Palestinian Leader Mahmoud Abbas is asking the United Nations for recognition as a state. This is clearly an embarrassment for Obama, as he is now forced to either accept a Palestinian state without any concessions toward peace, or deny the Palestinian statehood and try... »
Does Tavis Smiley Think Obama Lied about the Stimulus?
On today’s Morning Joe, PBS host Tavis Smiley accused the Bush administration of lying to the American people about WMD in Iraq. This is a popular liberal canard. It even made Jon Meacham, former editor of Newsweek, and no friend to the cause defend... »
Going Abroad in Search of Monsters: The Libertarian Case for Military Engagement
In 1821, John Quincy Adams famously said, about the United States: Wherever the standard of freedom and Independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will her heart, her benedictions and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad, in search of monsters to... »
Obama’s FedEx moment
Do you remember the FedEx commercial, where a clerk, in response to his boss’s complaint about shipping costs, says “why don’t we use FedEx?” The commercial follows the employee from his early days at the company through to retirement, where, at every opportunity, he... »
The Obama doctrine: Leading from behind; Undoing our Victories
As Trump’s “sad fool,” Charles Krauthammer, rightly points out, the Obama administration has abdicated American leadership because of its fear of being unliked. Ryan Lizza points out in the New Yorker, Obama “came of age” during the post-Reagan, Cold War era. (One has to... »
New terror alert system: No Drama, Cool, Wee Weed Up, Deep Concern, Grave Concern
The Obama administration announced a new terror alert system today. The new levels will be effective April 26 and will be (in decreasing order of severity) No Drama. The preferred, natural state of things. Decisions are guarded with extreme secrecy, but the atmosphere is... »
The Trouble with Barry
Mark Twain once said that history might not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme. And so we find ourselves with another Democratic president playing compassionate emperor. Please don’t get me wrong–I think we should have gone into Libya long before Obama “mobilized the... »
War of Wordcraft: When it’s planes in the sky; shooting at people who die, That’s linguistics.
Obama has decided to call the action in Libya a “kinetic military action,” rather than use the more comprehensible English term: war. When it’s planes in the sky, bombing all day and all night, That’s linguistics. When the tanks form a line Bullets whiz... »
Did the Black Panthers know about 9/11 in advance?
As Michelle Malkin points out, Malik Shabazz, the head of the New Black Panther Party, is an overt racist. One of the comically conspiratorial charges he levels against Jews, is that the Jewish population represents 10% of the community, therefore 10% of the deaths... »
Ungirded Loins
Before Obama won election in 2008, a typically frank Joe Biden had this to say to supporters of his then candidacy: “Mark my words, it will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is... »