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This article tells what President Obama does not. That’s the way I figured it, and my figuring is confirmed. As I noted on Jan. 22, 2009, President Obama had no plan at all -- let alone a workable one -- to close Camp Delta at Guantanamo Bay. He won’t meet his self-imposed deadline, and now many think Gitmo may never be closed. Hat tip to Morrissey at Hot Air. The treatment and conditions terrorists at the Club Gitmo Resort and Spa receive is...  

One in five terrorism suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the military prison.  

by Andy WorthingtonThroughout 2009, the interagency task force President Obama established by executive order on January 22, 2009, has been reviewing the cases of all the detainees being held at Guantánamo in order to determine who should be prosecuted and who should be released. There are currently 198 prisoners still being held, 86 of whom -- or 43 percent -- are from Yemen.read more  

House Democratic leaders wrapped up a meeting on health care with President Obama at the White House Wednesday saying that progress was being made on getting a final bill to the President’s desk. “I think we’re very close,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told assembled reporters outside the White House. Democrats have aimed to get a final bill to Obama's desk before his State of the Union address scheduled for sometime in early February. Asked...  

The White House hasn’t budged a bit from its support for House Ways and Means Chairman Charlie Rangel, who is under investigation by the House Ethics committee for a series of embarrassing financial lapses. Spokesman Robert Gibbs was asked at the daily briefing today whether President Obama is hurt by including Rangel (D-N.Y.) in a health care reform meeting attended by the entire slate of House chairmen and Speaker Nancy Pelosi. “He’s...  

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was joined by Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY), Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) and others outside the White House after meeting with the president to discuss the ongoing process of crafting health care reform legislation.Length: 6 min.Published: Today at 4:30pm (ET)  

A devastating collection of clips in which candidate Obama promises over and over again that health-care negotiations will be televised on C-SPAN Nancy Pelosi, for one, isn't happy about having to answer for Obama's campaign promises : House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama,...Red State (subscribe) : “Government Run...  

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi held a brief press availability with Chairman Charles Rangel, Chairman Henry Waxman, Chairman George Miller, and Chairwoman Louise Slaughter following their meeting this afternoon with President Obama at the White House to discuss health care legislation. The following is a partial transcript due to an incomplete audio recording.  

I want President Obama to fire Tim Geithner, but this isn't what I call change.Speculation has also begun about potential employment for Dodd in the Obama administration. For instance, several Democratic Senate aides noted that Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner is an extremely unpopular figure in the Senate. Geithner has also taken the brunt of the criticism for the administration’s handling of the economy and, these sources speculated, if...  

Patrick O’Connor and Glenn Thrush: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow Tuesday at President Barack Obama, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises. A leadership aide said it was no accident. source “Politico“, posted with vodpod Read more: Politico Posted in NObama Tagged: [...]  

The White House today announced that the U.S. government would suspend the transfer of any detainees from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen.Patterico's Pontifications (subscribe) : “This Was a Screw Up” ...Salon.com (subscribe) : Obama suspends transfer of detainees to Yemen ...blogs : Political Punch, Patterico's Pontifications, Salon.com, ...(3 posts, last update: 07/01/2010 14:30)  

The White House’s decision to stop the transfers of Guantanamo Bay detainees back to their home base in Yemen jeopardizes President Obama’s executive order – and campaign promise – to close the controversial prison facility. The decision also brings into question Attorney General Eric Holder’s multiple affirmations that “rehabilitation” of already-repatriated ex-detainees has been “successful.” But the White House and Holder are already...  

US Vice-President Joe Biden congratulates Hillary Clinton following her swearing-in as Secretary of State, as former President Bill Clinton, daughter Chelsea Clinton and Mrs Clinton's mother, Dorothy ...  

