From CNSNews.com: In an unusual argument from a Democratic administration, the director of President Obama’s National Economic Council, Larry Summers, contended Wednesday that a deal with Congressional leaders to keep taxes low for another two years will not only jumpstart the economy but increase government revenue in the long run. Summers said failure to pass [...]

From World Net Daily: The primary gatekeeper for those who would like to explore President Obama’s original birth documentation on file with the state of Hawaii has left her post. The Hawaii Department of Health today confirmed to WND that the term for department Director Chiyome Fukino, M.D., ended on Dec. 6 and that she [...]

From CNSNews.com: A conservative public policy group says the tax deal that President Obama has defended and liberals have denounced is “bad policy, bad politics, and a bad deal for the American people.” In a message on its Web site, the Club for Growth listed its objections: “The plan would ressurrect the Death Tax, grow [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: According to The National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession began in December 2007, lasted 18 months, and ended in June 2009. The last recession that lasted this long  began in July 1981, lasted 16 months, and ended in November 1982. No two recessions are the same. And no two recoveries [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Over the past two months, we’ve been tracking the burgeoning list of unions, companies, and insurers who have used an HHS escape hatch to avoid the costly, destructive consequences of Obamacare for their members and employees (see here, here, here, and here). The list keeps growing. Jamie Dupree has the latest update on what I’ve been [...]

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama looks haggard and peeved and petulant at his White House press briefing on the tax deal, still underway as I type. Exuding his typical gracelessness, he pouted about being forced into negotiations, whined about “tax cuts for the wealthy” as the “Holy Grail” of the Republican Party, and yes, referred [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Barack Obama was facing a backlash from Democrats yesterday as they accused him of caving in too easily to Republicans by agreeing to extend tax cuts for the rich for the next two years. The US president was forced to abandon a central campaign promise but said he had chosen to “compromise” rather [...]

From Townhall.com: Last week, Jillian highlighted the Obama administration’s sudden about-face on offshore drilling: The Obama administration reversed course Wednesday and said it wouldn’t allow drilling off the Atlantic coast and in the eastern Gulf of Mexico near Florida, citing safety concerns after the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. The decision was a fresh setback [...]

From NewsMax.com: Things weren’t looking too good for President George W. Bush when he left office last year. They’re looking a whole lot better now, according to a new Gallup poll, Politico reports. The survey shows 47 percent of Americans approve of Bush’s presidency, up from 34 percent when he left office and from his November [...]

From Human Events: The filibuster provides more than the right of extended debate. It empowers individual members to participate in the legislative process whether or not their party is in power. Many liberals, however, want to make it easier to expand government. So they want to reduce the number of members needed to close debate [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The US president failed in his attempt over the weekend to persuade Republicans and conservatives in his own Democratic Party to accept a compromise on extending tax cuts passed by George W Bush, which are due to expire on Dec 31. Mr Obama wanted to extend the cuts for the middle classes but [...]

From World Net Daily: Just as WikiLeaks was dumping thousands of pages of classified documents into cyberspace, the Obama administration was announcing plans for a vote before the end of the year on how to “level the playing field” on the Internet with new government rules, restrictions and limits that would be monitored by federal [...]

From World Net Daily: Texans take their rights seriously. A bill that has been prefiled for the 2011 state legislative session creates penalties of up to $5,000 in fines and up to five years in jail for anyone guilty of the “felony” of attempting “to enforce an act, order, law, statute, rule or regulation” of Obamacare, [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: The United States’ president flew 13 hours across the world only to be unable to meet the Afghan president face-to-face on his three hour visit because helicopters were grounded by high winds and low cloud. Mr Obama instead staged a video conference with Mr Karzai just hours after leaked cables suggested American diplomats [...]