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Obama: 'We're Not a Banana Republic' (Video)

The Campaigner in Chief visited a Ford plant in Liberty, Missouri today to harangue Republicans about the need to raise the debt ceiling. “This is the United States of America – not some banana republic”, he said. “This is not

Defunding Obamacare Not 'Suicide' After All

Beltway conservatives have been warning for weeks that the movement to defund Obamacare through the upcoming budget debate is a political loser. Even columnist Charles Krauthammer, often sympathetic to the Tea Party movement, recently called the move to defund Obamacare

Defunding Obamacare Not 'Suicide' After All

Our Next President Is Going To Need A Bigger Reset Button

In response to Putin ‘Infuriated’ by Obama’s ‘Bored Kid’ Remark: Remember the great strides the Obama administration made back in 2009 to “reset” relations with Russia after Bush’s supposedly embarrassing and inept reign?  The grown-ups were now in charge and

Bill Keller Blames Obama for the Sequester

Bill Keller of the NY Times wrote an op-ed over the weekend which, while still taking some shots at the GOP, managed to lay some of the blame for “the large mess we are in” at the President’s feet. The

Assassination Power & Outlawry

I hear some people talking past each other on Obama’s self-declared right to assemble a Kill List of Americans and order their deaths, sans any kind of external check or procedural safeguards. Charles Krauthammer says that anyone who has taken

Friday: David Petraeus to Testify on Benghazi

It is being reported that former CIA Director David Petraeus will testify before the House and Senate Intelligence Committees after all. Whereas he was originally scheduled to testify in person on Thursday, it now appears he will testify off-site on

Friday: David Petraeus to Testify on Benghazi

Condi: Republicans Need a 'Bigger Tent'

According to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, Republicans lost their 2012 race against President Obama because they sent “mixed messages.” In an interview with CBS This Morning, Rice stated, “It was still a close election in the popular vote,”

Condi: Republicans Need a 'Bigger Tent'

Why Romney Will Win

Turnout, enthusiasm, and confidence.  Those are the simple reasons Republican Mitt Romney is likely to win Tuesday’s presidential election.  Recent polls in states previously considered safe for President Barack Obama show that Romney has indeed expanded the map: he is

Why Romney Will Win

CBS News Slams Romney for 'Lies' in Advertising

The July 30 episode of CBS Evening News had a segment about “lies” in campaign advertising. Correspondent Nancy Cordes gave Mitt Romney a slap for “taking the President out of context” in his ad about Obama’s July 13 “you didn’t build

CBS News Slams Romney for 'Lies' in Advertising

Barack Obama, Bitter Clinger

Charles Krauthammer pointed out yesterday on Fox News’ Special Report with Bret Baier that President Barack Obama is running on “fear of the other”–an ironic tactic, he said, given Obama’s infamous “bitter clinger” statement about rural Americans at an elite fundraiser in San

Barack Obama, Bitter Clinger

Krauthammer Does Huntington

Krauthammer: Sam [Huntington] He Is Not Monday night (12/26/11) Charles Krauthammer was interviewed by Mark Steyn (guest hosting for Sean Hannity on Fox News) about the ongoing murderous jihad depredations against Christians in Islamdom. The interview began by highlighting the

Educating Charles Krauthammer On The Copts And Egyptian Islam

Educating Charles Krauthammer, Part 3 (see parts 1 and 2, here and here) Tuesday evening (10/11/11) on Fox News’s Special Report “panel”, the resident journalistic eminence grise, Charles Krauthammer, attributed the murderous Muslim depredations against the Copts this past weekend

Hard-ons for 'Democracy'

When someone whispers the word “democracy” into the ears of many neocons, their reaction brings to mind the mandatory yellow flag in Viagra ads: “Priapism is an erection that continues hours beyond, or is unrelated to, sexual stimulation. Priapism is

'Who Is Charles Krauthammer'? — and Who Are We?

At Pajamas Media, David Solway asks a question I, too, have been pondering, and includes a nice mention of The Death of the Grown-Up: And when Krauthammer proceeds to dismiss “Islamism” as merely “an ideology of a small minority,” he