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OPINION – Man In The Middle Speaks: We Need A ‘Czar Of Racial Harmony’
Based on the President’s comments regarding the Gates affair, I assume he was absent the day they taught the concept of “innocent until proven guilty” at Harvard Law. At this point, there is no need rehash the events or the comments that have a stranglehold on the media. For the record, since I was not [...]
WSJ / OPINION – Peggy Noonan: Common Sense May Sink ObamaCare
This is big, what’s happening. President Obama appears to have misstepped on a major initiative and defining issue. He has misjudged the nation’s mood, which itself is news: He rose from nothing to everything with the help of his fine-tuned antennae. Resistance to the Democratic health-care plans is in the air, showing up more now [...]
POTUS Tries To Resolve Cambridge Dispute
President Barack Obama stepped back Friday from his foray into the contretemps surrounding the arrest of Harvard University African-American scholar Henry Louis Gates, saying he “could have calibrated” his words differently when he said police had “acted stupidly” in handling the situation.
The president’s highly unusual appearance at press secretary Robert Gibbs’s daily briefing came just [...]
On The Lighter Side Of Politics: POTUS Wages Secret ‘Parking Ticket’ Battle With Cambridge Police
One reason Barack Obama may think the Cambridge Police Department is “stupid” is that he has a grudge against the law enforcement agency.
Obama, who attended Harvard Law School from 1988 to 1991, lived in Cambridge, and apparently didn’t like the fact he was frequently hit with parking tickets.
In all Obama received 17 tickets for parking [...]
‘He Can’t Handle the Truth’ POTUS Bullies CBO’s Elmendorf
The Washington Post recently ran a story quoting Democrats as bragging that President Obama has deliberately patterned his legislative strategy after LBJ’s, circa 1965.This may explain the treatment of Douglas Elmendorf, the director of the supposedly nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office who last week told Congress that you can’t “save” money on health care by having [...]
Fed Looking At Driver’s Tax – Drive More Miles, Pay More $$$$
Someday, not too far in the future, you might be taxed on how far you drive.
It would be a radical shift away from a system in which motorists are taxed by state and federal governments for each gallon of gas they buy. That money is then used to maintain the roads and bridges everyone uses [...]
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Says ‘No Vote On Health Care Before Recess’
The Senate will not vote on health care legislation before leaving for its summer recess, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday as he acknowledged out loud the inescapable political reality that has been clear for several days.
President Obama brushed aside the delay on Thursday, burying his reaction 20 minutes into a speech he delivered [...]
Warning: Press Conference May Cause Drowsiness
Filed by Mike Madden for Salon.com
Obama gets animated during a press conference on his healthcare plan — but only when someone changes the subject
July 23, 2009 | WASHINGTON — President Obama wants you to know that he, personally, doesn’t need the healthcare reforms he’s pushing Congress to pass right now.
“I’m the president of the United [...]
L. A. Times Op-ED/Andrew Bacevich, Ret. Colonel: Obama’s Strategic Blind Spot
EDITOR’S NOTE: Before you read this op-ed, keep in mind POTUS ran as an anti-war candidate and the ‘mantra’ he would ‘change’ the way Washington thinks.
Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” During the bitter winter of 1914-15, the first lord of the Admiralty posed this [...]
LA TIMES/OPINION: Lou Dobbs and The Canard Over President Obama’s Birth
Lou Dobbs had David from Freeport, N.Y., on the line, the caller musing darkly about President Obama “rushing all these programs through by whatever means,” knowing he will soon be exposed as a fake, a fraud, a . . . Kenyan.
At that point, a scrupulous radio host had three options: (A) hit the kill button [...]
