November 1, 2016

Vote Hillary no matter what

You want open borders?  Amnesty?  Subsumption of U.S. sovereignty to the U.N.?  Foreign policy under the advice and influence of the Muslim Brotherhood?  Vote for Hillary, and you got it. Open borders In her own words Hillar...

October 28, 2016

Who wants what in Syria?

For openers, what does the U.S. want? The Guardian (2013): Western training of Syrian rebels is under way in Jordan in an effort to strengthen secular elements in the opposition as a bulwark against Islamic extremism, and to begin buildi...

October 13, 2016

Islamophobia is a Muslim problem

Consider the plight of Christians in Iraq As documented by the U.S. State Department, Christians have been threatened with violence if they do not leave their homes, accosted on the streets and even assassinated, and their churches have been bom...

August 16, 2016

Our guardians from global warming

The advent of climate models has given an aura of certainly to climate predictions, but a model is no better than the science behind it or the data that feeds it.  Unless the weights and interrelationships of climate drivers have a solid scienti...

August 6, 2016

Diversity in our universities? Forget it.

Diversity of ethnic background?  Sure.  And it certainly would be comically interesting to be a homunculus listening in on just how the quota system at some of our most prestigious (past tense) universities is determined.  But as far a...

August 4, 2016

Obama dances the jizya

When Jefferson and John Adams went to call on Tripoli’s envoy to London, Ambassador Sidi Haji Abdrahaman, they asked him by what right his Barbary pirates raided  American ships, stole their cargo, killed, enslaved, and ransomed their crew...

August 3, 2016

A choice between two inveterate liars?

A recent Commentary article titled “A Choice Between Two Inveterate Liars” maintained, as the title indicates, that both Trump and Clinton (Hillary) are inveterate liars.  The article proceeds to give examples to show there is a...

July 26, 2016

And how about America, Mr. President?

During the White House Summit on Global Development on July 20, the president said “we are living in the most peaceful” era in human history and that “the world has never been less violent.” On June 11, 2014, Obama sai...

July 21, 2016

Bullied and harassed...poor thing

In an opinion piece in Newsweek, Ali Albassam recounts the terrible ordeal of suspicious looks and unfriendly behavior she encounters on a daily basis just because of her Muslim faith. In my eyes, I was as American as anyone else my age. I celeb...

July 19, 2016

The scourge of Islam

The article in the Atlantic last year, which argued that ISIS is not just Islamic but very Islamic, predictably created an uproar of indignation and accusations of fomenting Islamophobia from the usual suspects, from the NYT to the Huffington Post. ...

July 6, 2016

Behind the smile

The Quran states unequivocally that Islam is superior to all other religions and must be made dominant over all other religions.  This is most evident in three different verses: 61:9, 48:28, and 9:33.  Here is the general thrust of all thre...

June 23, 2016

No, Mr. President: You are not who we are

Using the royal “we”, the president indicates his displeasure with the U.S. for failing to live up to his vision of how “we” should be with the phrase, “That is not who we are.”  No, Mr. President.  It is...

June 16, 2016

The Homo economicus fallacy

After 20 years of NAFTA, protectionism, once pronounced dead in the water, seems to be raising its damp head despite powerful economic arguments that back up free trade.  As Mark Twain said, “rumors of my death have been greatly exaggerate...

June 7, 2016

President Obama – Why are we over there?

President Obama delivered this year’s commencement address to the U.S. Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo. on June 2.  It contained several insights into his own vision as to the why and wherefore of his foreign policy of smart di...

June 3, 2016

Trans-National Corporatism

Both Adam Smith and David Ricardo, though they differed regarding the “invisible hand” vs. the statist or “visible hand” capitalism, had the benefit of England in mind -- arguing that, working within the framework of productio...

May 20, 2016

Islam and the Four Horses of the Apocalypse

Infiltration This is the favorite horse of the Muslim Brotherhood.  By using guile, deceit (taqiyya), and cunning, the M.B. has infiltrated its operatives into positions of influence in government agencies to “destroy Western Civilizati...

April 23, 2016

The Sweet Face of Islam

After a nasty terrorist attack one can expect to read about how unrepresentative of the true doctrines of Islam such acts are. Not infrequently we are treated to the remarks of an attractive young Muslim woman explaining that Islam is the religion of...

April 14, 2016

It's not a Matter of Blame but Trust

We are constantly told that it is a stupid logical fallacy to blame all Muslims for the actions of a few. It is so stupid that it could only be the result of a psychological malady: Islamophobia or hysterical anti-Muslim derangement syndrome. Yes,...

April 4, 2016

A Religion of Peace, Harmony, and Respect for All

Anyone who thinks otherwise doesn’t know how to read the Koran. So sayeth Osaama Saifi in an HuffPo article. According to Saifi, the purveyors of the thesis that the Koran endorses vengeance and supremacy by treachery, terror, and torture an...

March 15, 2016

The Obama imprimatur

We all are familiar with the desk plaque on President Harry Truman’s desk that read, “The Buck Stops Here.”  If President Obama had a desk plaque that was representative of his approach to foreign policy, it would read “T...

February 1, 2016

Islamic ‘instruction’ in our public schools

The Thomas More Law Center, which is a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, has filed (01/27/16) a federal lawsuit on behalf of former marine John Kevin Wood and his wife, Melissa, who refused to allow their teenage daughte...

January 23, 2016

Immigration and Your Father’s Oldsmobile

The whole discussion regarding immigration -- quite apart from issues regarding illegals or “refugees” -- is still fatally based on the same old re-energize model that has about as much relevance to today’s realities as the Dick and...

January 22, 2016

The sad Bush/Saudi collusion

A recent (1/18/16) article by Doug Bandow, a senior fellow of the Cato Institute, titled “Saudi Arabia Is More Dangerous as a Frenemy than Iran is as an Adversary,” details the havoc wrought not only in the Middle East, but in Europe and ...

December 18, 2015

Who is full of hatred?

