From HumanEvents.com:
There’s just one thing wrong with Barack Obama’s $8 billion economic stimulus plan to build high speed railroad lines he claims will create lots of jobs, move millions of people, curb traffic, clean the air and make intercity travel more cost-efficient and fast.
It won’t.
It will create relatively few high paying [...]
From CNSNews.com:
President Barack Obama, in his first public comments on the attempted bombing of a U.S. airliner traveling from Amsterdam to Detroit, described the suspect as “an isolated extremist,” despite reports that the 23-year-old Nigerian had been trained in Yemen, a country he visited twice.
The Associated Press, quoting a Yemeni government official, said Umar Farouk [...]
From The Heritage Foundation:
I wrote back in June about the shameful silence of the Obama administration during the mass street protests that greeted Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s fraudulent re-election victory as President of Iran. As White House spokesman Robert Gibbs ludicrously put it, the administration was “impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm this election generated.” Or [...]
When asked about gift-giving during an interview last week with Oprah, Barack Obama stated, “I give nicer stuff than I get.”
Oh, really?
How about when British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visited Obama back in March? Brown brought him an ornate pen holder carved from the wood of the anti-slavery ship, the HMS Gannet, the sister ship [...]
From NewsMax.com:
William R. Polk, an author, Middle East expert, and relative of America’s 11th president, James K. Polk, warns that America is ensnared in Afghanistan and ought to get out immediately.
The former foreign policy adviser for Dennis Kucinich’s presidential campaign tells Newsmax “we don’t have any plan about what we should be doing.”
Polk also opposed [...]
From RightWingNews.com:
The headline up top is borrowed from Power Line, “Why is This Man Bowing?” (via Memeorandum):
Obama’s breach of protocol is of a piece with the substance of his foreign policy. He means to teach Americans to bow before monarchs and tyrants. He embodies the ideological multiculturalism that sets the United States on the same [...]
From The Heritage Foundation:
The Obama Administration announced this morning that it intends to ship five Guantanamo Bay detainees to New York to be tried in civilian federal court. One of those men is the September 11th mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammad.
This decision will be seen by many liberals as paving the way for closing the Guantanamo [...]
From CNSNews.com:
(Update: Iraqi hospital and police officials have raised the toll from Iraq’s deadliest bombing in two years to 155 people. More than 500 people were also injured in the deadly blasts which tore through the heart of downtown Baghdad on Sunday, hundreds of yards from the heavily fortified Green Zone.)
Baghdad (AP) – A [...]
From FoxNews.com:
The Obama administration on Thursday failed in its attempt to exclude Fox News from participating in an interview of an administration official, as Republicans on Capitol Hill stepped up their criticism of the hardball tactics employed by the White House.
The Treasury Department [...]
From Telegraph.co.uk:
The decision came after China stepped up a campaign urging nations to shun the Tibetan spiritual leader.
It means Mr Obama will become the first president not to welcome the Nobel peace prize winner to the White House since the Dalai Lama began visiting Washington in [...]