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Mr. President, Why Won't You Help Us Avert National Bankruptcy?
President Obama, I'd like to follow up on my most recent column and ask you a few more questions, please. I am assuming you don't dispute that our nation faces a very serious financial problem, with unfunded liabilities in excess of $100 trillion. I use the word "assuming" because I don't remember you ever spending much time talking about this problem, which is odd because the very subject haunts so many Americans and makes them fearful for the future of this country. Yet if you do recognize that these liabilities threaten our nation's solvency, how is it conceivable that you've not made the problem one of your foremost priorities? Yes, you established a bipartisan deficit commission, but you refused to meet with it and you ignored its findings, so that doesn't get you off the hook.
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Big Business Is Not Conservative
Stephen Moore, of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, reported Friday that the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate from Arizona, Congressman Jeff Flake, has little support among some powerful big businessmen in Arizona: "In his razor-tight race for Arizona's open Senate seat, Republican nominee Jeff Flake -- a six-term U.S. congressman -- recently met behind closed doors with about a dozen leading businessmen in the state, including two powerful and respected CEOs: real-estate developer Mike Ingram and former Phoenix Suns owner Jerry Colangelo.
Libya and Lies
It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to deceive the public about what happened in Benghazi. What has this man not deceived the public about? Remember his pledge to cut the deficit in half in his first term in office? This was followed by the first trillion dollar deficit ever, under any President of the United States -- followed by trillion dollar deficits in every year of the Obama administration. Remember his pledge to have a "transparent" government that would post its legislative proposals on the Internet several days before Congress was to vote on them, so that everybody would know what was happening? This was followed by an ObamaCare bill so huge and passed so fast that even members of Congress did not have time to read it.
Neville Obama
In 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain was determined to keep peace between Great Britain and Germany. Dismayed by the carnage of World War I, Chamberlain (along with most of the opinion elite in England) sought peace with honor -- but in any case, peace. Yes, Chamberlain had watched with growing anxiety as Germany, in defiance of treaties, rearmed, and as the Nazi party engaged in ever more brazen and violent repression of domestic opponents. Germany's alliance with militarist Japan and fascist Spain (1936), followed by the Pact of Steel with fascist Italy and the absorption of Austria in early 1938, increased Downing Street's disquiet. Yet Chamberlain was determined that Hitler should comprehend Britain's peaceful intentions.
Former Senator and '72 Presidential Nominee George McGovern (D-SD)
This interview with George McGovern was conducted by Cal Thomas for his 1999 book "Blinded by Might: Why the Religious Right Can't Save America."
They Didn't Riot Over This Video
After nearly a month of cringing and getting lost in their own contradictions, the Obama administration is finally clinging to an elliptical mention by the president of "acts of terror" that he claims won't deter us from doing whatever we are supposed to do in the Mideast. What *was* it we were supposed to be doing over there? Oh, supporting democracy, of course. But democracy in a country where "freedom fighters" roar into town shooting their rifles in the air is going to be hard to achieve. All those celebratory bullets have a nasty way of coming down again. And they can hit local voters as they are lining up to cast their ballots.
Foreign Policy
Tonight's debate will center on foreign policy. The problem with foreign policy is that as President you just need so many of them. It's a big world. There are 193 members of the United Nations and 192 of them are not named The United States of America. Every one of those countries has problems. Some are problems with too many people earning too little money, like Haiti. Some are problems with too much money that they use to buy off their non-working population, like Saudi Arabia.
Can a Conscientious Liberal Back Obama?
You're a passionate and committed liberal. Four years ago, enthralled by Barack Obama's biography and inspired by his oratory, you voted for him with pride. You embraced his promise of hope and change. You were deeply moved by the racial progress he symbolized. But above all you voted for him because he expressed such enlightened views. You didn't just want a Democrat back in the White House, you wanted one who would bring progressive clarity to US national policy.
If Obama Wins, Will He Be Another Woodrow Wilson?
How will this election be seen in history? Obviously, it depends on who wins. If Barack Obama is defeated, the irresistible comparison will be with Jimmy Carter. A one-term president was rejected after pursuing big government programs amid high energy prices and attacks on America in the Middle East. Actually, that's not entirely fair to Carter. His budget deficits were minuscule next to Obama's, and in response to the Soviet attack on Afghanistan he began the defense buildup that Ronald Reagan accelerated.
