By Michael Barone (Archive) · Monday, May 21, 2012 In the run-up to this weekend’s G-8 summit at Camp David, journalists have unfavorably compared European “austerity” with Barack Obama’s economic policies. European spending cuts, the argument goes, have hurt people and are arousing political opposition, while Obama’s proposals to keep federal spending at 24 percent [...]

By CAMPBELL BROWN Published: May 19, 2012 WHEN I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste. In numerous appearances over the years — most recently at the Barnard graduation — he has made reference to how women are smarter than men. It’s all so tired, [...]

May 20, 2012 • By DANIEL HALPER Florida senator Marco Rubio slammed President Barack Obama in a South Carolina speech delivered last night to a large gathering of Republicans.  “For all the policy disagreements that we may have with the president, it is hard to understate how much he inspired people across this country four [...]

May 20, 2012 – John Ransom Ericynot wrote: Part of what Buffett proposed in the so-called Buffett Rule is raising the tax rate on capital gains and dividends to the level of ordinary income. Re-read my original post from 11:19 AM. You’re confused and so, apparently, is John Ransom.- Obama’s Campaign about Nothing Dear Comrade [...]

May 20, 2012 Rosslyn Smith Mark Steyn did a great job tying together this week’s revelations about twin fabulists Elizabeth Warren and Barack Obama.  I find his conclusion particularly intriguing.  Like Gatsby presiding over his wild, lavish parties, Obama is aloof and remote: Let everyone else rave deliriously; he just has to be. He is [...]

May 20, 2012 By Eileen F. Toplansky On July 2, 2011, Rep. Trent Franks, a member of the House Committee on Armed Services, denounced the Obama administration’s policy of “limited contacts” with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood.  Franks emphatically stated that “the [Obama] administration is fooling themselves as well as placing the United States and Israel in [...]

May 20, 2012 By Tom Rowan When Elwood retrieved his brother Jake from Joliet prison, the two went on a pilgrimage to their childhood Catholic orphanage.  Their pitiful orphanage was under siege from Chicago’s infamously oppressive tax regime and was being put out of business.  For inspiration, the brothers were directed to a Chicago Baptist [...]

True fiction turns out to be stranger than fake fiction. May 18, 2012 – WSJ By JAMES TARANTO How’s this for deus ex machina? Breitbart.com “has obtained a promotional booklet produced in 1991 by Barack Obama’s then-literary agency, Acton & Dystel, which touts Obama as ‘born in Kenya and raised in Indonesia and Hawaii.’ ” Of [...]

May 19, 2012 – John Ransom Obama may go down as the first president in the history of the U.S. to run a campaign based, like Jerry Seinfeld’s comedy, on nothing.   It’s gotten so bad that the New York Times is appealing to people to “believe in” Obama, like he’s a children’s character or [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Saturday, May 19, 2012 My wife hates it when I say I hate something or someone, but she usually gives me a pass when I substitute the word “despise.” I suppose it doesn’t sound so personal. Also, hatred is said to infect the hater. I don’t really feel that way. [...]