RCP: The Dream of Muslim Outreach Has Become a Nightmare

Victor Davis Hanson (h/t: JHD) - When President Obama entered office, he dreamed that his hope-and-change messaging and his references to his familial Islamic roots would win over the Muslim world. The soon-to-be Nobel Peace Prize laureate would make the U.S. liked in the Middle East. Then, terrorism would decrease. --But, as with his approach to racial relations, Obama's remedies proved worse than the original illness.

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The Past Six Presidents Have All Used Executive Power To Block Certain Classes Of Immigrants

Donald Trump has received much flak from Democrats and Republicans alike for his proposal to ban Muslims from entering the U.S through executive authority. However, the past six presidents have all used the executive power to bar different classes of immigrants and that includes President Barack Obama, who has used the authority six times in his tenure granted in Section 212(f) of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952.
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Obama uses Hiroshima visit as opportunity to urge no nukes

HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) - With an unflinching look back at a painful history, President Barack Obama stood on the hallowed ground of Hiroshima on Friday and declared it a fitting place to summon people everywhere to embrace the vision of a world without nuclear weapons. As the first American president to visit the city where the U.S. dropped the first atomic bomb, Obama came to acknowledge - but not apologize for - an act many Americans see as a justified end to a brutal war that Japan started with a sneak attack at Pearl Harbor.

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Commencement 101: Obama v. Thomas

(Hat tip: KimR) - President is angry, bitter, petty — while Supreme Court justice is gracious, wise, inspiring ‘Tis the season for commencement ceremonies and the left’s last chance at indoctrinating the young impressionable minds of the newly graduated — as if they didn’t have enough time in four years of courses taught by uber-liberal professors. Read more at LifeZette Read More......

White House’s lies on Iran deal is humiliating for Chuck Schumer

(Hat tip: KimR) - We hope Sens. Chuck Schumer, Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand are giving that devastating new profile of President Obama’s foreign-policy guru a careful read. --Because they’ll learn how they were all played for fools on the Iran nuclear deal by that aide, Ben Rhodes — and the president. Read more at the New York Post Read More......

Meet the Flimflam Man Behind Obama's Foreign Policy 'Narrative'

(Hat tip: KimR) - When it comes to foreign policy, President Obama has spent more than seven years now living the dream. And I mean dream, as in fantasy -- a trip to an alternate universe. Never mind the dangerous and in some cases deadly realities that increasingly beset the rest of the planet. For the White House, it's been one glorious fiction after another. Read more at PJ Media Read More......

U.S. Chamber critical of Obama overseas tax plans

“There is nothing ‘patriotic’ about politicians bullying America’s job creators for legally trying to level the playing field. Instead of focusing on soundbites, Washington should do its job and comprehensively reform the tax code.” Read more at Oregon Business Report Read More......

Obama Slammed as 'Perverse' by London Mayor over 'Brexit'

(Hat tip: KimR) - President Barack Obama faced a furious backlash on his visit to the U.K. Friday, accused of hypocrisy by lawmakers — including the mayor of London — after intervening in Britain's national referendum on the European Union. --The president was accused of an "incoherent" and "perverse" intervention in the country's acrimonious debate after urging British voters to remain in the political bloc. Read more at NBC News Read More......

Kerry's Japan visit paves way for Obama apology tour

(Hat tip: KimR) - If John Kerry's remarks in Japan are any indication, you can be sure that President Barack Obama will apologize for the U.S.'s World War II atom bombing of Hiroshima. Obama seems bent on coming full circle by ending his two terms in office the way he began it --with an apology tour, Cuba lately, Japan next. Read more at the Lowell Sun Read More......

Obama’s Gun-control Hypocrisy Called Out by Alabama Senator

(Hat tip: KimR) - On March 30, President Obama commuted the prison sentences of 62 criminals, 12 of whom were behind bars for gun-related drug crimes. This was just too much for Alabama’s senior Senator Richard Shelby (R), so the next day Shelby sent a stinging letter to Attorney General Loretta Lynch. He asked her about the president’s hypocrisy and demanded answers to questions that he posed to her during a committee hearing back in January. Wrote Shelby: Read more at the New American Read More......

Obama Claims Power to Make Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Social Security, Disability

(Hat tip: KimR) - Does the president of the United States have the power to unilaterally tell millions of individuals who are violating federal law that he will not enforce that law against them now, that they may continue to violate that law in the future and that he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they are not currently eligible due to their unlawful status? Read more at CNS News Read More......

Obama's Bizarre Iranian Love Affair Continues

(Hat tip: KimR) - The media -- only a very few of whom (like Bloomberg's Eli Lake and our own Michael Ledeen) seem even faintly interested in what is going on with Iran -- is equally complicit and even more culpable in this fascination with the tangential. What the supposed journalists are missing is a chance to solve the greatest mystery of our times -- why Barack Obama decided to sell out those Western interests to Iran... Read more at PJ Media Read More......

Obama shares size of U.S. nuclear stockpile with the world

(Hat tip: KimR) - President Obama boasted Friday about his administration's exemplary record on transparency related to nuclear materials, and cited as an example his decision to share U.S. security protocols with the world, along with information about the size of the U.S.'s highly enriched uranium stockpile. Read more at the Washington Examiner Read More......

The "Apology Tour" Comes Full Circle

(Hat tip: KimR) - At the beginning of his presidency, Barack Obama traveled to Cairo, Europe and the United Nations to "apologize" for past American actions and attitudes, which he claimed helped create divisions between countries. Read more at Townhall.com Read More......

Obama Hikes Post-Presidency Payments

(Hat tip: KimR) - President Obama sought to increase the amount of money available for the federal government to spend on former presidents in advance of his White House exit. In his budget requests for fiscal years 2016 and 2017, Obama proposed hikes in the appropriations for expenditures of former presidents, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service published Wednesday. Read more at the Washington Free Beacon Read More......

With Every Other Problem Solved, Obama Makes Diaper Prices A Priority

(Hat tip: KimR) - When John F. Kennedy was president, he worried about a Missile Gap with the Soviet Union. His party’s successor to the White House, Barack Obama, is worried about — we are not kidding — a Diaper Gap. Read more at Investor's Business Daily Read More......

Obama’s Empty Judicial Chairs

(Hat tip: KimR) - On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers. “I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit,” Senator Obama said. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

Obama’s Empty Judicial Chairs

(Hat tip: KimR) - On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers. “I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit,” Senator Obama said. Read more at Accuracy in Media Read More......

Top border chief to agents who object to Obama amnesty: ‘Look for another job’

(Hat tip: KimR) - Customs and Border Protection Commission R. Gil Kerlikowske told Border Patrol agents who object to President Obama’s amnesty policies that it’s time to “look for another job,” saying Tuesday that agents have to follow the orders of their superiors. Read more at the Washington Times Read More......

The Secretive, Underground Obama Administration

(Hat tip: KimR) - Barack Obama promised that his would be the most transparent administration in history. In reality it is the most furtive White House the country has ever seen. The Obama administration has tried to operate in the dark as much as possible, outside the light of day and in the shadows of deceit. Read more at Investor's Business Daily Read More......