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By Adam Fowler at 10:43AM

Oct 20, 2010

Obama: Americans are Scared, Dumb

Why is this election cycle so controversial and heated? President Obama, in his infinite wisdom, has an answer:

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared.

Translation for us lowly voters: We're dumb. This, unfortunately, is an all-too-often excuse for failure used by those who still believe they are wiser than most other people. It's also a fairly common sentiment from progressives with a lot of formal education and little real-world experience.

Imagine the type of arrogance it takes to claim that those who oppose you oppose you because their mental faculties are essentially compromised; they don't want to listen to facts and science. If only they were to be guided by your rational arguments and adherence to facts, they would support you and your wise policies.

Professor Obama went on to note that the job of his political party was to "break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling." Another translation: We need to make them comes to their senses.

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By Mike Phillips at 11:28AM

Oct 2, 2010

YAL-Madison crashes Obama Rally

President Obama visited UW-Madison this past Tuesday to drum up enthusiasm among younger voters in anticipation of the midterms elections. Madison's YAL activists didn't let this opportunity go to waste and had a bunch of fun passing out...umm...unofficial programs.

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By Jihan Huq at 10:16AM

Sep 23, 2010

Is Obamunism Slowly Dying Down?

According to some indications, yes.

Conservatives and libertarians aren't the only individuals who are upset with this out-of-touch president, his administration, and his blank-check Congress. We are not alone. It seems that some of our friends from the left are becoming increasingly impatient and disappointed with our elected elites as well (yes, Republicans, I am talking about you too). Just two years ago, liberals and Democrats were overwhelmingly excited about Obama's presidential nomination. They assumed hope and change were easy, transparency and the welfare-embracing utopia they desired were short a few months away. It's not surprising to see this administration fail them on many levels.

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By Shaun Bowen at 6:45AM

Aug 3, 2010

Will Obama Actually End Combat Missions in Iraq?

Recently the Obama Administration has stated that it plans to effectively end combat missions by the end of August. This would end Operation Iraqi Freedom, though if I remember correctly, we already declared "mission accomplished" there and began Operation New Dawn.

As American military history has shown, we will most likely never leave Iraq completely -- for though this new mission, according to the administration, will be the end of combat for Americans, our government will still maintain a large and expensive presence in Iraq, "supporting and training Iraqi forces, counter-terrorism missions and protecting US civilian and military initiatives." How this is distinguishable from combat missions I'm not sure, but at least we can hope that about 10,000 of our boys might come home.

This brings one big question: Can we actually trust this will happen?

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By Wesley Messamore at 10:10AM

Jul 28, 2010

Don't worry guys, they're remodeling.

Remodeling

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By Jared Fuller at 6:47AM

Jul 22, 2010

America on Trial: Socrates, Obama, and Why They Are Opposites

*Disclaimer: If you’ve not read any of Plato’s works, this rebuttal may not make much of any sense. For further reference, see Plato’s Apology, Republic, and my personal favorite, Phaedo.

I have to ask Brandon Griefe who recently wrote an opinion piece entitled Obama: A pupil of Socrates a sincere question:

Are you serious?!

You cannot honestly believe you’re the only person to have ever trivialized the greatest philosopher known to modern society. You may, however, be the only person who has written an opinion piece on Obama and Socrates being similar.

Politics does make for strange bedfellows as the saying goes, but you are making a big stretch by putting Obama and Socrates even on the same page.

Let me be straight: Obama is the polar opposite of Socrates. While the failings of President Obama are many and clearly obvious to a lot of us, I will take particular contention with your opinions on Socrates and Plato in regards to government driven society.

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By Zak Slayback at 11:24AM

Jul 10, 2010

Softened up on Expansion

Political Cartoon

Kudos to The Scranton, PA Times.

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By Wesley Messamore at 3:42PM

Jul 7, 2010

Obama Should Kick the Government's Ass

Loath to waste a good crisis, the progressive consensus is that America's overwhelming thirst for oil is the ultimate cause of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Self-styled progressives argue that if only the government would take more action to regulate energy and encourage the development of alternatives to traditional fossil fuels, disasters like the Gulf Oil Spill could be avoided. As if. Let's take a brief look at the role our government itself played in causing the spill, and see if we can't identify who's ass Obama should kick.

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By Jihan Huq at 8:39AM

Jul 2, 2010

Obama Calls for Civilian Force as Large as the Military

We all know we saw this one coming.

This is one of the many examples of how this administration has been ridiculously expanding the size of the government. At Wednesday's townhall meeting, Obama mentioned how the military is "overburned" by our current wars and how a civilian force is needed.This is nothing new. Obama himself mentioned this when we was campaigning two years ago:

"We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded," Obama said in July 2, 2008.

According to President Obama, this civilian force could also be used as another tool for our blessed nation-building efforts from abroad. The administration has been talking about efforts to drastically increase the bugdet of the State Department as well. Oh, and this civilian force will be funded on roughly the same scale as the military.

Instead of doing the wise thing -- limiting government, and stopping all forms of nation-building and interventionism -- this administration is doing the exact opposite. But with the health care bill , TARP and the finance reform bill passed, the PATRIOT act renewed, etc., should we really expect any sensible limitations from our wise overlords?

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