You're Fired: Second VA Official Gets the Sack

In the week following the shellacking of his party in the midterm elections, one might think that President Barack Obama would be conciliatory and humble. Instead, he has continued to be audacious -- but with arrogance rather than hope.

Everyone finds a lesson in the Republican midterm tsunami.

Barack Obamas presidency has been an unmitigated disaster. The slowest economic recovery since World War II, an unemployment rate dropping more from people giving up hope than finding work, the rest of the world looking at American leadership on the world stage the way Michael Moore looks at a salad. You name it; its worse.

"I don't want to try to read the tea leaves on election results," said President Barack Obama following last Tuesday's historic defeat.

Within hours of realizing that his party lost control of the U.S. Senate last week, President Obama nominated Loretta Lynch, the chief federal prosecutor in Brooklyn, N.Y., and an outstanding and apolitical professional, to be the next attorney general. The current attorney general, Eric Holder, resigned last month.

After months of delay, federal officials have approved Social Security benefits for the Twin Cities widow of one of the first Americans to die of Ebola.

As the now-head of Putins personal security forces, General Viktor Vasilyevich Zolotov explained after making up a list of potential assassination targets to dispose of politically There are just too many. Its too many to killeven for us.

So Jonathan Gruber thinks the American people are stupid, does he?

"Stupid is as stupid does" -- Forrest Gump Unless you regularly follow conservative media, you may not have heard what one of the architects of the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) thinks about you.

Let's be clear here, if there is an age, gender or diversity gap, this should be a problem for the Democrats, not Republicans.

The words "deportation relief" jumped out at me from Greg Sargent's Washington Post blog posting titled "Get ready for a titanic battle over immigration."

Michael Savage stands out in the world of talk radio because of his willingness to call out anyone or anything.

I remember seeing pictures of Fidel Castro for nearly 50 years. His image has changed from a black haired, Liam Neeson like figure dressed in combat fatigues to a wizened old man. Todays 88 year-old Castro does not look as dangerous or iron -willed as he did in the past, but very little about the essence of the man has changed.

Here we are, over a week beyond the election that swept Republican candidates for the U.S. House, U.S. Senate, Governor and state house and state senate seats into office.

WASHINGTON -- In the gloom of the day after last week's election I think even his allies in the media expected something more from the Prophet Barack Obama. After all, he had just suffered through a wave election and he was left soaking wet. He did not merely lose this wave election. He was swamped.

Weve all felt that bittersweet longing for familiar places and people. Our experience of homesickness increases with age.

If you enjoyed the financial meltdown of 2007, I've got good news. The Wall Street denizens, who we admired for their ability to take enormous risks with our money, as long as they were insured enormous profits on their money, have turned a new leaf.

So did the Republican wave in the mid-term elections make reform more likely? Interestingly, the normally left-leaning Washington Post editorial page seems to have the right attitude about the issue.

The Taliban apparently have mounted an offensive against the most visible evidence of government authority.

Did China commit to anything it would not have done in the first place, without an agreement? If the answer is no (and it is), then what did Obama's "historic" deal accomplish other than put another useless "I did it" feather in Obama's cap?

Mary Margaret Penrose, a full time professor of Law with Texas A&M University, has called for the full repeal of the Second Amendment.

Well, big deals are happening in China, including a fresh agreement on saving the climate between the world's two largest carbon emitters. The thing about this deal is it doesn't feel like the United States got much out of it... Other than more regulations.

Environmentalism is a $30 billion a year industry. Rather than do an about-face and admit theyre wrong, those advocating the environmental boogieman dont want to risk their cushy lifestyles that many have come to enjoy by promoting bad science.

Last Tuesdays Republican wave election was not just about the economy, or repealing Obamacare, or illegal immigration, or failed foreign policy or the nations nearly $18 trillion debt.

Houses, at least most houses, really arent that good an investment. Dont get me wrong, I own a house. Im rooting for a housing recovery. But alas, in many cases, perhaps most, this is true.

The Obama foreign policy, such as it is, appears to be turning to long time adversary Iran as a means of fighting the ISIS threat spreading across the Arabian Peninsula.

As measured by the year-over-year growth rate of the total value of the goods it imports from the U.S., in September 2014, China's economy sank into recessionary territory.

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, America, but Andrew Cotto is done defending you to his European friends at dinner parties.

This week, President Obama launched a prominent social media campaign on behalf of "net neutrality" and urged the FCC to "keep the Internet free and open." The man has gall.

It would be unreasonable to expect a student with the reading, writing and computing abilities of an eighth-grader to do well in college. If such a student were admitted, his retention would require that the college create dumbed-downed or phantom courses. The University of North Carolina made this accommodation; many athletes were enrolled in phantom courses in the department of African and African-American studies. The discovery and resulting scandal are simply the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a much larger problem.