President Barack Obama's game of choice is basketball. He's not much of a wrestler -- especially when it comes to "wrestling" with ethics questions, as Yuval Levin noted: In tonight's press conference, Jon Ward of the Washington Times asked the president whether he personally wrestled with the ethics of federally funding embryonic stem cell research. […]
A reader of National Review's "The Corner" posed an excellent question for President Obama and his administration who appear to be insisting that somehow healthcare needs to be dealt with as a prerequisite for fixing what ails the economy. Jonah; I have never seen this point made: all of Europe, which has nationalized health care […]
Today's guilty party is Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif. -- or is it Maryland? California's Rep. Pete Stark, a senior House Democrat who helps write the nation's tax laws, has been claiming a $1.7 million Maryland home as his principal residence in recent years, although he represents the Golden State's 13th District on the east side […]
It appears President Barack Obama's teleprompter needs to spell everything out phonetically. All terrific press for Orion, except that Obama kept pronouncing the company’s name wrong, calling it OAR-ee-on. After finishing his remarks and talking with a few people, the president returned to the microphone and said his prepared remarks led him to pronounce the […]
In the rush to pass the stimulus bill, no one noticed that some Democrats had added a sop to the Teamsters Union -- a pilot program allowing 98 (98!) Mexican trucks into the U.S. as part of NAFTA was shut down. As the Wall Street Journal noted, the Mexican trucks in the program actually had […]
President Obama, fresh from solving the economic crisis facing our nation and an appearance on the Jay Leno show, had this to say about former Vice President Dick Cheney's comment that Obama's policies are making Americans less safe. Commenting on former Vice President Dick Cheney's recent assertion that the closure of Guantanamo will make America […]
We've known this for more than two decades -- and it's been an issue ever since the court started thinking it was its duty to find penumbras in the constitution -- the American Bar Association is biased against conservative judicial nominees. The findings: • Nominees appointed by Democratic presidents are more likely to receive higher […]
Unbelievable. Attorney General Eric Holder said some detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, may end up being released in the U.S. as the Obama administration works with foreign allies to resettle some of the prisoners. Holder, in a briefing with reporters, said administration officials are still reviewing individual cases of the approximately 250 detainees […]
In his ever-expanding effort to find ways to fund his liberal programs, President Barack Obama is considering an incredibly stupid and morally bankrupt proposal. Veterans groups are angry after President Obama told them Monday that he is still considering a proposal to have treatment for service-connected injuries charged to veterans private insurance plans. President Obama, […]
Yesterday, White House spokesman Robert "I'm just like that Iraqi spokesman who lied during the Iraq War" Gibbs held forth on why John McCain was wrong to say the fundamentals of our economy are "strong," but the head of President Obama's council of economic advisers is right to say the fundamentals of our economy are […]