According to renowned teen feminist crusader and Nobel laureate, Malala Yusafzai, Trump's ideology is “full of hatred.”  And then there was the shopworn canard that “the more you speak about Islam and against all Muslims, t...

December 1, 2015

Prisoners of their own narrative

Al Azhar is generally regarded as Islam’s most prestigious university and, according to NYT, is Sunni Islam’s leading religious institution.  But just what is the position of Al Azhar regarding ISIS?  Islamic or un-Islamic? A...

November 24, 2015

'Do they think we are Jewish now?'

You can’t reason or negotiate with ISIS.  They have no rational plan or foreign policy.  They kill, maim, enslave at random – from Yazidis to Christians to Muslims.  They are pathological, nihilistic killers with no ideolog...

September 1, 2015

Trump gets hit with Smoot-Hawley

A recent article (8/27/15) by the conservative economist and columnist Larry Kudlow and his associate Stephen Moore in National Review expresses concern over what the authors see as the “protectionism” of presidential candidate Donald Tru...

August 25, 2015

Obama unbound

The president’s major domestic objective, as stated in his 2013 State of the Union address, was to focus on job creation and revive a “rising, thriving middle class.”  The president said that job creation would be the “No...

August 20, 2015

The US as dumping ground

Have a problem with a huge disaffected population in your country that has lost all opportunity to work for a decent life because of failed economic/domestic policy?  Easy – just send them to the U.S. In the long run, our open-borders b...

August 13, 2015

It's the Legacy, Stupid

This article in the Fiscal Times by Liz Peek, former Wall Street analyst and one of the first women to become a partner in a Wall Street firm, really nails it. Forget the part about Obama paving the way for Trump. Not that the author is wrong, I...

August 3, 2015

Reparations? How about ~7 trillion?

Housing, education and job training, and other anti-poverty programs have cost some $22 trillion since Lyndon Johnson proclaimed the War on Poverty (WoP) some 50 years ago.  Blacks made up some 40% of those living in poverty at the start of the ...

July 24, 2015

I don't need no stinking Congress

The president has found out that he can get his way by bypassing congress, and unfortunately, like Fred C. Dobbs, Boehner and McConnell are not up for the fight. Domestic agenda: Implement green energy policies?  Easy.  Use the E...

May 9, 2015

Obama Cheapens the Legacy of Our Fallen Heroes

They died defending our country. They died that their sons and daughters and loved ones would be safe in their country. They died that their sons and daughters and loved ones rights and privileges as citizens would be preserved -- life, liberty, and ...

April 27, 2015

Xenophobic paralysis

The Department of Homeland Security (sic) is working overtime to bring in nine million new Democratic voters by the 2016 elections. Sources at the Department of Homeland Security report to PJ Media that the United States Citizenship and Immigrat...

April 9, 2015

Denying 'climate change'

Here is Dana Milbank of WaPo celebrating the “retreat” of climate change deniers: “There is no denying it: Climate-change deniers are in retreat.”  He concludes his op-ed by noting “that corporations are becoming re...

March 25, 2015

Obama's master plan for the Middle East

Obama wants to develop an entente, an understanding and condominium, with Iran to run the Arab Middle East – this according to Krauthammer on The O’Reilly Factor (Mon. 3/23). Historically, the current divisions in the Middle East into ...

March 5, 2015

Why We Need More Immigrants

Here are some compelling facts based on studies made by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS): Households with children with the highest welfare use rates are those headed by immigrants from the Dominican Republic (82 percent), Mexico and Guate...

March 3, 2015

The Great 5:32 Canard

The president cites it. Pious Mullahs cite it. Islamofascist 5th column organizations from CAIR to AMPAC cite it. The “it” is the famous “religion of peace” clause from the Koran. Only it is cited with a minor elision. In t...

February 22, 2015

Hussein and Gaddafi Looking Better all the Time

He’s not my favorite culture snark. But hand it to Bill Maher -- he isn’t flinching in his take down of the PC left regarding their obsequious servility to all things Islamic. His latest smackdown highlights the basic flaw in U.S. poli...

February 18, 2015

What is it with the President and the MB?

The president has a very strange allegiance structure when it comes to Islam -- strange in that he is not backing the one true counterjihadist leader in the Middle East: President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi of Egypt. El-Sisi actually took on the leading...

February 12, 2015

The Chickens are Coming! The Chickens are Coming!

The chickens are coming home to roost and it’s our own damn fault. Stop whining. Here is Ben Shapiro of Townhall: In other words, Obama cites the Crusades as justification for shutting Christians up because the Crusades caused all of this....

February 9, 2015

Obama Goes Full Pogo

In a private meeting Wednesday (2/4), closed to the press, President Obama met with prominent U.S. Muslims. Did the president point out forcibly that it was important for the U.S. Muslim community to come out strongly against ISIS and against militan...

January 27, 2015

Not because of, in spite of

Well, it looks like a victory for the Keynesians over the Hayekians.  The two dueling economic schools have been at it since the early 1900s, the last test case being the banking implosion of 2008-9.  Led by the latest flag-bearer of the Ke...

January 23, 2015

It's Islamism, stupid

For a moment there, I was hopeful.  Reading the opening paragraphs of Friedman’s NYT op-ed entitled “Tell It Like It Is,” I thought that, at last, a major MSM commentator was going to break ranks and point out forcibly that we ...

January 20, 2015

Divorcing Islam from Islamism

An op-ed by Quanta Ahmed, author of In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom and 2014 Ford Foundation public voices fellow with the OpEd Project, advances the heartening thesis that Islam needs to be div...

January 16, 2015

The Murdoch flap

J.K. Rowling led the charge ridiculing Rupert Murdoch for the following tweet: Maybe most Moslems are peaceful, but until they recognize and destroy their growing jihadist cancer they must be held responsible. Sunday (1/10), the Harry Potte...

January 13, 2015

A Thousand Lashes vs. a Thousand Apologies

In his “apology” tour of 2009, just after assuming office, President Obama bowed with great deference before King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia.  Despite claims from the White House secretary that the president was just bending over to sh...

