Free Republic

When former President Barack Obama said he was “heartened” by anti-Trump protests, he was sending a message of approval to his troops. Troops? Yes, Obama has an army of agitators — numbering more than 30,000 — who will fight his Republican successor at every turn of his historic presidency. And Obama will command them from a bunker less than two miles from the White House. In what’s shaping up to be a highly unusual post-presidency, Obama isn’t just staying behind in Washington. He’s working behind the scenes to set up what will effectively be a shadow government to not only...

The U.S. is developing a state-of-the-art weapon that can hit targets anywhere in the world within an hour and might be used to neutralize nuclear weapons in North Korea and Iran, a report says. James Acton of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace published the report on the development of "conventional prompt global strike" weapons early this month. The weapon is a new-concept missile with an intercontinental ballistic missile booster capable of flying 20 times faster than the speed of sound and striking any target around the world within an hour. Development began in 2000. According to the report, development...

For President Obama, the student loan crisis is personal. The Obamas had not repaid all of their $120,000 student loan debts until his election to the Senate in 2004. In a series of speeches last week, Obama pushed for measures that he hopes would force colleges to control costs for massively indebted students. He also expressed the view that law school should only last two years, rather than three. These views are likely informed by Obama’s own college debts, which were recently quantified by The Chicago Sun-Times. Though Obama received a scholarship to attend Occidental College, the money ran out...