Infographic: The Obama Economy
Posted by Caleb Howe
The Romney campaign has released a good new infographic detailing the truth about Obama’s promised “green economy” job gains.

The Media and Barack Obama’s Pauline Kael Moment on Gay Marriage
Posted by Erick Erickson
If you listen to Barack Obama’s statement to ABC News yesterday you’ll hear something not reflected in all the transcripts that went out yesterday. He said his administration gave up the legal fight to defend the Defense Against Marriage Act. It’s actually the Defense Of Marriage Act.

Obama Caves to Gay Demands, Endorses “Marriage”
By Gary L. Bauer
President Obama just told ABC News that he now supports same-sex marriage. Surprised? Didn’t think so. Obama is no doubt hoping to energize his leftwing base. And he is betting this will help him to re-energize the youth vote this November. But in fact he may have just lost the presidency.

House Republicans try to block Obama’s rifle rule
By Dan Freedman
House Republicans, accusing President Barack Obama of waging a war on gun owners, plan to cut off funding for an rule requiring firearms dealers in border states to report multiple sales of certain rifles.

A Terrible, No Good, Awful Night for Barack Obama
Posted by Erick Erickson
One initial point to ponder: if the No-H8 campaign tries to fire up in North Carolina as the No-A1 campaign, people will wonder why they are campaigning against steak sauce. Probably won’t happen. North Carolina did not pass a ban on gay marriage as the media reports. Rather they refused to allow their definition of marriage to be changed. The marriage definition was put into law years ago, but with an onslaught of judicial activists, the voters in North Carolina decided to shut down any further consideration of the issue.

Paul forges ahead with weekend victories
By Richard S. Dunham
If the Republican primary race is over, nobody has bothered to tell Ron Paul. Even as the national media has declared Mitt Romney the inevitable GOP presidential nominee to take on President Barack Obama, the Texas congressman with the highly organized army of never-say-die loyalists surprised the Republican front-runner by sweeping three state conventions in the past weekend.

Obama zigs as Biden zags on gay marriage – President ‘comfortable’ under rising pressure
By Dave Boyer
President Obama is “comfortable” with full legal rights for same-sex couples, but still doesn’t support gay marriage, his spokesman said Monday as the administration scrambled to clarify comments by Vice President Joseph R. Biden in support of such unions.

GOP foiled as funds flow to Planned Parenthood
By Paige Winfield Cunningham
Newly empowered Republicans in states across the country are pushing to kill public contracts with Planned Parenthood, only to find their efforts blocked by the Obama administration and federal courts.

Nary kiss nor hug for the blind man
By Wesley Pruden
Barack Obama says he agrees with Abraham Lincoln (you could ask him) that America is “the exceptional nation,” a nation unique in a world of moral squalor, a beacon of hope for the “tired, the poor, the huddled masses yearning to breathe free.” But sometimes cold pragmatism demands the exceptional nation make exceptions.

Ron Paul’s stealth state convention takeover
Posted by Rachel Weiner
Remember Ron Paul? He has yet to win a primary. All his other fellow long-shots have dropped out (or will by the end of the day). The Republican National Committee is calling former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney the “presumptive nominee.”

EDITORIAL: Obama’s midnight madness – President campaigns at the expense of the nation and national security
By The Washington Times
Americans witnessed a bizarre made-for-TV event Tuesday night. President Obama travelled 14,000 miles to Afghanistan to engage in a midnight marathon of election-year photo-ops. Never has U.S. national security been so twisted to fit a personal political agenda.

The President Has a List – Barack Obama attempts to intimidate contributors to Mitt Romney’s campaign.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
Try this thought experiment: You decide to donate money to Mitt Romney. You want change in the Oval Office, so you engage in your democratic right to send a check.

‘Crucify them’: The Obama way
by Michelle Malkin
One of President Obama’s radical eco-bureaucrats has apologized for confirming an indelible truth: This White House treats politically incorrect private industries as public enemies who deserve regulatory death sentences.

