party affiliation of candidates in local elections, the Justi...

  • October 20, 2009

    President Axelrod?

    The trips to battleground states, the stimulus money being directed towards blue-tinged states, the omnipresence of Obama in the media, the high profile trips, the Bush-bashing, the formation of astrotruf groups, the threatening of adversaries, the n...

  • October 20, 2009

    Obama abuses faith office to promote his radical agenda

    During the entire Bush administration critics accused him of using religion for political purposes. Many people were aghast that our President was a religious man -- as opposed to his predecessor whose fidelity to the Ten Commandments was an on-off s...

  • October 18, 2009

    The National Security Adviser and J Street

    Commentary's Jennifer Rubin asks: what will National Security Adviser Jim Jones say at the upcoming J Street conference? J Street is an anti-Israel group that poses as a pro-Israel group. J Street has close ties to higher-ups in the Obama administrat...

  • October 17, 2009

    Hedge funds gaining clout in Washington

    If one relied just on what politicians say and not what they do, one might reasonably conclude that hedge funds - blamed by our President and various politicians - were the cause of our economic meltdown. We are reading headlines that our Congressm...

  • October 17, 2009

    When the government controls banks

    J.W. Verret, a guest blogger at the Volokh Conspiracy, makes some interesting observations and projections regarding the banks that received bailout funds. He predicts that they will be compelled to grant risky loans to borrowers in battleground stat...

  • October 16, 2009

    Marc Rich bio may cause Holder some problems

    Does anyone recall the saga of Swiss-based oil trader Marc Rich? He was the billionaire indicted back in 1983 on charges of tax evasion as well as trading with an enemy state (Iran). He was granted a pardon, pushed by then Assistant Attorney Genera...

  • October 15, 2009

    Senate Democrats use tricks to pull a fast one on health care reform

    The Associated Press is reporting that a group of Senate Democrats intend to slide a fast one by the American taxpayer.  The Senators hope to win quick approval of a bill that will boost Medicare payments to doctors by hundreds of billions of do...

  • October 15, 2009

    The NY Times uses Jew outing hack to write about pro-Israel groups in US

    Eric Alterman pens a paean to the leftist, and appeasement focused J Street - a group that admitted it served as Obama's blocking back to promote his approach to Middle East policy.  Why would the "paper of record" honor Alterman by gi...

  • October 14, 2009

    Schumer playing hardball with health insurance industry

    Democrats are very upset that a health insurance industry trade group released a report saying that a family's health insurance will rise from about $12,000 a year to more than $21,000 under Obamacare.Politico's Carrie Budoff Brown reports:This ...

  • October 14, 2009

    Is Rep. Wexler getting payoff from Obama for his support?

    When Barack Obama's campaign experienced turbulence last year over qualms regarding his stance towards Israel, Congressman Robert Wexler (D-Fla.), who is Jewish, rushed out to defend him. Wexler dismissed, and ridiculed concerns that Barack Obama's p...

  • October 13, 2009

    Bernanke's bomb

    My Congressman, Mark Kirk (R-Illinois, 10th district), who is now running for the Senate seat once held by Barack Obama, has pointed out a time bomb on the Federal Reserve balance sheet that could wreak great damage in the days ahead: At least o...

  • October 13, 2009

    Obama's travel shows he disdains those who might disagree with him

    Why try to convince or persuade - or reach out - to the people who are skeptical when all he is interested in is enhancing the prospects of his own reelection? Or is he just leery of confronting crowds that disagree with, and may question, him?From P...

  • October 13, 2009

    Israeli embassy takes Obama to task for Middle East policy

    The Israeli Embassy may have unwittingly telegraphed Israel's concerns regarding the policies of Barack Obama. The Embassy has taken issue with the policies being promoted by J Street - a putative pro-Israel lobbying group that has drawn criticism fo...

  • October 11, 2009

    Will the Nobel Peace Prize be an albatross around Obama's neck?

    The award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Barack Obama has been met with derision across the political spectrum.  He is seen as "not worthy" in the immortal words of Wayne's World and indeed by the President himself, who must recognize he ...

  • October 10, 2009

    Will Obama's Peace Prize hurt him politically?

    There has been so much commentary about the ridiculousness of the Nobel Peace Prize award to Barack Obama that one searches in vain for a different angle to consider. How about this one; will the award hurt him politically in America? Even his ard...

  • October 8, 2009

    The Obama coalition is fragmenting

    Good tidings from Virginia that may extend all the way across the nation. The coalition of voters that propelled Barack Obama to the White House is fragmenting and falling away, losing interest in Obama and unlikely to support other Democrats in futu...

  • October 7, 2009

    The Unionized States of America

    Enemies of America overseas take their measure of an American president from the way he handles his domestic political bargains. Early in his first term., President Reagan established his image as a strong leader by firing air traffic controllers who...

  • October 7, 2009

    Obama's hogging of credit has plumbed a new low

    Barack Obama's ugly habit of claiming credit for the work of others has reached a new level of absurdity. His flacks at the White House are crediting him with the apprehension of terror suspect Najibullah Zazi.  IBD is on the case:Zazi was repor...

  • October 7, 2009

    The rise of the new aristocracy: government workers and their unions

    Taxpayers are going to be digging a lot deeper in order to pay for the lush retirement benefits state and local governments have promised to the  public employee unions, coincidently, also major campaign donors. American Thinker has ru...

  • October 6, 2009

    Scowcroft: Obama must 'jumpstart' Palestinian state

    Brent Scowcroft has  been a harsh critic of Israel for years (he has pecuniary reasons - business interests that might lead him to curry favor with the Arab world). Scowcroft's protégés are throughout the Obama administration, writ...

  • October 6, 2009

    Obama cuts off funds to Iran human rights groups

    Barack Obama carries on his campaign to gut the democracy promotion and human rights efforts that had been pushed by Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. While he offers tacit support for Hugo Chavez and seems intent on supporting their would be d...

  • October 5, 2009

    Jim Jones and his worrisome ties

    America's National Security Adviser Jim Jones over the weekend gave a pass to Iran, dismissing concerns that the regime had a nuclear arms program that was dangerously close to success. He stood by the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate that was wid...

  • October 3, 2009

    How not to fix health care

    States are the laboratories in our federal system. How have the experiments with state-level health care reform gone? They have failed. An Investors Business Daily op-ed by Kerri Houston Toloczko gives us some insights why.Hawaii, Oregon, Massachuset...

  • October 2, 2009

    Axelrod defends Copenhagen disaster: 'It's the world's loss'

    Speaking on the semiofficial Obama news channel MSNBC, David Axelrod manifests the unbearable hubris and arrogance of the White House team. Politico reports:"I am proud of this president for going to make the case for this country," he said...

  • October 2, 2009

    Obama yucks it up in Copenhagen while unemployment soars at home

    Barack Obama's stewardship of the American economy, along with his fellow Democrats in Congress, continues to fail. Now we know why Barack Obama never agreed to release his college transcripts. He probably would have fared poorly.Reuters reports: WAS...

  • September 30, 2009

    More evidence of Obama fatuous fabrications of his 'work' experience

    I would be remiss if I did not supplement my column today regarding Obama's Work Ethic with additional information that has come to my attention via our readers and my own research.Obama claimed during the campaign to have worked his way through scho...

  • September 30, 2009

    Public servants? No, we are the servants

    An article of mine at American Thinker, Taxpayers: Eat Your Hearts Out, Suckers outlined the myriad of abuses taxpayers suffer from the demands of government workers. I was not writing about the rules and regulations, or the rudeness and inefficiency...

  • September 30, 2009

    Where are the Three Stooges who wrote the 2007 NIE on Iran?

    Back in 2007, the National Intelligence Estimate was released which all but absolved Iran of suspicions that it was on course to develop nuclear weapons. Rich Lowry writesIn November 2007, US intelligence agencies wrote a National Intelligence Estima...

  • September 30, 2009

    Obama's Work Ethic

    Barack Obama has displayed a disturbing pattern of work ethics: shirking work; claiming success when he was not entitled to do so; hiding his failures; and claiming the work of others as his own -- when it was successful. These are not character trai...

  • September 27, 2009

    Our thoroughly obtuse Defense Secretary

    I thought cabinet officers are supposed to be clear thinking and speaking decision-makers:Maybe I just miss the nuance here: Defense Secretary Gates to George Stephanopoulos, for ABC's 'This Week': '[M]y personal opinion is that the Iranians have the...

  • September 26, 2009

    While Obama slept

    We now know that Barack Obama  has sat  for almost a year on the information regarding Iran's "secret" nuclear plant. His hand was forced yesterday by the Iranians who were the ones that went public with the information when it ap...

  • September 25, 2009

    Two more thrown under the bus

    If the wheels keep coming off Obama's bus, how will he be able to throw more people under it?  It's getting crowded under there. Two items reported by Garance Franke-Ruta at the Weekly Standard:  Obama Gitmo policy collapses. Greg Crai...

  • September 24, 2009

    Obama rebuffed by trade court on Chinese tire tariffs

    One would hope that the President - declared brilliant by so many, with his Harvard Law Review Presidency and his part-time teaching at the University of Chicago Law School -  might have a better sense of the legality of his actions. In fact, ...

  • September 24, 2009

    The Soros-Axelrod Axis?

    George Soros is one of the big sugar daddies of the Democratic Party. He also is the ruler of an archipelago of so-called 527 groups that pose as  non-partisan activists groups, but in fact are often hyper-partisan (such as MoveOn.Org), and are ...

  • September 21, 2009

    Hillary's Humble Pie

    Hillary Clinton has become almost a sad figure, an outsider to a White House dominated by insiders, a cabinet secretary in the era of czars. Now, it seems that Hillary's own history is repeating itself.Wags wondered why Hillary endured her philanderi...

  • September 17, 2009

    The lies about Christian Zionists

    Conservative Christians are the most openly disparaged group in America, because they are feared by so many liberals. Sadly, many Jews have this attitude.Norman Podhoretz's new book "Why Jews are Liberals" touches upon one rationale: qualms...

  • September 15, 2009

    Government workers: From public servants to masters

    Liberals love to denounce income disparities, but seem very comfortable with the rising gap between the wages of government workers and the rest of us.In 2000, the average compensation (wages and benefits) of federal workers was 66% higher than the a...

  • September 6, 2009

    The Brainwashing Bunch

    American news outlets (well at least those not in Barack Obama's lap) are filled with criticism on the Department of Education plans to bring Obama's agenda into our nation's classrooms. The ploy to reach and teach our children through a presidential...

  • September 4, 2009

    Meet the new crop of White House Fellows

    White House Fellows are chosen each year by the President. The position serves as a stepping stone for future careers; it is a way to catapult the select few into positions of influence and power. Colin Powell, for example, was a White House Fellow...

  • September 2, 2009

    A possible nail in the coffin of Obamacare

    September seems that it might be the make or break month for some form of ObamaCare to pass. While public protests and increased budget deficits have damaged the prospects for passage, one more factor has yet to emerge as a potential bill-killer: t...

  • September 1, 2009

    New finance regulatory body will have sweeping powers

    Mike Allen of Politico reports: ** The proposed Consumer Financial Protection Agency Act would create a new government bureaucracy with sweeping authority going far beyond financial services regulation. Virtually every business that extends credit to...

  • September 1, 2009

    AT's Rich Baehr on Arab carbon emissions

    Richard Baehr notes the disproportionate impact that wealthy Arab oil nations have on annual CO2 emissions in the latest issue of inFocus magazine.A sample: The oil producing nations in the Middle East, particularly those with small populations, such...

  • August 30, 2009

    Welcome to the Unionized States of America

    Unions will be in the catbird seat while Democrats in Congress and the White House hold the reins of government. Unions are a key donor group to the party and contribute a great deal of unpaid labor (leaflets, canvassing) during campaigns. This is th...

  • August 25, 2009

    Well on our way down the 'Road to Serfdom'

    President Obama's has no experience in the business world and has an antipathy towards capitalism and free enterprise.  His Cabinet choices share in his ignorance of business-none of them have real world business experience. His various czars ...

  • August 25, 2009

    Gibbs' mushy statement on CIA prosecutions

    Can anyone decipher this statement? ROBERT GIBBS statement 'on the Department of Justice Inquiry': 'The president has said repeatedly that he wants to look forward, not back, and the president agrees with the attorney general that those who acted...

  • August 24, 2009

    Politicization of the Obama Justice Department

    First the nod and wink that permits the New Black Panther Party to escape from penalties for intimidating voters during last year's election. Now we have Obama's Justice Department choosing to use its time to investigate acting U.S. Attorney Ralph ...

  • August 22, 2009

    Have Obama's expanded deficits killed off health care reform?

    Their economic predictions have not borne fruit, except in the sense of forcing through a stimulus bill that was geared more towards heaping loads of money on Democratic special interest groups rather than lubricating the engine of the American econo...

  • August 15, 2009

    RINO Hagel gaining influence in White House

    Al Kamen, the politically wired Washington Post journalist, is reporting today that former Senator Chuck Hagel is positioned to assume high positions in the Obama administration (Hagel, a Republican In Name Only, supported Barack Obama during the ...

  • August 14, 2009

    Chuck Hagel climbing the White House ladder

    Al Kamen, the politically wired Washington Post journalist, is reporting today that former Senator Chuck Hagel is positioned to assume high positions in the Obama administration (he, a Republican In Name Only, supported Barack Obama during the campai...

  • August 13, 2009

    J Street's Arab and Muslim donors revealed

    J Street, the lobbying and fundraising group  that bills itself as being a pro-Israel advocacy group ( a claim dismissed by many), has Muslims and Arabs as donors as well as people connected to Palestinian and Iranian advocacy, Federal Election ...

  • August 12, 2009

    Whitewashing Mary Robinson

    There is a letter circulating to media outlets -- including American Thinker -- that is trying to whitewash the award of the Presidential Medal of Freedom to Mary Robinson. The letter is signed by Matt Dorf and is on the letterhead of Dorf/Rabinowitz...

  • August 12, 2009

    Failing the test: Robinson does not deserve a medal

    The criteria for the Presidential Medal of Freedom, by law, is supposed to go to those who have made "an especially meritorious contribution to the security or national interests of the United States, world peace, cultural or other significant p...

  • August 12, 2009

    Obama's Potemkin Village town halls

    People should realize now that to our arch-narcissist, the whole world is literally a stage. The campaign to package him as a celebrity (the images, the photo-ops); the Denver stadium coronation; the planted questions and questioners; the gushing...

  • August 11, 2009

    Racism in health care bill seen by US Commission on Civil Rights

    The US Commission on Civil Rights is proving a thorn in the side of the Obama administration. First it has problems with Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department dropping of the New Black Panther voter rights intimidation case. Now it sees t...

  • August 11, 2009

    Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Just how anti-American are you?

    Mary Robinson, who has done much damage as the leader of Durban I-the UN Conference that became an anti-American and anti-Semitic hate fest, will receive our nation's highest civilian award this week, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Jennifer Rubin...

  • August 9, 2009

    Why does Obama stick a finger in the eye of the Jewish community?

    Is the honeymoon over between American Jews and Barack Obama over? Not by a long shot, though there have been some ripples buffeting the relationship. His approach toward Israel (hostile) and the wider Middle East (ineffectual at best; damaging at wo...

  • August 7, 2009

    NYT averts its eyes on Mary Robinson

    The naming of Mary Robinson as a Presidential medal of Honor recipient has ignited a firestorm over her anti-Israel stance, as well as her acceptance of terror directed at civilians. In covering the controversy for the New York Times, Mark Landler he...

  • August 6, 2009

    Journalist's return a really big shoo

    Yesterday, we noted that the media had skipped over the fact that the airplane that Clinton flew to North Korea to rescue the foolhardy women journalist captured and imprisoned by North Korea was owned by Democratic activist, wealthy heir, and Hollyw...

  • August 6, 2009

    Soros funded NGO bows to pressure and identifies 'Hamas war crimes'

    Human Rights Watch has come under withering attack lately, led by David Bernstein and Noah Pollack, prompted by a notorious fund-raising appeal made in Saudi Arabia that explicitly appealed to the Saudis to help fund HRW anti-Israel work.  The ...

  • August 5, 2009

    Guess whose jet?

      As the nation endured hearing hosanna after hosanna toward Clinton, Obama, Gore, and various Clinton team members, a name popped up that few people would recognize: Steve Bing. He provided the airplane that flew the Clinton team in and out, wi...

  • August 1, 2009

    Who really selected Mary Robinson for the Presidential Medal of Freedom?

    President Barack Obama's decision to bestow the Presidential Medal of Freedom on Mary Robinson, who headed a United Nation Commission that condoned suicide bombing against Israelis and who also was in charge of the Durban Conference Against Raci...

  • July 30, 2009

    Buy Michelle Malkin's new book

    We are glad to report that Michelle Malkin's new book "Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks and Cronies", released just this week, has already hit the number one spot on Amazon best-sellers. Michelle, who has ...

  • July 29, 2009

    Dem congresswoman's idea of community responsibiltiy

    If you think the Democrats care about the integrity of communities and believe the "it takes a village" rhetoric, think again. Congresswoman Laura Richardson couldn't care less about her neighbors in Sacramento. After being elected to Congr...

  • July 29, 2009

    Where are all of Obama's Jewish boosters now?

    Criticism of Barack Obama's stance towards Israel has gone mainstream, and has appeared in media outlets and from Jewish groups across the spectrum. TThese include, the New York Post, all the Israeli papers, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Ti...

  • July 29, 2009

    Axelrod, Axelrod, and the Colorado Model

    David Axelrod was transformed from Barack Obama's campaign strategist to his senior policy advisor. Did the fact that a master of gritty politics, well-placed leaks, underhanded so-called Astroturf groups (fake "grassroots" citizens group...

  • July 28, 2009

    We welcome Syria, our new trading partner

    Now how likely is  that the Syrians will learn (under American tutelage, no less), and teach terror groups how to keep America and our allies from stopping terrorists? Will the communication technology we give to Syria be passed onto Iran, where...

  • July 27, 2009

    More lecturing of Israel from the Obama administration

    Recently, Barack Obama lectured the Israelis to be more self-reflective when approaching their neighbors (the same neighbors who spread anti-Semitism around the world and make clear their most fervent desire is to annihilate them). Of course, this ...

  • July 27, 2009

    The newest racial spoils system by the Stealthy Prez

    Senator Stealth becomes President Stealth. Stanley Kurtz wrote a very insightful article in National Review late last year "Senator Stealth: How to Advance Radical Causes When No One's Looking," regarding Barack Obama’s practice as a...

  • July 24, 2009

    Where Obama's identity politics pays off

    From Politico's Huddle Blog: CAUCUS CASH: The Congressional Black Caucus and Congressional Hispanic Caucus have received a ton of money from lobbyists, as Fredreka Schouten reports in USA Today: 'Lobbyists and businesses that employ them donated $5...

  • July 23, 2009

    Boxer's Boxing Bollixes Cap and Trade

    Senator Barbara Boxer -- fresh off incivility and insensitivity shown towards our military and towards African-American businessmen -- continues to cause self-inflicted damage by her abrasiveness. This time the victims are among her own kind: cap and...

  • July 21, 2009

    Taxpayers: Eat your hearts out, suckers

    A looming problem has received far too little coverage from a liberal-dominated media: the power of public pensions to destroy our nation's finances and ransack our wallets.For many years, government workers have enjoyed munificent benefits: relative...

  • July 18, 2009

    Clunker Law is a lemon

    Good luck figuring out how to navigate your way through the hoops the government has imposed on Americans who hope to benefit from the cash-for-clunkers act. Michelle Singletary explains in the Washington Post.  She also acknowledges, "in t...

  • July 18, 2009

    Government run health care more expensive than private sector care - Study

    Barack Obama claims - incredibly - that spending more on health care via his "public option" health care plan will lower costs. The Congressional Budget office found this assertion to be wrong (Obama makes up history, so why can't he just m...

  • July 17, 2009

    Palestinians displaced by Iraq War to be resettled in America

    Get ready to welcome Palestinians to America, and you can thank the Obama administration for your new neighbors. The Wall Street Journal reports:The U.S. agreed to resettle 1,350 Palestinians displaced by fighting in Iraq, marking the largest resettl...

  • July 15, 2009

    Obama breaks campaign promise (yawn) and throws the Constitution under the bus

    Barack Obama campaigned on the theme that he was the anti-Bush who would herald a new age (let's call it A.O.-the Age of Obama). Among the promises was that he would refrain from signing so called Presidential signing statements. The Wall Street Jour...

  • July 15, 2009

    To Obama: Self reflection starts at home

    Well..let's take a tally: Barack Obama looks down condescendingly on small town Americans (you know, the religious fanatics who grasp at guns and religion because they have so little else to believe in or rely upon), does not believe America is an ex...

  • July 13, 2009

    Fault lines forming on Obama foreign policy

    Jim Hoagland of the Washington Post: Even though they were not part of Obama's campaign team, they have adapted quickly to his rigorous style of managed communication, which is policed by an inner circle of Obama intimates: Rahm Emanuel, David Axelro...

  • July 12, 2009

    Cass Sunstein's despicable ideas on regulating the internet

    In the past, we have seen Barack Obama and his supporters attempt to chill any sort of scrutiny or criticism of him. Many of his records - whether they are transcripts from Occidental or Columbia - have not been released. He lost his senior thesis (o...

  • July 11, 2009

    The New York Times tells a whopper about Bush-era Iran sanctions

    Refreshingly, the New York Times calls for tougher sanctions by the world community should talks with Iran about its nuclear program fail to restrain it. However, the Times being the Times cannot restrain itself from getting a dig in at former Presid...

  • July 11, 2009

    Chicagoan Barack Obama lectures African leaders on bribery

    Is this just another instance of the grass being more bribable on the other side of the ocean?   While Senator  Roland Pay to Play Burris (D-IL) announced he isn't running for re-election (something about being unable to raise fund...

  • July 10, 2009

    Misleading word of the day: 'Surcharges'

    From Politico's The Huddle: Surtax on the rich? On the table. Taxes on existing medical benefits? Off the table. Senate negotiators had been eyeing a tax on some employer-provided health benefits but shifted course this week after the Senate majori...

  • July 9, 2009

    Truth in labeling doesn't apply to Congress

    Parks, street lights and farmer's markets are health care expenditures? In the alternate reality of Washington, DC, they are. Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe reports:Sweeping healthcare legislation working its way through Congress is more than an...

  • July 9, 2009

    Surprise! Guess where most of the stim money is going

    From an article by Brad Heath in USA Today: 'Counties that supported Obama last year have reaped twice as much money per person from the administration's $787 billion economic stimulus package as those that voted for his Republican rival, Sen. John M...

  • July 9, 2009

    House Foreign Affairs Committee has its priorities skewed

    Howard Berman, Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, tabled consideration of legislation backed by the vast majority of House members to give authority to the President to toughen sanctions against Iran in a bid to dissuade that nation fro...

  • July 8, 2009

    The power of the Progressive Caucus

    I have been reading Glenn Beck's "Common Sense," his new book that is a clarion call for a concerned citizenry to rise up against the moves by Congress that diminish our nation's strength and weaken our freedom. One important dynamic for ...

  • July 8, 2009

    Corporate wellness programs opposed by unions

    Health care costs are rising at an increasingly unaffordable pace. Democrats have capitalized on our nation's fears about being able to meet our health care bill by trumpeting universal health care, despite the fact that the concept has failed arou...

  • July 3, 2009

    Obama the Redeemer

    Is there a pattern emerging, given the Cap and Trade bill recently passed at Obama's urging? Indeed there is. His apology tour for past American "sins" (all occurring before his reign, he explains) was not enough for Obama to cleanse our ...

  • July 1, 2009

    UN forms kangaroo court to investigate Israel

    Susan Rice (who, as the US Ambassador to the UN was promoted to the Cabinet) and the administration pushed to join the Israel-bashing UN Human Rights Council. As Ben Smith wrote back in April:  Perhaps more than any other American official, Ric...

  • June 21, 2009

    One more liberal gets it

    James Kirchick writes for, and is the assistant editor of, the liberal The New Republic and also wirtes occasionally for Commentary Magazine. Today, in the New York Post he writes of the betrayal of Israel by Obama, and the shaping of public opinion ...

  • June 16, 2009

    The IG firing and FDR

    As news emerges that the firing of the Inspector General by the Obama administration was motivated by the desire to protect at least two major supporters of Barack Obama  who appeared to have engaged in unethical or/and  incompetent behavio...

  • June 16, 2009

    FutureGen back on the stim bill menu

    Politico's Eamon Javers: It became a sort of poster child for fiscal responsibility - a clean-coal power plant in Illinois that was one of then-Sen. Barack Obama's pet projects. Democrats insisted they were so serious about keeping pork out of the s...

  • June 14, 2009

    AP to distribute liberal propaganda from non-profits

    The media world faces problems that many of us face: shrinking resources and smaller pocketbooks. Now comes news that Associated Press will begin distributing to their media outlets (over 1500 newspapers) investigative work conducted by four nonprofi...

  • June 11, 2009

    Influential liberal sees the light on Obama

    Marty Peretz has been a leading liberal light for many years from his post at the influential New Republic. He was wholeheartedly in Barack Obama's corner during the campaign. I criticized him for his views and for spinning for the Obama campaign-par...

  • June 11, 2009

    New National Intelligence Council Chairman named

    The Chairman of the National Intelligence Council has been selected by Dennis Blair, Director of National Intelligence. He will be Christopher Kojm, a professor who teaches courses on US foreign policy at George Washington University.  ...

  • June 10, 2009

    Thomas Friedman and the 'Grasshopper Generation'

    It is fascinating for Tom Friedman, New York Times columnist, to disparage his own generation as "the grasshopper generation, eating through just about everything like hungry locusts." The preachy Mr. Friedman might want to start at home.No...

  • June 9, 2009

    It's all about the next campaign

    The Justice Department is used by Barack Obama and his allies for political gain, destroying the integrity of our democratic process. He taunts those who rile him with the prospect of an IRS audit while expanding the IRS employment ranks with more ex...

  • June 3, 2009

    Reid: ignorance is bliss

    Commentary's Jennifer Rubin notes an appalling statement from Harry Reid, which, she writes, "gives no-nothingism a bad name""I understand that during her career, she's [Sotomayor] written hundreds and hundreds of opinions. I haven't r...

  • June 3, 2009

    Magician-in-chief

    Barack Obama's political magic is based on an ever-growing bag of tricks, relying on illusion, misdirection, and the media's willingness to believe. Behind the stage presence of openness, bipartisanship, sincerity, transparency, and geniality are tri...

  • May 30, 2009

    State Department may designate Iranian militia a terrorist group

    How many conciliatory signals will be sent to the Iranians, and dismissed by them with disdain, before we get positive signals from them? Maybe if we can get the Iranians to stop the never ending flow of weapons to Hezbollah (trumpeted yesterday by H...

  • May 28, 2009

    Newsweek on why we should trust Iran

    Newsweek reinvented itself a couple of issues ago, to widespread derision. Cover of this week's Newsweek: Everything You Know About Iran is Wrong  The title almost says it all but some excerpts give it some additional flavor: The article is writ...

  • May 27, 2009

    The high stakes for Sotomayor's nomination

    The brilliant Richard Epstein, a former colleague of Barack Obama's on the University of Chicago Law School faculty, foresees some potential trouble ahead for the Sotomayor nomination. Writing in Forbes, he offers some cautionary words before looking...

  • May 24, 2009

    Father-Son tag team in Albany

    American Thinker has occasionally noted the enormous fiscal  holes the governors of some states - with the assist of  their state legislatures - have dug. New Jersey, California, Massachusetts and New York have been highlighted as examples ...

  • May 19, 2009

    Appointment of Mitchell aide means more trouble for Israel

    Mara Rudman will be appointed chief of staff to the team that is being assembled by Special Envoy George Mitchell to tackle one of Barack Obama's most ambitious goals, the creation of a Palestinian state, according to the Boston Globe:[H]er new post ...

  • May 18, 2009

    Rattner's $15 million 'share the pain' summer home

    I have written before about the competency gap that seems to afflict the auto team that President Obama has assembled to help his expropriation of the auto industry, and the virtual stealing of stakes held by pension fund managers and other fina...

  • May 17, 2009

    New NIC chief tapped?

    After the brouhaha over the selection of Charles "Chas" Freeman to head the National Intelligence Council settled down following his withdrawal from the process, the situation on the ground has been quiet. The usual speculation about who wo...

  • May 12, 2009

    Pelosi's pretzel logic

    Why couldn't she just come clean weeks ago-or years ago? Fleeing to Iraq may have gotten her out of a sticky situation in a clear spin stunt: now she -- through a "confidant" -- is forced to finally fess up the truth: she knew about the wat...

  • May 12, 2009

    The risk of giving money to Hamas

    The Obama administration has been promoting a Palestinian unity government between Fatah and Hamas. The administration has asked for 900 million dollars in additional aid for the Palestinians to help rebuild Gaza (ruled by Hamas). The administration ...

  • May 11, 2009

    A real 'bully pulpit'

    The Service Employee International Union (SEIU) was among the biggest donors to President Obama's campaign, contributing $33 million. The union is also consistently among the biggest donors to Democrats in Sacramento and aggressively fought  wag...

  • May 9, 2009

    Iraq backsliding thanks to Obama policies

    Barack Obama's pledged to the America and Iraqi people that he would leave Iraq more carefully and responsibly than we invaded it.Now, as he has taken the widely predicted drawdown of forces, look what has happened. The surge is being unwound as Cha...

  • May 8, 2009

    Of shoddy combat helmets and Democratic corruption

    This story may or may not become big news. But it certainly says a lot about the earmark culture on Capitol Hill.A contractor, beneficiary of an earmark that the lobbyist group with close ties to John Murtha got for them, produced combat helmets so s...

  • May 6, 2009

    Obama said to abrogate a secret agreement with Israel

    The Obama administration is departing from decades-old bipartisan American policy on Israel's nuclear arsenal. Democratic and Republican presidents have refused to pressure (or even suggest) that Israel sign the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, but ...

  • May 6, 2009

    At least we'll end up sleeping more under Obama

    As Barack Obama follows the European model of post-modern development, we face the prospect of stepping on the road to serfdom. What will the nanny state that absolves us from a sense of personal responsibility but, more importantly, strips us of the...

  • May 6, 2009

    Digging deep to bail out irresponsible state governments

    Massachusetts is the state to emulate for Barack Obama. Higher education and high tech are the mainstays of the economy. It's liberal, it's"clean," the charter schools are being shut down, and Governor-Deval Patrick is Obama's role model.Wh...

  • May 6, 2009

    Obama trying to stop union financial disclosure

    The Obama administration is seeking to change rules that protect workers from malfeasance by union officials by requiring strict financial disclosure.This was a concern I previously highlighted . As unions take over more of our industry and as that ...

  • May 6, 2009

    Rice: No delay in peace talks

    Susan Rice in an interview with Dar Al-Hayat  on the possible delaying of peace talks with the Palestinians until Iran is "dealt with:"Ambassador Rice:  The foreign minister, who obviously plays a very important role in the formul...

  • May 5, 2009

    Israel suffers another blow from the Obama administration

    The Obama administration has announced reversal of an important policy toward Israel, one that weakens that nation's ability to survive in its hostile neighborhood.The key to Israel's strategy to avoid another Holocaust has been a policy of ambiguity...

  • May 5, 2009

    France takes first place in avg. hours of sleep

    Why bother to wake up when there are few jobs and when a wage earner is taxed so heavily to support a welfare state? Look at France, where people with no need to rouse themselves sleep longer than any other group of people in the industrialized world...

  • May 5, 2009

    White House asserts control over foreign policy

    The focus of power involving foreign policy is in the National Security Council, not the State Department. The model Obama is following is that of Nixon White house where the hapless Secretary of State William Rogers twisted in the wind for years as ...

  • May 5, 2009

    Riding high - for now

    While the GOP is on the ropes , there are glimmers of hope on the horizon. Even though Barack Obama remains popular (though not noticeably more than any other recent Presidents at this time in their administrations), his policies are increasingly unp...

  • May 5, 2009

    Is the New York Times running the Hamas PR shop? (updated)

    Khaled Meshaal, the leader of the terror group Hamas, said on Monday that rocket fire into Israel will stop for now and reached out to the Obama administration and to leaders of the West, saying it was seeking a state only in the areas "won...

  • May 5, 2009

    Good news: Another trillion dollar entitlement on the way

    Has college now become an entitlement? If Barack Obama gets his way, it very well may turn out to be the next taxpayer funded handout.Writing in the Washington Post, Shailagh Murray details the way Obama wants to "transform" funding for co...

  • May 5, 2009

    Obama's Car Team Looks like an Edsel

    America has a former New York Times journalist, Steven Rattner, as our auto czar, a man with zero auto industry expertise. And it shows.To be completely fair to Rattner, he did leave journalism for investment banking, and went on to run a private inv...

