From The Heritage Foundation: This year, as the clock strikes twelve on New Year’s Eve, Americans who depend on health savings accounts (HSAs) to make medical expenditures more affordable will experience first-hand yet another adverse side effect of Obamacare.  Starting in 2011, American families will no longer be able to use HSAs to purchase over-the-counter [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Barack Obama’s family holiday in Hawaii is reportedly costing at least $1.5 million (£1 million) as mainland America is battered by storms. The calculation of Mr Obama’s holiday costs included $63,000 for his wife’s early flight out, and $16,800 to house Secret Service agents and Navy Seals in beach front accommodation for two [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama bypassed the Senate Wednesday to make six recess appointments, including a deputy attorney general whose links to the insurance giant American International Group had stalled his confirmation. Obama first nominated James Cole to the No. 2 Justice Department post in May. But Republican lawmakers blocked his confirmation in part because [...]

From World Net Daily: Another legal challenge to Barack Obama’s eligibility to occupy the White Househas been docketed for consideration before the U.S. Supreme Court, and the plaintiff this time formally is asking that the justices appointed by Obama, the “respondent” in the case, be excluded. “There is a widespread perception among ‘conservative’ media figures [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama has bypassed the Senate and directly appointed four new U.S. ambassadors whose nominations had been stalled or blocked by lawmakers for months. The White House announced Wednesday that Obama would use his power to make recess appointments to fill envoy posts to Azerbaijan, Syria and NATO allies Turkey and the [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s administration enters 2011 pressing ahead with new regulations and diplomacy to fight climate change, but it will face stiff challenges from opponents. The year ended with modest progress toward a new global deal during U.N.-led climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, where major emitters including the United States and China moved [...]

From NewsMax.com: A provision in the healthcare bill signed by President Barack Obama in March that requires all citizens who do not have health insurance to buy it or face a fine is opposed by 60 percent of Americans, a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll shows. Women are more likely than men to support the provision, poll [...]

From Michelle Malkin: By way of Politico, here’s today’s Obama-hits-the-links update… Human Events Senior Editor Emily Miller Twittered about how many rounds of golf Obama is up to these days: This prompted John Kim, who is a coordinating producer for PGA.com, to respond this way: Kim later noted how he should get elected president so he’d have more [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Wall Street Journal reports: “The global oil industry, far from chastened by the catastrophic spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is planning record spending next year, including a large amount for deep-water development. … Barclays estimates spending on new wells, producing platforms and other energy infrastructure will total $490 [...]

From NewsMax.com: The newly Republican-controlled House will face a massive task immediately when it gets to work in January. Major planks of Obamacare — the nation’s new healthcare law — go into effect on Jan. 1 even as the regulations are being challenged by Republican-dominated state legislatures in a federal lawsuit. Some of the law’s [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: “What do you say to people who are losing patience with gas prices at $3 a gallon? And how much of a political price do you think you’re paying for that, right now?” This was a question asked of the president at a press conference in August…of 2006. The president was George [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: With 2010 drawing to a close, President Obama appears to be ending the year on a positive note. After passing the tax cut compromise with Republicans, Charles Krauthammer hailed Obama as “the new comeback kid.”1 When you throw in the repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” and the ratification of the new [...]

From World Net Daily: Although Hawaii’s newly elected Democrat governor, Neil Abercrombie, has recently given a flurry of high-profile media interviews condemning “birthers” who question Barack Obama’s constitutional eligibility to occupy the Oval Office, suddenly he is declining to answer a few hard questions. Abercrombie, 72, a former member of the U.S. House, may be [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: With all the talk about forcing people to buy health insurance, health insurance exchanges, and high-risk pools, it is often forgotten that most of what Obamacare really is, is just a massive expansion of an existing and already failing entitlement program. Of the 34 million Americans who gain health insurance through Obamacare, over [...]

From NewsMax.com: Hold on to your hat. No sooner had the Senate finished approving the so-called New START agreement by the closest margin of any bilateral arms-control treaty with Moscow than the accord’s principal architect served notice of her ambitious plans for further denuclearizing the United States. Unfortunately, the disarmament agenda that Assistant Secretary of [...]

From World Net Daily: Chris Matthews, the anchor of MSNBC’s “Hardball”program, is now calling for Barack Obama to release hisoriginal, long-form, hospital-generated birthcertificateto put to rest any doubts about the president’s constitutional eligibility to hold office. On last night’s edition of his show, Matthews stated: “I am not a birther. I am an enemy of [...]

From Michelle Malkin: There was probably a five-hour meeting at the White House on how to spin this, which culminated in somebody throwing his hands in the air and saying “Let’s just do what we always do and blame Bush — everybody okay with that? Good.” From The Hill: The Obama administration is trying to quiet talk [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Yesterday, the New York Times, as a Christmas gift to those of us who enjoy laughing until pumpkin pie and egg nog shoots out our noses, published a piece about how President Obama has a natural penchant for humility: “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: As 2010 draws to a close, The Foundry will be posting a series of Top Ten lists highlighting some of The Heritage Foundation’s most influential work. The Top Ten Heritage Charts are below, sorted by pageviews with the 10th most popular chart on top, and the most popular chart at the bottom. [...]

From NewsMax.com: During the stormy debate over his healthcare plan, President Barack Obama promised his program would not “pull the plug on grandma,” and Congress dropped plans for death panels and “end of life” counseling that would encourage aged patients from partaking in costly medical procedures. Opponents of Obama’s plan, including former vice-presidential candidate Sarah [...]