As Obama’s envoy Mitchell is about to arrive in Israel to start shuttling between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the indirect peace talks, Israeli media predict that his involvement would intensify American pressure on Israel because Obama cannot afford to lose once his administration is involved directly. Wrong. Obama lost on many issues, and his loss on this one will, at most, cause a few I-told-you-so in the State Department, while remaining entirely irrelevant to common Americans. The... Full Story

Funny or Die is back more political satire. This time they've done a great job of organizing a SNL presidents reunion, gathering a large cast of comedians (most of which are Saturday Night Live alumni) doing POTUS impersonations to educate viewers about the banking industry and the need for financial reform. The SNL presidents reunion video is described as follows: Barack Obama gets a surprise visit in the night from ex-Presidents Bush Sr., Bush Jr., Clinton, Ford, Reagan and Carter to get a... Full Story

There’s an ill wind blowing, both from the from the clean-energy program from last year’s Stimulus and from some of Obama’s erstwhile Democrats in the Senate. It’s carrying the wreak of failure and internal dissent straight into the face of President Obama and his Treasury Secretary, Timothy Geithner. It seems that the renewable energy grants included in the Stimulus are stimulating other countries’ economies instead America’s and various Democrats in the... Full Story

As all who pay even the slightest of attention to American politics know, the Democrats attempting to rule this nation are seriously considering using the Budget Reconciliation Process aka the “Nuclear Option” to ram ObamaCare through now that they’ve lost their supermajority in the Senate with the election of Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA). What’s interesting in this situation is how far the worms have turned in the span of slightly less than five years and one change in... Full Story

Not long after Obama returned US ambassador to Damascus, Iran came up with a better offer – that country sent its president. Obama’s error is his hallmark confidence building approach which calls for incremental steps. But in order to embrace Washington, Assad has to abandon Iran and Lebanon. Certainly, he would require much stronger incentives for that than ambassadorial relations. Obama can woo Assad away from Iran with really big money, but no money has been promised yet, while... Full Story

In a sign of moral relativism, Interpol issued arrest warrants for 11 people involved in doing away with Mabhouh in Dubai. The move puts Mossad on the same level as common criminals. States are generally understood to have a right of extrajudicial operations, but Interpol sets a precedent which can lead to an arrest warrant for Obama who authorized Al Qaeda assassinations abroad, especially that the US openly confirms its involvement. Netanyahu has bad luck with assassinations: his previous... Full Story

The US president will meet next week despite China’s vigorous protests. The meeting is practically senseless: Dalai Lama advocates Tibetan autonomy which the Chinese won’t allow, and the matter is moot, anyway, because Chinese government planted a sheer number of colonists in Tibet to drastically change its demography. Obama hinted that the meeting is a no-starter by scheduling it in the Map Room rather than Oval Cabinet. China will react by opposing sanctions on Iran. Samson... Full Story

With the Healthcare debate going in circles, the obvious solution would be to put both Democrats and Republicans in one room and let them discuss the issue ... on national television.  This way, the people can see what is really driving the issues, rather than hear one side of the story or the other. You know, that makes sense.  Barack Obama seems to think so too.  He has invited Republicans and Democrats alike, to discuss the issues at hand and to come to a resolution. ... Full Story

Sarah Palin's speech at the so-called National Tea Party Convention last night was interesting for many reasons. One of them is that Palin was forced to use crib notes scrawed on her hand. The photo above, blown up from the photo below by The Huffington Post, clearly shows the evidence. The crib notes were used during a Q&A session at the convention, leading to the obvious conclusion that the questions and answers were known beforehand. It's not hard to believe she would need to use... Full Story