Dan Calabrese

Obama threatens to veto bill full of tax break goodies

So Republicans can respond by getting rid of them altogether and rewriting the corporate tax code

Did CNN really cut off Benjamin Watson for saying Jesus is Lord?

Hard to believe, but your eyes don't lie to you. Benjamin Watson of the New Orleans Saints has a take on the Ferguson situation that is certainly outside the norm established by the mainstream media and its favored narrative. Watson's take involves an honest look at sin and rebellion against God, and when it garnered more than a three quarters of a million likes on Facebook, CNN apparently thought Watson's view was worth exploring in a live on-air interview.

Congress to Obama: You're not bringing Gitmo prisoners to the U.S., bro

Six years and counting.

Same liberals who demand $15 retail wages tout 'Buy Nothing Day'

Dopes.

Rams make clear they have no idea what happened in Ferguson

The St. Louis Rams did just about everything right yesterday during the game, as the tire tracks on the backs of the Oakland Raiders can tell you following a 52-0 Rams victory. Before the game was another matter, though, as Rams players Stedman Bailey, Tavon Austin, Jared Cook, Chris Givens and Kenny Britt took the field during pre-game introductions in the so-called "hands up, don't shoot" pose you see in the image above.

VIDEO: Obama brags that he 'changed the law' on immigration

Nice catch by Ed Morrissey at HotAir, who notes that when pressed by heckling amnesty advocates, President Obama is apparently quite willing to admit he really did - or at least he thinks he really did - what the Constitution says he doesn't have the authority to do:

White House stuffs 3,400 new regulations into your Thanksgiving turkey

Maybe we all did overreact to President Obama's executive amnesty, not because it's OK or insignificant, but because we really don't have a solid grasp on just how often he uses the reach of the executive branch to impose his will on the nation. The Daily Signal reports that the White House is getting ready to drop 3,400 new regulations on the nation, and many of them are significant in scope and effect. We're talking about everything from coal rules to restrictions on carbon emissions to curb "climate change."

Obama: 'No sympathy at all' for rioters

On the one hand, I'm glad to give Obama one cheer - maybe even two - for giving no slack to the Ferguson rioters when he addressed the matter on Tuesday during a Chicago appearance:

TPM: Hagel had pretty much had it with Obama's national security team

The liberal site Talking Points Memo is often quite happy to carry Barack Obama's water, but sometimes they surprise you and do some pretty good reporting. They have done so today, explaining a lot of the back story that led to Chuck Hagel's departure as Secrtary of Defense.

Idea: Obama can just use his executive authority to arrest Darren Wilson

Violence is rising again in Ferguson, Missouri, where they apparently cherish constitutional protections against mob justice except when they are part of the mob. The media narrative is that a white police officer (Darren Wilson) shot an unarmed black man (Michael Brown) for no reason whatsoever. The grand jury, which carefully examined all the evidence, concluded there was a lot more to it than that and chose not to bring any charges against Wilson.

Ferguson decision: No charges against Officer Darren Wilson

A St. Louis County grand jury has announced it will not charge Officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown. The New York Times has more:

In defense of the Indy Star's 'racist' immigration cartoon

The editors of the Indianapolis Star came under a lot of heat the last several days for publishing the following cartoon, an effort of staff cartoonist Gary Varvel. What's wrong with it? Why, it makes use of ethnic stereotypes! Have a look.

It's not looking too good for a nuclear deal with Iran

Wow. I just can't believe it. After absolutely refusing to maintain any serious threat of force to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons, the U.S. and its allies are now facing total failure in their quixotic efforts to negotiate Iran out of its nuclear ambitions.

SNL sketch skewering Obama power grab gets 'fact-checked' by the Washington Post

First Jon Stewart lets Obama have it for acting like an emperor, now Saturday Night Live takes a turn. A pretty funny one, too:

VIDEO: Even lefty Jon Stewart can see Obama's acting like an emperor

One of the things that makes Jon Stewart kind of handy to have around is that, while he's definitely a liberal, he's not willing to make himself look like a total clown by defending the indefensible. So when Democrats find that Stewart has turned on them, that's when you know they've really waded into dangerous territory.

White House: OK, fine, we overstated ObamaCare enrollment

One of the Obama Administration's major defenses of ObamaCare has been to claim that it's hitting its target numbers in terms of enrollment. Granted, its target numbers are not very impressive when you consider ObamaCare was supposedly passed to address the "problem" of 43 million people without health insurance.

Let's get this right: The scandal is not about Gruber

I'm noticing as this whole Jonathan Gruber business unfolds that Republicans are showing a troubling instinct, and if they're not careful they're going to mis-navigate this thing in a such a way that they just might let congressional Democrats and the Obama Administration off the hook.

N.Y. Times: Um, Al Sharpton owes $4.5 million in unpaid taxes

I guess you have to give credit to the ultra-liberal New York Times for not burying this story, although you also have to recognize that if there's one crime liberals don't like to forgive, it's not paying taxes.

Sorry, liberals: Reagan and Bush 41 did not defy Congress with executive amnesty

Every time President Obama does something, or is about to do something, that has conservatives up in arms - especially if the protest is based on abuse of his constitutional authority - you can count on the left doing one thing: Finding a supposed example of a past Republican president or presidents doing the exact same thing.

Reid's pretend Keystone XL vote doesn't save Keystone or Mary Landrieu

Mary Landrieu is desperate to save her seat in the U.S. Senate. It looks like she's going to lose it in next month's runoff against Congressman Bill Cassidy. And we know for a fact that Harry Reid won't be Senate Majority Leader anymore after January 1 - a fact for which we thank God daily.