Reuters Obama and Volcker are plotting to raise taxes The United States should consider raising taxes to help bring deficits under control and may need to consider a European-style value-added tax,White House adviser Paul Volcker said on Tuesday. Volcker,answering a question from the audience at a New [...] By HERB KEINON,Jerusalem Post Netanyahu is returning to the US,doesn’t plan to meet with Obama though Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu announced on Tuesday that he will return to the US on Monday,to take part in President Barack Obama’s Nuclear Security Summit,just three weeks after he met with [...] By J.R. Dunn,American Thinker What is Obama’s real agenda? Over the past year and a half,we’ve seen much in the way of speculation of what Obama is really up to,what his true agenda might be behind all the soothing and meretricious rhetoric. It was quite clear that "Obama"[...] By KT McFarland,FOXNews Obama’s new nuke plan is scary Today President Obama reversed 60 years of U.S. nuclear policy and pledged we would not retaliate with nuclear weapons were we —or our treaty allies —attacked with conventional,biological or chemical weapons by nations in compliance with the Nuclear [...] by Thomas Sowell,Townhall Obama and his supporters try to play the race card Few combinations are more poisonous than race and politics. That combination has torn whole nations apart and led to the slaughters of millions in countries around the world. You might think we would have learned [...] By Tony Blankley,Washington Times Obama diplomacy has torpedoed the Karzai presidency Obama has done his best to sink the Karzai Presidency Last summer,President Obama spent several months publicly anguishing over what he would or wouldn’t do in Afghanistan. Finally,he agreed to [...] By Jake Tapper,ABC Whoops! He left out some important facts In a letter to the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,Associate Dean and Professor of Law at the University of California,Berkeley School of Law Goodwin Liu,a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit,[...] He also can’t throw a baseball… by John,Powerline Obama’s dumb policy on nuclear weapons Today President Obama announced a new strategic policy with regard to the use of nuclear weapons. The New York Times reports: “President Obama said Monday that he was revamping American nuclear strategy to substantially narrow the conditions under [...] FOXNews Obama is restricting our ability to defend ourselves The Obama administration is locking up the country’s nuclear weapons for all but the most "extreme circumstances,"pledging in a new policy not to develop new nuclear weapons and to limit the use of the ones in storage —even for self [...] by Laura Ingraham Obama is leading us into an economic malaise As I predicted,Barack Obama and his advisors have launched a campaign to lower the public’s expectations when it comes to the economic recovery. The Obama administration first claimed the stimulus boondoggle had saved the economy. Then,to sell ObamaCare,they [...] AP Is a treaty really binding if Russia can just opt out? The new U.S.-Russian arms control treaty is a much better deal for Russia than its predecessor,but Moscow reserves the right to withdraw from it if a planned U.S. missile defense system grows into a threat,Russia’s foreign [...] By Kim Zigfeld,America Thinker Obama is being pushed around by Putin The point of President Barack Obama’s much-ballyhooed "reset"of relations with Vladimir Putin’s Russia was simple:Get Russia to stop supporting American enemies and use its influence to reduce the threat of nuclear terror being rained down on the [...] By Jon Ward –The Daily Caller Obamacare has a key provision that puts states at risk The addition to existing law of five words,and a comma,may cause a world of hurt to state governments. Tucked away on page 466 of President Obama’s 2,704-page health-care bill is [...] By Vince Haley,www.torenewamerica.com President Obama literally edited Christ out of his “holiday greeting” today when he excerpted a sermon given by a military chaplain on Iwo Jima on Easter Sunday 1945. Below is the relevant paragraph from Obama’s holiday greeting today: The rites of [...] Business Week Obama is too cool for school and for friends and allies After 14 months in office,President Barack Obama is looking at a cold and friendless world. That doesn’t seem to bother him one bit,because he’s the one who’s acting chilly. His relations with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and [...] By Jake Tapper,ABC Former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan told me the probability that the CBO was too rosy in its projections of health care costs is “much higher than we would like”. “You have to ask yourself,‘What happens if we are wrong?’”,Greenspan said in my exclusive “This Week” [...] | |