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Are we fighting in Ukraine in order to “queer the Donbass”? That phrase, which I believe originated with TAC’s editor-at-large Rod Dreher, implies that the ideological package that NATO rallied to Ukraine to defend includes not only freedom and democracy but also pride parades and drag queen story hour. That would, of course, be a ridiculous reason to fight a war. Many Americans don’t want to queer their own kids’ elementary school, much less an industrial Slavic province five thousand miles away. In August 2022, President Volodymyr Zelensky pledged that his government would introduce legislation to create civil partnerships for...

“Remarking on the soaring tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Cuba’s Foreign Minister Bruno Eduardo Rodriguez Parrilla voiced support for Moscow and echoed his voice against NATO’s expansion eastward.” (This was way back on Feb. 20, by the way.) Most of us recall the Obama administration's lies and treachery regarding Benghazi. But how many of you know about the Obama administration's lies and treachery against the American families of the Americans ambushed and murdered on the orders of Raul Castro this week in 1996?....... Thought so...Well, please read on: You see, amigos: This week 26 years ago three U.S. citizens and...

Back again for the weekend.... "There was the Duke of York he had ten thousand men, he marched them up to the top of the hill and he marched them down again..... Jeffrey Epstein was a mistake we are being told.... When it comes to sex my experience is that the wrongdoing is in thought word and deed or some combination of the three..... I go into the literature of my experience to page 69, no kidding. "One set of voices cry that sex is a lust of our lower nature, a base necessity of procreation. Then we have the...

Following weeks of speculation, outgoing ABC Entertainment president Channing Dungey is officially joining Netflix in a senior leadership role as Vice President of Original Content, reporting to Cindy Holland, Vice President of Original Content. She is expected to start in February. In this newly created role, Dungey will partner with Holland in setting strategy for Netflix’s original series and will oversee a large and key portion of the slate, including some of the company’s overall deals with such top writer-producers as Shonda Rhimes, Jenji Kohan, Kenya Barris, Steven DeKnight, Marti Noxon, as well as Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground...

Legends of Tomorrow is rewinding the clock to the very early Obama years. TVLine has learned exclusively that the time-tripping CW drama is revolving an upcoming Season 3 episode around a teenage version of President Barack Obama. Set in the late ’70s when the future No. 44 was a student at Occidental College, the hour is being penned by Keto Shimizu and James Eagan. Casting is currently underway for an actor to play Young Obama. The episode starts shooting in early February and is slated to air in April. This isn’t Legends‘ first time putting the spotlight on a U.S....

Donald Trump: Obama's name was Barry Soetoro. Obama changed his name to Barack Hussein Obama...

A seventh-grade boy was allegedly raped by another male student during gym class at Barack Obama Global Preparation Academy in Los Angeles two weeks ago. The 13-year-old boy, identified only as Julian, is a special-needs student at the middle school, reports KTLA. He has the mental capacity of a six-to-eight year old. The boy’s parents, who are also only identified by their first names, announced plans to to sue the Los Angeles Unified School District on Monday. At a press conference, Brian Claypool, an attorney retained by the family, said that Julian’s physical education teacher left Julian unsupervised during class....

Washington continues to talk, but only talk, about the danger of Bashar al-Assad's increasingly desperate regime in Syria distributing its arsenal of high-tech or even nuclear weapons to terrorists throughout the Mideast. Meanwhile, the Israelis continue to act. Five years ago, they took out a nuclear reactor the Syrians were building without seeing any need to noise it about, realizing that action speaks louder than words -- and that much of the world, especially the Bush administration back then, would discreetly approve. This time the Israelis aren't saying anything official about what seems to have happened to a convoy of...

The headline aptly describes what Obama’s second term will be. Damn the economy and full speed ahead with his progressive agenda. Obama successfully convinced 51% of the voting public to fear his opponent more than his record of failure. With the election past he has more flexibility to fundamentally change America.

This has been an extremely disquieting day, for several reasons.  First and foremost, the US Ambassador to Libya was murdered in cold blood last night, along with three other diplomats -- and horrifying images of the carnage are being beamed around the world.  A few basic facts via Reuters:   The U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff were killed in an attack on the Benghazi consulate and a safe house refuge, stormed by Islamist gunmen blaming America for a film they said insulted the Prophet Mohammad. Gunmen had attacked and set fire to the U.S. consulate in the...

