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Things aren’t coming up roses for Barack Hussein Obama these days. Just the opposite. There’s a lot of “bubbling crude” (thanks, Jed Clampett) in the president’s life, and only some of it is coming up from the Gulf. The rest of the president’s headaches are largely of his own making. Their cause? Hubris, more than anything. The oil spill is an undeniable disaster that will hurt the Gulf coast and those who live and work there. It also hurts Obama because he took so long to at least pretend he was concerned and ready to help. Don’t believe Farrakhan and...

It’s all over but the mopping up. President Obama got his wish and ObamaCare health care passed the House. The bill goes back to the Senate for tweaking, but the reality is that no matter what kind of stalling conservatives may do from now on, socialized medicine will soon be a reality in the United States of America. Still, we should all bear in mind that this is the end of a bloody battle, but not the end of the war of progressives vs. We the People. There are very good reasons why conservatives must continue to fight. There are...

It sounded like the stuff of a seedy potboiler. The American president’s chief of staff approached a congressman in the House gym shower. There, both dripping wet and naked, the chief of staff bullied the congressman for not voting the president’s way on a major issue. Each recrimination was emphasized by a poke of the finger into the nude congressman’s chest. That’s pretty the tale former Congressman Eric Massa (D-NY) has peddled for a couple of days. Massa railed against White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, Obama and the rest of the DC swamp House Queen Nancy Pelosi promised...

Senator Evan Bayh’s (D-IN) surprise step-away from future office seeking is another positive signal that conservatism is on the rise in this country. It’s also more bad news for the Democrats, who are noticeably on the brink of losing both Congressional houses in November. Bayh’s announcement also signals courage: it’s clear he doesn’t want to be associated with a lying Congress. There’s talk of Queen Nancy Pelosi and Prince Harry Reid backroom dealing on health care again (“Your World,” Fox News, Feb. 15) – before President Obama’s desired meeting with representatives of both parties on the subject. It may be...

Our country has never been more divided. It’s the far left liberals against Middle America, Tea Party patriots and Independents. Now, the left wants to steal our children’s innocence by sexualizing them – just more sick brainwashing from the loony left. Fox News reported yesterday that International Planned Parenthood wants mandatory Sex Ed, condoms, and to teach 10 year-olds to become “sexual beings” (“International Planned Parenthood Wants Mandatory Sex Ed Taught to 10 Year-Olds,” gatewaypunditfirstthings.com, February 9, 2010). Late last year we learned that the United Nations was promoting the idea of teaching masturbation to five year-olds. Obama’s Safe School...

A recent episode of “Law & Order” bashed the Tea Party movement. Now we have Marvel Comics hero Captain America afraid of the Tea Party movement – the same Captain that took on the Nazis and communists during our childhood. And his pal “The Amazing Spider-Man” pretty much told kids to "Vote Obama" in 2008. Sarah Palin called the Tea Party movement a “ground up call to action” this weekend at her speech in Nashville. She believes the Tea Party movement, “is about the people . . . that believe that a government that governs least, governs best.” Her speech...

Sarah Palin and Barack Hussein Obama have something in common: they both spoke before groups of their respective supporters today. There end the similarities. Obama sang the same old songs we’ve been hearing about fighting for us and not giving up on health care reform. Sarah Palin sounded more presidential than our nation’s president when she addressed a packed house at the first National Tea Party Convention tonight. She showed us why there’s real hope and change in America. Obama used those words to win the White House. Unfortunately, hope and change a la Obama are as valuable as confetti...

In the past week, President Barack Hussein Obama has underscored the obvious: that he’s hardly the visionary president so many who voted for him believed he would be. Instead, three major decisions coming out of the Obama administration in recent days emphasize that he is a backwards president – a man determined to take the United States out of Constitutionally chartered waters so he can “take care of his own” (Rush Limbaugh Show, February 2, 2010). Limbaugh asserts that if Obama gets his budget, with health care and Cap and Trade, it will cost America growth and prosperity and lead...

The most truthful line in President Barack Hussein Obama’s first State of the Union address referred to Washington’s current politicians. “We face a deficit of trust,” said the president. Unfortunately, Obama refuses to acknowledge that he also faces a deficit of accountability. Until he does, his presidency seems destined to remain broken. Unification was definitely the theme of Obama’s first State of the Union address. A slightly more humble and substantially less angry Obama showed up to deliver the speech, which was itself comprised of many promises – some new, some old and all hard to deliver. Indeed, except for...

Is it raining and snowing in Massachusetts tonight or are the Democrats crying over Scott Brown’s Senate seat upset over Martha Coakley? No matter. Rain, snow or shine, Brown's victory is sweet. That this Republican strongman came from behind to take Teddy Kennedy’s seat from under the Democratic hopeful is historic. Brown stated during last week's Massachusetts Senatorial debate, "With all due respect, it's not the Kennedy seat and it's not the Democrats' seat, it's the people's seat" (January 11, 2010). Many have called it “Ted’s Seat” for years now - since the 1970s – but tonight, Scott Brown and...

