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Many readers are by now well aware of Mr. Obama's decision to confer what amounts to amnesty upon a certain class of illegal immigrants. According to Mr. Obama, Congress didn't act (apparently settled immigration law doesn't constitute action), so Mr. Obama decided to unilaterally create what amounts to legislation that never passed (the DREAM act.) What an affirmative actor! The constitutional infirmities of this decision are pronounced and involve the functional equivalent of the repeal of statutory schemes by the executive (for good summaries, click here and here). President Mr. Obama's justification for his unconstitutional policy edict presents conservatives with...

RUSH: This is Trey Gowdy. Trey Gowdy is from South Carolina. He's a Republican on Darrell Issa's committee. He was on last night with Greta Van Susteren, and she said: "Leader Pelosi [of the Planet Stupider] said this vote for contempt is a Republican plan to suppress the vote. Her theory, I guess, is you're trying to get rid of the attorney general because he's aggressively going out there fighting a suppression of the vote. What is your reaction to that?" CONGRESSMAN GOWDY: I could not believe it when I heard her saying that. Is that all you have to...

RUSH: Do you remember, ladies and gentlemen, last November I made a big deal of something? And I remain surprised. I can't believe... And I really mean this. I can't believe that this was not focused on more. Not by the mainstream media but rather by conservative media. This was a column by Thomas B. Edsall who used to write for the Washington Post and is now big at the Huffing and Puffington Post. And he had a piece in the New York Times, which means the regime wanted it there. He works for Obama in a way. There's a...

There are five new battleground state polls out and only a slight lean toward incumbent President Barack Obama. Here's a breakdown: Wisconsin: The badger state has flipped toward Obama. Rasmussen Reports had suggested Obama trailed Romney by 3 points on June 13, but a Wednesday poll from Marquette Law School shows 49 percent of Wisconsin would prefer Obama while another 43 polled would select Romney. Iowa: On Wednesday, pollsters We Ask America awarded Obama a one-point lead, edging out Romney 45 percent to 44 percent. Michigan: Two polls tell two different stories in Michigan, but though each candidate sees an...

Just when you thought the Obama campaign couldn’t get any more desperate, they come up with this: the Obama Event Registry, asking supporters who are getting married, having a birthday, or celebrating an anniversary to direct gift-givers to Obama’s re-election website: Got a birthday, anniversary, or wedding coming up? Let your friends know how important this election is to you—register with Obama 2012, and ask for a donation in lieu of a gift. It’s a great way to support the President on your big day. Plus, it’s a gift that we can all appreciate—and goes a lot further than a...

Bristol Palin is being sued for defamation by the man she got into a heckling match with last year at a West Hollywood bar, RadarOnline.com has learned. ((SNIP)) "Bristol Palin first accused Plaintiff of 'being a homosexual' in a degrading manner in front of others," the lawsuit reads. ((snip)) Hanks claims that by airing the exchange on her show, Bristol Palin: Life's A Tripp, his privacy and the privacy of his sexuality were breached — and as such, he has suffered emotional distress.

U.S. Minority House Leader Nancy Pelosi lobs yet another preposterous attack upon Republican House leaders, claiming that the House Committee Contempt Vote against Attorney General Eric Holder was manufactured by the leadership as a political payback for the Obama administration’s attempt to circumvent state laws which require display of state IDs when voting. In fact congressional Rep. Tim Scott, R-S.C. has labeled this fanciful notion as, “Hogwash.” His fellow South Carolinian republican congressional representative Trey Gowdy went a few steps further and labeled Pelosi’s delusional allegations, "mind-numbingly stupid," according to Fox News. It is abundantly clear that democrat leaders like...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is last night on Charlie Rose. He had an author on, a guy by the name of James Mann. James Mann has a new book called The Obamians: The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power. Now I want you listen to this. I can't believe that Charlie actually had this guy on. And I can't believe this guy walked out of there without needing a wheelchair after what he said. It's another book on Obama, another window into what Obama's really all about. And this is key to understanding Obama's world view. I've...

[Yeah, I know Conason is a RAT. Use this post to sharpen your shooting skills :] This week, Republicans on Capitol Hill opened yet another front in their continuous sniping against the Obama administration, the Justice Department and Attorney General Eric Holder. Having demanded a federal investigation of intelligence leaks, they now claim to be outraged because Holder has asked two United States attorneys to conduct that probe -- and one of the two happens to be a Democrat. Angry Republicans (and their media enablers at Fox News, et al.) insist that the White House must have leaked information about...

