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I don’t know why, but I found this article, telling about Obama’s umpteenth journey to the Bay Area well for campaign donations, amusing in an ironic sort of way: President Barack Obama will attend three fundraisers in Silicon Valley on Wednesday, May 23, the latest of his many campaign-cash-collection visits to the Bay Area. First [...]

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A few days ago, the New York Times ran an article assuring everyone that Barack Obama isn’t a wuss, he’s a warrior.  I have only a couple of points. First, considering that Obama has been and is such an aggressive President, one who has seen more troops die on his watch in Afghanistan than Bush [...]

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Obama’s War on Women backfired when one of his operatives made a stupid attack against Ann Romney and Moms.  Obama’s Dog War against Romney backfired when it turned out that he’d dined on dogs.  Now, it looks as if Obama’s “I killed bin Laden” shtick is going to backfire too: Hat tip to all who [...]

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One is a laughable buffoon embarrassing himself in front of the press and the American TV audience by pretending to use the toilet while wearing a hot mic . . . And the other one is Leslie Nielsen as Frank Drebin in The Naked Gun:

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I finally got around to listening to some of the President’s shtick at the White House Correspondents dinner.  His delivery wasn’t bad, in that he could easily have competed with the second or third string comic at one of the old Borscht Belt hotels.  He wouldn’t have made the big time, but he could have [...]

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The media is back to trying to sex the President up.  Despite three and a half years of governing ranging from inept, to embarrassing, to Bush-era replays, the President has been anything but cool.  With another election coming up, however, the President’s friends in the media are doing whatever they can to snag the flagging [...]

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Best of the Web posts a 2004 interview with Cathleen Falsani of the Chicago Sun-Times in which Obama defines sin, not along traditional Christian or Muslim lines, but along self-referential lines: Falsani: Do you believe in sin? Obama: Yes. Falsani: What is sin? Obama: Being out of alignment with my values. The President, when he [...]

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One of the most startling features of Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, a book that examines the killing fields that Stalin and Hitler created in the lands between Germany and Russia proper, is the way in which these socialist leaders were so willing to kill people in the millions to make reality accord with [...]

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“The message from the man who controls the Justice Department (which can indict you), the SEC (which can fine you), and the IRS (which can audit you), is clear: You made a mistake donating that money”, writes Strassel.

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Newt Gingrich was pilloried for calling Obama the Food Stamp president.  “Racist!” cried the usual suspects.  Huh?  Yes, racist, because food stamps are a form of welfare, welfare is traditionally associated with blacks, so Newt was reminding people that Obama is white-black  (as if the MSM ever allows us to forget that), and that he’s [...]

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A couple of days ago, I asked if the polls show a Bradley effect, with people deploring Obama’s performance, but still being too embarrassed to admit to pollsters that they don’t like America’s first white-black president.  Most of you disagreed with me, saying (as DQ did) that Leftists will support Obama no matter what, while [...]

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I am so lying in the caption of this post.  Nevertheless, it’s precisely what I thought when I saw a story saying that Chinese activists, using a social network, were able to stop a shipment of hundreds of dogs destined for the cook pot: Dogs destined to be slaughtered and served up in China’s restaurants [...]

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My purpose in writing this post is to reveal and challenge the Leftist thought bubble in which Barack Obama lives.  Before I get to that point, however, I want to give you a little look at the on-the-ground effects that bubble has on those who are exposed only to Leftist thought. At American Thinker, John [...]

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If you’ve been following polls, you’ve probably noticed something interesting:  When people are asked about specifics, such as Obama’s performance on the economy, national security, immigration, etc., they give him very low scores.  However, when those same people are asked about Obama himself (“do you like him?”), they say they do.  He’s got very low [...]

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Obama Double Speak is a new website that, in straightforward fashion, gives example after example of Obama saying two entirely different things on the same subject, depending upon his audience. Interestingly, while he’ll intermittently make statements that are pro-Israel, or pro-national security, or pro-fiscal austerity, his actions are always consistent with the other things that [...]

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The ludicrous spectacle of the two parties fighting over which candidate has treated dogs more cruelly over the past decade has, quite appropriately, given rise to an endless stream of jokes.  There is one serious point, though, that my friend Lulu noticed about this whole man eat dog story. Before I begin, though, let me [...]

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Do you remember those old Ginsu knife commercials?  You’d get about 1 minute of marvelous patter about the way the Ginsu knife could slice and dice everything from tomatoes to concrete.  Just in case that sell wasn’t enough, though, the hard sell would end with a marvelous line:  “But, wait!  There’s more!”  It turned out [...]

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The debate about “which candidate treats dogs worse” inevitably descended into farce, with almost no intermediate steps.  Putting aside the insanity of spinning a presidential campaign around decades’ old decisions about dogs, Americans are probably going to be sympathetic to putting a dog in a protected hutch on the roof of a car, rather than [...]

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Karl Rove has written a WSJ op-ed, the title of which is “Obama’s Campaign Will Take the Low Road.”  I haven’t even read Rove’s piece — which I’m sure is good — but I already know he’s right.  Obama’s campaign will take the low road because there is no high road.  After almost three and [...]

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The handwriting was on the wall in 2008 but Jews, despite having eyes, could not see it:  Obama is not now and never was a friend to Israel.  His social and political allegiances meant that any protestations of friendship were lies.  And certainly his acts during more than three years in the White House have [...]

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In light of the fact that 60% of the public believes that the country is heading in the wrong direction, Jay Cost explains Obama’s reelection strategy: If Obama is reelected with such terrible feelings about the national condition, it will be unprecedented in the history of public opinion polling. Obviously, that would be no little [...]

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This may well be one of the best videos I’ve seen, because it illustrates just how empty the Obama shirt really is: Hat tip:  Hot Air

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Funnily enough, the MSM isn’t picking up on this story, the one that provides proof (proof that can easily be replicated) that the Obama campaign machine is set up to encourage completely fraudulent campaign donations.  The same proof exercise shows that the Republican candidates have set up their donations to block fraud. Hmm.  Obama encourages [...]

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Those of us conservatives who are signed up to Barack Obama’s mailing list enjoy the emails we get requesting campaign contributions.  Up until today, each email has had a “hook” justifying yet another request for $3.  For example, a couple of days ago, Michelle Obama said people should pony up $3 because Obama stays up [...]

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This add perfectly illustrates that, if Obama had been president in the 1950s, the Cold War would have lasted about 20 minutes. The Soviet Union would have won.

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