From The Heritage Foundation: President Obama’s oil spill commission will release its long-awaited final report this morning, recommending new government regulations and limits on drilling. These conclusions could shape the future of the oil industry — and impact our nation’s energy policy for years to come. The commission’s primary focus was determining the cause of the spill. Last [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Wall Street Journal reports: “The global oil industry, far from chastened by the catastrophic spill in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, is planning record spending next year, including a large amount for deep-water development. … Barclays estimates spending on new wells, producing platforms and other energy infrastructure will total $490 [...]

From CNSNews.com: A new oversight report from Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.), the senior Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, details what many analysts see as the failures of the Obama administration during the Gulf oil spill. The report lays out the ways in which the administration either failed to exercise authority it [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Next week, for the fifth time since July, the first family will board Air Force One for yet another luxury vacation, this time to an exclusive Martha’s Vineyard estate that rents for up to $50,000 a week. But before they head north, the Obamas will first grace Panama City, Fla., with their [...]

From Human Events: The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico is a horrific example of what happens when Congress and the President don’t do the jobs that the Constitution requires them to do. The U.S. Constitution says that Congress is to “provide for the common defense and general welfare of the united States of America.” [...]

Only Obama and Pelosi could put together a team to investigate an oil drilling disaster and not think to include a single petroleum engineer. We’re guessing their “report” will recommend higher taxes, less drilling and a few new government agencies. From American Thinker: The commission appointed by President Obama to investigate the Gulf oil spill [...]

From NewsMax.com: President Barack Obama’s weak leadership on the Afghanistan war, Guantanamo, and the Gulf oil spill has Democrats backing away from him in droves, political analyst Dick Morris tells Newsmax.TV. “Obama is down to a new low of 43 percent job approval,” Morris says, citing a recent Rasmussen Reports poll. “It’s Democrats he’s losing. [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. In the critical first days after the explosion, the U.S. Coast Guard disregarded its own firefighting policy and might have caused the oil rig to sink [...]

From Human Events: When Gov. Jan Brewer signed Arizona’s now famous immigration bill into law on April 23, it was immediately evident that she had crossed a line that President Obama didn’t want her to cross. Thus his administration quickly reviewed lessons learned from years in the Chicago political machine and began using PR tactics [...]

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 American Thinker: There is no evidence that Barack Obama willfully precipitated the Nashville floods, but almost all of the other gloomy, intractable quagmires that feed the country’s pessimism are of his creation. But unlike crises of past administrations that seemed to get resolved in some fashion, his simply fester. Every day we read the [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: It gets pretty boring to watch conservatives endlessly complain about a fawning press corps, and a biased media. Yes, a majority of the national media is left-leaning; even they will admit as much. Some journalists put political views aside, and do an excellent job of delivering the news. Others can’t bear [...]

From Newsmax.com: The Obama administration, re-energized by the apparently successful test-capping of the BP oil spill in the Gulf, and its landmark legislative victory on financial reform, is marshalling its forces for one last push to squeeze a cap-and-trade energy bill through Congress. The president took a cautiously optimistic approach to his comments about the [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Michelle Obama visited the Gulf coast today, and suggested that Americans who are planning vacations this summer consider taking them in the Gulf region as a sign of economic solidarity with those impacted by the oil spill. From ABC’s Jake Tapper: On her first trip to the Gulf Coast since the BP oil [...]

Say “goodbye” to our First Amendment right of freedom of press and “hello” to soviet America. From News Busters: Effectively reporting on the Gulf oil spill is now a Class D felony, punishable by a fine of up to $40,000. That’s right, the most transparent administration in history has made it a felony, effective July [...]

From Human Events: It’s one thing to say that President Obama’s administration showed its ineptitude and mismanagement in its handling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. It is quite another to grasp the situation up close, as I did during a recent visit to Alabama. According to state disaster relief officials, Alabama conceived a [...]

From Right Wing News: Well, it’s about time.   With a hurricane forming in the Gulf, oil washing up along the shorelines along the Gulf states, and major damage already done to the coast and industries, Obama finally has accepted foreign help: The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the [...]

From Right Wing News: It sure seems like President Obama despises Republican states. The industry remains dormant in the Gulf. Like the dry fields of California, acres and acres of livelihood being destroyed by Democrat mismanagement, so to the Gulf states see their fields dying and they’re lives destroyed. From CNN: The offshore drilling ban imposed [...]

From Townhall.com: The Internal Revenue Service declared that it would tax BP’s Obama-mandated $20 billion slush fund at the same rates other income is taxed. It’s common knowledge that BP offered up the $20 billion only after Obama twisted his arm, so this new scheme shouldn’t come as a surprise. The President is desperate to fund his [...]

From HumanEvents.com: In his Chicago days, President Obama spent a great deal of time working with Marxist, Saul Alinsky-disciples Bill Ayers and Gerald Kellman. It should come as no surprise then, that he employs many of the tactics found in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in his handling of the BP oil spill. Here are a [...]