From PrisonPlanet.com: In his increasingly desperate attempts to pander to a population that has by now entirely given up on the hope, and barely has any change left, Obama is going for broke (or technically the reverse) by setting the class warfare bar just that little bit higher. This time around, his targets are millionaires, [...]

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 The Heritage Foundation: President Obama calls Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s proposal to curtail the collective-bargaining rights of state employees an “assault.” But the real assault is the conspiracy that has existed for decades between elected officials and public-employee unions — and taxpayers are the ones who wind up battered. The unions get salaries, health [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Today, President Barack Obama concluded, and Attorney General Eric Holder announced, that the administration will not defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).  DOMA defines marriage as between a man and a woman for the purposes of federal law, and clarifies that no state has to recognize a homosexual marriage from [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama’s budget plan would cut $100 billion from Pell Grants and other higher education programs over a decade through belt-tightening and use the savings to keep the maximum college financial aid award at $5,550, an administration official said. Nearly $90 billion of the projected savings would be achieved through two changes, [...]

From World Net Daily: There is no point in pining for “another Ronald Reagan.” Great leaders don’t come along very often, and in many ways Reagan was an American original. … [W]e don’t need another Reagan. Rather, we simply need to ask in every situation that arises, What would Reagan have done?– Dinesh D’Souza, in [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last month, after the governor-elects of Ohio and Wisconsin (John Kasich and Scott Walker respectively) each declined to waste any more taxpayer money on high-speed rail boondoggles, the Obama administration quickly announced they would take federal transportation dollars away from those states and give them to California’s high-speed rail project. As [...]

From The Hawaii Reporter: Nancy Pelosi’s final days as Speaker of the House were spent at the exotic Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka’upulehu in Kona on the island of Hawaii. Escorted throughout her trip by a mini security motorcade that included Secret Service and Hawaii County Police officers, Pelosi was seen at St. [...]

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 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 NewsMax.com: Barack Obama’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year got off to a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad start. There he was, on New Year’s Day, on vacation with his family in Hawaii, stuck on a secure phone with counterterrorism officials, trying to figure out what screw-ups had allowed a would-be terrorist [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Yesterday, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHoodrescinded nearly $1.2 billion in stimulus funds from Wisconsin and Ohio after the states’ respective newly-elected governors, Scott Walker and John Kasich respectively, said they would follow through on their campaign promise not to waste their states’ money on high speed rail. So what does the Obama [...]

From Michelle Malkin: A mere year or two ago, this kind of thing would have been blasphemy of the highest order, punishable by several lashes with the MSM’s “racist” tag and a prime time “Worst Person in the World” badge of honor from Olbermann — and that’s just for Tea Party types. If a Democrat dared [...]

From The Washington Examiner: There was an extraordinary scene at the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo Friday morning.  The prize went to imprisoned Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who was barred by the Chinese government from attending the ceremony.  It was the first time since 1935 — when the prize went to a winner [...]

From NewsMax.com: The woman who told President Barack Obama that she was “exhausted” from defending him and his economic policies and waiting for the change she expected after voting for him has another reason to be put out: She’s lost her job. Velma Hart, the chief financial officer for Am Vets, a veteran services organization [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: How’s that stimulus package working out. Normally, we assume that anyone who runs for and assumes the office of president has an agenda intended to succeed and thereby ensure that history will look favorably on his accomplishments. The men who served in that office craved success and loathed failure. Barack Obama didn’t [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Preparing to host a dinner for the President of the United States is a huge undertaking, as one wealthy Rhode Island woman discovered when she decided to host a $7,500 a seat DCCC fundraising dinner featuring Barack Obama. In the days leading up to last night’s fundraising dinner, the Providence Journal outlined [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Desperate to report on an area of the economy that an Obama is having a positive effect on instead of laying waste to like a Mt. Vesuvius belching up horrible policy and fatally engulfing the Pompeii of US commerce, some are turning to the clothing world: In their latest Business Review, Harvard, that [...]

From CNSNews.com: President Barack Obama’s top housing official says lenders are within their rights to resume foreclosures this month despite allegations that they erred in processing documents. Two big lenders – Bank of America Corp. and Ally Financial Inc.’s GMAC Mortgage unit – are resuming foreclosures after halting them for two weeks. The companies say [...]

From Michelle Malkin: “You voted for Obama to prove you’re not a racist. Now, who are you going to vote for to prove you’re not an idiot?” –Commenter at NBC-11(by way of Doug Ross) ******** Any businessperson will tell you that getting a lot of people to show up at your grand opening isn’t as nearly [...]