  • May 4, 2009

    Obama's Enron borrowing strategy

    Enron used off balance sheet vehicles to purchase Enron securities in order to increase their values. Now it seems as if the Federal Reserve is doing the same sort of dance. Obama funds his trillion dollar-plus budget by issuing a stream of Treasurie...

  • May 3, 2009

    Pinch Sulzberger grovels before his Patron

    The New York Times must be getting increasingly desperate. The publisher of the Times, Arthur Sulzberger, writes a paean in Time Magazine to Carlos Slim, the billionaire Mexican monopolist who threw the flailing Times a lifeline via a 250 million dol...

  • May 2, 2009

    Will the 'real' Bob Herbert, please stand up?

    So the man who pontificates about the idiocy of the Republicans cannot even identify what office Jim DeMint (who is one of the leaders of the party) holds? I wonder if the automatic Bob Herbert would make the same mistake? The Automatic bob Herbert...

  • April 30, 2009

    Obama's fast rail proposal a transit boondoggle

    President Obama has proposed billions for a speedy train project that might run right through  his home state of Illinois - home also of the powerful Democratic Senator Dick Durbin and that of Transportation Secretary Ray Lahood. This is bein...

  • April 29, 2009

    Unusually silly NYT editorial hails Obama's 100 days

    You would expect the editorial board to gush, but a commemorative demonstration of ignorance caps their celebration of the momentous event with just the right note of foolish conceit.Mr. Obama's commitment to Israeli-Palestinian peace is already bein...

  • April 28, 2009

    Absurd reasoning by the administration on Hamas-Fatah unity government

    Trying to follow their logic is impossible. Barak Ravid and Avi Issacharoff writing in Haaretz make a valiant effort:Israeli officials expressed surprise yesterday at reports that Washington would continue providing aid to the Palestinian Authority ...

  • April 28, 2009

    Lee Hamilton: Eminence Grise of Obama's Middle East Policy

    Every administration has its version of fixers, kitchen Cabinets, fellow travelers, and advisers who may never have to endure Senate confirmation hearings or show up on the government's payroll, yet can wield wide influence on an administration....

  • April 27, 2009

    Transparency in union finances a thing of the past

    Union efforts on card check may have come a cropper, wasting all their million spent to try to make it the law of the land, but Team Obama seems intent on giving them a consolation prize. Ignoring their own rhetoric about the value of transparency an...

  • April 25, 2009

    The Big Lie

    The following would be the subject of gales of laughter and searing derision, if the media were not intoxicated with Obama. Julianna Goldman writes for Bloomberg:President Barack Obama said he is committed to imposing fiscal discipline on the governm...

  • April 24, 2009

    Another Obama broken promise

    Samantha lied; people died.  Samantha Power, who was Obama's number one foreign policy expert during the campaign and who now serves on the National Security Council, was seeking the support of the Armenian community during the campaign, and mad...

  • April 24, 2009

    Obama's Diplomatic Formula: easy math

    The outreached hand (and not the clenched fist) Praise for Muslims Bow to Saudi Ambassador Overweening outreach Towards The Islamic Republic of Iran Cut in Defense Programs Blasé attitude towards Russian Encroachment in Georgia Pledge fo...

  • April 23, 2009

    The New York Times pushing Soros man to head human rights office

    In an editorial today, the New York Times is touting Tom Malinowski, Washington advocacy director for the George Soros funded Human Rights Watch, to become the administration's global human rights chief.  And they are advising Pre...

  • April 22, 2009

    The White House: Who's in Charge?

    Do any of these people communicate with each other?Does Obama have a firm hand on the tiller?Can he command and control?Does he have any idea of what is going on in his administration?Is he spending too much time watching sports and Spongebob Squarep...

  • April 21, 2009

    Soros-funded group seeks investigation

    According to Marketwatch, a Soros-funded group asks OCE and DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility to investigate Rep. Harman immediately,over a putative AIPAC discussion. George Soros' Open Society Institute contributed $100,000 to CREW in...

  • April 20, 2009

    Spin is Obama's only foreign policy success

    President Obama has trumpeted his apology and abasement tour of Europe and now Latin America as having led to progress. Spin, not action is all he has to show for himself.Obama has been unable to transform personal popularity for himself among benigh...

  • April 19, 2009

    Obama's Palestinian Pal rants on

    You want paranoia, conspiracy theories, falsehoods, and attacks on AIPAC and the "Israel Lobby?" You got them - courtesy of Obama's pal professor, Rashid Khalidi - he man he credited with consistently reminding him of "my own blind spo...

  • April 19, 2009

    Obama silent as Oretga trashes America

    Nicaraguan President (and anti-American Marxist thug) Daniel Ortega gave off quite a stemwinder at the opening ceremonies at the Summit of the Americas yesterday, lashing out at a century of what he called terroristic US aggression in Central America...

  • April 15, 2009

    Barney and Maxine's Bank: made few local loans and splurged on the perks

    Barney Frank (D-Mass.)and Maxine Waters (D-California) went to great lengths arranging a federal bailout for OneUnited, a small minority-owned bank in the Boston area. Waters had close ties to the bank: she and her husband both had held financial sta...

  • April 15, 2009

    Boss Obama

    In his still young presidency, Barack Obama already has revealed himself as a reveler in the exercise of a certain type of power. Not on the international stage, where his apology tour of Europe was just the latest example of the abasement of America...

  • April 14, 2009

    Obama's engagement with North Korea fails

    North Korean talks may collapse under Barack Obama according to the Washington Post. Here is today's WaPo coverage of North Korea's move to walk away from all disarmament talks, restart its plutonium plant, and abrogate previous agreements:If it foll...

  • April 13, 2009

    Roger Cohen's latest delusion (updated)

    Roger Cohen's serial work on behalf of an Iranian regime widely considered the number one sponsor of terror in the world (so designated by President Clinton, before the "axis of evil days") is becoming tiresome.Today, he serves as a mouthpi...

  • April 12, 2009

    How teachers game the system to reap rewards for their activism

    Education Next, a periodical published by the well-regarded Hoover Institute, has an article in its spring issue regarding the gold plated benefit packages enjoyed by the nation's teachers.The teachers unions (there are two major ones) are prime b...

  • April 11, 2009

    Kristof's strange silence on Darfur (Updated)

    Nicholas Kristof has made a career out of the suffering in Darfur. He won a Pulitzer Prize for his constant coverage of the tragedy that has unfolded to the people of Darfur: the attacks, the man-made starvation, the Holocaust that are all being perp...

  • April 11, 2009

    Obama's slap in the face to Jews while hosting a Seder

    The White House signed a waiver allowing the Palestinian Liberation Organization to maintain its office in Washington just hours before celebrating Passover with Jewish Americans.The waiver itself is a ritual engaged in by the past two Presidents on ...

  • April 8, 2009

    Obama admin warns Israel, not Iran

    American Thinker has carried numerous articles over the past two years predicting that Barack Obama would prove to be an appeaser of tyrants. He has fulfilled our predictions. His obsequiesness towards the tyrannical regime of Iran; his bowing to the...

  • April 8, 2009

    Obama's TV viewing habits

    Politico has a story on Barack Obama's  TV diet. He seems to devote an amazing number of his waking hours to watching the boob tube:President Barack Obama can't stand to be without his "Entourage." Call it a guilty pleasure, or maybe i...

  • April 8, 2009

    How Obama and Geithner's Hedge Fund donors and pals will benefit from the toxic asset plans devised and approved by them

    Barack Obama was a huge beneficiary of donations coming from operators of hedge funds (eclipsing Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd’s record as the number one beneficiary of donations from those funds-many hedge funds are headquartered i...

  • April 5, 2009

    Two reports, same story, different conclusions on Israel's rights record

    `The Obama Administration is considering joining the anti-Israel, anti-Semitic UN Human Rights Council.Interesting difference between the article from the New York Times and the one from the Washington Post.The New York Times article on the Administ...

  • April 5, 2009

    America still considering attending Durban II - Susan Rice

    There was anguish among many Americans when the Obama administration agreed to participate in the planning sessions for Durban II -- a UN conference against racism which would be a "sequel" to the first such Durban conference in 2001 that b...

  • March 19, 2009

    House panel to hear charges against ACORN today

    The folks who registered fraudulent voters and stand ready to staff the census will be accused of "mob tactics" in sworn testimony before Congress today. S.A Miller writes in the Washington Times:A lawyer for a whistleblower on the activist...

  • March 18, 2009

    Phony outrage to cover their responsibility

    ABC News is reporting that negotiators for the House, Senate and the White House stripped out a measure that could have restricted the AIG bonuses. Now that they are a source of public outrage, members of the both parties -- and the White House -- ex...

  • March 18, 2009

    Obama doesn't want to waste anger either

    When asked how he would quell people's anger over the AIG bonuses, he dismissed the question:Obama: "I don't want to quell anger, I want to channel it" to do constructive things.This was at an impromptu news conference before his trip to Ho...

  • March 18, 2009

    The dumbest-ever team of the 'best and brightest' (updated)

    We seem to have the stupidest team of "the best and the brightest" ever assembled in any administration. We have a blatantly illegal breaking of the NAFTA agreement as a sop to the Teamsters Union (Obama has stopped Mexican truckers from tr...

  • March 18, 2009

    Obama to strong-arm budget

    Where is that honesty and transparency we were promised during the campaign? The bipartisanship? The new politics? That's apparently so yesterday. The Obama administration is planning to give some Chicago spin to politics on Capitol Hill by pushing t...

  • March 17, 2009

    Geithner's unsung role in the Bear Stearns collapse

    Tom Geithner, our flailing Treasury Secretary, has been cited as having helped cause the collapse of Lehman Brothers. This failure helped to precipitate the financial turmoil which has rippled from Wall Street to Main Street. What has been ignore...

  • March 16, 2009

    Cohen doubles down

    New York Times columnist Roger Cohen returns to the subject of Iran in his latest column. It's his latest in a series of efforts to defend his rosy vision of Iran (and its treatment of Jews, in particular) which was widely criticized across the...

  • March 15, 2009

    More problematic pastors for Obama

    The New York Times published an article  on the pastors to whom Barack Obama has reached out. Having thrown his longtime pastor Jeremiah Wright, Junior under the bus during the campaign, when his radical views became a political problem, he is i...

  • March 14, 2009

    Unions gooning it up for card check

    Union groups hope to use their influence with the Administration and Congress to control the debate over card check.Anyone have a problem with groups that helped Barack Obama win the Presidency asking the IRS to investigate card check opponents? ...

  • March 14, 2009

    Reason #1287 why you're a chump if you pay your mortgage responsibily

    We were promised when the Democrats took over the White House and the Congress that a new era of transparency, honesty, openness was upon America. Not true.   The Democrats  are seemingly intent on destroying the financial system of A...

  • March 13, 2009

    State Department to offer Palestinian Scholarships

    Well this step should turbocharge Israel Apartheid weeks on college campuses across America: IT sounds like parody, but it's not: Secretary of State Hill ary Clinton last week an nounced a four-year program of US scholarships and "opportunity gr...

  • March 13, 2009

    Why did Blair choose Freeman to head up the NIC?

    Washington Post writer Thomas Ricks, one smart man, has an idea:The U.S. military long has been less enamored of Israel than has the U.S. Congress. Navy intelligence types in particular have been wary of Israel since the Israeli attack on the USS...

  • March 12, 2009

    UN Chief to America: US is a deadbeat donor

    The UN disbands its anti-fraud unit, gives billions to UNWRA, aids the oil-for-food scandal, has its peacekeeper troops rape and abuse those in its charge (whom they are supposed to protect), waste money on such actions as the Durban conference again...

  • March 12, 2009

    GOP to America: The Democrats Spend, Tax, and Borrow Too Much

    Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers and Congressman Mike Pence hosted a conference call with a group of bloggers Wednesday afternoon. The message: Republicans believe that the Democrats are Spending Too Much, Taxing Too Much and Borrowing Too Much. ...

  • March 11, 2009

    More SEIU scandals for union leadership to ignore

    The Los Angeles Times deserves praise for its coverage of a hornet's nest of scandals that keep emerging involving one of the nation's most powerful unions, the Service Employees International Union. Today's paper discloses yet another scandal (...

  • March 11, 2009

    Chas Freeman's parting blast (updated)

    Charles Freeman withdrew his nomination to be the Chairman of the National Intelligence Council yesterday in the wake of controversy over his views, statements, monetary ties to the foreign dictatorships of Saudi Arabia and China, lack of respect for...

  • March 11, 2009

    DNI Dennis Blair 'Manipulated Intelligence' Before Congress

    In his letter defending his nomination of Charles Freeman to the post of Chairman of the National Intelligence Council (Freeman has withdrawn his nomination), Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair stated that the quotes attributed to Freeman...

  • March 10, 2009

    Chas Freeman and Tibet

    Have they all peeled the "Free Tibet" bumper stickers off their Volvos? Why aren't more human rights groups expressing concerns about Freeman? The NYT? Silent. Human Rights Watch (Soros)? Silent. International Crisis Group (George Soros)? N...

  • March 7, 2009

    The stupidity and pettiness of Christopher Dodd

    Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd, beneficiary of nepotism (his father was a beloved Senator from Connecticut), sweetheart mortgage deals, and the number one beneficiary of Wall Street donations –at least until Barack Obama came along-turns ...

  • March 6, 2009

    Obama grass roots onslaught

    I previously noted the likelihood that the next step of the permanent campaign to radically change America would be for Barack Obama to send out his troops to pressure Congressmen to support his policies . He telegraphed this action at a White house...

  • March 6, 2009

    Freeman's chances are tanking

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  • March 5, 2009

    Independent AG will look into Freeman's finances

    Herb Meyer, former Vice Chairman of the NIC, writes occasionally for American Thinker. He indicated to me in an email 10 days ago or so that he would probably add his voice to the chorus of criticism if he felt the threat of Freeman was serious....

  • March 3, 2009

    Obama and his Jewish supporters

    The Jewish electorate supported Barack Obama by a wide margin, greater than the population as a whole - giving him 78% of their vote, as opposed to 53% from the general population. Partly this was due to the leading role Jews have played in helping t...

  • March 3, 2009

    Obama's internal contradictions

    How can you reconcile Obama's Panic Attack over the stimulus bill with the glowing economic assumptions in his budget bill? I believe Marxists call this sort of thing an "internal contradiction." Rich Lowry points out the conundrum in today...

  • March 2, 2009

    Defining Islamic extremism down

    Fareed Zakaria, whose latest book Barack Obama was pictured reading, defines deviancy down: Islamic extremists are fine, as long as they aren't violent.It's worth distinguishing between Islamists who are violent and those who are merely extreme.Of co...

  • February 28, 2009

    More second thoughts by pro-Israel Obama supporters

    The WaPo publishes an op-ed on Chas Freeman by the Bush-loathing, Obama- loving Jon Chait. Chait penned a column and cover article "Why I hate George Bush", but has some new problems now. At least Marty Peretz and now Jonathan Chait -- both...

  • February 24, 2009

    Will Samantha Power have a role in giving aid to Hamas?

    As I wrote about on American Thinker yesterday, the Obama administration will send 900 million dollars in aid money to Gaza, ostensibly to rebuild the area after the battle between Israel and Hamas two months ago .  The money will be funneled t...

  • February 23, 2009

    US plans to pledge 900 million dollars to Gaza

    Just as the Gazans, according to their own polls, are turning against Hamas because of the damage they brought upon Gaza, America sends almost a billion dollars that will help empower a regime that is dedicated to terror.Won't go to Hamas-please! Tha...

  • February 23, 2009

    New York Times columnist Roger Cohen a useful idiot for Iran

    In the 1930’s, the New York Times columnist Walter Duranty raved about  how wonderful Stalin’s Soviet Union was. New York Times columnist Herbert Matthews glorified Fidel Castro in the 1950s and his columns helped lead to a Castro vi...

  • February 22, 2009

    Anna Bayefsky says Obama is Sacrificing Israel

    Anne Bayefksy is one of the most astute and indefatigable observers of the United Nations. When she is not busy being a Hudson institute Fellow, College Professor, lawyer, human rights scholar, and activist she runs the www.EyeontheUN.Org website.She...

  • February 21, 2009

    Meet the Anti-Israeli future head of our NIC

    At a conference “The Role of Hamas” sponsored by the Council of National Interest, Chas Freeman managed to burnish the reputation of Hamas. He said Hamas was under siege in Palestine; had in many instances shown principled and disciplined...

  • February 21, 2009

    Loose lips sink markets

    What is it about Democrat Senators and their public statements that so often result in market disruption? Just yesterday we saw the results of Senate Banking Committee Chairman Chris Dodd's statement  that nationalization of some banks...

  • February 20, 2009

    New head coming to the IAEA

    ElBaradei's term is up in November. Two men are vying to replace him. Who would you rather have?Yukiya Amano, a classic elite track career diplomat in Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, widely expected to de-politicize the agency; orAbdul Sama...

  • February 20, 2009

    Dems letting taxpayers finance Obama rally

    The Chicago Sun-Times reports that the City of Chicago is getting stiffed when it comes to $1.74 million dollars in expenses for the Obama Election Day rally in Grant Park. The Obama campaign has plenty of leftover cash, but the DNC apparently i...

  • February 20, 2009

    Obama to get taxpayers to help hedge funds

    The credit system has broken down. Banks have cooled on lending (maybe because they are not sure if the Obama administration will force a cram down in the future that would result in their loans being worth much less than they thought?). But the syst...

  • February 20, 2009

    Is there a sanctions shift coming toward Iran?

    Barack Obama has extended an open hand to Iran.  The hand was swatted away. Plan B? The candidate who at one time promised no preconditions to negotiating with Iran may very well be on the verge of applying  a precondition on America that I...

  • February 19, 2009

    Congressional ban on members visiting Gaza under the bus

    Since Hamas took over control of Gaza and started launching missiles into Israel, there has been an unofficial halt to Congressional visits to Gaza. Hamas, lest we forget, has in their Charter the pledge to kill Jews wherever they may live. Neverthel...

  • February 18, 2009

    Is a Venezuelan diplomat promoting antisemitism?

    It appears that a website fanning the flames of antisemitism is registered to a Venezuelan diplomat posted to the United States. Venezuela's beleaguered Jewish community is currently suffering grave persecution under Hugo Chavez, the left wing demago...

  • February 18, 2009

    Allies of Palestinians have a powerful friend in Obama

    In April ,2008 the LA Times carried an article “Allies of Palestinians see a friend in Barack Obama."The article noted Barack Obama’s long friendship with Rashid Khalidi and quoted Barack Obama’s tribute to Khalidi at a going a...

  • February 18, 2009

    Transparency you can believe in?

    Changes in our policies deep-sixed to avoid public scrutiny? Government by stealth-here we come. Politico reports: In his first weeks in office, President Barack Obama shut down his predecessor’s system for reviewing regulations, realigned...

  • February 18, 2009

    The Axis Pushing the US into Durban II (updated)

    According to the Haaretz newspaper, human rights groups urged the Obama administration to engage in the Durban II conference on racism. One group is highlighted as issuing a statement welcoming US participation in the conference:Human Rights First, t...

  • February 17, 2009

    The widening gap between Obama campaign rhetoric and behavior

    Barack Obama certainly talks a good game, but when he gets in office, the results don‘t substantiate the promises.  O-bot true believers may ignore his infidelity to the image he created, but serious people will not. Jeanne Cummings of Pol...

  • February 15, 2009

    Obama Administration may participate in Durban II

    Well, file this info in the "this was predictable" column. Israeli officials are receiving reports from their emissaries that a movement is afoot within the Obama Administration that will lead to American participation in the UN’s Wor...

  • February 14, 2009

    Time Magazine's list of 25 culprits in the financial meltdown

    Time Magazine has come up with a lis t of players who they believe are responsible for the economic mess we're in.I don’t necessarily agree with this list. I would add a few Democratic politicians-such as Christopher Dodd (who protected the fin...

  • February 14, 2009

    Hey! Let's give a friend of Reverend Wright a job in the White House.

    Reverend Jeremiah Wright may be gone but he won't be forgotten. That's because President Obama has named Otis Moss, Jr. - father of the current pastor of Trinity United Church - to sit on the brand new Advisory Council for the Office of Faith-Based a...

  • February 13, 2009

    Californians fleeing failed welfare state

    California has pioneered the bloated welfare state, making itself subservient to special interest groups and labor unions. The Golden State has been in the vanguard of imposing draconian environmental laws, harming the economy, and as a result is now...

  • February 12, 2009

    Pelosi's Pet Pork Projects

    She promised no pork. Of course, that claim has been widely shown to be false. There was, for example, a green project that will benefit Congressman David Obey's son (Obey sits on the Apprropriations Committee). There are virtual earmarks h...

  • February 12, 2009

    Obama the legal scholar screws up

    When addressing families of terror victims regarding his decision to suspend military tribunals of suspected terrorists, President Obama "clearly didn't do his homework" according to the Washington Times. His own legal counsel Greg Craig ad...

  • February 11, 2009

    Obama's demonology

    I am sure Barack Obama is not anti-Semitic. But the words he is using to describe the need for the bailout legislation -- "greed," "Wall Street" -- come loaded with historical freight. Such words can be easily, if subconsciously, ...

  • February 11, 2009

    Obama seeks seat on UN Human Rights Council

    The internationalization of American foreign policy continues as the Obama administration continues its embrace of the United Nations. The Washington Times reports that the administration is exploring the possibility of becoming a member of the Orwe...

  • February 10, 2009

    Stealth changes to welfare rules

    Gee...think anyone in the MSM media is covering the greatest change in welfare in many years? Not just a change in welfare but a revolution in welfare that will make government benefits an open-ended commitment with no responsibility on the part ...

  • February 9, 2009

    The Bureaucratic Coup Targeting Hillary and Israel

    Barack Obama is centralizing power in the White House, marginalizing Hillary Clinton and the State Department, while offering ever-clearer signs that Israel’s status as a close American ally is imperiled. Beneath what appears to be obscure bure...

  • February 8, 2009

    Selective fact checking from the New York Times

    Where is the fact-checking at the New York Times when it comes to obloquy directed at Israel?From an Egyptian writer who accused Israel of committing a massacre and  who calls it a right of a people in an occupied territory to resist military oc...

  • February 7, 2009

    The outrage you never heard about

    If this disaster had been caused by a private company, Congressmen, the media would be all over it. But a government-owned agency gets off with litle notice. I never even heard about this mess. Where was 60 Minutes? ...

  • February 6, 2009

    Sweden to go nuclear. Why can't we?

    Do not hold your breath; Harry Reid has used his powers as Senate Majority Leader to derail the storage of nuclear waste at Yucca (allowing it to pile up at individual nuclear power plants, tempting terrorists). This is just one step Democrats hav...

  • February 6, 2009

    New York Times ridiculous editorial on the stimulus

    The Times publishes a full-throated screed against Republicans who oppose the stimulus bill in its present form.We’re happy to see President Obama getting tough with Congressional Republicans who are trying to sabotage the stimulus and recover...

  • February 5, 2009

    Tales of Stimulus pork

    The Wall Street Journal highlights another outrageous piece of pork in the Stimulus bill"Such as the amendment to Section 2(3)(F) of the Longshore and Harbor Workers' Compensation Act, which will permit payments to guys employed to repair "...

  • February 5, 2009

    How the EU is helping Iran build nukes

    The Wall Street Journal (Europe) publishes an article today outlining the ways that European businesses (and compliant regulators and governments) are enabling Iran to build the bomb.  . While diplomats here might offer reassurances, the reality...

  • February 3, 2009

    The looming problem of Public Sector Pensions

    Forbes magazine has a very insightful article on the absurd riches enjoyed by public sector workers- the ranks of which will clearly explode under President Obama and a Democratic Congress. The article’s focus in on very generous “gilt-e...

  • February 3, 2009

    Inmates in charge of the asylum in DC

    The reviews are in and Barack Obama seems to have laid a big fat egg -- on Wall Street anyway. In all fairness, the President cannot be held responsible for all the turmoil afflicting the stock market and the American economy. The crisis did precede ...

  • February 2, 2009

    Why nationalizing the banks is a crummy idea

    As pundits and some Democrats advocate the nationalization of banks we have a real world example of how proficient the government is when it loans money.The Small Business Administration is a government program geared towards helping the growth of sm...

  • February 2, 2009

    Ambassador Rice signals shift in US policy toward ICC

    The International Criminal Court is one of the earnest creations of the left that seeks to bring to justice those who commit atrocities and war crimes.The problem, as with all such ventures motivated by do-goodism rather than hard eyed reality, is th...

  • February 1, 2009

    Watergate revisionism and the NYT's blind eye

    The New York Times publishes an article today about a fight brewing between scholars of Watergate. Apparently, the man responsible for developing the transcripts of the Watergate tapes transcribed them in such a way to paint a benign portrait of John...

  • January 31, 2009

    The Threat Closer to Home

    The Threat Closer to Home: Hugo Chavez and the War Against America by Douglas Schoen and Michael Rowan (New York: Simon and Schuster)Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is often dismissed as a showboater and a buffoon to Americans who might remember his...

  • January 31, 2009

    UN IAEA's ElBaradei defends Iran

    Mohammed ElBaredei, who has headed the International Atomic Energy Agency for years, has long been accused of defending Iran and shielding its nuclear program. In an earlier article for American Thinker I characterized him as its enabler, which, alon...

  • January 31, 2009

    The neverending Carter foreign policy follies

    Jimmy Carter continues his foreign policy follies. Now he claims to have brokered an agreement between Hamas and Fatah to form a "unity " government -- but there are conditions. From the Boston Globe:WASHINGTON - Jimmy Carter is still tryin...

  • January 31, 2009

    Greed is good, when Dems receive Wall Street money

    President Obama and Senator Dodd had no problem with Wall Street greed when it showered upon them.  Barack Obama and  Senator Christopher Dodd  were the two biggest beneficiaries of those greedy and arrogant Wall Street malefactors of ...

  • January 31, 2009

    The secret Obama revenue plan? (updated)

    Another Obama cabinet pick was a tax cheat, and has paid up back taxes and penalties he owed, exceeding $128,000. Apparently, this is how Obama plans to pay for his outrageous budget-busting "stimulus" plans. Appoint tax delinquents to his ...

  • January 30, 2009

    Abolish sales taxes now

    Amazon reported outstanding results today-the best holiday season in the company's (albeit) brief history. This flies in face of dire reports from every retailer in America. The impact on retailing has had ripple effects: chains are laying off thousa...

  • January 29, 2009

    Look who's going to be looking over Hillary's shoulder

    Hillary Clinton is about to gain a traveling companion, thanks to her boss, the President. Harvard professor Samantha Power, who called Hillary Clinton a "monster", looks as if she will occupy a key White House foreign policy position that ...

  • January 29, 2009

    AG Designate Holder is a Soros Man

    We at the American Thinker have long had an interest in the machinations of George Soros and his like-minded allies and acolytes who are helping to fund a wide variety of people and groups to accomplish their goal of tilting the future course of A...

  • January 29, 2009

    Where is the hope?

    Bloomberg's headline tells the story: " U.S. Companies Cut at Least 543,995 Jobs Since Obama's Election." There's a daunting list of major companies with layoffs in the thousands each. Add in the small businesses which will have to cut, and...

  • January 28, 2009

    Jimmy Carter's delusions

    Jimmy Carter now has the gall to claim on The Daily Show that he, not Richard Nixon, opened up China. Is there any diplomatic accomplishment he will not claim credit for? The fact is that he has been a hindrance, not a help to American diplomacy. He ...

  • January 28, 2009

    Should we stop funding Egypt until they close the tunnels?

    Jonathan Schanzer's, an occasional contributor to American Thinker, has a well-worth reading  op-ed in today’s Investors Business Daily that advocates reconsidering the billions in aid America gives Egypt if that nation does not close ...

  • January 27, 2009

    The continuing hypocrisy of Susan Rice

    Today’s Washington Post has an article about Susan Rice, America’s new Ambassador to the United Nations, and her recent statements outlining American policy towards that less than august institution. She promises a more amenable appro...

  • January 25, 2009

    Obama centralizing foreign policy in White House

    There has been much conjecture regarding the future course of foreign policy during the Obama era. Supporters of a more muscular approach towards the threats emanating from the Middle East were reassured by the pick of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of...

  • January 25, 2009

    Pelosi engaged in class warfare on stimulus bill

    Speaker Nancy  Pelosi continues her class-based populism-this time using faulty data wrongly attributed by her to be from the Congressional Budget Office. Why let truth and honesty get in the way of a good “anti-rich” canard. She is ...

  • January 24, 2009

    The 'charming' prince sends a brutal message to Obama

    Maureen Dowd in the New York Times: Prince Turki al-Faisal, the charming new envoy from the royal family.She went on to describe him in his Arab robe as cutting a dashing figure, a la Lawrence of Arabia.Prince Turki al-Faisal in this week’s Fin...

  • January 23, 2009

    Now they tell us...

    Weren't we assured during the campaign of Barack Obama's "unwavering support for Israel" -- a phrase that was used repeatedly by him and his campaign? Newsweek writes: Obama himself, in his remarks, signaled strongly that his approach ...

  • January 22, 2009

    Time to put Obama's promises on Anti-Semitism in action

    Claudia Rosett asks an important question: Will Barack Obama-who has put a dent in racism-work on the problem of anti-Semitism, one of the few growth areas in the world? Rosett draws particular attention to Europe, the Middle East, and the Unite...

  • January 20, 2009

    Obama to name George Mitchell Middle East Envoy - WaPo

    The Washington Post is reporting this morning that President Obama will name former Secretary of State George Mitchell as envoy to the Middle East:As one of his first actions, Obama plans to name former senator George J. Mitchell (D-Maine) as his Mid...

  • January 19, 2009

    Hugo Chavez suffering from Obama derangement syndrome?

    For years, George Bush was proclaimed by media pundits and Democrats as the source of our unpopularity around the world. Barack Obama would be a fresh start and his elections promised to restore America’s image-and influence, if not power-aroun...

  • January 17, 2009

    Military rates higher with Americans than Congress, Media

    Many in the media and many politicians in the Democratic party have made their abhorrence and disdain towards the military apparent over the years-particularly the last four years. We have seen the New York Times depict military volunteers as being c...

  • January 17, 2009

    Obama's ignorance of the law

    Jennifer Rubin writes at Commentary Contentions about President-elect Barack Obama flub on labor laws: The Washington Post’s editorial staff’s report on its visit with the President-elect includes the following paragraph:On the Employee F...

  • January 16, 2009

    Obama's secret dinner with foreign policy wonks

    Barack Obama had a “secret dinner” with a small group of foreign policy experts last week in Washington, D.C., according to Laura Rozen of the revamped Foreign Policy.com web site. Apparently, the group was assembled by former Indiana...

  • January 15, 2009

    Hamas interior minister, security chief said killed

    Justice delayed but not denied. For those columnists and commentators who have been calling for a truce and said that violence solves nothing: Well it has. These are the leaders of a terror group that have inflicted harm not just on Israelis (and Ame...

  • January 15, 2009

    Iran snags UN plum

    Late last year, Claudia Rosett wrote an article detailing the way Iran has come to occupy key positions of power and influence within various agencies of the United Nations. She follows up with an update: Iran will chair the UN’s “flagsh...

  • January 15, 2009

    UN School hit by Israelis has a history of hiring terrorists

    The journalist Joel Mowbray continues to do yeoman’s work in on covering and reporting on news that often escape the “attention” of , let’s say, the New York Times. Yesterday on Fox News he covered “the rest of the stor...

  • January 13, 2009

    Obama's Treasury pick failed to pay taxes (updated)

    Timothy Geithner, nominated as Secretary of the Treasury, failed to pay taxes. So he rushed to pay them when the transition team found out about them; and the Obama camp tried to keep the failure to pay a secret? How about that transparency we heard ...

  • January 13, 2009

    Hillary's Power Play

    The Sec State-desgnate seeks to enhance the power of the State Dept. at the expense of the DoD. Her philosophy? It takes a world. From the WSJ:At a time of huge crises around the world, Sen. Clinton wants to take back some of the turf now held by the...

  • January 13, 2009

    Another New York Times Middle East 'expert' with anti-Israeli views

    First we have this expert, Michael Scheuer, who the New York  Times often uses for his expertise on Middle East issues:Israel is not only an unnecessary and self-made liability for the United States, it is an untreated and spreading cancer on...

  • January 12, 2009

    Netanyahu conference call

    The group One Jerusalem  hosted a conference call with former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this morning regarding the situation Israel faces not just in the Gaza Strip but in the wider Arab world. Briefly, he sees Israel as the fron...

  • January 9, 2009

    Why Soros wants Norm Coleman out of the Senate

    George Soros is the biggest sugar daddy of the Democratic Party, and naturally wants to ensure that the Democrats have a monopoly of power in America. Recently, I wrote an article for American Thinker on the role that George Soros has played in ...

