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Desperate to win re-election, President Obama is taking inspiration from a tactic used by China’s Chairman Mao during so-called "Cultural Revolution."In order to spread his ideology, he creates his own army of brainwashed propagandists who are supposed to popularize talking points sent to them directly from the White House. Modern days hongweibings (Chinese for red guards) are called the Truth Team, and if everything goes as planned, the president will have an army of over two million Americans on his side.The Obama administration unveiled on Monday a campaign created to crush the GOP competition come November, a mission that...

"Washington wonders why so many angry Americans talk back to the news on their TVs. Here's why: Federal spending the last two years has exploded. Never mind why. It has. Obama proposes cutting some of that increased spending. The result: Cuts to brag about but still more borrowed spending than before. And for his next trick..... One inconvenient stat cited by the sage Ed Morrissey: Obama's own debt commission proposed deficit reductions of $4 trillion (get used to that scary word) over the next decade. Obama's budget thinks $1.1 trillion is really good. Here's the isolated president's perception of how...

Laying his plan for a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, Obama began to name the members of PCAST listed in his prepared remarks – before realizing he’d already introduced them, earlier in his speech. “In addition to John – sorry, the – I just noticed I jumped the gun here,” Obama said, pausing for several seconds as he looked at the prompter. “Go ahead. Move it up. I had already introduced all you guys.” The audience, which gave the president a warm reception, responded with a quiet laugh. Video on site

President Barack Obama made his first visit to the Central Intelligence Agency on Monday in an attempt to calm an uproar among America's spies over his release of secret memos about interrogation techniques. "Don't be discouraged by what's happened the last few weeks. Don't be discouraged that we have to acknowledge potentially we have made some mistakes - that's how we learn," Mr Obama said in a speech at the agency's headquarters. "So I want to make a point that...I understand that it's hard when you are asked to protect the American people against people who have no scruples and...

Who's the real enemy? Ordinary citizens who insist on adherence to The Constitution as our founders envisioned, or zealous ideologues who abuse the frightening power of the federal government to criminalize the political opposition?Homeland Security apparatchiks, at the behest of their Grand Poobah Janet Napolitano, have written a sly little document that would make Joseph Goebbels proud. It's presumed focus is right wing extremism (a small but real threat). Fine. The problem is that it conflates this serious issue with ordinary heartland conservatism, subtly painting with the same horrible brush ordinary freedom loving, gun toting, bible thumping conservatives who chafe...