Barack Obama would not be President of the United States were it not for his purported opposition to the Iraq War. I say “purported,” because he never had to vote on the war, as his unfortunate rival Hillary Clinton did,
The commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution has been the vehicle for expanding the power of the federal government ever since Wickard v. Filburn (1942), much to the delight of big-government liberals. In the Obamacare case of 2012, the Supreme Court
Covered California, the Golden State’s troubled Obamacare exchange, will mail 4 million voter registration cards to residents who have enrolled in health insurance plans (largely Medicaid), the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The state Obamacare exchange was not initially registering voters, but
Reports are circulating that President Barack Obama might pardon Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, who has spent nearly three decades in prison, as a way of enticing Israel to continue its participation in peace talks with the Palestinian Authority that have
The employees of Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared an open-ended strike earlier this week, leaving Israel without foreign representation and consular services at a crucial time. While anti-Israel activists rally for boycotts, and world powers continue negotiating with Iran
It was once conventional wisdom among administration-friendly policy wonks that President Barack Obama’s most successful foray into Middle East relations was his attempt to elevate relations with Turkey. Whatever else might be said about his confused, weak and reactive policy
Rep. Julia Brownley (D-CA), a first-term representative whose district includes parts of Ventura County, Simi Valley and the San Fernando Valley, has apparently removed her support for Obamacare from her campaign website. As recently as late February (see cached image
Last week, Chuck Reed, the Democratic mayor of San Jose, abandoned an effort to place a referendum on the state ballot in November that would do for California what he did for San Jose in 2012–namely, bring massive unfunded pension
I’m writing this particular piece on the southbound Amtrak from Los Angeles to San Diego. My daughter and I are on our way to pick up my wife from her Navy base, where she’s on reserve duty at the moment.
In March Madness, you live and die by the upsets. And that’s what happened to the “brainy bracket,” my attempt to pick the winners based on their academic ranking in the annual U.S. News & World Report survey. I picked Stanford
Far-left KPFK, otherwise known as Pacifica Radio, has been broadcasting progressive propaganda throughout California, and across the world, for many years. (In South Africa, where I lived for several years, you could hear archival Pacifica broadcasts by Noam Chomsky and
The Los Angeles Times‘ Evan Halper documents what attendees at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference near Washington, D.C. also noted: namely, that there is a sharp rise among conservatives in enthusiasm for, and interest in, liberalizing marijuana laws. Conservative
Scott Olsen, the Iraq war veteran who suffered a fractured skull and related injuries when he was hit with a projectile fired by police on the front line of the Occupy Oakland protest in October 2011, has reached a $4.5
The perpetual amnesia of the mainstream media regarding much of what President Barack Obama never ceases to amaze. In Sunday’s New York Times, Jason Horowith previews Obama’s meeting later this week with Pope Francis by exploring the president’s early work
In Los Angeles this week, three city council members blamed fracking for an earthquake, though they are not actually certain whether any fracking has occurred. In New York, Mayor Bill de Blasio is continuing his fight to crush charter schools that
How desperate are Democrats to sell Obamacare? So desperate that they’re adopting the Tea Party’s beloved symbol, the Gadsden “Don’t Tread on Me” flag, to sell it, as per this tweet by Democrat strategist Christine Pelosi (yes, that Pelosi family).