The Second Coming of American Liberal Fascism?
Posted by Erick Erickson
During the Bush years, Bush was often compared to Hitler or Mussolini,. The focus of the attacks had to do with wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and angst over the supposed erosion of civil liberties due to warrantless wiretaps, among other things. There was a lot of hyperbole. Bush was a monkey, a Nazi, a Fascist, the devil’s spawn. The hyperbole became so hysterical some conservatives jokingly took to calling President Bush “Chimpy McBushHitler Halliburton.” Many on the right go too far in attacking the motives of President Obama in the same way the left attacked Bush. It is neither rational nor sane.

Protest by Catholic activists may hamper Obama reelection bid
By Alexander Bolton
President Obama has seen his standing among Catholic voters, a crucial segment of the electorate, slip in recent weeks, and a looming confrontation with Catholic activists could make it worse.

The Romney Campaign’s Tin Ear
Posted by Erick Erickson
The Romney campaign continues to leave many evangelical voters feeling a bit out of sorts. It seems more and more the Romney campaign calculus is that the campaign will get the evangelical vote without much effort.

Fast and Furious – Will Obama Administration Ever Come Clean?
Posted by Caleb Howe
The Ted Cruz campaign has released a new video detailing the timeline of the Fast and Furious scandal.

Obama’s recess actions spur Republicans to join lawsuit
By Stephen Dinan
Escalating a simmering constitutional feud, Senate Republicans on Tuesday said they’re joining a lawsuit against President Obama’s January recess appointments, which were made even as Senate Republicans said they were still in session.

On The Road With Obama
By Gary L. Bauer
America’s foreign policy and our image overseas have taken a beating in recent days. Last week North Korea violated yet another agreement by allegedly attempting to launch a satellite into space. But this claim is just as ludicrous as Iran saying it needs a nuclear program for energy. North Korea was testing its long-range ballistic missile technology. A left-wing paper in England declared that Obama’s engagement policy with North Korea was left “in tatters.”

Romney targets Obama in NRA speech – GOP candidate slams policies on economy, freedom
By Seth McLaughlin
Mitt Romney spoke to thousands of gun owners Friday, but the former Massachusetts governor’s remarks were clearly aimed at a broader audience and offered an early glimpse at how the Republican presidential front-runner plans to take on President Obama.

Judge says Obama approaching totalitarianism – Napolitano says White House now ‘dangerously close’
By WND
Not many weeks ago, Barack Obama announced that Congress was being uncooperative, so he would have to go it alone with executive orders to make changes he wanted for America.

Romney Trails Obama, but Key Numbers Break His Way
A Commentary by Michael Barone
Now that Rick Santorum has “suspended” his campaign, we can stop pretending and can say what has been clear for weeks: Mitt Romney will be the Republican nominee for president. The general election campaign has begun.

Social conservatives looking for a reason to love Romney
By Seth McLaughlin
Social conservatives who backed Rick Santorum’s presidential campaign said his supporters will get behind Mitt Romney, but warned that the presumptive Republican nominee still has a lot more to do if he wants those activists to man phone banks and knock on doors in the drive to win in November.

The Buffett Rule Obfuscates the Real Debt Crisis
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
Over the past few weeks, Obama has exhibited the intensity of a Navy SEAL in his execution of class warfare. He is trying to convince everyone that those who earn 17% of Adjusted Gross Income, yet pay 36.7% of federal income taxes don’t pay anything, while those who pay little or no taxes shoulder the entire tax burden. Obama will continue to toss out misinformation throughout the campaign about all these billionaires that supposedly pay little in taxes.

Obama’s Misleading Tirade On Taxes
By Gary L. Bauer
Barack Obama’s speech yesterday on the Buffett rule was typical of his more recent campaign speeches — misleading, devoid of policy and little more than an anti-GOP tirade. Gone was the inspirational rhetoric about hope and change. Obama knows he can’t play those cards again. So it’s slash and burn, and he’s back to blaming Bush. Buckle up — it’s going to be a rough ride!