  • January 8, 2009

    Obama gutting security

    A President is charged with the responsibility of protecting our nation from foreign threats. This duty is particularly vital during the age of anxiety and terror we are enduring now; this duty will become even more important when (and it is no longe...

  • January 8, 2009

    NYT's expert on terror calls Israel a 'cancer'

    The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg reports this:06 Jan 2009 02:21 pmAccording to a very interesting story by National Journal writer Sydney J. Freedberg, Jr., Michael Scheuer, the man the CIA counted on to catch Osama Bin-Laden, had this to say about Is...

  • January 7, 2009

    SEIU chief met with Blago

    It bugs me that this doesn't get the attention it deserves. Kirs Maehr writes in the WSJ:Andy Stern, head of the nation's fastest-growing labor union, met with Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich last fall around the time that federal prosecutors allege th...

  • January 7, 2009

    Indian company gives boost to our Iranian policy

    American Thinker has taken note of a rising young Republican Congressman from Illinois, Mark Kirk, in the recent past  (full disclosure- I am a supporter and reside in his Congressional district). Mark Kirk has been a leader in many areas, but ...

  • January 6, 2009

    Panetta's clashes with Intel community

    I guess CIA spending won’t be part of the stimulus package.  Leon Panetta: Just the Man for the Job! From the CIA's own on-line institutional history: [Former CIA Director James] Woolsey was determined to work closely with the new leade...

  • January 6, 2009

    No surprise: New York Times yeilds to Hamas point of view

    The New York Times coverage of the conflict between Israel and its adversaries has been execrable (as it has been for many other areas-politics among them). The paper routinely ignored the thousands of missiles flying into Israel ever since Israel le...

  • January 4, 2009

    The Democrats and Israel

    The ideology of political parties changes over time. Democrats in the South were obdurate in the wake of civil rights reform; that history is all but forgotten. Likewise, Democrats were long considered the party that was most strongly supportive of t...

  • January 4, 2009

    The Moral Battleground

    A superb column from Melanie Phillips today in The Spectator -- The Moral Battleground. A sample:The worst thing is the moral inversion, in which the murderous victimisation of innocent Israelis is ignored while their murderers are described as ...

  • December 29, 2008

    The timeliness of the Israeli actions in Gaza

    One aspect of the Gaza operations Israel has undertook to protect its citizens from the Hamas terror regime that seems to have receives scant attention is the timeliness of the Israeli actions. They seem to have occurred at an ideal time for Israel.H...

  • December 25, 2008

    A rare bit of good news for the GOP

    A new study predicts that reapportionment in 2010 will add House seats in red states. Of course, by extension, this means the Electoral College will become slightly more favorable to GOP candidates. I guess friendly tax and pro-growth policies (and w...

  • December 25, 2008

    The New York Times finally gets around to covering the Wachovia scam

    American Thinker reported on the role of Herbert and Marion Sandler in the collapse of Wachovia Bank and in  America’s housing crisis in this article   ("How Allies of George Soros helped to bring down Wachovia Bank") m...

  • December 24, 2008

    A lump of coal in our stockings: States to levy a bevy of new taxes

    As a tumultuous year limps to an end, state governors are planning to deliver more hits to our already battered pocketbooks. More taxes are coming our way. You may not recognize them because, transparency and honesty be damned, many of them will come...

  • December 22, 2008

    As predicted, Soros foreign policy influence growing

    American Thinker has repeatedly alerted our readers to the prospect of George Soros having  more sway in Washington when Barack Obama assumes the Presidency. Soros was an early supporter of Barack Obama and activated his empire of 527 groups to ...

  • December 22, 2008

    When in doubt, blame Bush

    The Boston Globe continues to provide answers to the question of why subscribers are canceling subscriptions for newspapers run by Pinch Sulzberger.There is no more ridiculous statement in any editorial this month than this one in a piece  ...

  • December 21, 2008

    Is Obama's new science advisor a close-minded Luddite?

    Barack Obama announced Dr. John Holdren, a Harvard University professor, as assistant to the president for science and technology and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.  William Katz of Urgent Agenda ta...

  • December 20, 2008

    What's missing from Obama's cabinet?

    Barack Obama's emerging Cabinet has been noted for its diversity. He has taken great pride in having selected a Cabinet in record time ( well, since he considered himself a shoe-in for the Presidency many months ago, maybe this should not come as suc...

  • December 19, 2008

    Big Labor's big payback

    Hilda Solis, the Secretary of Labor designate, is another signal that the big unions are about to get their way with card check and much more.  Amanda Carpenter points to her record:The Congresswoman Solis is a sponsor of the Orwellian Employee ...

  • December 19, 2008

    Soros-influenced groups make inroads in Obama Administration

    The transition team of Barack Obama met recently with a range of Jewish organizations, described by Politico as an “unusually broad spectrum of Jewish groups." The groups include hawkish ones who were critical of Barack Obama during the ca...

  • December 17, 2008

    Guess who Time Magazine's 'Person of the Year' is going to be?

    The media’s genuflection continues apace..even after the election . Hang onto the straps of your breakfast nooks. (Jack Carmody homage.) Time Managing Editor Richard Stengel did his Person of the Year 'reveal' on NBC's 'Today' show and it is .....

  • December 15, 2008

    World's smallest violin

    The New York Times' version of the needy: teenagers whose $100 weekly allowance and Pilates classes are trimmed. No kidding.Jodi Hamilton began her senior year of high school in Woodcliff Lake, N.J., this fall on the usual prosperous footing. Her par...

  • December 15, 2008

    What's the "highest form" of patriotism again?

    It is official. Red-staters are more patriotic than blue staters. Even more important than these general demographic shifts is the change wrought by the end of the draft in 1973. Until then, military service was distributed pretty evenly across re...

  • December 14, 2008

    Soros funds Obama Inaugural, too

    The involvement of George Soros in the career and campaigns of Barack Obama has been noted by the American Thinker in numerous articles. His influence is also reflected in a range of think tanks, activist groups, websites, and other organization...

  • December 11, 2008

    Iran's growing influence at the UN

    The Obama administration has promised to give the United Nations a far bigger role in American policy, Claudia Rosett reminds us in her superb new column in Forbes magazine. We can see this from campaign statements he has made, his lineup of forei...

  • December 10, 2008

    Obama, Israel and nukes

    Aluf Benn, the well-regarded correspondent for the Israeli newspaper Haaretz, is reporting that the incoming Obama administration intends to offer Israel a "nuclear umbrella" to protect that nation from any nuclear attack launched by Iran. ...

  • December 10, 2008

    A rising GOP star takes a stand

    As the GOP looks at strategies geared to restore its tattered reputation, they could do worse than look at the career of one of their more promising stars, Congressman Mark Kirk (10th District, Illinois). He has been winning in a Democratic distri...

  • December 10, 2008

    NYT makes Obama the hero of the Illinois cesspool

    The NYT headline says it all: "Obama's Intervention for Ethics Bill Indirectly Led to Case Against Governor"That is right. Barack Obama -- a man mired in the swamp of Chicago Machine politics, wholehearted supporter of Rod Blagojevich, clos...

  • December 9, 2008

    Another corrupt Democratic Congressman the news media won't cover

    If he were Republican would that help prompt coverage by the New York Times? Yes, they are taking on Charles Rangel, a Democratic Congressman and Chairman of the powerful ways and Means Committee who has been mired in a variety of ethical and lega...

  • December 9, 2008

    Democrats playing politics with Chicago plant closing

    Barack Obama's stint as a community organizer, and his allegiance in the principles of Saul Alinsky (a strategy that values the power of protest), has elicited much speculation regarding how he would act as a President when it came to labor issues...

  • December 7, 2008

    The end of 'blank checks for Israel'?

    Martin Indyk (Director of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution), along with Council of Foreign Relations President Richard Hass, recently provided the foreword and first chapter to Restoring the Balance: A Middle East ...

  • December 6, 2008

    Obama at the faculty club

    Alec MacGillis of the Washington Post pens an adoring account of Barack Obama and the academic elites that are landing roles in the upcoming Obama administration.  He cites Douglas Baird, "who hired Obama at the University of Chicago" ...

  • December 6, 2008

    Why sociology professors shouldn't be in charge of US policy

    Here's a great idea; force inefficiency, ridiculous work rules, and other union-inspired impediments to competency on the network of foreign-owned auto plants already here in America. The Los Angeles Times has printed a ridiculous op-ed by Jonat...

  • December 6, 2008

    Bill Ayers on why terrorizing innocent people doesn't make him a terrorist

    Unrepentant terrorist Bill Ayers has an eye-popping piece in the New York Times today where he "explains himself" by informing us that he wasn't a terrorist and that all those radicals Obama hung around with weren't really that radical:Seco...

  • December 5, 2008

    Ignoring the politically incorrect victims

    Here's an interesting quote from today's Boston Globe:Men are losing jobs at far greater rates than women as the industries they dominate, such as manufacturing, construction, and investment services, are hardest hit by the downturn. Some 1.1 million...

  • December 5, 2008

    The confused musings of Marty Peretz on Samantha Power

    Now that the election is over, will Barack Obama supporters  in the media start scrutinizing him and his picks with anything less than adoration? Not if you read all the columns extolling his "brain trust" and "team of rivals...

  • December 2, 2008

    Daniel Kurtzer for Middle East Envoy?

    Recent news reports tip Daniel Kurtzer as Barack Obama's probable choice to be the new Middle East envoy when President-elect Obama assumes office Although he is an observant Jew, and gains some credibility among Jewish voters because of this, there ...

  • December 2, 2008

    Rangel takes on the New York Times

    Someone has to do it... I guess Democrats don't like the paper scrutinizing their actions. Actually, I am with the Times on this one. John Breshahan of Politico reports:He may fear "death by a thousand cuts" - a stream of damning newspaper ...

  • December 2, 2008

    Obama finding his campaign rhetoric a poor fit with reality

    This illustrates that Barack Obama's rhetoric is not flawless...nor is he.But then a reporter asked the president-elect a particularly inconvenient question: During the campaign, Obama claimed the right for U.S. forces to go after terrorists inside ...

  • December 1, 2008

    Another wrong-headed headline from the New York Times

    Does the New York Times care about facts anymore? Or is it too corrupted by Obama love to bother with any bit of research-at all? Monday's headline is symptomatic of how the paper will be covering the Obama administration-with the same obsequiousess ...

  • November 29, 2008

    Obama wants more money from his believers

    Peter Funt, an Obama supporter, complains in the Washington Post about being solicited for yet more money by the Obama forces, after The One already raised far more money than any campaign in history.This is not easy to write, because I consider the ...

  • November 25, 2008

    Brent Scowcroft and Obama's Middle East Policy

    The foreign policy views of President-elect Barack Obama  and the direction he may take once in office has been subject to a great deal of scrutiny at American Thinker, particularly regarding the most volatile region on the planet: the Middle Ea...

  • November 24, 2008

    Obama's new Domestic Policy Council head

    Politico reports: Melody Barnes, former chief counsel to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) on the Senate Judiciary Committee and head of policy at the Center American Progress, will be named director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, officia...

  • November 23, 2008

    Too little, too late

    How noble are confessions after the damage has been done? Our democracy depends on informed voters. The failure of many in the media to fulfill their responsibilities to inform voters is a blot that is only now being acknowledged by those who were in...

  • November 21, 2008

    Scowcroft was advising Obama, too -- not just Brzezinski

    That fact was kept under wraps..until after the election. Scowcroft, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski (who also advised Barack Obama on foreign policy issues) have a long problematic record toward Israel and the American-Israel relationship. When ...

  • November 19, 2008

    LA Times praises Eric Holder, misses the elephant in the room

    The Los Angeles  Times writes a laudatory editorial on Eric Holder and does not even mention the Marc Rich pardon!  So now we can see that the LA Times will continue to burnish not just Barack Obama but all those people who Barack Obama pic...

  • November 18, 2008

    Franken and Soros: the saga continues

    Right after asking the state canvassing board to refuse certification of his loss to Norm Coleman, Al Franken heads to New York City. He travels eastward to raise money for his effort to fund the coming mandatory recount, featuring none other th...

  • November 17, 2008

    The Soros Connection in the Minnesota Senate Race Vote Count

    The Minnesota senate race is generating a level of heat rare in a Minnesota November. With a filibuster-proof Senate hanging in the balance, it is worthwhile looking to the fine hand of George Soros, operating through a network of fat cat leftwing mo...

  • November 16, 2008

    Former NY Times drama critic shows his total ignorance of politics

    Frank  Rich crassly celebrates the shrinkage and financial problems of conservative political columnist Michael Barone's employer: U.S. News and World Report. I thought journalists welcomed free speech and bemoaned the problems besetting the ind...

  • November 16, 2008

    Committee Chairman seeking Detroit bailout married to GM exec

    Congressman John Dingell has used his powerful position as chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to protect the auto industry. He represents a district in Michigan, so this should come as no surprise. What does come as a surprise is ...

  • November 16, 2008

    Waxman bully-boy lands plum job in Obama WH

    The choice of Phil Schiliro , a longtime investigator for Representative Henry Waxman who will serve in the Obama administration as the head of the White house legislative affairs office, does not bode well for Obama's stated goal of "bi-part...

  • November 14, 2008

    Democratic Double-speak on bailout bill

    Senate leaders have changed history-literally and retroactively. Senators Levin and Dodd inserted language into the Congressional Record to make it appear that the intent of the Bailout Bill was to aid automakers. This occurred after the Bailout Bill...

  • November 13, 2008

    A Challenge to the Liberal Jewish Community

    Rabbis and other leaders in the Jewish community were in the forefront of criticizing "smears" against Barack Obama during the recent campaign. These comments concerned not only his heritage but also those people he chose to associate with ...

  • November 13, 2008

    North Korean actions prove Bolton right

    Former American Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton has been predicting North Korea would disavow previous commitments (inspection and verification efforts) made to America and its allies regarding its nuclear program Bolton was right; and t...

  • November 12, 2008

    Short-sellers betting against the New York Times Company

    Bloomberg publishes a list (for subscribers) of the top companies with largest percentage of shares sold short. The New York Times Company is currently number thirteen, with 17.5% of the shares sold short. This means that these investors are betting ...

  • November 12, 2008

    Minnesota Dems keep counting ... and counting ... in Coleman-Franken race

    Will Norm Coleman get a fair shake in his Senatorial recount battle against Al Franken? Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist Katherine Kersten is skeptical, given the fact that Minnesota's Secretary of State was elected with the help of the Secretar...

  • November 11, 2008

    New York Times: Stop the Presses

    Rafat Ali of Paidcontent.org(via Forbes) has the story. It seems that another shocking development is rocking the faltering New York Times Company:Vivian Schiller, the well-regarded head of the NY Times' digital efforts,  has left the company to...

  • November 11, 2008

    Minnesota Senate race getting ugly as recount looms

    The Minnesota Senate contest between Norm Coleman and Al Franken is getting more brutal by the day. Coleman’s lead over Franken is drifting downward as “corrections’ seem to favor Franken. The Coleman campaign is crying foul. Wha...

  • November 9, 2008

    Obama and the courts

    Mark Sherman of the Associated Press pens an article on the dozens of federal judgeships waiting to be filled by President Obama. Sherman quotes Nan Aron of the left wing Alliance for Justice, demonstrating the appalling understanding of the judiciar...

  • November 5, 2008

    A GOP rising star wins in a Dem district

    Hearty congratulations to up and coming young Republican Josh Mandel who won a second term as a state representative in Ohio. His race was marked by aspersions cast upon him by his Democratic opponent over his service as a Marine in Iraq and unpleasa...

  • November 5, 2008

    CNN reporter: illegal but OK to vote twice

    The following video says a lot about CNN, and maybe about America these days:Hat tip: Tim Blair, Mark Steyn  ...

  • November 5, 2008

    Disconcerting NYT editorial about American Jews and Israel

    The tone of this editorial in today's NYT is more than a little disconcerting. Aside from the rote "Israel strangling Palestinian economy" and casting doubt on Israeli sincerity to restrain settlers comes this statement:As a step toward pea...

  • November 3, 2008

    The Dems election day 'Aces in the hole'

    Ohio’s Secretary of State Brunner efforts to help Barack Obama win her state have been well documented at American Thinker and elsewhere. What has escaped media attention until now is the important role that Secretaries of States play during el...

  • November 3, 2008

    Diplomacy and Duplicity-Dennis Ross

    After burnishing the reputation of Khalid Rashidi and dismissing concerns about the ties between Barack Obama and Khalidi (well, because Ross knows Khalidi, too: but does he give encomiums to him at parties, does he fund his wife’s anti-Israel ...

  • October 31, 2008

    The NY Times Covers for Obama on Khalidi

    The latest whitewash of members of the ring of rogues around Barack Obama is delivered by the New York Times this morning. Barack Obama has had a long-time friendship with Rashid Khalidi, who taught at the University of Chicago from 1987 until 2003. ...

  • October 28, 2008

    Prominent Dem slams Obama's campaign finance hypocrisy

    Former Nebraska governor and US Senator Bob Kerrey holds Barack Obama (whom he supports) accountable for his obvious hypocrisy on campaign finance reform. From the New York Post:ON the question of public funding of presidential campaigns, we Democrat...

  • October 28, 2008

    Dem triumph could elevate Kerry to Foreign Affairs Chairman

    Politico reports that the Senate might play a game of musical chairmanships should Barack Obama become President. Among the changes that may occur would be the elevation of John Kerry to the position of chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee. Th...

  • October 27, 2008

    Rising GOP star under attack

    We have written about Ohio state representative Josh Mandel before at American Thinker  He is a young GOP "star" who also served two tours of duty in Iraq as a US marine. Now his service (and possibly his Jewish heritage) is being...

  • October 25, 2008

    'Former' Obama Advisor Meets with Syrians

    The International Crisis Group (ICG) is a George  Soros controlled "think-tank"   that gave him a Founders Award. He is on the board as are Samantha Power and Zbigniew Brzezinski. We have wrtten about these two...

  • October 24, 2008

    NYT corporate debt cut to junk status

    "Garbage-in, garbage-out" finds a new meaning, as the decline of its journalistic practice is now matched by the New York Times Company's financial status.We at American Thinker, particularly our publisher Tom Lifson, have long chronicled t...

  • October 24, 2008

    New York Times can't bring itself to name ACORN in its headline on voter fraud story

    So now the Times has to own up to the fact that its dismissive attitude towards criticism of ACORN was wrong.Why does The Times refer to a "Group"; by now, its readers are surely familiar with the "group's" name: ACORN.Will t...

  • October 24, 2008

    Obama advisor praises Iran in Globe op-ed

    Well, is it that hard to believe in this day and age that a major American newspaper offers up an op-ed filled with praise for Iran? This would be today's Boston Globe in an op-ed written by Lawrence Korb and Laura Conley, both of whom work for the l...

  • October 24, 2008

    Obama's Middle East Peace Blueprint

    We have written about Barack Obama's Middle East adviser Daniel Kurtzer before. We had qualms regarding his perspective on the Middle East process, given his record and after having read a book he wrote along with Scott Lasensky, Negotiating Arab-Isr...

  • October 22, 2008

    The Said-Khalidi-Obama Connection

    The invaluable Andrew McCarthy takes note of a connection between Barack Obama and Edward Said, an apologist for terrorism, who played a key role in changing the field of Middle East Studies towards an anti-Western and anti-Israel bias. Said, a write...

  • October 22, 2008

    Obama and the Jews

    Gabriel Schoenfeld of Commentary Magazine (who also writes, at times, for the Wall Street Journal) has a superb article in today's New York Post regarding Barack Obama and his relationship with the Jewish community. Schoenfeld focuses not just o...

  • October 22, 2008

    'The most important thing you can do to get elected is have street money!'

    "The single most important thing you can do to get elected is to have street money!" Rendell shouted, adding, "There are people from the Obama campaign here, so let's all say it again. The most important thing you can do to get elected...

  • October 21, 2008

    Hedge Funds, Politics, and the Market Crash

    There are several culprits in the recent market crash, but one key source of the problem has hitherto escaped attention: an economic index that can be easily manipulated by hedge funds and whose gyrations have shaken the foundation of Wall Street: th...

  • October 19, 2008

    Hagel for Defense Secretary if Obama wins?

    Senator Obama has leaked names of potential Cabinet picks to the Times of London. Among the revelations: Senator Chuck Hagel has been "tipped as defence secretary". This would be seen as reaching across the aisle since Hagel is-at leas...

  • October 17, 2008

    Another Foreign Policy Advisor with anti-Israeli leanings

    Last night, Barack Obama mentioned retired marine General Jim Jones as someone who, along with Joe Biden and Dick Lugar, he would tap to help him figure out his foreign policy. He said, "those are the people, Democrat and Republican, who have sh...

  • October 17, 2008

    EU has second thoughts about emissions targets

    Recall all the braying from Europe regarding America's failure to ratify the Kyoto Accord? Bill Clinton signed it but refused to send the treaty for ratification to the Senate, knowing that it would be rejected by both Democrats and Republicans. Clin...

  • October 17, 2008

    WaPo endorses Obama

    The Washington Post endorses Obama in a rather half-hearted and apologetic fashion....

  • October 17, 2008

    Waxman 'Oversight' overlooks much

    No time to do the people's business when partisan politics calls . This is the mantra of Democratic Congressman Henry Waxman who uses the committee he heads - the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform - to bludgeon businessmen, entire i...

  • October 16, 2008

    You have got to like this NYT headline about Ohio voter fraud

    Ohio's court ruling may prevent massive voter fraud -- and the court's ruling is vitally important to ensure the integrity of the vote. The deceptive tactics of ACORN allied with a Secretary of State who remain blithely unconcerned -- and that is an ...

  • October 15, 2008

    Weird NYT editorial ignores its own reporting

    The New York Times tries to whitewash Democratic responsibility for the housing disaster in today's editorial "Misplaced Blame" by holding that the Community Reinvestment Act is blameless for the problems that beset America. The Community R...

  • October 12, 2008

    Don't tell me - ANOTHER radical in Obama's background?

    Recognize a name here among the beneficiaries of taxpayer dollars? As Chicago (and Illinois, for that matter) reels from a fiscal crisis resulting in a cutback of services and layoffs of thousands, Mayor Daley spends many millions on p...

  • October 12, 2008

    Another Obama Muslim Outreach Director meets with terrorist supporters

    The Obama campaign Muslim outreach director, Minha Husaini, met with the Council of American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim American Society, groups linked with terror groups the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas. This is the second outreach d...

  • October 10, 2008

    Times Whitewashes Obama Illegal Donor Issue

    The New York Times looks at a few oddball donors and concludes this is not much of a problem. Fact is that I believe $200 million dollars came in under the $200 per dollar increment so there could be potentially quite a bit of problems since all ...

  • October 9, 2008

    Obama supporters violated the act he proposed on 'electronic jamming'

    Senator Obama piously proposed a law in 2006 to outlaw the sort of intimidation his own campaign has been practicing this year. In a blog entry titled Barack Obama's Dogs of War  American Thinker described two concentrated campaigns launched by ...

  • October 8, 2008

    Is Ayers really a "reformer" as the MSM paints him? (updated)

    The New York Times whitewashed Bill Ayers as someone engaged in "school reform". Tom Brokaw referred to Ayers as an educational reformer on Meet the Press. How accurate is this moniker? Not very.   Scott Johnson of Powerline notices...

  • October 8, 2008

    Fed, EU cuts interest rates by 1/2 point-it is about time!

    Markets did an incredible about face -- futures substanitially  up, of course. Who knows how long this will last, but it was the one step that will help the most.Maybe this will help McCain a bit.I think the market expected this about 30 minutes...

  • October 7, 2008

    Biden claims credit for work of Lieberman and Dole

    Why do Barack Obama and Joe Biden claim credit for the work of others so often? Barack Obama saw a camera and claimed unjustly credit for work on an immigration bill-an action that led to a rebuke by Senator Christopher Dodd and that merited a front-...

  • October 7, 2008

    NBC pulls video of SNL skit embarrassing Dems

    NBC has pulled the video of the Saturday Night Live skit satirizing the role of George Soros and the Sandlers in the collapse of Wachovia Bank off the internet and is deleting comments on its message boards asking about it. This skit reflec...

  • October 7, 2008

    Democrat profile in courage ignored by US media

    The American media largely ignores a brave and honest Democrat telling the truth about the financial crisis. It takes Dominic Lawson of the left-leaning UK Independent to tell the truth:Congressman Artur Davis, a rising young Democrat from Alabama, c...

  • October 6, 2008

    Where was Congressman's Henry Waxman's Oversight Committee during all this turmoil?

    The Oversight and Government Reform Committee of the House of Representatives is grilling financial company executives this week as part of an investigation of financial industry practices. One wonders what the committee, under its Chairman, Henry Wa...

  • October 6, 2008

    NYT obscures blame for financial crisis

    A New York Times article today tries to spread the blame for the current financial crisis equally among Wall Street, Congress and the "White House". This blurring of responsibility is shameful. Much of the blame, as we now know, l...

  • October 6, 2008

    Saturday Night Live Channels American Thinker

    Seems as if the players over at Saturday Night live might read American Thinker. This weekend they ran a skit that mentioned the fall of Wachovia, the finance crisis and the roles of Herb and Marion Sandler and George Soros (who they identified as th...

  • October 5, 2008

    Samantha Power Uncut

    A friend passed along a video of an interview with Samantha Power-a once and  future key foreign policy adviser to Barack Obama. Power was forced to resign in the wake of her "Hillary is a monster"  comment. We at American Th...

  • October 4, 2008

    An Open Letter to John McCain

    Dear Senator McCain:There are reports that the McCain campaign will take a tougher tone with Barack Obama and highlight the ties with Rezko and Ayers but ignore Jeremiah Wright, Jr. This report was published in the Washington Post this morning. ...

  • October 4, 2008

    My interview for a Finnish TV documentary on Obama

    A couple of weeks ago, I was pleased to be interviewed by Rauli Virtanen, a noted Finnish journalist with quite a career. He was filming a documentary on Barack Obama which will run on European television two days before the election.We ended up...

  • October 4, 2008

    Must-read: Fannie Mae's Easy Credit

    Nine years ago, Steven Holmes of the New York Times wrote admiringly of the way Bill Clinton and the Democrats could claim credit for "Eas[ing] Credit To Aid Mortgage Lending."It amounts to a map of how Bill Clinton and Democrats created th...

  • October 3, 2008

    The Abyss-ification of political rhetoric

    Anyone see a pattern here?The German Finance Minister:By Monday, Mr Steinbrück was having to orchestrate Germany's biggest bank bail-out, putting together a €35 billion loan package to save Hypo Real Estate. By then Europe was "staring...

  • October 3, 2008

    Joe Biden on debt: homeowners vs. credit card debtors

    During the Vice Presidential Debate, Sen. Biden took the position that bankruptcy courts should have the power to reduce the principal amount owed on mortgages:"...we should be allowing bankruptcy courts to be able to re-adjust not just the inte...

  • October 3, 2008

    The 'ACORNization' of America

    Remind me why protest groups who interfere with the running of the US government deserve taxpayer dollars, which they already receive and which they would have received in abundance if the Democrats had their way and created a slush fund for ACORN in...

  • October 2, 2008

    Time 'soup line' cover

    Time's cover is a black-and-white photo from 1931, showing unemployed men lining up at a Depression-era soup kitchen in Chicago, opened by Al Capone, in front of a sign that reads, 'Free Soup, Coffee and Donuts for The Unemployed.' (Hat tip: Daniel K...

  • October 2, 2008

    Pork for Hollywood in bailout bill?

    Is Hollywood going to get pork? After all, the entertainment industry is a huge source of money for Democratic candidates and for the party, as well as a host of 527 groups. So taxpayers are going to help out Hollywood-land of excess and indulgence?A...

  • October 2, 2008

    This is what dialogue with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is like

    Monologue by a demagogue met with obeisance and ineffectual commentary -- if not silence by his interlocutors. A genocidal dictator does not respond well to talk therapy.Mark D. Tooley writes in the Weekly Standard:IN A FOURTH encounter over two...

  • October 1, 2008

    Which candidate is the uniter?

    We’ve come a long way since the days when Obama was going to reach across the aisle and get things done. He confesses: “I don’t think me calling House Republican members would have been that helpful, I tend not to be that persuasive...

  • October 1, 2008

    Another Good reason for offshore drilling

    In the last paragraph of a Washington Post editorial on the end of the moratorium on offshore drilling in US waters is this statement:More important, in a world of skyrocketing demand for energy, it is becoming untenable for the United States to cons...

  • October 1, 2008

    The Lie that will not Die

    The blinders that liberals in the media put on when it comes to Republican candidates is appalling. The Boston Globe runs an editorial headlines: "Wasilla made rape victims pay:"ONE QUESTION that Sarah Palin should answer during tomorrow's ...

  • September 30, 2008

    African-American opposition also killed the Bailout Bill

    It is somewhat odd that we did not read about the role of the African-American community and the Congressional Black Caucus in the failure of the Bailout Bill. Instead, the media such as the New York Times focused on the role of Republicans in the fa...

  • September 30, 2008

    Your daily Pro-Obama devotion from the New York Times

    New York Times journalist Larry Rohter-already well-known for his pro-Obama agenda  -scripts yet another attack on John McCain.Rohter attacks McCain for claiming that Obama had “voted in the United States Senate to increase taxes on p...

  • September 29, 2008

    How allies of George Soros helped bring down Wachovia Bank

    Wachovia Bank, a major institution, has seen its stock plummet and its continued viability called into question, as the nation's financial crisis muddles forward. [Update: shortly after publication of this article, Citigroup agreed to purchase Wachov...

  • September 27, 2008

    Obama emotionally recalls fallen soldier: What's his name?

    Getting some notice -- not enough -- is Obama's failure to remember the name of the fallen soldier on his bracelet. At least  Fox is covering it:People note how off putting Obama's tone was after McCain told his story about promising a...

  • September 27, 2008

    Media Report card for the debate

    The media is scoring this one as a win for Obama.Boston Globe: "Good night for McCain, better one for Obama" is the headline for an article  (owned by the New York Times).  Ridiculous.The Fact-Checking at the Boston Globe is manip...

  • September 27, 2008

    Saudis using oil as a weapon against Iran?

    A Business Week article on Saudi Arabia portrays a kingdom eager to pump oil far above its OPEC quota despite a rapid decline in the price of oil on the world markets. This places them in an adversarial relationship with Iran and Venezuela - two alli...

  • September 26, 2008

    Dems poised to kill Iran Resolution in House

    Democratic leaders have stepped back from supporting a non-binding resolution on Iran. They did so on the pretext that the resolution called for a blockade of Iran and that such a blockade of Iran would be an act that could lead to war. This is a cle...

  • September 26, 2008

    'Rabbis for Obama' and Ahmadinejad

    Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has  called for wiping Israel off the map, denies the Holocaust and proclaims his desire to bring about another one. He also recently delivered a speech at the United Nations-founded in the wake of the ...

  • September 25, 2008

    Dean Compares Obama to Ariel Sharon

    Are all the Democratic leaders just gaffe-masters? At what point does the selling of Barack Obama to the pro-Israel community become just absurd and pathetic? Doesn't the absurdity in and of itself indicate their are serious and legitimate ...

  • September 25, 2008

    Times buries Iraqi election law story

    Barack Obama and Congressional Democrats have made Iraq a key wedge issue to help bolster Democrats' prospects in November. As the level of violence has plummeted in the wake of the surge that both Barack Obama and Joe Biden opposed (and John Mc...

  • September 25, 2008

    Congressman Alcee Hastings on black-Jewish relations

    Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-Fl), a man impeached, convicted and removed from office as a federal judge for corruption and perjury, had this to say at a panel of African-American and Jewish Democrats, according to Jennifer Rubin of Co...

  • September 24, 2008

    Some debate prep for Palin

    Barack Obama chose Joe Biden to be his Vice Presidential running mate presumably because Biden, chairman of the Senate Foreign relations Committee, brings foreign policy heft to the ticket. Critics have noted that Joe Biden's intelligence may be over...

  • September 24, 2008

    Does the Constitution allow for early voting?

    Yesterday, American Thinker carried my blog about the trend towards absentee balloting in many states across America and noted how this would benefit Barack Obama disproportionably more than John McCain. Today, the New York Sun also found proble...

  • September 24, 2008

    Another Obama flip-flop

    Barack Obama, going all out to try to garner votes among pro-Israel Americans, flip-flops again on Iran, as pointed out by John McCormack on the Weekly Standard website. Now that the election is close he hypocritically condemns this week what he supp...

  • September 23, 2008

    Will early voting hurt McCain?

    Does the rise of absentee balloting hurts John McCain. The Wall Street Journal today reports on the rise of early voting for President: By the time Election Day arrives, more than half of the voters in some states will have cast early ballots, voting...

