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The president will receive $1.4 million from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee for not achieving anything concrete.
He will receive $1.4 million for an award he himself says he doesn’t deserve.
What should he do with the cash?
The field is all yours.
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One reader e-mails: “Remember the neglected school in Kenya named after Obama?”
Yes, good suggestion!
Commenter Gabe: [...]

The World Apology Tour yields dividends.

Yesterday, we chuckled over the indecision-themed “word art” that the Obamas chose to hang in the White House.
Today, a Free Republic poster notices another of the Obamas’ curious art choices: “Watusi (Hard Edge),” by Alma Thomas, who is described by the NYTimes as “a longtime Washington resident who is an African-American painter.”
Alma Thomas’s “Watusi” (1963) [...]

Indecision.

Won’t be long before this guy is blamed for inciting violence:
An unusual sign has appeared along Interstate 70 in Blue Springs.
If you are traveling in the eastbound lanes of the freeway between Adams Dairy Parkway and the Grain Valley exit you will see a sign that appears to be anti-President Barack Obama.
The sign features the [...]

Five minutes to speech time… my first mistake was turning on MSNBC to start off with. According to Keith Olbermann, who’s always grimacing as if he just got a colonoscopy with a rose bush, we have what amounts to a third world health care system that can only be saved by a government that has [...]

Shortly before Obama begins reading the teleprompter to Congress about how vitally important is for all of us to have immediate access to affordable health care… in 2013… just after the next presidential election (otherwise known as “Blame Bush, year 5″), I’ll put up a new post and live-blog the speech a bit, so join [...]

Huh? Yeah, that’s what I thought — at first — then I remembered who we’re dealing with.
This afternoon, the White House posted a piece on their blog called “Saving and Paying for College.” This is part IV of the Obama admin’s “back to school” series, featuring Nickelodeon’s “Gimme gimme gimme” initiative, yesterday’s pep talk [...]

My column takes another swing at all the president’s radical education men. For more background on Commie Michael Klonsky, see Andrew McCarthy’s report from last October here. I mentioned some of the activists in the White House Teaching Fellowship program here. Don’t forget your Hall Pass on That. The guys at The Nose on Your [...]

Well, well, well.
The White House has re-written its activist talking points for teachers/administrators disseminated by the US Department of Education and removed the language about “helping the president.”
Whitewashing: It’s the Obama way.
What they can’t whitewash is the radicalism of many of the White House Teaching Fellows responsible for drafting the material — or the radicalism [...]

Andrew Marcus at Founding Bloggers points out that federal slush fund money is going to Barack Obama’s old pals at the Woods Fund in Chicago:
Illinois is receiving copious amounts of federal tax payer dollars to “boost awareness” for the upcoming census.
How are they planning on boosting awareness? By handing out millions of dollars to Obama-Progressive [...]

I thought this would be a useful refresher as President Obama’s September 8 junior lobbyist recruitment speech approaches. It’s his Chicago pal Bill Ayers’ 2006 speech at the World Economic Forum in Caracas, Venezuela.
You can separate Obama from radical Ayers’ neighborhood. But you can’t separate Ayers’ radicalism from Obama.
President Hugo Chavez, Vice-President Vicente Rangel, Ministers [...]

Is this some Chicago phrase I don’t know about?
Is it just a nonsensical scatalogical reference?
Is this the teleprompter’s fault?
Maybe it’s some sort of SEIU code phrase?
Or is it a Hawaiian thing?
Can someone clue the unwashed masses in, please?
Via The Hill:
President Obama is betting on a more successful September than August, when it comes to his [...]

Yes, it’s true.
Barack Obama has chipped in $2 billion in loans to exploit offshore oil resources in hopes of extracting a major new source of petroleum…in South America.
And yes, it’s true.
There is a Soros link.
Ed Morrissey has a round-up and notes:
Is it a coincidence that Obama backer George Soros repositioned himself in Petrobras to get [...]

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 [...]