Santorum Suspends
By Gary L. Bauer
Senator Rick Santorum suspended his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination just a few hours ago in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The decision came after another weekend at the bedside of his daughter Bella, who faced another medical crisis. Watching this wonderful family and its commitment to the sanctity of life has been an incredible blessing.

Obama’s Supreme Court ploy: When clever only looks like dumb
By Wesley Pruden
Presidential contempt for the Supreme Court and inconvenient law is not new. But rarely has a president sounded so, well, dumb, as when Barack Obama lectured the justices on what they can and can’t do to his cherished Obamacare.

FACT CHECK: Obama’s incomplete history lesson
By Calvin Woodward
Few would quarrel with President Obama’s point that the Republican Party has drifted to the right in recent years, disavowing ideas it once embraced — even created. But making that case in a major campaign speech, Obama ignored realities in his own Democratic ranks.

Is This A Subtle Bias At Reuters?
Posted by Erick Erickson
In a story about the White House in damage control mode over the President’s rather stupid remarks on the Supreme Court, Reuters reports the following:

“What he did was make an unremarkable observation about 80 years of Supreme Court history,” Carney told reporters during a White House briefing dominated by the topic.

Obama’s Continuing Assault on the Law, History, and Facts
Posted by Leon H. Wolf
In the wake of President Obama’s moronic and widely-lampooned comments on judicial review yesterday, President Obama offered the following lame (and incorrect) walkback today:

THE PRESIDENT: Well, first of all, let me be very specific. We have not seen a Court overturn a law that was passed by Congress on a economic issue, like health care, that I think most people would clearly consider commerce — a law like that has not been overturned at least since Lochner. Right? So we’re going back to the ’30s, pre New Deal.

Obama Unhinged
By Gary L. Bauer
In his speech to reporters yesterday Barack Obama unleashed a barrage of rhetorical falsehoods and demagoguery at the latest budget proposal by Rep. Paul Ryan, which was approved by House Republicans. Obama went beyond policy disagreements and set out to demonize the GOP with slashing rhetoric and alarming adjectives. The goal of Obama’s attack was to portray himself as a moderate or centrist and portray the GOP as extremists.

Does Obama Know How the Supreme Court Voted? – The Wink and The Nod
Posted by streiff
The storm that erupted yesterday when Barack Obama woke up and discovered the Supreme Court of the United States was not only not elected but it could overturn “duly passed” laws, even those passed in the dead of the night by the barest of purchased majorities, has been more than adequately covered on these pages and others by actual lawyers and those who think they are.

Obama fails the race test – Would a dialogue on race have saved Trayvon Martin?
By The Washington Times
The death of Trayvon Martin has renewed the debate about race and identity in America. It also has raised the question why President Obama has not opened the national dialogue on race he promised four years ago.

Testing the Media’s Testicular Fortitude
Posted by Erick Erickson
According to America’s top Constitutional Law Professor turned President of the United States, the Supreme Court should not overturn “a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected congress.”

Brutal week for Obama, the worst of his presidency
By Charles Hurt
The past seven brutal days will go down as one of the worst weeks in history for a sitting president. It certainly has been, without any doubt, the worst week yet for President Obama.

Even If It Survives the Court, the Health Care Law Is Doomed
By Scott Rasmussen
Media coverage now implies that the U.S. Supreme Court will determine the fate of President Obama’s health care law. But nothing the court decides will keep the law alive for more than a brief period of time.

ObamaCare On Trial: Day Three
By Gary L. Bauer
Can ObamaCare survive without the individual mandate? That was the main point of today’s debate before the Supreme Court. Yesterday, a majority of justices appeared highly skeptical of the government’s claim that it has the authority to compel individuals to purchase health insurance.

