Victor Davis Hanson's latest column asks a simple question: Would Obama won the November election if he'd told the American people he'd be doing what he's doing now? Imagine that last fall before being elected, Barack Obama had outlined the positions he has embraced since being inaugurated as president. An honest campaign speech could have […]
Over the past couple of days, President Barack Obama and his administration have come to embrace some positions GOP presidential nominee Sen. John McCain made just a few months ago. These positions, predictably, are ones candidate Obama and his team distorted and assailed McCain for taking. First was McCain's oft-derided statement that the fundamentals of […]
Three random items of interest: The United States vaunted military-industrial complex has apparently forgotten the technical knowledge necessary to make Trident missiles. Robert P. George and Eric Cohen on President Barack Obama's odious embryonic stem cell research funding decision. Ed Whelan compares President Barack Obama's signing statement issued with the $410 billion omnibus spending bill […]
Apparently Democrats aren't happy that Sen. Ted Kennedy doesn't have as many things named after him and his family as Sen. Robert "KKK" Byrd does. More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the […]
A $410 billion omnibus spending bill is sitting on President Barack Obama's desk. The bill contains nearly 9,000 earmarks of the kind that Obama campaigned against. Until recently, some of the earmarks still had Obama's name on them from his time in the Senate. (They didn't remove those earmarks -- they just changed the name […]
White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs has the difficult task of defending the administration from a press corps that's out for blood that wants to help. Today's press briefing included this interesting exchange: Q Let me take one more crack at what Dan was getting at before. Talking about tomorrow on education, the administration's critics […]
When asked by Pastor Rick Warren "at what point does a baby get human rights?" Then-candidate Barack Obama responded that the question was "above his pay grade." Today, Obama increased his pay grade, stating that human embryos are definitely before the point at which a baby gets human rights -- or even a modicum of […]
Now that we have a Democrat in the White House, we won't have to worry about the media manufacturing embarrassing images of the President having fun while people in the armed forces are dying. That's certainly one of the reasons why President George W. Bush gave up golf after the War in Iraq started. It […]
I'm pointing out this article from FactCheck.org on the oft-repeated claim that someone declares bankruptcy on on average every 30 seconds due to medical bills. Earlier tonight, columnist Mark Shields repeated the number -- characterizing it as 120 people every hour -- on the NewsHour. Last year, someone filed for bankruptcy roughly every 30 seconds, […]
President Barack Obama has created a Middle-Class Task Force -- that has no one from the middle class on it. Of course, the job probably doesn't pay anything, so only the rich would be able to free up time to talk about how bad off all you poor schmucks are. Last Friday, Vice President Joe […]