Barack Obama News

One of the lessons of statecraft is that mistakes tend to compound themselves. Good options disappear and bad ones proliferate. The hole is dug deeper because desperation convinces you to contemplate options that would never have been considered in better times. This is what I fear may happen next in Iraq. Because we have so…

The beheading of another American journalist this week sparked many members of Congress to urge President Obama to amp up U.S. military action against the Islamic State, otherwise known as ISIS. But before he does so, many of those same lawmakers are demanding that the president first seek congressional authorization, pursuant to the War Powers…

Two weeks ago, President Obama took time out from his vacation to speak to the American people. Oddly, he didn’t talk about ISIS, Ukraine, the Islamist takeover of Tripoli or even border security here at home. No, what lured the president from the links of Martha’s Vineyard to a radio microphone was the opportunity to publicly…

The contrast between last week’s press conference in London by British Prime Minister David Cameron and the White House remarks by President Obama could not have been starker. Cameron delivered a robust assessment of the scale of the Islamist threat to Great Britain and to the free world. He told journalists assembled at Downing Street…

This wasn’t the voice of President Reagan, rallying the free world to confront a great evil, a great menace to the world today.

You may have heard pundits time and time again dismiss America’s debt problem, touting that the deficit has fallen by 50 percent since 2009. Yet that sidesteps the real issue: the massive amount of debt the country has taken on in the past six years has put the nation in a vulnerable position as entitlement…

Not a day off since Christmas. The president deserved a real vacation — to sit on the newly screened back porch, daydream for an afternoon, then enjoy a quiet supper. All was well … until the phone rang that night. “Mr. President,” said Secretary of State Dean Acheson, “I have very serious news. The North…

Use the arrows below to see the flip-flop in Obama’s thinking about the Export-Import Bank since he became President. Warning: if you weren’t suspicious of how politicians get corrupted by big business and power, you will now. Read more on the Export-Import bank here: Infographic: 5 Facts About One Terrible Government Program Ignore the Rhetoric: The…

A lot of voters are questioning the leadership this president has shown, but also the larger party, because you don’t see any other Democrats coming up, saying the president’s been wrong.

President Obama reportedly wants to go around our elected officials to implement climate change regulations that will drive up energy costs for Americans. The New York Times is reporting that the administration is looking for ways to sidestep the Constitution and the normal treaty ratification process to commit to an international agreement urging other countries…

In its latest assault on the U.S. Constitution, the Obama administration is proposing to recognize so-called “Native” Hawaiians as an Indian tribe entitled to separate and become an independent sovereign and to “reestablish” a “government-to-government relationship between the United State and the Native Hawaiian community.” Such an unconstitutional action would amount to authorizing secession for…

Gov. Rick Perry, R-Texas, talks about what’s changed since he  ran for president in 2012, militarization and Ferguson and President Obama’s foreign policy.