January 10, 2015

No Penalty for Blasphemy in the Koran

So sayeth Dr. Fareed Zakaria commenting on “the twelve people murdered in Paris this week.” His conclusion is that that they were misguided souls and that Islamic regimes and organizations are going against their own religion in proscribi...

January 1, 2015

The Dupe of Islam

The pronouncement: The real face of Islam is a peaceful religion based on the dignity of all human beings. It’s one where Muslim communities are leading the fight against poverty. It’s one where Muslim communities are providing basic...

December 25, 2014

Alahu Akhbar Derangement Syndrome

The medical community is alarmed by the recent outbreaks of the AAD Syndrome. Recent virulent outbreaks have occurred in Australia, England, and France. France has been especially plagued by AAD outbreaks spread by an as yet unidentified virus. Ju...

December 10, 2014

The Obama Doctrine

The president has backed Muslim Brotherhood (MB) policy objectives in the Middle East and North Africa every step of the way. Generally, the MB has sought to depose or dispatch leaders in the Ummah who are seen as “Westernized” MINOs (Mus...

November 15, 2014

Michael Moore Defends Islam

Basically, Moore’s argument is that Christians have been responsible for more death and destruction than Muslims and that we have no moral authority to criticize, but still, given that caveat, the actions of some Muslims in the name (mistakenly...

October 21, 2014

Kerry on Governance

In an October 16 speech commemorating the Islamic Eid al-Adha celebration (Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son in accordance with the will of God) at the State Department, Kerry blamed ISIS violence on everything from climate change to l...

October 3, 2014

Obama Team Confronts the Axis of Islamic Supremacism with Nuance

President Obama’s team of smart diplomacy is not going to lump Hamas, Hizb’allah, and Iran in with ISIS as all sharing the same “fanatic ideology” as Netanyahu claimed in his forthright and powerful presentation before the UN....

October 1, 2014

CAIR Strongly Condemns ISIS

A little deconstruction by Robert Spencer reveals empty posturing which, no doubt, the Islamodupes in the press and White House will swallow hook, line and sinker. Jihad ISIS is reminded that only the Caliph can declare “offensive” ...

September 30, 2014

D'Souza to be Sent to Re-education Camp

It seems that Dinesh D’Souza’s problem is that his mindset is not up to date. He believes in such antiquarian notions as freedom of speech and worst of all he admires the U.S. Founding Fathers. The man is obviously sick and in need of ...

September 17, 2014

Holder Issues Fatwa

The Grand Mufti of the Department of Social Justice (aka, DOJ) has issued a fatwa prohibiting states from using zoning laws to deny building permits for Islamic “culture centers” -- Mosques with “youth centers.” … ...

September 5, 2014

ISIL is 200 Proof Islam

The Koran says what it means and means what it says. When the Koran says, "And when We wish to destroy a town, We send Our commandment to the people of it who lead easy lives, but they transgress therein; thus the word proves true against it, so...

September 2, 2014

The Bigots of Rotherham

Abducted, gang-raped, beaten, threatened with death, and trafficked to other cities in northern England. Some are doused with petrol and threatened with being burned to death if they try to escape or tell anyone about their ordeal. This has been goin...

August 31, 2014

The Two Faces of Islam

One face is for Islam’s useful idiots the other is for Islam’s faithful. The Koran is not arranged in chronological order. When it is arranged in chronological order it is clear that the Koran undergoes a serious transition after Muham...

August 27, 2014

The Un-Islamic Delusion of Smart Diplomacy

During the Falklands conflict of 1982, the cartoonist Berkeley Breathed had a cartoon of Opus the Penguin standing up as bullets whizzed by his head looking bewildered and saying, “Was it something I said?” Militant Islam is certainly ...

August 18, 2014

'The Insanity of Blaming Islam'

Mark Ambinder, who is editor-at-large at The Week and a contributing editor at GQ and The Atlantic, posted an opinion piece in April which has been picked up by numerous webmags including Politico, The World Muslim Congress and Islamicity. It is titl...

July 26, 2014

Bursting With Pride (and Ignorance)

In a recent speech (7/17) in Wilmington Delaware President Obama was "bursting with pride" regarding the success that his administration's policies have had in reviving the U.S. economy since he took office. Our businesses have now...

July 17, 2014

The President Is Just Getting Started

Even as president-elect Obama in 2008 was forming what seemed to be a centrist cabinet, the far left cleaved to the theory that Obama was a stealth leftist radical whose real agenda was their dream agenda: redress the income inequalities of the capit...

July 8, 2014

A Story to be Proud Of

Ayers the Guilt Monger: “And we did enslave people for 250 years” In the recent debate between Ayers and D’Souza on "The Kelly File", with Ayers, former anti-Vietnam war activist and sometime mentor of President Obama, ...

June 25, 2014

Government by Tentacle

It’s gotten even worse than President Reagan indicated when he quipped that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are, “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” For President Reagan, that meant tha...

June 23, 2014

Don Obama, Capo di Tutti Capi

Governor Bobby Jindal, at the recent Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference, had this to say about the much debated issue of whether Obama is deliberately undermining American power and influence or just plain incompetent: Are we witnessing righ...

June 20, 2014

Looking Like a Muslim

O’Reilly has taken a lot of flak for claiming the senior Bergdahl looked like a Muslim. "The Daily Show’s" Jon Stewart got in the act with the clever quip that he didn‘t want “to complicate your hatred of facial hair...

May 31, 2014

Kerry's Definition of 'Success'

Secretary of State John Kerry declared Thursday that the Obama administration’s policy of “engagement” has had four notable successes. (1) Prevented Soviet takeover of Ukraine Kerry told PBS. “I mean, if you look at what...

February 9, 2014

The Mary Poppins Presidency

Walter Hudson of PJMedia nails it. Indeed, if jobs come from executive orders, what have we been waiting for? How bad was the president going to let things get before rescuing the economy with a piece of paper? Somehow with the stroke of a pe...

January 29, 2014

Did D'Souza Hit a Nerve?

