Barack Obama

Mission Accomplished, Obama-Style

News

On January 23, 2009 a two-day-inaugurated President Obama ordered his first murder of Iraqis with Predator drones. Now, exactly sixteen months past his inauguration, Barack Obama has failed to live ...

How Much Bureaucracy Did Congress Just Buy Us?

Economics

You have to hand it to the Federal Government, they really know how to take a bad situation and make it much worse. Consider the new health care bill. Have ...

ObamaCare finishes what LBJ started

Media

Yesterday evening, the illustrious U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R. 4872, the Health Care & Education Affordability Reconciliation Act of 2010. Thus Obama, Biden, Pelosi, and company have finished what ...

Why does the Tea Party support Scott Brown?

History

Scott Brown’s recent Republican victory in the Massachusetts Senate race has been headlining news all over the nation the past two days. Some are calling it a “repudiation of the ...

The Dismal Year

Economics

One year ago today, Barack Obama stepped into the Oval Office for his first full day as President. So far, it has pretty much stunk. Anthony Gregory has written a ...

Top 10 Disasters of the Obama Administration in 2009

Economics

Executive Director of the Libertarian Party Wes Benedict put together a retrospective of the executive administration this past year. Any similarities to the previous administration are distinctly NOT coincidental. And ...

A Peace Prize for a War Hawk

News

In a extraordinary surprise move, the Nobel Peace Prize this year has been given to none other than Barack Obama as of this morning, for “his extraordinary efforts to strengthen ...

Universal Health Care is the new Post Office

Economics

Cash for Clunkers made no sense whatsoever. The Climate-Change Bill was just moronic. Universal Health Care, though, is going to be the new Post Office — and Obama even has ...

Obama’s New Theocracy

News

David Theroux has two excellent blog posts at The Beacon that I want to commend to you. In the first, David tracks and documents how an bizarre religious fervor has ...

Obama’s First 100 Days: Madmen, Blunders, Death Defined

News

The score thus far: 100 days down, 1361 to go. Then we get another dictator. Greeeeeaaaat. :-/ I’d like to highlight briefly a few articles of note to commemorate history ...

Fail or Win? – National Review can’t decide

News

I found this excerpt from the April 6 National Review issue to be rather ironic: Obama’s wartime detention policy takes cynicism to new heights. It is not a new policy; ...

That’s No Moon… It’s a Space Stati… What the?

Economics

These pictures should need no explanation…  

One Ring to Rule Them All

News

I just found a stupendous editorial cartoon, written by Terrence Nowicki, Jr. at This Is Historic Times: Awesome work, Terrence, keep it up! (This cartoon reminds me of this post ...

If President Obama Twittered

Politics

For the uninitiated… Twitter is a nifty “micro-blogging” service where you are limited to no more than 140 characters to say anything. It is kind of like a mix of ...

Change Never Seemed So Similar

President's Blog

Jon Stewart of The Daily Show roasts Obama on his policy “change” in Iraq. He even compares statements from Obama and Bush about the US role in Iraq side by ...

Tax Humor

President's Blog

Libertarians hate taxes. In fact, a critical understanding of the nature of taxation must inevitably lead one to say that all taxation is theft.

The Village Voice and Fear-Hope

Media

I found out this morning that none other than the Village Voice, an alt-newspaper in New York City, discovered my Fear is the New Hope post. They didn’t seem to ...

Fear is the New Hope

Economics

They hoped for change, but fear is the new hope. “A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.” President Barack Obama, February 4, 2009 Many ...

Obamicons

Media

This is not a post about Transformers, and it isn’t about a new religious cult – albeit that would have been a really good guess. No, this is about an ...

Speedlinking Friday

News

Much has happened this week, so much to talk about! Unlike last week I will not stick to a single topic, although many hover around Obamunism since that is on ...

Obama Orders First Murder

News

Congratulations are in order for President Barack Obama, who today has successfully completed the common rite of passage of Presidents: ordering his first murder. See folks, don’t forget that morality ...

Why Conservatives Should Love Obama

Media

After the inaugural address, how can any self-respecting conservative not think Obama is fantastic! He has all the same answers to the economy and national security that Bush has – ...

5 Predictions for 2009

Economics

“Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.” ~Niels Bohr I know as well as anyone that the future is uncertain and that much has yet to transpire. But now ...

GW’s Presidential Review

News

Over at The Humble Libertarian, Sir Messamore has put together an excellent post-mortem of the last eight years of accomplishments from the Oval Office. Twice, the so-called conservative wing of ...

Give Me Liberty

History

Continuing in our series of posts leading up to the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, it seems appropriate to hearken back to ...

Speedlinking and fun stuff for January 16

Announcements

Friday is a day for linky goodness… Acting in a very timely manner with my post yesterday, Nature reports that scientists are getting in line for their own part of ...

Supreme Court will take Austin Case

Events

I live in Austin, Texas, arguably one of the strangest places in the United States (I would also add it’s one of the coolest places as well, but that’s for ...

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