Stories are being written these days about the new poll which indicates that 20% of Americans think President Barack Obama is a Muslim. Two things interest me about this issue. One, people are making a big deal about the increasing number of people who believe this, but if memory serves me, 18% of the public […]
I read an article recently about how it might help President Barack Obama in the 2012 Election if he had VP Joe Biden switch jobs with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The writer pointed out that others in the media are beginning to offer the same suggestion. The reasons being that Biden has a tendency
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President Barack Obama’s poll numbers have been in the news recently. Apparently, a majority of Americans have lost faith in the President’s ability to deal with the problems that trouble them. The not-so-bad news for the President is that people have even less faith in Congress, so comparatively speaking, he stills look pretty good. Of
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President Barack Obama has come under a little bit of fire for making a recess appointment of Donald Berwick to take charge of Medicare and Medicaid. Normally, the Senate has to confirm or reject such appointments by the President. But if he waits until Congress is in recess, he can fill positions temporarily without the
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It is easy to see parallels between General Stanley McChrystal’s insubordination towards President Obama and that of Douglas MacArthur towards President Truman many years ago. In both cases you had a war that’s popularity was dwindling–then Korea, now Afghanistan. And you had the general in charge of operations disrespecting his commander in chief. However, MacArthur
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