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What we have here are the biggest, baddest public temper tantrums we’ve seen since 1960s spoiled-brat college kids reverted to the terrible twos and marched, rioted, burned, and bombed their way across America. So far at least, the violence at “Occupy” tantrums hasn’t reached ’60s-level, though there have been thefts, assaults, rapes, and lots – and lots and lots – of incendiary hate speech. Old ’60s radicals, now in charge of “mainstream” news, are all “wee-weed up” — to use President Eloquent’s expression — by the OWS tantrums. This new generation’s display of wasted minds gives the aging-hippie brigade a...

Sorry, Mr. President -- there's a new star in town. Despite the resurgent tingles up the legs of numerous liberal commentators — and even a smattering of conservative pundits — President Barack Obama is anything but a comeback kid. No amount of yelping among the ever-shrinking liberal ranks can make it so. For the moment, there is only one genuine comeback kid on the American block: the U.S. Constitution. And the mighty resurgence of interest in that document, along with a new call for a return to constitutional fealty, is brought to us all by liberty guys and gals reincarnate:...

Return to the Article August 19, 2009The Alinskyite's Big, Fat Governance FailureBy Kyle-Anne Shiver What happens when the thing a president knows best is a set of tactics designed to take power from the "haves"?  When the most highly prized info a president ever garnered could be summed up as nothing better than gaming an electoral system with ACORN pay-for-registration schemes?  What happens when a president is very skilled in deceptively cloaking these less-than-altruistic means in rhetorical "moral garments" and his lies finally start catching up with him, destroying his credibility?  When a president has never actually run anything...

"President Obama" seems a far too stiff and stilted salutation for you, dear Sir, our most populist-appealing leader ever.  So, I'm quite certain you won't mind one little bit if I take the liberty of addressing you in the same informal manner you seemed to prefer on the campaign trail.  Your calling female reporters, "sweetie," and chatting it up with workingmen in American neighborhoods has set the tone for my conversations with you dear, Mr. President. I love having a down-home people's president. Now, Barry honey, can we talk about Gitmo? Since you've discovered the power of that mighty Presidential...