  • September 22, 2008

    Banned words to describe Obama, Part II

    A week ago, American Thinker ran a short blog on words that are consider racist "code words" when used to describe Barack Obama. We can add two more to this ever-inflating list: young and inexperienced."Obama's name and his African her...

  • September 22, 2008

    Fact-checking Obama's Conference Call to 900 Rabbis

    Barack Obama held a conference call this week with more than 900 rabbis (does the Obama campaign do anything that is not  on a grandiose scale?) to extend greetings to them and their congregants ahead of Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Y...

  • September 21, 2008

    NYT trashing truth-tellers on Obama's abortion record

    The New York Times published an editorial "The Right to Smear"  praising a federal  judge in Virginia who has blocked a group from running ads on Barack Obama's positions on abortion.The Times disparages this groups ad and cl...

  • September 19, 2008

    Rangel's car gets the hook

    The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, Democratic Congressman Charles Rangel, has had better months. Beset by tax problems - misreporting and underreporting of his income, unethical abuse of New York City's rents stabilization progr...

  • September 18, 2008

    The Times Selective Outrage at Pork Spending

    This is one more sign of the disgraceful fall of the New York Times which has become just an adjunct of the Democratic Party. By singling out Alaskan earmarks supported by the governor, the Times has proven to be quite selective in its outrage a...

  • September 17, 2008

    More Obama Pandering to Voters

    In  our retail politics department: Barack Obama's campaign today is announcing a plan -- with five points and $5 billion to be spent over 10 years -- to clean up the Great Lakes," writes Stephen Koff at the Cleveland Plain Dealer, who goes...

  • September 17, 2008

    Obama's 'Dogs of War' Gameplan

    In an earlier blog Obama's Dogs of War  I described the pattern of attacks-a blitzkrieg-that the Obama campaign launches against critics and those who scrutinize a record that is not just paper-thin but hidden away like a dirty secret.I hig...

  • September 16, 2008

    Obama's 'Dogs of War'

    [See also Obama's 'Dogs of War' Gameplan - editor]By now, the Obama's campaign to silence critics is blatant. There is a certain hypocrisy at work as well: Barack Obama campaigned on the need for transparency. Yet this constitutional law lecture...

  • September 16, 2008

    Obama parties hearty while markets tremble

    How insensitive are Barack Obama and his list of zillionaire cronies (and crooners) in La-La Land. As the market meltdowns the only melting that concerns Senator Obama and his pals in Hollywood are the ice cubes in their glasses. He will be attending...

  • September 16, 2008

    CQ Study shows McCain less loyal to party than Obama and Biden

    In a companion blog to today's article I would like to point readers to an item in National Review. Yuval Levin notes that Congressional Quarterly analyzed the voting records of  Senators Obama, Biden, and McCain. Which Senator is the winner whe...

  • September 16, 2008

    McCain and Leadership in a Time of Financial Crisis

    Wall Street sinks; renowned financial houses are being foreclosed; Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have been placed in government's hands; hedge funds have wrecked the economy.How will all this turmoil affect the Presidential campaign?At first glance, thi...

  • September 14, 2008

    Insight into Candidates through their gifts to charity

    American Thinker previously reported on Joe Biden's miserly charitable giving . His campaign released this with an eye to the news cycle:late Friday, at the beginning of a weekend dominated by coverage of Hurricane Ike. We caught the release-did...

  • September 13, 2008

    Bob Herbert's dimwitted slur

    Bob Herbert of the New York Times castigates the "dimwittedness" of Palin supporters while flaunting his own laziness, ignorance, and/or dishonesty.While watching the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson Thursday night, and the coverag...

  • September 13, 2008

    Joe Biden, cheapskate

    What about all that rhetoric about helping little people? What about Michelle Obama running down America? Now we know how Biden can afford a family compound. He gives a pittance to charity - nary a farthing. Of course, this would come as no...

  • September 13, 2008

    List of 'Banned' words to describe Obama growing

    What are we to do? So many words that might be used to describe Barack Obama are being shouted down as being "racist". Here is the roll -- and it is an ever-expanding one:   "Clean and articulate" (remembe...

  • September 12, 2008

    Another effective GOP TV ad

    Those nice Minnesotans (and I have never met one that was not nice) will respond to this commercial. John Pohoretz writes, "This may be the simplest and most effective political ad I’ve ever seen. I’m not exaggerating."...

  • September 12, 2008

    Palin Governed from the Center

    Alert to all those spreading anti-Palin slurs and smears on the internet and in national magazines, newspapers, and television shows: She does not support: creationism, book banning in libraries and Jews for Jesus. She did not name her children after...

  • September 12, 2008

    More Anti-Israel Bias at Columbia

    Columbia University's Middle East Studies program has long been a center of anti-Israel activism. The controversy stems from a long line of professors who have been leaders in academic boycotts of Israeli professors. The school has a roster of p...

  • September 12, 2008

    NY Times TV columnist doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is either

    Is there a vast liberal-wing conspiracy here?The snide commentary starts off in the headline:  "Showing a Confidence, in Prepared Answers."I wonder if "prepared answers" were ever noted by many in the media when covering Obam...

  • September 12, 2008

    Obama the Hedge Fund Candidate

    We will be hearing a lot about how Republicans on Wall Street have harmed our economy. Hedge-funds-difficult to understand, shadowy, often marked by investors and managers reaping sky-high profits-will be the "straw men". After all, the gun...

  • September 11, 2008

    The Punch and Slim Show?

    Carlos Slim, the billionaire Mexican businessman who made his fortune in telecommunications in his home nation and throughout Latin America, has purchased a 6.4% stake in the New York Times company, making him the third-largest investor behind H...

  • September 11, 2008

    Obama's other minister problem

    Barack Obama has discarded Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr., a man he had previously described as a "moral compass", "sounding board" and "confidant".  But he has been cozying up to another minister who was less "in...

  • September 11, 2008

    Obama's well-heeled friends beneficiaries of earmarks

    Barack Obama has a long and expensive history of earmarking. He has used them to benefit political allies in Chicago (Pastor Wright, Father Pfleger, Reverend Meeks). He has also used them to benefit financial donors (the slumlords and newly minted...

  • September 11, 2008

    Obama covers his tracks

    Barack Obama apparently wishes his two autobiographies to be the definitive record of his past. He has blocked efforts by others who wish to independently examine his past. He won't allow his transcript from his undergraduate days at Columbia Un...

  • September 11, 2008

    More Democratic Foot in Mouth Disease

    Proving that  foot in mouth disease can run in families, South Carolina Democratic chair Carol Fowler  proclaimed John McCain had chosen a running mate "whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion....

  • September 11, 2008

    Yes, Palin has real executive experience

    The Obama campaign and many in the media chorus have relentlessly criticized Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's experience to try and show she is unfit to serve as Vice President. Initially, the Obama campaign had the temerity to completely ignore h...

  • September 10, 2008

    Back to the Future

    Barack Obama has again tried to remake history. On the Bill O'Reilly Show, Barack Obama denied hearing Pastor Wright's more incendiary sermons at the Trinity United Church of Christ without specifying which of those sermons he did hear. More signific...

  • September 10, 2008

    Obama on Ayers

    Barack Obama is trying a modified limited hangout strategy in handling his long history with William Ayers. He first dismissed Ayers as just some Professor of English who lived in his neighborhood, during the Philadelphia Democratic debate....

  • September 9, 2008

    Will the Real Obama Please Stand Up?

    Does Barack Obama suffer from multiple personality syndrome? In the wake of falling poll ratings and the release of a new poll showing that voters do not trust him or the Democratic Party when it comes to the defense of our nation, Barack Obama ...

  • September 9, 2008

    Obama's money problems

    Barack Obama promised to accept public financing of his general election campaign. This commitment earned him support among some liberals in the primary campaign. But after clinching the Democratic nomination, he broke his promise (a nasty habit of h...

  • September 9, 2008

    An Obama-Annenberg irony

    The Annenberg Foundation's FactCheck.org group has been shooting down rumors about Palin spread by Obama supporters:We've been flooded for the past few days with queries about dubious Internet postings and mass e-mail messages making claims about McC...

  • September 8, 2008

    New York Post Endorses McCain for President

    The first major (or possibly the first) paper to endorse a President, the New York Post comes out for John McCain. This was a paper that had endorsed Barack Obama in the Democratic primary over home state Senator Hillary Clinton. The paper is also ow...

  • September 8, 2008

    Matthews, Olbermann ousted from anchor duties

    MSNBC seems to have retreated from hyper-partisans as anchors. Could we be seeing the beginning of a trend? When the fine people of Wisconsin loudly booed the press at the McCain/ Palin event, they reminded me of the scene in the movie Network where ...

  • September 8, 2008

    United Nations Rooting for Obama

    Barack Obama has long been known to look upon the United Nations as a problem-solver. He would outsource a great deal of American policy to the United Nations. In late 2007, he called for America to "rededicate itself to the organization and its...

  • September 8, 2008

    Biden's sweetheart housing deal

    When the media camped out in front of Senator Joe Biden's house on the day it was announced that he would be Barack Obama's running mate I wondered how did he afford his "family compound"?After all, the Democrats made much of his ...

  • September 7, 2008

    Barack Obama wished to join the military but the Vietnam war's end cooled his ardor?

    During a nationally televised news program today, This Week with George Stephanopoulos, Barack Obama disclosed he once considered serving in the military. This is a very transparent move to bolster his national security credentials and occurred the d...

  • September 6, 2008

    Sowell on 'Experience'

    The issue of foreign policy experience has been raised among the partisan attacks against Governor Sarah Palin. One of the nation's most esteemed thinkers, Thomas Sowell thoughtfully loks at the issue of "experience".No governor ever had fo...

  • September 5, 2008

    The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee 'flubbed' his taxes

    The Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, New York Congressman Charles Rangel has earned rental income from properties he owns in a luxury resort development in the Dominican Republic, and has failed for twenty years to report...

  • September 5, 2008

    The 'conciliatory' Barack Obama?

    NYT media "critic" Alessandra Stanley writes about the Bill O'Reilly Obama interview:It was billed as the ultimate smackdown, and it certainly promised to be a wonk vs. wacko match: the cerebral, conciliatory Senator Barack Obama versus Bil...

  • September 4, 2008

    Obama's vanishing money advantage

    We have heard quite a lot over the past year about Barack Obama's fundraising prowess. But the good times may be over. Now it suddenly appears that John McCain and his campaign are no slouches in this area. The announcement of Sarah Palin as his runn...

  • September 4, 2008

    Obama bundler stormed stage last night as Palin spoke

    Who was that protester who stormed the stage last night? A mega-bundler for Barack Obama from the group Code Pink. Jim Hoft, proprietor of Gateway Pundit who is in St. Paul covering the convention, has the scoop. The protester who stormed the stage d...

  • September 3, 2008

    Senator Biden obliquely criticizes AIPAC

    Joe Biden had this to say on the campaign trail today, according to Hilary Leila Krieger of the Jerusalem Post:Biden lashed out at those who would impugn his Israel credentials, saying, "I take a backseat to no one -- including AIPAC -- when it ...

  • September 3, 2008

    Obama and Pat Buchanan on Israel

    Congressman Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's surrogate spokesman to the Jews, has labored mightily over the past year to promote the candidacy of Barack Obama. He even distorts the truth when it suits him -- as he did when he slurred Sarah Palin as bein...

  • September 3, 2008

    Obama's ignorance of the law

    Barack Obama continues to embarrass himself with serious misreading of the law and the Constitution. But the media is not interested in pointing any of this out to voters, who are fed the line he is a brilliant legal thinker.In my AT article "Ba...

  • August 30, 2008

    Media's full court press against Palin

    The political flamethrowers have been unleashed on Governor Sarah Palin.The media is not just trying to attack her on experience grounds (she has a far more successful record of accomplishment than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama) but now are trying...

  • August 29, 2008

    Looks like Palin: the Gulfstream flight from Alaska to Dayton

    Originally this flight was reported on Fox News -- woman seen stepping off plane with two teenagers.Plane appears registered to McCain group or fundraiser.Don't you love the internet?...

  • August 28, 2008

    Economy much stronger, thanks to exports

    What recession? Economy grows much more than expected. ‘Experts' surprised again. The Wall Street Journal reports Economy Grew 3.3% in 2nd QuarterThe U.S. economy was much stronger in the spring than first thought, with GDP rising 3.3% compared...

  • August 28, 2008

    Obama campaign turns thuggish (update: podcast available)

    The Obama campaign has tonight again demonstrated that it will try to silence voices with which it does not agree. This should chill all Americans, for it offers a preview of the tactics to which a President Obama might harness the power of the feder...

  • August 27, 2008

    Obama's Bag of Tricks

    Throughout his campaign, Barack Obama has presented himself to be a new type of politician: transparent, clean, aboveboard, and above all, positive.  His campaign would be an idealistic one: no tricks, just plain old-fashioned honesty. Of course...

  • August 25, 2008

    Obama's political godfather slurred Hillary delegate as 'Uncle Tom'

    Illinois State Senate President Emil Jones was a primary sponsor of Barack Obama's rise. He arranged for Barack Obama to be credited with legislation on which he did not do the heavy lifting in the State Senate. Other than the work credited to him by...

  • August 25, 2008

    Biden and son - friends of the credit card industry (Updated)

    As more details emerge about Senator Joe Biden's track record, more questions are emerging about the wisdom of Barack Obama in selecting him to be his Vice-Presidential running mate. One area of concern is revealed by Biden's moniker 'The Senato...

  • August 24, 2008

    Prominent Obama endorser critcizes "Israel Lobby"

     Andrew Bacevich's writes a somewhat disturbing op-ed in today's Los Angeles Times . He asserts that the next President-whoever he may be-will be probably disappoint his followers because his power to bring change is constricted by various ...

  • August 22, 2008

    Will Ayers and Obama radicalize our schools?

    As more evidence emerges of the close ties between former Weatherman Bill Ayers and Presidential candidate Barack Obama, questions are being raised about the level of competence displayed by Barack Obama when he headed the Chicago Annenberg Challenge...

  • August 22, 2008

    Obama's Education Track record in Chicago

    Barack Obama's record as leader of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC) has come under scrutiny by, among others Steve Diamond, Tom Maguire, Stanley Kurtz and our own Tom Lifson . The CAC was a group formed in 1995 by former Weather U...

  • August 21, 2008

    More on the Annenberg Challenge

    The Chicago Annenberg Challenge, Barack Obama's only claim to administrative leadership (as covered today by Thomas Lifson), was evaluated by the esteemed Thomas B. Fordham Institute, an independent outside body with expertise on educational reform. ...

  • August 15, 2008

    Look who's asking the questions for McCain and Obama forum

    The Compassionate Leader Fourm that Barack Obama will be appearing in front of at Rick Warren's Saddleback Church will formualte questions developed by a group called Faith in Public Life. Among the members of this group are Jim Winkler and Jim ...

  • August 15, 2008

    McCain on Faith

     McCain talks faith in a fascinating interview with the Chicago Tribune's Jill Zuckman -- and describes the little-known "church riot" he helped lead against his captors in Vietnam. The church riot erupted after U.S. Special Force...

  • August 15, 2008

    Obama's Abortion Challenge

    As the Democratic National Committee Convention approaches, the mandarins of the party, working with presumptive Presidential nominee Barack Obama, are scrambling to tailor a platform to garner the maximum number of votes come November. As has been t...

  • August 15, 2008

    Change comes to Obama fundraiser

    Ariel Investments LLC is laying off about 20% of its staff. After recent poor returns forced a retrenchment at the Chicago mutual fund manager founded by John W. Rogers Jr., one of Barack Obama's chief fundraisers. Reminding us that not all change is...

  • August 14, 2008

    Dem platform shaped to help Obama with abortion issue

    Kristin Jensen of Bloomberg reports on the efforts of Democrats to give the warm and fuzzies to voters who find abortion abhorrent.The party's platform supports the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court ruling that made abortion legal and adds a twist, sayi...

  • August 13, 2008

    Jeremiah Wright's Book Set to Hit Shelves in October (updated)

    Right at the end of New York magazine's cover story on Obama and race, a bit of news I hadn't yet heard: In October, Obama’s former pastor, Wright, will publish a new book and hit the road to promote it, an occasion that might well place the to...

  • August 12, 2008

    Obama's GOP roster share anti-Israel views (updated)

    Barack Obama claims that he is a post-partisan politician and promises he will work well with Republicans. This is contrary to his history in the Senate to date and also flies in the face of the National Journal, which found him to be the most libera...

  • August 12, 2008

    Obama claims to have been talking about South Ossetia

    Barack Obama took a couple minutues off of his Hawaiian idyll to offer a sound bite on the crisis in Georgia. We can hear his views on this video.  Note what he says at the 26 second mark:   "For many months I have warned that there ne...

  • August 12, 2008

    NY Sun: McCain 'more ready for the challenge than is Mr. Obama'

    The New York Sun ran an editorial today that lauds the promptness and the wisdom of John McCain's response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. McCain denounced Russia's invasion of Georgia and clearly called it for what it was: an assault on Wes...

  • August 12, 2008

    Barack Obama, Legal Scholar

    Barack Obama promises to accomplish quite a lot if he becomes our next President. These promises are symbolized in his campaign themes: hope and change. But just how likely is he to fulfill his own promise and the promises he has made to the American...

  • August 11, 2008

    NYT logic on Georgia war with Russia

    Georgia helping US and Iraqis in Iraq helped cause Russian invasion of Georgia, according to the New York Times.The training given to Georgians "emboldened" them to "enter a fight it could not win".Yes, Iraq is the "tar ...

  • August 9, 2008

    NY Times Portrayal of Detroit Mayor's Legal Problems

    Kwame Kilpatrick is not identified as a Democrat  but the Attorney General  who charged him with assualting two police officers is a Republican who is expected to run for Governor. Mike Cox has to reject a reporter'...

  • August 9, 2008

    Big Democratic Union Charged with Corruption

    The Service Employees International Union supposedly represents the interests of low-wage service employees-health care workers, janitorial staff and such. The Union has become one of the most powerful forces on the political level under its Pre...

  • August 8, 2008

    New Group targets GOP donors

    Today's New York Times article begins: Nearly 10,000 of the biggest donors to Republican candidates and causes across the country will probably receive a foreboding “warning” letter in the mail next week. and goes on to describe a ne...

  • August 8, 2008

    Asking kids to spy on their parents (again)

    In the days of Stalin and Mao, school children were encouraged to rat out their parents for politically incorrect thoughts expressed at home. Now it is the turn of the greenies in Europe to ape the totalitarians. David Pryce-Jones reports at National...

  • August 8, 2008

    Not the Kwame Kilpatrick I know' Obama might say

    Well there is Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr-race-mongering , anti-American demagogue and fabulist; there is Father Pfleger-like Wright, an acolyte and supporter of Louis Farrakhan; there is Bill Ayers-former Weatherman terrorist  who still har...

  • August 8, 2008

    Must Read of the Week

    Victor Davis Hanson hits another grand slam in today's column in the Washington Times on Barack Obama.Hanson notes that the man who ran as a post-racial healer has betrayed this promise as he regularly invokes the race card and as evidence emerged of...

  • August 8, 2008

    'ProPublica' Shills for the anti-energy crowd

    The launch of ProPublica was greeted with a bit of fanfare last year. ProPublica was formed through the efforts of the Herb an Marion Sandler who sold their Savings and Loan Company to Wachovia for billions of dollars with very good timing-considerin...

  • August 6, 2008

    Cracks beginning to show in Obama's exterior

    If you don't think Obama feels the pressure, check out his interview with the Las Vegas Sun's Jon Ralston: "I thought I was talking to you instead of debating John McCain, but I am happy to let you serve as his proxy. The fact of the matter is t...

  • August 6, 2008

    Obama's Muslim Affairs Advisor Resigns

    Barack Obama's Muslim Affairs adviser, Chicago lawyer Mazen Asbahi,  has resigned after an internet newsletter wrote about his stint on the board of an Islamic investment fund and his involvement in various Islamic groups.  He...

  • August 6, 2008

    Obama calls opponents of his energy plan 'ignorant'

    A new kind of politician, a new kind of politics. A man on a higher plane who is going to be positive and talk about the issues. The arrogance and the insults just keep leaking through, however.Recall the bitter small town people who cling to guns, t...

  • August 6, 2008

    Obama's 'Lost Year'

    Barack Obama has been skillful at trying to deflect attention from slices of his life that may embarrass him or cause political problems. He has written two books and in both of them deliberately ignored his work on behalf of a weekly newsletter conc...

  • August 5, 2008

    Hezb'allah's global reach

    Israelis active in the diamond industry in West Africa are reported to be considering evacuating, thanks to the threat they and their families feel from Hezb'allah, "the Party of Allah."  Haaretz reports:"The big problem for Israe...

  • August 5, 2008

    Surprise Poll Result in True Blue Massachusetts

    Now this is a barometer... "Barack Obama's lead plunges in Massachusettes". Barack Obama's lead over John McCain is plunging in the bluest of blue states-Massachusettes, the home state of two of his strongest Senate supporters-John Ker...

  • August 4, 2008

    Two new must read books on Obama

    Wandering through my neighborhood Borders this morning, I came across two new books on Barack Obama that based on a preliminary review offer very insightful information about him that all Americans should ponder before they pull the switch in Novembe...

  • August 4, 2008

    Obama's Craftiness

    Barack Obama is one crafty fellow, reaping political success out of career that got precious little done. He has accomplished very little legislatively in his entire career; his vaunted accomplishments in the Illinois Senate were more the result...

  • July 31, 2008

    Where in the World is Obama's Missing Thesis?

    Barack Obama wrote his senior thesis at Columbia University on Soviet nuclear disarmament. Inquiring people have sought a copy of this thesis to no avail. Columbia says it cannot be found; Barack Obama says he lost it. How likely is that a perso...

  • July 31, 2008

    Red, white, and blue coffeehouse

    In a welcome reversal of history, where coffee houses were associated with Beatnicks and then with Millenials, there is now a coffee shop opens for us conservatives. There is now a cafe that serves up coffee with a "conservative flavor...

  • July 31, 2008

    'Wild Bill' Obama

    We get it, Senator. Barack Obama has claimed solid Kansas values (though he grew up overseas and his fathers were both from overseas). He claims the 1965 March on Selma resulted in his conception in 1961 (not only is he the Messiah but...

  • July 30, 2008

    Obama and Likud

    Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has announced his intention to step down from leadership of Israel, and polls show that Likud Party leader Benjamin Netanyahu may emerge as the next Prime Minister of Israel. Barack Obama has made clear his attitud...

  • July 30, 2008

    Obama's Surprise Hiring at U. of C.

    Volokh Conspiracy's David Bernstein, a law professor at George Mason University,  poses an interesting question: did the University of Chicago lower its standards when they offered him a spot on its law school faculty?He would be given tenu...

  • July 29, 2008

    Jamie Gorelick's Cloudy Memory

    Jamie Gorelick writes an op-ed complaining about the politicization of the Department of Justice regarding the recruitment of U.S. Attorneys during the Bush Administration. She makes it appear as if the ability to hire and fire US attorneys were...

  • July 28, 2008

    Iran's 'preconditions' to meet with a President Obama

    Selig Harrison writes a column that ran in the current Newsweek (the Obama campaign's house organ) that channels the views of the Iranian regime about the preconditions they would demand of President Obama should he wish to negotiate with Iran. ...

  • July 27, 2008

    Obama Disparged Foreign Trips in the past

    Gee..I wonder if this foreign travel is the same type of Congressional trip Obam has disparaged in the past? Or did he enjoy this trip because it paid political benefits for him?What has been little recognized is that Barack Obama's victory tour over...

  • July 27, 2008

    Barack Obama's Curious Rabbi

    In a Chicago Sun-Times piece published today  , Rabbi  Arnold Wolf again praises Barack Obama and vouches for him when it comes to his foreign policy and views towards Israel. He also claims to have been a classmate of Paul W...

  • July 24, 2008

    Dems won't help reform military voting

    Democrats: Party of the common man, right? Democrats: The party who support extended voting rights to all people of America - even illegal immigrants (on the local level of voting). Democrats: The party who promote the granting of voting rights to fe...

  • July 24, 2008

    Latest Jeremaid from the Times' Kristof

    Nicholas Kristof, New York Times columnist, has repeatedly supported and proclaimed the innocence of Sami Al-Arian ( a University of Florida indicted for helping fund the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group-responsible for the murder of Israe...

  • July 24, 2008

    Read it and weep

    Standard and Poor's says it may cut its rating on the NYT to "junk" status. So the company -- which continually degrades the quality of its editorial product with cutbacks and accelerating bias -- is lifting prices on its newspaper. In an e...

  • July 23, 2008

    The problem of Obama's moral relativism

    Senator Obama seems to be engaging in the same type of moral relativism that is at the heart of the failure to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Jennifer Rubin, writing in Commentary Contentions, continues her masterful coverage of Barack Oba...

  • July 23, 2008

    Residency issues/tax issues dog Wexler (extensively updated)

    One of Barack Obama's strongest Congressional supporters may not even be a resident of the district he has represented in Congress.  Robert Wexler, a Democrat, is being accused by his Republican opponent in an upcoming election of "pla...

  • July 22, 2008

    Fawning, groveling, Euro-lickspittle Press for Obama

    Politico is reporting this but I'm not believing it. The Associated Press used to be - in its heyday - a reliable source for unvarnished news. They had to be. Hundreds of newspapers across the country used AP wire reports in their papers and trusted ...

  • July 22, 2008

    Abu Dhabi Buys Big Stake in GE

    The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Mubadala Development, one of the most active of Abu Dhabi's investment firms, is staking $8 billion on an investment in General Electric. They will supply about $4 billion in equity to "jointly set up a ...

  • July 21, 2008

    Republicans Could Tap a Gusher of Support Off the California Coast

    California's politicians have long opposed efforts to tap that state's (and other states') vast offshore oil reserves. Nancy Pelosi controls the legislative calendar from her perch as Speaker of the House and can decide which legislation sees the lig...

  • July 20, 2008

    Sorry - Wrong Kennedy

    There has been much a do about the supposed parallels between John F. Kennedy and Barack Obama. These comparisons (charismatic speaker who fills his speeches with inspiring rhetoric, although Obama's is rather light on conveying the strength and...

  • July 19, 2008

    Al Qaeda on the ropes

    Are the signs of increased violence in Pakistan/Afghanistan a sign hat AQ is on its last legs, and that they have lost their grip in the Arab world? Ralph Peters, writing in the New York Post, thinks AQ is on the ropes:Yes, al Qaeda had little or no ...

  • July 18, 2008

    Lebanese terrorist praises Zionists

    Simple message: Israelis care about their people (dead or alive); Arab leaders do not. The Jerusalem Post reports: "I'm jealous of the Zionists, who don't spare any effort to bring back captured soldiers or soldiers' bodies," convicted kill...

  • July 17, 2008

    Jewish voters and Obama

    Liberal media outlets are anxious to deny that Barack Obama has a problem with support from Jewish voters. Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic derisively employed the term "Jewish Problem" (a historically loaded expression) to dismiss reports tha...

  • July 17, 2008

    Network Anchors to Give Obama Campaign Doting Coverage Overseas

    This article  (in the New York Times, no less) makes clear that bias is effecting the campaign of Barack Obama. But it is not the bias that first might come to mind. Instead of racial bias, we have on full display the media's campaign to elect B...

  • July 17, 2008

    Obama Runs from Daily Kos Netroots

    Eager to disassociate himself-at least optically-from the far left activists of his party, presumptive Democratic nominee stiffs the annual convention of Netroots Nation. In contrast to past behavior, he is choosing to sit out this year's convention....

  • July 16, 2008

    How Wrong are the Democrats on Drilling?

    A common response of the Democrats when confronted with citizens advocating for increased offshore drilling is that the results are "years off into the future" and therefore any relief on gas prices would be unlikely-at least in any sort of...

  • July 16, 2008

    How serious is Iran about talking to the United States?

    When I first read that the State Department was sending  William Burns, under secretary of state for political affairs, to attend a meeting with the European Unions' policy chief and Iran's nuclear negotiator, I wondered if this might redou...

  • July 15, 2008

    An Ad Campaign that McCain should adopt

    The Washington Post political columnist Chris Cillizza writes about a very effective ad campaign started by Senator Norm Coleman of Minnesota that may hold promise not just for Coleman (who faces a well-funded, if controversial, opponent-comedian Al ...

  • July 14, 2008

    Obama Re-invents his Trinity Church History

    An interesting nugget from Newsweek's cover story on Obama and his faith:As young marrieds, Barack and Michelle (who also didn't go to church regularly as a child) went to church fairly often-two or three times a month. But after their first child, M...

  • July 13, 2008

    The New Yorker investigates Chicago influences on Obama

    Ryan Lizza writes a New Yorker article entitled "Making it: How Chicago shaped Obama."  If you ask me, Barack Obama does not come off well here. Calculating politicians, ready to find scapegoats and godfather to pull levers for hi...

  • July 10, 2008

    Rep. Wexler's Shameless Misinformation Campaign

    Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's leading Congressional cheerleader and the man who has worked mightily to convince supporters of the American-Israel alliance that Obama can be relied upon to enhance Israel's security against Iranian threats to destroy i...

  • July 9, 2008

    Do Democrats Care about Chavez and his Oppression of the Jews?

    American Thinker has long noted that many leading Democrats seem to have a special warm spot for Hugo Chavez, the increasingly dictatorial President of Venezuala. He is a supporter of the FARC terrorist group operating inside our ally Colombia's terr...

  • July 4, 2008

    A Lightbulb Goes off over the NY Times Head

    A shocker from the paper that has all but promoted the candidacy of Barack Obama. They find some major league faults with the new Barack Obama. In the past the paper has all but deified Barack Obama. The news section has underreported - or not report...

  • July 3, 2008

    Why is the New York Times Getting Hysterical about McCain's Possible SCOTUS Picks?

    The New York Times is upset that a McCain victory would have all sorts of dastardly implications for a "far right" Supreme Court. But the facts of this campaign simply doesn't bear that out and makes the Times look like a bunch of hyst...

  • July 3, 2008

    A Rising GOP Star

    Two blogs we highly regard - Powerline and Jewish Current Issues (JCI) - highlight today the budding career of a young Republican who has made quite a splash in his hometown of Cleveland, Ohio; Josh Mandel. Given the upcoming July4th holiday, we woul...

  • July 2, 2008

    The Obamas' mortgage (cont.) (updated)

    The Washington Post today reports on Barack and Michelle Obama's favorable mortgage terms obtained from Northern Trust in Chicago. The beneficial aspects of this mortage were first rpeorted in my article yesterday.It is absurd for the Obama...

  • July 1, 2008

    Clark Finds a Home Among Obama Advisors (updated)

    On Sunday, Wes Clark, who had been on Hillary Clinton's campaign list of advisers, seems to have adroitly switched sides to support Barack Obama and did so in a very maladroit way. He impugned the character of John McCain and his war-record on Meet T...

  • June 29, 2008

    Wexler's hyperbole on Obama

    Congressman Robert Wexler (D-FL) has often been hyperbolic* in touting the candidacy of Barack Obama for President. He has stated that Barack Obama "loves Israel" based on a single 5-day visit -- a visit that Barack Obama may have disp...

  • June 29, 2008

    A pander too far?

    True to form, the man who claims he is not a typical politician and who claims he won't cater to special interests caters to the one group that he has most trouble with politically: seniors. Deborah Solomon writes in the Wall Street Journal:In a bid ...

  • June 27, 2008

    Solar energy and environmental regulation

    Solar energy, held up as our future by utopians, is encountering problems with environmental regulators. The federal government has put a moratorium on future solar power efforts on public lands. This may last up to two years. Dan Frosch of the New Y...

  • June 27, 2008

    Obama and the other SCOTUS decision

    Although overshadowed by the Second Amendment ruling, yesterday the SCOTUS also overturned part of McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform. One beneficiary of this overturned provision of the law was Barack Obama. Barack Obama capitalized on the so-c...

  • June 26, 2008

    Justice Kennedy dreams up a national consensus

    Is Justice Kennedy dishonest, delusional or simply misinformed in his opinion striking down the death penalty for child rape, claiming a "national consensus"? Maybe, given his internationalist orientation, he cares more about the consensus ...

  • June 25, 2008

    Nader on Obama

    Enter Ralph Nader, dropping the insight that, in his opinion, Obama "talks white." "He wants to appeal to white guilt," Nader says in an interview with M.E. Sprengelmeyer of the Rocky Mountain News. "You appeal to white guilt...

  • June 25, 2008

    A Tale of Two Churches

    There have been over the last few years concerted efforts among pro-Palestinian activists, anti-Israel activists in various denominations to compel their governing bodies to take anti-Israel actions. These have included divestment calls (sell st...

  • June 24, 2008

    TNR's Peretz Misstates Obama's NIE-Iran Position

    The New Republic's Marty Peretz, who has been touting the candidacy of Barack Obama for many months now-even resorting to distorting the role of foreign pllicy adviser Robert Malley in Obama's campaign-* has this statement today on his blog...

