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Wow. Just wow. I saw some clips of President Obama’s speech and read the text. The speech is probably the most dishonest and demagogic speech I’ve seen since Moammar Gaddafhi gave that one a few weeks back. First from ABC News’ Jake Tapper: President Obama at the GOP House retreat, January 2010: “We're not going […]

Usually media bias in straight news stories is a rather subtle affair. This example, from The New York Times Monday paper isn't so subtle. (via Timeswatch) The Republican plan includes a shrinking of Medicare and Medicaid and trillions of dollars in tax cuts, while sparing defense spending. Mr. Obama, by contrast, envisions a more comprehensive […]

Yeah, you know the next line. It looks like the corrupt party has once again outfoxed the stupid party (as Democratic strategist Pat Caddell likes to characterize them) once again up on Capitol Hill. For example, the final cuts in the deal are advertised as $38.5 billion less than was appropriated in 2010, but after […]

Early this morning when I punched in Treasury.gov, this is what I got: Is this an omen?

Last Friday, John Boehner and the House GOP managed to drag Harry “Cowboy Poet” Reid and President Obama into about $40 billion in spending cuts for the remainder of the fiscal year. How’s this for a pivot? Harry Reid, Feb. 3, 2011, on Paul Ryan’s initial offer of $32 billion in spending cuts: The chairman […]

My gas tank is nearing empty and only one thing’s for sure: The next time I fill up I’ll be paying more than $4 a gallon. At an appearance earlier this week at a foreign-owned wind turbine plant in Pennsylvania, President Barack Obama was asked about high gas prices. In an AP report that has […]

It took more than two years, but yesterday President Barack Obama and his tame Attorney General Eric Holder finally proved that if you don’t like the principles they ran on, then they’ve got others. After campaigning on closing the terrorist prison at Guantanamo Bay and opposing military commission proceedings as an affront to our values, […]

As things look now, it appears that President Barack Obama’s Libyan escapade will turn out to be an unmitigated disaster. The most troubling bit of news was that we have apparently banked on the Libyan opposition’s ground forces to remove strongman Moammar Qadaffi from power with the help of allied air support. Then CNN let […]

What boundaries does a society or religion have to cross before we can condemn it for barbarity? Is this the line? Hena Akhter's last words to her mother proclaimed her innocence. But it was too late to save the 14-year-old girl. Her fellow villagers in Bangladesh's Shariatpur district had already passed harsh judgment on her. […]

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government (CREW) is a non-partisan organization—that just happens to be pro-Democrat. I say that for two reasons: First, is the complete failure of CREW to say anything about the biggest ethical scandal in Washington, D.C., over the past couple weeks Sen. Claire McCaskill’s failure to pay approximately $300,000 in […]