As Hillary Clinton said just the other day, “don’t do stupid stuff” is not an organizing principle of great nations. She was taking a jab at President Obama having made, excuse the expression, a dog’s breakfast out of American foreign policy. Last May, in a moment of candor, he did describe his foreign policy as just that. Not a…
Yesterday, on his way to Martha’s Vineyard for another family vacation, the President took time to lecture us on the current situation in Iraq. If I had fingers, I’d run out of them trying to count the number of times he repeated two statements. The first one laid the blame for the ISIL invasion entirely on the current Iraqi government. The second statement…
DATELINE: Darknessville, August 9 – Today, President Obama held a press conference on the south lawn of the White House en route to his latest family vacation. His remarks, and the questions from the press, dealt entirely with the state of affairs in Iraq. In listening to the President, one can only conclude that they are very strange affairs indeed.
DATELINE: Comedyville, August 2 – The world is brimful of steaming struggles this week: Israel vs. Hamas, Ukraine vs. Russia, Iraq vs. ISIS, Rebels vs. Syria, Sanity vs. North Korea. Most of them are very sobering with long-term consequences that can reshape our lives for the much worse.
The overreaction to Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores is even worse than the HHS overreach that led to the decision. The blowback in the short aftermath of Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling is huge and far more distorted than most political hyperbole. As a result, some of our completely gullible citizens are threatening to burn down the retailer’s locations…
The Constitution’s Recess Clause allows presidents to make executive appointments when the Senate is in recess. In 2012, Obama declared the Senate to be in recess when it was actually in session and proceeded to appoint three individuals to the NLRB. In National Labor Relations Board v. Canning, handed down on Thursday…
