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There is an old Jewish joke about a boy who murders his parents, then throws himself on the mercy of the court as an orphan. It is a great joke and applies in a huge way to Mr. Obama, Mr. Axelrod, and their posse. This morning, as I was battling the invasion of ants that is tormenting all of Southern California as we go through by far the worst heat wave I have seen in my 36 years here, I picked up and read the front page of my beloved former employer, the Wall Street Journal. Sho' 'nuff, there was...

On Friday evening, over 20 people collapsed at a campaign event for President Obama in Roanoke, Virginia, Joel Gehrke reported at the Washington Examiner. According to CBS News White House correspondent Mark Knoller, Obama told supporters there were "paralegals" available to help those who felt weak from the heat."Catching his mistake," Knoller tweeted, Obama corrected himself and told the crowd, "you don't need lawyers." "Yes, we do need lawyers to help US opt out of Ocare penalties-turned taxes (sic)," responded Sarah Nelson. "Obama, meaning to say paramedics are available if anyone feels weak, says "paralegals" are around. Crowd laughs along...

New RNC Ad slams 0bama: "The private sector's doing fine" (vid at link)

The first questioner in the White House’s “Twitter Town Hall” asked President Barack Obama about the mistakes he had made while in office, and he promptly volunteered his government’s inability to reverse the steep decline in housing prices and to meet the public’s expectation of a quick economic recovery. Most of the time, however, President Barack Obama used today’s event to repeat his campaign themes, debt ceiling pitch, and proposals to cut defense spending. One thing he would have “done differently,” Obama said, “would have been to explain to the American people that it was going to take a while...