  • June 20, 2008

    NY Times Editorial Writers Don't read their own newspaper

    In the lead editorial Public Funding on the Ropes, the New York Times seems to go out of its way to make the claim that Obama is rejecting public financing for the Presidential campaign because he must battle so-called 527 groups that exist...

  • June 20, 2008

    McCain's veepstakes

    McCain's campaign is, sad to say, a disorganized mess. Who can change this?Romney is a master organizer. And it looks like Michigan, where the Romney name has magic, is looking increasingly crucial....

  • June 19, 2008

    Obama Backtracks on Pledge to Consider Military Option Against Iran

    Periodically, Barack Obama tries to bolster his foreign policy and national security credentials by making statements along the lines of "all options are on the table" regarding Iran's nuclear efforts. This implies that one of those options...

  • June 19, 2008

    Hugo Chazvez and Hezb'allah

    Hugo Chavez is found to host within his diplomatic corps a supporter and facilitator of the Hezb'allah terror group. The Bush Administration has acted against this official, freezing his financial accounts. Not the first time, Chavez is found to do t...

  • June 18, 2008

    Michelle's Makeover

    The N.Y. Times' Michael Powell and Jodi Kantor report that her husband's campaign is giving Mrs. Obama's 'image a subtle makeover, with a new speech in the works to emphasize her humble roots.' They report that the guest turn on 'The View' is aimed a...

  • June 18, 2008

    Did Barack Obama disparage his trip to Israel?

    Barack Obama's views towards Israel have elicited much controversy over the last six months involving his relationship with his pastor (and "sounding board", "moral compass" and "confidant") Jeremiah Wright, his activiti...

  • June 16, 2008

    Dude, where's my bounce?

    Gallup reports  that Barack Obama's 7 point bounce after presumably clinching the nomination has all but vanished into a statistical tie with McCain at 44-42. Fifteen percent of those polled do not back either, with 8 percent stating they will n...

  • June 15, 2008

    Expect a flood of similar images of Obama (updated)

    Obama lifting dirt into sandbags at the Iowa floods. This will be another way to imprint the idea "Obama is young and energetic; fit for the office"; McCain is too old and not up to the task.We saw it, too, with the bike-riding. Obama ...

  • June 13, 2008

    Times reporter all wet in her Gitmo Case Conclusions

    I don't think the muddle over habeas corpus would be resolved if Guantanamo Bay (Gitmo) were closed, as Linda Greenhouse asserts in today's artice on the Supreme Court decision granting habeas corpus rights to prisoners detained in the war ...

  • June 11, 2008

    Albright pointing fingers in the wrong direction - again

    Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has yet another Bush-bashing and self-serving column out in today's New York Times. She blames the Iraq War for the  junta in Myanmar's refusal to allow emergency relief supplies to reach its peo...

  • June 11, 2008

    Michelle Obama to co-host 'The View'

    Michelle Obama to co-host  next week the vastly popular The View. It will befree advertising (not that the Obama campaign needs any)  that reaches a key demographic group that has eluded the clutches of Obamamania....Team Obama is hoping fo...

  • June 11, 2008

    Obama's Defense Policy

    Barack Obama's defense policy plans threaten foreign policy consequences inimical to American interests, and would pose perilous problems for some of our key allies around the world, should he assume the Presidency.Senator Obama has made quite clear ...

  • June 10, 2008

    More 'Malarkey' from Congressman Markey

    American Thinker has commented before on Edward Markey's affection for America's enemies (for example, Venezuelan tyrant-in-the making Hugo Chavez ). Now we have this principle on display again (with an added dash of hypocrisy) when it comes to ...

  • June 9, 2008

    Terrorist waiting to deal with next president

    Brig. General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the  terror group the Iranian Revolutionary Guard is biding his time, afraid to stoke terror while President Bush is in his waning days in the Oval Office. Instead, says Washing...

  • June 9, 2008

    Columbia University MidEast Studies professor blames West for gays in Muslim lands

    Columbia University professor Joseph Massad numbers one more mark against the West. This professor hails from the same department that hosted Edward Said and now hosts, in the Edward Said Professor of Arab Studies chair, Barack Obama friend and fierc...

  • June 8, 2008

    Another questionable Obama veep panel member

    Why does Barack Obama have trouble finding untainted members for his three person panel vetting vice presidential candidates?Eric Holder vetted the March Rich pardon for Bill Clinton. That bad judgment should disqualify him. Now comes news that a sec...

  • June 7, 2008

    Return of the 'misery index'

    Jimmy Carter popularized the term "misery index", which is an economic indicator created by economist Arthur Okun that adds the unemployment rate to the inflation rate, when he ran against Gerald Ford in 1976. Carter stated that no man...

  • June 6, 2008

    The Fine Art of Blaming America for Everything

    The source of the liberal, far-left mindset, blame America, counsels isolationism in the face of threats, standing down instead of standing up for people in distress who labor under dictatorial rule. This is not a policy that John F. Kennedy would fo...

  • June 5, 2008

    Obama's discourtesy to Lieberman

    In public, on the floor of the Senate, Barack Obama uses his physical size and strength against an older man. Senator Obama had some tough talk for Senator Joe Lieberman on the floor of the Senate over Lieberman's support for John McCain and he deliv...

  • May 30, 2008

    Obama Far Ahead in Internet Sophistication

    The Christian Science Monitor's Dante Chinni takes note of some Obama e-mails that serve a few different purposes: "His campaign has proven to have the upper hand in organizing with the Web and e-mail," Chinni reports "About a week ago...

  • May 30, 2008

    Contrasting McCain-Obama views on Israel and the Middle East

    A week or so ago, Jeff Goldberg had a brief Q and A with Democratic Presidential candidate Barack Obama regarding his views of the Middle East. The interview elicited some controversy. Barack Obama called the conflict between Israel and the Palestini...

  • May 30, 2008

    Father Pfleger's Support for Farrakhan

    When the Illinois Hate Commission was found to have on its board. a Nation of Islam member- Sister Claudette Marie Muhammed who proudly stood up for Louis Farrakhan, the notoriously anti-white and anti-Semitic Minister (or as Barack Obama refers to h...

  • May 27, 2008

    Getting off Hugo Chavez's payroll

    Among the more shameful political episodes in local American and British politics of the last few years, the accepting of subsidized oil from Marxist dictator-wannabe Hugo Chavez ranks among the most obvious. The new mayor of London, Boris Johnson ha...

  • May 27, 2008

    Obama Advisor Accuses Jews of 'McCarthyism'

    A foreign policy adviser of presidential candidate Barack Obama, Zbigniew Brzezinski, accused members of the American Jewish establishment of "McCarthyism" in its attitude towards critics of Israel. He called the pro-Israel lobby "too ...

  • May 23, 2008

    Obama's Empty Words on Supporting Israel

    Barack Obama on the campaign trail has been trying to defuse concerns among pro-Israel Americans regarding his sincerity and the level of support he feels for the American -Israel relationship. One line that he uses on the stump is a promise of an ...

  • May 23, 2008

    NY Sun on Obama

    Some readers may recall that the New York Sun had one supportive editorial many months ago regarding Senator Obama. The campaign has routinely used that column to build support in the pro-Israel community. The campaign, understandably enough, has not...

  • May 23, 2008

    Damning McCain's health with faint praise

    "Appears" to be in good health is a common trope in media coverage. I never had such a statement made to me by my doctor. Aside from that ambiguous, at best, term there is more, Rick Klein and John Santucci OF abc'S Politics blog review som...

  • May 22, 2008

    Yet more Obama positions on Iran

    Barack Obama has a growing number of positions on how to deal with Iran. Yesterday, James Taranto in his Best of the Web column  noted that blogger Lance Adams reported on Barack Obama expressing a different perspective toward...

  • May 21, 2008

    Victory for Truth in Al-Dura Case

    There are reports coming in from France that a French Court has overturned a libel verdict  against Philippe Karsenty who has courageously challenged the veracity of French journalist's Charles Enderlin's filmed account of a battle that occurred...

  • May 20, 2008

    Obama and the Jews

    Bret Stephens warns against American Jewry spurning outreach by Barack Obama in an otherwise critical Wall Street Journal column about the presidential candidate and his views toward Israel.  As a matter of fact, there has been plenty of ...

  • May 20, 2008

    The Obama-Ahmedinejad Summit

    "Obama is the only major candidate who supports tough, direct, presidential diplomacy with Iran without preconditions."   - Barackobama.comBarack Obama has enshrined the principle of unconditional summitry with Iran as one of the centr...

  • May 18, 2008

    The Myth of 'Anonymous Emails" Against Obama

    How often have we seen news reports (like this) that refer to "anonymous emails" regarding Barack Obama? This term is frequently used to characterize any sort of criticisms or questions raised about Barack Obama and to dismiss them if ...

  • May 17, 2008

    Samantha Power - New Age Priestess

    It is startling to think that Barack Obama had -- and may very well still --  have plans to include a person who talks about his "gloablized being" as a key member of his foreign policy team. A New Age priestess who will dwell at...

  • May 16, 2008

    Obama Thinks Hamas, Hezb'allah Have Legiimate Grievances

    In an interview with New York Times columnist David Brooks , Barack Obama was asked about the statement he released regarding the situation in Lebanon. Specifically this statement was in issue:       all those who have influence w...

  • May 16, 2008

    More 'Chicago Way' Politics from Obama

    ABC News, the only news outlet among the Big 3 of the old network news shows doing commendable work covering Barack Obama, has a report that Barack Obama boasted about steering large amounts of state money to African-American owned investment firms i...

  • May 15, 2008

    Euro-appeasers can't wait for Obama Presidency

    What kind of political change is a major  European energy company waiting for to avoid the issue of sanctions on Iran?The Austrian oil and gas company, OMV, signed a huge energy investing deal with Iran to develop its energy resources in 2007. T...

  • May 15, 2008

    Mowbray on the Hagee Smear

    The Barack Obama campaign has been in full denial mode regarding his relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright; denials that have proven flimsy as more revelations have come to light regarding the close ties between the Obama family and Pastor Wright ...

  • May 14, 2008

    Obama's profile in exaggeration

    Barack Obama is developing a credibility problem. Even with some members of the MSM. The man who poses as above "old politics" knows how to spin. The latest example to come to our attention comes from Justin Hyde of the Detroit Free Press....

  • May 13, 2008

    The Fate of Jerusalem under a President Obama

    Senator Obama's newest Middle East Advisor Daniel Kurtzer, of whom we have written about here  has recently telegraphed that an Obama Administration will place the fate of Jerusalem as part of the peace process that a future Obama Administration...

  • May 13, 2008

    Obama's Attitude on Lebanon, and the Palestinians

    The dire events on Lebanon have given us an opportunity to discover Senator Barack Obama's worldview and how it  might influence his policies towards the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians. Over the last few days, the Shiite and Irania...

  • May 11, 2008

    Obama abandons American workers

    Barack Obama talks the talk when addressing union audiences, hitting the notes they want to hear about NAFTA and the job losses he and they attribute to lowering trade barriers. But when it comes to supporting domestic industries, he tells American w...

  • May 10, 2008

    Obama backer's undisclosed conflict of interest

    For the last few months I have been wondering why Martin Peretz -- a major supporter of Barack Obama who has used his perch as former editor-in-chief (now contributor) at the influential magazine The New Republic to promote his candidacy --...

  • May 5, 2008

    Obama's Judicial Philosophy Still a Puzzle

    Does the consitutional law lecturer and Harvard Law graduate (let alone President of the Harvard Law Review) know that the Constituiton states that the President has the duty "to take care that the laws be faithfully executed"? Then again, ...

  • May 5, 2008

    Media Turning on Obama

    So once it becomes clear that Barack Obama will get the nomination, it is legitimate to scrutinize him? How fair to Hillary, how devoted to keeping the nation informed, how wonderful many in the media are about fulfilling their journalistic responsib...

  • May 5, 2008

    Barack Obama's Goldmine

    An odd dynamic is at work as the primaries wind down, one that has made victory for Barack Obama all but certain, despite plummeting poll numbers. Clinton may be rising in the polls, racking up primary victories and, judging by the polls, would be a ...

  • May 4, 2008

    Double standards in Frank Rich's column

    Frank Rich on the New York Times attempts to link John McCain to Pastor John Hagee, as a means of lessening the impact of Jeremiah Wright's hatred of America on the Obama campaign. In the end, all he succeeds in doing is demonstrating that the Pastor...

  • May 3, 2008

    Time Magazine plays an absurd race card

    Time Magazine makes an absurd charge of racism:"Associating Obama with Wright's radical views raises the specter of racial stereotyping. Those who impute to Obama radical views about AIDS, Israel or black nationalism are knowingly discounting hi...

  • April 30, 2008

    How dumb does Obama think we are?

    Barack Obama has a pattern of dealing with political problems by denial. He denies that this person or that person is his foreign policy adviser;  he denied a close relationship with Pastor Jeremiah Wright, yesterday -- he called  Wright ju...

  • April 30, 2008

    I wonder who The New York Times Supports in this Campaign?

    The Times equates Pastor Wright's racism to what the paper writes is the "bigotry" of the "prominent white supporter" of  John McCain, Pastor John Hagee. This defies rationality. Has Hagee expressed anti-black racism, as...

  • April 30, 2008

    Rev. Wright's Middle East Views

    Pastor Jeremiah Wright's harsh jeremiads against America and Israel have roiled the presidential campaign of Barack Obama. Senator Obama tried to explain Wright's views towards America in a Philadelphia speech to address the controvers...

  • April 25, 2008

    Obama campaign manager: Racists support McCain and the GOP

    File under: Obama, The Great Uniter. Ben Smith reports in the Politico: David Plouffe tells Linda Douglass that real racists are probably voting Republican in any case:"[T]he vast, vast majority of voters who would not vote for Barack Obama...

  • April 25, 2008

    Obama Keeps Hiring Anti-Israeli Advisors

    Commentary Magazine's Gabriel Schoenfeld has noted that another Obama adviser, Joseph Cirincione, seems to have anti-Israel views. His senior aide on nuclear non-proliferation had denounced reports that North Korea had been helping Syria build a nucl...

  • April 25, 2008

    Will Obama's followers get disillusioned?

    Barack Obama's foreign policy advisers are clearly hedging on his campaign promise to withdraw from Iraq -- a key plank of his platform, and a stance that propelled him into the hearts of the left wing of the Democratic Party and to delegate lea...

  • April 25, 2008

    Bill Ayers and the Subversion of Education

    Barack Obama's longstanding ties to Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn have elicited a great deal of controversy and have weakened his campaign. Senator Obama attempted to distance himself from this dynamite duo -- as he has distanced himself from his ...

  • April 23, 2008

    Electoral map of Pennsylvania (updated)

    Google has produced an interesting map showing the results of the Pennsylvania primary by county. It is reminiscent of the last two presidential maps by county, but actually provides more data than just red or blue coloring. Click here. Update: ...

  • April 22, 2008

    Obama Now Hiding from the Press

    Barack Obama has glorified the role of words in moving history. He has relied on his oratory to propel his campaign. He has also advocated transparency and openness. Indeed he has made the public part of his campaign (Yes We Can). Nevertheless, in th...

  • April 22, 2008

    Rupert Murdoch puts the squeeze on Pinch Sulzberger

    Rupert Murdoch, fresh off buying of Wall Street Journal, launches another blow against the New York Times. Murdoch's News Corporation is in a deal to purchase Newsday from the Tribune Company. Newsday is a paper published for Long Islanders, who cons...

  • April 18, 2008

    Obama's Terrorist Pal

    William Ayers has been one of the many friends and supporters of Senator Barack Obama who have given Americans qualms about what Obama's ideology is and what policies he may put into practice as President. There is quite a cast of characters that sur...

  • April 14, 2008

    Driving us to 'Distraction'

    Note how frequently Obama waves away legitimate criticism by depicting them as "distractions." Last night in Pennsylvania  he deflected criticism regarding his remarks about small town Americans and their crutches of religion, gun...

  • April 10, 2008

    Obama's New Foreign Policy Advisor Daniel Kurtzer

    Some of Barack Obama's foreign  policy advisors  have caused controversy. In a bid to assuage the concerns of millions of Americans regarding his foreign policy plans, the campaign has been engaged in a bit of a shell game, spinning th...

  • April 9, 2008

    'Get me more white people'

    Do you recall those internet rumors that some outlets were darkening the tone of Barack Obama in order so send a subliminal message ? Remember the use of the race card by the Obama campaign to disparage questions and criticism of him by suggesti...

  • April 8, 2008

    The media free pass for Obama half-truths

    Two Redstate.com writers chronicle the giant pass most of the media grant to Barack Obama for what could most charitably be termed his half truths.Soren Dayton writes Barack Obama is running on a new kind of politics: dishonesty and half-truths. That...

  • April 8, 2008

    Obama's other spiritual mentor

    David Kopel pens a must-read essay on Obama's other spiritual mentor (his own term), Rev. Michael Pfleger. As a state legislator, Obama helped Pfleger's church get a $225,000 grant from the state. Volokh details the radical activities of this ex...

  • April 6, 2008

    The Least Independent of 'Independent Experts' Around

    Fresh from writing an op-ed for the Chicago Tribune extolling Barack Obama , Larry Korb now disparages General Petraeus in the New York Times  and preemptively belittles what is expected to be a fairly optimistic report on the sit...

  • April 4, 2008

    The McCain Family in Iraq

     Could You Picture a Presidential Candidate With Two Sons in Iraq? I knew one of McCain's sons had served in Iraq recently. The Hill suggests that by fall, two of McCain's sons may be serving there. Go ahead, lefty bloggers. Call the man a craze...

  • March 31, 2008

    Which change can you believe in? (updated)

    Barack Obama contradicts himself, trying to minimize his relationship to Pastor Wright. On The View: I feel badly that he has been characterized in just this one way. But he was my pastor. I think people overstate this idea of mentor or spiritual adv...

  • March 25, 2008

    Another Obama Advisor with Anti-Israeli Views

    Earlier in the year, American Thinker published an article "Barack Obama and Israel"  which wondered why Barack Obama seemingly had a proclivity to tie himself to people who have very problematic attitudes towards Israel. These include...

  • March 24, 2008

    Pastor Wright's Church and President Bush's program (updated)

    It looks as though Trinity United Church of Christ signed up for President Bush's Faith-based Community Initiatives Program. From the HHS website:Under its Minority Community Health Coalition Demonstration Grant Program for HIV/AIDS, HHS' Office of M...

  • March 24, 2008

    Obama's grandparents confronted racism in the white community

    Judith Apter Klinghofer compares  the story Obama has been telling about his "typical white" grandmother with the stories he told in his book about his grandparents.  There is ample evidence from his own hand that both grandparent...

  • March 24, 2008

    Obama a victim of Senate votes

    Democrat Presidential candidate Barack Obama engages in more obfuscation to bolster his sinking poll numbers. Stung by the Jeremiah Wright sermon tapes, Obama spins a new story to try to regain support from the independents and Reagan ...

  • March 21, 2008

    Hamas op-ed on Rev Wright's 'Pastor's Page'

    Blogger Tim Blumer did the work the MSM wouldn't, and examined the back issues of the Trinity United Church of Christ's Bulletin. One issue carried on the "Pastor's Page"  a pro-Hamas editorial by Mousa Abu Mazook, a high-ranking ...

  • March 21, 2008

    Obama's defihition of 'controversial'

    For all his gifts with words, Barack Obama is raising more questions as he speaks about his relationship with Pastor Wright without benefit of the careful scripting of a speech. Rich Lowry writes in the New York Post:In earlier interviews, Obama...

  • March 20, 2008

    Pastor Wright insulted Condoleeza Rice

    Pastor Jeremiah Wright insulted, in a vile, sexist and racist manner, the Secretary of State. From ABC News’ The Blotter:In April 2003, Rev. Wright told his congregation that "the United States government has failed the vast majority of ou...

  • March 19, 2008

    The Children of Hypocrisy

    Bararck Obama's speech in Philadelphia sought to quell the uproar over the "controversial" comments (and ideology) of Pastor Jeremiah Wright, Jr. by placing such feelings in the context of a history of racial problems in America. But there ...

  • March 16, 2008

    Kissing Robert Malley

    Today's New York Times carries a puff piece on Robert Malley, a figure of some controversy because of his involvement in the Barack Obama campaign and for his views that are considered by many (with good reason) to be harshly critical ...

  • March 15, 2008

    Obama 12 years ago

    Barack Obama, the uniter across party lines, across religions, across racial divides, wasn't always Mr. Sunshine.   He had a different view 12 years ago, when his campaign was more localized.He was 34 years old: a graduate of Columbia Unive...

  • March 14, 2008

    Barack Obama and judgment (continued)

    Barack Obama exposes his daughters to the rants of Pastor Wright. How is that for judgment and responsibility? He is their spiritual teacher.Perhaps he says to his children, "Well, don't believe everything he says...."What kind of message...

  • March 14, 2008

    Obama releases earmark requests for last three years

    I don't know if this revelation will hurt Obama or not. It may just be a one day scandal. Nevertheless, one of Obama's Earmarks was requested for the Hospital That Employs Michelle Obama.Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the li...

  • March 14, 2008

    Senator Obama's Foreign Policy Judgment

    Senator Obama's foreign policy views and staff of advisers has generated a degree of controversy culminating this week with the resignation of his closest foreign policy adviser, Samantha Power, in the wake of a series of shocking comments made while...

  • March 11, 2008

    NYT editorial on Spitzer's 'tragedy'

    It turns out that the "tragedy" includes the fact that his opponents on Wall Street and the GOP get to laugh at his hypocrisy.  A further tragedy here, beyond the personal one of the Spitzer family and the damage he has done to the ref...

  • March 7, 2008

    More Obama amateur hour diplomacy (updated -- Power resigns)

    Samantha Power, Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisor, has now compiled quite  record of statements that raise the question of Senator Obama's judgment in choosing her to be his foreign policy major domo. We have commented before on a long s...

  • March 6, 2008

    Top Obama advisor tells the truth

    A classic gaffe -- telling the truth by mistake -- was committed by Susan Rice, the Barack Obama foreign policy advisor.Jim Gerraghty of NRO's The Campaign Spot caught it: Speaking of the famous 3 AM phone call commercial, Ms. Rice stated:"Clint...

  • March 6, 2008

    Obama Senior Adviser blames Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism

    Barack Obama's most senior military adviser retired General Merrill McPeak, blames President George Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism. This is a shocking statement by any standards and provides people with even greater reasons to have qualms abou...

  • March 6, 2008

    Samantha Power unplugged (updated)

    Samantha Power, Senator Barack Obama's key foreign policy adviser, is traveling through Europe promoting her new book on Sergio Vieira de Mello, the United Nations official killed a few years ago In Iraq. She has been doing a series of interviews whe...

  • March 5, 2008

    Obama senior advisor blames Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism

    Senator Barack Obama's most senior military advisor, retired General Merrill McPeak, blames President George Bush for Iran's anti-Americanism. This is a shocking statement by any standard and provides people with even greater reasons to have qua...

  • March 5, 2008

    Samantha Power and Senator Obama OK with 'equivalent of ethnic cleansing'?

    Kellie of the blog Air Force Amazons listened to a broadcast recently on BBC radio that featured, among others, Samantha Power, one of Barack Obama's top foreign policy advisors. Their ties are solid and indisputable. We have been crit...

  • March 4, 2008

    The Democrats Embrace of Chavez - Revisited

    American Thinker published an article " Democrats and the anti-Semitism of Hugo Chavez" in late September of 2006. The article pointed out that Jimmy carter certified his "election" back then-though its legitimacy was criticized i...

  • March 4, 2008

    Will a President Obama Boycott Durban II?

    Here is an interesting logical exercise. Senator Obama has expressed a willingness to meet with the leaders of Iran, Syria, Cuba...well you get the idea. A President Obama would want to-in modern parlance "dialogue" with everyone. This...

  • March 3, 2008

    Obama's Power politics

    Martin Kramer takes on Samantha Power, the important Barack Obama foreign policy advisor, someone with a history of hostility toward Israel. It is a long and worthwhile read.Samantha Power has been on a book tour throughout America. She has been atte...

  • February 26, 2008

    Obama's foreign policy inexperience v. JFK's

    Obama partisans love to compare their man to JFK, at least in terms of appeal and youth. Rowan Scarborough of the Washington Times quotes  Obama advisor Lawrence Korb minimizing Obama's inexperience in foreign policy with a JFK comparison:Lawren...

  • February 26, 2008

    Senator Obama's Coming Out Party in Cleveland

    There has been a great deal of controversy generated over Senator Barack Obama's views towards Israel and the America-Israel relationship. The arguments  have revolved around his close associations with people who harbor problematic views toward...

  • February 24, 2008

    Ralph Nader says Obama censors his real political views

    Obama supporters claim that their man is a supporter of Israel. Ralph Nader disagrees. Nader credited Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), who leads the Democratic nomination race, with being "the first liberal evangelist in a long time." But Nader sa...

  • February 18, 2008

    Obama the Messiah

    It was inevitable. There is now a blog following references to Barack Obama as something more than an ordinary politician. http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/...

  • February 18, 2008

    Obama encounters media skepticism

    We live in an age of cynicism, so perhaps Barack Obama's vapidities will turn enough of the mainstream media into skeptics to burst his bubble a bit. After all, young people, the core of his enthusiastic and adulatory support, are alos prone to doubt...

  • February 14, 2008

    Odd, almost comic headline in the NYT

    We know the NYT avoids the use of the word  "terrorists" to describe, well, terrorists but this twisted headline shows the absurd lengths to which the paper will go to to follow their principle that no man is a "terrorist...

  • February 13, 2008

    Will the real Marty Peretz Please Stand Up?

    First, at the end of December The New Republic's Martin Peretz writes that he is has qualms with Obama's Foreign Policy advisers and lists, in particular, Zbigniew Brzezenski, Anthony Lake, Susan Rice, and Robert Malley as being sources of ...

  • February 6, 2008

    Ok... so are Democrats racists?

    Amy Goldstein of the Washington Post reports on the actual behavior of Democrat voters:Yesterday's primary voting laid bare a profound racial and ethnic divide among Democratic voters, with African Americans overwhelmingly preferring Sen. Barack Obam...

  • January 30, 2008

    Obama plans to organize a Muslim summit

    Barack Obama told a French magazine that he would organize a summit of the Muslim world if he is elected. AFP reports:Muslim and Western leaders would be invited to the summit for "a discussion about how we can prevent the widening misunderstand...

  • January 23, 2008

    Barack Obama's Middle East Expert

    Related articles: Barack Obama and IsraelThe Audacity of Questioning Obama's Commitment to IsraelBarack Obama's real thinking about Israel and the Middle East continues to be an enigma. The words he chose  in an address to AIPAC create a differe...

  • January 21, 2008

    Toppling the Times: Rupert Takes On Pinch

    The American mediascape is about to experience an earthquake, Rupert Murdoch is preparing to topple the New York Times from its position as the pre-eminent general interest daily newspaper, generating severe financial pressure on a struggling media c...

  • January 17, 2008

    Partisanship over principle at the NYT

    The New York Times has been on a multi-year campaign to restrict the executive powers of President Bush. The paper has goaded Congressional Democrats (and wayward Republicans) to take on Bush and enact measures that tie his hands. The paper has basic...

  • January 16, 2008

    Obama 'repudiates' Farrakhan?

    The New York Sun is reporting that Barack Obama repudiated the views of Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan that were discussed in Richard Cohen's Washington Post column. Cohen's criticism regarding Obama's ties to the Church and the Pastor that g...

  • January 16, 2008

    Barack Obama and Israel

    Related AT articles: Barack Obama's Middle East ExpertThe Audacity of Questioning Obama's Commitment to Israel Samantha Power and Obama's Foreign Policy TeamMore Amateur Hour Diplomacy -- Power ResignsThe ascent of Barack Obama from state senato...

  • January 9, 2008

    The Supreme Court and voter ID

    The New York Times today ran an editorial on the Voter ID issue, which holds that the Supreme Court should not serve the "electoral purposes of a political party" when it decides whether to uphold an Indiana Voter ID law. The editorial...

  • December 31, 2007

    Third World payback for support of the Arab cause

    The UN's Durban II Conference, all those votes in the United Nations, all those nations that have severed  diplomatic relations with Israel. What does this alliance with extremist Arab nations gain them-besides a vicarious feeling of striki...

  • December 21, 2007

    Bahrain in Iran's Sights

    Iran is a revolutionary power and has been since the theocratic Shiite regime took over when the Shah fell from grace during the Carter Presidency. Emboldened by oil wealth, weakened autocracies on its borders, the fall of Sa...

  • December 21, 2007

    UN Moving to Derail Fraud Investigations

    What a surprise. The UN bureaucracy has once again acted to insulate itself from punishment for engaging in fraud that has cost the UN (and America, since America by far is the largest contributor to the United Nations) hundreds of millions of dollar...

  • December 20, 2007

    Obama's Free Media Pass

    The media has heretofore treated Senator Barack Obama with kid gloves. He has enjoyed an immunity from political attacks from enthralled journalists who have put their critical faculties on hold or have refused to employ their investigatory powers to...

  • December 17, 2007

    Obama Would Hold Muslim-American Summit

    In an interview on former Senator Bill Bradley's Sirius radio show, Barack Obama let it be known that if elected president, he would organize a meeting between Islamic leaders and Americans:"I would convene a conference within my first year just...

  • December 15, 2007

    Author of NIE believes CIA's Priority should be 'Diversity'

    The folly of relying on the "experts" who are responsible for the National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran and its nuclear program is again on view. The Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence, who was integral to the findin...

  • December 14, 2007

    So diversity cures all ills?

    The folly of relying on the "experts" who are responsible for the National Intelligence Estimate regarding Iran and its nuclear program is again on view. The Principle Deputy Director of National Intelligence, who was integral to the findin...

  • December 14, 2007

    A real Whopper from the New York Times

    Today's New York Time runs an editorial that defies belief and makes clear that the paper lives in a different moral universe where it remains blind to its own flaws. In "Notes from the Global War in Terror" the paper condemns Presiden...

  • December 12, 2007

    Huckabee calls foul on Romney: Then insults Mormons

    Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee referred to Mitt Romney as a "tattle-tale in third grade" for the attacks on him in ads put out by the former Massachussets governor.But Huckabee then showed that he himself is not above a little gutter ...

  • December 12, 2007

    Van Vann Diepen, NIE Author, and his Treachery at State

    Author Kenneth Timmerman has provided us one more reason to doubt the validity and objectivity of the recently released National Intelligence Estimate. In an interview with Frontpage magazine, Timmerman discusses the efforts by the "Shadow Warri...

  • December 11, 2007

    Shocking Pro-Iranian Op-Ed in the Times

    A shockingly dishonest Op-Ed in today's New York Times by Flynt and Hillary Mann Leverett.The Leveretts state that President Bush deserves criticism for hyping the nuclear threat-a danger the authors consider phantom given the recently released Natio...

  • December 9, 2007

    What passes for "Economic Reporting" at the Times

    Great Headline: Slowing Job Growth Seen as Ominous Sign for Economy But the Times contradicts itslef within the first two paragraphs-journalism at its best. The nation gained a modest 94,000 jobs in November, the Labor Department reported yester...

  • December 9, 2007

    CIA Recruited Iranian Defectors

    A secret campaign was launched two years ago to undermine Tehran's nuclear program. It has persuaded a 'handful' of key officials to leave:The CIA launched a secret program in 2005 designed to degrade Iran's nuclear weapons program by persuading...

  • December 9, 2007

    What Caused the NIE Reversal on Iran's Nuclear Program?

    The recently-released National intelligence Estimate (NIE) has come in for a round of criticism for its finding that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. This criticism spans the political spectrum. The political left and "d...

  • December 7, 2007

    Have a Little Pork With your Breakfast

    The practice of earmarking, despite Democrats campaign promise to end the practice, continues apace - if less visible than before.Today brings news of one gigantic earmark designed to benefit one company and one company only: Plum Creek Timber (publi...

  • December 6, 2007

    Was Key Intel for NIE Planted by Iran?

    Given that the Iranians knew we were trying to uncover as much information as we could regarding their nuclear program, is it to be believed that they were incapable of planting written notes and engaging in over the air conversations that would misl...

  • December 5, 2007

    Obama's 'Call to Serve' Plank

    Senator Obama will reportedly introduce a raft of new policy proposals that will play upon the theme of asking people to engage in national service. Among his ideas would be an expansion of the Peace Corps, programs to encourage volunteer service by ...

  • December 5, 2007

    The suspect provenance of the NIE report

    The Wall Street Journal editorial that ran this morning  echoes and expands upon suspicions first articulated by the New York Sun that the National Intelligence Estimate was cooked up by bureaucrats eager to embarrass George Bush and transf...

