George Stephanopoulos, ABC News.com

 

Republican Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, the longest serving Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said on "This Week" Sunday that President Barack Obama used "code" for an activist judge this week when describing his ideal nominee to replace retiring Justice David Souter.

 

"It's a matter of great concern, if he's saying that he wants to pick people who will take sides. He's also said that a judge has to be a person of empathy -- what does that mean? Usually that's a code word for an activist judge," Hatch told me on "This Week."

 

"But he also said that, that, he's going to select judges on the basis of their personal politics, their personal feelings, their personal preferences," Hatch said, "Now, you know those are all code words for an activist judge who's going to be partisan on the bench." Read article.

Carol Peracchio, American Thinker.com

 

And he's not cool. He's cold. This is a cold, cold guy. - Rush Limbaugh

 

Last year I read that Barack Obama not only voted against, but vigorously fought the passage in Illinois of the Born Alive Infant Protection Act (BAIPA). This bill addressed the situation when an abortion results in a live baby. BAIPA stated all live born babies are guaranteed the same constitutional right to equal protection whether or not they were wanted. The Federal version of this legislation passed the Senate unanimously. Yet Barack Obama voted against this legislation not once but several times.

 

As a mom, nurse and member of the human race, my first question is, "Why would he do that?" After all, even ardent pro-choice legislators, like Barbara Boxer, voted aye.

 

In defending his vote, Obama stated that he was concerned that the bill did not contain language that protected Roe vs. Wade. He also stated in 2002:

 

Adding a - an additional doctor who then has to be called in an emergency situation to come in and make these assessments is really designed simply to burden the original decision of the woman and the physician to induce labor and perform an abortion. ... I think it's important to understand that this issue ultimately is about abortion and not live births. Read article.

Professor Paul Eidelberg, NWV.com

 

As everyone knows, Barack Obama’s campaign slogan was “change.” As I pointed out at the time, Obama’s goal was nothing less than “regime change.” He made this crystal clear in his January 20 Inaugural Address when he rejected, in effect, the Judeo-Christian foundations of the American Republic.

 

Professor Edward Alexander points this out in an April 10 article published in Commentary Magazine, “Obama Demotes the Jews”:

 

Obama jettisoned the long-established locution that embodies the generally-accepted notion of the Judeo-Christian tradition. That tradition, in America, mandates the phrase “Christians and Jews, with Christians in first place for the good reason that the roots of this country and most of those who founded it are Christian. Obama, however, said on January 20 that “We are a nation of Christians and Muslims,” and then, after a slight pause, “Jews and Hindus,” another slight pause, “and unbelievers.”

 

Later, in an interview with Al-arabiya, “Obama demoted the Jews still further, calling America a country of “Muslims, Christians, Jews.” Note the order: Muslims first.

 

Actually, it would be more correct to say that the roots of America are Jewish ideas and values rendered in Christian terms. I will illustrate this report and in subsequent reports on George Washington’s “Farewell Address.” I will use material extracted from my 1977 book Beyond Detente: Toward an American Foreign Policy, a book that may have influenced the foreign policy of Ronald Reagan when he was elected president in 1980. We shall see that. Reagan’s foreign policy was based, essentially, on Washington’s Farewell Address. Read article.

 

Victor Davis Hanson, TMS Features.com

 

In matters of foreign policy during the president's first 100 days, we have seen two Barack Obamas.

 

Consider "Obama I." After taking office, the president gave his first interview to the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya TV station, and listed various sins of America while praising the Saudi king as courageous.

 

On trips abroad since then, Obama I has continued to apologize for the U.S. being arrogant and dismissive of Europe. He thinks we have been inconsiderate to Mexico. And, judging by a speech he gave in Prague, we apparently carry a special burden to eliminate nuclear weapons since we ended World War II by using them.

 

Obama I seems far kinder to our rivals than to the prior Bush administration when he assures various South American thugs and Iranian and Russian strongmen that he represents a sharp break from a recent, unfortunate American past.

 

Most maddening, Obama I released classified memos about past enhanced interrogation techniques -- over the objections of former CIA directors from both parties.

 

But there has been another Obama as well. This more centrist "Obama II" kept Bush appointee Robert Gates as secretary of Defense. He named no-nonsense Gen. James Jones national security adviser.

 

Most of the campaign rhetoric about leaving Iraq on a strict timetable has been scrapped. Instead, the Bush-Petraeus plan of withdrawal based on conditions on the ground continues. Read article.

 

Fred Burton & Scott Stewart of Stratfor, JWR.com

 

Over the past couple of weeks, we have been carefully watching the fallout from the Obama administration’s decision to release four classified memos from former President George W. Bush’s administration that authorized “enhanced interrogation techniques.”

 

In a visit to CIA headquarters last week, President Barack Obama promised not to prosecute agency personnel who carried out such interrogations, since they were following lawful orders. Critics of the techniques, such as Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., have called for the formation of a “truth commission” to investigate the matter, and Rep. Jerrold Nadler, D-N.Y., has called on Attorney General Eric Holder to appoint a special prosecutor to launch a criminal inquiry into the matter.

 

Realistically, those most likely to face investigation and prosecution are those who wrote the memos, rather than the low-level field personnel who acted in good faith based upon the guidance the memos provided. Despite this fact and Obama’s reassurances, our contacts in the intelligence community report that the release of the memos has had a discernible “chilling effect” on those in the clandestine service who work on counterterrorism issues. Read article.

 

Jonathan Gurwitz, JWR.com

 

Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman and many patriotic citizens who served in their administrations are fortunate Dwight Eisenhower succeeded them in power rather than Barack Obama.

