Farewell and good riddance, President Obama. You will not be missed. If this seems like too harsh a judgment about a nice guy, remember that sometimes nice guys are elected president but are ineffective. Example: Herbert Hoover. Sometimes, too, flawed people are elected president. For instance, president-elect Donald Trump and former President Richard Nixon. In any … [Read more...]
Obama wages war in Middle East for show
President Obama continues to follow the pattern of his presidency: propose or do one good idea and push two bad ones. He introduces a rule making millions more Americans eligible for overtime pay to fight the dastardly employer trick of misclassifying workers as contractors. His National Labor Relations Board recently allowed minimum-wage workers to organize a union in the … [Read more...]
Injustice Department: Obama all show and no go
Criminal justice is not to be had under President Obama. As usual he talks big but acts small. He recently visited El Reno, a medium security prison in Oklahoma, speaking passionately about the failings of a criminal justice system that has damaged a generation of Americans with far longer sentences than necessary. So our noble president commuted the sentences of 46 … [Read more...]
Reid and Obama playing fast and loose with the facts about ‘green’ energy
When President Obama took the stage to close out Harry Reid’s traveling planet salvation show this past week in Las Vegas, he accused opponents of his sweeping clean energy plans of spreading misinformation. “We refuse to surrender the hope of a clean energy future to those who fear it and fight it, and sometimes provide misinformation about it,” he charged at the National … [Read more...]