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One year from today we will know whether or not Barack Obama will continue as President of the United States for another four years. If history has anything to do with it, the American public will be able to breathe a sigh of relief as we give him his walking papers. It has nothing to do with the fact that a recent poll reveals that 55% of Americans believe Obama will be a one-term president. Nor does it have to do with the fact that a current poll suggest that any Republican candidate would beat Obama in an election by...

The scariest costume of 2011? That's an easy one. President Obama. The best topical Halloween costumes of 2011? Well, Obama failed to make that list. Instead, three Republican candidates joined Kate Middleton in TIME magazine's 10 Best (Topical) Halloween Costumes for 2011. Who were they? Governor Rick Perry, Representative Michele Bachmann and businessman Herman Cain all made the list. The article suggests re-using your Sarah Palin outfit last year and walking around wide-eyed to be Bachmann. You'll need some cowboy chaps to be Perry. And you're going to need a suit and pizza box to pull off Cain. In the...

Before the Occupy Wall Street protesters decided they have an agenda (forty unrealistic demands that include reinstating the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 and reversing the Citizens United decision), they were disorganized and had no clear message; however, they were largely united on one point... they opposed Wall Street because they believe Wall Street represents the top 1% of America’s wealthiest citizens and is a symbol of capitalism, corporations, CEOs and greed. But who is the top 1% that the rest of the 99% are supposed to oppose? According to the IRS, the top 1% makes $380,354 a year. Clearly the...

In 1975, Jerry Brown was first elected Governor of the State of California. He was sworn in with a $6 billion surplus. By the time he left office in 1983, he left California in “full-blown financial crisis” (Sacramento Bee) with a billion dollars in debt. Later as Mayor of Oakland, he entered office in 1999 where education and crime got much worse by the time he left in 2007. Fast Forward to 2011. Jerry Brown’s first act as Governor of California (the second time) was to work toward eliminating California’s $28 billion deficit by eliminating the Inspector General and saving...

Democrats sure do you use the word "racist" a lot... mostly when talking about Republicans, but especially the Tea Party. Do they even know what it means anymore? It's certainly a loaded word that incites a lot of emotion. That's their reason for using it. Nobody wants to be labeled a "racist." But what is a racist? The actual definition is a person who believes in racism, the doctrine that a certain human race is superior to any or all others. So, when Democrats throw around the word "racist" as much as they do, are they suggesting that Republicans and...

According to the latest Rasmussen poll, 75% of the country believes America is headed in the wrong direction. Our nation is clearly in turmoil and there is no way Obama can run on his record. So what is his strategy to win re-election? It appears he’s taking a two pronged approach: class warfare and race warfare. Clearly, Obama has been trying to pit the “poor” against the “wealthy” for some time. Prior to his election in 2008, Obama told Joe the Plumber that he thinks we should “spread the wealth around.” In 2009, he was determined not to allow “a...

The recent spin out of Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the new Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairperson, is enough to make anyone get dizzy and vomit. On June 15, POLITICO’s Chief White House Correspondent, Mike Allen, interviewed Schultz at Playbook Breakfast, an event series hosted by POLITICO. During this morning conversation about policy, politics and the news of the day, Schultz was posed a question, “At what point do Democrats take responsibility for the economy?” The former Florida Congresswoman who, according to Project Vote Smart, has never held a private sector job said, “We are clearly responsible… the last year of the...

Between 2002 and 2008, the Left in America maintained a consistent assault against President George W. Bush which included a number of pejoratives, most notably calling him a “NeoCon.” Even my Democrat friends would look me straight in the eye and say, “Bush… that, that NeoCon!” And I would reply, “Wait! What exactly is a NeoCon?” And they didn’t know. All they knew was that it wasn’t good. But where are all those Democrats now that Barack Obama is in office? Because Obama is the greatest NeoCon of all.

I’ve written several articles skewering HBO for producing political projects destined to air immediately prior to the 2012 election, where the vast majority of the cast and crew are passionate Barack Obama supporters, and where the content is aimed at the Democrat’s two favorite Republican villains… Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney. So, when I sat down to watch HBO’s Too Big to Fail, I prepared myself for the worst. What I didn’t expect was the big surprise awaiting me. Too Big to Fail, which premieres on HBO on May 23, 2011, features a star studded cast recounting the events that...

I recently received a barrage of Facebook posts from my Leftist friends regarding Jon Stewart of the “The Daily Show” and his rant on the so-called hypocrisy of Sean Hannity and Fox News over the rapper Common’s invitation to the White House. Democrats accusing Republicans of hypocrisy… how ironic. My first reaction to the story was that my friends don’t understand the definition of hypocrisy. Quite simply, hypocrisy is the act of stating beliefs, feelings, or virtues that one does not actually personally hold or possess. In other words, it is saying one thing and doing the opposite. So, when...

