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Tweet Hillary told voters that, when the 3 a.m. phone call came and the White House answered that call, she would have better qualifications to deal with whatever emergency awaited the President: I don’t think even Hillary could have envisioned that Obama would ignore the call entirely: The White House left Ambassador Chris Stevens, Glen [...]

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Tweet A friend forwarded me this Facebook page: Perhaps, though, we should be grateful. You just know that Obama would have wanted to say something along the lines of Ron Paul’s execrable statement about living and dying by the sword. (And we know how stupid that is in this context.) Given half a moment and [...]

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Tweet I posted my mildly amusing (very mildly amusing) Obama’s got a gun effort and invited readers to submit their own Obama’s Got a Gun meme posters.  Here are five of them, and they’re great. From b.: From Dagwood: From Mike Devx: From Charles Martel: From Indigo Red: From Ritely:

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Tweet I believe Barack Obama was born in Hawaii.  I also believe that there’s something in or about that birth certificate that he doesn’t want to acknowledge.  A reader who used to work in social services “back in the day,” has an interesting theory, and allowed me to reprint it here: I just read your [...]

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Tweet Obama said that he shoots skeet all the time at Camp David.  Conservatives laughed.  Obama couldn’t let conservative deniers impugn his veracity, so he authorized the White House to release a photo purporting to show him shooting at some very low-flying skeet at Camp David this past August: There you have it:  Obama was [...]

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Tweet Here’s the caption I made for “Obama’s got a gun“: I know that all of you can do better than I can, so you should toddle over here, check out what other people have done, and make your own. Then, send me the link or image, and I’ll post it.

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Tweet In my latest newsletter (which you can view here and subscribe to here) I asked whether Republicans will be the only unhappy people over the next four years.  My starting point is that Republicans are deeply depressed right now, while Progressives are gloatingly triumphant.  Their man won.  Their agenda is the one he’ll enact. [...]

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Tweet The Malians are thrilled, as they should be, and the French should be pretty darn proud themselves: Residents of Mali’s northern town of Gao, captured from sharia-observing Islamist rebels by French and Malian troops, danced in the streets to drums and music on Sunday as the French-led offensive also drove the rebels from Timbuktu. [...]

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Tweet You undoubtedly saw this Drudge photoessay/headline: Looking at it, I kept thinking, “Gosh, that reminds me of something.” I finally figured out that it reminded me of a 1953 Isaac Asimov short story called “Flies.” Here’s a bare-bones plot summary from Wikipedia: A group of former college students meet at a reunion twenty years [...]

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Tweet The Leftists in the media were orgasmic yesterday as they again anointed Barack Obama “the next Reagan.”  Ace explains why this is a dream, not a reality: Obama has always considered himself the Anti-Reagan — he would not only undo the Reagan coalition and the Reagan era, but do what Reagan did but for [...]

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Tweet George Orwell, 1984: WAR IS PEACE FREEDOM IS SLAVERY IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH Nancy Pelosi, on the unreasonableness of the democratic legislature process: But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of controversy. Barack Obama, on the occasion of his 2nd inauguration: [...]

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Tweet During the past week, whenever I found myself alone in the car during good drive-time talk radio (i.e., Rush), I did something unusual:  I didn’t listen.  Instead, I turned to mindless pop music.  I was thinking about this peculiar behavior on my part, because I truly love Rush.  I think he’s a radio genius, [...]

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Tweet During the 2008 primaries, Hillary argued that Obama wouldn’t be there to take that 3 a.m. phone call: Events have proven she was right.  When the phone rang about Benghazi, Obama didn’t answer.  Judging by White House silence regarding events in Algeria, Obama’s been ignoring a few phone calls too.  Serious budget negotiations?  Obama [...]

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Tweet You all remember from the Bush-era how we were told repeatedly that Dick Cheney was George Bush’s brain.  That notion arose when the Left couldn’t square Bush’s effectiveness as an executive (never mind his years of executive experience) with their certainty that he was, in fact, an idiot.  They were so relieved when they [...]

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Tweet It’s hard to imagine a more politically incorrect belief system than Islam.  The seriously Muslim world stands for women without legal rights or physical freedoms, wife beating, honor killings, child brides, capital punishment for female adultery, and capital punishment for homosexuality. President Barack Obama, however, feels that Turkey’s Erdogan, a hardline Muslim, is his [...]

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Tweet Years ago, during the Bush administration, Terry Gross, of NPR’s Fresh Air, interviewed a writer who was in an absolutely tizzy about Bush’s use of executive orders.  Sadly, for the life of me, I can’t find that interview.  What I also can’t find is any evidence that this author has again gone onto Terry [...]

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Tweet Barry Rubin is not a man prone to insult or exaggeration.  That’s why it means something when he says this of Obama’s nominees to the State Department, Defense Department, and the CIA: They are all stupid people. Some friends said I shouldn’t write this because it is a subjective judgment and sounds mean-spirited. But [...]

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Tweet Today’s question:  Can President Obama use an executive order to override the Constitution? Today’s answer, courtesy of Matt Drudge is “yes, he can, but it won’t be pretty.”  (Click on image to enlarge.)

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Tweet When I was in junior high school, high school, and college, my American history classes always preached the same message:  Franklin Roosevelt saved America by “priming the pump.”  That is, he took money away from the rich, filtered it through the government, and then used the brain-power built into government to decide upon the [...]

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Tweet Today’s big story the new tax bill that Obama jetted off to Hawaii before signing, but that will soon (and inevitably) become the law of the land.  I don’t see any surprises.  I knew that we’d get hit hard and so we have. I gather that sequestration has now been averted, so that Obama [...]

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Tweet My post title says President Obama has been tactless of late.  That’s not true.  He’s always been tactless.  Remember him denigrating handicapped people on the Jay Leno show? Lately, though, the President has upped his game.  Last week, shortly before the Sandy Hook shooting that saw myriad children die, Obama “jokingly” told Barbara Walters [...]

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Tweet NRO has little daily polls.  Today’s asked if House Republicans are blowing in on the fiscal cliff.  The voting divide as of now is pretty close: I voted yes, but not because I was thinking about the substantive issues (taxes increases, spending cuts, etc.).  Instead, my “yes” vote resulted because I think the House [...]

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Tweet When conservative writers and thinkers come to San Francisco, it’s a good bet that they’re doing so under the aegis of Sally Pipes’ Pacific Research Institute (PRI), a conservative think tank rather surprisingly located in San Francisco.  Sally’s specialty is free-market medical care, but PRI is concerned generally with free markets.  Thanks to PRI, [...]

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Tweet I don’t have the time (or, frankly, the inclination) to do full posts on each of these links, but they are all worthy contenders for your attention: John Steele Gordon compares Obama’s contempt for Congress with LBJ’s respect for that institution and willingness to collaborate with it to achieve his political goals. On a [...]

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Tweet Obama’s Cairo speech first tipped me off to the fact that he’s probably a misogynist.  He may have a couple of powerful women upon whom he relies (Valerie Jarrett and Michelle Obama), but his instinct is to avoid women and hide them away.  The Cairo speech got my antenna up because I thought it [...]

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