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Obama's Off-Shore Banking

The White House tells reporters that America's relationship with China "is at an all-time high." Why? Are the Chinese impressed that Obama hires Marxists like Van Jones and admirers of Chairman Mao like Anita Dunn? No, the reason for the cozy ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  George W. Bush

Treachery as Lifestyle Choice

President Obama, speaking at Tuesday's memorial, described the Fort Hood attack as "incomprehensible." But what's incomprehensible about it? Nidal Malik Hasan telegraphed his treachery. The drip-drip-drip of reports reveals that Hasan ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  12 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  US Department of Defense,  Nidal Malik Hasan,  George Casey,  George W. Bush

One Step Forward, Two Races Back

"Victory has a thousand fathers," said John F. Kennedy, "but defeat is an orphan." David Axelrod, netting the prize for the most shameless display of post-defeat spinning, added an additional father to Bob McDonnell's victory in Virginia: Barack ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  John Fitzgerald Kennedy,  David Axelrod

Thin Reids

The rhetorical misdirection of the Democrats on health care is impossible to exaggerate. Nancy Pelosi is now calling the public option the "consumer option." Say anything, that's the strategy at this point. The Democrats are more like medicine men ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  29 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  Barack Obama,  Harry Reid,  Nancy Pelosi,  U.S. Republican Party

The Obama Administration's Inner Mao

White House Communications Director Anita Dunn says that her comment about Chairman Mao as one of her "favorite political philosophers" has been badly distorted. Perhaps she meant to say that Mao is one of her favorite media strategists. It is ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  22 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  White House,  U.S. Republican Party,  Lee Atwater,  Willie Horton

Don't Ask, Then Tell

Polls consistently show that soldiers do not want the armed services turned into a laboratory of social experimentation. But a president who spends more time in the company of Oprah than his generals has no intention of listening to them. Whatever ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  15 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Edward Gibbon,  U.S. Senate,  Taliban,  White House

The Patriots of 1966

Out of government, liberals regard dissent as the essence of patriotism. Once in power, they consider dissent an affront to it. The left is suddenly nationalistic, policing the proper level of jingoistic disappointment after Chicago's lost ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  MSNBC,  MoveOn.org,  Rachel Maddow,  United Nations

Roman Law

Too bad the arrest of Roman Polanski didn't occur last week. The global elite could have paused from its discussions about the United Nations Convention on the Child (which includes teens) to kick the issue around. "Absolutely horrifying," said ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski,  Whoopi Goldberg,  United Nations,  David Gregory,  White House

Copenhagen Smokeless Chu

Activists like Richard Branson pride themselves on perpetual adolescence, seeing no contradiction between the jet-setting hedonism they practice and the abstemious environmentalism they preach. Energy Secretary Steven Chu's comparison of the ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  24 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Steven Chu,  Richard Branson,  United Nations,  Yukio Hatoyama (politician)

Race to the Bottom

Last year Geraldine Ferraro called Barack Obama's race an advantage. "If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she said to a California newspaper, the Daily Breeze. "He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country ...

From GEORGE NEUMAYR, American Spectator,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Barack Obama,  Bill Clinton,  Jesse Jackson, Jr. (politician),  Geraldine Ferraro,  Hillary Rodham Clinton

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