Nancy Pelosi takes swipe at President Obama's campaign promises By: Patrick O'Connor and Glenn Thrush January 5, 2010 07:04 PM EST House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, piqued with White House pressure to accept the Senate health reform bill, threw a rare rhetorical elbow at President Barack Obama Tuesday, questioning his commitment to his 2008 campaign promises. A leadership aide said it was no accident. Pelosi emerged from a meeting with her...  

Hmmmm…. we might want to reconsider a few things. One in five terrorism suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama’s plan to close the military prison. The finding reflects an upward trend on the recidivism rate, although human rights activists who advocate closing the prison have questioned the...  

WASHINGTON - One in five terrorism suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the ...  

Sen. Harry Reid was elected by the voters of Nevada, which ranks 35th among the 50 states in population. Rep. Nancy Pelosi was elected by the voters of California's San Francisco-based 8th congressional district, which is among the most liberal in the land. Yet they, along with President Obama, appear intent upon bypassing the customary conference committee process, replacing it with a much narrower deal-making format all their own to resolve...  

President Barack Obama said Tuesday that the Christmas eve incident, in which a young man attempted to ignite explosives aboard an airline flight, will not deter his administration’s plans to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, but explained that Yemeni prisoners will not be transfered back to their country. (0:43)  

The White House announced Tuesday it is halting the transfer of Guantanamo Bay detainees to Yemen, a move that could complicate President Barack Obama's plans to close the controversial prison. It also stands to sharply increase the number of Guantanamo inmates who could be moved to rural Thomson, Ill., site of a state prison the Obama administration wants to buy and operate as a federal prison and military detention center.Some supporters...  

OK, so here’s the beef C-Span, and a few other people have: This stems from: President Barack Obama and congressional Democratic leaders agreed Tuesday to bypass a conference committee and keep negotiations to reconcile the Senate and House health care reform bills a closed-door affair. They concluded that the House will work off the Senate’s version, amend it [...]  

One in five terror suspects released from the Guantanamo Bay prison has returned to the fight, according to a classified Pentagon report expected to stoke an already fierce debate over President Barack Obama's plan to close the military prison.  

GOP group targets vulnerable Dems with 'Pelosi Index' Posted: January 4th, 2010 03:55 PM ET From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby Washington (CNN) – A conservative group that attacked Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential campaign for his association with Rev. Jeremiah Wright is launching a new campaign against vulnerable Democratic members of Congress with the goal of linking them to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her "leftist agenda...  

Filed under: Barack Obama, Terror, Obama AdministrationPresident Obama today renewed his vow to close the detainee facility at Guantanamo, but said in light of the security situation in Yemen, the U.S. would not transfer any more Yemenis being held at the base back to their country.Obama made the statement after reviewing again with top security aides the events and failures that led up to the attempted bombing on Christmas Day of a Detroit...  

President Obama held a brief presser with the media and explained what happened on Christmas. President Barack Obama asserted on Tuesday that the U.S. government had enough information to foil the attempted bombing on a Christmas Day airline flight but intelligence agencies "failed to connect the dots." Obama called that unacceptable and said, "I will not tolerate it." "Our intelligence community failed to connect those dots which would have...  

As President Obama fulfills his promise of returning America to the "moral high ground" by closing Guantanamo Bay prison, at least a dozen recently freed inmates have rejoined Al Qaeda in Yemen, the country where the Christmas Day airline bomber proudly trained.  With the January 22 deadline to shut down the facility quickly approaching, the administration has released dozens of prisoners to their home nations or to laughable “terrorist...  

Democratic leaders in the House of Representatives were set to meet to prepare for the tricky process of merging their healthcare reform bill with the more limited Senate version, putting President Barack Obama’s signature issue on the home stretch  

(Associated Press) The U.S. will go case-by-case in deciding whether to repatriate the approximately 90 Yemeni detainees remaining at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, said John Brennan, President Barack Obama's counterterrorism adviser.Seven of 42 Guantanamo detainees freed by the Obama administration were returned to Yemen, Brennan said Sunday. But doubts about the country's ability to police further freed detainees is a major obstacle to...  

