All Blog Posts Tagged 'OBAMA' (503)

As I originally pointed out last summer in “It’s Halftime in America:”

“It’s not so much you didn’t live up to your potential.”…

Scandal: Senate Democrats, including supporters of the  Disclose Act, provided the names of groups they wanted targeted in a  taxpayer-funded witch hunt overseen by an IRS employee and Obama campaign  donor.

Using the Citizens United case as a pretext, retiring Sen. Carl Levin, …

War On Terror: Eight months after the Benghazi attack, the  FBI begs for help by releasing photos of three suspects, reports surface about  an al-Qaida link and the State Department's review panel is under  investigation.

Ahead of highly anticipated hearings set for Wednesday…

PC Amok: Redskins quarterback Robert Griffin III, responding  to pressure to change his team's name, tweeted: "In a land of freedom we are  held hostage by the tyranny of political correctness." Washington Redtails,  anyone?

The problems of poverty, unemployment, crime and failing schools…

PC Amok: A congressman asks why emails describe supporters  of traditional marriage as members of hate groups while the Pentagon vets a  religious tolerance guide with a group that compares Christian evangelism to  "rape."

When Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel recently appeared…

Social Injustice: Turns out conservative crusader Andrew  Breitbart was correct when he exposed a multibillion-dollar redistribution  scheme to African-American farmers based on largely dubious claims of  discrimination.

If there's a patron saint for government watchdogs, it's…

Welfare: Not content with having more Americans on food  stamps than people in Spain, the Obama administration is ringing the dinner bell  for illegal aliens. We'll feed you and not check your status.

As we wrote last July, just as food stamp use has skyrocketed here under …

Federal Power: Homeland Security's procurement officer is  grilled in Congress on why federal agents who rarely fire weapons need several  times more bullets annually than an Army officer. Who or what are they shooting  at?

Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Thursday asked Nick…

Energy: As the EPA snipes at the State Department's  approval, Canada's natural resource minister says failure to approve the  pipeline would seriously jeopardize our energy relationship and do nothing to  save the earth.

Joe Oliver, not amused by the continued delays in perhaps…

Scandal: A congressional report shows security cuts before  the Benghazi attack were approved by the secretary of state and that White House  talking points describing the events were edited to protect the State  Department.

The "progress" report by House Republicans will no…

States: The governor from a thriving free-enterprise state  travels to the U.S. counterpart of Greece and Cyprus with an invitation: Come to  where folks are friendly to business.

Texas' Rick Perry arrived in Illinois Monday to lure businesses away from a  state that we and…

Asian Security: As Korea festers, our friends in Beijing  have deployed near Taiwan a powerful missile designed to take out U.S. aircraft  carriers as Beijing strengthens its ability to prevent U.S. forces from aiding  Taiwan.

When North Korea announced the 1953 Armistice was considered…

Media Bias: There's palpable dismay at outlets such as MSNBC  and Salon that the Boston Marathon bombers were radicalized young men from  Chechnya and not angry white males from the vast right-wing conspiracy.

Shortly after Monday's tragedy in Boston, David Sirota of Salon…

War On Terror: As the administration slashed the domestic  bombing prevention budget by 45%, a top military IED expert warned such devices  were coming, and an al-Qaida chieftain advocated their use within U.S.  borders.

Yes, it's too early to know if the bombing of the Boston…

Overreach: The gun control bill lets doctors put your name  in the national criminal background check system without telling you. Can the  government say you're crazy and take your guns? It's already happening.

The road to deeper gun control seems like another road paved with good …

National Security: Our secretary of state tells the Chinese  we'll restrain missile defense activities in Asia in exchange for their help in  reducing the threat of a nuclear North Korea. Isn't this where we came in?

In a news conference after meetings with China's top leaders on…

Big Brother: The government we entrust our medical records  to under ObamaCare has its EPA sharing confidential data on farmers with green  groups and the IRS reading your email. Smile and wave at the EPA drone.

The Environmental Protection Agency has acknowledged that it released …

Bat Man: A Chicago store owner beats off two armed thugs with a  baseball bat as Missouri illegally shares concealed carry records with feds and  New York matches private health records with gun permits to take firearms.

President Obama, who campaigns for gun control between concerts at the…

Media Bias: A basketball coach who shoves and curses at his players  merits constant coverage by a media also transfixed by Newtown. But a  Philadelphia doctor on trial for murdering a woman and seven babies? It's  ignored.

Those who get their news from the three major networks have probably…

Family: An MSNBC contributor revisits the statist notion that while  you gave birth to your children and feed and clothe them, they are only on loan  to you by their true parent — a benevolent and all-knowing government.

Melissa Harris-Perry, an African-American professor at Tulane, has…