As the left calls Romney a “liar”, Thomas Sowell exposes the real liar
Pay attention because this is important. A week or so ago, a video from a 2007 Obama speech surfaced in which he used race baiting tactics to exploit the Hurricane Katrina disaster as proof that...
View ArticleHillary jumps under the Obama bus … or was she pushed?
Seriously. After spending 8 years holding Bush responsible for everything from 9/11 (it was an “inside job”) to a Pelosi’s hangnail, we now have the left settling on “it’s Hillary’s fault”? Truman’s...
View ArticleObama’s Navy: Ignorance or intent?
A little more on the abject ignorance Obama displayed concerning the Navy. Or was it, instead, the usual attempt to have it both ways? You know, talk about how everything is under control while in...
View ArticleMichael Barone: Slow-motion 1980?
Michael Barone is one of the few poll watchers I respect. I’ve watched him in any number of elections and he’s objectively called it the way he saw it, usually spot on, for whomever the facts indicated...
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Prediction time (Update)
If you haven’t read Karl Rove’s analysis of the election, you ought too. Yeah, I know, Rove is partisan and all of that, but, like Michael Barone (who, by the way, has predicted a Romney win), he knows...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 04 Nov 12
This week, Bruce, Michael, and Dale make their final election calls. The direct link to the podcast can be found here. As a reminder, if you are an iTunes user, don’t forget to subscribe to the QandO...
View ArticleFinal thoughts on today’s vote
John Podhoretz mentions something we’ve been talking about for a while: If Mitt Romney wins tonight, it’ll likely be because of something revealed by a little-noticed statistic released yesterday by...
View ArticleObama Re-elected
And I was dead wrong. When you get it wrong, what you normally should do is check your premise. Mine was that the polls couldn’t have it right running a D+ anything. That, based on 2010 and the...
View ArticleThe Senate filibuster fight gins up – hypocrites to the left of us,...
Another example of why you can’t ever take anything a politician says at face value or believe them when they say they stand on ‘principle’. For instance, consider the looming Senate fight over the...
View ArticleObama’s second term: Thunder, lightning, but likely little rain
I think Philip Klein has the best read on Obama’s second inaugural speech. Oh, it had lots of things to make the left wet itself in joy, but, well, here’s what Klein thinks (he bases his conclusion on...
View ArticleSean Smith’s mother doesn’t think his death is phony … nor the scandal...
[Guest posting at Hot Air today:] In its usual inept and ham-fisted way, the Obama administration has chosen to address the scandals surrounding it by waving them away as “phony” – conspiracies...
View ArticleI thought our President told us al Qaeda was all but defeated?!
Well this has to be embarrassing: A State Department travel alert Friday said al Qaeda may launch attacks in the Middle East, North Africa and beyond, as the United States is closing 21 embassies and...
View ArticleThe usual lack of leadership from a petty partisan ideologue
Not that it should come as any surprise to those familiar with our president. Nile Gardiner hits the sore spot: The American Left’s hatred for all things conservative has been on full display in...
View ArticleAssessing the worst presidency in history
Okay, maybe I’m jumping the gun, but I lived through Jimmy Carter, and I’d take that mess again in a heartbeat over the one we’re currently living through. It’s always interesting to read what is being...
View ArticleIs the Obama presidency failing?
Edward Luce, writing in the Financial Times, certainly seems to think so: Anyone wondering about the scale of the anti-Obama backlash should look at its impact on the 2016 US presidential race. Both...
View ArticleThe wages of mendacity
They’re finally “coming home to roost” as Mr. Obama’s favorite preacher might say: According to a new CNN/ORC International survey, only four out of 10 Americans believe Mr. Obama can manage the...
View ArticleThe incredible shrinking presidency
Yes I know Peggy Noonan was one of “those” on the right to who thought Barack Obama would “deliver” (deliver what I’m not sure but she thought he’d be a welcome change to Bush). And, in a weird and...
View ArticleObama polls sinking along with Democrat chances in mid-terms
Congressional “mid-term” elections have, for years, been seen as a referrendum on the President. When the nation is pleased with a President, his party gains seats in Congress and when not pleased,...
View ArticleThe “teenage” administration
When Barack Obama was running for the presidency, there were a number of people who warned he wasn’t ready for prime time – that he’d never really “done anything or run anything”. That he had never...
View ArticleVacuousness coupled with incompetence equals Obama’s “strategy” to deal with...
I’ve watched in horrified wonder these last few weeks as a man way over his head tries to act like he knows what he’s doing. But he’s not fooling anyone. Not even his most rabid supporters. The...
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Government is problem #1
Or so the most recent Gallup poll says: Here’s a quiz for you – name the one “problem” that this administration has given top priority that doesn’t even make the list? Yes, that’s right – climate...
View ArticleThe wages of emotional voting and lack of scrutiny? Obama
National Review has published an article by Victor Davis Hanson with three views of the Obama presidency. One view is that of an Obama partisan and presents his presidency in a positive light. The...
View ArticleWhy the US has lost its presence in the Middle East
As if it wasn’t obvious, Gary Kasparov summarizes it very well in today’s WSJ: Mr. Obama has already decided to continue his policy of disengagement from the Middle East, and his platitudes about...
View ArticleFrance, the Democrats and reality
One of the three in the title doesn’t belong there: I watched, incredulously, as all three contenders in Saturday night’s Democratic presidential debate — Hillary Rodham Clinton, Bernie Sanders and...
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Stray Voltage
Another thing I decided during my holiday hiatus was to make “Stray Voltage” a regular Friday feature. Why? Well, it covers a number of subjects/issues and gives everybody a lot to talk about over the...
View ArticleMore outright lies from POTUS at the Dallas Memorial
So much for honoring 5 slain police officers. Oh, Obama started out alright, but then he just couldn’t help himself. He had to slip into ideological mode and tell a whopper of a lie to try and get it...
View ArticleGlad to see the passing of 2016 and the exit of Barack Obama
Frankly, it’s been a miserable year. The only good thing, as a hat tip to Billy Hollis, is it is the year that ensured that Hillary Clinton will never be president. For that alone it isn’t the worst...
View ArticleSo … it’s a “done deal”
The inauguration and seating of the 45th President of the United States, I mean. Interesting to watch the huge group of politicians act nicey-nice on the platform. Even Hillary smiled. That said, all...
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Observations: The QandO Podcast for 07 Sep 18
Former President Obama had sharp words for the politics of division. Coming from a president of the party that created identitity poliics, that seemed a bit rich. When I was kind, the circus consisted...
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