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said Tuesday that no more Guantanamo Bay detainees will be sent to Yemen for now, as his administration ratcheted up security measures after a failed Christmas terror plot to destroy a U.S.-bound airliner. At the ...  

ACLU not happy with President Obama's decision to suspend the transfer of Gitmo prisoners back to Yemen: ACLU Responds To Decision To Halt Guantánamo Transfers To Yemen Group Also Decries Court Decision Upholding Sweeping Presidential Detention Powers ACLU press release: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 5, 2010 CONTACT: Robyn Shepherd NEW YORK - In a press conference today, President Obama announced that the U.S. [...]  

The Obama administration tramsferred six detainees to Yemen last month."Maybe I'm mistaken, but I thought that Barack Obama was President in December 2009.As a matter of fact,I think that he was President in May when Gates wanted to move 100 ... I never once saw releasing Guantanamo bay detainees to Yemen as a hot button issue or campaign promise. Can you cite that? "we remain committed to closing the facility, the determination has been made...  

Andrew Malcolm, LAT« Previous Post | Top of the Ticket Home Since its basically one-party rule in Washington nowadays, Democratic leaders including Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi are seriously considering pushing President Obamas beloved healthcare legislation through Congress without the normal conference committee work involving both partys members from both houses.Such a select conference committee is normally charged with reconciling...  

WASHINGTON — Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation. President Barack Obama's top ...  

Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation. President Barack Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the administration deems them warranted. Six Yemenis returned last month were released after the government there determined they were...  

Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) sent a letter to President Obama today asking him to halt the transfer of six Guantanamo detainees to Yemen. The request, they say, is in light of the danger they've apparently just now realized Yemen poses, because Nigerian terror suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab has said he was trained there. The only problem: those six detainees have already been returned to...  

Less than two weeks ago, the Obama administration repatriated to Yemen six detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. It was a test. About 90 of the 200 or so remaining Gitmo detainees are Yemenis. The president would like to move toward fulfilling his promise to close Gitmo, and thus to appease the antiwar Left, by transferring most of those Yemeni jihadists back home.On Christmas Day, we got yet another indicator of how reckless this obsession with...  

Healthcare Reform Bill Contains Seeds of SocialismAmericaJR.com... the reform bill, the seeds of socialism still exist in the bill – and in fact, in every major move made by the administration of President Barack Obama. ...  

Democrats have begun to add their voices to the Republicans asking the President to stop the transfer off terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, who said last week," "Guantanamo detainees should not be released to Yemen at this time. It is too unstable." Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday that officials should review...  

Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, say the United States should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al Qaeda activity in the poor Arab nation. President Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, said Sunday the transfers will continue if the administration deems them warranted. Six Yemenis who returned last month were released after the government...  

It isn't that the Obama administration is stupid, or even crazy for wanting to send more Gitmo detainees to Yemen rather than keep them from plotting against us by holding them. It's just that they're more concerned about being liked by liberals than they are with doing what's right for American security. CNN reports: "John Brennan, the assistant to the president for homeland security and counter-terrorism, said on CNN's 'State of the Union...  

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Some Democratic lawmakers who support closing Guantanamo Bay say the U.S. should reconsider whether to repatriate suspected terrorists from Yemen, given the al-Qaida activity in the poor Arab nation. President Barack Obama's top ...  

Conservative radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh is evidently recovering in a Hawaiian hospital after suffering chest pains.Local media in Hawaii is reporting that Limbaugh suffered a heart attack and is in serious condition.  However, his personal website said he was now "resting comfortably" in hospital in Honolulu. Hawaii seems to be the place for politicos this holiday season.  President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi...  

America still puts Barack Obama at the top of its most-admired list of men. He was way ahead of No. 2, George W. Bush, on a list that also featured golfer Tiger Woods. Obama and Bush finished 1-2 last year. Hillary Clinton squeaked by Sarah Palin for the most-admired honor among women in 2009. Clinton has [...]  