Half of those who called Covered California for help in enrolling in Obamacare in February and March hung up after waiting on hold, Chad Terhune of the Los Angeles Times reports. The California program, which is touted by Obamacare’s supporters as
University of California-Santa Barbara Professor Mireille Miller-Young, who teaches “Pornography; Sex Work; Black Film, Popular Culture and Art,” among other topics, has been charged with vandalism, battery and robbery after stealing a pro-life poster from a demonstration on campus and
As the first round of the NCAA men’s basketball tournament continues, the “brainy bracket“–in which I chose winners based on their academic rankings by U.S. News & World Report–remains largely intact. Harvard’s upset win over Cincinnati preserved their Elite Eight
Michael Madigan, the all-powerful Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, announced Thursday that he would direct the Democrat-controlled state legislature to place a referendum on the November ballot that would raise taxes on millionaires by three percent. The measure
We love Twitter, but it’s losing over $1,000 every minute. That’s according to a new website called “Turning a Profit,” which is hosted by worldpayzinc.com, a mobile credit card payments company. The site allows users to click a stopwatch and
Israel’s Minister of Defense, Moshe “Bogey” Ya’alon, has been forced to apologize to the U.S. for the second time this year. His crime: telling the truth–again. Earlier this week, he said that Israel would have to face Iran alone because
BERKELEY, CA — Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) received a warm welcome from a packed audience at the University of California-Berkeley on Wednesday afternoon, as he addressed the Berkeley Forum at International House. Paul’s message of investigating and restraining the Central
BERKELEY, CA — Sen. Rand Paul sips a latte and looks over at my mint tea. “What did you get?” he asks. “They don’t just have ‘coffee’ here,” an aide remarks. “Everything is some kind of special roast.” “Well, it
The left is having a collective giggle-fit over the nomination of Suzanne Atanus as the Republican nominee to challenge Jan Schakowsky in the 9th district of Illinois. I was the Republican nominee in 2010–and Atanus ran then, too. She was
Lt. General William G. “Jerry” Boykin is a man of controversial opinions, but antisemitism isn’t one of them. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) seized on a joke Boykin made to an Israeli reporter at Breitbart News’ “Uninvited II” conference
It’s time for the “manchildren” inside the Obama administration, and waving the pom-pons around it, to plug in their iPads, because they’re going to have to work overtime to defend this one. “But… but… What would Mitt Romney do?” isn’t
Though they do not actually know whether there is any hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) happening in Los Angeles, three members of the city council have introduced a resolution that blames tracking for Monday’s 4.4-magnitude earthquake, the Los Angeles Times reports. Last month,
On Tuesday evening, Loyola University of Chicago became the first Catholic institution, and the first from the state of Illinois, whose student government has passed an anti-Israel divestment resolution. The resolution, which a source says was not announced in advance,
A new twist has emerged in the search for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight 370, as a newspaper in the Indian Ocean nation of the Malvides has reported that residents of the remote island of Kuda Huvadhoo report having seen
Vladimir Putin seizes the Crimea, so we blockade the Bosporus. Iran defies the UN, so we sink its Persian Gulf fleet. China expands its air defense zone, so we start downing Chinese fighters. North Korea fires some missiles, so we
In 2012, when Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney visited Poland to show solidarity with the newly free democracies of Eastern Europe, the American media mocked him. “What about your gaffes?” a journalist shrieked as Romney left a war memorial in
Ramadan Shalah, the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror organization, which is funded, armed and controlled by Iran, lamented at a recent conference in Tehran that Jews love the disputed city of Jerusalem more than Palestinians and Muslims do,
There has been a chorus of criticism–and ridicule–surrounding President Barack Obama’s response to Russia’s impending annexation of Crimea. Having failed, after several long telephone conversations, to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Obama is now responding with sanctions against seven–seven–individuals
Asian-American leaders succeeded Monday in stopping an effort in the California legislature to overturn Proposition 209, which banned the use of race in admissions at state universities after its passage in 1996. Meanwhile, Latinos were set to become the state’s
In the spirit of March Madness, I’ve filled out my own NCAA men’s basketball tournament bracket. However, I don’t follow college basketball much, and I can’t pretend to know enough about the teams to make any neat predictions. So I’ve
Dr. Tracy Weitz, the sociologist whose research provided the basis for California’s new law permitting non-physicians to perform first-trimester abortions, has left the state to join the Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation in Omaha, NE as the director of its domestic
President Barack Obama met with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas on Monday, telling the press at a joint conference that Abbas is “somebody who has consistently renounced violence.” Yet while he himself has not carried out violent acts, Abbas built
“We are entering into our renewed relationship with our eyes open,” said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton five years ago, before presenting Russia’s foreign minister with the infamous bright red “reset” button. Russia has pushed the “reset” button all right,
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is set to meet U.S. President Barack Obama at the White House today, amidst low expectations for an Israeli-Palestinian peace process that has stalled despite strenuous U.S. efforts. Abbas arrives having rejected major American proposals, including
