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Just How Smart is Obama?

The meteoric rise to the presidency of Barack Obama was fueled in no small part by the widely-accepted contention that he was one of the smartest men ever to seek the Oval Office. He is not the first leader to be oversold. “As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither [...]

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Obama, the Chicago Boys, and their 30 Billion Dollar Slush Fund

By: Ed Lasky The Obama administration is seeking to exclude from federal oversight its new $30 billion dollar small-business lending program. Obama’s rhetoric about transparency during the campaign was as phony as his vow to end the era of lobbying (last year was that industry’s best year ever in Washington). David Cho writes in the [...]

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Worse than Awful

We have something awful right now:  four years of Obama’s incompetence and socialism.  If conservatives of all parties don’t start pulling the rope in the same direction, we will have something worse:  four more years of Obama’s incompetence and socialism.  Please take the time to read Mr. Wright’s brilliant analysis of our current political milieu.  [...]

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The Yemeni Front in the War on Terror

By John Leonard It is difficult to decide which thought is more disturbing regarding the recent terror attack on Northwest Flight 253: that terrorist Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab nearly succeeded, or the reaction by U.S. officials in the aftermath of the attempted bombing. Janet Napolitano’s ridiculous claim that everything went according to plan was retracted, revised, [...]

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A failed presidency is now unavoidable

By: Monty Pelerin For the past couple of months I have worried about the risks of a failed presidency. No one should want this, regardless of party affiliation. It is harmful and dangerous to our economy and country. However, it appears obvious to me that the royal regime known as Obama has ended. Seth Leibsohn [...]

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