  • December 3, 2007

    UN Machinations Against Israel

    Last week the American delegation to the United Nations sought to have a Security Council endorsement of talks between Israel and the Palestinians. This was not run by the Israelis-a departure from tradition and diplomatic protocol. When Israel found...

  • December 1, 2007

    Poor professor Matory

    J. Lorand Matory is a professor at Harvard, in anthropology and African and African-American studies, and he is feeling mighty oppressed today because some people on campus disagree with him. Scott Johnson of Powerline writes today on the professor's...

  • December 1, 2007

    Iran bans the word 'women'

    Iran has banned the use of the word "women" from public television, insisting that it be replaced with "family". Gateway Pundit calls attention to this, and to another outrage against women in Iran: the case of a young female doct...

  • November 30, 2007

    Chavez Caucus in Congress Silent on Coming Referendum

    If I recall,there is the equivalent of a Chavez Caucus in Congress. Where are they now when Chavez is in the process of imposing a dictatorship in Venezuela? He has already expropriated private property (including assets of American-owned firms)...

  • November 28, 2007

    Guantanamo no longer a Democratic party talking point

    In a sentence: Guantanamo has a big vacancy sign out front since so many suspects have been released to their respective nations where many of them have been released only to commit mayhem. At least 7 ex-detainees have returned to terror and murder....

  • November 28, 2007

    More Economic Woes for the Times

    The American Thinker has been chronicling the journalistic problems at the Times since our inception. We have also followed the continuing price decline that has beset the stock over the years that it has suffered under the leadership of Arthur ('Pin...

  • November 27, 2007

    The 'Party of the little guy?'

    Does it strike anyone that the Democratic Party is hypocritical when it comes to Hollywood and income inequality? While Democrats rail about the injustices stemming from putative income inequality in America, the party regularly trots out to Hol...

  • November 16, 2007

    The candidate of change tries to buy support in early states

    AP reports: Barack Obama's political action committee contributed $128,000 from July through September to local candidates and political organizations in Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina, key early states in the race for the presidential nomina...

  • November 15, 2007

    Barack Obama: Global Citizen?

    Does Roger Cohen of the New York Times realize that all this hubbub about Obama knowing the world rests on his brief experience in Indonesia when he was a young boy? His biological father divorced his Kansan mother when he was very young, she married...

  • November 14, 2007

    The NY Times Attempted Smear of Rudy Giuliani

    The New York Times' political agenda at work that has once again degraded its journalistic standing. The off-and-on controversial publisher Judith Regan had a book deal with a  News  Corporation imprint (HarperCollins) to publish a book by ...

  • November 13, 2007

    Obama's Idea of an 'Ethical' Campaign'

    This should come as no surprise. The candidate who is running as the candidate of change and who decalred he wants a more ethical campaign and Administration isn't above using some below the belt tactics. His media spinmeister-David Axelrod was ...

  • November 8, 2007

    Huge offshore oil discovery (updated)

    Bloomberg brings news of a huge new oil field discovered off Brazil in the Santos Basin. Petrobras, the Brazilian oil company says that tests indicate a size of between 5 and 8 billion barrels of oil and gas. At current prices, that amounts to a larg...

  • November 7, 2007

    Palestinians prefer Israel

    Palestinians, facing prospect of their own state, prefer Israel. AP reports:The number of East Jerusalem residents seeking Israeli citizenship has risen sharply in recent months, an Israeli official said Wednesday, as talk of a possible re-division o...

  • November 6, 2007

    Democrats define awkward questions as 'personal attack'

    John Edwards joins Hillary in evading awkward questions. I guess this is slightly better than Hillary's piling-on-a-woman defense.  From ABC News' The Note: Just don't ask Edwards about those foreclosures tied to Fortress Investments: He told a ...

  • November 6, 2007

    Obama hypocrisy on transparency

    Lynn Sweet of the Chicago Sun-Times notes that while Barack Obama is making government transparency a centerpiece of this phase of his campaign, his own record of disclosure is somewhat lacking: An Obama spokesman, Ben Labolt, last week declined to s...

  • October 31, 2007

    Obama's foreign policy, via the New York Times

    Rick Klein and Mike Chesney of ABC's The Note report that a New York Times Magazine story is coming on Barack Obama's foreign policy. I wonder if the format will be one foreign policy view on the left side page and the page opposite will have his oth...

  • October 31, 2007

    Missing headlines: leftwing voter fraud guilty plea

    Jim of Gateway Pundit catches another great under-reported story:Three former ACORN workers pled guilty to voter-registration fraud in Washington State today.The Seattle Times reported:Three of seven defendants in the biggest voter-registration fraud...

  • October 28, 2007

    Liberty, Fraternity, and Bush Derangement Syndrome

    Francois Furstenberg , professor of history at the University of Montreal, writes a screed in the New York Times opinion pages. Well, all columns in that section are screeds. However, this one just shows that the virus behind the Bush derangement Sy...

  • October 28, 2007

    The Forgotten Embassy Crisis of the Carter Presidency

    The Siege of Mecca: The Forgotten Uprising in Islam’s Holiest Shrine and the Birth of Al Qaeda is a superbly written book that, for the first time, tells the true story of the attack on Mecca’s Great Mosque in 1979. The attack was underta...

  • October 24, 2007

    NYT pot calls Commentary kettle 'black'

    The New York Times criticizes nepotism at Commentary but does not mention Pinch Sulzberger's reign at the Times. Is the newspaper actually trying to destroy its credibility?Can New York Times journalist Patricia Cohen not recognize the obvious parall...

  • October 24, 2007

    The South Rises

    For generations, American elites from the North have treated the South as a benighted land of knaves, fools, and charlatans, a proper subject of scorn and satire and certainly not a region to be admired or emulated. They are comically wrong. The Sout...

  • October 23, 2007

    Obama hedging on his Iran talks pledge?

    Scroll down from the Obama banner ads on the Huffington Post and you find Sam Stein's 'Early Obama Comments Indicate Shift On Iran,' "[I]n a little-noticed interview in May 2007 with the Israeli paper, Ha'aretz, Obama advocated what appears to b...

  • October 19, 2007

    Russia and Iran

    Is Russia trading its votes at the UN and promises of finishing the Iranian nuclear reactor for Iranian support for Russia controlling more Caspian oil? Negotiations are currently underway among five nations over division of mineral, fishing, and oth...

  • October 18, 2007

    Stunning New York Times video op-ed

    Today's pro-terrorist video op-ed posted on the New York Times website represents a new kind of low for the troubled newspaper.  (Click and watch: the short video gives you the flavor of the agit-prop production coming from the film makers.)The ...

  • October 17, 2007

    Major shareholder bailing out of the New York Times (updated)

    The decline of the New York Times as a reputable newspaper has been matched by the decline of its business management. The running (or running down of the newspaper) by "Pinch" Sulzberger, descendant of the family which had purchased and re...

  • October 12, 2007

    Hillary Allies in Media gang up on Edwards

    John Edwards finally made the tabloids for something besides his hair. It seems Mr. Edwards - he with the cancer stricken wife - has been dallying with a frisky filly who used to work on his campaign. The affair has been going on for the last 18 mont...

  • October 12, 2007

    Islam and the Latin American Left - United in Hate

    One of the conundrums of our age, is why the political left in Europe and North America have seemingly joined forces with radical Islam. Ideologically, they appear to polar opposites. Islam abhors the concept of equality between the sexes; the left e...

  • October 11, 2007

    ISG Redux?

    Former Congressman Lee Hamilton and James Baker chaired the Iraq Study Group Report  that  departed from its mandate and offered prescriptions to solve the Middle East crisis that suggested pressuring Israel.Lee Hamilton subsequen...

  • October 8, 2007

    Which party threatens Theocracy?

    First we have Barack Obama declaring that he is an instrument of God: During the nearly two hour service that featured a rock band and hip-hop dancers, Obama shared the floor with the church's pastor, Ron Carpenter. The senator from Illinois asked th...

  • October 6, 2007

    Where's the outrage?

    The world periodically condemns America for its supposed (and mythical) oppression of Muslims here in America. Recall the phony stories-trotted out by "human rights" groups, Democrat partisans, and international NGO groups that Muslims are ...

  • October 2, 2007

    ElBaredei the Enabler

    When, in the all-too-near future, the world looks to identify those responsible for allowing Iran's nuclear arsenal to change the world forever, one name will figure prominently: Mohammed. Not the Prophet Mohammed as most people would presume. The fo...

  • September 25, 2007

    How do you say 'Rathergate' in French?

    A major media scandal may be in the process of unfolding on the world stage. Hillel Halkin reports in the New York Sun that a French court has ordered into evidence television footage that has the potential to unleash a media scandal of hsitoric sign...

  • September 24, 2007

    Tea leaves on the left

    The Iowa Independent blog reports: James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute, praised the foreign policy skills of candidates Barack Obama and Bill Richardson while talking with Iowa Independent and several audience members following an I...

  • September 24, 2007

    Bollinger's bosses: Who are the Columbia trustees?

    The Trustees of Columbia University hired and evaluate the performance of President Lee Bollinger. The New York Sun assigns them a large measure of blame for a history of failure in monitoring and evaluating the leadership of Columbia University...

  • September 24, 2007

    Columbia University President's Novel Ideas on Free Speech

    Columbia University is placing rules and restrictions on free speech regarding Ahmadinajed opponents that gut Bollinger and Company's arguments regarding the goal of free speech and expression.By the way, I attended University of Michigan law Sc...

  • September 21, 2007

    Times Reviewer Savages New Ken Burns WW II Documentary

    The New York Times television reviewer Alessandra Stanley has a history of injecting her own political views into her reviews (she aspires to be the next Frank Rich, apparently). Today,she outdoes herself in reviewing Ken Burn's new documentary that ...

  • September 19, 2007

    WaPo following in the footsteps of bloggers (updated)

    Bloggers have performed an invaluable function since their emergence in the media world a few years ago. Whether it is uncovering the forgery of the RatherGate documents, the fauxtography that is propaganda in the service of terrorists, revealing and...

  • September 17, 2007

    ElBaredei: International Man of Misery

    Mohammed ElBaredei has served as the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency since 1997- an odd choice for the position since he has absolutely no scientific, let along, physics background and he hails from Egypt and previously ser...

  • September 17, 2007

    Putin channeling Catherine de Medici?

    From C.J. Chivers in the New York Times:"The former K.G.B officer accused in Britain of fatally poisoning a Kremlin foe in London with a radioactive isotope announced Sunday that he was seeking a seat in the Russian Parliament."The accused ...

  • September 15, 2007

    Iran and Al Qaeda

    I thought Shiites and Sunnis were not supposed to be cooperating. It's just gotta be Bush's fault.  Robin Wright in the WaPo:An Iranian arms shipment destined for the Taliban was intercepted on Sept. 6 by the international force in Afghanistan i...

  • September 14, 2007

    Give me your tired, your poor, your sick...

    New York has the Statue of Liberty in its harbor. San Francisco might well match it someday with a Statue of Infirmity. The City by the Bay is embarking on an experiment in socialized medicine in one city that provides municipal funds to pay for...

  • September 14, 2007

    Obama still not ready for prime time

    Barack Obama may be smart, but he still hasn't figured out the rules of the league in which he is now playing. Mike Boyer, writing in Passport, a blog of the editors of Foreign Policy magazine, describes with a certain amount of disdain Obama's lates...

  • September 12, 2007

    Spot the missing fact

    What's missing in this New York Times article covering a $6.5 million jury award to two Detroit police officers who were"discharged in retaliation for investigating misconduct by the mayor [of Detroit, Kwame Kilpatrick] and his security detail....

  • September 11, 2007

    What Did England Pay to Get its Hostages Back from Iran?

    Buried in this article regarding Iran's use of banks and front companies to develop its nuclear weapons program (including European banks acquiescing in removing Iranian names from financial documents so as to escape detection by American authorities...

  • September 11, 2007

    Sanctions and their suspension

    Buried in this article regarding Iran's use of banks and front companies to develop its nuclear weapons program (including European banks acquiescing in removing Iranian names from financial documents so as to escape detection by American author...

  • September 9, 2007

    NYT celebrates tonsorial freedom in Iran

    In an article on Iran in today's New York Times, Michael Slackman portrays a picture of a society and culture that is sharply at variance with the views and testimony of others.Instead of a nation harshly enforcing the domination of women, that routi...

  • September 9, 2007

    Pork by any other name would smell as stinky

    As a longtime Chicago guy myself, I recall Chicagoans who were personally repulsed by legendary Congressman Dan Rostenkowski's ethics problems, but voted for him anyway because of the pork he was able to provide for the city. His post as Chairman of ...

  • September 7, 2007

    Former US Senator on terror TV channel

    Former Democrat United States Senator James Abourezk appeared on Hezb'allah's al Manar TV (which is banned in the US thanks to Hezb'allah's status as an official terror group according to the US government. Little Green Footballs has the video.Abourz...

  • September 6, 2007

    'Human Rights Watch' Lowers the Boom on the IDF

    Last summer's Israeli-Hezb'allah war featured the Iranian backed terrorists deliberately launching rockets at civilian targets, hoping to kill as many innocents as possible. The Israelis on the other hand, carried out a massive but carefully tar...

  • September 5, 2007

    New York Times: Iranian Apologists

    The Jackson-Vanik Amendment led to the freedom of hundreds of thousands of Jews (sadly, Representative Charles Vanik just passed away ). Economic problems-worsened by trading restrictions-helped to bring about the downfall of the Soviet Union an...

  • August 25, 2007

    Ethanol follies

    America has long had a relatively low price of food, a factor that, while contributing to the obsesity crisis in America, has also helped low-income people keep their families nourished. Now, the sharp price in the cost of corn -- brought about ...

  • August 24, 2007

    Cornering the West's energy supply? (updated)

    Abu Dhabi has announced the acquisition of Pioneer Natural Resources' Canadian Unit, which makes it the fifth overseas acquisition since November by Abu Dhabi National Energy Co., the United Arab Emirates' investor in oil and power assets.While some ...

  • August 24, 2007

    New York Times Blames Democracy For Iraq's Woes

    Besides blaming Bush, this New York Times editorial blames the immense problems in Iraq on the fact that the majority Shias are in control and that the President should have foreseen what democracy did to the nation:The problem is not Mr. Maliki...

  • August 23, 2007

    Labor union calls for Iran boycott

    Labor Unions played a key role in the past in defeating communism and supporting the American-Israel relationship. (Particulary the Garment Workers Union and the AFL-CIO under Lane Kirkland leadership deserve recognition). Now, the Teamsters step up ...

  • August 22, 2007

    Ethanol follies (continued)

    A policy pushed by liberal elites will end up harming the poor -- all for the sake of moral vanity and political correctness. The Wall Street Journal takes note of articles in Foreign Affairs about the increasing use of corn to produce ethanol, inclu...

  • August 21, 2007

    Geo-politics and the credit market

    The current turmoil in credit markets could end up strengthening the hands of China and the oil-rich nations. Henny Sender, writing in the Wall Street Journal ($link), raises this possibility:Debt isn't merely more expensive, it is scarcely available...

  • August 16, 2007

    The NYT and the IRG

    The reported impending naming of Iran's Revolutionary Guards as terrorists has elicited much commentary in the media. Most outlets recognize the danger of the IRG and the need to deal with the group. The IRG are responsible for the death of many Amer...

  • August 15, 2007

    The Ethanol Follies (a continuing series)

    Heinz reported good earnings today, but warns that future profits will be impacted by "unprecedented" commodity price increases, with sweeteners, packaging, tomatoes, potatoes and meat rising.High corn prices, boosted by demand for ethanol,...

  • August 15, 2007

    Iranian Rev Guards to be Labeled "Terrorists"

    The Washington Post reports this morning that the Iranian Revolutionary Guards - a key component of Iran's internal and external security forces - are to be designated a "terrorist group:" The United States has decided to designate Iran's...

  • August 11, 2007

    The New York Times Whitewashes Another Islamic Extremist

    Two statements in this  New YorkTimes article today on the "resignation" of the principal (Debbie Almontaser) of New York City's planned Arabic school stand out for their use of manipulating language to whitewash the extremism of Ms. A...

  • August 9, 2007

    John Edwards and Kofi Annan: Peas in a Pod

    Apparently, Kofi Annan, former UN Secretary General, has a lot in common with John Edwards as far as practicing the fine art of "doing as I say, not as I do:" A former U.N. secretary-general, Kofi Annan, recently purchased a second multim...

  • August 8, 2007

    "Intifada" Comes to Brooklyn

    The first New York Charter School for Arab girls is selling T-shirts emblazoned with the words "Intifada - New York." The principle of the school, Dhabah Almontaser, said "I think it's pretty much an opportunity for girls to express ...

  • August 8, 2007

    Hypocrisy on Obama's Foreign Policy Team

    Samantha Power, Obama's Foreign Policy Guru, is a harsh critic of George Bush's foreign policy. No surprise, there. However, Ms. Power-who teaches at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government-made her reputation (she is relatively young) by winning the...

  • August 8, 2007

    Enough Already, Barack! We Get It!

    Is Barack Obama ever going to tire of defending all criticism regarding his foreign policy views by pointing out that he did not support the Iraq War (immeasurably helped by the fact that he was not serving in the Senate when the vote authorizing tha...

  • August 7, 2007

    Trouble For Fred Thompson?

    On the Fred Thompson front, ABC's Jack Tapper explores his time on the Watergate committee, and finds that "the reality is far more complicated than conventional wisdom and campaign puffery would have it." Thompson writes in his own book th...

  • August 7, 2007

    ACLU and public funding for Muslim foot baths (updated)

    The ACLU twists itself into a pretzel shape, trying to justify opposing all state funding for religious purposes, except when it comes to Muslims, who want foot baths in schools and other public facilities for religious reasons. From the New York Tim...

  • August 6, 2007

    Shades of Salman Rushdie

    IMPORTANT NOTE: This story originally had material credited to Ed Lasky that actually should have been credited to Tom Gross at National Review's excellent Media Blog. American Thinker deeply regrets this error and offers an apology to Mr. Gross for ...

  • August 6, 2007

    Another Coat of Whitewash at the Times

    The New York Times purportedly supports human rights, women rights, the rights of unions to organize and support workers, free expression (be it clothing, hair styles, clothing), is against the death penalty, unfettered internet access, the rights o...

  • August 5, 2007

    Anti-Israeli Rant in New York Times Magazine

    In today's New York Times Sunday Magazine, there is an essay written by Michael Ignatieff whose topic is the reasoning behind his decision to turn against the Iraq War. Bear in mind, that Ignatieff is CANADIAN so why should his views matter is beyond...

  • August 5, 2007

    BDS And The Washington Post

    A good barometer of  Bush Derangement Syndrome is the increasing frequency in which our elected Representatives and various media outlets call for radical changes in our "ways and means" of government in order to derail policies George...

  • August 4, 2007

    New York Times on FISA Reform

    Over the last few days, there has been a lot of attention given to the fact that the FISA courts have prevented our nation from investigating communications between terrorism suspects who are overseas but whose communications travel through American...

  • August 4, 2007

    Thus Speaks The Tolerant Left

    There will be seven Democratic Presidential candidates at a Leadership Forum today sponsored by YearlyKos. I wonder how many of them are aware of the vile, anti-Israeli, anti-Jewish invective that regularly appears on the organizer's personal website...

  • August 3, 2007

    Two Views of Our Military

    Two columns in today's papers illuminate the great divide in how our media views our troops. The vast majority of the media has a disdainful attitude towards the troops (one of the best essays exploring this dynamic is Robert Kaplan's The Media and M...

  • August 3, 2007

    Are There Two John Edwards?

    Are there two John Edwards? One who engages in precisely the type of behavior the other John Edwards condemns (works for a hedge fund and then condemns hedge fund abuses, sets up a poverty center that his other self uses as a place to warehouse campa...

  • August 2, 2007

    The Ethanol Follies: latest victim is Clorox

    The high price of corn taking its toll. The political program of ethanol production (because this is what it truly has become: a subsidy for farmers and a blandishment for early primary states in the grain belt) has pushed up corn prices with dubious...

  • August 2, 2007

    Missing Headlines: Chirac's Watergate deepens

    Jacques Chirac certainly received a lot of front-page coverage when he was criticizing George Bush. But his his own serious scandal is being almost completely ignored in the American press. Except for the New York Sun, which picks up on the Daily Tel...

  • August 2, 2007

    Bipolar Barack?

    How does once reconcile Obama's newest foreign policy statements with ones he made just a few days ago regarding genocide?On the one hand, he would not intervene to confront mass atrocities; then suddenly, he would. What has changed in a few days? Pu...

  • August 2, 2007

    Fix FISA NOW!

    The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act has crippled a key part of our anti-terror program. Placing undue power in the hands of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court established under FISA exposes us to increased peril from terrorists. The Co...

  • July 31, 2007

    New York Times Silent on Democratic Corruption

    File under the New York Times view of Democrats: The paper has a see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil towards the Democratic Party. Recall, the NYT engaged in a campaign attacking the election result that led to the defeat of Christine Jennings...

  • July 31, 2007

    Which Party is the Most Partisan In Congress?

    Ed Morrissey of Captains Quarters blog looks at partisanship in Congress and arrives at something of a surprising conclusion Ed examined the frequency with which members of Congress voted with their own party: [T]he Democrats take nine of the top t...

  • July 31, 2007

    Key Iranian Leader Dies

    Ayatollah Ali Akbar Meshkini-Speaker (head) of the Assembly of Experts died. The Assembly of Experts is empowered to elect a new Supreme Leader or dismiss a sitting one. The current Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is also reported to be very ill ...

  • July 31, 2007

    It's all about race....

    Eugene Robinson of the Washington Post goes to bat for Barack Obama, discounting a CNN poll in the process. How often does that happen among liberal columnists? The awkward poll in question shows black support for Obama withering.Rather than credit b...

  • July 30, 2007

    A tale of two papers (continued)

    This juxtaposition says it all about the New York Times and its take on Obama vs. the rationality of another liberal paper and its corporate cousin.Slate (owned, in part, by the Washington Post): "Obama's Achilles Heel -What has he ever don...

  • July 30, 2007

    US alleged to already be talking to Hamas

    The Palestinian who headed up the Gaza force that worked with America on security was allegedly a Hamas agent, according to Aaron Klein, writing in the New York Sun.Yussef Issa, director of the Preventative Security Services, is accused by President ...

  • July 29, 2007

    The New York Times and Partisan Book Reviewers

    If one were to turn to The New York Times Sunday Book Review section today, the front page features a long indictment of the Bush Administration and the way it is conducting the War on Terror by Samantha Power. It is a curious article because there i...

  • July 29, 2007

    Assault on the Judiciary

    There are preliminary signs of a looming dangerous breach of constitutional safeguards, one that would extend Congressional power into the executive and judicial branches of government. This unprecedented series of threatened actions imperils the che...

  • July 28, 2007

    Big Arms Sale to the Saudis and Other Allies in the Works

    The United States has announced plans to engage in a new round of massive arms sales to Gulf allies, as well as to the governments of Egypt and Israel. This move is being taken in reaction to the provocative steps Iran has taken by not only continuin...

  • July 28, 2007

    NYT's ridiculous editorial on Hazleton

    The New York Times today runs a fire-breathing editorial "Humanity versus Hazleton", wholeheartedly praising a Pennsylvania judge for striking down an ordinance of the city of Hazleton that sought to enforce the laws against the h...

  • July 27, 2007

    More Hypocrisy from Edwards

    Wouldn't you love being John Edwards for a day? Just think - $400 haircuts, a huge mansion to live in, and $62 million to play around with. And of course, being able to weep about poverty while laughing all the way to the bank: Recently, I went wi...

  • July 26, 2007

    Good Old Fashioned Supreme Court Packing

    It's been done before, says Jean Edward Smith, writing in an Op-Ed in the New York Times: But the method most frequently employed to bring the court to heel has been increasing or decreasing its membership. The size of the Supreme Court is not fixe...

  • July 26, 2007

    Obama Rules Border Security "Not Germane" To Homeland Security

    Via Hugh Hewitt, we get this little niblet about Senator Barak Obama revealing that he and the Democrats don't consider border security part of protecting the homeland. GOP Senators were attempting to bring up border enforcement provisions and attac...

  • July 26, 2007

    Hollywood Explodes With Anti-War Venom

    The New York Times notes how the custom of allowing some "breathing room" has been abolished. This breathing room allowed some wounds to heal, but more importantly allowed perspectives to be developed-away from the emotions roiled by a war....

  • July 25, 2007

    A Decline in Public Support For Suicide Bombing

    This is welcome news: According to a Pew Global Attitude survey based on polling date from 47 countries reported by Reuters, Muslim support for suicide bombings has fallen sharply. In Pakistan, it has dropped from 33 percent to 9 percent. In Lebano...

  • July 23, 2007

    Wonkette a Jew-hater?

    The blog My Right Word notices a very disturbing indication of the mainstreaming of antisemitism in the left-liberal Wonkette website: Editor Alex Pareene and Interns Nick Mueller and Lauren Spohrer may be responsible for this post which refers to so...

  • July 21, 2007

    NYT op-ed: Israel should give Hezb'allah what it wants

    Nicholas Noe pens an appalling op-ed for the New York Times. He uses the phrase "Israel's War with Hezbollah" to describe Hezb'allah's actions to obliterate Israel. How about the war between Hezb'allah and Israel or, more accurately, "...

  • July 21, 2007

    'Experts' get facts wrong

    "Experts" from the Saban Center and a law school gets facts wrong on Jerusalem and the concept of sovereignty in a WaPo piece.  Aside from completely ignoring two charters of the Palestinians (both the PLO Charter and the Hamas Charter...

  • July 21, 2007

    A tale of two liberal papers

    The Washington Post may be liberal, but it is fair. Unlike the New York Times, which has become a left wing propaganda sheet. A WaPo editorial today condemns the Democratic demagoguery in Iraq.THE SENATE Democratic leadership spent the past week tryi...

  • July 19, 2007

    The Times' Orwellian Dance With Language

    This piece in the New York Sun by John Leo informs us of some strange and wonderful doublespeak about "civil disturbances" that crop up occasionally in the New York Times. The Times prides itself as being the paper of record; yet, willin...

  • July 19, 2007

    Obama's Radical Ideas on Sex Education (updated)

    Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told Planned Parenthood Tuesday that sex education for kindergarteners, as long as it is "age-appropriate," is "the right thing to do." This is from the man America considers the most religious of the ca...

  • July 18, 2007

    The NY Times Blindspot on Iran

    The New York Times writes about al-Qaeda.in Pakistan and their strengthening position there but does not mention A.Q. in Iran - as covered elsewhere. For example Eli Lake in the New York Sun yesterday: One of two known Al Qaeda leadership councils m...

  • July 17, 2007

    Hillary creates appearance of paying for endorsement

    Her major backers donated nearly $90,000 to former governor Tom Vilsack, D-Iowa, shortly after Vilsack dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Clinton, the Los Angeles Times' Dan Morain reports. (The Clinton campaign also bought Vilsack's d...

  • July 17, 2007

    Court Decision Could Aid AIPAC Defendants

    A federal court ruling in a tax shelter case against accounting giant KPMG could end up assisting Steve Rosen and Steve Weissman, the two AIPAC employees accused of conspiring to obtain and disclose classified information. Federal judge Lewis A. Kap...

  • July 16, 2007

    BBC allows anti-Semitic posting to remain on website

    The BBC, which made its reputation during the dark days of WW II, allows anti-Semitism to flourish on its bulletin boards.Long known for its anti-Israel bias, the BBC's virus seems to have mutated into anti-Semitism. The near-royal hauteur ill-become...

  • July 15, 2007

    NYT editorial on terrorism and the law

    The Grey Lady seems to justify the terrorists in Afghanistan who were supporting the Taliban and AQ and who were killing American and allied troops."Mr. Bush [my comment: notice how the Times has adopted the use of "Mister", and not ...

  • July 12, 2007

    America's diversity

    Do you believe America is becoming more homogeneous? How can Gavin Newsom have popularity ratings past 70%, while Senator Vitter is suffering slings and arrows? San Francisco, the home constituency of Nancy Pelosi is a bit different. I recall this hi...

  • July 12, 2007

    Is the CIA's decline 'irreversible'?

    Bob Woodward sports a catchy headline today with his report on a meeting of the CIA's Iraq Study Group late last year:CIA Said Instability Seemed 'Irreversible'Let us see how often has the CIA been wrong:WMD programs in Iraq; misjudged the Iraq nucle...

  • July 12, 2007

    A tale of two trendlines

    The latest federal budget deficit projectionis are once again heading south, yet polls reveal that the public believes the economy is not doing well. As the New York Sun notes today, as a percentage of the GDP, the decline is quite striking:2004 - 3....

  • July 12, 2007

    Hillary 'muscular' and Obama 'effeminate'?

    Salon's Michael Scherer contrasts the "muscular vision" Clinton, D-N.Y., with Obama's downright effeminate touches. (Indigo Girls songs, stories about his kids' soccer matches, big-dream rhetoric). "He sings an empowerment ballad on th...

  • July 11, 2007

    Sound and fury

    The New York Times goes overboard in an editorial today. After noting that Attorney General Gonzales told the Senate in 2005 that, "there has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse", the paper notes tha...

  • July 11, 2007

    Divide and conquer

    American Thinker has been following a political tactic that seems to be accelerating: attempts to alienate Evangelicals, among Israel's greatest allies against Islamic extremism, from their support of the Jewish state. After all, other groups once pr...

  • July 11, 2007

    Rudy Giuliani's New Foreign Policy Team

    Tuesday, Rudy Giuliani announced the line-up of his foreign policy team, addressing a key area of concern of many voters going into November 2008, a brief analysis might lend some insight into Rudy's perspective regarding the challenges ahead an...

  • July 10, 2007

    Dubai is a base for sanctions-busting by Iran

    Opponents of the Dubai Ports deal can now claim that we did indeed dodge a bullet in sinking that deal. Glen Carey and Tarek al-Issawi of Bloomberg describe the ways in which Dubai is allowing itself to be used as a base for violating sanctions on Ir...

  • July 10, 2007

    Senator Vitter's troubles just beginning

    Louisiana Republican Senator has pre-emptively apologized for having his telephone number among those in the data base of the so-called DC madam. Electoral consequences aside, he might wish to invest in a codpiece. His wife is on the record as to her...

  • July 10, 2007

    Irony in the NYT's stance on Libby

    The New York Sun nicely skewers the irony of the New York Times' editorial condemnation of the Libby sentence commutation, citing a perspective that had never occurred to me.... had the Times and its lawyers succeeded in their legal and public r...

  • July 10, 2007

    LAT allows Hamas to spin its views

    After editorially rejecting anything but a weak and ineffectual program of sanctions against Iran yesterday, today the Los Angeles Times publishes an encore: an op-ed by the deputy of the political bureau of Hamas, Mousa Abu Marzoo. Th...

  • July 9, 2007

    LAT: no sanctions on Revolutionary Guards

    The Los Angeles Times has problems with sanctions against Iran. We shouldn't sanction Revolutionary Guards because they are too powerful in Iran. Huh? This group is the most bloodthirsty of groups backing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and is the group responsi...

  • July 9, 2007

    The New York Times and Iran

    The New York Times has been criticized for helping terrorists in the past by disclosing investigatory methods and rendition policies and practices, supporting them in its editorial pages and allowing terror suspects to spin their stories in the ...

  • July 6, 2007

    LA Times editorial on Hillary, clemency and hypocrisy

    Well, this is a stunner. The Los Angeles Times takes Hillary Clinton to task for the hypocrisy revealed in her remarks castigating George Bush for commuting Scooter Libby's sentence.[Hillary] Clinton is a particularly poor spokeswoman for that idea, ...

  • July 6, 2007

    Bloomberg vs. Rudy watch

    One measure of strength for any GOP presidential candidate is denegation from the MSM. On this particular index, Rudy Giuliani appears to be rather promising. Today, Alec MacGillis of the Washington Post boosts Bloomberg Mike Bloomberg, who has littl...

  • July 6, 2007

    Lieberman may not support Democrat for president

    Reuters reports that Senator Joseph Lieberman said yesterday that ...he was not ruling out endorsing a Republican in the White House race.The 2000 Democratic vice presidential candidate said he also wants to see if an independent enters the crow...

  • July 5, 2007

    Socialized medicine and the doctors plot

    Daniel Johnson makes a connection between socialized medicine and the Muslim doctors' plot in the UK in today's New York Sun:  For half a century the British have convinced themselves that the NHS is the envy of the world. It is - for the t...

  • July 5, 2007

    BBC reporter credits Hamas for 'law and order agenda'

    BBC reporter and terror-sympathizer Alan Johnson, kidnapped and held for four months in Gaza, now credits his release to law and order approach of Hamas: "I'm pretty sure that if Hamas hadn't come in and turned the heat on, I'd still be in that ...