The world awaits a momentous decision in a few days. According to the New Republic staff, Newsweek editor Tina Brown must decide what Newsweek cover to use to illustrate President Obama's announced support  for gay marriage. To aid Ms Brown in making her choice, the New Republic staffers provided a gallery of illustrations for the Newsweek cover including the Obama rainbow umbrella man at the top of this story. You can see several of the New Republic suggested illustrations below the fold. I must give them credit for extreme creativity although I am slightly disappointed that they didn't suggest a...

To say that America is on an unsustainable fiscal path is to overstate the obvious. If the writers at The Big Picture blog are right, then America’s fiscal house will soon collapse as the percentage of income for the federal treasury coming from corporations has shrunk precipitously from 1955 to 2010, while the burden carried by individuals has increased greatly.

President Obama’s actions involving Libya have been baffling at best. He did nothing for days. He talked about waiting to build a coalition for multilateral action. He downplayed the concept of regime change, yet one of the main objectives for engaging has been to get rid of Colonel Qaddafi. It’s been a strange couple of weeks for Obama in terms of his foreign policy, and there still hasn’t been a clear explanation for what we’re doing in Libya and why we’re doing it. Much of the motivation behind Obama’s Libya policy stems from from the ideology of Samantha Power, the...

Remember Fred Durst and Osama bin Laden? Jay Stephenson GenerationSnooki.com March 22, 2011 Osama bin Laden and Fred Durst have to be frustrated these days. Their fame and notoriety peaked in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but the media doesn’t seem to care about them anymore. And both hold an equal place in our current president’s mind: Gone. Watching the U.S. attempt to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi on CNN for Bin Laden has be the similar to Durst watching Eminem on the MTV music awards. There was a time both these men were relevant in the public’s mind, but the...

I was initially very reluctant to jump aboard the bandwagon of fellow conservatives who chided the President for appearing on ESPN to fill out his NCAA brackets. Sure there’s an ongoing civil war in Libya, gas prices are approaching $4 per gallon and a plume of radiation may be approaching California- but let’s be honest... None of these problems could possibly be fixed in five minutes anyway... Not even by the man-child himself! My heart even began to feel all warm and bubbly inside as I watched the President open his address by asking viewers to donate aid to Japan....

On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence in defiance of a king whose "repeated injuries and usurpations, [had] in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States." The war against Great Britain had been engaged for over a year, and was not favoring the Americans. The signatories to the Declaration were issuing their own death warrants. As legislative actions go, theirs was truly a public service. They pledged to each other their Lives, Fortunes, and sacred Honor to acknowledge and uphold a truly enlightened political philosophy. We hold these truths to...

Emotional pleas do not sway federal courts. Only the cold hard force of legal will does. Patience. Attention to detail. Strategy. Planning. Honesty. Integrity. Respect for the law. Respect for the process. Thorough research. And most important – genuine injuries different than those suffered by the public at large. By now it should be clear that federal standing and political question doctrine issues will not yield to exotic conceptual legal theories. As predicted, the courts will not bend to anyone that precedent does not bestow judicial invitation upon. After the electoral college certified Obama, I predicted every eligibility law suit...

NO I DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA. But this link takes you to the website ( http://www.iamsorryivotedforobama.com/ ).    They do ask on their website:    If You Didn't Vote for Obama You can still sign the form and tell us about a friend or coworker that is now ashamed of how they voted.Everyone knows someone that is avoiding telling people how they voted. You have probably seen people take off their Obama stickers. You might have noticed they no longer talk about politicsWe want to hear those stories.  I'd say there should be an official "We Told You So,...

We are witnessing one of the more rapid turnabouts in recent American political history. President Obama’s popularity has plummeted to 50 percent and lower in some polls, while the public expresses even less confidence in the Democratic-led Congress and the direction of the country at large. Yet, just eight months ago, liberals were talking in Rovian style about a new generation to come of progressive politics — and the end of both the Republican party and the legacy of Reaganism itself. Barack Obama was to be the new FDR and his radical agenda an even better New Deal. What happened,...

The governor was trying to be nonchalant. He didn't quite pull it off. "This morning I was with the president of the United States," he told reporters at a Thursday news conference. "This afternoon I'm with Robert Redford." It was almost like the old Bill Richardson. Back in the early years of his administration, it seemed he was always appearing beside Washington bigwigs and hobnobbing with Hollywood celebrities. Had a few North Korean diplomats dropped by the Roundhouse on Thursday afternoon, the picture would have been complete. President Barrack Obama was in Rio Rancho to talk about credit card legislation...