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I keep wondering if I’ll Google the video of Erskine Bowles, the two-time Democratic U.S. Senate candidate from North Carolina and former chief-of-staff for President Bill Clinton, and find that his comments praising GOP VP-pick Paul Ryan’s budget taken out of context. But it hasn’t happened yet. Bowles said Ryan could “run circles around me”Continue Reading

Folks, this is a campaign stop. The president views it as a good thing. Even he knows enough to wish to hide the disaster of Obamanomics, deliberately refusing to celebrate its second anniversary. But his green energy debacle he still fails to recognize. Obama has learned nothing since first coming to office and being utterlyContinue Reading

Per a study by the University of Minnesota’s Smart Politics, Obama’s SOTU addresses have the lowest average Flesch-Kincaid score of any modern president; Obama owns three of the six lowest-scoring addresses since FDR For the third consecutive State of the Union Address, Barack Obama spoke in clear, plain terms. And for the third straight Address,Continue Reading

Obama’s latest executive order, out on Monday, decries the shortage of pharmaceutical drugs. His proposals, however, will do nothing to increase supply; rather, they push for more paperwork and counterproductive lawsuits. As I point out in my latest commentary with The Future of Freedom Foundation, “Eliminate Medicine Shortages with Imports,” he need only look at oneContinue Reading

That’s the title of my Townhall column this morning. A couple of excerpts: … The president is especially glum. The American people — and worse for him, his own party — expect him to lead, a rather daunting prospect that includes convincing Republicans to follow. Becoming such a leader cuts strongly against his natural inclinationsContinue Reading

I wrote in 2008: [Biden] dubs paying taxes “patriotic.” He did this on ABC’s “Good Morning, America,” saying that while Obama would increase taxes on the wealthy, “It’s time to be patriotic.” And he has said it in it political rallies, telling a woman who said her friends are worried that under Obama they facedContinue Reading

Victor Davis Hanson argues at National Review Online that the recent campaign in Libya represents new territory for the United States: The abrupt abandonment of hostilities after about two weeks has set an American military precedent. True, the United States once lost a big war in Vietnam. It also decided not to finish a warContinue Reading

Regardless of the arguments put forward by other pundits, TIME’s Michael Crowley disputes the notion that President Obama’s foreign policy is based on any unified doctrine. Back when Barack Obama was a Senator, he had high expectations for a new kind of U.S. foreign policy. The “United States still lacks a coherent national security policy,”Continue Reading