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The ABC News Business Unit does some recession math and compares other luxury vacation resorts to Martha’s Vineyard, where the Obama family will travel next week for an end-of-summer stay.
FYI, you’re footing some of the bill:
…Caroline Taylor, another Martha’s Vineyard realtor, estimated that the property would go for $35,000 to $50,000 a week. The [...]

Reader Frank e-mails: “Can you please find out how many times the current White House has used “misspoke?”
Ask and ye shall receive! Feel free to add your own examples in comments below or e-mail them to writemalkin@gmail.com with “misspoke”-o-meter in the subject line. I’ll keep a running tally. These are just four of the most [...]

President Obama is in Belgrade, MT for a health care town hall. The event was billed as “first come, first served,” so we’ll see exactly how early those union reps got out of bed this morning (and if they slept in, there’s always the side door).
Will Obama re-visit his US Post Office gaffe in an [...]

Come Monday, it’ll be alright

“Cash for Clunkers” — a program that our genius financial managers in Washington had skillfully budgeted to run, appropriately enough, until around Halloween — has been suspended after just a few days. There were many “unforeseen” problems, meaning that nobody who created the program knew anything about what they were doing or the possible pitfalls. [...]

“Daaa profilers!”

Healing time for the Fighting Irish

Shadow of Hope

Michelle’s book had its “official” release just yesterday, and I just checked Amazon and it’s at #1:

Click the pic of the book and help keep it on the top of the heap where it belongs!
Congratulations to Michelle not only for the success of her book, but that her hard work continues to bring issues everybody [...]

A date and time has been set for the re-education of Officer Crowley — I mean, some meaningful dialog on race:
A White House official tells ABC News that Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge Police Sgt. James Crowley will have beers with President Obama Thursday at 6 pm ET.
“The president sees this as [...]

Obamacare, or robots — You decide, pops

It’s jump-the-shark time for Gates-gate:
Congress would demand that President Obama apologize to the officer the president said had “acted stupidly” in the arrest of a prominent Harvard professor under a resolution set to be introduced by one Michigan lawmaker.
Rep. Thaddeus McCotter (R-Mich.) will introduce a House resolution on Monday demanding Obama retract and apologize for [...]

“Unprecedented.”

When President Obama bowed and scraped before the Saudi king, I gave it to him.
And he deserved it.
But the tizzy over the “ogling” photo is unfair.
I just watched the video and it’s clear to me he wasn’t even paying attention to the young girl in the wine-colored dress. Obama was helping another young woman down [...]

Who railroaded the Amtrak inspector general?
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
Watchdogs are an endangered species in the Age of Obama. The latest government ombudsman to get the muzzle: Amtrak inspector general Fred Weiderhold. The longtime veteran employee was abruptly “retired” last month –just as the government-subsidized rail service faces mounting complaints about its meddling in [...]

I don’t know about you, but the idea of anyone in Washington fuming about fine print while they ram thousand-page bills through Congress that no one bothers to read is, well, triple-snort-worthy:
President Barack Obama asked Congress on Tuesday to create a new agency to police the fine print on consumer products like credit cards and [...]

President Obama has invited celebrities to the White House to join him “in his mission to encourage mentorship and fatherhood ahead of the Father’s Day holiday on Sunday.”
Do I smell a Special Master of Paternal Compensation coming on?
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If you are looking for last-minute Father’s Day ideas, try this one: The Ultimate Man’s Survival Guide [...]

Yes, they can!

Foodie czar.

Heather, a military wife in Virginia, calls in to the Mark Levin show with her moving response to President Obama’s Cairo speech (hat tip for YouTube clip – Breitbart TV):

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Related: Congrats to Mark for hitting #1 on the NYTimes best seller list for the 9th week out of 10! Radio Equalizer has an interview here. [...]

So, the president is going to tell us who his computer security czar soon.
Let’s hope it’s not the same person who ran the Obama campaign’s grossly insecure online credit card donation operations.

A reporter is seeing red after being dragged away from The One.
Energy Secretary Chu is seeing white roofs as Earth’s salvation.
Nancy Pelosi is seeing green rules invading every aspect of your lives.
Weird, creepy times. This wasn’t on the O-teleprompter. Was it, Joe?

Alert! Alert! TOTUS malfunction.

Allahpundit: “When you’re distracted by the business of governing 57 states, gaffes are bound to happen.”

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It’s the Obama-Cheney showdown this morning. I, for one, am gratified to see this White House forced to put national security on the front burner. If not for the forceful public defenses by Vice President Cheney of the aggressive, proactive measures the last administration took to keep us safe, the current commander-in-chief would [...]

The Right is up for a fight. Ready?
Today, some of the best conservative legal and national security thinkers/doers will discuss the battle over the Harold Koh nomination. Bloggers can join the call.
Go here for more info and make sure to bookmark the website of the Coalition to Preserve American Sovereignty.
A few things you should know [...]

I’ve been seeing a lemming-like increase in hand-wringing articles about the need for a GOP “hero.”
The latest comes from McCain/Bush flack Nicolle Wallace in “The Daily Beast” — Tina Brown’s liberal salon sprinkled with acceptable, non-conservative Beltway Republicans who swallow false premises whole.
Wallace parrots the line that the Republican Party needs an “effective communicator” who [...]

Funny?

I spent a blissful Mother’s Day weekend unplugged and away from the news. So if you’re looking for outrage, faux outrage, and extended commentary on all the narcissism and nastiness at the White House Correspondents Dinner, you’ll have to look elsewhere.
In a nutshell: Liberal comedian Wanda Sykes indulged in Palin-bashing, Rush Derangement Syndrome, and [...]

My column today looks at the abusive relationship between Barack Obama and the hedge fund industry. He keeps taking their money. They keep getting publicly tongue-lashed. Looks like the cycle has ended. Last week, non-TARP lenders objected to the UAW-pandering Chrysler deal. This week, AQR Capital Management LLC hedge fund manager Cliff Asness — at [...]

Barack Obama announced that he will snip a whopping one-half of one percent of the $3.4 trillion budget. Knock me over with a feather.
Which best symbolizes Obama’s budget-cutting tools?
1) Plastic knife:

2) Spork:

3) Broken scissors:

4) Toy chainsaw:

5) One more nominee via Brian Faughnan…Baby nail clippers:

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Related: Obama’s Budget Knife Yields Modest Trims