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The United States government is sending thousands of military troops to the west African nation of Liberia as part of the Obama administration's Ebola virus-response strategy, the White House said late Monday night. ....'A general from U.S. Army Africa, the Army component of U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM), will lead this effort, which will involve an estimated 3,000 U.S. forces.'

This particular talking point has suffered two ignominious deaths by prominent fact-checker, but the White House keeps putting shades on it and propping it up, with the administration’s own boyish Andy McCarthy type leading the way from the podium. Press Secretary Josh Earnest first made his ridiculous claim in an August 25 press briefing, pushing back on the Obama quote from David Remnick’s New Yorker piece that has become shorthand for the president’s dangerous underestimation of ISIS back when it was taking over hard-won territory in the Anbar province of Iraq. Here’s the first attempt at spin, which the Washington...

During his Sunday "Meet the Press" appearance, President Obama brazenly lied to host Chuck Todd about his January reference to ISIS as "JV." That´s not my judgment, it´s the judgment of PolitiFact, a site created to protect Democrats. This time, though, Obama went too far, even for a leftwing site like PolitiFact: Obama said his JV comment "wasn’t specifically referring to ISIL." He was not specifically asked about Islamic State, but it’s pretty clear this is the group that was being referenced in the conversation. The transcript backs this up, as do news events from the time of the discussion....

The last few days have proved to be a crashing reality for the idol worshipers who have left a trail of drool as they have followed Barack Obama since he announced he was the reincarnation of Abraham Lincoln and offered his brilliance for the world’s top job. He announced that he was smarter than his intelligence advisers, no matter what their speciality might be. Politics? Yes, I’m smarter he told us. National Security? Ditto. Economics? Yup, I’m the smartest guy in the room. He told the New Yorker Magazine he was the absolute champion of the smart people who surround...

Obama at 38% approval // 54% Disapproval - Lowest Approval of his presidency.

Wow. That was some summer. The Islamic State that President Obama dismissed as "JV" proved to be a virulent varsity—gobbling up gobs of the Middle East, beheading an American journalist, and threatening the United States. Russia invaded Ukraine. Ferguson burned. Obama shrugged. "The truth of the matter is that the world has always been messy," the president told Democratic donors between meetings of his national security team and rounds of golf. "In part, we're just noticing now because of social media and our capacity to see in intimate detail the hardships that people are going through." No, that's not it....