Liberals had a dim view of Herman Cain’s character long before this week. They automatically ascribed bad motives to him and to his GOP supporters.

First lady Michelle Obama the other day railed at “the few at the top,” who do all sorts of bad things. A few months ago, we began hearing of the “1 percent” who are responsible for the current economic mess

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I missed the Occupation of Europe by a few years so I’m delighted to have an opportunity to Occupy America. Hey, it’s a start.

One of the largest landslide elections in the history of the United States took place one year ago today. Free-market Republicans, riding a wave of public anger at bailouts, stimulus, and big-government programs, swept into power, capturing 63 seats and control of the U.S.

Nancy Pelosi has taken hyperbolic statements to a new level today with this sound bite.

The last week brought us a striking contrast that tells us much about the current debate over the direction of this country. On one hand were the perpetually aggrieved protestors of Occupy Wall Street.

There are many observations that can be made about President Obama’s remark Monday to ABC News that businesses “don’t have some inherent right just to get a certain amount of profit if your customers are being mistreated.” In and of itself, this comment reveals much about his beliefs and knowledge (or lack thereof) on economics, consumer choice, and the private sector in general. But in the context in which it was made — Bank of America, Citi , and other banks’ recently announced debit-card and checking-account fees for consumers, which they are charging to recoup losses from the Dodd-Frank financial-overhaul law’s price controls on debit-card fees charged to retailers — what must first be said is that he was lecturing the wrong set of Fortune 500 corporations. The price controls were added to the law by an amendment from Senate majority whip Dick Durbin (D., Ill.).

I agree with the Obama administration’s decision to kill the American-born al-Qaeda recruiter Anwar al-Awlaki. What I can’t fathom is why the administration agrees with me.

Last week, the public comment period closed on the Obama Labor Department’s proposed regulatory change to alter a 1959 law that would make employers and their service providers (attorneys and various consultants) file financial disclosure statements and make personal information public, all in order to give union bosses hit lists of individuals and companies to target. Prior to the closing of the public comment period, there were nearly 6,000 comments —4,000 of which came within the last ten days or so as more people became aware of

In a 2008 debate, Charlie Gibson asked Barack Obama about his support for raising capital-gains taxes, given the historical record of government losing net revenue as a result.

From NewsMax.com: * Obama says ban could be repealed before year-end * Legal confusion after court rulings * Obama says lifting ban must be done in “orderly fashion” President Barack Obama said Wednesday he still hoped to end the ban on gays serving openly in the military, despite big electoral gains by Republicans, many of [...]

From HotAir.com: I wonder how this rhetoric squares with his standard condescending line about Republican-leaning voters not thinking clearly because their minds are clouded by economic anxiety. Does economic anxiety also explain why Latino turnout isn’t quite where the Democrats need it to be (although, per this new Politico poll, it’s getting there)? Or is this the [...]

From Intellectual Conservative: The President may think that his single-digit approval ratings in Israel are simply because his middle name is “Hussein,” but he’s wrong. In mid-July, the President gave his first interview with Israel’s Channel 2 news, and he was asked to explain why he thinks he has only a single digit approval rating [...]

From 73wire.com: President Obama has his priorities straight, indeed.  Within hours of Shirley Sherrod asking to speak to Obama, he spoke to her to express his regret: White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said the president expressed his regret, and told Sherrod he hoped she would accept the Agriculture Department’s offer of a new position, saying she could [...]

From 73 Wire: I had a little fun in this space recently with Obama’s Saturday Radio Address, during which he suggested Republicans actually WANT people to suffer in order to gain a political edge. That the Democrats have made this approach to governance a cornerstone of their success should not be lost on anyone here; [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Doug Powers skewered Obama’s odious 9/11-BP oil spill analogy the other day — setting the Soros-bots at Media Matters into a fit over “right-wing media misrepresentation” of the remarks. But it isn’t just “right-wing media” in America taking offense. From the London Daily Mail: British families of 9/11 victims described Barack Obama as ‘cruel’ yesterday [...]

From HumanEvents.com: President Barack Obama is often seen wearing a battered White Sox cap to let the world know he’s not just a baseball fan, but a dedicated follower of Chicago’s working-class, gritty South Siders rather than the more genteel cross-town Cubs. Baseball, like politics, is not taken lightly by real fans, and particularly not [...]

From Right Wing News: This one sentence tells you all you need to know about Obama. Speaking to Katie Couric on Feb. 7, Obama said: “I would have loved nothing better than to simply come up with some very elegant, academically approved approach to health care, and didn’t have any kinds of legislative fingerprints on [...]

From GOP.com: In a 1999 Gallup poll, that’s what 6 percent of Americans believed. And today, that’s the same percentage of Americans that believe that Obama’s $862 billion stimulus created jobs, in a new CBS/New York Times poll. Compare that to the 48 percent of Americans who don’t believe that the stimulus has created, or [...]