. . . you were called patriotic instead of a “murderer” or “baby-killer” for your loyalty and duty to Flag and Country? Remember when reminding our elected officials of our Constitution and to do the job they were elected to do was a right and considered patriotic instead of a derogatory sexual term? Today, the far left and inside-the-beltway-liberals believe being anti-American is patriotic. Too bad they can’t go live on Planet Utopio together. It was a year ago that the nightmare ObamaWorld began. Now, we’re stuck with an anti-American president who spent his first year on an apology tour...

5. Ditch ObamaCare, PelosiCare and ReidCare: It’s not that we’re against health care reform but the current plans and shady backroom deals in the works are despotic. The proposed health care bills are clearly designed to pay back insurance companies, big pharmaceutical companies and others who have been overly generous to Obama and the Democratic Party. Tort reform and addressing litigation and damages aren’t on the table. Also missing: giving individuals the ability to opt out of “mandated benefits” and shop around for health care coverage. Polls show a lack of public support for the monopoly system. They show America’s...

Don’t be fooled by the tougher talk coming out of the mouth of our president the past few days. In Obamaland, the rhetoric may be laced with a little more acid – a little more, mind you – but it’s still the same pacifist president running the show. Obama needs to learn that what he does will impress us more than what he says. Consider the way Obama danced around calling would-be plane bomber Abdul Mutallab a terrorist. The first time he spoke about the incident – three days after it happened – the president kept using careful wordage (“alleged...

Remember the fuss over Y2K as the world prepared to usher in the new millennium (depending on how you read the calendar)? Some folks spent big bucks gearing up for a computer crisis. Nothing happened. 10 years later, as we prepare to usher in a new decade, too much is happening and we have a lot more than computer viruses to fret over. This is the post-9/11 age. Forget about futuristic technology and the fact that computers and cell phones are now as common as pens and pencils. Everything is seemingly heightened these days, including our national security and vulnerability,...

Credit Obama & Crew for thumbing their nose at Israel, as has no other American presidential administration. This president has done everything but embrace Hamas openly (and that’s been close, since he’s funneled money to Palestinian organizations that are ultimately siphoned off and put to use by Hamas). We’ve seen Iran’s growing tyranny against angry citizens who want a more democratic way of life. We’ve seen its antiquated administration rig elections that left in place toxic leaders who were in turn acknowledged by Obama, even though other major powers steered clear of such affirmations. And how has President Ahmadinejad rewarded...

Thanks to thousands of pages of “Warmergate” e-mails that were leaked last month from the Climatic Research Unit’s (CRU) computers in England, we understand why it’s 18 degrees as we sit in the northeast and hammer out another essay (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1235395/SPECIAL-INVESTIGATION-Climate-change-emails-row-deepens--Russians-admit-DID-send-them.html). The wind is roaring and it feels like four degrees and it isn’t even officially winter. Global warming? Hardly. Despite the mainstream media’s lack of coverage and the Obama administration’s denial, there’s strong evidence that we’ve been lied to for years about human-caused climate change. Rush Limbaugh asserts that the “left has already corrupted science,” and that “it’s one of...

By Kelly L. Goodridge and Oscar De Los Santos It’s official: If the massive government takeover of health care goes through, Medicare spending will shrink. The Democrats are busy building a 60-vote consensus for government-run health care and on Thursday (Dec. 3), the Senate voted to pass its projected $400 billion-dollar cut to Medicare. Yep. Sarah Palin was right. They’re planning “Death Panels” for senior citizens and those who plan to benefit from Medicare in the future. Mark Levin calls the bill a “runaway train” and challenged Republicans to stop making amendments to the bill, especially when they don’t like...

We waited three months for THIS? Gen. Stanley McChrystal recognized that the only way to make headway in the Afghan war – a war President Obama himself called “a war of necessity” before he stopped calling it a war at all and then returned to doing so tonight – was to bring 40,000 more troops to the front. So McChrystal put in the additional troops request. Instead of responding, Obama mulled things over. And mulled things over some more. He held a National Security Council meeting. And then another. Days passed. Obama attended more “man-made disaster” briefings (nine in total)...

OK would like to send out a big thank you to our troops serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and throughout the world. We’re thankful for these men and women who fight for our freedom. We hoped that Obama would also express his gratitude, but he used his Thanksgiving Eve speech to send out a Haijj message to Muslims around the world. In fact, in spite – and in some cases, because – of Barack Obama’s bad- and non-decision-making, there are at least eleven other reasons to be thankful on this holiday. With that in mind, here’s our Top Reasons to Be...

All right, so both Richard Nixon and Barack Hussein Obama went to China. But when it comes to comparing the presidents’ visits – and their leadership and foreign policy skills in general – Nixon trumps Obama hands down. Let’s begin with what is perhaps the least important but symbolic: Nixon and Obama’s trips to The Great Wall. Nixon’s political finesse was sharply refined, even if the liberal press often refused to give him his due. What did he say upon visiting The Wall in 1972? Something that doesn’t sound so sharp – “I think you would have to conclude this...