Ridiculed.  Lampooned.  Denigrated.  That was the reaction that Dinesh D'Souza got upon launching his thesis about President Obama's mindset in his 2010 Forbes article, "How Obama Thinks." He argued in effect that president Obama's min...

January 22, 2014

The One-Note Presidency

The man with the twelve cylinder Ferrari mind? The man Valerie Jarrett described as being just so smart that the rest of us mere mortals should give up trying to comprehend his thought processes? The man who listens politely to learned disquisitions ...

January 17, 2014

The Man from La Mancha

Little did we know that tilting at windmills would be the MO of #44. Riding his skinny horse Rocinante Holder, the President sallies forth from the Rose Garden accompanied by his trusty squire Sancho Clinton to do battle with the evil dragons from th...

January 7, 2014

The Obama Doctrine Revealed

The basic foreign policy principles of various presidencies have been dubbed "doctrines." In most cases such "doctrines" are gleaned from the practices of a given president's foreign policy and pieced together from various official documents and even...

January 2, 2014

Dumb and dumber: 2014

According to President  Obama's consigliore, Valerie Jarrett, Obama has, "been bored to death his whole life. He's just too talented to do what ordinary people do.." In what could be called the official MSM take on the Choom Gang graduate and Co...

December 16, 2013

The Rant and Grant World of President Obama

As a community organizer Barack Obama mastered the art of the elegant, refined bitch-and-moan to rally the troops to shake-down a government agency or foundation for a grant to redress a social injustice. The President's speeches don't sound like ran...

December 11, 2013

The Liberal 'Hypocritic Oath'

No. Not the Hippocratic Oath. But "Do no harm" would certainly be a great oath for denizens of both sides of the House and Senate. I have no doubt that going back to the Johnson years and the great "War on Poverty" that there was no hypocrisy involve...

December 10, 2013

The Obama Legacy: A Cesspool of Deception

Now we learn from Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, Seymour Hirsh, that the Obama administration had stronger evidence that it was the anti-Assad forces that used sarin gas as opposed to the Assad regime. Yet Secretary of Sate Kerry solemnly claimed...

December 3, 2013

Hardcore Obama Supporters: Condescending, Patronizing - Racist

Here is Allen West Lowering standards or making excuses for blacks, other minority groups - or women for that matter - is the most insidious form of racism or sexism. And yet, this is what the liberal Left continues to do. On balance, what els...

November 29, 2013

Self-Aggrandizement on the Tax Payers' Dime

President Obama wrapped up his recent three day West Coast fund raising tour at a private Democratic fundraiser in Beverly Hills. Obama touted himself and his administration for " ... accomplish[ing] as much, if not more, than any time in our history...

November 17, 2013

If You Like Your Religion You Can Keep It

We learn from an online dictionary of Islam that Islam accommodates all the Abrahamic religions: Islam is the religion of all prophets. Muslims believe that all the prophets were sent to their respective peoples from God. They all had the same mis...

November 8, 2013

ObamaCar.gov

Applying the principles of Obamacare to a government mandated automobile program: ObamaCar.gov The Promise If you like your car, you can keep it. If you like your wheels you can keep them. The Clarification Now that, of course, means that you...

November 1, 2013

The Obama Sell Game

It's the oldest one out there: bait-and-switch. Unlike the Arpege version, "Promise them anything but give them Arpege", the product you end up with in the Obama model is not an openly desired product. The Arpege line could be used with any top of th...

October 26, 2013

Why is the Obamacare website so screwed up?

CGI, the firm hired by the Obama administration to develop the registry for ObamaCare, is a Canadian firm, Conseillers en Gestion et Informatique. Their track record? Their first big  project was for a Canadian firearms registry. Originally, t...

October 24, 2013

The 'Glitch' Blame Game

Consider the following qualification rules for different Obamacare plans. If income < 20k then Plan-1 If income >= 20k and < 50k then Plan-2 If income < 30 k and net worth > 150 k and single then Plan-2 But what about this app...

October 18, 2013

The Obama Disconnect

Obama is a big  believer in word power: "Don't tell me words don't matter," Mr. Obama said, to applause. " 'I have a dream' -- just words? 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal' -- just words? 'We have nothing ...

September 20, 2013

Damned by Faint Praise

Headed by a big picture of Obama flashing a big smile, two members of Politico's staff, put together an opinion piece entitled, "And What's Right with Obama."  They end up citing only style factors to the absence of accomplishments.  By doi...

September 9, 2013

'Sampan Kerry' Mans The Radar

Secretary of Sate, John Kerry, claims that on his government certified radar screen he sees rockets coming from "regime-controlled areas" resulting in the "inconceivable horror" of  426 children killed by sarin gas. Putin has claimed that Kerr...

September 3, 2013

See Evil Punish Evil - How Hard Is That?

Last Friday Secretary of State John Kerry declared that the United States had a "moral obligation" to punish Syria for using chemical weapons. To back up his position he proceeded to paint a ghastly portrait of twitching bodies, victims foaming at th...

August 19, 2013

Krugman's Lament

Paul Krugman laments but does not condemn the voting public for getting it wrong. We are, after all,  "... often misinformed, and politicians aren't reliably truthful." So it is at least not our fault when we get it all wrong. Get what wrong? ...

August 15, 2013

The Democrat Party Puts Citizens at the Back of the Bus

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) of the Obama administration  has just recently signed an agreement with Mexico's government vowing to prevent workplace discrimination against illegal immigrants while educating them about their...

August 7, 2013

Obama doublespeak on housing

The housing speech Obama gave in Phoenix [8/6/113] is prime Obama doublespeak. Delivered with earnest sincerity and a sense of purpose and even urgency. And it is not even on the emotionally charged issues of immigration reform or health care reform ...

July 29, 2013

Obama's HUD to Expand Middle Class

How? Just move people from low income neighborhoods into middle class neighborhoods. This brilliant stratagem is being promoted by Shaun Donovan, Obama's newly appointed head of HUD. According to Donovan, the middle class is the middle class beca...

