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Obama’s Resolution: Ignore Congress Again in 2012

The mainstream media have finally caught on to the president’s agenda, more than a year after this author exposed it in these pages. On New Year’s Day, the Los Angeles Times carried a story detailing Barack Obama’s strategy for 2012: bypass Congress and rule by executive order. The Times quoted Obama adviser Josh Earnest’s curt […]

Mitt Romney’s Iowa “Win” was a Defeat

Mitt Romney, the Republican candidate for President that Barack Obama fears most, won the Iowa caucus last night by 8 votes over former Pennsylvania U.S. Senator Rick Santorum. Both candidates ended up with about 25% of the vote, yet Romney’s campaign outspent Santorum in Iowa by a margin of around 100 – 1. And a […]

Santorum Criticizes Ronald Reagan On Taxes & Social Security During NH Speech

The so-called Eleventh Commandment — “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican” — which was popularized by President Ronald Reagan, has been violated numerous times in this electoral season. Now, following his somewhat unexpected success in Iowa, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum appears to have violated the unspoken Twelfth Amendment: “Thou shalt not […]

Gingrich: 75 Percent of Iowa Republicans ‘Repudiated’ Romney

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says he thinks the real story out of Iowa is that three-fourths of the state Republican caucus-goers “repudiated Mitt Romney.” Commenting today on Romney’s mere eight-vote victory over former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum in the Iowa caucuses Tuesday, Gingrich said: “I think what is really striking about last night is […]

Morning Bell: Voter ID Prevents Election Fraud

Last night’s nail-biter in Iowa marked the beginning of election year 2012. And with Americans heading to the polls — next in New Hampshire, then South Carolina and beyond — they will hope to rely on the integrity of the election system to ensure that every legitimate vote counts and that fraud is not the […]

Santorum’s Experiment in Truth-Telling

Even though he is a columnist for The Washington Post, Charles Krauthammer often makes shrewd observations about American politics. On Fox News the night before the Iowa caucuses, however, Krauthammer indulged in a false appeal to common knowledge — before casually dismissing Rick Santorum as a nonviable presidential candidate Bill O’Reilly asked: Who is going […]

OWS and TEA Party seeing two ends of an Elephant

My law professor friend is an ardent leftist and Obama supporter. We have exchanged ideas and barbs for over two years. His latest post www.mealsfromthemarketplace.com included in part: “… the Occupy Wall Street movement might save America from the march toward plutocracy that it has been on for the last thirty years. Properly understood, the […]