**Written by Doug Powers“An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights and falls as a team.” – Gen. George Patton, never *** President Obama has re-energized his call for “economic patriotism,” part of which involves shaming corporations into remaining based in the U.S. "Let's embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation." —Obama: http://t.co/4RPdDjgNP8 #OpportunityForAll — The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 27, 2014 Is “stay here and fall with the rest of...

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe this administration thinks that whole “Israel being a longtime powerful ally of the United States” era was over-rated anyway, because as Israel battles Hamas, Team Obama is offering a vocal defense of… John Kerry: The Obama administration pushed back strongly Monday at a torrent of Israeli criticism over Secretary of State John Kerry's latest bid to secure a cease-fire with Hamas, accusing some in Israel of launching a “misinformation campaign” against the top Amer...

**Written by Doug Powers During Friday night's debate about the border bill, Rep. Tom Marino apparently pushed the right buttons: In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night. “We don't have law and order,” Marino began as he wrapped up his comments on the border supplemental. “My colle...

**Written by Doug Powers I can't believe somebody beat Al Sharpton to discussing the important issue of emoticon diversity, but MSNBC's Ronan Farrow beat him to it: After wondering whether emojis, which originated in Japan, could alter “tech-driven communication across international lines,” Farrow asked McWhorter, “do you think there's a limitation we're suffering from in terms of the racial diversity of these emojis?” The linguist replied in all seriousness, “No, I think that actually what we'r...

**Written by Doug Powers In “The First Family Detail,” author Ronald Kessler quotes unnamed Secret Service agents dishing about the supposedly “hidden lives” of Presidents and the other important people they protect. Biden is portrayed as being more interested in coming off as a “regular Joe” than being potentially responsible for the nation's nuclear codes. Not to mention he's a guy who apparently doesn't have a problem getting naked. “Agents say that, whether at the vice president's residence ...

**Written by Doug Powers What a difference six years makes. From 2008: Falling in behind the man who looks increasingly like the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the United Mine Workers of America endorsed Barack Obama for president today. The endorsement followed a unanimous vote to throw support his way by the union's National Council of the Coal Miners' Political Action Committee. [...]“We are extremely proud to make this endorsement today,” UMWA International President Cecil E. R...

**Written by Doug Powers Watch this new ad from Michael Bloomberg's group Everytown for Gun Safety, which asks “will you stop this?” Call me crazy, but I found myself saying “If only there were some way that woman could have defended herself!” Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg and his anti-gun team that is afforded the luxury of armed security, believes the only way to prevent the horrible scenario depicted above is to hope unhinged maniacs obey redundant laws.(h/t MyFoxNY)**Written by Doug PowersTwi...

**Written by Doug PowersReporting for duty: Gutsy call. U.S. Secretary of State sends a message to the world **Written by Doug PowersTwitter @ThePowersThatBe     

**Written by Doug Powers Remember President Obama's call to U.S. corporations to embrace “**economic patriotism” and by “investing” in America instead of heading overseas? (**If corporations aren't people, then how can a non-person be patriotic?) Obama hits ‘corporate deserters' | TheHill http://t.co/xpXGa5F0tu — Greg McIntyre (@mcintyreg) July 30, 2014 So, after encouraging more “investment” in America, the second half of the Obamanomics seminar brings this: American businesses need to show up ...

**Written by Doug Powers Remember President Obama's call to U.S. corporations to embrace “**economic patriotism” and to invest in America instead of heading overseas? (**If corporations aren't people, then how can a non-person be patriotic?) Obama hits ‘corporate deserters' | TheHill http://t.co/xpXGa5F0tu — Greg McIntyre (@mcintyreg) July 30, 2014 So, after demanding more “investment” in the U.S. from corporate America last month, the second half of the administration's Obamanomics seminar goes...