  • July 3, 2007

    Obama and the Sojourners for Hamas

    Presidential candidate Barack Obama has established ties with Sojourners: a liberal Christian group (with the emphasis on liberal) as a way to burnish his religious credentials and gain political strength. This very same group is supportive of Hamas,...

  • July 3, 2007

    NYT editorial on Libby commutation: this is Rich

    This is rich: The NYT's editorial board attacks Bush for the "baldly poltical act" of commuting Libby's prison sentence. Down the memory hole we go!The papers' lead editorial -- no surprise -- was about the commutation of the Libb...

  • July 3, 2007

    How the NYT celebrates Independence Day

    Sunday's New York Times Magazine had a brief article "Loyal to a Fault" that highlighted this statement: We pride ourselves on the freedom and tolerance embedded in our founding principles. We have also recently begun to acknowledge th...

  • July 2, 2007

    Brit media's growing audience in America

    A New York Times article reports on British news sites seeking out readers in America, including efforts at adapting in some ways to appeal to American readers. The trend has disturbing ramifications. The BBC has become a leading news source for elit...

  • July 2, 2007

    NYT's selective skepticism

    The New York Times manages to find room for a report on decline of Iraqi civilian deaths. Good for them! That's better than simply ignoring news that doesn't fit the agenda. But it casts doubt on figures because death counts in Iraq are "hi...

  • July 2, 2007

    Obama the choice of Arab- and Muslim-Americans

    Nobody seems to be shocked to see that a new poll finds that Barack Obama is the most popular candidate among Arab-Americans and Muslim-Americans. From the Detroit Free Press:Thirty-seven percent of the Arab-American Democrats or Independents wh...

  • July 2, 2007

    Terror apologists exposed

    Youssef Ibrahim's coverage of the Middle East is outstanding, and his track record goes back decades. Now, as columnist for the New York Sun, he exposes the knee-jerk apologists for Islamists and their response to the latest terrorist outrages in Bri...

  • July 1, 2007

    NYT finds Thompson family lobbying noteworthy

    The New York Times continues to descend into a parody of a newspaper by noting Fred Thompson's family has engaged in lobbying. Unless I am wrong, similar arangements by prominent Democrats seem to escape much notice by the Grey Lady. Perhaps there ar...

  • June 30, 2007

    The NYT suspects a political prosecution

    The New York Times runs an editorial on the prosecution and trial of the Democrat Alabama Governor and intimates it was a political hit job by DOJThe gall! "Selective prosecution"? (What was the prosecution of Lewis Libby, by the way?)...

  • June 28, 2007

    The destruction of Israel: look who's okay with it

    Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) has been a stalwart supporter of the American-Israel alliance. He recently introduced an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would prohibit groups that deny Israel's right to exist from receiving American (taxpay...

  • June 28, 2007

    Eric Alterman

    Left wing journalist Eric Alterman, now a journalism professor at the City University of New York, launches a particularly mean-spirited attack on Marin Peretz, long the owner of The New Republic, as new ownership takes over. Alterman is the creator ...

  • June 27, 2007

    NYT goes to bat for convicted Democrat governor

    Adam Nossiter writes a shockingly sympathetic article on former Alabama governor Don Siegelman, a Democrat.Mr. Siegelman, a Democrat, tried to paint a bigger picture, saying he was a victim of Karl Rove, the senior political adviser in the White Hous...

  • June 27, 2007

    Iran executes children: where is the NYT report on this?

    According to Amnesty International, as reported in the Washington Post today, there are 71 child criminals on death row in Iran.In a troubling report on the execution of minors in Iran, Amnesty International said yesterday that at least 71 child offe...

  • June 26, 2007

    Obama's statement on Israeli-Palestinian summit

    Senator Obama has issued a statement that reveals some of his assumptions and beliefs on Middle Eastern affairs. Well, at least he did not call upon them to have the "audacity of hope". Here is what he said, followed by a few reminders of r...

  • June 25, 2007

    Murtha's earmarking empire

    Roll Call's Paul Singer has a jaw-dropper on the local earmarking industry constructed by Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., raising new questions that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., would rather not answer. Murtha has used his perch atop Defense Approp...

  • June 25, 2007

    BBC: 'evangelical SCHEMES' entering the cells of US prisons

    In a story headlined "Jesus and jail: Should evangelical schemes enter the cells of US prisons?", The BBC hyperventilates on the threat of prison inmates following the peaceful path of Jesus.Supporters of President George W Bush say it's on...

  • June 25, 2007

    Obama and Moral Courage

    This past weekend, Barack Obama passed up two key opportunities to stand up and be counted when it comes to making good on his campaign themes of bringing people together, healing, and fighting cynicism. But instead of action to realize his proclaime...

  • June 24, 2007

    Obama campaign politicizing tax-emept churches

    The New York Times has gleefully reported on troubles encountered by Christian consevraive organizations when churches have been used for political purposes. It would undoubtedly attack any GOP politicians who used a church for political purposes. Ye...

  • June 24, 2007

    The NYT outdoes itself today

    The New York Times outdoes itself: an essay by Noah Feldman on Israel and the Palestinians consigns some history to the Memory Hole.Touting the charms of Syria, The Baathist enemy of democracy in Iraq, in the travel section was not enough for today's...

  • June 21, 2007

    ISG expert's op-ed in the Boston Globe defies belief

    The Iraq Study group relied, in part, on the "expert" testimony of Augustus Richard Norton - an anthropology professor - in formulating its report that provides a "roadmap" for appeasing terrorists in the Middle East. Norton write...

  • June 21, 2007

    Abbas calls Hamas 'terrorists'

    Mahmoud Abbas, head of the Palestinian Authority, has called Hamas "terrorists."  If Abbas can call Hamas terrorists, why can't most in the media (BBC, Reuters, New York Times)? Wouldn't he be in the  best position to know an...

  • June 21, 2007

    Bizarre LAT editorial

    A Los Angeles Times editorial calls for Hamas to release BBC reporterand actually asks which side is Hamas on? It also compares Hamas to America's Founding Fathers.It claims that punishing journalists has become a standard tactic of terror. Whil...

  • June 19, 2007

    Obama: it's never my fault (updated)

    Senator Barack Obama has an unpleasant habit of blaming others for his problems. ABC's The Note spots the pattern now that his campaign's clumsy "D-Punjab memo" that disparaged Hillary Clinton for the ties between the Clinton family and Ind...

  • June 18, 2007

    The friends of Nancy Pelosi

    Nancy Pelosi is politically marinated in the hard left politics of the Bay Area, and has a soft spot in her heart for a Stalinist mentor. Writing in the Weekly Standard, Joshua Muravchik reminds us of the role of the Communist-led International Longs...

  • June 18, 2007

    Obama's little problem with the truth

    Senator Barack Obama, who spent last year battling cynicism and earning almost a million dollars at it, has been fumbling his defense against news of his involvement with indicted Chicago political fixer Tony Rezko. First he averred that "n...

  • June 18, 2007

    How to slant the news (a continuing series - updated)

    The New York Times, along with most of the press establishment of Europe and America, did not like Nikolas Sarkozy's victory in France's presidential election. It was bad enough that he won handily over a pretty female socialist. But yesterday's elec...

  • June 18, 2007

    Why the MSM Love Fest for Hugo Chavez?

    Why do so many in the media and culture place a positive spin on the triumph of tyrants? Hugo Chavez is just the latest in a long line of left wing thugs to capture the hearts of elite journalists. Is there some regressive process at work, loosening ...

  • June 17, 2007

    Not the bad kind of Nazi

    The United Nations was once run by a crypto-Nazi. That inconvenient truth is not exactly the principal message of the New York Times' farewell to Kurt Waldheim. The Times obituary of Kurt Waldheim defies belief. It delivers a one-two punch, soft-pedd...

  • June 15, 2007

    The friends of Hamas

    Hamas, which plays by its own rule book and which is dedicated to destroying Israel, is destroying the Fatah-led Palestinian government. AP reports:Hamas fighters overran two of the rival Fatah movement's most important security command centers in th...

  • June 14, 2007

    Kurt Waldheim, R.I.P.

    Kurt Waldheim is dead. A man who rose to the highest ranks, working first for the Nazis and later at the United Nations. A man whose life is emblematic in awkward ways. This Haaretz obituary covers the controversies of his life. ...

  • June 14, 2007

    NYT vs. WSJ

    The New York Times will do whatever it takes to obfuscate the issue of Iran supplying weapons to militants and terrorists killing Americans, Afghans, and others. Here is today's headline regarding Secretary of Defense Rober Gates discussing Iran's ro...

  • June 14, 2007

    Don't shoot: We're not Jews

    This defense doesn't seem to working out too well for Fatah combatants in Gaza. The U.K. Telegraph's Charles Levinson writes from Gaza:"They're firing at us, firing RPGs, firing mortars. We're not Jews," the brother of Jamal Abu Jediyan, a ...

  • June 14, 2007

    When is a civil war not a civil war?

    The media have been using every circumlocution in the book to try to depict the endemic violence in Palestinian territories as not being a Civil War. Reasons speculated by others: If it is a Civil War it means it is a Civil War not instigated by occu...

  • June 13, 2007

    Beyond our reach

    A common lesson of warfare is that measures to defeat an enemy spur countermeasures by that enemy. Iran is America's most deadly adversary and its leaders have boasted about their desire to bring down the United States. Iran is not only fun...

  • June 10, 2007

    Colin Powell and loyalty

    Colin Powell calls for Guantanamo Bay to be closed "this afternoon." Once it is closed, it would be all but impossible to ever reopen and America would lose an invaluable and unique asset in these perilous times that have seen the prolifera...

  • June 10, 2007

    Terrorists endanger journalists

    Too many journalists play an important role in effect providing cover for terror: justifying its use, ignoring its victims, portraying Israeli self-defense against terror attacks as offensive in nature-and not defensive, promoting terrorists' views, ...

  • June 7, 2007

    Obama's gobbledygook

    Barack Obama continues to demonstrate that he is just not ready for prime time. What does the following statement mean?"There have been times when there's no doubt that Palestinians have been placed in situations that we wouldn't want our own fa...

  • June 7, 2007

    Obama admits he neglects his constituents (updated)

    Carol Martin of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that Senator Obama has admitted not paying attention to home state issues in Illinois, despite the fact that he is drawing a salary to represent his continents' interest in the Senate. Is Barack Obama out...

  • June 7, 2007

    Iran reported caught shipping weapons

    ABC News reports that Iran has been caught red-handed shipping weapons into Afghanistan.NATO officials say they have caught Iran red-handed, shipping heavy arms, C4 explosives and advanced roadside bombs to the Taliban for use against NATO forces, in...

  • June 6, 2007

    Hoge-wash at the New York Times

    America's Ambassador to the United Nations, Zalmay Khalizad, gets the Hoge-wash treatment today in the New York Times, in an article written by Warren Hoge (who never has a bad word to say about the United Nations but had a lot of bad things to ...

  • June 6, 2007

    Tom Friedman: rescue Hamas

    Leave it to the New York Times. Just as the Palestinians turn against Hamas, their lead foreign affairs columnist advocates Israel reach out to Hamas and rescue it from its own follies.First is the fact that Yasir Arafat's Fatah group, which has long...

  • June 6, 2007

    Clinton pal reported seeking Wall Street Journal

    The perils of politically-active billionaires buying media properties are all too apparent. David Geffen and Eli Broad were both rumored to be bidding for the Tribune Company. Both are Democratic activists who have spent many millions helping th...

  • June 6, 2007

    New York Times buries inconvenient truth about education (updated)

    The New York Times earned considerable derision for its decision to bury the story of the JFK Airport terror plot on page A30 last Sunday. Today, the paper confirms that it will bury any news that reflects well on the Bush Administration with its tre...

  • June 5, 2007

    Iran's Latin America offesive

    The New York Sun highlights the ample reasons for concern about Iran's activities in Central and South America, and the appearance of a possible Iran connection to the JFK Airport terror plot. An article by Eli Lake reports:As New York police and the...

  • June 5, 2007

    Obama contests Hillary for Hispanic support

    Barack Obama is taking a rearguard action while Hillary makes her play for the Hispanic vote. The Hill reports:This week's charged Senate debate over immigration may give Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) a chance to chip away at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton...

  • June 4, 2007

    Trinidad, terror and terminals for LNG

    An unappreciated aspect of the NYC airport plot is that Trinidad, which seems the focus of the terror plot, is a large supplier of natural gas to America ( 65% of America's imports of Liquefied Natural Gas-LNG.) Trinidad and its sister...

  • June 4, 2007

    CAIR, 2 other groups named as unindicted co-conspirators

    Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun notices that CAIR has been fingered by the feds:Federal prosecutors have named three prominent Islamic organizations in America as participants in an alleged criminal conspiracy to support a Palestinian Arab terroris...

  • June 4, 2007

    Soros' big Halliburton stake

    Mike Boyer, writing in the Passport blog  of Foreign Policy Magazine, notes the gigantic stake George Soros has taken in Halliburton, the epitome of evil in the eyes of his left wing friends:Soros' position in Halliburton is reported t...

  • June 4, 2007

    Condi's mistake

    Michael Rubin has an excellent piece in the Middle East Forum on Condi Rice's big mistake (well, at least one of them): Rice's staffing reflected antipathy toward democratization. Her Policy Planning Director Stephen Krasner placed Suzanne Malon...

  • June 3, 2007

    Rice opens Iranian art show

    Secretary of State Condi Rice again shows the duplicity and moral blindness that all too frequently infects the US State Department. On May, 10th she opened an Iranian art show showcasing the work of 30 contemporary Iranian artists. Americans wi...

  • June 1, 2007

    Big news! Obama shoots some hoops

    The New York Times inexplicably devotes considerable space today to a breathless report by Jodi Kantor on Barack Obama playing basketball with friends. Barack Obama is a wily player of pickup basketball, the version of the game with unspoken rul...

  • June 1, 2007

    Hillary and Hispanics

    The strong and widely celebrated bond between Bill Clinton and our nation's black community has somewhat obscured the growing ties that Hillary has independently forged with the nation's Hispanic community over the years. These ties and her...

  • May 28, 2007

    The friends of Barack Obama

    George Soros is omnipresent at Obama fundraisers. The New York Times reports on the latest round of big bucks fundraisers in wealthy Greenwich, CT.It was Mr. Obama's four-hour dash through town, however, that had everyone chatting, mostly about the h...

  • May 26, 2007

    Your tax dollars at work

    The UN Development Program ships, at outrageous expense, anti-American books for North Korean neogiators to read. Claudia Rosett reports in the New York Sun: [T]he U.N. Development Program was ordering up books critical of America and President Bush ...

  • May 24, 2007

    What's 26% of seven million? (updated)

    Investor's Business Daily runs a terrific commentary on Muslim population statistics  for America, which seem to be as exaggerated as the actual size of CAIR. We've been told for years that Islam is the fastest-growing religion in America, and t...

  • May 24, 2007

    The friends of Bill and Hill

    Dick Morris and wife Eileen McGann reveal highly questionable ties of Mr. and Mrs. Bill Clinton to a company which has knowingly profited from enabling scam artists to find their marks. From their New York Post column today:EVERY year since he left t...

  • May 24, 2007

    CBS helps Iranian nuke program

    How do you say, "Thank you, CBS!" in Farsi? The Jerusalem Post notes that CBS has alerted the Mullahs and their nuclear scientists to an intelligence black op that might have set back their nuclear program. Intelligence operatives in t...

  • May 24, 2007

    Your tax-dollars at work in the UN

    A UN Agency (UNWRA) knew for months that terrorists were moving into the Lebanese camps occupied by descendants of those who left Israel almost 60 years ago, and did nothing. Now, the government of Lebanon is fighting for its life defending against t...

  • May 23, 2007

    NYT turns blind eye to Illinois Dem scandals

    The New York Times has routinely published articles on relatively minor political scandals involving Republican politicians.* But the Times remains virtually silent on recent political scandals in the pivotal state of Illinois, scandals that have bee...

  • May 22, 2007

    Carter Center on the West Bank

    Sabeel, a group trying to promote the view that Christians should not offer support to Israel, announces the opening of the Carter Center on the West Bank. This is nothing less than an attempt to weaken Christian support for IsraelThis is a new low f...

  • May 21, 2007

    Edwards hides campaign staff in "convenient non-profit"

    Business Week highlights a rather dubious practice of John Edwards: temporarily "parking" campaign staff in a non-profit organization set up for him at the University of North Carolina, escaping public reporting and apparently funding his p...

  • May 17, 2007

    Divine justice: Hamas accidentally kills its own

    The Jerusalem Post reports: Hamas gunmen killed five of their own combatants in an ambush on a Fatah vehicle that had been carrying Hamas detainees, Fatah officials said Wednesday. Also killed were two members of the Fatah-affiliated Preventive Secur...

  • May 16, 2007

    What a terror suspect complains about at Gitmo

    First the obligatory "I have been tortured" line, which the New York Times never points out is a strategy that Islamist extremist have been tought by their terror masterminds. Then his real complaints are aired.Mr. Khan repeatedly dema...

  • May 16, 2007

    Obama's sound of silence

    Investor's Business Daily makes an important point  about Barack Obama's failure to stand up and be counted on an issue of obvious concern: The nation's first serious black candidate for president should be outraged that al-Qaida would try to ex...

  • May 16, 2007

    The Obama Election Act

    The Illinois state legislature is poised to pass legislation moving the state's primary election to February 5th. Despite some rhetoric about enhancing Illinois' political influence, the real motive is obvious: helping Barack Obama secure the Democra...

  • May 15, 2007

    George Soros and the Future of the World Bank

    As Paul Wolfowitz struggles to retain his post as President of the World Bank in the face of a trumped up faux scandal engineered by his opponents (the outlines of which have been the subject of various Wall Street Journal exposes (here, here, and he...

  • May 15, 2007

    Hillary and Univision

    Blogger Clemensando, who covers Hispanic media, is fairly confident that Haim Saban's investment in Univision will not influence its coverage of the election to favor Hillary, as I fear:...it is the flip question asked by some liberals during the lon...

  • May 15, 2007

    Caroline Glick on the World Bank

    From her Column One in the Jerusalem Post:  The World Bank published a report claiming that Palestinian poverty in Judea and Samaria is the direct result of IDF checkpoints and roadblocks. [....]The fact of the matter is that the World Bank...

  • May 15, 2007

    Democrats against citizen vigilence

    The Washington Times exposes  Democrat opposition to offering whistleblower protection for citizens who report suspicious behavior that may be terror-related. Given the eagerness of well-funded groups like CAIR to sue into bankruptcy the citizen...

  • May 14, 2007

    The friends of Barack Obama

    Barack Obama plans to attend a fundraising reception at home of, and accept money from, a former Knicks player roundly criticized for anti-Semitism. New York Magazine reports:  ... a minimum $1,000-a-head reception at the home of retired Knick A...

  • May 14, 2007

    Hillary, Obama, and racial blocs

    Hillary faces an erosion of support from the black community due to the rise of Barack Obama. There is only so much help Bill (America's first black President) and a faux Southern accent can provide to bolster her appeal to the nation's black communi...

  • May 11, 2007

    Univision, Voter Registration and the Clinton Connection

    The 2008 election may see a vast number of new Hispanic voters streaming to the polls and voting Democrat, thanks to behind the scenes maneuvers by the Democrats' biggest sugar daddy of all. The outlines of the plan became clear yesterday when puttin...

  • May 10, 2007

    A neologism whose time has come

    Dean Barnett has coined a useful new word: "Obamanations," to describe the trouble with gaffes that Barack Obama seems to be experiencing with increasing frequency. He uses the example we noted yesterday, when commenting on the way the pres...

  • May 10, 2007

    Carter seeks to split Evangelicals from Israel support

    Former President Jimmy Carter recently has stepped up his efforts to split the bonds between Evangelical voters and Israel. From The Jewish Week: Wading into the delicate fray over the alliance between Jews and pro-Israel Evangelicals, former Preside...

  • May 9, 2007

    The Media declares "omerta" on Obama shortcomings

    Barack Obama has been effectively coated with Teflon® by a liberal media anxious that no flaws ever become apparent in the image fashioned of a man running against cynicism, the presumptive Republican nominee. How else to explain the passes grant...

  • May 9, 2007

    The New York Times already hates Sarkozy

     The New York Times is not exactly thrilled with the victory of Nicolas Sarkozy. There is no opportunity to carp about a narrow electoral margin, so the Times must make do with snarkiness. Several examples follow below. I wonder if the Times eve...

  • May 9, 2007

    Missing Headlines (a continuing series)

    "April Revenue Shower" - The Wall Street Journal reports:"Here's the "surge" you aren't reading about: the continuing flood of tax revenue into the federal Treasury. Tax receipts for April were $70 billion above the same mont...

  • May 9, 2007

    The Soros pincer move on Israel

    George Soros is deeply hostile to current American support for Israel. He publicly criticizes AIPAC and is exploring opportunities to form an anti-AIPAC. He also plans to launch a European version of the Council of Foreign Relations. Now, it seems as...

  • May 9, 2007

    Here we go again: another American hostage in Iran

    This must be disheartening to Lee Hamilton who, along with James Baker, headed up the Iraq Study Group that promoted outreach and diplomacy with Iran. An employee of the organization that former Representative Lee Hamilton heads,  the Woodr...

  • May 8, 2007

    Chris Matthews goes scapegoating

    I listened to this barrage from Chris Matthews at the health club yesterday. It was nauseating. Matthews just kept peddling the line that Wolfowitz, Feith, Libby and Perle are the ones who pushed America to war.  He even repeated the Tenet ...

  • May 7, 2007

    Bill Clinton on Israel's nuclear annihilation

    The next Ambassador at Large, should Mrs. Clinton become president, has gone on record in the  belief that the main victims of a nuclear strike that destroys Israel would be Muslims, suffering from fallout. What a thoughtful guy!  Did Hezb'...

  • May 7, 2007

    Soros plans European version of CFR

    George Soros has infamously criticized American foreign policy and has been particularly harsh in faulting America's support for Israel. He has been one of the most active and generous contributors to the Democratic Party (and especially Barack ...

  • May 5, 2007

    Obama is caught in a public fabrication

    Barack Obama has been caught in a fabrication (see my earlier blog Home of the Whopper), and the MSM is giving him a free pass. The least other media outlets could do is to back up the Des Moines Register, which has both a transcript and au...

  • May 4, 2007

    Pim Fortuyn's death

    Bruce Bawer is an expatriate American who has now lived in Europe for years. Last year he wrote one of the most insightful and well-written books on 2006, While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within, regarding the increas...

  • May 4, 2007

    NYT's selective suspicions of witch hunting

    A New York Times report criticizing Iraq reconstruction relied on a man now under investigation for bad work habits and other problems. This inquiry regards the competency and lack of diligence on the part of the inspector general who purportedl...

  • May 4, 2007

    More Kafkaesque behavior from the UN

    Zimbabwe is about to become head of UN's Commission on Sustainable Development. This goes beyond Orwell; it is Kafkaesque. Under the dictatorship of Robert Mugabe, all indexes of economic well-being, let alone political freedom, have plummeted. Life ...

  • May 3, 2007

    Socialist loses temper in French presidential debate

    Last night's televised debate between Nicolas Sarkozy and Ségolène Royal, held prior to Sunday's run-off election for President of France, may have produced a decisive moment, as the socialist Royal apparently lost her temper and was ca...

  • May 3, 2007

    The Obama campaign: home of the Whopper

    Barack Obama has been caught in a whopper over his statement, "Nobody's suffering more than the Palestinian people." The Des Moines Register reports,Last week, NBC News anchor and moderator Brian Williams asked Obama during the first debate...

  • May 3, 2007

    Tenet would have resigned over Pollard?

    Shmuel Rosner of Haartez notes that in his new book Tenet claims he is responsible for stopping the release of Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard.Former CIA chief George Tenet claims that he is responsible for scuppering a deal to free Jonathan Pollard, th...

  • May 2, 2007

    Democrats and free speech

    Dems claim to love whistelblowers, leakers, and defend as free speech flag burning, Serrano's Piss Christ, etc. But how about defending airline passengers who fear hijackers and don't want to face lawsuits from the likes of CAIR? Of course, it falls ...

  • May 2, 2007

    The Kurds build a healthy society; why can't the Palestinians?

    Marty Peretz, writing in The Spine blog at The New Republic, makes an illuminating contrast of the Kurds with the Palestinians (and Israelis, too).... the Kurds followed the example of what the Zionists did from the twenties on. For several decades, ...

  • May 1, 2007

    Missing Headlines: Sen. Frist vindicated

    Senator Frist was hounded by charges that he had engaged in insider trading when he sold shares of the company his family founded, Hospital Corporation of America. Media outlets slandered him with an abandon last seen, well... every day when it comes...

  • April 30, 2007

    Obama throwing his spiritual mentor overboard?

    The New York Times reports on its front page today about Obama's strained relationship with his pastor, also known as his "spiritual mentor." The Times does tend to downplay some of the harsher statements that Pastor Wright has made about I...

  • April 30, 2007

    Soros, Obama, and the Millionaires Exception

    It is well-known that George Soros, the hedge-fund manager, major Democratic Party donor and anti-Israel crusader, has been a generous contributor to Barack Obama. But relatively few people realize that a loophole in McCain-Feingold allowed...

  • April 28, 2007

    Blaming the victim

    Colbert King faults Paul Wolfowitz for the antics and unfairness of others.By the way, what qualified Colbert King to ever have been on the Board of the World Bank? He blames Wolfowtiz for the "tabloid" like attacks of others. This conflict...

  • April 27, 2007

    Anti-Americanism in the French election

    Germany's socialist Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder made a point of attacking America in order to garner votes, and it worked for him. The lesson has not been lost on Ségolène Royal, French socialist candidate for President of France....

  • April 23, 2007

    Iran bribing Iraqi politicians

    While Democrats are touting their plans to cut funds to Iraq, Iran is reported to be offering bribes to Iraqi parliamentarians.  Evidently the Iranians realize we haven't quite yet lost, as Harry Reid contends. Eli Lake of the New York Sun repor...

  • April 19, 2007

    The Economist trashes "neo-cons"

    We have had our run-ins with the British-based magazine The Economist before. In the past, the magazine has basically made fun of Southern Christians who died during religious practices. In the current edition, just hitting newstands, the magazine se...

  • April 19, 2007

    Zealots on the NYT editorial board

    A New York Times editorial attacks "male justices" of the SCOTUS and expresses unseemly rage. "Gutted" a host of "thoughtful" lower court rulings; "severely eroded" the constitutional respect and protection aff...

  • April 19, 2007

    Sickness on the left

    Tom Gross of the National Review's Media Matters blog, brings to our attention a vile article from Counterpunch.The American people, including the families of the murdered Virginia Tech innocents, have collective blood-guilt on their hands...How many...

  • April 19, 2007

    Deafening silence

    Iran exonerates six who killed in Islam's name: International Court of Justice, UN Human Rights Commission, George Soros -- where are you?...

  • April 18, 2007

    A must-read

    Christopher Harmon has written the must-read of the month "The Myth of the Invincible Terrorist". In this invaluable essay for Policy Review, Harmon seeks to explode the myth that terror cannot be defeated. Among the tactics that have ...

  • April 18, 2007

    Rep.Lee Hamilton disappoints

    The Democratic congressman offers an endorsement to Hezbollah: A Short History by Augustus Richard Norton:"Hezbollah is a timely and landmark work. Richard Norton draws on his extensive expertise to offer a comprehensive history that will be of ...

  • April 18, 2007

    The friends of Andrew Young

    Andrew Young: Carter buddy, Arafat friend, antisemite and now PROFITEER. From the New York Times today: LAGOS, Nigeria — For years, Andrew Young, the civil rights leader, has been deeply involved in this country through the lobbying and consult...

  • April 17, 2007

    Syria threatens Golan Heights violence

    It's a good thing Nancy Pelosi is such a foreign policy genius. Her road to peace via Damascus is heading for the Golan Heights and threatening violence.The Syrian information minister says Damascus wants peace, but will resort to violence if Israel ...

  • April 16, 2007

    Always look on the bright side of life

    Reading this New York Times review of a new play about the Holocaust, I am faced with the question: what moral universe does the NYT live in? David NG writes:It seems rude, even sacrilegious, to fault a Holocaust drama for failing to entertain. Most ...

  • April 16, 2007

    Pravda on Imus (updated)

    "In a clear sign of its intent to reign in dissident American media personalities, and their growing influence in American culture, US War Leaders this past week launched an unprecedented attack upon one of their most politically 'connected', an...

  • April 16, 2007

    Missing Headlines

    "Nouri stands up to Tehran"One of the byproducts of the "surge" in Iraq is a strengthening of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's hand in dealing with Tehran. Amir Taheri writes  in the New York Post A few months ago, Washington...

  • April 9, 2007

    Blame Israel (updated)

    Robert Novak has a long history of antipathy toward Israel. But his column  today stretches to make an absurd point: that Israel is responsible for the plight of Palestinian Christians.Hani Hayek, an accountant who is the Christian mayor of the ...

  • April 9, 2007

    Diverting defense resources

    Senators Hagel and Durbin are to push a bill that ties climate to national security and impose demands on the CIA and Pentagon to devote resources to this issue.We are fighting terror and trying to prevent Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror...

  • April 8, 2007

    Judge the tree by its fruit

    David Brooks is one of the few moderate columnists that the NYT has in its roster. Today, he makes the startling observation ($link) that the work of Walt and Mearsheimer (covered extensively by AT) and other foes of the "Israel lobby" has ...

  • April 6, 2007

    Race and felonious voters (updated)

    There it goes again: The New York Times characterizes felon voting laws as Jim Crow-era. The Times wants readers to believe that laws that deny or restrict rights of felons to vote are a relic of Civil War oppression of blacks. Therefore, suppor...

  • April 4, 2007

    More NYT whitewashing of Democrats (updated)

    The New York Times has published an article on the New Jersey pension fund fiasco without ever identifying Democrats as having been in charge. Can anyone doubt that if the parties were reversed, the "Republican" would have appeared thr...

  • April 4, 2007

    Boy slavery charges in Dubai

    Dubai's leaders, who paid a fortune to Bill Clinton for speeches, are facing charges of boy-enslavement. Dubai, which has burnished its image by spending millions on public relations and hiring power brokers in America-such as former President Bill C...

  • April 1, 2007

    NYT finds 'expert" that agrees with Iran

    Almost unbelievably (it is April Fools' Day, after all), the New York Times has dug up and provided op-ed space to Alan Cowell, an "expert" who agrees with Iran that the UK violated its territorial waters.When one goes to Cowell's webs...

  • March 31, 2007

    He forgot a few things

    The "well-respected" new Palestinian Finance Minister pens an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times, and lays into Israel, calling for end to sanctions. Somehow he forgot to mention that many millions of financial aid that was supposed to go ...

  • March 25, 2007

    Boston Globe advises deal with Hamas parent organization

    The Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) lends editorial space in its Sunday paper to two writers advocating the United States begin talks with the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. Joshua Stacher and Samer Shehata paint a rather rosy picture of the...

  • March 24, 2007

    Does the Times management really need help with that?

    This headline on IWantMedia.com made me do a double-take: Make the NY Times Reader Free Washington Square NewsOkay. Where do I sign up? Then I read a bit more.Make the NY Times Reader Free Washington Square News The New York Times Reader, a new ...

  • March 22, 2007

    Kristof and Obama

    New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof's recent column advocated a weakening of America's support for the beleaguered state of Israel. Kristof has never directly written about Israel before but chose the present moment, just as Israel faces threat...

  • March 22, 2007

    Barack Obama and Israel

    [editor's note: a substantially new and more complete article on the subject by Ed Lasky can be found here.]Senator Barack Obama has become the rarest of politicians: a man who has seemingly come out of nowhere to ascend to the top rank of Democratic...

  • March 18, 2007

    Kristof: debate the relationship with Israel

    Anyone who has been reading my blogging over the years, has probably seen Nicolas Kristof appear periodically, since I believe he has had an anti-Israel agenda. The fact that he strongly supported Florida professor Sami Al Arian when he was accu...

  • March 16, 2007

    Russia eyes large stake in Deutsche Telekom

    In the old days in Germany, people used to worry about Russian phone taps. Now, petrodollar-flush Russia is considering buying the phone lines. Market Watch reports on an article from Suddeutsche Zeitung:Telecommunications Minister Leonid Reiman said...

  • March 16, 2007

    HRW's take on the KSM confession

    This says it all about "Human Rights Watch" and their bias and derangement. After Khaldi Shaikh  Mohammed confesses to a wide series of crimes, the George Soros-funded Human Rights Watch casts doubt on his confession by alluding to it ...

  • March 16, 2007

    Creative writing at the NYT

    The New York Times writes that man born in 1956 was "born in Palestine," from which he was "evicted" by the Israelis:"The arc of Mr. Abssi's life shows the allure of Al Qaeda for Arab militants. Born in Palestine, from which ...

