Hmmmm. “Operation Vote.” That’s the new name of a Chicago-run voter recruitment drive launched this weekend by Team Obama to target minorities and shore up his left flank.

Morgan Freeman, in an interview to be aired on CNN Friday evening, says that President Obama has made racism worse in America. Chatting with Piers Morgan, the Oscar-winning actor also blames the Tea Party saying they're “going to do whatever [they] can to get this black man outta here” (video follows with transcript and commentary): PIERS MORGAN, HOST: Has Obama helped the process of eradicating racism, or has it in a strange way made it worse. MORGAN FREEMAN: Made it worse.

The media “are so vested” in Obama “not being a failure that it's going to be amazing to watch the lengths they go to protect him,” Rep. Joe Walsh (R-Ill.) told NewsBusters publisher Brent Bozell in an exclusive for CNSNews.com earlier this week.

The recent decision by the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals to dismiss Virginia v.

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.

FOR a few days in July Barack Obama and John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, flirted with the idea of a “grand bargain” to hold down entitlement spending while increasing tax revenue. This, they briefly hoped, might unite their parties behind a durable solution to America’s deficit. But if any hope of such a grand bargain remained, it evaporated this week.In a speech in Washington, DC, on September 15th, Mr Boehner flatly declared tax increases “off the table”

The media finally conceded the Obama administration to be inexperienced and inept, reminiscent of the Carter administration — but, they maintained, not possibly involved in any corruption. Then suddenly scandals erupted on nearly every conceivable front: the crony-capitalist half-billion-dollar loan guarantee to a now bankrupt Solyndra; the Fast and Furious gun deal, in which, in lunatic fashion, the U.S. government sold deadly automatic weapons to Mexican drug-cartel killers; the administration’s pressure on a four-star general to fudge his testimony as a favor to a big campaign donor whose suspect company, LightSquared, was doing business with the Pentagon; and the politically inspired dropping of investigations by the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department

From News Busters: We couldn’t make this stuff up if we wanted to. Yesterday NPR blogger Frank James saw a parallel between President Obama’s rally cry to a supporter to help him pass his “jobs bill” with Jesus’s charge to the apostle Peter to “feed my sheep” (h/t Michael Ganoe): The realities of governing as opposed to [...]

THE recession ended, at least technically, only six months into Barack Obama’s presidency.

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 Human Events: A week after Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday celebration, comparisons between Presidents Obama and Reagan continue. The conversation began when Obama praised Reagan in a USA Today op-ed. He commended Reagan’s leadership, his confidence in and optimism for America, and his great ability to communicate his vision for the country. Reaganites like myself [...]

From Michelle Malkin: So it is uttered, so it shall be done: Oprah called on President Obama’s critics on Friday to “show some level of respect.” “I feel that everybody has a learning curve, and I feel that the reason why I was willing to step out for him was because I believed in his integrity [...]

From The Daily Caller: Top GOP health-care official Rep. Fred Upton is taking a close look at the Obama administration’s advertising blitz for Obamacare, giving the president two weeks to provide all documents related to the P.R. push that included spots by aging TV star Andy Griffith. “Particularly when it comes to health care, we’ve [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The buzz word to praise Barack Obama’s second State of the Union address is “Reaganesque.” Time magazine gushed that Obama’s emphasis on innovation, nod to American Exceptionalism, and deft use of storytelling places him “squarely — with Reagan — on the side of sunshine and enterprise.” As one conservative commentator remarked, “ever [...]

From Michelle Malkin: After Obama won the election in 2008, Time Magazine, noticing that “New Deal II: This Time It’s Personal” was about to be released nationally, rode the wave: What a difference two years, some horrendously expensive spending (sorry: “targeted investment”) shams and pork orgies accompanied by the inevitable high unemployment, a sputtering economy [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Yesterday, the New York Times, as a Christmas gift to those of us who enjoy laughing until pumpkin pie and egg nog shoots out our noses, published a piece about how President Obama has a natural penchant for humility: “I think it speaks volumes about the man’s temperament,” said Robert Dallek, the presidential [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last weekend NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg inadvertently created a mini-controversy when she said on Inside Washington: “I was at — forgive the expression – a Christmas party at the Department of Justice.” Some thought that Totenberg added “forgive the expression” as a cave to political correctness. But in fact Totenberg was [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Chris Matthews had lost the thrill for a while, but who knew that all it would take for him to haul his Obamagasm Splat-Mat™ out of mothballs would be for the president to compromise with Republicans? Obama’s regained that “cute, wonderful little boy smile we all love.” There’s nothing like heading into a [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Obama’s appearance on The Daily Show on the Comedy Channel, hosted by Jon Stewart, came as he prepared to embark on a last-gasp dash around the country to prevent what polls indicate is likely to be a Republican landslide. The midterm elections are likely to see the Democrats losing its 39-seat majority [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: Mr Obama’s appearance on the Discovery Channel programme is part of a White House effort to highlight the importance of science, maths and engineering as experts warn that low interest in these subjects among U.S. students could hurt the economy. It is one of several non-traditional appearances by the president, who joined an [...]