President Barack Obama has widened his considerable lead over Mitt Romney among registered Latino voters in five key swing states, according to a new poll of 2,000 voters by Latino Decisions and the pro-immigration reform advocacy group America's Voice. Obama enjoys the biggest lead among Latino voters in Arizona, 74 percent of whom say they favor the president over Romney. On average, Obama is leading Romney 63 to 27 percent among Latinos in Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Nevada and Virginia. Analysts estimate that Romney would need at least 40 percent of the Latino vote overall to win the general election, although...

“Tampa, we don’t need an outsourcing pioneer in the Oval Office. We need a President who will fight for American jobs and American manufacturing. And that’s what my plan will do,” Obama will say.

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: This is Trey Gowdy. Trey Gowdy is from South Carolina. He's a Republican on Darrell Issa's committee. He was on last night with Greta Van Susteren, and she said: "Leader Pelosi [of the Planet Stupider] said this vote for contempt is a Republican plan to suppress the vote. Her theory, I guess, is you're trying to get rid of the attorney general because he's aggressively going out there fighting a suppression of the vote. What is your reaction to that?" GOP Rep. Gowdy: Pelosi Is "Mind-Numbingly Stupid"CONGRESSMAN GOWDY: I could not believe it when I heard her...

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Republican Senate candidate Eric Hovde told The Hill that Democratic Senate candidate Tammy Baldwin is a communist. "I fundamentally disagree with Tammy on almost everything," Hovde told the Hill, a congressional newspaper, "She has a more liberal voting record than almost anybody in Congress. Her philosophy has its roots in Marxism, communism, socialism, extreme liberalism — she calls it progressivism — versus mine, which is rooted in free-market conservatism." Baldwin's campaign took sharp issue with Hovde. Spokesman John Kraus told the Hill that Baldwin has worked with Republicans to protect manufacturing in tghe United States against unfair trade practices by...

Republican Mitt Romney is on the verge of succeeding in what a pair of other prominent Massachusetts politicians failed to do -- become president of the United States -- and that has brought some sour grapes to the political table. The other two presidential party nominees, both Democrats, were Gov. Michael Dukakis in 1988 and U.S. Sen. John F. Kerry in 2004. Both presidential candidates went into their campaigns ahead in the polls, and both crashed and burned. Dukakis was beaten by then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, and Kerry was defeated by Bush's son, incumbent President George Bush. Now comes...

White House press secretary Jay Carney made an “angry phone call” to a Fox News executive after the network aired a scathing video review last month of President Barack Obama’s first three years in office, the New York Times reported. According to the Times, Carney told Michael Clemente, Fox News’ senior vice president for news, that the video had crossed the line even for “Fox & Friends,” the morning show where it aired. Two unnamed Democrats reportedly told the newspaper about the call, described as a “private conversation.”

When I interviewed President Reagan in the Oval Office in 1987, I took with me a photograph of him with two dozen women at the Presidio of Monterey in California 50 years earlier. My mother, the presidio commanderÂ’s daughter, was one of the women. I wanted Reagan to autograph the photograph, and he graciously obliged, but not before telling me in extraordinary detail how he happened to be at the presidio, a cavalry post, and everything about the movie he was making there. He was starring in a B movie called Sergeant Murphy, the third film in his long career...

There aren’t Greek columns tall or wide enough to camouflage Barack Obama's impending North Carolina catastrophe. In September, the campaigner-in-chief will travel to Charlotte for his party's presidential-nominating convention. For once, the incurable jet-setter may wish he had stayed home.Obama's stage managers envision a triumphant, unifying coronation reminiscent of their 2008 DNC production in Denver. But the southern swing state is turning into a Democratic disaster zone.Start with the North Carolina Democratic party. At the state-party convention last week, Obama for America was AWOL. The glaring absence of high-level national Obama surrogates was noted “as odd,” according to the...

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Mitt Romney offered a family-friendly approach to the nation's immigration troubles in his first general-election outreach to Latino voters, but the modest steps that he sketched underscored the political pull-and-tug the issue has become for the presumed Republican presidential nominee. His more moderate tone Thursday on a number of side issues contrasted with the tougher stance he took during the GOP primaries. Yet in outlining the path he would take as president, he declined to take on the larger and thornier problem of the 11 million men, women and children already in the country illegally....

Obama Asks People Getting Married To Forgo Gifts, Ask Their Guests To Donate To His Campaign Instead… You can even register your wedding on his campaign website. Could he be any more pompous?