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I've come to the realization that Obama likes War. He is not a peacenik like Jimmy Carter. Instead, he is at war with our values, religious, moral and constitutional. He is at war with our healthcare. He is at war with our capitalism. He is at war with our children as he shreds their future piling up debt. He is stirring up war between races, between poor and rich, between muslim and others, between blue states and red states. There is no respect in this man. He talks down to Americans, telling them what he wants them to do, lecturing...

Return to the Article February 01, 2010The most important story you didn't see last week (and probably won't ever see)By William Tate A Senate hearing last week confirmed the public's worst concern about Barack Obama: That when it comes to national security Obama hasn't just been asleep at the switch, he hasn't even bothered to find the switch.  "I do not think he (Obama) has a firm grasp yet on the intelligence community," 9/11 Commission Vice-Chairman and former Democrat congressman Lee Hamilton told the Senate Homeland Security Committee. This, even though Obama has been in office for over a...

Just whom are we trying to impress? That's a question that oc curred to me when, on his second full day in the presidency, Barack Obama announced we would close the Guantanamo detainee facility within one year. It's a question that has kept occurring to me over the last year and nine days, even though Obama and his administration have proved unable to keep that promise. Whom are we trying to impress by ruling out enhanced interrogation techniques on unlawful combatants, techniques that produced valuable intelligence that saved American lives? Whom are we trying to impress by limiting questioning to...