 

In response to an attack on the United States that claimed the lives of thousands of Americans, Roosevelt waged a war during which he authorized the forcible relocation and internment of more than 100,000 Japanese nationals and Japanese Americans.

 

When the FBI arrested eight suspected German saboteurs on U.S. soil, Roosevelt had them tried by a military tribunal, which sent six of them — including one American citizen — to the electric chair within weeks.

 

Roosevelt and Truman did not make these decisions lightly, or alone. Lawyers, judges, military officers, scientists and civilian experts all contributed to the creation of wartime policies.

 

Those policies, considered on a bright, sunny, safe day in April 2009, may appear disturbing. But in the midst of a conflict the United States did not start, against savage and even genocidal enemies racing to develop and use weapons of mass destruction, Roosevelt and Truman made difficult judgments, some of which — though incomprehensible to critics today — saved American lives and shortened a cataclysmic war. Read article.

 

Michael Goodwin, NY Daily News.com

 

Whether all Obama's domestic policies will actually produce the prosperity he promises, however, is far from clear. The outsize spending and borrowing plans, the enormous tax increases, sweeping new energy and health policies - they are an untried gamble that could very well produce the opposite effect.

 

Yet he is certain they will do as he says because, well, he believes.

 

Confidence is great, but it is not a good thing for a President to have no doubts. Especially when it comes to national security, where getting a policy wrong can lead to unimaginable horrors.

 

And that's where the True Believer tag scares me. Read article.

 

Daniel Henninger, Online WSJ.com

 

If opinion polls were real life, Barack Obama would be walking with the immortals. In polls taken as he headed to his 100th day, his numbers are high and heavenly, cruising on issue after issue at 70-plus percent.

 

One number in last weekend's Washington Post/ABC poll, however, stands out. On whether he is "willing to listen to different points of view," Mr. Obama elevates into hyperspace, hitting 90%. Just behind is "he understands the problems of people like you," at 73%. Even a doubter can marvel.

 

Permit a doubter, though, to offer a cautionary tale. Read article.

 

John McCaslin, Townhall.com

 

Junior senators shouldn't feel too bad about their first 100 days in office being overshadowed by President Obama's first 100 days.

 

Consider a recent study by George Mason and Chapman universities revealing that President George W. Bush was similarly ignored by the media during his first three months in office - until, of course, Sept. 11. Indeed, Mr. Obama received more than three times more news coverage than the Republican president.

 

In fact, during Mr. Obama's first 50 days in office the big three network evening newscasts featured more than 1,000 stories (28 hours' worth) about Obama doings, devoting more than half the airtime to the new president. Mr. Bush, at the same time, received less than eight hours of network news coverage.

 

What's with the "kinder, gentler Marxism" phrase we keep hearing repeated on Capitol Hill when describing President Obama's ultimate agenda? Read article.

 

Jeff Lukens,com

 

Public opinion can be very fickle. Barack Obama has ridden a positive wave of opinion all the way to the White House. The public has welcomed him into office in that same spirit of hope in which he ran. Since the inauguration, however, the president is showing he has different plans than the ones he spoke about during the campaign. It should come as no surprise when the public turns on him just as easily as he has turned on them.

 

The contradictions between Obama’s words and actions are many. He opposes big government, and then he vastly expands it. He says he favors bipartisanship, but doesn't practice it. He says he is against earmarks, and then signs the largest pork package in history. And that is just to name a few.

 

Such inconsistencies are contributing to a lack of confidence in Obama and his economic policies. The budget deficits he proposes are staggering. The trillions of dollars he wants to spend are incomprehensible. There is no evidence that stimulative government spending even works. Obama is apparently racing to remake America in a socialist mold before public sentiment turns against him. One wonders whether his political capital will run out before financial capital of the country runs out. Read article.

 

IBD Editorials.com

 

The new adviser to an undersecretary of defense is a left-wing reporter who once wrote that President George W. Bush was the "torturer-in-chief." Leftist billionaire George Soros has a mole in the Pentagon.

 

Before she was a far-left columnist for the Los Angeles Times, Rosa Brooks was once counsel to Soros' Open Societies Institute. Now she's the "principal adviser" to Undersecretary of Defense Michele Flournoy, the Pentagon's No. 3 official and top policymaker.

 

Soros is the mover and shaker behind MoveOn.org, famous for its ad depicting Gen. David Petraeus, the architect of our Iraq victory, as a traitor and a Web ad depicting Bush as Adolf Hitler, something our Ms. Brooks would agree with. Read article.

 

Alan Caruba, Canada Free Press.com

 

It’s a very curious phenomenon, but I have been aware of it for quite a while. It is when a liberal insists that they are actually a conservative.

 

I have any number of friends and relatives who are pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, favor amnesty for illegal aliens and opening the borders to more immigration. They tend to think President Obama walks on water and they often vehemently insist that they are conservatives.

 

I can remember when the very word “liberal” was turned into a label that people wanted to shun. It became the “L” word and, soon enough, we had no liberals among us, but lots of “progressives.”

 

The Republican Party is said to be in shambles, unable to elect a candidate even to a safe seat in New York State, but contrast that with folks in Minnesota who have elected a former comedian and failed liberal radio host, Al Franken, to be a United States Senator. Barring a court reversal, we shall all be saying “Senator Franken” as if this worst of all jokes makes any sense.

 

Democrats are now the proud owners of a three trillion dollar budget in a time of economic distress when by any rule of common sense the government should be looking to spend less, borrow less, cut taxes, and restore the value of the U.S. dollar. Regarding the budget, Ronald Reagan said, “The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.” That, however, is exactly how liberals see it.

 

Regarding the budget, Ronald Reagan said, “The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.” That, however, is exactly how liberals see it. Read article.

 

 

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