Obama considers executive orders as second-term agenda crumbles
by Ben German President Obama has a chance to craft a second-term legacy on climate change even as the rest of his agenda runs aground in Congress. Gun control legislation…
Obama’s repeated dishonesty crossed a bright line
by Kyle Smith How Americans see President Obama changed in an important way this week. It’s because there is a huge difference between lies and bulls – – t. Obama…
A dishonest presidency
by Marc A. Thiessen The Wall Street Journal broke the news this weekend that, even as President Obama was telling the American people they could keep their health plans, “some…
The Unbearable Lightness of Obama
The president didn’t know the NSA was spying on world leaders, but he’s found time for at least 146 rounds of golf. by Bret Stephens Is there a method to…
Who Has Done the Most Damage?
by Dennis Prager I have been broadcasting for 31 years and writing for longer than that. I do not recall ever saying on radio or in print that a president…
Obama’s fingerprints all over the IRS scandal
It’s past time for the media to begin asking President Obama tough questions about the IRS conservative targeting scandal. After all he was involved, publicly, from the beginning. Last Friday,…
Is Pres. Obama locked in a victim mentality?
Editor’s Note: In 2009, Obama forbid the term “war on terror” within his administration. In the years that have followed, Obama has been reluctant to use the word “terrorist” or…
Governing with Malice and in Bad Faith
White House Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell sent out a memo instructing agency heads not to consider whether the cost of shutting down a government website is…
Who caused the Shutdown?
by Charles Krauthammer The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths. The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the perpetrators and the origins of the current…
Obama: Ducking a leader’s duty
A vast scholarly literature spanning more than six decades exists on the subject of leadership. The characteristics of effective leaders have been pored over, cataloged and debated. Among them, one…
Shutting down World War II Memorial: A Symbol of Malice
The mainstream media is in the midst of one of its regular exercises in completely missing a wave of groundswell conservative anger — this time over the closing of the…
Weakness matters
Projecting weakness ultimately ties the hands of the weak leader and pushes him into small thinking and reflexive action. I usually stay away from using current polls to gauge how…
The Poor: Reagan vs. Obama
by Ralph R. Reiland I think the poor need another Reagan in the White House. The income of black heads-of-households dropped by 10.9 percent from June 2009 to June 2013.…
America is Exceptional
by Carl M. Cannon The evidence that Vladimir Putin — and not his American public relations firm — really wrote the pugnacious New York Times op-ed on Syria that infuriated…
What is the Goal in Syria? What is the plan?
Why are we even talking about taking military action in Syria? What is that military action supposed to accomplish? And what is the probability that it will in fact accomplish…