“Here’s what President Barack Obama’s new budget tells me: He hasn’t shifted to the center, he’s shifted into 2012 campaign mode, one that let’s him be who is really is.” So says James Pethokoukis. Says protein wisdom, wait, you mean this was ever in doubt?

Allowing the collectivist crossover between international leftism and political Islamism to color your judgment when it comes to building backroom alliances, and so turning the world into a much more dangerous place for liberty. That, and fetishizing “optics” over difficult choices and actual leadership. Or maybe the real danger to the US is Sarah Palin defending herself against charges of proxy murder and using the phrase “blood libel in a

“Obama Isn’t Trying to ‘Weaken America’”, says Michael Medved. And he’s not a socialist, and nothing in his past — from his career as a community organizer to his relationships with Ayers, Wright, Alinsky, et al., — should suggest to us he is anything less than a good man who happens to make bad decisions on occasion. The real political problem America faces today is of course those who try

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