When is it that the President Obama will start to take some blame for the ills that happen during his presidency and stop blaming the Bush Administration? He has been in office for over 500 days, and yet nothing is ever his fault. Part of Hope and Change, Mr. Obama, is to NOT point the […]
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About 4.5 seconds after I posted Pray Tell, I found a far more eloquent, better researched and more qualified piece which expresses my sentiments exactly. So I’ll defer to Gene Healy via The Washington Examiner: It’s hard to feel sorry for the “Yes We Can” candidate, who got the job by stoking the juvenile expectation […]
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Jake Tapper and Huma Khan via ABC: The White House is seemingly making an increased show of pressuring BP, but President Obama is facing political heat from within his own party for what some say has been a lackluster response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Pray tell, state worshipers, what the […]
Though I doubt that the residents of hell are seeing ice crystals form, it’s fair odds that they felt a chilly breeze when the The New York Times lamented that a Federal Court recently upheld unprecedented amounts of executive power. An anonymous editorialist: One of the most vital jobs of the federal courts is to […]
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Charles M. Blow via The New York Times: Such has been the narrative of his presidency: being treated like the janitor in chief — mopping up messes made by others and being chastised for leaving streaks. It couldn’t be that much of his chastisement is actually earned. I mean it isn’t as if he shoved […]
One to go. Perhaps this is one of few campaign promises that Obama will uphold.
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Kareem Fahim via The New York Times: After five days of sporadic fighting in the capital, the Jamaican police have still not found the object of their raid, a gang leader wanted in the United States on gun and drug charges, but the death toll has risen to at least 70 and complaints are mounting […]
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Elisabeth Bumiller via The Washington Post: The chiefs of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines objected on Wednesday to a compromise plan to repeal the military’s ban on allowing gay men and lesbians to serve openly, a position that put them at odds with President Obama and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.
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Gene Healy via The Washingtion Examiner: Like many middle-class kids, the president briefly flirted with drug culture before putting away childish things and becoming a high achiever. (Indeed, looking at what he has achieved since, you sometimes wish pot killed motivation as effectively as drug-war propagandists claim.) The president lacks the moral authority to lock […]
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Randall C. Archibold via The New York Times: President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the Southwest border and increase spending on law enforcement, yielding to demands from both Republican and Democratic lawmakers there that border security be tightened, administration officials said. I don’t want to argue that we don’t need […]
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