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Sestak, Obama, and the Law

From The Heritage Foundation: With Rep. Joe Sestak’s (D-PA) defeat of Sen. Specter (D-PA) in the Democratic Senate primary, the controversy over the alleged job offer made to Sestak last year by someone in the Obama White House is once again heating up. After essentially ignoring this potentially serious violation of federal law for months, some [...]

Obama Judicial Nominee Says Sexual Sadists Deserve Lighter Sentences

From NewsBusters.org: President Obama’s nominee to the United States Second Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge Robert N. Chatigny, holds a disturbing fringe opinion that sexual sadism should be a legal mitigating factor. In fact, Chatigny put this belief in action while presiding over the case against the “Roadside Strangler” where he did everything in his [...]

On Obama’s Watch, Attempted Terrorist Attacks At All Time High

From Right Wing News: A shockingly unsurprising and completely unexpectedly expected report Just weeks after the failed car bombing of New York’s Times Square, the Department of Homeland Security says “the number and pace of attempted attacks against the United States over the past nine months have surpassed the number of attempts during any other [...]

PBS’s Meacham Frets Over Anti-Obama ‘Hate’ from Right, Invokes McVeigh and Oswald

From NewsBusters.org: On Friday’s Need to Know on PBS, co-host Jon Meacham – also of Newsweek – devoted the show’s regular “In Perspective” segment to highlighting “anger” and “hate” felt by some conservatives toward President Barack Obama, and included examples of protesters and anger expressed toward liberals. He began the segment by raising the possibility [...]

Obama’s border Kabuki: Don’t believe the hype; Meddling Mexico dictates how U.S. should use its National Guard

From Michelle Malkin: The most glaring sign that President Obama’s announcement of border funding and National Guard troops is one big, phony charade? He apparently didn’t even bother to let the governor of besieged Arizona, Gov. Jan Brewer, know about it. Via Yahoo News: The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it will send as [...]

Obama’s July 2011 Draw-Down Date for Afghanistan Sends Mixed Messages, Former Afghan Presidential Candidate Says

From CNSNews.com: Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a candidate in the 2009 Afghan presidential election, said the July 2011 date set by President Barack Obama for U.S. troops to draw-down from Afghanistan is problematic because it creates a perception of mixed messages about U.S. commitment to the country. Dr. Abdullah explained that talks about withdrawing troops send [...]

President Obama’s Memorial Day Vacation

From The Heritage Foundation: This weekend, President Obama will skip Memorial Day services at Arlington National Cemetery, and instead he will take his family to Chicago for rest and relaxation. The gesture has rankled many on the right and caused the left to swing into full ‘defend Obama’ mode. However, the fact remains that during a time [...]

Obama’s Border Plan Looks Similar to Bush’s, AP Says

From CNSNews.com: Phoenix (AP) – President Barack Obama’s plan to send as many as 1,200 National Guard troops to the US-Mexico border appears to be a scaled-down version of the border security approach championed by his predecessor. The 6,000 troops who were sent by President George W. Bush to the border from June 2006 to [...]

Barack Obama Seeks Line-Item Veto

From Politico: President Barack Obama is joining recent presidents who have wanted a power they can’t quite have: the line-item veto. His predecessors — Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Bill Clinton — supported versions of the concept, which would allow the president to strike specific spending items from large appropriations bills and, supporters hope, [...]

63% Want Obamacare Repealed

From NewsMax.com: Support for repeal of the new national healthcare plan has jumped to its highest level ever. A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 63 percent of U.S. voters now favor repeal of the plan congressional Democrats passed and President Obama signed into law in March. Before today, weekly polling had shown [...]

Obama’s Redistribution of Income Success and It’s Only the Beginning

From Right Wing News: Drudge headlines this morning should be a wake up call to those who still think Obama isn’t intentionally trying to bankrupt the United States through the implementation of government programs, nationalizing of industries, bogus “reforms”–all under the guise of good will and fixing a broken system. From the USA Today article: Paychecks from [...]

Obama to Skip Wreath Laying Ceremony at Arlington on Monday

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama went to Arlington Cemetery to lay the wreath last year, but this year Obama’s handing the wreath to Plugs and heading off to the more welcoming political climes of Chicago: WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to spend a long holiday weekend in Chicago. The White House says Obama and his [...]

As Gulf of Mexico oil disaster wears on, blame is finding its way to the White House

From Nola.com: The uncontrolled, environmentally and politically toxic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is now lapping at the White House. “I’m angry and the people back in my state are very angry,” Rep. Steve Scalise, R-Jefferson, fresh back from home, said in a speech on the House floor Monday afternoon, in which he waved a [...]

Top political strategist Woody Allen thinks Obama would get much more done as dictator; No, really

From the LA Times: The notorious and formerly funny movie director Woody Allen is apparently frustrated with the cumbersome operations of American democracy too. The one-time-father-now-husband-of-his-daughter tells the Spanish-language magazine La Vanguardia that the United States’ Democratic Smoker-in-Chief could accomplish a whole lot more from his White House if he didn’t have so many disorderly, annoying [...]

Safety of US soldiers is secondary under Obama administration

From GOPUSA.com: WASHINGTON (AP) – A key to the U.S. approach to fighting the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan is this seemingly backward logic: The more aggressively you protect your own troops, the less secure they may be. The idea is that troops who put themselves at risk to protect innocents will ultimately help decrease violence [...]

Obamanomics Fails Women and Families

From Townhall.com: Under the Obama Administration, the Democrats are unleashing a bevy of unpalatable surprises for women, including massive up-front government expansions and enormous tax increases that produce problems for American women and their families. As Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minnesota) recently said, “The government now owns 51 percent of the private sector.” In just 18 [...]

Obama Apologizes to China for Arizona’s ‘Human Rights Violations’

From Townhall.com: Obama’s “American Apology Tour” rolls onward.  AP reports: The United States and China reported no major breakthroughs Friday after only their second round of talks about human rights since 2002. The Obama administration wants to push Beijing to treat its citizens better, but it also needs Chinese support on Iranian and North Korean nuclear standoffs, [...]

Neil Armstrong says Barack Obama is ‘poorly advised’ on space

From Telegraph.co.uk: Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, Mr Armstrong said that the Obama administration plan to end the Constellation program and cut other space efforts appeared to be made without input from NASA or the president’s science adviser. “I have yet to find a person in NASA, the Defense Department, [...]

Supporter tells Barack Obama ‘you’re a hottie with a smokin body’

Yes, there are still some mindless Obamanazis (aka. Obamazombies, Obamabots, etc.) who continue to mindlessly adore Barack with the same hypnotic loyalty we witnessed during his campaign. I wonder how this lady would respond when asked to name one thing Obama has actually achieved besides tanking the economy and running us into massive debt? From [...]

Obama’s invisible Islam

From The Washington Times: During questioning before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, a visibly nervous Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. tried valiantly not to utter the expression “radical Islam.” The twisting began when Rep. Lamar Smith, Texas Republican, asked whether the men behind three recent terrorist incidents – the Fort Hood massacre, the [...]