Reality Check: Hammer Time For Joe Cool – For Good Or Ill, President Displays Lame Duck Balls James Campion October 16, 2013 Columns If the president's first post-election press conference is any indication, there's a new sheriff in town. Those are the sounds a man makes when he no longer has to run for office. It is powerful, even majestic,...
JDM Vs. The World: No Hope For Change From The Hope And Change President Jonathan David Morris June 26, 2013 Columns Barack Obama campaigned—at least the first time—on the idea of hope and change. Recently, he said, “You can’t have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience. We’re go...
Deleted Scenes: The Barry O. Show JJ Koczan May 1, 2013 Columns The Barry O. Show I just finished watching President Obama’s speech at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner. I’m sure you’ve seen it by now—because that’s just the kind of hip-to-the-news, switched...
Reality Check: The Joe Cool Stomp II – Barack Obama Doubles Down On History James Campion November 14, 2012 Columns That was fun. 18 months of hard campaigning, billions of dollars spent, hundreds of speeches, rallies and whistle stops, trillions of words spewed from every avenue of punditry, and here we are: President Barac...
Reality Check: The Joe Cool Double-Reverse Hail Mary James Campion September 14, 2011 Columns “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” - Lewis Carroll Let it be known that on 9/8/11 at 7:10 p.m. in a joint session of congress on Capitol Hill, the 2012 Presidential el...
Deleted Scenes: What He Won’t Say JJ Koczan January 26, 2011 Columns By the time you read this column, President Obama will have already made his annual State Of The Union address. The speech is being called a pivotal one for the president, because… uh… well… his party lost? The...
Obama’s Health Care Plan; Yeah, It’s A Tax. What Did You Expect? Patrick Slevin July 19, 2010 Columns 4 Looks like all the haters of “ObamaCare” were right. The bill levies a tax on people who fail to maintain “minimum essential coverage” by 2014, according to briefs filed by the Department of Justice. Well, y...
G.I. Joke: U.S. Military’s Revolving Generals & Endless Campaigns of Chaos James Campion June 25, 2010 Columns 2 New commander-in-chief, same old crap; the United States Armed Forces is in chaos. Already recovering from decades of abysmal derailments and disasters in Korea and Viet Nam to ill-fated underground black-op...
Exit Stage Left: Obama at Crossroads with Progressives James Campion June 18, 2010 Columns 2 What the battle over national health care could only portend has now come into glaring reality in the wake of the BP Oil Gusher, which is well into month two and showing no signs of slowing. It is official; the...
Obama’s Safety Net Is… War? Patrick Slevin March 30, 2010 Columns 1 Less than a week after signing into law one of the most contentious pieces of legislation in American history—government mandated insurance for all Americans—President Barack Obama quickly ran to political safe...