The Obama Administration Outlaws New Coal-Fired Powerplants – Stroke of the pen. Law of the land. Kinda cool.
Posted by streiff
Yesterday the Obama Administration effectively outlawed coal as a fuel source and it underscores the importance of Congress severely circumscribing the authority of regulatory agencies.

Obamacare’s day in court – Justices hear arguments in the ultimate case on limited government
By The Washington Times
It’s Obamacare week at the Supreme Court. The justices on Monday spent the first two of the six hours planned for oral argument discussing the constitutionality of the health care takeover. It’s been a long road since then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s flippant dismissal of such concerns with the response, “Are you serious?” Now the high court is giving more time to this question than it has to any others in 47 years.

Obama in South Korea is no Reagan in Reykjavik
Posted by Erick Erickson
One the arguments Mitt Romney’s opponents have against him was defined by Romney’s own campaign’s “etch-a-sketch” comment. No one seems to know what Mitt Romney really stands for and the etch-a-sketch comment gave a visual image, created by Romney’s own campaign, to drive home the lack of trust in Mitt Romney.

Boiling The Racial Pot
By Gary L. Bauer
Seventeen year-old Trayvon Martin and neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman had a confrontation on a dark street in Sanford, Florida, last month. There was a fight and Zimmerman, who is Hispanic, fatally shot Martin, who was black.

Santorum wins Republican presidential primary in Louisiana
By Seth McLaughlin
Rick Santorum won the Republican primary in Louisiana on Saturday, giving the former Pennsylvania senator additional crowing rights going forward in the GOP presidential fight and further cementing him as the biggest rival to front-runner Mitt Romney.

Obama authorizes himself to declare martial law
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
President Obama has given himself the powers to declare martial law — especially in the event of a war with Iran. It is a sweeping power grab that should worry every American.

Critics rip Obama claim that drilling in U.S. won’t drop gas prices
By Susan Crabtree
President Obama has been touring the country this week touting increased oil and gas production numbers during his time in office — but his selective quotes and figures tell only part of the story.

Romney Wins Illinois
By Gary L. Bauer
As was widely expected, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney won the Illinois primary yesterday. Many commentators do not see the results as a “game changer” because the pattern we have seen all year long prevailed again last night.

Obama’s Secret Debt Milestone
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
Here is a debt milestone that we surpassed this week, yet you won’t read about it anywhere in the media. The gross federal debt has increased more under Obama in just 3.2 years than it did during Bush’s entire 8-year tenure. And Bush was no limited government conservative either.

People Are Badly Misinterpreting Rick Santorum
Posted by Erick Erickson
Much hay is being made of Rick Santorum saying he’d prefer Obama to Romney. Except that is not what he said or what he meant. Certainly he could have had a clarifying clause in his statement, but given the context, I think he was saying no more and no less than what I have been saying.

An attack of the fruit fly
By Wesley Pruden
It’s not the wasps, bees and mosquitos, though stingers all, that bedevil presidential candidates. It’s the fruit flies. Insignificant in their own right, they nevertheless have the ability to damage and even sink a campaign.

Mitt Romney: The Consummate Etch A Sketch
Posted by Daniel Horowitz
Throughout the presidential campaign, we have been lampooned by the pale-pastel wing of the party for not coalescing around the Romney campaign with alacrity. Our detractors have been stupefied by our stubborn opposition to “the only candidate who can beat Obama;” the man with the requisite resume, funding, organization, intelligence, and persona.

Finally, Romney gets tea party support – FreedomWorks drops opposition
By Ralph Z. Hallow
The organization that ignited the tea party as a national mass movement gave Mitt Romney perhaps his biggest victory yet, deciding to drop its opposition to his candidacy, a top executive in the group told The Washington Times.

