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Obama's deafening silence on police assassinations

Travis Yates, a Tulsa Police Department major, has written an editorial questioning President Obama's silence after a number of recent assassinations of police officers around the country. In just the past week, Yates says, seven police officers were killed, six of them "were gunned down by assailants." Yates notes Obama's...

Posted by Michael Bates on February 16, 2016 8:25 AM

Election day 2014 in Florida -- and the aftermath

It was a good day, a better day that anyone expected, a real wave election. The reaction of my local liberal friends on Facebook reveal their contempt for the state where they live, their bigoted opinions of conservatives, and their disconnect from political reality. One wrote a very apt "chin-up"...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 5, 2014 10:36 PM

President Obama to speak to Tulsa Hispanic event? <em>&iexcl;Inocente!</em>

A Facebook friend shared an item posted on December 28, 2012, by Teletul Estrellatv Tulsa (channel 51, Tulsa's only Spanish-language TV station) about President Barack Obama participating in a Día de Reyes event on January 6 at 3 pm in the parking lot of the Las Américas supermarket parking lot...

Posted by Michael Bates on December 28, 2012 11:44 PM

Happy Obamaween: Spread the candy around

Comedian Steven Crowder is at the church trunk-or-treat, and he's only trying to be fair. The kids don't think its fair. "I think when you spread the wealth around, it's good for everybody." -- candidate Barack Obama to Joe "the Plumber" Wurzelbach, 2008....

Posted by Michael Bates on October 31, 2012 5:07 PM

Power your president to winning!

The Gregory Brothers, who brought you the songified soundbites of George Lindell ("Reality hits you hard, bro."), Antoine Dodson ("Hide your kids, hide your wife."), and Debbie the Dater ("Can't hug every cat.") reveal the similarities in Romney and Obama's acceptance speeches:...

Posted by Michael Bates on September 26, 2012 11:44 PM

AfP ad: Obama spent billions funding green jobs overseas

Among other steps, AfP is calling on President Obama to stop playing politics with American energy and approve construction of the Keystone XL pipeline. The ad makes multiple references to a September 9, 2010, story in the Washington Times, which establishes that the funds created more jobs abroad than...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 28, 2012 1:46 AM

Cushing rally planned to challenge Obama energy record

As President Obama visits Cushing, Oklahoma, tomorrow, conservative Oklahomans will gather tomorrow morning in Cushing to voice their support for a common-sense energy policy that allows exploration and development of America's energy resources. The Obama administration has been blocking the development of the Keystone XL pipeline from the tar sands...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 21, 2012 12:28 PM

Breitbart probes Obama's radical past, Malkin launches Twitchy

Undeterred by Andrew Breitbart's untimely death last week, his team at breitbart.com is carrying out their founder and namesake's vision with a relaunch of his websites and the first salvos in a serial expos&eacute; of Barack Obama's radical past, publishing materials that were withheld from the public in 2008, stories...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 8, 2012 8:19 AM

<em>Democracy Denied</em>: How Obama uses czars, regulations to bypass Congress

Phil Kerpen, Vice President of Policy for Americans for Prosperity, has a new book out: Democracy Denied: How Obama Is Ignoring You and Bypassing Congress to Radically Transform America -- and How to Stop Him. I have a review copy, provided by AfP, and am reading it now with a...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 28, 2011 12:08 AM

Intimidating the referee

Daily Caller: CBS reporter: White House, DOJ reps 'yelled' and 'screamed' at her over 'Fast and Furious' scandal Did the White House try to strong-arm a journalist in the wake of the Justice Department's "Operation Fast and Furious" scandal? CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson says government leaders took a very...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 4, 2011 4:55 PM

Sullivan: Encourage domestic production to bring gas prices down

An op-ed by Sullivan appeared in the Sunday, May 8, 2011, Washington Examiner. Sullivan addresses the connection between the price of gas and the obstacles placed in the path of domestic oil and gas exploration by the Obama Administration. He writes: The best way to moderate gasoline prices is a...

Posted by Michael Bates on May 12, 2011 7:27 PM

Layer upon layer: Opening Obama's birth certificate in Adobe Illustrator

I haven't commented previously about the Obama birth certificate issue. My problems with the president involve his policies, not his place of birth. My guess was that there was something embarrassing on the long-form birth certificate that didn't appear on the certification of live birth that he released earlier. And...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 27, 2011 9:40 PM

Gene Kranz: Obama "wrote the epitaph for manned space flight"

I saw an article today that made me aware of a missed opportunity. Yesterday was the 40th anniversary of the safe return to Earth of Apollo 13, and the Cosmosphere -- just a short four hours from Tulsa in Hutchinson, Kansas, and home to the mission's command module, Odyssey, hosted...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 18, 2010 2:02 PM

Coinage of the realm

I seem to have started something. I made up a punny word for the headline of a 2007 blog post on Barack Obama's lament, at an Iowa campaign appearance, about the high price of arugula at Whole Foods Market. A few other bloggers, including Michelle Malkin and see-dubya, picked up...

Posted by Michael Bates on April 27, 2009 12:17 PM

Change? Not so much

Hot Air has a clip of President-elect Obama's press confference, in which he was asked about the number of retreads from the Clinton administration that he's appointing to his own cabinet: [Obama] has The Vision. It's just that The Vision happens to involve lots and lots of Clinton appointees, with...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 26, 2008 6:12 PM

How Obama got elected

On election day, a documentary crew interviewed people who had just voted for Barack Obama to get a sense of what messages about the candidates had reached them. The video revealed that these voters had heard plenty about Sarah Palin's wardrobe and her daughter's out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but they were unaware...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 18, 2008 10:58 PM

Coburn on the election result

From Sen. Tom Coburn's office today. Pay special attention to the bits I highlighted: On November 4, the American people had the opportunity to choose between two candidates with the character and temperament to be not just good presidents but great presidents. John McCain ran the best campaign he could...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 5, 2008 12:36 PM

Obama gags veep, wife, self

Fearing an election-losing gaffe, Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama today banned himself from talking to the press about substantive issues until after the election. Previously, his vice presidential running mate Joe Biden and his wife Michelle Obama were muzzled to prevent more campaign damage. Should I hold my breath waiting...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 2, 2008 7:27 PM

Obama: We'll bankrupt coal-powered electric plants

"Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." -- Barack Obama to the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board, January 2008, at about 40 minutes, 30 seconds into the video. From a January 2008 interview with the San Francisco Chronicle editorial board: Let me sort...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 2, 2008 12:07 PM

Obama's radical pals (and other presidential links)

A selection of links and excerpts: CBS News gives Obama-TV a reality check: Without question, the Barack Obama infomercial served as a very slick and powerful recitation of the biggest promises he's made as a presidential candidate. But the very bigness of his ideas is the problem: he seems blind...

Posted by Michael Bates on October 30, 2008 11:57 PM