Discomfort.

“It was no secret inside the West Wing that Bill Daley, a Catholic with deep connections to the church hierarchy, vehemently opposed the administration’s proposal to require church-run hospitals and universities to give their employees free contraception. “But it was the way he pushed his case that aggravated some women on President Barack Obama’s senior [...]

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"Barack Obama is a radical, we should not be afraid to say that."

Via Mediaite, the key bit comes at 5:15 but don’t skip. Watch the whole thing, as this is easily the most entertaining speech you’ll see at CPAC. Naturally he’s coy about what he’s got, but it sounds like it has to do with O as a student radical. I wonder if big media, having heard [...]

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Coulter on contraception.

Ann Coulter’s CPAC speech was, just as you’d expect, snarky, sharp, witty and — at times — wince-worthy, but, out of her many memorable lines, one stood out to me most. In the midst of a succinct dismantling of Barack Obama’s liberty-infringing mandate that religiously-affiliated employers provide their employees with insurance coverage that covers contraception, she [...]

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Romney ten points back.

Remember the “electability” argument?  Conservatives need Mitt Romney, the argument goes, in order to compete against Barack Obama in the general election.  However, the latest Rasmussen tracking poll on head-to-head results shows Romney trailing Obama by ten points — while Rick Santorum comes within four: In a potential Election 2012 matchup, the president attracts 50% [...]

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"Come on, guys"?

It’s already well known that Barack Obama didn’t take the advice of the two Catholics closest to him, VP Joe Biden and chief of staff Bill Daley, in promulgating his new mandate from HHS that would force religious organizations to pay for contraception and abortifacients, even if the use of such products violates their religious [...]

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You've "worked that pedal on the organ" quite enough

We can’t let the entire day slip away without one seriously unpopular opinion, so let’s check in with columnist George Will. In his latest offering, he cautions that forty years of “a presumption of superiority” on the part of the Republican Party may be coming to an end if we’re not careful. This deals not [...]

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That was fast

Last month we discussed the rather alarming news that Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper was planning a trip to China to discuss possible natural resources deals with the economic superpower. It seemed no coincidence that the trip was announced close on the heels of Barack Obama’s decision to kick the can down the road on [...]

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Darn tooting.

Barack Obama has had a busy couple of weeks as a preacher man.  He started off by assuring us that he was channeling Jesus Christ by demanding that we render more unto Caesar.  Now the question has become … who would Jesus abort? As Kathryn Jean Lopez reports, though, it’s not exactly a new question.  [...]

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Fireworks on the House floor.

It’s rare for the Speaker of the House to take to the floor to deliver pointed remarks against the president — but Speaker John Boehner did just that today. With fighting words, the Ohio Republican indicated that House Republicans will do whatever is in their power to reverse the administration’s mandate that even religiously-affiliated, conscientiously-opposed-to-contraception [...]

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Great.

President Barack Obama has proved his adeptness at exploiting the vote pump: Dependence on government has increased by 23 percent under his administration, according to the Heritage Foundation 2012 Index of Dependence on Government. More people than ever before — 67.3 million Americans — depend on the federal government for housing, food, income, student aid [...]

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a remedy for the resentful

I really enjoyed reading a new take on an old subject this week at The Fiscal Times. Liz Peek takes a look at a subject which is quickly leaving the realm of policy discussion and becoming a full blown campaign theme on Team Obama. We’re speaking, of course, about the now famous Buffett Rule which [...]

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Ole' Dominion

A new poll from Quinnipiac University holds some news which may give Republicans pause while mapping out their fall strategy and it comes from Virginia. For the first time in this series for the 2012 election, President Barack Obama has pulled back into the lead at or outside the margin of error over all four [...]

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Hint: it's not the rich

We’ve been sounding the alarm since early last year about the risks associated with various EPA regulatory maneuvers, particularly the latest Utility MACT and cross state emissions rules. We are even now seeing the loss of significant energy generation on the grid, and an effective war on coal which reduces energy supply leading to the [...]

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Catwalk the plank

If Mitt Romney is the nominee, he’s going to have some big problems in the general election, as we’ve all heard. Not the least of these is the fact that Barack Obama will be painting him as a super rich guy, out of touch with the man on the street. You know… hanging out with [...]

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Foundering.

Say, wasn’t our President supposedly a Constitutional scholar? Matt Lauer challenged Barack Obama in NBC’s Super Bowl interview to answer for those who are disappointed in the pace of the change Obama promised to bring to Washington DC.  Greg Hengler clips the question — and the curious answer: Matt Lauer, NBC: I have talked to [...]

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"Let's kick [Obama's] skinny butt back to Chicago."