Democrats have begun to add their voices to the Republicans asking the President to stop the transfer off terrorists from Guantanamo Bay to Yemen, including Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif, who said last week," "Guantanamo detainees should not be released to Yemen at this time. It is too unstable."  Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., a member of the Homeland Security Committee, said Sunday that officials should review...  

Filed under: Hillary Clinton, Republicans, Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Polls, Sarah Palin, Poll Watch, Harry Reid, Michelle ObamaMichelle Obama, Hillary Clinton and Sonia Sotomayor topped the list of who Americans thought were "political winners" this year while the prize for the biggest losers went to White House gate-crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi, according to a Gallup poll conducted Dec. 11-13. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs...  

President Barack Obama has not been in touch with Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) over healthcare legislation, the White House said Monday. Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters that the president has not reached out to Lieberman, and brushed aside reports on Monday that the administration had instructed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) to reach an agreement with Lieberman."Not that I'm aware of, no," Gibbs responded to a question...  

Rush Limbaugh, 58, was hospitalized for chest pains Wednesday afternoon. Limbaugh's disrupted vacation also occurs at the same time President Obama and Nancy Pelosi are also vacationing in Hawaii.Contributor: Tamara McRillPublished: Dec 31, 2009  

A senior Obama administration official pushed back against critics of the White House’s plans to transfer some detainees at Guantanamo Bay to Yemen as it moves toward closing the facility, saying the process for transfers are “consistent with our national security interests.” The fresh criticism, including a letter from Sens. Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.) calling on President Obama to halt the...  

Neck and neck. In a nationwide poll of 1,025 adults who have the time, inclination, and landlines to participate in phone surveys, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama were determined to be America's most-admired woman and man, respectively. Obama won in a landslide, but Secretary of State Hillary's 16 percent win was nearly edged out by the currently unemployed Sarah Palin, who came in at 15 percent. Glenn Beck placed fourth on the most...  

Less than two weeks ago, the Obama administration repatriated to Yemen six detainees held at Guantanamo Bay. It was a test. About 90 of the 200 or so remaining Gitmo detainees are Yemenis. The president would like to move toward fulfilling his promise to close Gitmo, and thus to appease the antiwar Left, by transferring most of those Yemeni jihadists back home. ... ABC News reported on Monday that al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — a merger...  

Investor's Business Daily makes a strong case why the United States needs to keep the military prison at Guantanamo Bay open to house some of the world's most dangerous terrorists. Are you listening Barack Obama?From a recent IBD editorial:Two of the four leaders allegedly behind the attempted destruction of Flight 253 were released from Guantanamo two years ago. The case for indefinite detention has been made once again, and not in Illinois...  

WASHINGTON (AP ) -- Former President Bill Clinton's charity released a donor list Friday under an agreement with President Barack Obama to prevent conflicts with Hillary Rodham Clinton's role as secretary of state, but it failed to identify who gave ...  

CBC.caSenate Democrats Move Toward Clash With House on Health MeasureBusinessWeekSenate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged to work with members of both chambers to send a final measure to President Barack ...RAW DATA: House and Senate Health Care Bills Contain Vast DifferencesFOXNewsSenate bill vs. House bill: A comparisonKansas City StarHealth care reform: Comparing the House and Senate billsSalt Lake...  

Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Tuesday the Obama administration is confident it will prevent a repeat of last year's financial crisis, the worst to hit the country in seven decades. "We are not going to have a second wave of financial crisis,"... Timothy Geithner - United States Secretary of the Treasury - Presidency of Barack Obama - United States - Business  

Dems Move To Sack SuperdelegatesDemocrats are moving to eliminate from the party's national convention the superdelegates, the elected officials and party leaders whose role in the presidential nominating process came under intense scrutiny in last year’s closely-contested primary. Those superdelegates provided, for a time, a lifeline to then-Sen. Hillary Clinton's flagging campaign, and the effective end of their independent role would be a...  

