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Two days ago, Barack Obama was bragging about how good the economy supposedly was and blaming right-wing media for talking it down. Based on [Friday's] jobs report, Obama might order drone strikes on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh's EIB headquarters! Experts expected that at least 160,000 new jobs were created last month. Reality struck back with a vengeance [Friday] morning. According to the Labor Department's report, only 38,000 new jobs were created last month — the worst level of job creation in at least five years.
[Wednesday], President Obama held a town hall event in Elkhart, Indiana, to tout his economic accomplishments. Obama's speech was full of contradictions and inconsistencies. For example, he blamed conservative media for people believing the economy is in bad shape. Obama said, "It is the story that is broadcast every day on some cable news stations, on right wing radio. It is pumped into cars and bars and VFW halls all across America. . ." What is he talking about?
Later this month, British voters will go to the polls and cast their ballots on a referendum to stay or exit the European Union (EU). The vote is often referred to as the "Brexit" — short for "British exit." You may recall that Barack Obama went to England several weeks ago and threatened British voters if they dared to leave the EU. Obama suggested England would be at the back of the line in future trade deals.
Former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson and former Massachusetts Governor William Weld were nominated to lead the Libertarian ticket at the party's national convention over the weekend, which made headlines for other reasons. Johnson and Weld claim to be conservatives, but Weld is especially liberal on values issues and Johnson supports legalizing virtually all drugs.
Monday is Memorial Day, a national observance first known as Decoration Day. The first Memorial Day was observed on May 30, 1868. Flowers were placed on the graves of Union and Confederate soldiers at Arlington National Cemetery. Initially meant as a time to remember those who fell during the bloody battles of our brutal Civil War, the holiday's significance has been extended to honor all those who paid the ultimate price for our nation.
Once again a coalition of states is going into federal court seeking to roll back yet another outrageous abuse of executive power by the Obama administration. From Obamacare to environmental regulation, this is becoming a routine event.
The State Department inspector general's office has reportedly concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server violated the Federal Records Act.
That's a headline you don't see very often and with good reason. No one would confuse the two — except a high-ranking bureaucrat.
Opposition to Obama's radical agenda of allowing children to choose which bathrooms and locker rooms they want to use is growing. Here's the latest.
9/11. The D.C. sniper. Fort Hood. The Boston Marathon bombing. The Oklahoma City beheading. San Bernardino. Those are just a few examples of terrorist attacks carried out in America by Islamic extremists. Sadly, we can expect more death and suffering in the long battle ahead.
In recent days there has been a brutal attack leveled against well-known conservative leader and intellectual Bill Kristol. Bill has been in the cauldron of The Washington battle for many years. He has crossed swords with the left's best attack dogs and regularly defeated them. But this attack comes not from the left but from some on the right, and the level of vitriol hurled at Bill has crossed the line of civil discourse.
Iran is now demanding reparations from the United States. The Iranian parliament [Tuesday] voted 174-to-7 in favor of legislation seeking compensation for "spiritual and material damage" caused by U.S. policies over the past 63 years. According to Majid Ansari, Iran's vice president for Parliamentary Affairs, Iranian courts have issued judgments of at least $50 billion against the United States.
The Obama administration's deception in selling the nuclear deal with Iran was the subject of a hearing on Capitol Hill [yesterday]. The White House refused to allow Deputy National Security Adviser Ben Rhodes to testify about his role in manipulating the media. Rhodes can talk to the New York Times Magazine but not members of Congress?
The commencement address to the 2016 graduating class of Rutgers University should have been a rewarding event for the students who worked so hard for so long. No doubt it was memorable in that the speaker was the president of the United States. But, sadly, although predictably, President Obama breached all unspoken traditions and protocols.
The economy is stagnant. ISIS continues its genocide. But the Obama administration has the time to launch another blitz in its ongoing war against our Judeo-Christian culture. Having successfully redefined marriage, the left is now trying to force its radical agenda into the schools and on our children. When conservatives warned that would happen, we were mocked. Well, here we are.
A deeply divided Republican Party took a major step toward unity [yesterday]. Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan met [Thursday] morning to discuss their differences as well as areas of agreement. After their meeting on Capitol Hill, they issued a joint statement.
The big contest for Democrats [Tuesday] night was West Virginia. (The Nebraska primary is non-binding.) Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders continues to give former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fits. She just cannot put this race away. [Tuesday] night, Sanders beat Clinton by 15 points among West Virginia Democrats. That's a stunning reversal from 2008 when Clinton beat Barack Obama by 41 points. In 2008, Clinton won nearly 241,000 votes. [Tuesday] night, she won only 86,000.
The Obama administration declared war [Monday] on normalcy and the rule of law when Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced that she was countersuing the state of North Carolina over its commonsense bathroom law. Make no mistake about what is going on here: The Obama administration is unilaterally rewriting the law. It is attempting to force every state in the nation to comply with its radical demand that men and boys who "identify" as women and girls suddenly have a new "civil right" to use whatever bathroom they choose.
One of the progressives who runs America gave the commencement address to the 2016 graduating class of Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts, Friday. Just in case the students weren't made stupid enough by four years of left-wing indoctrination, the speaker finished the job when he said, in response to proposals to build a border wall, "There are no walls big enough to stop people from anywhere, tens of thousands of miles away, who are determined to take their own lives while they target others."
[Friday] morning's April jobs report disappointed many economists. It estimated that 160,000 jobs were created last month, but the experts had predicted at least 200,000. Moreover, the jobs figures for March and February were revised downward by nearly 20,000. And while 160,000 new jobs were added last month, that "good news" is overshadowed by the fact that more than twice that number of people — 362,000 — left the labor force last month.
