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resident Barack Obama likes to see himself as a moral leader. "The arc of the moral universe is long," Obama likes to say, quoting Martin Luther King Jr, "but it bends toward justice." According to Obama, Obama is a genteel representative of decency and good grace, a man pointing America toward a broader vision, a fellow questing for social justice and contextual consideration. In reality, he's a narcissistic fool. And like Burgess Meredith's character in "The Twilight Zone," he will be left standing in the ruins, bewailing the fates that abandoned him, leaving no worshipful admirers upon whom to lean....

While the most arrogant President in modern American history pontificates that if only he had been permitted to run for a third term he would have been easily reelected, President-elect Donald Trump is methodically preparing to assume office as the first true reformer since Ronald Reagan. Media pundits love to speculate on what Trump’s “First 100 Days” will look like. However, the country’s 45th President-in-waiting likely will press an agenda that can accomplish more in his first month than most of his predecessors accomplished in their first year.After all, what is so magical about the “first 100 days”? It...

Let's hop in the way-back machine for a minute, shall we? We don't need to go far … just a few months back to be exact. It was a different time. Hairstyles were different. Fashion was different. Kids were listening to a different type of music their parents couldn’t understand. It was a crazy time. It also was a time marked by the Democratic Party insisting that what made this country great was the "peaceful transition of power." Like I said, it was a different time. It was Oct. 19 when Donald Trump would not give in to Chris Wallace,...

resident Obama delivered a longwinded lecture to the press on Friday about its “unfair” treatment of Hillary Clinton during the campaign, drawing ire from mainstream journalists. The president, who was delivering his final 2016 news conference, implied the media’s “obsession” with Clinton’s leaked emails did more damage to the former secretary of state than the Russian cyber attacks against Democratic political networks. “This was an obsession that dominated the news coverage,” Obama said. “So I do think it is worth us reflecting how it is that a presidential election of such importance, of such moment, with so many big issues...

Here’s some real talk from President Barack Obama, taken from his conversations with Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Atlantic: I’m careful not to attribute any particular resistance or slight or opposition to race. But what I do believe is that if somebody didn’t have a problem with their daddy being employed by the federal government, and didn’t have a problem with the Tennessee Valley Authority electrifying certain communities, and didn’t have a problem with the interstate highway system being built, and didn’t have a problem with the GI Bill, and didn’t have a problem with the [Federal Housing Administration] subsidizing the...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, what is one of the things...? It's an unfair question because there's so many possible answers. What would come to your mind first or second if I asked you the question, "What have I said consistently about Obama in trying to get people to understand who he is?" Answer: "He's got a chip on his shoulder about this entire country from the founding forward because he thinks it's unjust and illegitimate, was a slave state (and still is) and therefore is heavily balanced and abused against African-Americans." I've said that I can't tell you...

In his 2016 State of the Union address, President Obama summarized his achievements. That same night, the White House issued a press release touting Obama's accomplishments. Now that he will be leaving, how well did these initiatives listed in the press release actually work out? "Securing the historic Paris climate agreement." The accord was never submitted to Congress as a treaty. It will be ignored by President-elect Trump. "Achieving the Iran nuclear deal." That "deal" was another effort to circumvent the treaty-ratifying authority of Congress. It has green-lighted Iranian aggression, and it probably ensured nuclear proliferation. Iran's violations will cause...

The mills of democratic politics in Palestinian organizations grind slowly, if they ever grind at all. This was borne out once again at the 7th General Congress of the Fatah section of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) held in Ramallah, the capital of the West Bank, on November 29, 2016, the anniversary of the day in 1947 when the UN General Assembly approved the Partition of Palestine. This was the first such conference since 2009. It was attended by 1400 delegates compared with 2355 in 2009. The main function of the Congress was to elect the leader of Fatah, the...

No sooner had president-elect Trump announced a deal had been reached with air conditioner manufacturer Carrier to keep 1,100 manufacturing jobs in Indiana rather than being shipped to Mexico, the usual suspects began chattering about “corporate welfare”, “crony capitalism”, and the hypocritical picking of winners and losers. Carrier is an established business, not a pipe dream like the green energy failures President Obama subsidized like Solyndra. It is one of many U.S. businesses struggling to survive in the Obama era of high taxes and oppressive regulation. Trump has promised to cut corporate taxes and eliminate oppressive and job-killing regulations, but...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: The left and the Democrats are continuing to spin out of control. They do not know what has happened to them. They are still blaming polls. Nate Silver is the latest target for the Democrats. Nate Silver didn't use the polling data correctly and misled Democrat voters. I mean, they're just... (laughing) Obama is out there; he's gone to Rolling Stone magazine to complain about fake news! Rolling Stone magazine just lost a lawsuit of something like $7 million about their fake rape story at the University of Virginia. You know, an infobabe reporter made it all...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: We've got four more police officers shot. It has to stop. But, you know, one of the problems with this is that... I hate to say it. But some of these people -- Black Lives Matter, when they're involved and other civil rights groups -- when they start shooting up the cops, there's praise for them in certain sectors of our society. Certain elements of the Democrat Party are supportive. Certain elements of the media are supportive. We've had police officers shot in Texas; Missouri; San Antonio; Sanibel, Florida; St. Louis, Missouri; and Gladstone, Missouri. And I......

