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The Romney campaign and Republican National Committee have more money than God, too much to waste to continue doing things the way they've always done. Now is the time to step out in a way that not only gets his message out over the heads of the Obama media but also draws an enormous amount of attention. Now is the time to swing for the fences. How? Spend a handful of those millions on hand to buy 30 minutes of simultaneous airtime on all three (or four or five) of the major broadcast networks. Do it now, before the debates....

The Democratic National Convention was a musical tragedy composed in three acts. Tuesday night was the gathering of special interests and professional victims from every corner of the known universe, the most toxic group of economic and spiritual vampires since the mass gatherings in the early 18th century. If any suffering portion of the American subculture missed their turn at the bar, I missed it. It seemed that every ethnic, cultural, sexual group in the country with more than three members put in at least a cameo appearance, as did the community organizers, union bosses, government employees and all the...

Dateline: Tel Aviv, sometime in the next six weeks From this moment the State of Israel declares a state of war exists between the State of Israel and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Because Israel views the threats by the government of the IRI in conjunction with its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and means of delivery as existential threats, Israel will take all actions necessary, specifically including unilateral and preemptive military action, to protect its citizens from the threats posed by representatives of the government of the IRI and to assure Israel's continued survival. To minimize...

Dear Mr. Buffett: I've never thought of you as helpless and I am not now enjoying the mental image of you publicly whining about your plight in The New York Times. Quit complaining that you only paid $6,938,744 in federal taxes last year. After all, it's your own fault. You've spent zillions through the years paying CPAs and tax lawyers to help you and your companies avoid the very taxes you now complain isn't enough. Just recently you sheltered billions, literally billions, with the Gates Foundation rather than paying estate and capital gains taxes. Does your hypocrisy know no shame?...

It appears that Coca-Cola pressured its hometown law firm to drop the House of Representatives of the United States as a paying client. The Obama administration, speaking through Attorney General Eric Holder, had declined to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, leaving what is normally an executive branch duty to Congress to perform in its stead. The House of Representatives retained Atlanta megafirm King & Spaulding to defend the law on behalf the people of the United States. A week after being hired, as noted below in Profiles in Cowardice, K&S dumped its representation to defend the constitutionality of DOMA,...

The Obama administration has a real affinity for Alice in Wonderland interpretations of the law. According to both Mr. Obama and Humpty Dumpty, the law means what they say it means, the writings be damned. We've seen this with their defense of Obamacare. Seeking a constitutional grounding for taking over the medical payments industry, Obama's lawyers are claiming authority under a power to regulate interstate commerce. Fair enough, but it stretches language to its limits, and turns it completely upside down to define my decision not to participate in the program, perhaps instead napping in the afternoon, doing nothing at...

In his speech last week on the American debt crisis, Barack Obama volunteered that a number of millionaires would be delighted to volunteer to pay more to support the government. Well, with an income last year of $1.7 million Mr. Obama is one of those very "millionaires" of which he speaks. How many dollars is he willing to contribute to his cause? Not a one. Not a dime, not a penny. In fact, quite the opposite. Mr. and Mrs. Obama paid a small fortune to accountants to generate 53 pages of tax forms designed to avoid paying his "fair share."...

Ronald Reagan "made" his presidency the day he personally fired more than 10,000 air traffic controllers who refused his order to cease their illegal strike. The country enjoyed an eight year break from serious labor unrest during his administration. Years later, even the Soviets admitted they had taken note of his backbone. In Wisconsin today, several thousand union teachers in Wisconsin lied to their employers, based on that fraud took a paid day off, shuttered their schools and marched off to protest a proposal to make their compensation more like that of the taxpayers who pay them. Governor Walker and...

From a comment at Transterrestrial Musings by Jody Green, To the private sector a half a billion dollars is enough to start a whole new industry. To the federal government it is a rounding error. How many new industries will be lost due to a wasteful spending of a totally dysfunctional federal government? Truer words were never spoke. The Obama administration has sucked the market dry for startups. Investment capital has all but disappeared as angel investors have fled the market and VCs died by the hundreds, perhaps thousands. A million companies have not been started, they died before their...