July 26, 2013

Profiling - A Darwinian Necessity

No, not all snakes are poisonous. But if you see a snake move in the grass you better presume it might be poisonous and back off. Now maybe it was just a King snake. But unless you know for sure  you better presume it might be poisonous. Of cou...

July 20, 2013

If Obama Had A City, It Would Look like Detroit

Consider the following regarding the city of Detroit: 40% of its street lamps don't work. 210 of its 317 public parks have been closed. It takes an hour for police to respond to a 911 call. Only a third of its ambulances are drivable. One-third of t...

July 15, 2013

The Zimmerman Trial? It's That Simple

If you begin with the conviction that Zimmerman is a racist then the trial was a gross miscarriage of justice. The conviction lends credence to the narrative that Trayvon was just innocently walking through a white neighborhood and that Zimmerman del...

June 18, 2013

For whom should we show 'compassion,' Mr. President?

Compassion, Mr. President?  How about compassion for American citizens who need jobs? How about caring more about American citizens who "live in the shadows" over and above illegal aliens who, as President Obama puts it, "live in the shadows?" ...

June 10, 2013

McCain VS The Wacko Birds

Senator McCain, has called Senator Ted Cruz and his ilk in Congress "wacko birds." Ted Cruz's reply? WASHINGTON - Slammed by Sen. John McCain as one of his party's "wacko birds," Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is embracing the epithet. "It is wonderful to b...

May 28, 2013

Islamodupes and the Clinton-Bush-Obama Doctrine

One underlying common theme in the various versions of the three presidents' foreign policy doctrines is that Terrorism is un-Islamic. President Clinton.  Address to the Nation, August 20, 1998: Islam [is] the faith of hundreds of millions ...

May 25, 2013

Obama's Faustian bargain

President Obama recently gave a speech at the National Defense University, titled "The Future of Our Fight against Terrorism." Moreover, we must recognize that these threats don't arise in a vacuum. Most, though not all, of the terrorism we face i...

May 22, 2013

Bystander President?

Casting Obama as "the bystander president" is gaining traction. The President is seen as aloof, disinterested and disengaged - more interested in hosting galas and hobnobbing with his media admirers and making center-stage speaking appearances than ...

May 14, 2013

Progressive Regressivism

The psychological condition of a person making a claim or advancing an argument is not thereby a solid basis for rejecting or accepting said claim or argument.  Moreover, imputing a psychological condition as a basis for a political outlook is...

May 6, 2013

Down the Rabbit Hole with Obamacare

It is beyond Alice in Wonderland goofiness. Special regulations regarding appropriate treatment of injuries resulting from walking into lampposts? Ditto for chicken coop injuries? How about bumping into a sculpture at MOMA? It's there. Regulation Y92...

April 28, 2013

Duped by the Saudi Regime

Even Bill O'Reilly, who thinks President Obama should stop messing around and call Islamic terrorists Islamic terrorists, thinks that the Saudis are a "friendly" Muslim nation. In his recent interview with Bob Beckel, who wants to cut off student vis...

April 20, 2013

Obama Fizzles Out

The man is slipping from the limelight. The marquee man from MSM and Hollywood and Vine is headed for Sunset Boulevard. Right from the start of his 2008 campaign, the MSM gave Obama the star treatment. He was their main event. He was billed as a tra...

April 17, 2013

Dumb, Dumber, Salon (updated)

Update: Other AT writers chime in below. If the Boston bomb attacks are the work of a white individual or group, white-privilege will insure that whites as a group will not be " collectively denigrated or targeted." Whereas if the bomb attacks are th...

April 6, 2013

Barack XVI and Michelle Antoinette

Obama now reigns over Versailles on the Potomac. And America's taxpayers are the vassals who bankroll the opulence of King Louis-Barack and Michelle Antoinette." Deroy Murdock (Hoover Institute, Scripts Howard) nails it in his National Review ar...

March 28, 2013

The Bagman for the Muslim Brotherhood

Egyptian cleric Dr. Khaled Said, in an interview aired on Al-Hafez TV (via the Internet) on March 17, 2013, described American foreign aid as extracting jizya from infidels, " ... they will accept it, kiss our hands, and double the aid they give us. ...

March 23, 2013

Iraq: Two Bad Decisions and a Debilitating Metaphor

Ten years ago this week, in the middle of a horrendous sandstorm, the U.S. invasion of Iraq began. The objective of the invasion was to topple the brutal dictator Saddam Hussein and establish a democracy in the middle of the Arab world. The report c...

March 18, 2013

Why LIVs Love Obama

LIVs love Pop Media. Pop Media loves Obama. Ergo, LIVs love Obama. It is that simple. So sayeth Clayton Cramer in an article in PJ Media. According to Clayton, low information voters (LIVs) don't know if the national debt is 16B or 16T, they think Be...

March 11, 2013

The Great Jefferson Hotel Sandbag Gambit

President Obama hosts a dinner of lamb and lobster with 12 "key" Republican senators at the Jefferson Hotel on March 6.  The following day, at the White House,  President Obama and House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan have lunch togeth...

March 4, 2013

Robin From the Hood

Yes, we all want what the president wants: a better job market, a better economy, a stronger middle class, a better educational system. In short a better, fairer way to a robust system in which we all get our just deserts. Yes, we want the American w...

February 16, 2013

Krugman's Zombies

As Krugman explains in a recent NYT article, "a zombie idea is a proposition that has been thoroughly refuted by analysis and evidence, and should be dead - but won't stay dead because it serves a political purpose, appeals to prejudices, or both." H...

January 30, 2013

Obama asks 'Who ate the wardroom strawberries?'

Obama as Captain Queeg? Over the top, Hysterical nonsense? This read might give you pause. Here is a sample passage. Obama's second inauguration speech may be his Queeg moment - an undeniable demonstration that, in an emergency, he is incapable ...

January 29, 2013

What does the president mean by giving everyone a 'fair shot?'

Just What is Obama's idea of a "Fair Shot?" This is a passage we get from the Presidential website entitled Giving Everyone a Fair Shot: So what does that mean for restoring middle-class security in today's economy? Well, it starts by making sur...

