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On September 18th, Forbes Magazine published a fascinating and very controversial article by Dinesh D’Souza: “Obama’s Problem With Business.” The subhead is a little more specific: “The President isn’t exactly a socialist. So what’s driving his hostility to private enterprise?” The thesis — that President Barack H. Obama is not a socialist but an anti-colonialist — is startling; but the more one thinks about it, the more it seems to explain: From a very young age and through his formative years Obama learned to see America as a force for global domination and destruction. He came to view America’s military...

President Obama can overspend, overtax, over-regulate, and over cap-and-trade, and yet America will undoubtedly survive. We might be worse off - probably will be worse off - but our Republic will endure. But if Obama - or any other president - mishandles national security badly enough, well, that could be the end of our country.