Clint Eastwood might say that, because he has no political affiliation with Barack Obama, his ad on behalf of Chrysler couldn’t possibly be political — but that doesn’t mean Rush Limbaugh can’t mock the ad with all his usual hilarity. Luckily for us, he did. The parody aired on El Rushbo’s radio show today, and [...]

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Consistency

Say what you will about President Barack Obama, but he’s never been shy about calling out the other branches of government when he feels that they’ve gone astray. In fact, so strongly does he feel about this that he once took time out in the middle of the State of the Union Address to deliver [...]

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Choosing sides.

When Obama administration officials reiterated last month that religiously-affiliated employers would have to provide their employees with insurance that covers contraception, they also granted those employers an extra year to comply with the mandate. No doubt they had hoped that the extra year would keep this controversy from too greatly infecting Barack Obama’s reelection effort. [...]

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Be sure to tip your gunrunner!

I think the word you were looking for is… awkward. Obama campaign returns $200,000 donation from fugitive’s family Brothers of Pepe Cardona, who fled drug and fraud charges in the US in 1994, began raising money for Obama last year Barack Obama’s re-election campaign is returning more than $200,000 in donations from the family of [...]

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Go ahead -- make his game.

Did Chrysler buy two minutes of the most expensive television time possible to air a stealth promotion for Barack Obama? Clint Eastwood narrates and appears in Chrysler’s spot, in which he declares that we have reached “halftime in America,” which seems to hint at a two-term Presidency for Obama: Politico covers the controversy: “It’s halftime. [...]

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"If you are offended by the theology of the Catholic church, then do not work for Catholic institutions."

Someone has a very confused idea about the separation of church and state, and surprisingly, it’s the Reverend in this Morning Joe panel today. Working off of Peggy Noonan’s Wall Street Journal column from Saturday, Al Sharpton argues that Barack Obama had to dictate to the Catholic Church to violate its religious tenets in order [...]

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Better late than never?

When Egypt’s population began widespread demonstrations against the Hosni Mubarak regime, it took Barack Obama eight days to demand the resignation of our nominal ally in Cairo.  When Moammar Qaddafi began a campaign of military attacks on his own people to suppress a revolt, it took us just a few weeks to launch an undeclared [...]

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Better late than never?

When Egypt’s population began widespread demonstrations against the Hosni Mubarak regime, it took Barack Obama eight days to demand the resignation of our nominal ally in Cairo.  When Moammar Qaddafi began a campaign of military attacks on his own people to suppress a revolt, it took us just a few weeks to launch an undeclared [...]

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Worthless.

The Washington Post and ABC News has a new national poll out today.  It purports to show that Barack Obama has a 50% approval rating and that he would beat Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup.  And heck, that might even be true, except for a couple of problems.  First, this is a poll of [...]

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Worthless.

The Washington Post and ABC News has a new national poll out today.  It purports to show that Barack Obama has a 50% approval rating and that he would beat Mitt Romney in a head-to-head matchup.  And heck, that might even be true, except for a couple of problems.  First, this is a poll of [...]

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Caesar salad.

A few days ago, Barack Obama spoke at a prayer breakfast and claimed that he wants to raise taxes because of his Christian faith: But for me as a Christian, it also coincides with Jesus’s teaching that “for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.” It mirrors the Islamic belief that those who’ve [...]

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Bad policy.

For the last three years, domestic politics in the US has centered around the concept and application of mandates in health care.  Barack Obama made that the key to his health-care reform; the Tea Party got fueled in large part over its inclusion.  Obama argued at the time and to this day that his mandate [...]

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Genuflect, genuflect, genuflect ... not that it will do you much good.

Michael Ramirez’ work at Investors Business Daily is always brilliant, but yesterday’s editorial cartoon may be one of his best ever.  The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner takes on the Church of Government, as my friend John Hinderaker calls it at Power Line, and skewers Barack Obama’s pretensions of being a faith leader while shredding the [...]

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Whoa.

Some have suggested that Republicans could nominate a syphilitic camel in 2012 and still beat Barack Obama. (Hey, I’m willing to hear the camel out; what’s his position on taxes?) That sounded like hyperbole until Scott Rasmussen released this video today, discussing the internals of his head-to-head matchups in weekly tracking polls. Mitt Romney now [...]

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"His brother is back in Kenya living on $12 a year."

In the midst of espousing Biblical principles at the National Prayer Breakfast yesterday, Barack Obama made a point to say, “We are our brother’s keeper.” Interesting that he used the collective “we” — and made no mention of his actual brother or of his responsibilities to him. Yesterday evening, author Mark Steyn filled in the [...]

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