resident Obama seems to think he can jawbone his “legacy” into permanency, despite the recent election. He says the Iran nuclear deal will endure. The Paris agreement will last. Regulations cannot and will not be rolled back. ObamaCare will retain its chief provisions. But the political earthquake resulting in the election of Donald Trump is but an indicator of the tsunami of change that is about to happen. The truth of the matter is that the Obama administration saw the high-water mark of progressivism. Its overwhelming power has been broken. Attempts to persuade the renegade American public and its new...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Did you hear what the Reverend Jackson said? In fact, I've got a sound bite on this. I'll find it over here. Pardon me, folks, while I find it. Grab audio sound bite... What is it? It is audio sound bite... I thought I had it right... (interruption) Fourteen! Thank you for the help. Audio sound bite 14, the Reverend Jackson, University of Michigan Ann Arbor yesterday. He's being given an award or honored for his five decades of Civil Rights Act activism, and during the events he delivered the keynote address and said among other things......

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama... Obama.... Get this. "During a conference call Monday with his grassroots supporters, President Obama admitted to being disappointed by last week's election results." He has started criticizing Trump now. Have you noticed? Folks, I need to take you back to one of my original theories about why Trump was treating Obama the way he was. Do you remember my theory? My theory is that he did this because it's a dangerous time in our country, because of the election results and because of the shock the losers feel that the losers still have the power for...

We can never know the whole truth, but we do know some of it. We know for sure that Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hononlulu, Hawaii on August 4, 1961. We know that, although New York Times reporter Nate Cohen confessed in his paper he had "fudged" projection numbers of the outcome of the November 8, 2016 presidential election, Donald Trump still won. We know, though she might change her mind, that the actress Cher is packing her bags "to leave the planet" because of Trump's victory. However, for some commentators there is still some confusion about or refusal...

It's safe to say that there has rarely, if ever, been a president more absolutely sure of the utter and total correctness of his positions than Barack Obama. While outward humility and the intentional display of human hesitation have long been staple behavioral facets of virtually every first-rate high-level communicator as he tries to connect with (and win the support of) his constituency when making difficult decisions, words such as "I've really struggled with this" or "I've thought long and hard about this one" seldom seem to emanate from President Obama's lips. Instead, complete self-assuredness bordering on smug, condescending arrogance...

here is no valid reason for the "protests" each night since Trump's election in cities such as New York and Miami and the riots in Portland. What exactly are they protesting? We had an election, Trump won, and Hillary conceded. It is over. If the "protesters" do not like the results, there is nothing they can do about it under our laws. We do not reverse election results because mobs riot in the streets. They should go home and work on reforming the Democratic Party to nominate a better candidate for 2016. The MSM have reported that these actions are...

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Obama did his final Veterans Day appearance at Arlington National Cemetery today, and the media of course made a big deal about that. There's gonna be a lot of Obama lasts coming up that they're gonna be crying tears over, and this was one of them today. Grab audio sound bite number 20. I mean, this I think captures and encapsulates yet another set of challenges that we have because I really would like to be able to -- I don't know if I can do it. I haven't really thought about how. I really would like...

Skip to 3:50 below for the key bit. Good lord. He’s about as far off-script from the usual Democratic message as you can get. After all the Democrats' concern about voter suppression, this is an interesting response from Obama to Al Sharpton in a new interview pic.twitter.com/9qrJ3riT6a— Chris Megerian (@ChrisMegerian) November 4, 2016 I assume the left will walk this back after the election by claiming that O deliberately underplayed the impact of voter-ID laws and fewer early-voting hours in order to boost morale among minority voters. If he had complained loudly here about “voter suppression,” it might have backfired...

Guy has written extensively on the policy trainwreck that is the Affordable Care Act. It is a complete nightmare, with double-digit premium spikes about to hit the nation (on average) next year. ThatÂ’s a Tomahawk missile strike to most home budgets, especially those in AmericaÂ’s middle class. An ironic twist since Obamacare was supposed to help this economic demographic, which now finds itself being more squeezed by this law. Even CNN Money noted that Obamacare is turning into another government program that helps predominantly lower income Americans. Simply put, the law isnÂ’t affordable. Republicans have known this. Minnesota Democratic Gov....