Dan Calabrese’s column is distributed by HermanCain.com, which can be found at Obama to Africa: Get over your past, stop relying on others and solve your own problems
We would now like to share with you an excerpt from a speech by Ronald Reagan, in which he tells historically impoverished people that even though they've had a rough go of it, they should realize that their best hope going forward is not to blame others or to look to others to rescue them, but rather to take ownership of their futures, change their behaviors and their culture, and and take positive actions going forward so they can live better lives. Oh wait. Right message. Wrong president. Apparently when it didn't work out for him to lecture Africans about gay rights, Barack Obama transformed into a bizarro version of himself:- Tuesday, July 28, 2015
You just don't see this in the U.S. Senate. Or you didn't, before Ted Cruz got there. And frankly it's about time someone called Mitch McConnell out for the crap he pulls. The subject is the Export-Import Bank, and Cruz asked McConnell point blank to tell him if a deal had been cut to achieve a sneaky re-authorization of Ex-Im, and McConnell told him, "There is no deal, there is no deal, there is no deal."
Here's what you need to know about Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank. He's a liberal, of course, but he's a particular kind of liberal. There are different breeds, after all. Milbank is one of those who's spent way too much time in Washington and has come to mistake many of the presumptions people make in Washington for absolute fact - among them the idea that labor unions are just honest folks standing up for other honest folks, and that anyone who suggests they're a problem in any way is just a demagogue looking to use working people for target practice.
This doesn't exactly put me in the mood to celebrate, because it still means 41 percent of Americans are OK with fascism. But it least it confirms what you sort of suspect, which is that the enforcers of the New Mandatory Gay Orthodoxy are a vocal minority and don't in any way represent the majority of Americans.
You can see how Planned Parenthood and its protectors are playing this. Drag out the process, attack the Center for Medical Progress for the manner in which the videos were made, claim victim status, lean on legal technicalities and hope the whole thing fades from the headlines such that Republicans in Congress no longer think it's worthwhile or in their political interests to keep the spotlight on it.
Every time I think media coverage of presidential politics can't get any more sad and pathetic, I come across something like this. Of course, the whole storyline concerning #blacklivesmatter and whether certain candidates utter the phrase in compliance with Official Leftist Orthodoxy has been around for much of this year. But there has rarely been a clearer demonstration than this of how left-wing activists lead political writers around by the nose, such that a certain Janell Ross actually thought she was writing about a worthwhile matter when she 
Someone must have really said something horrible when a bunch of people who can't stand John McCain are incensed over a purported insult of John McCain. Someone needs to explain the rules to Donald Trump: The senator from Arizona, who regularly refers to those who disagree with him as "crazies" and "wacko birds", must always be acknowledged as a war hero. No exceptions. No room for discussion about whether the designation of "hero" should be limited to those who actually achieve something that furthers the war effort - as opposed to the tragedy colored with honor that characterizes five years as a prisoner of war under the most inhumane conditions imaginable.
Here's what we know so far. The murderer, who was also killed in the shootout, was 24 years old and is thought to have been born in Kuwait, although he is listed as from Hixson, Tennessee. He was not on an terrorist watch lists as far as anyone knows so far.
In case you're not up to speed on the 
I don't even know what to do with this. If you ever help anyone with a problem, don't expect to get credit for it from the Washington Post. Because it might be necessary for you to make the recipient of the help shed some bad habits, and if you do that . . . hey, remember how cruel Hitler was?
Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner of the Washington Post actually put their names to this piece. 
Barack Obama and John Kerry may have disavowed any option of attacking Iran's nuclear facilities (as if they would have ever considered it for a second), but Benjamin Netanyahu sure hasn't. And Iran might want to keep that in mind, because while it's seeking to become a nuclear power, Israel already is one.
And Israel's current leader has a bit more clear-eyed understanding of the threats his nation faces than the fools who lead America at the moment:
The boxes are all checked. There is no in-depth discussion of any particular policy proposal (although the thing about Kohl's was a pretty good explanation of why he favors lower taxes). But that's not what you do in a speech announcing your candidacy. This is a speech where you lay out your broad positions and let people know the type of president you would be.
Scott Walker did that last night. He did a very nice job putting forth positive ideas - an all-of-the-above energy policy, approval of Keystone XL on day one, repeal of ObamaCare, lower taxes, returning education standards to the states, standing up "radical Islamic terrorists" (and thank you for saying it that way), terminating the Iran deal in favor of crippling economic sanctions against the mad mullahs, treating Israel like an ally - before let Obama have it for failures like the weakness against ISIS, the obliteration of his red lines, the weakness against Russia and so forth.