Obamanation
Ron Radosh says that he began reading Stanley Kurtz’s book, Radical-in-Chief, “skeptical of the charge” that President Obama is a socialist, but the book changed his mind: As the years went by, and Barack Obama moved from community organizing to Harvard Law and then back to Chicago, Kurtz shows that one thing remained constant: Obama…
Even on the construction site, I’ve heard criticism of gubernatorial candidate Frank Caprio for his “shove it” comment, related to a general sense that one should have respect for the office of the president. Firstly, one must wonder why President Bush did not receive similar defense against his hostile critics. Secondly, President Obama’s hardline partisanism…
This is interesting. You may have heard about Google’s spy cars: Eustace said the company was “mortified” by the discovery that sensitive information was collected when the Street View cars drove through neighborhoods around the world and said Google was making major changes internally to deal with user privacy, security and compliance. They’ll deal with…
A few lines from this blog post by Victor Davis Hanson brought back a relevant memory: The final irony? The more Obama goes out on the campaign trail, slurs the Chamber or the new enemy of the week, and blatantly appeals to bloc voting from particular minority groups, the more unsympathetic to voters he becomes.…
A couple of weeks ago, I highlighted President Obama’s supposed jab at Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. “Inexcusable,” Mr. Obama said of the proclamation of “the U.S. did it” 9/11 conspiracy theorizing right in the city that saw the greatest death toll on that day. Well, not long thereafter, our Barack used the word again: “It…
If you haven’t yet watched the clip from Jon Stewart’s Daily Show being touted as “the night Jon Stewart Turned on President Obama,” do so. The best line, paraphrasing Obama’s message to Democrats: You know the most disappointing thing about you? Your disappointment in me. Of course, this doesn’t represent a sharp turn, but a…
Before it actually occurred, many in the blogosphere speculated that Congressional testimony by comedian Stephen Colbert was intended to distract from concurrent testimony. If that was the case, from the perspective of mainstream media, the ploy clearly worked. Saturday’s Providence Journal, for example, dutifully covered the “controversy” over the Colbert performance. Unless I’ve missed it,…
It is odd in the highest degree that left-wing commenter Russ, responding to a post about the failure of onshore environmental armageddon to materialize in the Gulf of Mexico, thinks that conservatives would shrink from this information: FLATOW: Yeah, let me to go the phones, Darren(ph) in College Station, Texas. Hi, Darren. DARREN (Caller): Hello,…
Henry Payne questions the Obama administration’s approach to saving the environment through the subsidization of green cars that only wealthy households can afford (try here if you don’t subscribe to National Review): In this unholy alliance of Big Government and Big Auto, the carmakers exacted their price — more taxpayer billions to underwrite their research,…
I’ve got to agree with David Pryce-Jones: … [President Obama] admits we are in a fight and the reason we’ll win “is not simply the strength of our arms — it is the strength of our values. The democracy we uphold.” This in the week he’s just been rejoicing about imminently in Cairo removing the…