With friends like this, who needs Democrats? Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama's mischief was methodical. Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson, asked about criticism from Richard Nixon, testily responded: "I do not want to get into a debate .?.?. with a chronic campaigner like Mr. Nixon." ... MORE
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George Will: Donald Trump Relishes Wrecking The GOP
With friends like this, who needs Democrats? Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack Obama's mischief was methodical. Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson, asked about criticism from Richard Nixon, testily responded: "I do not want to get into a debate .?.?. with a chronic campaigner like Mr. Nixon." ... MORESteve Chapman: Cruz, Rubio Tie God To Governing
Why is faith over reason a plus? If you attend a Republican presidential event on the campaign trail, you may come to wonder if you made a wrong turn and ended up in church. If you are not a believer—an evangelical Christian believer, that is—you may feel ever so slightly unwelcome. The deity-centric approach is working for Ted Cruz ... MOREWhat The War On Smoking Tells Us About The Drug War
by Danielle Allen. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. In January 1964, the Beatles first broke onto the Billboard chart with “I Want to Hold Your Hand”; by June, Ringo Starr had collapsed from tonsillitis and pharyngitis. In January , the surgeon general announced
that scientists had found conclusive evidence linking smoking to ... MOREEven The Mainstream Media Notices Obama's ISIS Failure
by Edward Morrissey. The emperor has no clothes. President Obama, like so many of us, was caught unprepared for ISIS's devastating attack on Paris. But unlike the rest of us, the leader of the free world was also caught unprepared a few days later, this time for the scrutiny of his record on the fight against the terrorist quasi-state. That 1-2 combo ... MOREObama Administration Bankrolling Nonstop Protests
by Paul Sperry. Barack Obama’s presidency has been pockmarked by rioting, looting and
protests. That’s no coincidence. It’s what the former community
organizer sought from Day One. And it’s just going to get worse before
he leaves office. The senseless protests we’re seeing break out on the campuses of the University of Missouri,
Yale and other ... MOREEvan Schuman: Turn That Old Phone Into A Privacy Device
New way to safeguard calls. Most forms of communication used by enterprises these days are highly prone to being intercepted, whether by law enforcement, cyberthieves, corporate spies, or wayward employees and contractors. That leaves enterprise IT open to new approaches to safeguard communications. I just saw one creative idea on the ... MOREDanny Vinik: Obama’s Effort To ‘Nudge’ America
Government using behavioral science to shape behavior. For the past year, the Obama administration has been running an experiment: Is it possible to make policy more effective by using psychology on citizens? The nickname is “nudging”—the idea that policymakers can change people’s behavior just by presenting choices or information ... MORESteve Chapman: Putin In Syria - So What?
Vladimir Putin is having a field day in the Middle East. He has sent Russian planes to bomb rebels in Syria. He has reached an intelligence-sharing agreement with Syria, Iran and Iraq. At the U.N. Monday, he reaffirmed his commitment to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. He seems determined to fill the regional vacuum ... MORETweaking The Propaganda: Obama Administration To Deploy "Behavioral Science" To Pimp Gov't Programs
by Charlie Spiering. A new executive order from President Obama directs all government agencies to use psychological science and data to help connect more Americans to government programs. The order instructs government agencies to use “behavioral science”— a tactic used by Obama’s political campaigns to harness data from their ... MORERalph Lopez: Does Jade Helm Violate Posse Comitatus?
A truly great analysis and conclusion. Obscured by Jon Stewart’s well-publicized mockery
of Texans’ reaction to Jade Helm 15—the US Army’s two-month-long
exercise across nine states scheduled to begin in July—is the fact that
the criticisms may not all be deranged droolings. The Daily Show‘s Stewart made headlines earlier in May when he ... MOREThomas Sowell: Who Wants War?
Barack Obama's dangerous illusion. Some pundits are saying that President Obama has been floundering in his response to the ISIS crisis because public opinion polls show most Americans don't want another war. In all my 84 years, I cannot recall a time when most Americans wanted war. That is something we should be proud of. ... MORE
Barry Farber: When Strong Words Came With Strong Deeds
"Don't break your toothpick." Water power gets all the credit, but word power does the same kind of job. Water can unleash the forces of nature. Words can unleash the forces of human nature. Freedom-lovers from Minneapolis to Manila found energy and a stiffer backbone when, after the Japanese conquered the Philippine Islands, Gen. ... MOREThomas Sowell: Success Or Failure?
Obama is a failure? Not so fast. Those people who say that President Obama has no clear vision and no clear strategy for dealing with the ISIS terrorists in the Middle East may be mistaken. It seems to me that he has a very clear and very consistent strategy. And a vision behind that strategy. First the strategy — which is to get each crisis off ... MOREObama On The Islamic State: Who’s On First?
by Monica Crowley. Obama foreign policy has long resembled the old Abbott and Costello “who’s on first” routine: a dazed and confused mush of leftist ideology and demonstrable weakness. The left hand hasn’t known what the far-left hand has been doing. Or the far-left hand has had to take the left one out to the woodshed for not being ... MOREBarry Farber: Little Boy, Big Flash
In praise of the life-saving bomb. A recent study revealed that over 98 percent of 3-year-olds believe the reason there’s glass on television sets is to keep the people from falling out! Is there a comparably grotesque absurdity among grown-ups? The answer is Yes, and it comes to mind every August when the anniversary of the ... MORERichard A. Epstein: The Pax Americana Is Dead
Presidential leadership continues to be an oxymoron. Thomas Friedman, the respected New York Times columnist, tried to do a
beleaguered President Barack Obama a favor by publishing a summary of
an extended interview between
the two men, which was grandly entitled “Obama on the World.” Friedman
tried to present the President ... MORE
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