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At one time, I viewed Obama as indolent and slothful. I used to say, "If Adolph Hitler had been as lazy as Barack Obama, the 1940's would have been a pretty nice decade." But observation has proven my premise wrong. Obama is not lazy, not in the slightest. In fact, the mental image Obama most evokes is mad jackrabbit on crack. He may go on numerous vacations, and play countless rounds of golf, but he is an extremely busy and very involved President. It is what he is busy on and involved in that is the problem: He's busy nearly...

The entire narrative of the Obama administration is that President Bashar al-Assad, or at least his minions, used a nerve gas (Sarin) on the opposing rebel forces, and that this warranted a strike on Syria to disuade them or others from using weapons of mass destruction. Let us look at this claim, in light of the evidence of the last few weeks: Russia publicly contradicted Washington's premise that Assad had released chemical weapons in Ghouta, but offered approve a strike on Syria -- its longest and most solid ally in the region -- if concrete evidence, gathered by the United...