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While the American public has turned their attention inward towards economic challenges and health care debates, the Obama administration has engaged in a re-writing of US foreign policy based upon Wilsonian idealism that is resulting in concessional disarmament and an abandoning of long-standing commitments to US allies. Throughout the 2008 election, I repeatedly warned that the direction of President Obama's foreign policy would lead us down a path in which our nation would repeat the idealistic foreign policy failures of the Wilson administration that led to the Treaty of Versailles, abandoned support of our allies and led us into a...

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Why would a man who prides himself on his discretion, who has been so careful not to denigrate or comment on Barack Obama, be so loose-lipped with the junior staff at the White House? It doesn’t make sense and is totally out of character. As a biographer, I’ve learned that one way to fact-check something written about a person is to see if that material is out of character, or rings true. When I first started researching the life of Wyatt Earp I discovered there were two versions of his life. He was either good or evil with nothing in...

The weekly jobless claims just came out and they hit another recent multi month low. This week the number of new jobless claims came in at 545,000. Last week it was 550,000 and so a trend might be forming. It also bodes well for the monthly jobs number that will come out the first Friday in October. Markets had a great day yesterday. All were up in the neighborhood of 1%. That followed near across the board gains around both Europe and the Far East. This morning, however, markets look to open rather flat. The futures of all three indices...

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT): "The middle class in this country is collapsing. We've got 17-percent of our population who don't have jobs; people have lost their homes, people have lost their savings."

In the wake of Joe Wilson's crude outburst, many network commentators (and Jimmy Carter, of course) are weighing in on the new racism that supposedly explains 1) rising opposition to Obamacare and 2) the president's sinking polls. I think this is a disastrous political move to save a health-care plan that simply has not appealed to a majority of Americans. I suspect it will result in another 5-point poll slide. To prove their charge, those who allege racism would have to show empirically that the present angry rhetoric eclipses what was said about and done to Bush. It does not...

It is safe to say that certain elements of the MSM are starting to see that our emperor has no clothes. Whenever a story like this comes out, one wonders whether Obama is just naive and inexperienced or a bald-faced liar. Which one do you think the Post chooses?

Can this republic be saved or is it too far gone?

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The White House is collecting and storing comments and videos placed on its social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube without notifying or asking the consent of the site users, a failure that appears to run counter to President Obama's promise of a transparent government and his pledge to protect privacy on the Internet. Marc Rotenberg, president of the Electronic Privacy Information Center, said the White House signaled that it would insist on open dealings with Internet users and, in fact, should feel obliged to disclose that it is collecting such information. "The White House has not been adequately...

Ernest Hemingway offered a memorable description of the experience of going broke: it occurs at first very slowly, then all at once. The Obama foreign policy remains as yet in the "very slowly" stage. But the ultimate destination to which it is trending has already come into sight. AFGHANISTAN. George W. Bush took a lot of criticism for cutting taxes at the beginning of the prior administration's wars. What are we to say about President Obama cutting military spending at the beginning of his? Senior military commanders are pressing for more troops. The civilian overseers of the Department of Defense...

ACORN Prostitution Tour San Diego--More Videos Hannah Giles and James O' Keefe our hero fake pimp and hooker, took their tour from northern California to the south, San Diego on the border with Mexico. Here they met with a Juan Carlos a very creepy, ACORN worker who tried to pick up Hanna and offered to help the pair smuggle in the child prostitutes from El Salvador. You See he smuggles people over the border all the time. In probably the most uncomfortable moment in all of the videos, the Juan Carlos asks Hannah where she lives and how much does...

Take Peter Singer, author of "Animal Liberation." This publication has been the inspiration for PETA; featured in the movie "Legally Blonde" and is the animal rights bible to which animal rights activists turn for guidance the same way Christians reference the actual bible. Beyond rights for animals (see if you catch the irony here) Singer believes that abortion should be available for any reason, up to and beyond birth. That's right - if you eat a hamburger, he'll call you a murder, but if you kill a baby he'll say you're doing the right thing. He believes that killing a...

Pelosi: I'm clueless about cash cut-off By GEOFF EARLE and DAPHNE RETTER, Post Correspondents Last Updated: 8:59 AM, September 17, 2009 Posted: 3:49 AM, September 17, 2009 WASHINGTON -- House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said yesterday she is clueless about an amendment to prohibit government funds for embattled ACORN, although it overwhelmingly passed the Senate Monday and the White House is calling for the group to be held accountable. "I don't even know what they passed," Pelosi told The Post yesterday. "What did they do? They defunded it?" The amendment to suspend housing grants was a stunning blow to the community-activist...

A Yale University lab technician was arrested Thursday and charged with the suffocation death of a graduate student whose body was found stuffed in a research building wall on what would have been her wedding day. New Haven police said they arrested 24-year-old Raymond Clark III at the Super 8 hotel in Cromwell, about 25 miles north of the Ivy League campus. Clark had been staying at the hotel since he was released early Wednesday by police, who had served search warrants looking for evidence linking him to Annie Le's death. New Haven Police Chief James Lewis said there are...

Kirstin Gillibrand is ACORN’s Trojan horse. She is a hollow soulless being who will help America’s enemies destroy us to stay in power. Tuesday she proved she puts herself above our country. When the Senate voted 83 to 7 to order HUD to cut off funding for ACORN two thoughts came to mind. All the “Nos” were Democrats since Democrats are enemies of real America -no surprise to that. Next there was a name that didn’t “seem” to fit among the “Nos.” Of course Durbin and Leahy were there but Kirsten Gillibrand (D) NY? What’s the story? Lurking just beneath...

It was certainly uncouth of Rep. Joe Wilson (R., S.C.) to scream, “You lie!” at his commander-in-chief in the middle of Barack Obama’s recent health-care speech before a joint session of Congress. And others who keep insisting that the president doesn’t have an authentic U.S. birth certificate clearly come off as unhinged — much like just-resigned White House green-jobs czar Van Jones does for having signed his name to a petition stating that the Bush administration may have allowed the 9/11 murders of 3,000 people to happen. During his speech the other night, the president calmly called for a new...

Here is video of the Fox News Special Report Panel talking extensively and taking email questions / comments from viewers. This is an online "after the broadcast" edition. They cover the request by Gen. Stanley McChrystal for a "surge" of troops in Afghanistan in great depth. Brett Baier said it is stark to see Obama saying he can take it slow on deciding about Afghanistan, but he wants to move on Health Care in two weeks time. The panel also covered Health Care and the ACORN story. . . . (VIDEO)

Caption the Sith Lord Obama.