Michelle Malkin So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by our critiques. Yes, mine included.

Diana Furchtgott-Roth On Thursday President Obama announced that he would expand oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico.

Ron Arnold While trying to figure out what President Obama’s combative State of the Union speech added to America’s unity, let us ponder a non-presidential event during the last presidential election cycle.

Ron Arnold In a 2008 “Meet the Press” interview, then-Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said, “I believe in natural gas as a clean, cheap alternative to fossil fuels.” She may have slipped on a banana peel of the mind, or perhaps she really didn’t know that natural gas is a fossil fuel. Either way, it was clearly a harmless error not intended to confuse or deceive. Apply that to President Obama’s State of the Union…

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Paul Howard Op-Ed Contributor Is America still a place where big ideas can move policymakers to slash red tape in drug development to save lives, drive innovation, and spur economic growth? It certainly appears so. The Obama administration, industry, the Food and Drug Administration and patients’ groups have all come together in recent months to highlight the..

Gregory Kane Examiner Columnist With each passing day, we’re learning more and more about the people President Obama tossed us into bed with in Libya. Here’s a headline from the London Daily Mail, a British newspaper: “Now the rebels impose Shariah law as Islamic rules become ‘basic source’ of Libyan legislation.” In the story below the headline, readers…

Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer The Loudoun County Republican Committee took heat from its own party Monday for distributing an image of President Obama as a zombie — including what appeared to be a bullet hole in his head — to enlist volunteers for a family-friendly event. The email, sent Sunday to Loudoun Republicans, was supposed to recruit members to help pass out candy to kids on the party’s float in a local Halloween parade on Monday

Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer NORTH CHESTERFIELD, Va. — President Obama appeared before soldiers and firefighters Wednesday as he made an impassioned populist plea for his jobs plan on the final day of a campaign-style bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia. For three days Obama delivered slight variations of the same speech, a battle cry for middle America to do what he has yet to accomplish: convince congressional Republicans to get behind the $447…

Commentary Writer WHAT: Says President Obama should “declare a national emergency” and enact jobs measures through “extra-constitutional” means, thus bypassing Congress. WHY IT’S DIM: Jackson apparently is not familiar with the concept of “a government of laws, not men.” CURE: Hey, we’re not miracle workers here, folks

John Stossel President Obama says government will have to build the nation out of the economic trough.

Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell wants federal help to pay for the aftermath from a 5.8-magnitude earthquake in August, and he’s taking his case all the way to the top

Hugh Hewitt Examiner Columnist If any Democrat of standing decided to take on President Obama in the New Hampshire primary, he or she would guarantee themselves a preferred place in the 2016 field, tens of million dollars in free media exposure, an opportunity to articulate a set of goals and promises — and of course the enmity of the Chicago machine that… washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists

James Carafano Examiner Columnist NOTE TO COPY DESK: Do not send to web site, print edition only “It sure is hell to be president.” Harry Truman spoke from experience. One of his worst days was April 14, 1950

Timothy P. Carney Senior Political Columnist As President Bush’s Great Wall Street Bailout steamrolled its way through Congress in late 2008, candidate Obama assailed economic policies based on the notion that government can “give more and more to those with the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down.” Yet throughout the Obama administration, we’ve see bailouts become even more entrenched. A recent credit ratings update on big banks and an inspector general report on Freddie Mac show that Too Big to Fail is…

David Limbaugh When Obama promised “hope and change” as a candidate, I think he had in mind a new paradigm, one of restructuring America’s economic system in his image rather than triggering economic growth, though he wanted the electorate to believe that growth was his focus. The economy had turned south by the time Obama was trumpeting that platitude, largely caused by liberal affordable-housing policies — the…

Conn Carroll Senior Editorial Writer “In my State of the Union address this year, I said that Congress should reform the No Child Left Behind law based on the principles that have guided Race to the Top,” President Obama announced Friday. “Congress hasn’t been able to do it.

James Carafano Examiner Columnist Dave Palmer returned from the jungles of Vietnam to teach at West Point. His topic: The history of the Vietnam War. As there was no textbook on the still-raging conflict, Palmer wrote one.

Steve Contorno Examiner Staff Writer As Virginia Democrats fight this year to maintain their 22-18 majority in the state Senate, they face voters who generally approve of Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell but no longer support the man they helped elect in 2008, President Obama. Obama’s diminishing popularity puts Virginia Democrats in the difficult position of distancing themselves from their party’s leader, a figure they once embraced, while aligning themselves with the..

Emmett Tyrrell Examiner Columnist It is clear from the way President Obama has been talking about the federal budget recently, and about taxation since he came to office, that all the money that Americans earn belongs to the federal government. The key words in this conversation are “tax expenditures.” Obama has lost a lot in tax expenditures, and he wants more..