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- Opinion · Sep 21, 2012Two Justice Department Officials Leave Over Damning Fast & Furious Report
claims he only read the cover-sheet of those applications. He told Fox News that while he takes issue with the report’s conclusions about him, he is resigning … deputy about concerns about Operation Wide Receiver, when he learned about it in 2010. Dennis Burke, the U.S. for the District of Arizona, “failed to exercise responsible oversight and failed
- Opinion · Sep 19, 2012Media Matters: Obama Administration Mouthpiece
that indicate direct coordination between the Obama Justice Department...and Media Matters to subvert news stories,” Daily Caller editor Tucker Carlson said Tuesday. “This proves coordination.” The first attempt … sent in September and November 2010 show Schmaler working with Media Matters staffer Jeremy Holden, who obliged Schmaler with an article published Sept. 20, 2010 criticizing both men for what
- Opinion · Sep 14, 2012The Hip-Hop President: All Swag, No Cattle
Obama stated perfunctorily: “No acts of terror will ever shake the resolve of this great nation, alter that character or eclipse the light of the values that we stand … tirades against the Tea Party, the Koch brothers, conservative talk radio, Fox News, House GOP budget reformers or GOP presidential rival Mitt Romney and his running mate, Paul Ryan
- Opinion · Sep 5, 2012Obama’s (Un)American Auto Bailout
bottom. Losses continue to be revised in the wrong direction. According to The Detroit News, “The Treasury Department says in a new report the government expects to lose more than … pushed the feds to hold onto GM’s failing German-based Opel AG. The Great American Auto Bailout has been subsidizing this hemorrhaging enterprise while Obama failed to deliver
- Opinion · Sep 3, 2012Media Yawn at Obama Hurricane Reaction
responders a pink slip if he becomes president. President Obama? “Obama has gone to great lengths to show that he is on top of the response to Isaac,” reported Reuters … hours before Romney arrived. ABC News re-interated Carney’s claim, even as it failed to mention the aforementioned cancellation. Perhaps the best news here is that the president will
- Opinion · Aug 9, 2012Dealing With All the Baloney
hear chanting in the streets, they know they are in the presence of the great unwashed? Like most thinking human beings, I was delighted when on June 5th, not only … Walker actually increased his margin of victory over Barrett from their initial battle in 2010. It reminds me of the old joke in which a reporter buttonholes Abe’s wife
- Opinion · Aug 3, 2012De-Bushing Romney
predecessor, only occasionally punctuated with complaints about Europe, ATMs, the GOP Congress, Fox News and tsunamis. Like a general fighting the last war, Obama is going with what’s worked … inflation. Bush gave us Medicare Part D, the biggest expansion in entitlements since the Great Society -- until Obamacare. He signed Sarbanes-Oxley, created a whole new Cabinet agency (the Department
- Opinion · Aug 2, 2012Tea Party Staying Power: The Ted Cruz Victory
beat Republican establishment candidate Charlie Crist in a come-from-behind win in the 2010 election. Unlike Rubio, Cruz is an almost certain winner in November. Texas hasn’t elected … victory proves there is little doubt that the Tea Party’s demise has been greatly exaggerated by a mainstream media that has done its utmost to label it racist, responsible
- Opinion · Jul 25, 2012Another Tea Party Terrorist Smear
around themselves. They are not just fair and objective, they’re also accurate . The great amateurish unwashed shouldn’t sit at keyboards in their pajamas and attempt the marvelous feats … character assassination of conservatives was proceeding nicely. But this is supposed to be a news studio, not a war room. Here’s another reason why the old media need
- Opinion · Jul 25, 2012Brian Ross’ Brain Cramp
prove their suspicions of sinister right-wing plots. Going with your gut can be great advice for sleuthing out stories, but awful guidance for reporting them. Which brings … himself the benefit of hindsight, by setting “Newsroom” in 2010. Hence, when the Times Square bomber is apprehended, the news team congratulates itself by choosing to do the “boring version
- Opinion · Jul 18, 2012CBS: Still Lazy With Obama After All These Years
sprinkles on top. Anyone who tuned in to “Sunday Morning” for the hard news would have “questions” like these: -- “It’s not a bad place to live.” (the White House … Maraniss last November . Just consider for two seconds the way Obama passed Obamacare in 2010: refusing any input from Republicans, strong-arming pro-life Democrats with completely insincere promises about
- Opinion · Jun 6, 2012The Upside of the Downside
over the last couple decades were good problems to have. Illegal immigration is a great example of a rich country’s problem. (For instance, no one but terrorists are sneaking … 2010, American multigenerational households increased at a faster rate of growth than in the previous eight years combined, according to AARP. In perhaps the most welcome news, laser tattoo removals
- Opinion · May 25, 2012Obama & Romney Tout Good News
In another sign that all is not well in Obama-land, the
- Opinion · May 24, 2012The Great Debate
WASHINGTON -- Here I am on the campaign trail, frenetically promoting my book
- Opinion · May 21, 2012Obama Pursues Higher Tax Rates, Growth Be Damned
pursued the goal of higher tax rates as relentlessly as Captain Ahab pursued the great white whale. Never mind that by some measures the United States, even with the “Bush … Obama doesn’t seem to care about these things. In the 2008 campaign, ABC News’ Charlie Gibson asked him whether he would increase the capital gains tax rate even
- Opinion · May 10, 2012Covert Mission Thwarts Al-Qaeda
February. Thus, it appears the demise of the organization responsible for 9/11 has been greatly exaggerated. Despite these sobering assessments, one of the reasons the administration likes the focus … Supreme Guide’s call for jihadism against the United States in October of 2010. Let us also not forget $1.5 billion commitment to the new Egyptian government whose parliament
- Opinion · Apr 30, 2012Our Marie Antoinette President
percent. This anemic trend represents part of the weakest economic recovery since the Great Depression. Most Americans understand that such a reality requires a certain amount of belt-tightening … House has asked news outlets not to report on or photograph the Obama children when they are not with their parents and there is no vital news interest. We have
- Opinion · Apr 23, 2012A Century of Service
hard work that goes into this unique accomplishment, but also because I greatly admire the way in which Eagle Scouts exemplify the dedication and selflessness that make a vibrant civil … prepared” makes the national news. Consider what happened as Eagle Scout Phil Murdock was piloting a raft of Scouts down the Snake River in July 2010
- Opinion · Mar 28, 2012Profiling
minority males for committing the crime. In my mind, it is not a great revelation that if officers are looking for criminal activity, they’re going to look … extra scrutiny at airports or listening to Fox News reporter Juan Williams, who was fired by National Public Radio in 2010 for publicly saying that he gets nervous when
- Opinion · Mar 14, 2012Obama’s Pump Debacle
story, particularly given how the last 30 days or so have not exactly been great for the GOP. No wonder Obama is desperate to get out in front … private and state lands, while on federal lands it’s dropped (11 percent from 2010 to 2011 alone). The administration has also slowed the permitting of offshore