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Caroline Glick spells out what Obama has done:
Obama’s ultimatum makes clear that mediating peace between Israel and the Palestinians is not a goal he is interested in achieving.
Obama’s new demands follow the months of American pressure that eventually coerced Netanyahu into announcing both his support for a Palestinian state and [...]

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Victor Davis Hanson sums everything up in one paragraph:
The president is pushing legislation that a clear majority of the people dislike, and whose details neither he nor his supporters can explain in simple language. Its ends-justify-the-means passage will require legislative gymnastics that border on the unconstitutional, and in Orwellian fashion are [...]

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Louis XIV, a despotic monarch, famously said L’etat c’est moi — I am the state.
Obama is inching in that direction.  He clearly does not see himself as part of a constitutional republic.  Instead, he views America’s “winner takes all” approach to elections, not as a two party process that’s designed to create a stability lacking [...]

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You’ve all heard by now about the 2300 “reconciliation” bill that the House won’t vote on but will simply deem passed, thereby, in a completely unconstitutional way, making the bill a law.  (Ahem.)
But did you know that Pelosi has been busy sticking in more than just student loan relief so that we can have fully [...]

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Some things are timeless, and I think Sir Francis Bacon, writing almost 500 years ago, pretty much nailed what constitutes an intellectual and a wit:  “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.”
In modern English, an intellectual can be described as someone who is extremely well read.  He or [...]

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I believe more and more strongly that reconciliation is a red herring, meant to induce the House to pass the Senate bill.  Once that’s done, this so called “reconciliation,” an alleged second bill that will smooth away the differences between the two chambers (especially the House’s demand that abortion, which is [...]

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England is not one of my favorite places anymore, because of the raging antisemitism that characterizes her politics and her street.  Nevertheless, she is our ally and has been our staunch ally for more than a century.  For Obama to abandon her over the Falklands is disgusting.  At Power Line, in a few words, John [...]

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Hear me out. Sure, the public is indignant about our current state of affairs, especially the mushrooming deficits that have pretty much sealed our national bankruptcy (in my humble opinion). What worries me, though, is what needs to be done to fix the problem. I personally don’t see any solution except to administer massive haircuts [...]

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I don’t believe Obama is a believing Muslim, just the way I don’t believe he is a believing Christian.  I think he has two religions:  Socialism and self-worship.  Nevertheless, I do think that many in the Muslim world are pretty darn certain that, when Obama lived as a child in Indonesia, he was a practicing [...]

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James Taranto makes an interesting suggestion:  In the coming months, Obama is going to try to make Republicans look good so that, in November, one-party rule ends and he can tack to the center, more or less guaranteeing himself a second term.
What do you think?  Does Taranto make a good case for this strategy or [...]

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As part of a larger opinion piece giving thanks that America is still un-European enough to resist Obama’s European-izing efforts, Jonathan Rosenbloom has this to say about the modern European character:
In A State Beyond the Pale: Europe’s Problem with Israel, Robin Shepherd analyzes the cast of mind that predisposes Europeans to hate Israel so much, [...]

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I find it amusing that, one day after my long rumination about the different parenting styles my liberal husband and I have, with both our styles accurately reflecting our politics, the blogosphere is awash in stories about the way in which Barack Obama, eschewing having the whole federal government act in loco parentis, tries himself [...]

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We were first entertained by the spectacle of the different ways in which Barack Obama met Queen Elizabeth, a very elderly lady who comes from a thousand year old lineage and is the head of a democracy, versus his meeting with the King of Saudi Arabia, who comes from a decades old tribe and is [...]

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I’ve never been a big Jon Stewart fan — there’s a lack of good spirit and subtlety that turns me off — but I’ve found interesting watching him deal with Obama.  As Stewart’s pr0nouncements during the course of every show demonstrate, he is a die-hard liberal.  However, he’s also a comedic shark.  This last means [...]

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There were so many things wrong with Obama’s speech last night, whether because of dumb ideas, lies, vicious attacks against Constitutional guardians, etc., that criticism actually becomes difficult.  It’s kind of like punching Jello, because you just get sucked in.  Nevertheless, it is important to criticize, not just Obama’s untruths, but the fundamental flaws in [...]

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From Keep America Safe, a video highlighting the distance between Obama’s rhetoric and his acts.
I love the way the video ends with a repeat of the statement Sen. Scott Brown helped spread widely through America:

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Preparing and eating dinner took precedence of the President’s first State of the Union speech, so I didn’t watch it in real time.  Indeed, because I find Obama’s presentation dull (he has the cadences of a slightly defective metronome), I haven’t listened to it at all, but I have read it.  I therefore felt that, [...]

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I observed to my friend Joseph Libson that I’m of two minds about what appears to be an Obama implosion.  On the one hand, since I think he’s a dangerously bad president, I want him exposed as quickly and fully as possible, so that he is president for as short a time as possible.  On [...]

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The Anchoress is always good, really good.  Today, she is off the charts, when she comments on Obama’s obsessive need for symbols identifying him as someone very important.  You must read her post, because I think she’s zeroed in on something very significant about this little man who occupies a very big office.
By the way, [...]

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Yesterday, the blogosphere was abuzz with Arkansas Rep. Marion Berry’s story about Barack Obama’s assurance to him that the Democrats wouldn’t have to follow Bill Clinton’s 1994 model and pull to the center.  Why not?  Because, said Obama, “the big difference here and in ’94 was you’ve got me.“  I was not at all surprised [...]

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I have to admit that I’ve gotten to the point with President Obama that, whatever he’s for, I’m automatically against in the first instance, at least until I’ve had a chance to check it out.  Take, for example, his recent proposal for a “three-year freeze on discretionary, ‘non-security’ spending.“  My very first reaction was, “What’s [...]

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I’m rushing around a bit this morning (kids are off school, housekeepers coming, fitness class, etc.), but I just had to stop for a minute and share with you this amazing photograph of Barack Obama, in an elementary school classroom, surrounded by teleprompters.  It seems to me to be the most perfect symbol of the [...]

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I asked a liberal I know why he thinks Scott Brown won.  Here is my friend’s answer:
I was really shocked.  The people are fickle.  They just weren’t willing to give Obama enough time.  It takes more than a year to do all the transformations Obama needed to do.  You know, here they elected Obama and [...]

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From Fox New’s Sunday Roundtable, this is Charles Krauthammer’s take on the profoundly corrupt process behind the health care bill, and the way this process reflects on Obama:
It is a bribe, and that’s why it is so unpopular. Look, it’s not just a question of it depriving the Treasury of revenue. It’s question of equity.
You’ve [...]

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. . . as he’s heckled (h/t Sadie):
I don’t think that’s ever happened to him before.
What must also have bewildered him was the skimpy turnout, a stark contrast to Scott Brown’s rally today.

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