  • March 15, 2007

    Obama runs off the Road Map

    Presidential candidate Barack Obama has misinterpreted a few key principles of the Road Map, an international agreement regarding the steps the Palestinians and Israelis must take for the peace process to begin and to conclude. Senator...

  • March 15, 2007

    Time for Pelosi to withdraw her comments

    One of the many benefits of release of the 26 page transcript Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's confession to 9/11 and other plots is that we should no longer have to hear Nancy Pelosi claiming that "not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caugh...

  • March 14, 2007

    Obama record "soft on crime"

    One of the perils of being a state senator is the need to vote on the record. Sam Youngman and Aaron Blake of The Hill have looked into Barack Obama's record as an Illinois state senator, and find that he has given his opponents a lot to work with.In...

  • March 14, 2007

    Hezb'allah agrees with Cheney

    Vice-President Cheney in a recent speech expressed the belief that a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would embolden terrorists around the world and among the other consequences would be further risks to the safety and security of America's allies in...

  • March 10, 2007

    Bush's unsung battle against anti-Semitism

    Politico.com excerpts the new book A World Ignited: How Apostles of Ethnic, Religious, and Racial Hatred Torch the Globe, by Martin and Susan J. Tolchin, with evidence of the President's battle against gobal anti-Semitism, a battle for which he recei...

  • March 9, 2007

    Soros wants to make Hamas a "partner"

    Prominent Obama-backer George Soros unburdens himself in an interview with the U.K. Financial Times. His views on Hamas, dedicated to the destruction of Israel: "...you must deal with Hamas and I think we are in the process of committing a blund...

  • March 9, 2007

    Missing the point

    Rosa Brooks of the Los Angeles Times complains that the US Human Rights report doesn't focus on American violations! ON TUESDAY - to ritualized hoots of derision from around the globe - the U.S. Department of State released its 2006 Country Reports o...

  • March 8, 2007

    The scandal machine

    Gabriel Schoenfeld’s post on the Libby verdict below makes a good occasion to offer our readers veteran Commentary contributor Paul Johnson’s review of Suzanne Garment’s 1992 book Scandal—a penetrating tome on issues not ...

  • March 8, 2007

    Obama the scofflaw

    Barack Obama, while training at Harvard Law School to be an officer of the court, was a parking ticket scofflaw. A decade and a half late, but just in time for his Presidential campaign, he has finally obeyed the law. ...

  • March 7, 2007

    Curious omission

    Today's New York Times editorial on Libby case omits Richard Armitage's name: What we still do not know is whether a government official used Ms. Wilson's name despite knowing that she worked undercover. That is a serious offense, which could have pu...

  • March 6, 2007

    Foreign policy training in the streets

    New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof says ($link) that Barack Obama is qualified to lead nation's foreign policy because he was a Jakarta "street kid" for 4 years, and is charmed to learn that the candidate regards the sound of the Ara...

  • March 3, 2007

    Obama speaks before AIPAC

    Yesterday, Senator Barack Obama gave a long-awaited speech regarding his views on the Middle East to the AIPAC Policy Forum in Chicago. As a leading Presidential contender, his views on this topic have been eagerly sought. Since he has been a nationa...

  • February 28, 2007

    Louis Farrakhan's reading list

    The ADL calls our attention  the a reading list provided by Black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan, replete with anti-Semitic works. Finding a cozy place among them is ex-president Jimmy Carter's tome, Palestine: Peace not Apartheid. Makes sense....

  • February 28, 2007

    Muslim men in Israel raping Jewish girls for revenge

    According to the Jerusalem Post, A gang of serial rapists has been prowling the North, raping Jewish women as revenge for IDF actions in the West Bank, police revealed Tuesday after arresting six suspects. "We are raping Jews because of what the...

  • February 27, 2007

    Abuse of holy sites?

    One of the defining characteristics of ethnic bigotry is the application of different standards to different groups. The most common examples these days relate to Israel. In recent memory we have seen Israel vilified for rebuilding a ramp leading to ...

  • February 24, 2007

    John F. Kerry gets sadder and sadder

    The John Kerry Heinz couple are now authors of a new book on... the environment. Needless to say, he mimics Gore to garner more attention. What a pathetic figure he cuts....

  • February 23, 2007

    Jimmy Carter refuses to debate again

    Jimmy Carter continued his speaking tour to stimulate discussion and debate about Israel by once again refusing to discuss or debate his views with an opponent, this time at Emory University, Atlanta. Rick Richman of Jewish Current Issues covers the ...

  • February 23, 2007

    Missing headlines (a continuing series)

    This year the federal budge deficit will be 1.6 percent of the economy – a level lower than in 18 of the past 25 years. The federal budget is projected to be in surplus by 2012. (Source)...

  • February 23, 2007

    Pelosi's appalling ignorance (updated)

    Speaker Nancy Pelosi has made and still carries on her website a breathtakingly untrue charge against President Bush:"Five years after 9/11 and Osama bin Laden is still free and not a single terrorist who planned 9/11 has been caught and brought...

  • February 22, 2007

    Liberal hysteria

    The New York Times mounts its editorial high horse to denounce the federal appeals court decision that Gitmo detainees do not have a right to be heard in court. "American Liberty at the Precipice" is sweepingly titles the editorial. Only tw...

  • February 22, 2007

    The unbearable absurdity of the Economist magazine

    We have in the past noted that The Economist magazine has a typically European elitist view toward America (particularly in its ridicule of  Christians). The editors also have a very biased view towards Israel. The current issue has yet ano...

  • February 21, 2007

    Edwards campaign contests report of anti-Israel remarks

    John Edwards' campaign is strongly denying the report we cited yesterday that he saw a possible Israeli attack on Iran's nuclear facilities as a major threat to world peace. AP reports  A spokesman for the 2008 Democratic candidate issued a...

  • February 21, 2007

    Fitzgerald attacks Bush in closing argument

    Why did Patrick Fitzgerald, special prosecutor in the Libby Trial, attack President Bush in his summation yesterday? Josh Gerstein of the New York Sun wrote:Broadening his attack on the White House, Mr. Fitzgerald took a shot at President Bush, indir...

  • February 20, 2007

    Edwards: Israel's threat to world peace

    National Review's HillarySpot catches John Edwards spouting the popular European view that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace: Hillary Spot reader Michael points out this little gem in Peter Bart's column on John Edwards' comments in Hollyw...

  • February 19, 2007

    Obama alleged to omit credit where due

    Barack Obama has been alleged to have taken credit for others' work in getting asbestos removed from a Chicago housing project. The Los Anegles Times provides the story. Interesting that left winger Bobby Rush is among those making the charges. ...

  • February 19, 2007

    Leftist Jews and Israel

    Edward Alexander writes in the New York Post of "Leftist Jews' Hateful Obsession", which makes an excellent companion piece to Rachel Neuwirth's article published here two days ago. The pieces are complimentary, not redundant. An excerpt: T...

  • February 18, 2007

    NYT's Kristof burnishes Jimmy Carter's image

    Truly breathtaking! In an op-ed ($ link) today, Nicholas Kristof of the New York Times praises Jimmy Carter. Ex-president Carter has been subject to rounds of criticism for the fabrications, plagiarism and outright bias and mendacity i...

  • February 18, 2007

    NYT on Gaza greenhouses

    Greg Myre of the New York Times writes of Gaza today ("Israelis Are Gone, but Gaza Rebuilding Is Slow"). Of particular note are greenhouses which cost $14 million, purchased as a gift to the Palestinians by Americans (many of them Jewish), ...

  • February 17, 2007

    Smells Vichy to me

    Haaretz reports,"French President Jacque Chirac has announced his support for lessening pressure on Iran to stop its nuclear program, for fear Hezbollah will strike at French troops serving in Lebanon, according to information recently received ...

  • February 16, 2007

    Austria okays export of more guns to Iran

    Austria gave us Hitler... so why not sell guns to Iran? The perils of giving Austria absolution as the first "victim" of Naziism - have they no sense of guilt or shame?...

  • February 16, 2007

    Gracing the pages of the LA Times

    The Los Angeles Times runs a column today by Andrew Cockburn, conspiracy theorist and anti-Semite. In the column, Andrew Cockburn attempts to refute charges that Iran is arming insurgents in Iraq. While ignoring evidence that specialized Austria...

  • February 16, 2007

    Healing or justice?

    The New York Times headline on the opening of the Madrid Terror Trial is almost comic: "Hopes for Healing as Spain's Terror Triral Begins"Even by Times standards, this is a delusional take on the trial of suspects in The Madrid train bombin...

  • February 15, 2007

    Why Scooter and not the others?

    Stephen Spruiell of National Review's Media Blog points out some of the sworn testimony in the Libby Trail which is contradicted by other sworn testimony. Ari Fleischer, Walter Pincus of the WaPo, Tim Russert, Andrea Mitchell, Bob Woodward, and now J...

  • February 15, 2007

    Only part of the news fit to print

    The New York Times is trying to discrdit the Bush administration and seriously misleading readers. Again.Controversy over a possible missed U.S. opportunity for rapprochement with Iran grew on Wednesday as former aide accused Secretary of State Condo...

  • February 14, 2007

    A General who cannot see a "smoking gun"

    The head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff can't see a smoking gun when it is right in front of him.First Austrian-made guns that are unique and rare and that were recently shipped to Iran for "anti-drug" efforts find their way to Iraqi "in...

  • February 14, 2007

    How much more evidence is needed?

    First Austrian-made guns that are unique and rare and that were recently shipped to Iran for "anti-drug" efforts find their way to Iraqi "insurgents". Then Iranian officials are captured within Iraq and are alleged to have be...

  • February 14, 2007

    That depends on what the meaning of "diverse" is

    New York City is  to open an Arabic public school. But of course it wants it to be "diverse."The Khalil Gibran International Academy is one of 40 new schools that will their debut in the city next September. Education officials say tha...

  • February 13, 2007

    NYT names an "expert"

    The New York Times reports that "skeptics" doubt US evidence on Iran's Actions in Iraq. So who is one of these "experts" (a word the Times uses)  worth citing? None other than Silvestre Reyes of Texas - who is the Democratic ...

  • February 12, 2007

    Criminal rights over public safety

    The new Governor of Massachusetts, Deval Patrick, is already making waves. The Boston Globe reports that he wants limit employers' ability to check the criminal backgrounds of potential employees:Aides have been meeting with lawmakers and advocates w...

  • February 11, 2007

    McCain's hypocrisy

    The unbearable absurdity of the Mccain-Feingold Campaign Reform law is on display in this piece by John Solomon of the Washington Post.Just about a year and a half ago, Sen. John McCain went to court to try to curtail the influence of a group to...

  • February 9, 2007

    Your tax dollars at work

    Tavis Smiley is slated to host two presidential candidate forums on PBS.  Are we to take seriously the prospect of an even-handed examination of both Democrat and Republican candidates from him? Is this an appropriate expenditure of taxpaye...

  • February 9, 2007

    Boston Globe praises Saudi "statesmanship"

    The Boston Globe (owned by the New York Times) takes a breathtaking step into fantasy-land today as its editorial page offers paeans to "Saudi Statesmanship". This gushing praise is prompted by the deal worked out under Saudi ausp...

  • February 7, 2007

    Boston Globe op-ed revives anti-Semitic trope

    A report on left wing ("progressive") anti-Semitism from the American Jewish Committee is drawing howls of protest from Jewish leftists. Some appear to have been driven a bit nutty. Writing an op-ed in the New York Times-owned Boston Globe,...

  • February 6, 2007

    Obsession isn't just a perfume

    The New York Sun shines its light on a comic headline appearing in the New York Times:"Super Bowl Ads of Cartoonish Violence, Perhaps Reflecting Toll of War." The Sun drolly headlines its item, "You've Got to be Kidding."  Bu...

  • February 6, 2007

    NYT Department of Double Standards

    In its ongoing campaign to burnish its readers' view of Islam and Arab nations, the New York Times heaped praise  on the wisdom and taste behind the "audacious" (why do I have a feeling we are going to read this wor...

  • February 5, 2007

    New York Times and Palestinians

    I am shocked! The New York Times admits Palestinians use hospitals to fire from and colleges for arsenals. Dr. Jumaa al-Saqqa, a surgeon and spokesman for Al Shifa hospital, Gaza's largest, said Hamas forces had taken over the hospital and were using...

  • February 5, 2007

    Generals gone wild

    Former US generals have called upon a foreign power (the UK)  to stop US moves against Iran. Does anyone else have a problem about the propriety here?  The BBC reports:With Iran defying the Security Council over its enrichment of uranium an...

  • February 2, 2007

    Always Isarel's fault

    The BBC headlines the charge of an Israeli "human rights organization "that Israel continues to control Gaza through an 'invisible hand'". Does this not prove that no matter what Israel does, it gets blamed? The organization, called Gi...

  • January 31, 2007

    Manipulating the ISG's conclusions

    James Baker and his pal former ambassador Edward Djerejian are fingered in manipulating Iraq Study Group report to pressure Israel, according to a report in The Forward. In interviews with the Forward, several of the experts who advised the panel sai...

  • January 30, 2007

    Splitting the Evangelicals from Israel

    A new strategy seems to be emerging that seeks to weaken American support for Israel.While there has been much attention given to challenges Israel faces on college campuses, in the media, and increasingly in the halls of Congress, the historically s...

  • January 26, 2007

    Israel's worst nightmare

    Iran's impending nuclear weapons are an existential threat to Israel, and have already changed the terms of political discussion there. Writing in The New Republic, Michael Oren and Yossi Klein Halevi present a must-read discussion of Iran as ...

  • January 26, 2007

    NYT investigates conservative hedge fund manager

    In a front-page article that ran on Jan.25th regarding hedge fund managers becoming involved in politics, the New York Times gave prominent coverage to Paul Singer whom it describes as a "private reserved man."  Clearly that was chum f...

  • January 18, 2007

    Militias on the wane in Baghdad

    One can only hope that the New York Times' editorial board reads today's news story by Sabrina Tavernise  Facing intense pressure from the Bush administration to show progress in securing Iraq, senior Iraqi officials announced Wednesday that the...

  • January 16, 2007

    Castro condition reported "very serious" (updated)

    Reuters reports that Fidel Castro is in "very serious" condition due to complications from what should be routine surgery.Cuban leader Fidel Castro is in serious condition after a series of three failed operations on his large intestine for...

  • January 16, 2007

    Secret agreement between Isarel and Syria? (updated)

    The Israeli paper Haaretz is reporting tonight that secret understanding were reached between representatives of Israel and Syria during a series of secret meetings that occurred in Europe between September 2004 and July 2006. The main points are:An ...

  • January 12, 2007

    Bungler Brzezinksi finds fault

    Zbigniew Brzezinski takes to the op-ed pages of the Washington Post to (surprise!) to point out "five flaws" in President Bush's plan to win the war in Iraq.As National Security Advisor during the Carter presidency, he did not lead a partic...

  • January 10, 2007

    UN gone wild

    The UN ignores its own rules and tradition by allowing a state (Iran) that has promised to destroy another state (Israel) continue as a member. Now via the New York Sun, we learn that the same UN has financed a document by another group tha...

  • January 9, 2007

    Strange NYT preview of PBS documentary on anti-Semitism

    Does anyone else have have a problem with this paragraph found in Alessandra Stanley's story?The film does not mention that Mr. Lewis is one of the leading scholars that Vice President Dick Cheney consulted to formulate the administration's rationale...

  • December 31, 2006

    New York Times makes excuses for anti-Semite

    A New York Times book review of the latest work of notorious anti-Semite Amiri Baraka attempts to excuse his bigotry.Somebody Blew Up America," the post-9/11 poem that briefly made Baraka notorious (and cost him his position as New Jersey's poet...

  • December 30, 2006

    Kennedy: open our borders to Iraqis

    Writing in the Washington Post, Senator Edward M. Kennedy urges allowing in untold numbers of Iraqis. There is an overwhelming need for temporary relief and permanent resettlement. Last year, however, America accepted only 202 Iraqi refugees, and nex...

  • December 19, 2006

    Baker's ISG: Shilling for the Saudis

    The Iraq Study Group (ISG) recently released its version of the "road map" to guide America's policy in Iraq. Despite an orchestrated public relations campaign that bordered on the farcical, with reverential media treatment at first, t...

  • December 18, 2006

    As ye sow: The case of Norway

    Norwegians are supposedly shocked to learn thatTwo out of three charged with rape in Norway's capital are immigrants with a non-western background according to a police study. The number of rape cases is also rising steadily.The study is the fir...

  • December 15, 2006

    Gazprom buying into Pravda

    Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, which is extorting equity from Shell, Mitsui and Mitsubishi in the Sakhlin 2 LNG project, is also buying up large parts of the Russian press. The Editor's Web Log quoted AFP in April: Russia's state controlled gas g...

  • December 12, 2006

    Charges detailed against Carter book

    The Emory Wheel, student-run newspaper at Emory University, details serious accusations against Jimmy Carter's controversial new book made by Emory Professor Kenneth Stein, who resigned last week from his post at The Carter Center to protest its...

  • December 12, 2006

    Twisted progress in women's rights

    Although the feminist-left community prefers to remain largely silent about the extreme oppression of women common in several Islamic countries (does anyone remember major feminist organizations praising the freeing of Afghanistan's women from the bu...

  • December 11, 2006

    Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi refugees?

    Michael Kranish of the Boston Globe writes:Hundreds of thousands of Iraqis who have fled their homeland are likely to seek refugee status in the United States, humanitarian groups said, putting intense pressure on the Bush administration to reexamine...

  • December 11, 2006

    Annan's parting shot

    Kofi Anan writes a fatuous farewell op-ed in the Washington Post, maintaining that only through multilateral institutions can states hold each other to account.So my final lesson is that those institutions must be organized in a fair and democratic w...

  • December 11, 2006

    Whither Bolton?

    John Bolton, America's best Ambassador to the UN in our generation, will be leaving his post in the next few weeks. In the wake of a Democratic victory in the midterms that would have left his possible confirmation problematic, he precluded another h...

  • December 7, 2006

    The ISG talked to who?

    The list of  the ISG's outside "experts" compiled by  Hugh Hewitt included some mighty peculiar choices. For instance, Mark Danner of the New York Review of Books. That periodical was proud to p;ublish an early version of the Wa...

  • December 3, 2006

    The Kerry camp still resents Bush's victory (updated)

    The Washington Post recently published a harshly anti-Bush op-ed by Douglas Brinkley, who does not bother disclosing his John Kerry connections.Shortly after Thanksgiving I had dinner in California with Ronald Reagan's best biographer, Lou ...

  • November 30, 2006

    Baker panel changes mission

    The Baker Commission was supposedly convened to deal with Iraq. Yet Steven Erlanger of the New York Times writes today that the "bulk of the report by the Baker-Hamilton group  focused on a recommendation that the United States de...

  • November 27, 2006

    France, the Arabs and the Jews

    David Pryce-Jones, senior editor at National Review has just published a new book, Betrayal: France, the Arabs, and the Jews. The Wall Street Journal reviews it favorably today. Milt Rosenberg of WGN radio in Chicago hosted a panel discussion on...

  • November 13, 2006

    Will James Baker Stay True to Form?

    The Iraq Study Group (ISG), a purportedly bi—partisan group chaired by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Congressman Lee Hamilton, has been convening hearings and soliciting opinions from experts regarding the future course Ameri...

  • October 24, 2006

    The Europeanization of the Democratic Party

    Ronald Reagan famous declaration that he 'did not leave the Democratic Party. It left me' can be made more contemporary. The Democratic Party has not only left behind many of its old principles and ideals, it now seems to be in the process of lo...

  • September 29, 2006

    Democrats and the anti-Semitism of Hugo Chavez

    Various Democrats have looked with favor upon the anti—American Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez over the years, his record of deepening anti—Semitism notwithstanding. Ex—president Carter helped him secure his position by certi...

  • September 27, 2006

    Iran's Oil Weapon Threat Ringing Hollow

    Iran's mullahs have threatened an oil embargo in response to pressures exerted to accept curbs on its nuclear program — curbs that it has agreed to when it signed the Nuclear Non—Proliferation Pact. This agreement, and subsequent promises...

  • September 21, 2006

    The Democratic Party and the Jews

    The Democratic Party has been a congenial political home for many American Jews since the era of FDR. The party welcomed them into its ranks (along with many blacks and urban dwellers) and its programs comported well with many values Jews cherish. Th...

  • August 19, 2006

    The Pieta Pose

    Today's print edition front—page of the New York Times (visible here) features a large heart—rending photo, above—the—fold, by Tyler Hicks. A visibly grieving female Arab mourner is being being consoled by ...

  • August 6, 2006

    Moral Inversion at the New York Times

    Nicholas Kristof, the New York Times columnist who never apologized for supporting terrorist—funder Sami Al—Arian, now attacks Ehud Olmert for defending his people, delivering a stunning first line in his column today: "As I see it,...

  • July 19, 2006

    The New York Times and the Jews (2)

    [Editor's note: this is the second of a two part series. Part 1 is found here.] The New York Times garners a strong measure of loyalty from American Jews. A large part of this loyalty clearly stems from a perception that the paper is an ally in their...

  • July 18, 2006

    The Syrian Option

    As Israel battles the Shiite terror group Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, many analysts have begun to wonder if there is another enemy that should be directly engaged: Syria. A harmonic convergence of factors has anathematized one of the most...

  • May 30, 2006

    Evangelicals and Israel: An Interview with David Brog

    David Brog is the author of the book Standing with Israel: Why Christians Support the Jewish State. He attended Princeton University and Harvard Law School, served as an executive at America Online, and practiced corporate law. He has recently been t...

  • May 25, 2006

    God Bless America: Olmert speaks to Congress

    A few days ago, I was fortunate to receive an invitation to hear Israeli Prime minister Ehud Olmert address a rare joint session of Congress. (the full text of the speech can be found here) Occasions that merit a joint session of Congress are very ra...

  • March 18, 2006

    The Strange Indifference of the New York Times

    The New York Times again reveals its indifference to anti—Semitism and the threat of radical Islam in America — as well as a healthy dose of hypocrisy. Last April, a prison Imam named Umar Abdul—Jalil (who has a $76,000 a year job c...

  • March 3, 2006

    Myths the Beltway Journalists Peddle

    The White House Press Corps and journalists working the Capitol Hill beat are well versed in the ways of Washington. Yet, they also seem determined to keep the public in the dark about how our government works. When a Republican is president, they fi...

  • February 10, 2006

    The Coming War in the Security Council

    After two years of feckless faux negotiations with Iran regarding its nuclear weapons program, America and the EU have used their influence to compel the International Atomic Energy Agency to bring the Iran nuclear weapons issue before the UN Securit...

  • January 23, 2006

    The Campaign Against Oprah and Elie

    Major newspapers do not usually attack prominent, respected and even beloved figures in either popular culture or literature on their culture or editorial pages without solid evidence of some serious misdeeds, or at minimum hypocrisy. In recent days ...

  • January 2, 2006

    Spielberg's silent victims

    Postmodern ideology places victims at the very top of the pecking order of morality. Unless, of course, the victims come from a class of persons deemed by the supreme authorities of political correctness (The New York Times, Hollywood, and academia) ...

  • December 24, 2005

    The real meaning of Hanukah

    Liberation is a theme that courses through all of Jewish history. The story of the Israelites' escape from Egyptian slavery and return to their homeland under the leadership of Moses resonates with many oppressed minorities. That particular escape fr...

  • November 17, 2005

    The New York Times and the Jews

    The New York Times narcissistically regards itself as the patron saint of minorities. The paper shifts into attack mode whenever it sees the slightest and most ephemeral whiff of prejudice against blacks, women, or immigrants — especially Musli...

  • October 31, 2005

    Prosecutorial zeal

    Tough, vigorous prosecutors can be invaluable guardians of the public welfare. Vicious criminal gangs must be pursued, and relentless fearlessness is a necessity. The human tendency to feather one's own nest at the expense of the public needs to be f...

  • October 14, 2005

    Teen drivers and energy use

    Everyone, not just the greenies, wants to cut our energy use. While some search for a technology fix, and others rail against the appurtenances of middle class suburban life, there is a much simpler step which would bring relief and also offer numero...

  • September 26, 2005

    Ameritocracy: preferences and performance

    [An earlier article on the subject of meritocracy in American appeared here — editor] President Bush is criticized by many in the media for, among other things, cronyism and relying on family connections to get ahead. If you think about it, the...

  • September 20, 2005

    Ameritocracy: public service and competence

    The first of two articles. Part two will deal with the private sector. America was founded by a glorious group of ambitious men, glowing with the self—assurance coming from self—made lives and success based on talent and personal initia...

  • August 17, 2005

    Use the oil weapon against Iranian nukes

    As Iran continues its program to develop nuclear weapons in the face of unrelenting appeasement by many Western nations and a feckless International Atomic Energy Agency, various proposals have been presented by 'experts.' Most of  these ideas h...

  • July 18, 2005

    Democrats reveal their contempt for voters

    Amazing, isn't it? The Democrats are so arrogant that they cannot refrain from publicly boasting to fellow New York Times—reading elites how they manipulate the yahoos out there (that is, you and me). One example of yahoo—deception i...

  • June 27, 2005

    Seinfeld Liberals

    Seinfeld was a television marvel. Perhaps the most successful situation comedy series of all time, it ran from 1989 to 1998, and has become an omnipresent aspect of our lives as it continually runs in syndication and lives on in best—selling DV...

  • June 21, 2005

    The rise of the disdainful Democrats

    Senator Robert Byrd's previous occupation as a butcher never seems to come up when the press describes his history. It seems that mundane occupational histories of politicians matter only when they are Republicans. This is a method employed by t...

  • May 20, 2005

    Military-haters in the press

    The last few years have seen a heightened awareness of the mainstream media's anti—military bias. Plenty of people are noticing it, and even some media brand name correspondents are admitting it. There is plenty of evidence. The New York Times ...

  • April 26, 2005

    Colinoscopy: examining Colin Powell

    While President Reagan enjoyed a reputation as the 'Teflon President,' able to prevail against critics determined to besmirch his reputation, one figure handily eclipses him in his ability to avert any criticism by the mainstream media: Colin Powell....

  • April 14, 2005

    Clinton-Annan minuet now playing at the United Nations

    The last few months have seen a range of news stories regarding the United Nations, the oil—for—food scandal, and the role that the Annan family has played in the decline of the United Nations. Flying under the radar screen has been the e...

  • March 22, 2005

    A clarion call to Republicans: take back the cities

    While the Republican Party rightfully celebrates the re—election of President Bush and a slew of other Republicans in Congress, now is precisely the time for Republicans to extend their dominance in areas heretofore considered terra incognita: ...

  • February 26, 2005

    Rage and humiliation at the Washington Post

    Richard Cohen's column yesterday exemplifies the incoherent rage of the left which pervades our media. In this column "Rage in Riyadh," Cohen bemoans the "rage" which Saudis feel when they face such inconveniences as "humiliating" immigration de...

  • January 18, 2005

    A tsUNami hits Annan and friends at Turtle Bay

    While barely registering a ripple in the Mainstream Media, several key senior people  have been 'resigned' by Kofi Annan in the wake of a series of scandals. The sudden departures also follow a Manhattan meeting with liberal frien...

  • January 7, 2005

    Greedy hypocrites

    The recent disparagement of American aid efforts to help tsunami victims as 'stingy' by Jan Egeland, Under—Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs at the United Nations, is merely the latest in a series of anti—American words and actio...

  • November 22, 2004

    The rise and fall of Annanistan

    Recent history has seen the emergence on the world stage of two transnational groups which have committed, aided and abetted terror worldwide: Osama Bin Laden's al Qaeda and Kofi Annan's United Nations. Because the UN has been cloaked with an aura of...

  • October 5, 2004

    Why American Jews must vote for Bush

    American Jews face a fateful choice when they cast their Presidential ballots on November 2nd.  The world Jewish community — inside and outside of Israel — faces an unprecedented threat from anti—Semitism, which has has spread ...

  • September 14, 2004

    Fruits of a poisonous tree

    CBS is being judged, albeit not in a docket, but rather in the court of public opinion. A well—established legal doctrine throws light on the extent of its troubles, and expands the dimensions of the Rathergate scandal. As the implications begi...

  • September 8, 2004

    The academic/media complex

    President Dwight Eisenhower's departing message upon leaving office famously included a warning about a new phenomenon in the American political economy: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence,...

  • August 16, 2004

    Hollywood: the imperial city

    Only a few cities throughout history have had the impact of Hollywood: Washington is the locus of political power, and Mecca, Rome and Jerusalem are famed for their sacral status. However, as we move into the new Millennium, Hollywood projects an inf...

  • August 13, 2004

    When will they ever learn?

    The addiction to negotiation Will editorial writers and foreign policy experts ever admit that negotiations are futile with people like Sadr? It is amazing that writers, from the safety of their skyscrapers, sipping their lattes, can actually ig...

  • August 3, 2004

    NPR's odd 'expert'

    National Public Radio's choice of an expert to interview  on the terror alert in New York, Newark, and Washington, DC is odd, to say the least. Larry Johnson, a former CIA agent, proclaimed on the public air that the alert is "grandstanding," an...

  • July 28, 2004

    Good class origins

    In Stalin's Russia and Mao's China, 'good class origins' were considered essential for an ambitious apparatchik. 'Good' in the sense of humble —— the poorer the better. When high church communism was discarded, the children of accomplishe...

  • July 21, 2004

    Extra! New propaganda line

    Readers of the largest, most prestigious American dailies are being treated to a propaganda campaign unprecedented in modern times. In their effort to defeat President George Bush, the New York Times and the Washington Post often choose to run storie...

  • July 9, 2004

    Can anyone in the Times newsroom spell 'objective'?

    The New York Times is now trumpeting the 'dream team' of John Kerry and his running mate, John Edwards. However, strangely enough, on January 4th the Grey Lady ran a front—page article that disparaged him as a greedy Magus of the courtroom, who...

  • July 8, 2004

    Jews mobilize to save Muslims

    For decades, the Muslim world has been in thrall to the concept of victimhood. The claim that Muslims have been wronged by the avarice of the West, by the crusading Christians, and especially by the Jewish people reclaiming their ancient homeland fro...

  • June 27, 2004

    Far from the poorhouse

    "He had to mortgage his own home...." So reads the New York Times story bizarrely entitled 'Kerry's Campaign Has Soared From Poorhouse to Penthouse.'  The American dream story. Sounds Capraesque: I will put up my own home to become the lead...

  • June 25, 2004

    Arab reform

    While President Bush has promoted the "big bang" approach (overthrow of the Hussein dictatorship and its replacement by a democracy) to reform in the Arab world, his efforts have been derided by such advocates of "realism" as John Kerry. The realists...

  • June 6, 2004

    New York Times enables Saudi evasions

    The New York Times has reached a new low in its Middle East coverage. Not only does a 'news analysis' column today parrot a Saudi evasion of responsibility for the destructive consequences of state—sponsored Wahabbism, it helpfully misleads its...

  • June 2, 2004

    The toxic cure: foreign funds and the Presidency

    Now it is official. Unwieldy campaign finance reform (CFR) legislation may have opened Pandora's Box, and made political fundraising abuses, formerly forbidden, into perfectly legal practice. The cure, in other words, may be more toxic than the disea...

  • May 7, 2004

    Friedman's folly

    The pathological distaste that New York Times columnist Tom Friedman has shown for President Bush is well—known. He is just one of the many columnists at the Times who feel obligated to disparage George Bush at every turn (think Paul Krugman, M...

  • April 26, 2004

    Another New York Times disgrace

    The New York Times again directs its sarcasm at, and shows its contempt for "regular folks" by depicting the grass—roots followers of George Bush as automatons, engaging in "cult—like" behavior, reminiscent of Amway and Tupperware "cultis...

  • April 16, 2004

    Your children may learn that Muslims discovered America

    A Native American tribe has forced distributors of an Arab studies guide for American teachers to remove an inaccurate and absurd passage that Muslim explorers preceded Columbus to North America, and eventually became Algonquin chiefs named Abdul...

  • April 14, 2004

    ''Outing'' as a political strategy

    The ploy of 'outing'—— publicizing someone's religious heritage, sexual orientation, or ethnicity to discredit that person's beliefs or impugn his motivation —— is a disturbing manifestation of the increasingly polarized debat...

  • March 18, 2004

    Evangelicals and Israel

    One of the few 'movements' that the mainstream media have yet to praise and promote is the evangelical movement in America. Despite the dramatic growth in the number of people who consider themselves evangelicals, commentators and critics have routin...

  • March 10, 2004

    The Saudi War on George Bush

    Saudi Arabia has launched an undeclared war on George W. Bush. This simple fact must be understood by policy and strategy elites, the press, and the general electorate. Otherwise, the Saudis may well succeed in their tacit campaign to sabotage the lo...

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