Monthly Archives: November 2011

by Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

The Democrats have unveiled Barack Obama’s re-election strategy. They’re going to insist all Republicans are — wait for it! — racists.

The most recent ad hominem attack comes after Mitt Romney released an advertisement underscoring Obama’s dismal economic record. Veteran Democratic strategist Tad Devine told the media last week the commercial is “clearly an attempt to bring back Rev. Wright and race.”

How precisely is that, Tad?

Devine … Read the Rest of this Post

by Michael Reagan

To listen to the “elite” media you’d think that a renowned statesman was regrettably planning to leave the political scene.

As Jason Mattera of Human Events has noted, “After his announcement that he won’t seek reelection, The Washington Post heralded the disheveled congressman Barney Frank as leaving a ‘legacy that crosses from legislative cornerstones to political confrontations to a historic place as the nation’s most prominent gay lawmaker.’ ”

Paul Kane of … Read the Rest of this Post

by Ben Johnson, The White House Watch

On the eve of the Thanksgiving holiday, Barack Obama broke a campaign pledge and signed a bill legalizing the slaughter of American horses for human consumption.

Congress banned the slaughter of horses in 2006 by withholding funding for inspectors. A handful of Congressmen removed the amendment from a mandatory spending bill that arrived on the president’s desk just before Thanksgiving.

Obama quietly signed the bill on November 18, … Read the Rest of this Post

By 6 o’clock Friday most of us where either still shopping or relaxing and enjoying the two day holiday Thanksgiving has become. Nevertheless, Lee Adler a Wall Street Examiner reporter, was watching our backs and caught the New York City office of The Federal Reserve whispering an apology over the poor quality of its recent financial forecasts.  Even quasi-government agencies pull this stunt all the time. They dump bad stuff on Friday afternoons, so it … Read the Rest of this Post