From CNSNews.com: The Obama administration is phasing out a program that allows underprivileged children to get scholarships to expensive private schools in Washington, D.C., such as Sidwell Friends, the school the Obama girls attend, where tuition runs about $31,000 a year. Nevertheless, Obama on Thursday spoke about his “obligation to lift up every child” to [...]

From NewsMax.com: In an exclusive Newsmax.TV interview, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says of President Obama: “I think that [Obama] is very good at being a celebrity and not very good at being president. He’s perfect on ‘The View,’ but not very good in the Oval office.”

From World Net Daily: An internal Department of Homeland Security memo obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, has created a firestorm on Capitol Hill over revelations the Obama administration is considering sidestepping Congress to grant illegal immigrants “amnesty” by executive fiat. “Once again, the Obama administration says one thing and does another,” asserts a statement [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: During the unprecedented appearance he was hoping to appeal to so-called “soccer moms” who are being heavily courted by the Republican and answered questions on family life and even the misfortunes of the actress Lindsay Lohan. Critics have accused Mr Obama of demeaning the office of President by appearing on the sofa of [...]

From World Net Daily: President Obama may not fit the constitutional eligibility requirement that stipulates only “natural born” citizens can serve as U.S. president, conclude the authors of a recently released book. An investigation by the authors found that according to correspondence from the original framers of the Constitution as well as multiple Supreme Court [...]

Only Obama and Pelosi could put together a team to investigate an oil drilling disaster and not think to include a single petroleum engineer. We’re guessing their “report” will recommend higher taxes, less drilling and a few new government agencies. From American Thinker: The commission appointed by President Obama to investigate the Gulf oil spill [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: As everyone knows, Arizona, chafed by the Federal government’s inability to control the flow of illegal immigrants into the State, enacted Senate Bill 1070(PDF) in an effort to do something about the resulting collateral damage to it and its citizens. Now, a federal judge appointed by President Clinton, Susan Bolton, has temporarily blockedenforcement [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s weak leadership on the Afghanistan war, Guantanamo, and the Gulf oil spill has Democrats backing away from him in droves, political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax.TV. “Obama is down to a new low of 43 percent job approval,” Morris says, citing a recent Rasmussen Reports poll. “It’s Democrats he’s losing. [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. In the critical first days after the explosion, the U.S. Coast Guard disregarded its own firefighting policy and might have caused the oil rig to sink [...]

From CNSNews.com: It seems like a nice gesture – an e-mail message from a loving wife, urging thousands of people to join her in wishing her husband a happy 49th birthday by signing an electronic birthday card. But in Washington, D.C., nothing is that simple. The wife, in this case, is First Lady Michelle Obama, [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: A drilling moratorium aimed at big oil is a drilling moratorium aimed at local oil as well. That’s the message being sent by the Greater Lafayette Chamber of Commerce in Lafayette, Louisiana as they revive the “Energy Division” from several years of dormancy. Why now? According to The Daily Advertiser, “challenges from [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Obamacare has been rightly blasted as fiscally irresponsible, yet few have noticed what may be Obamacare’s largest ticking entitlement time-bomb: the CLASS Act. My new op-ed on the subject is here, and my new report, co-written with Jim Capretta, is here. CLASS is a new long-term-care insurance program that was inserted into Obamacare [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The White House today released its updated federal budget projections. By releasing the report late on a Friday afternoon—a longtime Washington tradition for stories that politicians want to bury—the Obama Administration is effectively admitting that its budget numbers will not be well-received. The “Mid-Session Budget Review” projects that this year’s budget deficit will [...]

From NewsMax.com: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed the Obama administration’s firing of a USDA official Sunday as a panicky response that shows they’re not prepared for the big issues facing the nation. “If the Obama administration is this afraid of Glenn Beck, how do they deal with the Iranians?” Gingrich asked on “Fox News [...]

From News Busters: Chris Matthews made a delicious Freudian slip this weekend calling Barack Obama President Carter. In the first segment of the syndicated program bearing his name, Matthews and panel discussed what Democrats are going to have to do to win in the upcoming midterm elections. The consensus was that they can’t run on [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: The President may think that his single-digit approval ratings in Israel are simply because his middle name is “Hussein,” but he’s wrong. In mid-July, the President gave his first interview with Israel’s Channel 2 news, and he was asked to explain why he thinks he has only a single digit approval rating [...]

From World Net Daily: A former congressman and GOP presidential candidate says for current members of the House and Senate to uphold their oath of office that includes the defense of the United States against enemies “foreign and domestic,” they need to be filing impeachment charges against Barack Obama. Former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., [...]

From Human Events: When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s now famous immigration bill into law on April 23, it was immediately evident that she had crossed a line that President Obama didn’t want her to cross. Thus his administration quickly reviewed lessons learned from years in the Chicago political machine and began using PR tactics [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Trust, but don’t bother to verify. That is the Obama Administration’s latest message about how the United States of America ought to manage the most fearsome weapons known to man. There are severe deficiencies in the New START arms control treaty. In particular, the means for verifying that Russia is actually [...]