In George Orwell’s novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, Party members of Orwell’s futuristic society are forced to watch daily the government’s Two Minutes’ Hate… a film projected on telescreens depicting The Party’s enemies. The purpose was to brainwash its own skeptical citizens and reinforce the rest using emotionally based sound and images. Today, we just call it television. The marriage between the Democrat Party and Hollywood is the new Big Brother. And Big Brother is tasked with indoctrinating a large society into a left wing perspective. The most efficient way is to present a single message to a massive audience and this...

Fox News confirms that Osama bin Laden , the Saudi Arabian–born leader of Al Qaeda and most dangerous terrorist in the world, is dead and that he was killed in a firefight with U.S. Special Ops Team in Pakistan. Drudge states that the USA has the body. CBS News states the body is in Afghanistan. A BC News states that he was killed during a U.S. military strike. Here is the story as we know it… A tip last August led to months of intelligence work that determined bin Laden was hiding in a luxury compound deep inside Pakistan. President...

Get a sneak peek at Julianne Moore as Sarah Palin HBO‘s latest anti-Republican flick. The former Boogie Nights star Julianne Moore, 50, will play a 43 year old Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential election based on the 2010 book, Game Change, by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin.

After years of hearing President Obama claim that he has shown his birth certificate and “I can’t spend all of my time with my birth certificate plastered on my forehead.” After reading an article on April 23, 2011 in Hawaii’s own 'Star Advertiser' that claimed the long form Certificate of Live Birth “are state government property that can’t be released to anyone, even the president himself, said Joshua Wisch, special assistant to the state attorney general. Obama would be able to inspect his birth records if he visited the Health Department in person, but original records of live birth are...

This past weekend millions of Americans celebrated Easter, a day filled with colored eggs and chocolate bunny rabbits… otherwise known as the day that Jesus rose from the dead. Something else that rose from the dead this weekend was the issue of President Obama’s birth certificate. On Saturday morning, the Associated Press released an article titled, “In Hawaii, Accessing Some Obama Birth Info Is Easy,” in which the author suggests that that just about anyone can walk into Hawaii’s vital records office and see Obama’s birth certificate information, or someone with a tangible interest could pay $10 to receive a...

It is often said, “So goes California, so goes the nation.” So, when the California State Senate passed SB 48, The FAIR Education Act, last week that would mandate all California Public Schools (including alternative and charter schools) be forced to teach gay history, the positive contributions of gays and banning subject matter reflecting adversely upon gays… you better believe this trend is coming your way regardless of where you live. The FAIR Education Act is not only distasteful, it is disgusting. The bottom line is that this legislation would shove a left wing social agenda down the throats of...

The non-partisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) budget model predicts the U.S. budget will be unsustainable within twenty-six years. In other words, it is impossible for the American economy to continue past 2037. House Budget Chairman Congressman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said President Barack Obama’s budget strategy is to “do nothing, punt, duck, kick the can down the road” while the debt remains on track to eventually hit 800% of GDP. Greece recently teetered on the brink economic collapse when its government debt hit 120% of GDP. Riots in the streets ensued for weeks and Greece was eventually bailed out by the...

Obama’s reelection team sent the announcement to their supporters this morning via email, along with a snazzy campaign launch video titled, “It Begins With Us.” The video features real people from political battleground states North Carolina, Nevada and Colorado as well as a few others from Michigan and New York providing interviews about the upcoming election and their support for Obama. As a former member of the American Association of Political Consultants (AAPC) and producer of campaign videos, I took great interest in this video and this is my critique. At their core, campaign videos can take two different approaches,...

What happens when America appoints a community organizer as Commander in Chief? Thanks to the election of Barack Obama, we now know. First, he breaks his campaign promise to bring Iraq troops home within a year. Next, he breaks his campaign promise to close Gitmo within a year. Then he isn’t even a month in office when he is nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, which he would later win in spite of having accomplished nothing with the exception of going on a grand American Apology Tour. His next move as Commander in Chief was to send just a little...

HBO just can’t help themselves. Less than two weeks after the pay television giant announced Julianne Moore, 50, will play a 43 year old Sarah Palin during the 2008 Presidential election, the network announced its intentions to make another anti-GOP movie based on the 2008 Barton Gellman book, "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" as well as "The Dark Side," a 2006 documentary which aired on "Frontline," a PBS public affairs series.