The Nominee – He Beat the Base. Now Will the Base be With Him?
Posted by Erick Erickson
It is a mathematical improbability that Rick Santorum will get to the magic number of 1,144 — the number of delegates needed to be the Republican Presidential nominee. It is a political improbability that Rick Santorum will stop Mitt Romney from getting to 1,144.

Jewish Children Gunned Down
By Gary L. Bauer
A gunman on a motorcycle opened fire on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, this morning killing three children and a rabbi. It was the third such attack in Toulouse in recent days. The other two targeted French soldiers.

Santorum’s True Grits
By Gary L. Bauer
The Republican presidential nomination battle took yet another turn last night as Senator Rick Santorum won hard-fought battles in Alabama and Mississippi. Virtually every analyst had predicted either that Gingrich would win because of his Southern roots or that Romney would prevail as Gingrich and Santorum split conservatives. In fact, Romney was so confident yesterday he told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “Senator Santorum is at the desperate end of his campaign.” They were all wrong.

Santorum: My 12-Year-Old Will Out-reason Maher
By Henry J. Reske
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum blasted liberal comedian Bill Maher Monday night for joking that Santorum homeschools his children in a “Christian madrasa.” A madrasa is an Islamic school.

Obama Can Be Beaten
By Gary L. Bauer
Last week I expressed my chagrin that George Will and others in Washington were writing off the presidential contest as hopelessly lost, preferring instead to focus all our resources on the congressional contests. This is bad strategy and it is defeatist. Last week I expressed my chagrin that George Will and others in Washington were writing off the presidential contest as hopelessly lost, preferring instead to focus all our resources on the congressional contests. This is bad strategy and it is defeatist.

Obama, Energy Promises, and Empty Rhetoric
Posted by Steve Maley
Voters in the November election will be acutely aware of two key economic variables above all others: the national unemployment rate, and the price they pay for a gallon of gasoline. President Obama senses his vulnerability on gasoline prices, and is busy erecting a defense against charges that his actions (or inactions) have contributed to high prices.

The Nominee
Posted by Erick Erickson
Many political analysts compare 2012′s Republican Presidential cycle to the Democrats’ go of it in 2008. Barack Obama deployed a delegate strategy while Hillary Clinton went for big state wins. It worked to Barack Obama’s favor. This year, it works for Romney.

GOP attorneys general litigate, push back against Obama regulations
By Neil Munro
Nine Republican attorneys general declared Monday that the Obama administration is riding roughshod over the law, and is using its regulatory powers to impose huge costs on the states.

Obama Tries To Reassure Israel
By Gary L. Bauer
Addressing the American Israel Public Affairs Committee yesterday, Barack Obama told the audience, “There should not be a shred of doubt by now — when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back.” Sorry, Mr. Obama, but a lot of folks have grave doubts about your commitment to the American-Israeli alliance. After all, at last year’s AIPAC speech, Obama was in damage control mode over his suggestion that Israel shrink back to the indefensible 1967 “Auschwitz” borders.

Further Proof Romney Supported a National Individual Mandate In 2009
Posted by Erick Erickson
As I mentioned yesterday, back in 2009 Mitt Romney took to the pages of USA Today to tell President Obama that as he came up with a healthcare plan he should consider using “tax penalties” as Massachusetts did or “tax credits, as others have proposed” to help cover the costs of health care.

BREAKING: Mitt Romney Urged Obama to Embrace the Individual Mandate
Posted by Erick Erickson
Had Michigan not been as close, the Democrats would have waited to spring this on us in the general election. Luckily we have it now and I hope Ohio voters are paying attention. In July 2009, Mitt Romney wrote an op-ed in USA Today urging Barack Obama to use an individual mandate at the national level to control healthcare costs.

Romney, Santorum all tied up in latest poll – Poll also finds voters want clear GOP winner
By Stephen Dinan
After a good February for each of them, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum head into Super Tuesday essentially tied in The Washington Times/JZ Analytics’ poll of Republican primary voters nationwide, which also found little appetite for the GOP to wait until a convention to settle matters.