**Written by Doug Powers This is one of the funniest opening sentences to a news story I've read in a good while (via Weasel Zippers): Democrat Charlie Crist flew to an environmental press event Thursday on the private jet of a developer fined for pollution. Almost as soon Crist stepped off the 2005 Cessna 560XL, Gov. Rick Scott's campaign had photographed its tail number and traced its ownership to developer James Finch, whose company Phoenix Construction was fined at least twice for violating...

Many of you across the country will have a chance to vote in GOP primaries this month. If you care about limited government, secure borders, and parental/local empowerment against Fed Ed, here are some of the stellar candidates running at the local, state, and federal levels who deserve your support.TODAY August 5: KANSASSupport Dr. Milton Wolf. The staunch upstart conservative is running against entrenched GOP Sen. Pat Roberts, who is a 50-year resident of the Beltway. Roberts is better known a...

**Written by Doug PowersReporting for duty on Nantucket this past weekend: No helmet? Gutsy call. Kerry's dog managed to successfully hide his face before the photo was taken, hopefully avoiding any potential shaming at the Madaket Kennel Club this week. Want a piece of this duo, Putin? Didn't think so.**Written by Doug PowersTwitter @ThePowersThatBe     

**Written by Doug Powers What a difference six years makes. From 2008: Falling in behind the man who looks increasingly like the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, the United Mine Workers of America endorsed Barack Obama for president today. The endorsement followed a unanimous vote to throw support his way by the union's National Council of the Coal Miners' Political Action Committee. [...]“We are extremely proud to make this endorsement today,” UMWA International President Cecil E. R...

**Written by Doug Powers During Friday night's debate about the border bill, Rep. Tom Marino apparently pushed the right buttons: In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night. “We don't have law and order,” Marino began as he wrapped up his comments on the border supplemental. “My colle...

**Written by Doug Powers According to a new book, here's how Joe Biden might be planning to spend his weekend: Sure, there's a chance this isn't true, but it seems so very Biden-ish that I'd be inclined to avoid pool parties at Joe's: In “The First Family Detail,” author Ronald Kessler quotes unnamed Secret Service agents dishing about the supposedly “hidden lives” of Presidents and the other important people they protect. Biden is portrayed as being more interested in coming off as a “regular J...

Screenshot via the LA Times website: Jonathan DelCarmen is 19. He came to this country illegally seven years ago, when he was 12. He fits the profile of the prototypical “DREAM” youth whom President Obama has granted administrative amnesty to (and wants to expand massively) — and whom open-borders advocates in both parties believe should be immune from deportation, showered with in-state college tuition discounts, and eligible for a driver's license and eventual citizenship. Pictured above are t...

The Environmental Corruption Agency by Michelle MalkinCreators SyndicateCopyright 2014 The lofty motto of the Environmental Protection Agency is “protecting people and the environment.” In practice, however, EPA bureaucrats faithfully protect their own people and preserve the government's cesspool of manipulation, cover-ups and cronyism. Just last week, Mark Levin and his vigilant Landmark Legal Foundation went to court to ask federal district judge Royce Lamberth to sanction the EPA “for destr...

**Written by Doug Powers This is a new ad from Michael Bloomberg's group Everytown for Gun Safety, which asks “will you stop this?” Call me crazy, but the only thing I found myself saying after I watched that was “If only there had been some way that poor woman could have defended herself!” A naive, knee-jerk reaction no doubt. Meanwhile, Michael Bloomberg and his anti-gun team want everybody to believe the only way to prevent the horrible scenario depicted above is to keep potential victims una...

**Written by Doug Powers I can't believe somebody beat Al Sharpton to discussing the important issue of emoticon diversity, but MSNBC's Ronan Farrow got there first: After wondering whether emojis, which originated in Japan, could alter “tech-driven communication across international lines,” Farrow asked McWhorter, “do you think there's a limitation we're suffering from in terms of the racial diversity of these emojis?” The linguist replied in all seriousness, “No, I think that actually what we'...