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama's Democratic allies will pay in November 2010 mid-term elections for the "garbage" legislation they pushed through the US Congress, a top Republican lawmaker warned Thursday. Republican House Minority Leader John Boehner took aim at Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's remark Wednesday that she was "always in campaign mode" and would sell [...]  

The Speaker isn't going to lobby her caucus for the funds to finance the surge in Afghanistan. The President is going to have to use his powers of persuasion to get the votes. Or, he'll have Rahm Emanuel use his, such as they are. But, from every indication, Obama and Rahm don't have a lot of political capital with House liberals:House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Wednesday that it's up to President Barack Obama to persuade reluctant Democrats...  

“House Democrats are already home for the holidays, but they huddled on a conference call Wednesday afternoon to discuss the next steps in negotiating a final health care bill with the Senate. Speaker Nancy Pelosi restated that the goal is to get a final bill to the president’s desk before his State of the Union [...]  

Dec. 16: The Federal Reserve Chairman beat out General Stan McChrystal, President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, among others. NBC's Brian Williams reports.Add this to your queueAdded: Thu Dec 17 02:54:06 UTC 2009Air date: Wed Dec 16 00:00:00 UTC 2009Duration: 00:17  

WASHINGTON -- Former President Bill Clinton's charity released a donor list Friday under an agreement with President Barack Obama to prevent conflicts with Hillary Clinton's role as secretary of state, but it failed to identify who gave in 2009, her ...  

President Obama’s Jan. 22 deadline for the closing of the Guantanamo detention facility will likely be missed by at least a year. Lack of money is the problem, the New York Times reports. Obama has decided the federal government should buy an Illinois prison to house the detainees that carries a price tag of about $150 million. Democratic leaders balked at including money for the prison and security improvements in a 2010 military spending...  

Politico’s Josh Gernstein notes that revelations of Yemen’s connection to the failed Detroit terror plot will further complicate President Obama’s plans to move prisoners from the prison at Guantanamo Bay. “I’d expect Yemen’s handling of returned Guantanamo detainees to come under intense U.S. scrutiny,” said Matthew Waxman, a Columbia law professor who was an assistant Defense [...]  

Appearing on Laura Ingraham’s radio show earlier this month, NBC White House correspondent Chuck Todd surprised the popular host by saying he believes President Obama could very well nominate Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano for the Supreme Court next time a vacancy comes up. I know what you’re thinking. “That has to be a joke, right?” Sadly, I’m afraid it is not: TODD: And not a negative. On a – at the next Supreme Court opening...  

Seen as a prelude to the White House honoring President Barack Obama’s pledge to shutter the controversial detention facility by January 22, Administration officials last week quietly repatriated twelve Guantanamo Bay detainees. Among those released were six Yemenis, four Afghanis, and two Somalis, many of whom have been in American custody for the last eight years. The decision to close Guantanamo–by transferring and trying in civilian court...  

Emily P. Walker, MedPage Today, December 21, 2009 Washington - After sitting on the fence for months, the American Medical Association (AMA) today announced its support of the Senate's healthcare reform bill, having won major concessions making the package more friendly to doctors. Cecil Wilson, MD, president-elect of the AMA, announced the group's support for the so-called manager's amendment crafted by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. The...  

This is the sound of Barack Obama’s policy of closing Guantanamo Bay coming to a screeching halt : The senior Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee wants no more Guantanamo Bay detainees released to Yemen in the wake of a Christmas day ...  

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The U.S. may not be able to move all eligible detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, to other countries before President Barack Obama's January deadline for closing the prison, an Obama administration official said. The effort to resettle prisoners has ...  