Benghazi is the Rule, Not the Exception
One of the primary questions being asked about the Benghazi debacle -- by those in the mainstream media whose first calling isn't protecting the president at all costs -- is why the four Americans who were killed were so vulnerable to attack. The answer to that question is obvious: the political philosophy that animates this administration inevitably trumps events on the ground, no matter how many "bumps in the road," or "not optimal" outcomes, as president Obama has characterized them, arise as a result. Yet last week, two other stories that deserve far wider dissemination than they will ever receive, illuminate just how deep the ideological rot has penetrated. Benghazi is critically important -- but far more revealing are the twin circuses surrounding the trials of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Nidal Malik Hasan.
Spanking Liberals
I thought it was hilarious when Barack Obama took Mitt Romney to task for only disclosing two years of tax returns. He said, "When you run for president, people assume your life is an open book." I want to know who writes this guy's material so I can send him a fan letter. Imagine, the guy who has done his level best to keep all of his own personal records sealed has the chutzpah to chide his opponent for keeping secrets. That old adage about the pot calling the kettle names leaps to mind. If liberals didn't have double standards, they wouldn't have any standards at all. I refer to the fact that 102 American soldiers have been killed by Afghans in uniform, 40 of the murders just in the past eight months. How is it that the same folks who kept demanding that Bush pull our troops out of Iraq aren't insisting that Obama pull them out of Afghanistan? Why is it that the L.A. Times isn't running a daily scorecard of military deaths and that Garry Trudeau doesn't list the names of the ambushed warriors in his Sunday edition of Doonesbury?
President Mitt Romney
The title of my latest book, "Barack Obama, You're Fired! (And Don't Bother Asking for a Letter of Recommendation)," is more than an example of wishful thinking. I am convinced that this year, Christmas will fall on November 6th when Santa Claus, recognizing who's been naughty and who's been nice, will do the right thing and fill our Christmas stocking with Mitt Romney and a Republican Senate. The part I don't get is why politicians who have been voted out of office in early November are then allowed to hang around until the third week of January, creating all sorts of mischief. What takes them so long to pack up and clear out? If you're fired from a job in the real world, you're expected to leave the premises and not let the door hit you in the backside. That being the case, why is a politician allowed 75 days to clean out his desk and hand over the keys? I mean, if we really wanted the stiff to keep voting, we wouldn't have elected the other guy.
Seeds of Our Dysfunction
America's bold premise is the possibility of dignified self-government -- people making reasonable choices about restrained appetites. But three decades ago, Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntington postulated that America suffers regularly recurring political convulsions because the gap between the premise and reality becomes too wide to ignore.
From The Comedy Store
Skydiver Felix Baumgartner waved to Internet viewers Sunday before leaping out of a rocket plane in the stratosphere. The world watched in awe. He free-fell to earth from over one hundred thousand feet, setting a new world record previously held by Facebook stock.
Romney Won It on Points
If the second presidential debate had been a prize fight, the ringside announcer would have said, "In the right corner, wearing white trunks, is Mitt ("The Gentleman Pugilist") Romney. In the left corner, wearing black trunks, are Barack ("The Low Blow Kid") Obama and Candy ("I Wuv You, Barack") Crowley. I know that people were complaining about the replacement referees, who officiated at the first few football games this season, but at least they were merely incompetent, they didn't play favorites. It figured that at a debate where the live audience was asked not to cheer or boo, the agreement would be broken by Michelle Obama, when she led the applause after Ms. Crowley backed up Obama's lie about referring to the Benghazi attack as an act of terrorism, in the Rose Garden, on 9/12.
Is Obama Buying the Election With His Welfare Explosion?
With the unprecedented budget explosion of means-tested, welfare-related entitlements, does Team Obama think it can buy the election? It's a cynical question. But I wouldn't put it past that cynical bunch.
Read more The Second Debate Thud
Here's what we know so far: The first debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney changed the direction of the campaign. In the two-plus weeks since that debate Obama's lead in national polls and nearly every battleground state poll has shrunk or Romney has pulled ahead. The second debate, which most observers believe Obama won on style points, has had no effect on the race whatsoever. At least so far.
President Obama's Other Libya Scandal
As presidential debaters clash over the meaning of a Rose Garden general reference to "acts of terror," and whether that phrase was applied to the murder of our ambassador to Libya and three of his colleagues, and with a debate moderator throwing a "life line" to one of the candidates, it's interesting to note something *else* said in the secure environs of the White House complex the bright morning after that night of flame and death in Benghazi. It's almost like Poe's short story, *The Purloined Letter*. The critical evidence is in plain sight. The day after the murders of the Americans, President Obama promised to cooperate with our presumed friends in the new Libyan regime in Tripoli.