January 26, 2013

Jindal hits a nerve with speech before GOP governors

According to Salon, the San Francisco based webzine, Jindal gave a "tedious speech" before the Republican National Committee Thursday night and is a man who, as an Indian-American, "thinks he can help his party avoid demographic extinction as the off...

January 4, 2013

The Cowardice of the Christian Leadership

Raymond Ibrahim of Gatestone Institute has a monthly chronicle of atrocities and harassment perpetrated by Muslims against Christians. Here are a couple of beginning entries for October, 2012. Egypt: A Muslim mob, consisting mostly of Salafis, sur...

November 27, 2012

Did Obama Cut a Faustian Deal with Morsi?

What did Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi get  in return for supporting the cease fire? The idea that Morsi, a strong supporter of Hamas, just went along with the Obama program out of conviction that the Obama team had the compelling case strik...

November 21, 2012

FHA pushing more subprime loans

After two foreclosures and two bankruptcies, Hermes Maldonado, a Honduran immigrant, recently qualified for an FHA loan for a home in the Los Angeles area. "After everything that happened, thank God I was able to buy another house."   ...

November 12, 2012

The Obama Mandate?

Obama to Republicans, "I won. Get over it." At least that is how an article in The New Republic put it. According to The Daily Caller, Obama's first post-election speech indicates he thinks "his re-election is a mandate for his agenda." What mandate?...

November 9, 2012

The 'Disparate Impact' Jobs Killer

AT already has a piece on the huge announced layoffs following the Obama reelection outcome. But the Obama-Holder team plans a social justice initiative that will only exacerbate the situation. The DOJ is gearing up to file "disparate impact" lawsuit...

November 3, 2012

Islamophobia Is the Underlying Cause of Benghazi

So sayeth Ambassador Pickering, Hillary Clinton's appointee to head the "Accountability Review Board."  Ambassador Pickering is tasked with getting the facts straight (after the election) about what happened in Benghazi and where accountability ...

November 1, 2012

The Vote of the Conflicted Liberal

Richard Cohen is a very, very disappointed man. The WaPo columnist admits he is disenchanted with President Obama. He thought Obama was going to be RFK in spades. I once wondered if Obama could be another RFK. The president has great political skill...

October 30, 2012

Trust? It's Hail Mary Time For Obama

According to Obama, how you vote this election all boils down to the question of whom you trust.  It is a question of whether you trust him or that "shape-shifting" Romney.  Unlike Romney, Obama claims he means and does what he says. When ...

October 27, 2012

Obama Down the Rabbit Hole in Davenport

Campaigning in Davenport Iowa last Wednesday, Obama confidently and with serious mien held up a 20 page green Pamphlet entitled "Blueprint for America's Future." It has already been taken apart by Romney and Ryan as a "slick" repackaging of more o...

October 20, 2012

It's the Mullahs, Stupid

The general position of the Obama administration toward the Muslim Brotherhood is that, despite the fears of alarmists regarding the radical pronouncements and mission statement of the Brotherhood, once the organization is faced with the realities of...

September 18, 2012

The Obama Schedule

Here is todays schedule for Obama: "The president will welcome the WNBA Champion Minnesota Lynx at a White House reception. He will then head to New York, where he will do an appearance on Letterman and attend fundraisers at the Waldorf Astoria and ...

September 8, 2012

Obama's Closed Conceptual Universe

According to Heather MacDonald in her City Journal article, the troika of Obama, Duncan, and Holder are convinced that black disciplinary problems in the school system can be the result only of racism.  As a result, they have launched a policy w...

August 31, 2012

An Islamic Festival to Jump Start the DNC

The Democratic National Convention will feature a "kick off events" week. It will begin with Islamic "events." Starting Friday afternoon there will be Islamic prayers followed by an evening halal banquet and then Saturday there will be an Islamic "fe...

August 27, 2012

Preemptive Ridicule of the RNC

This is a selection from an email ridicule of the RNC being pumped through liberal cyber space by Obama operatives.   Highlights from the RNC schedule:   9:30am 聳 Discussion of Christian values and marital fidelity 聳 Newt Gingri...

August 25, 2012

1001 Lies to Propagandize Children

Muslims invented flight 1000 years before the Wright brothers. They invented the camera They invented "0". They invented, well, just about everything. Take medicine, for example:  first hospital, first medical treatise, first doctors. ...

August 22, 2012

The Obama Identity

Thomas Sowell, the distinguished economist and political analyst, rarely goes to the cinema. However, he drove 30mi to see this cinema production.. The theater was jammed and the audience watched in rapt attention. The movie? The docum...

August 21, 2012

Grading Obama's Foreign Policy

Touted claims of major foreign policy accomplishment by the Obama administration include: 1. Iraq: ended the war in Iraq (U.S. troops out of Iraq). 2. Afghanistan: stabilized Afghanistan and began drawing down troops. 3. Al-Qaeda: attrited al-Qaeda (...

August 20, 2012

Obama's plans for a second term

Has Obama got plans for you. New York Times best selling author, Aaron Klein, reveals Obama's blueprint for transforming America if he gets his second term.  Klein's newly released book, Fool Me Twice is a game changer. Despite exhaustiv...

August 16, 2012

Our Transformational President

Hailed as a transformational unifier and healer of America's fractured sense of self, the only thing that Obama has transformed is himself. He was seen by MSM as an almost transcendent being focused on bringing America together into a new world in wh...

August 10, 2012

Romney and the Future of America

David Goldman, who writes for PJMedia and Asia Times, recently "squeezed into" an East Side (NYC) catering hall to hear Romney speak. He hones in on a differentiating factor between Obama and Romney that strikes me as important and whic...

August 8, 2012

Obama Says He Loves You, Middle Class

Cedar Rapids (7/10/12): THE PRESIDENT And then when I came to Iowa for the presidential campaign -- first stop, Cedar Rapids -- (applause) -- first stop. AUDIENCE: We love you! THE PRESIDENT: I love you back. (Applause.) Obama claims he is a champi...