One day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said she wouldn't help President Obama round up votes to support his troop surge in Afghanistan, an offer of assistance came forth from an unlikely source -- House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio). "I think the president has made a responsible  

The March of bad news for the Democratic party continuances. On Sunday Rasmussen  reported the number of people identifying themselves as Democrats was at a seven year low and that drop has happened every since Barack Obama was elected. Currently, 35.5% of American adults still admit that they are Democrats. It is still 1.5% more than the GOP but last December the number was. That’s down from 36.0 a month ago and from 37.8% in October. Last...  

If you believe the Democratic ideologues, their policies are perfect and so is their President. There is no way that Americans could turn against either. That is, unless you believe Rasmussen. Judged by Rasmussen America has issues with both the POTUS and his party's policies. Democrats believe that Rasmussen, who is acknowledged as one of the more accurate political pollsters, is either inaccurate or the purposely biased. They whine that...  

You ever notice that President Obama finds a way to blame others every time he screws up or makes a controversial decision? Like during the campaign he threw his grandma under the bus, or when his economic adviser went to Canada to reassure the government that the Senator's bravado about NAFTA was just for effect, Obama said the campaign worker was operating on his own. After his election the Obama blame-game continued. All the problems...  

Yesterday Newsweek revealed that on December 22nd, three days before the attempted underwear bombing, the President was warned that an attack might be imminent. In a background briefing for reporters on December 29, also attributed in an official White House transcript to a "senior administration official", that official asserted that in the wake of the attempted underpants attack, it had become clear to the President and top advisers that...  

President Obama and the progressive wing of the party who dominate congress, has made identifying ones self as a Democrat is not as popular as it used to be. Witness the letter I pulled out of the Newspaper today: Dear Ann Landers, I lost my job at McDonalds last month for sleeping with the bosses daughter (I swear she looked 18). My parents are life-long progressive Democrats who live in the suburbs of San Francisco. My Father and Mother...  

Near the end of the President's big speech in Cairo last year he said: All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort - a sustained effort - to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings. Does the President actually understand what that...  

Even the Smartest of people have certain subjects they just don't understand. In high school I was an "A" student except for trigonometry. Maybe it was a mental block but for the life of me I couldn't get my grades out of "failing" territory. Thankfully when it came time for the state-wide final some enterprising young men from the Solomon Schechter HS in Queens decided to steal the test out of their principals office safe and there was no...  

With each passing day we learn about a new hole in our defenses that allowed the Underwear Bomber on to Northwest Flight 253, with the purpose of scattering bit and pieces of airplane and human across the city of Detroit. On Saturday Newsweek revealed that on December 22nd, three days before the attempted underwear bombing, the President was warned that an attack might be imminent. Sunday saw the revelation that counterterrorism adviser John...  

President Obama's Policies are not only driving people away from the Democratic Party but from his liberal progressive philosophy as well. A poll released by Gallup today reports that the American People continue their movement toward a more conservative political philosophy. This is a poll that the Republican party should study very closely, as they argue how "conservative" its candidates should be.  The answer is very, conservatives (40...  

At least eight times during the campaign President Obama promised that the heath care negotiations will be open, transparent, and on C-Span. Both the president and the congress have been Ignoring that promise, transparency is the last thing they want. If the debate was transparent it would be hard to load the bill with those provisions that would make the American people's ears start to bleed if they knew what was in it. Those earmarks and...  

In November 2007, President Obama promised that the  reform of health care including the negotiations will be open in a public setting, and not behind closed doors. He even suggested that they would be broadcast live on CSPAN and streamed live over the net. In fact he said they needed to be open because that's why Hillarycare was defeated. Both the president and the congress have been Ignoring that promise, because transparency is the last...  

While President Obama did not create the intelligence system, he has now gotten a bitter lesson in its weaknesses despite the mea culpas and pledges of reform.  

President Obama must repair the damage done by his unfortunate rejection last year of publicly subsidized election financing.  

President Obama’s economic advisers should learn from Japan’s lost decade of economic stagnation — half measures don’t work.  

The tea party movement is now more popular than either major party, and it may become a major force in American politics.