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Obama is a community organizer cum politician/president. Community organizers are a dime a dozen. They are out in force in every street protest in every county goading on the rent-a-mobs to anarchy Like a mad scientist in a well stocked laboratory, Obama keeps trying to make a Frankenstein out of the U.S.A. Everything that comes out of the Obama lab is meant to confuse and demoralize the masses. Yesterday it was the news of his intention to “nationalize the suburbs”. Today it’s his Pentagon announcing plans aimed at lifting the transgender ban, complete with a picture of Bruce Jenner/Caitlyn on...

Rather than accept a few billion in budget cuts (read rounding error), President Obama has signaled his willingness to shut down the federal government. (Yah!) For those keeping score at home, any government shutdown that happens is on Obama’s plate. He is the President. All on him. The worst part of this whole debate is the Obama Administration’s decision to hold military pay hostage to the budget debate. For the last few decades, government shutdowns have been guided by an OMB directive issued during the Reagan Administration. Under this directive, military personnel would continue to receive the paychecks while politicians...

President Obama declared for the first time yesterday that he was prepared to steamroller his troubled health reform legislation through Congress with only Democratic support; a move Republicans denounced as the “nuclear option”. Signalling that his patience had snapped after a year-long fight, Mr Obama laid the ground for Democrats in Congress to muscle the Bill through using a high-risk legislative manoeuvre known as reconciliation, which overrides a Republican filibuster. Although he did not use the word “reconciliation”, Mr Obama made it clear that that was the route he intended to take. Democrats will, as a result, be able to...