From Townhall.com: Krauthammer: Obama’s “Working On Language That Will Disguise A Failure” In Libya Obama may be the first American President who has refused the title, “Leader of the Free World.” He is not interested in being Commander in Chief. These traditional presidential roles are all a distraction for him. From NewsMax.com: While members of [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: President Obama’s hometown of Chicago is nearly 1,000 miles from the Gulf of Mexico. But like many other communities across the country, it is suffering the consequences of his Administration’s anti-drilling agenda. Illinois accounted for $376.2 million in shallow-water drilling expenditures over the past three years, according to an analysis by 14 [...]

From CNS News: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget will cause large and persistent yearly deficits that will push the public debt to $20.8 trillion by 2021. “Federal debt held by the public would double under the President’s budget, growing from $10.4 trillion (69 percent of GDP) at the [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: By using the US Military to begin hostilities with a foreign nation without a Congressional declaration of war, Barack Obama has committed a serious violation of the Constitution. While he certainly is not the first to do so in regards to war powers, it’s high time that he becomes the last. With [...]

From Human Events: Amid America’s economic doldrums and as world events careen out of control, President Obama will not let a crisis deter him from unwinding.  This same President, advising the American people how to deal with the financial crisis, once said, “If you’re a family trying to cut back, you might skip going out [...]

From World Net Daily: Businessman Herman Cain, a possible Republican presidential candidate in 2012, has criticized Barack Obama for disregarding America’s Christian heritage, stating he believes the president’s repeated omission of the phrase “endowed by their Creator” is “intentional.” “I have been able to get the pulse of the American people of not only what’s [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Coloring President Barack Obama’s budget proposal for fiscal year (FY) 2012 are the undeniable shades of masked fiscal disaster and a want of long-term solutions. According to analysis (pdf) by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the President’s budget would result in $1.43 trillion and $1.16 trillion deficits for FYs 2011 and 2012, [...]

From Michelle Malkin: As the fictional Cleveland Indians announcer Harry Doyle from the movie Major League might say, Team Obama’s budget estimates, according to the Congressional Budget Office, are “juuust a bit outside.” From The Hill: The Congressional Budget Office on Friday released its analysis of President Obama’s 2012 budget proposal and found it does less [...]

From Right Wing News: Unfortunately, for The Politico and Obama, the attempt by Josh Gerstein to defend The Reluctant President’s South American trip falls flat, as he spends quite a bit of time at the beginning explaining why he should not go, which is what people will remember Some 26 months into Barack Obama’s presidency, Latin [...]

From CNS News: “This will not stand!” declared George H.W. Bush. He was speaking of Saddam Hussein’s invasion, occupation and annexation of the emirate of Kuwait as his “19th province.” Seven months later, the Iraqi army was fleeing up the “Highway of Death” back into a country devastated by five weeks of U.S. bombing. When [...]

From CNS News: Neither the ongoing nuclear emergency in Japan nor the conflict in Libya and looming outside military intervention there will prevent President Obama from embarking on a five-day trip to Latin America on Friday. The three-country visit includes meetings with the leaders of Brazil, Chile and El Salvador, attendance at a business summit [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Yesterday the United Nations Security Council voted 10–0, with five abstentions, to authorize military action in Libya. Specifically, the resolution “authorizes member states … to take all necessary measures … to protect civilians and civilian populated areas under threat of attack.” Celebrations erupted across Benghazi after news of the vote reached rebels. [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: To date, over 1,000 companies, covering nearly 2.4 million employees, have been granted waivers to escape the burdensome requirements of Obamacare. The House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Health Care, the District of Columbia, Census and the National Archives held a hearingthis week to further examine the transparency and fairness of the [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: There is no limit to the amount of distortion the enviro-left is willing to deploy to accomplish their policy goals. Last month, the Obama Commerce Department issued a reportfinding that the “scientists at the National Atmospheric and Oceanic Administration did not manipulate data or otherwise engage in wrongdoing.” But as University of [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Since the passage of Obamacare, the federal government’s role in American citizens’ lives has grown significantly. In a recent lecture, Heritage expert Robert Moffit discusses how passage of the health care law has not only grown the size and scope of government, but has also ignited a debate over the proper role [...]

From NewsMax.com: Palin: Thank Obama for Higher Gasoline PricesFormer Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin is one of many Republicans who blame President Barack Obama for higher gasoline prices, saying that’s exactly what his energy policy was meant to achieve, Politico reports. “The evidence of the President’s anti-drilling mentality and his culpability in the high gas prices hurting [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: President Barack Obama invited ESPN into the White House yesterday so that The Worldwide Leader In Sports could tape his picks for the 2011 NCAA basketball tournament. The President picked all frontrunners. Good for him. Meanwhile, 5,000 miles away, a Libyan rebel defending the town of Ajdabiya from Muammar Qadhafi loyalists told The [...]

From World Net Daily: It appears the controversy over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president will stay in the headlines as the nation moves toward the 2012 election whether those who have questions about the issue raise them or not. That’s because Obama himself has been unable to leave the issue alone, most recently repeatedly [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Heritage Distinguished Fellow and former Congressman Ernest Istook (R–OK) recently unveiled Obamacare’s “dirty little secret”: $105 billion of advance appropriations which make it difficult for current and future Congresses to control spending on the unpopular new law. The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Health delved further into the problems with this “phantom funding” [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The conviction and sentencing of American contractor Alan Gross surely leaves a bitter taste in the mouth of the Obama Administration days before it embarks on a Latin American trip. Opting to “play it careful and safe” and “hope the Cuban dictatorship does the right thing” did not spare the Maryland man [...]