During the presidential campaign, Peggy Noonan rhapsodized about an Obama presidency, trashing Hillary Clinton to the bargain. Recent months have seen Ms. Noonan pen several articles deconstructing her prior romantic notions, reaching the same conclusions as the very people she derided for not jumping on Obama’s bandwagon. In her WSJ piece, He Can’t Take Another Bow, Noonan complains that the Obama White House is “coming to seem amateurish”: This week, two points in an emerging pointillist ... Read Full Story

TONIGHT: Tune in to John Batchelor’s syndicated radio show when Larry Johnson calls in from Egypt for the experts’ panel. The syndicated shows run every Saturday and Sunday on many stations and via iTunes. (Follow the easy listening instructions on this page’s right column.) Tonight’s topics: Sunday 1105P: (805P Pacific Time): James Taranto, WSJ, Jeff Bliss, BlissIndex, Larry Johnson, No Quarter, re the grate-crashers, re the AfPakia speech, re the healthcare debate.... Read Full Story

How are some people able to see the forest for the trees? Why do certain individuals look left when everybody else is going right? What drives people to embrace risk? We can learn so much from studying the career paths, thoughts, and views of those who have achieved remarkable accomplishments. That said, where can we go and what can we study that addresses the common characteristics and highlights the common denominators of these individuals? You have come to the right place as this Sunday e... Read Full Story

* bumped up because the Reverend is our in-house expert who tracks the ACORN story like few others * And circumvents the Congress, even the President, in the process. Yes, it turns out that, according to DOJ lawyer, David Barron, it is A-Okay for ACORN to receive funds from American taxpayers, according to this NY Times article. Yes, it is a little more complicated than that, but not a lot. I believe the term is “grandfathering” the contracts in: The Justice Department has concl... Read Full Story

Have you noticed this too? That, all of a sudden, wherever you turn, there’s yet another former Obamabot aka Obama groupie lamenting what their (vision of) Obama has become as president. Those Obamabots fell for the speeches, which of course were written mostly by others, and for what they saw as a “cool dude.” To me, he was always a cipher. An undefined being. A zero. A sum of nothing. He is someone who has seemingly floated through life, relying on a modicum o... Read Full Story

Editor: Bumped up because this t-shirt says it all — well, almost all — because Reverend Amy’s accompanying commentary is a must-read. Stay tuned for more to come on how rapidly Obama’s supporters are turning on him. If only they’d listened to us … I’ll say. And what a fantastic depiction on this t-shirt. Here’s more from the article, “Hope Is Fading Fast: A Devastating Take On The Iconic Obama Poster. Ouch.” Oh, and I am sur... Read Full Story

  The Swollen Swells.      It is the cranky Puritan in me, the Calvinist thought-scourge, my vain John Adams over-bookishness and practiced cynicism, yet there it is, and my first, second and third opine of the gate-crashing of the trite Virginia duo, Michaele and Tareq Salahi, is to recall the crisis of the “Grapes of Wrath.” Once upon a time, the economy collapsed, and the banks and confidence went cliff-diving, and the nation entered a ten-year long... Read Full Story

Tune in to my radio show Sunday night when Larry Johnson will call in, for the experts’ panel, from Egypt. My syndicated shows run Saturday and Sunday on many stations and via iTunes. Carpet-Cleaning Luck.   CALCULATED RISK’S deeply ironic real estate reporter Jim the Realtor takes his handheld robot to a high-end jungle of foreclosures at Carlsbad in San Diego County. Jim observes “A hotbed of foreclosure activity in Southeast Carlsbad…”  The c... Read Full Story

And circumvents the Congress, even the President, in the process. Yes, it turns out that, according to DOJ lawyer, David Barron, it is A-Okay for ACORN to receive funds from American taxpayers, according to this NY Times article. Yes, it is a little more complicated than that, but not a lot. I believe the term is “grandfathering” the contracts in: The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided u... Read Full Story

* bumped up because this is an infuriating story that every American should know about * I’ve been reading a book by the novelist, Vince Flynn, Extreme Measures. If you are unfamiliar with Mr. Flynn’s books, they typically deal with the CIA, Washington, DC, and how politics affect the intelligence community, following the exploits of the main protagonist, Mitch Rapp, as he works to ensure the safety of the country. This book is no different. Here is more about it (and writing in... Read Full Story