October 24, 2012 – 9:20 am
So writes Commentary’s Jonathan S. Tobin As I wrote last night, President Obama’s attack mode during the Boca Raton debate seemed to suggest that he was the challenger trailing in the race rather than the incumbent nursing an alleged lead. But the president’s nasty streak is also displaying itself on the campaign trail, where he […]
October 24, 2012 – 8:42 am
Reuters provides their own little “October Surprise”, one entirely of the Obama administrations making. We know that the State Dept. was initially labeling the attack on our Benghazi consulate as a terrorist attack, before switching over to the “it was a spontaneous attack that got a bit chippy”. The White House and State has since […]
October 23, 2012 – 12:50 pm
Which looks remarkably like the same old same old that has gotten America pretty much nowhere (via Hot Air) (National Journal) After weeks of being challenged by Democrats and Republicans to lay out his second-term agenda, President Obama’s campaign is releasing a 20-page booklet called “Blueprint for America’s Future†on Tuesday and airing a new […]
October 23, 2012 – 9:24 am
I’m not going to write a whole lot about the debate, since I only saw a few snippets, being at a friends house watching the Bears-Lions game, and John Hawkins does a good job of breaking it all down. Two interesting ones I did hear (while walking in the kitchen for a beer or food, […]
October 22, 2012 – 8:11 pm
The Weekly Standard’s Stephen F. Hayes has 20 question for POTUS If the president really wants to level with the American people, here are some questions he needs to answer. 1. Were there references to Libyan security threats in the President’s Daily Brief (PDB) during the three weeks before the attacks in Benghazi? 2. If […]
October 22, 2012 – 2:47 pm
And why is he mean? (Breitbart) The United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counter-Terrorism and Human Rights has warned Americans not to elect Republican Mitt Romney in next month’s presidential election, saying that doing so would be “a democratic mandate for torture.†The UN’s Ben Emmerson was referring to Romney’s refusal to rule out the use […]
October 22, 2012 – 7:11 am
First of all, I’d love to know which fools decided scheduling the final debate on a Monday night against football was a bright idea. Unless Mitt gets some serious knockout blows, the Credentialed Media will be allowed to spin the debate as either a draw or an Obama win, since the viewership will certainly be […]
October 21, 2012 – 8:12 am
Before we get to that, the lead pull over at Memeorandum is a NY Times story about Iran supposedly agreeing to one on one talks with the US The United States and Iran have agreed for the first time to one-on-one negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, according to Obama administration officials, setting the stage for […]
October 20, 2012 – 3:05 pm
Surprise! (CNS News) A new EPW Minority Report provides “A Look Ahead to EPA Regulations for 2013: Numerous Obama EPA Rules Placed On Hold until after the Election Spell Doom for Jobs and Economic Growth.†The report enumerates the slew of environmental regulations that the report says the Obama-Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has delayed or […]
October 20, 2012 – 8:50 am
Who would’ve thought it? (Politico) Mitt Romney accused President Barack Obama of pettiness and desperation at a night-time rally that drew thousands to Daytona Beach Friday. The Republican presidential nominee said that Obama’s “has become the incredible shrinking campaign†at the end of a day that saw his Democratic opponent embrace the term “Romnesia†and […]