Michelle wants to downsize the Big Mac. I say McDonalds should keep the supersize meal but we should downsize the presidency to a more digestible portion. There was a time when an imperial office was justified—the cold war years come to mind—when actual leadership of the western world was exercised by the American president. The whole world was in a constant state of near-war then, a state of alert that might have required nearly instantaneous response at any moment. It was a time when a response that only the President could decide upon would be in time for it to...

For the first time ever, the Obama administration is taking steps to register rifles sold through firearms dealers begininning January 5, 2011. It seems that otherwise law-abiding rifles used for recreation—plinking, hunting and shooting competitions— and self-defense while north of the Mexican border, turn into stone cold cartel killers once they cross south of the Rio Grande. There's no data on whether their criminal behavior continues after they return to U. S. or if they revert to their previous good citizenship. Obama's Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has requested emergency approval from the White House Office of Budget...

Only six weeks after the election destined to change modern American history, an election which saw hundreds of public offices at all levels across the land change—from left to right, blue to red, liberal to conservative, Democrat to Republican—Harry Reid and his henchmen in the Democratic leadership in Washington responded to voters with a resounding, "DROP DEAD!" The Senate Majority Leader has just scheduled for a floor vote a $1.1 trillion dollar ($1,100,000,000,000), 1,900 page spending bill larded up with 20,000 separate earmarks. These earmarks, nearly ten per page, will cost future American generations, our children and their children and...

He thinks of himself as an amalgam of the best of presidents past, ascending past them into his own historic greatness. He may have a soaring intelligence, though the jury is very much out on that, but the greatest share of it seems always to be taken up with his own self-awareness, leaving never quite enough left over for the issues he faces. Yes, the man can talk. He certainly can talk. He's really quite good at talking. But talk is about all he's got. In his mind, he has the coolness under pressure and the foresight of Lincoln, while...

Most of us remember well Hans Christian Anderson's delightful tale of the emperor who searched far and wide for the very finest clothes, suits of golden fabric and silver threads, clothes so perfect, so exquisite that they can be seen and appreciated only by those fit for the positions they hold. Only those operating above their skills and the hopelessly stupid fail to see the stunning colors, the shimmering waves of color, the lustrous styling. Just as in Lake Woebegone, where all the children are above average, so to are the Emperor's courtiers, his staff, the academics and elite of...

We've seen an advance copy of the president's script for his historic speech to India's parliament. According to the speech, President Obama will convey a moving and heartfelt apology to the Indian people. Next month we will observe the 120th anniversary of the massacre at Wounded Knee. For far too many years, American historians called it a "battle," but it wasn't. I acknowledge that. I apologize to each of you, those assembled here and the millions more watching and listening, for the harm the American Army, the infamous and disgraced 7th Cavalry, caused that ugly day. I want to assure...

Dateline: Tel Aviv From this moment the State of Israel declares a state of war exists between the State of Israel and the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Because Israel views the threats by the government of the IRI in conjunction with its efforts to develop nuclear weapons and means of delivery as existential threats, Israel will take all actions necessary, specifically including unilateral and preemptive military action, to protect its citizens from the threats posed by representatives of the government of the IRI and to assure Israel's continued survival. To minimize civilian casualties, the population of...

No one knows why moths circle a flame so intently that they will sacrifice themselves on its pillar of light. Learned scientists offer theories. Perhaps the flame is a proxy for the moon's navigational beacon. Maybe burning gasses emit an odor mimicking female moth pheromones. While we can guess that the underlying motivation may be beneficial in other circumstances, the immediate effect is obvious as moths repeatedly convert from a solid to a gas. So it seems with Barack Obama. The President has an apparently insatiable need to fly to the flame, a driving level of egocentricity seldom seen outside...

Just when you thought all the characters had settled into their roles for the four-year epic The Godfather VII, The White House Years, along comes Bill Clinton. Mr. Clinton, the ghost of the White House's sleaziest past, a perjurer and expert multi-tasker while on the phone, has returned in the role of honest broker between Rham Emmanuel and Rep. Joe. Sestak. In a Friday news dump, White House chief counsel Bob Bauer admitted that the White House Chief of Staff had used the former President and lady-slayer as an intermediary in an attempt to throw the Pennsylvania primary election to...

Anyone else notice that Mrs. Obama appears to be with child?