The Benefits of Hardship

The Benefits of HardshipJ.B. Shurk – Sometimes hardship is the driving force for necessary change.

One of the most valuable lessons experience has taught me is that initial victories can degrade into bitter defeats, while heartbreaking defeats can blossom into unexpected victories. It has led me to see history not as some linear progression of events following a logical rhythm toward human happiness but rather as a complex system with repeating cycles, new variables, and endlessly moving parts.

I have come to realize that almost everything in life — whether good or bad — should be approached with a healthy dose of “wait-and-see” circumspection. Continue reading

Biden’s Puppet Master: Obama’s Role in Steering His Presidency

Obama’s Fourth TermJeannie DeAngelis – When Donald J. Trump was elected the 45th president of the United States, two individuals, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, were subject to massive electoral humiliation. While Hillary still hasn’t recovered, the haughtiest of the two, Barack Obama, is the one who took the election rejection the hardest.

In true narcissistic fashion, the repudiation Obama received for eight years of devastating policies, has made the former community organizer a bigger threat to the U.S. now than during his eight years in office. Vendettas, vindication, and visceral hate for the nation he failed to fully destroy have made plain his fingerprints all over Joe Biden’s presidency. Continue reading

Obama Again Claims To Be A 1st Amendment Absolutist

Obama Again Claims To Be A 1st Amendment AbsolutistJonathan Turley – In an interview with The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel, former President Barack Obama once again claimed that he is virtually a “First Amendment absolutist” despite supporting censorship for years, including United Nations efforts to criminalize criticism of religion on a global scale. There are aspects of the Obama terms that I have praised, but his record on free speech is not one of them.

Obama declared in the interview that “I’m close to a First Amendment absolutist in the sense that I generally don’t believe that even offensive speech, mean speech, etcetera, it should be certainly not regulated by the government.” Continue reading

Obama Wants Digital Fingerprints For Internet Access

Obama Wants Digital Fingerprints For Internet AccessAaron Kliegman – Former President Barack Obama spoke in a video about the importance of journalism against threats towards democracy in celebration of World Press Freedom Day.

Former President Barack Obama suggested in a new interview the development of “digital fingerprints” to combat misinformation and distinguish between true and misleading news for consumers. Continue reading

For Obama, the Cover-Up Was Worse than the Crime

For Obama, the Cover-Up Was Worse than the CrimeJack Cashill – Two enduring aphorisms emerged from the Watergate affair, both directed at then-president Richard Nixon. The one at the outset of the investigation was delivered in the form of a question: What did he know and when did he know it?” The second came at the end in the form of a warning to future presidents: The cover-up is worse than the crime.”

Thanks to the Durham report, we know the date that then-president Barack Obama learned about what John Durham calls the Clinton Intelligence plan.” If CIA Director John Brennans notes are to be believed, that date was August 3, 2016. Continue reading