August 2, 2012

The Man Is a Sneak

President Obama claims that he is an "ardent believer" in the free market: Contrary to the claims of some of my critics-and some of the editorial pages-I am an ardent believer in the free market. ... Government has a vital, if limited, role to play ...

August 1, 2012

Obama Targets Suburbanites

Greedy, racist suburbanites suck money out of our great cities like Detroit and Buffalo. They work in the cities and then flee to the suburbs and take their ill-gotten gains with them. They escape city taxes and instead use their community taxes t...

July 28, 2012

Government is the Problem

Too many refs and not enough players. Imagine doubling or tripling the number of referees and rules in a football game. The game would never get underway.  Even with the standard number of refs in a football game we have all seen a game ruined b...

July 25, 2012

Obama's Regulation Con

In his 2012 State of the Union speech, Obama claimed that "I've approved fewer regulations in the first three years of my presidency than my Republican predecessor did in his." Now what impression does a claim like that make? It conveys the impressio...

July 24, 2012

The Real Basis for Republican Obama Bashing

There is a pyramid scheme email message (source?) multiplying its way through cyberspace claiming that whatever there is to be mad about Obama's tenure in office there is ten times as much reason to be mad at Bush. Yet while there was no uproar on th...

July 22, 2012

Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies from the White House

Speaking from the White House last Friday, President Obama commemorated the start of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Along with some boiler plate remarks extending "warmest [sic] wishes" to the 1.5 million Muslims around the world he characteriz...

July 20, 2012

The Demand Mentality

The child has little power over its world other than by crying and making fuss to get the attention of its mother. Unable to provide for itself it must find a way to get others to provide. Nature has provided the little tykes with formidable weapo...

July 19, 2012

Obama and the Big Non-Break-Up

When Arthur Koestler broke from the Communist Party after the Hitler-Stalin pact, he broke big time.  He had been a card-carrying member of the American Communist party in the thirties for all the reasons why young, idealistic, reflective young ...

July 15, 2012

The Trickle-Down Hoax

In his recent Rose Garden speech (7/9), President Obama said that Republicans generally "believe that prosperity comes from the top down, so that if we spend [sic] trillions [sic] more on tax cuts [sic] for the wealthiest Americans, that that will so...

July 1, 2012

ObamaCare, Social Justice, and Administrative Overhead

When you buy into an insurance plan, you are buying into a risk pool.  Take fire insurance.  You believe you are taking reasonable precautions not to let your house catch fire.  But accidents happen.  Perhaps a faulty space heater...

June 27, 2012

Kerry Admonishes Colleagues not to Prejudge Muslim Brotherhood

After  Mr. Morsi, the Muslim Brotherhood candidate, became President of Egypt, Senator Kerry, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, warned against "prejudging" the Muslim Brotherhood.. Prejudge? The Muslim Brotherhood  rose f...

June 24, 2012

Shariaphobia

In a recent article in NRO, Matthew Schmitz, the deputy editor of First Things, argues that the anti-sharia laws recently adopted or under review in many state legislatures are not only unnecessary, but harmful.  Mr. Schmitz argues that there is...

June 20, 2012

And the Rebuttal Is?

Your infidel lifestyle has proven to be a total and absolute failure. Your degenerate Western way of life is collapsing all around you. You are unable to solve your own problems.  Look at what your decadent culture and sick societies have produc...

June 19, 2012

Equating a High School Diploma with Service in the Military?

President Obama has equated graduating high school (or obtaining a GED) with military service, in terms of justifying granting work permits to illegal aliens of a certain age. There is a long history of legal residents who are non-citizens servi...

June 12, 2012

President Obama and the Herr Schultz Syndrome

Berlin, 1931.  Despite intimidation and overt acts of violence, Herr Schultz, an aging Jewish fruit vendor, is convinced that the Brown Shirts and Hitler Youth are just extremist aberrations and that all will return to normal soon.  He unde...

June 12, 2012

MadMuslimPhobia

President Obama's foreign policy team has it big time -- the fear of making Muslims mad. As Barry Rubin argues, President Obama's foreign policy is basically to go after al Qaeda and pussy-foot with other Islamic supremacist fronts from the Taliban t...

June 7, 2012

F.D.R. and George Meany Give Governor Walker the Thumbs Up

The justification for labor unions is that they provide a power base to force industrial firms to give workers more of the profits they help create. Government workers don't generate profits. They merely negotiate for more tax money. When ...

June 5, 2012

President Obama and the Machiavellian Fallacy

Despite a Zogby poll back in 2011 indicating that President Obama's "outreach" program to the Islamic world (Ummah) wasn't working, the Obama team continues to pursue a policy of trying to ingratiate itself to the Ummah with demonstrations of humilit...

May 21, 2012

Panetta Uses Military Budget to Prop Up Green Energy Firms

It was pointed out in January by AT that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta has plans to "decimate" the military budget. Now we learn that the Secretary of Defense has been using the military budget to prop up Obama's venture capital escapades into gr...

April 28, 2012

The Collapsing Story Line on the Obama Take-down of Osama

Not only have doubts been raised about the war-room narrative and pictures of an Intense President watching the Navy Seal operation to take out Osama, along with a picture of Hillary with her hand clasped over her mouth, now the story is that Obama h...

April 22, 2012

Muslim Fun and Games Part of Eid Celebrations

Recently two Muslim men were accused in a British court of abducting two teen age girls and repeatedly raping them and then passing them around to their friends. In their defense they claimed that the girls enjoyed it and that they were entitled by t...

October 25, 2011

Hanson's Take On OWS

The Classical scholar, turned social and political analyst, Victor Davis Hanson, has an interesting take on the mindset of the collegiate component of the OWS movement. Hanson opines that the young graduates that seem the most vehement in their ...

October 22, 2011

US Kicked Out Of Iraq

Prime Minister Maliki gives Obama the boot as White House spin meisters gin up face-saving rhetoric for Obama to recite. Obama then peddles their pablum about achieving "normalcy" in relations with Iraq, "The Untied States and Ira...

