Anatomy Of a Failing Presidency

Fillmore Gazette "But, Barack Obama is failing. Failing big. Failing fast. And failing everywhere: foreign policy, domestic initiatives, and most importantly, in forging connections with the American people. The incomparable Dorothy Rabinowitz in the Wall Street Journal put her finger on it: He is failing because he has no understanding of the American people, and may indeed loathe them." h/t to Paul Van Alstine, Idaho

Awaiting Armageddon: Iran Versus the World

Warning Signs "Commentator, J.D. Longstreet summed up the threat. “I am not optimistic that hatred of the Jews will end, or even lessen any time soon. In fact, I expect it to get much, much, worse and eventually lead the nations of the world to a place known as the Megiddo Valley and the final battle known as the Battle of Armageddon.”
"Will the armed might of the U.S., already present in the Middle East in Afghanistan, in Iraq, and in the Persian Gulf, be used to thwart this? That question waits upon the decision of Barack Hussein Obama.  Alan Caruba

The Neomarxist who is helping to influence Obama’s media policy (Updated)

Daily Caller  " “Only government can implement policies and subsidies to provide an institutional framework for quality journalism.” Does that statement give you chills?....
"Or this one? “In the end, there is no real answer but to remove brick-by-brick the capitalist system itself, rebuilding the entire society on socialist principles.” "
"These are the sentiments of Robert McChesney, a self-professed neomarxist media scholar and the founder of the lobbying group and think tank Free Press. McChesney’s statements should worry you, perhaps even fill you with dread. Not because the rantings of a lefty professor are particularly scary in and of themselves, but because McChesney’s views are having a direct effect on the Obama administration’s policies on the media."  Emphasis mine.

Detecting Whiff Of Condescension With This Postmodern Presidency    "Instead, he's the product of the broader culture: There are millions of people like Barack Obama, the eternal students of a vast lethargic transnational campus for whom global compassion and the multicultural pose are merely the modish gloss on a cult of radical grandiose narcissism. As someone once said, "We are the ones we've been waiting for." When you've spent that long waiting in line for yourself, it's bound to be a disappointment." MARK STEYN 

What a difference a year makes  "About a year and a half ago I created a new folder in it named “Obama-sama”. Shall we take a trip in time, back a year?"

Another Stumble in the Gulf

Powerline "The administration has decreed a six-month moratorium on exploratory drilling in the Gulf, based on a report that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar wrote for President Obama. Salazar claimed that a panel of seven experts selected by the National Academy of Engineering had peer reviewed his report. It turns out, though, that the seven experts never saw the recommendation for a moratorium, and in fact oppose it:"...

Home Depot official sponsor of which country's World Cup soccer team?

Thomas Lifson  "I suppose the influx of Latin Americans into the construction industry might have something to do with this. Still it does seem a bit odd that Home Depot offers no support to the US soccer team."

Obama May Want to Fix Your State, Too

Dan Kennedy "Further, the Ohio law obviously, outrageously turns the innocent-until-proven-guilty protection on its head. The Arizona law is much narrower and more cautious. It does not, for example, permit a law enforcement officer to determine someone is an illegal immigrant just based on his best guess about the subject’s immigration status. If the President wishes to excoriate a state, its legislature, its governor, its state law, he’d have far more justification with this idiocy in Ohio than the measures of desperation in Arizona. " via Townhall.

The Right to Choose - For Farmers in Haiti

Paul Driessen "The Monsanto Company is learning a valuable lesson in Haiti: no good deed goes unpunished at the hands of radical anti-corporate elements of Western society. "

Watch the left be the left

Obama's hate speech aimed at BP incites violence "Comments on British message boards this week have been full of anger at the United States and disillusionment at Mr. Obama, a wildly popular president here until now."

Rabbi who filmed Helen Thomas rant gets death threats  "Rabbi David Nessenoff said he is facing an "overload" of threatening e-mails calling for a renewed Holocaust and targeting his family..."This ticker tape keeps coming in," Nessenoff told FoxNews.com. "We got one specific one saying ‘We're going to kill the Jews; watch your back."'"

 The Next Oprah: Rosie O’Donnell Says Helen Thomas is Right  "[F]resh from declaring “communism” as the answer to dealing with corporate misconduct in America, O’Donnell actually appears to agree that Jews should depart Israel for Germany and Poland, especially since (GET THIS) THE OVENS ARE GONE!"

American Power Act: Oil Spill Does Not Justify Wrecking the Economy

 Heritage Insider  "The American Power Act is a significant tax on energy that would reduce Americans’ income, destroy jobs, and greatly shrink the economy. No amount of protections or rebates would save consumers from skyrocketing energy costs. And worst of all, there would be little environmental benefit to show for it."

Obama Administration to Support Anti-Israel Resolution at UN Next Week

Weekly Standard  "While UN Ambassador Susan Rice is reported to have played an important role in pushing for U.S. support of a UN investigation, the decision is, one official stressed, of course the president's."   William Kristol
Investigate this  "Despite outward appearances, the Obama administration is not clueless. It has plenty of clues. Let's just say now is a good time to meditate further on Dorothy Rabinowitz's Wall Street Journal column on "The alien in the White House.""
Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel  " Israelis should assume by now that whether they act tentatively or strongly, the negative reaction will be the same. Therefore why not project the image of a strong, unapologetic country to a world that has completely lost its moral bearings, and is more likely to respect Israel’s strength than its past concern for meeting an impossible global standard?
How odd that the more the activists, political leaders, and media figures issue moral strictures against Israel, the more they prove abjectly amoral. And the more they seek to pressure Israel, the more they are liberating it to do what it feels it must. "
As in the 1930's, pacifists cause the death of millions .

Katrinization

Victor Davis Hanson  "So if you can’t blame Bush or the big money and you can’t explain the disaster, you are left with the “I’m Obama, after all” voting-present strategy, which explains the deer-in-the-headlights reaction we are seeing now."

Congress Circles the Drain

Big Government "Well here we are in the middle of the worst economy in almost a century, wars on two fronts, and a monster oil spill turning our southern coast into asphalt. And what is Congress busy on? Solving gender discrimination in restrooms."