Barack Obama, Saul Alinsky, and Obamacare
As soon as I saw this image I couldn’t resist putting it up, it’s so representative of what we’re now seeing in Washington.
The image goes well with Alex Caruba’s interesting piece titled “Applying Alinsky: Why Obamacare Makes No Sense,” in which he aptly suggests that Barack Obama is the apotheosis of Saul Alinsky’s gameplan [...]
Rhetoritician, Heal Thyself
Another example of neoconservative Michael Medved fawning over an Obamic oration that simply isn’t worth the… well, we’ll get into that.
On his radio show today, Medved referred to a speech, which Obama gave today at the National Prayer Breakfast, as “great;” Medved enthusiastically compared it to Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech. Medved was [...]
Leading by Example – Making the Federal Government More Sustainable
Yesterday I had the opportunity to co-convene a meeting with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and leaders from across the Federal community who are helping to make sustainability a reality for the Federal government. Following up from President Obama’s announcement on Friday when he set a government-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction of 28 [...]
A Closer Look
This week, CNN has been taking a good, hard look at the Recovery Act and examining some of the projects being funded across the country to create jobs and drive economic growth. As they do this, they’re asking some questions about how Recovery dollars are being spent. We wanted to provide the full set of [...]
Taking Chances on Yemen
The American and British embassies in Yemen have been closed reportedly in response to an al Qaeda threat. The Associated Press reports:
White House counterterrorism chief John Brennan said the American Embassy, which was attacked twice in 2008, was shut Sunday because of “indications al-Qaida is planning to carry out an attack against a target inside of San’a, possibly [...]
The limits of "cool"
Byron York notes that some Obama defenders are circulating articles from the Huffington Post and Politico arguing that President Obama is being subjected to a double standard of criticism for his handling of the Detroit terrorism incident. This claim is based on the fact that, as Politico’s Josh Gerstein notes, when shoe-bomber [...]