October 13, 2011

Barnhardt Responds to Death Threat

Ann Barnhardt's video, in which she burns the Koran, went viral on the internet about a year ago. Roger Kimball, of PJM, called her a "culture hero" and took particular delight in another of her videos in which she eviscerates Lindsay Graham. Si...

September 19, 2011

The Michelle Obama Derangement Syndrome?

Andrew Klavan is certainly one of the most astute commentators on the cant and circumstance of the left. He also, to his credit, is willing to level criticism at the nuttiness of the unhinged right. To wit, his recent post in PJM about the flap over ...

September 11, 2011

Holding the UN Accountable

This bill:  "... is dated, tired and frankly unresponsive to the positive role being played by the UN." Unnamed Whitehouse source, Politico. "[would] seriously undermine our international standing and dangerously weaken the UN as an instrument ...

August 1, 2011

Herman Cain Snookered by Imam

Last Wednesday Herman Cain was invited to the Mosque of  Imam Mohamed Magid, the president  the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Later in a press release he apologized for remarks made in the previous week in a Fox interview to the ...

July 13, 2011

Obama's Foreign Policy: Dithering or Stealth Postnationalist?

Does President Obama have a foreign policy vision?  According to Charles Krauthammer, writing for WaPo (4/11), there are "no discernible [ideas] that make sense of Obama foreign policy." To be precise, leading from behind is a style, not a doct...

July 12, 2011

Obama stiffs Egyptian democratic forces

Al-Azhar University in Cairo is the world's oldest university and Sunni Islam's foremost seat of learning.  Late in June, Al-Azhar's Grand Imam Ahmed al-Tayyeb issued an 11-clause document declaring the institution's official position on the pro...

July 12, 2011

Obama Grabs Credit for South Sudan Independence

The new president of South Sudan wore a cowboy hat given to him by President Bush and crowds held up signs saying "Thank you, President Bush." The independence of South Sudan  was the result of a 2005 foreign policy initiative by President Bush ...

July 5, 2011

The Deportation Busing Argument

George Will on ABC's "This Week" (Sunday) succinctly stated the "Busing Argument." It  would take a line of buses "bumper-to-bumper extending from San Diego to Alaska" to deport 11 million illegals.  Ok.  That is absurd.  Deportat...

June 27, 2011

POTUS the Sneak

Dismissed or rejected by Congress?  No problem.  Just effect the consequences of the would-be bill by memo to regulatory or enforcement agencies.  Cap-and-trade legislation, gun regulation, net neutrality legislation -- all dismissed o...

June 11, 2011

Coulter's new book describes 'The mob mongering left'

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June 10, 2011

Spewing Red Ink, Red Tape and Red Politics

Thursday's Ramirez cartoon in IBD has a fountain of red ink spewing from the top of the Capitol. If it had been spewing red tape it would have highlighted an equally serious problem. The Obama administration had successfully shunted the red tape issu...

June 7, 2011

The Real Problem with Taxes

It is not just tax rates but tax complexity and regulatory compliance costs that affect the economy.  Taxes, too little?  Too much?  Is that even the question? The fact is that Uncle Sam's take this year will be the lowest since 1950, ...

June 3, 2011

Detroit's Death Rattle

The Muslim call to prayer can be heard all over Detroit -- the baleful sound of the adhan -- what President Obama called "the most beautiful sound on earth." Here is a YouTube link to Obama reciting the Islamic call to prayer.  Recite it an...

May 29, 2011

The Five Stages of Islam

Forget the Five Pillars of Islam.  It is the Five Stages of Islam that threaten the fundamental freedoms of  Western Democracy.  Freedoms which include freedom of thought, expression, and association and the crucial derived right of fr...

May 27, 2011

The Obama Disconnect

Whatever else is said of our President, he does not let his principles of governance interfere with the implementation of  his policies. Let's not even bother with the principle that terror suspects must not be tried in military courts or the pr...

May 21, 2011

The U.S. Must Pay the Jizya

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May 20, 2011

Feeding the Crocodile

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May 15, 2011

Friedman on Camus and the Arab Spring

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May 10, 2011

Chomsky's take on the assassination of OBL

Chomsky Is At It AgainAccording to Noam Chomsky, assassinating OBL is like an Iraqi commando unit storming the Bush compound and plugging the former president. Actually, since Bush is a bigger terrorist than OBL, there is more justification for th...

May 4, 2011

Obama waffled on the OBL mission?

An insider "leak" long and detailed enough to be at least somewhat credible portrays Obama's dithering over the OBL raid. Judge for yourself. How did Obama suddenly become a decisive leader? True to form, Obama waffled for weeks....

April 28, 2011

Trump Smells a Rat. Williams Smells a Racist

Juan Williams says that it is hard not to see a pattern in the questions Trump raises about Obama. Juan characterizes the issues raised by Trump as showing that Trump thinks the president is not smart enough to write his own book, he is not smart eno...

April 6, 2011

Obama envoy: Islam is the Solution not the Problem

Somehow I prefer the Mafia version of peace. Under the protection of the Mafia you coughed up a percentage of your earnings and you could live in peace. But at least you didn't have to believe a whole bunch of stuff about the Godfather, alter your li...

April 3, 2011

Islam, Zafar and the 4:34 Dance

After appearing on The O'Reilly Factor last week to defend Islam's treatment of women, Mr. Harris Zafar has decided to further elucidate his position in an article in which he maintains that the Koran requires us (sic) to honor rather than abuse...

March 16, 2011

Imams, Dons and RICO

The RICO Act is an untapped tool that could be used to bring down jihadis, though it remains unused for that purpose. Despite some spectacular individual takedowns, the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover made little dent in criminal organizations until the RI...

February 21, 2011

Robert Reich's pie

Mr. Reich in his 17 Feb. post on his blog, sees the economy as some sort of a magic goose which lays a pie once a year and thinks that he and the rest of the goose guardians have the sacred duty to see that each citizen gets their fair share.Republi...