Is the President Really Clueless?

I don’t know which is more maddening, President Obama’s repeatedly claiming he finds out about important matters only after reading the newspapers, his expectation that we’ll swallow that, the even scarier prospect that it could be true, or that the media continue to give him a pass on it. Obama told CBS News senior White House correspondent Bill Plante that…

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The Unbearable Lightness Of Being … A Clinton Supporter

Upon hearing the news of Hillary Clinton’s closeted email server, progressives went into their natural state – attack mode. The former secretary of state unambiguously violated the law by housing her official emails in her mansion’s basement rather than government servers, but true believers couldn’t care less. In the same week retired General David Petraeus pleaded guilty to one count…

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Hillary Clinton Private Emails

If Hillary Clinton really wanted the public to see her emails, she’d be showing them instead of evading the question, and her “latest public relations trick” should be viewed with skepticism, National Journal senior political columnist Ron Fournier said in a condemning opinion piece Thursday. “If she wants to be transparent, she’d be transparent,” Fournier said. “If she wants to…

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Sweet Cakes

Valentine’s Day brings thoughts of love and marriage and sweet things to eat. This Valentines Day a business that is all about those things got some very bad news. Aaron and Melissa Klein own Sweet Cakes Bakery — well, at least they had a bakery. It was located on the edge of downtown Gresham, Oregon. They specialize in wedding cakes…

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Why Obama Dislikes Netanyahu – Dennis Prager

Those who do not confront evil resent those who do. There is no question about whether President Obama — along with Secretary of State John Kerry and the editorial pages of many newspapers — has a particular dislike of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But there is another question: Why? And the answer is due to an important rule of…

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The Fatal Flaw in the Iran Deal – Charles Krauthammer

WASHINGTON — A sunset clause? The news from the nuclear talks with Iran was already troubling. Iran was being granted the “right to enrich.” It would be allowed to retain and spin thousands of centrifuges. It could continue construction of the Arak plutonium reactor. Yet so thoroughly was Iran stonewalling International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors that just last Thursday the…

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Minimizing Muslim Terrorism

Yesterday I talked about how some commentators have been trying to minimize the threat from terrorism. Today I would like to talk about how others are trying to minimize Muslim terrorism. The most common method is familiar to all of us. Don’t use the word Muslim when talking about terrorism. Our nation’s foreign policy sounds like something from a Harry…

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IAEA Warns of Possible Iranian ‘Activities Related to Development of a Nuclear Payload

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has “further corroborated” information indicating that Iran “has carried out activities that are relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device,” the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says in its most recent report on Iran. Yet not only does Iran continue to deny inspectors access to a key suspect site, it has carried out work…

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IAEA Warns of Possible Iranian 'Activities Related to Development of a Nuclear Payload

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has “further corroborated” information indicating that Iran “has carried out activities that are relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device,” the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog says in its most recent report on Iran. Yet not only does Iran continue to deny inspectors access to a key suspect site, it has carried out work…

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Family Belonging – State of the Black Family

WASHINGTON, D.C.—Family Research Council’s Marriage and Religion Research Institute (MARRI) today issued its fifth annual “Index of Family Belonging and Rejection.” The Index charts the present intactness of the family in the U.S. by examining the proportion of fifteen- to seventeen-year-olds who grew up in an intact, married family. The “State of the Black Family” report will also be released…

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Wage Equity

Last week the issue of wage equity was in the news. First, it was the Oscar speech by Patricia Arquette that seemed to come out of nowhere. She said that it’s “time to have wage equality once and for all, and equal rights for women in the United States of America.” This was followed by an investigative story that reminded…

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