Any of the current Republican Candidates for the 2012 presidential election represent a distinctly better choice to lead this country than President Obama. Conservatives and those with a Kool-Aid hangover know that a second term for Obama would result in the further decline of America. Thus they will rally behind whomever t

Billionaire financier anti-American George Soros likes Mitt Romney and is telling European liberals not to worry. He says of Barack Obama and Romney, "There isn't all that much difference."

Prompted by the Forest Service's announcement today of a new initiative to "expand the number of forest acres treated by 20 percent over the next three years and increase the pace of active forest management," and specifically to "increase the...

California has a huge state debt and Washington has a huge national debt. But that does not discourage either Gov. Jerry Brown or President Barack Obama from wanting to launch a very costly high-speed rail system.

Suffused with self-esteem, following the State of the Union speech, President Obama abandoned dignity and kissed every woman within reach, including Supreme Court justices.

Pinpointing the prime cause of California's slow recovery from recession is easy: Too little has been done about the crisis in housing construction, values and foreclosures.

Pinpointing the prime cause of California's slow recovery from recession is easy: Too little has been done about the crisis in housing construction, values and foreclosures.

Obama tries to attack the church and all the faithful by mandating that Catholic Hospitals offer health care including contraception, abortion, and sterilization. This is a direct slap in the face and

Thank you for admitting that because of abundant supplies, natural gas prices have come down due to successful modern mining technology. Isn't it too bad that, at the same time, gasoline prices have doubled?

Once upon a time, small ball was not Barack Obama's game.

PHOENIX — Presidential travel, especially in an election year, offers an insight into the favored electoral road map. So it is no surprise that President Obama's post-State of the Union schedule includes traditional battleground states:

It was widely panned in State of the Union reviews. But his former speechwriter (who left for a Hollywood gig) gets the last word here. Read to the bottom. He really milked for all it was worth....

Reactions to President Barack Obama's State of the Union address were mixed in Shasta County, as Democrats approved of Obama's delivery while others acknowledged the speech's strengths but remained skeptical of the speaker.

As I sit here and read another opinion in the Record Searchlight and listen to the left-wing media harp on the lack of bipartisanship in the GOP, I have all I can do to keep a straight face at the hypocrisy of the left. When Nancy Pelosi and the weasel Harry Reid were heading the Congress, all their dastardly deeds were don

President Barack Obama, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, and top brass from the Pentagon appeared before the cameras Jan. 5 to announce a defense budget for the coming 10 years that is leaner than what the president proposed a year ago.

  President Obama’s Department of Justice (DOJ) just released a memo attempting to give political cover for “recess” appointments he made while the Senate was still in session. In fact, the political memo was issued two days AFTER the appointments were announced. It changes nothing. President Obama

If you listen closely to President Obama's recent campaign rhetoric, it seems to me that he is saying basically two things:

Excerpts from a column by the incomparable Steve Chapman: Back in 2007, when Barack Obama was running for president, a mildly surprising bit of news emerged: He and Dick Cheney were eighth cousins. Today, though, it appears that report was...

t's an art to be able to talk out of both sides of your mouth at the same time, but Barack Obama has it down perfect — been doing it for years.

Gloria Bishop, Redding

As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama promised hope and change while artfully using verbal massage to hypnotize the left and the young who were tired of the status quo. Buyer's remorse set in as President Obama's implementation of "change" became the downward spiral of the economy, a massive uptick in debt, a

Obama's speech about America pulling out of Iraq was so full of hot air it could've launched a lead balloon. After eight years of war, he says America has brought something good to Iraq.

President Obama has clearly decided to run his 2012 campaign not on his record, but against the Republicans in Congress. Considering all factors, it is probably a good strategy. But the media's role in supporting him is both reprehensible and shameless.

President Obama's $447 billion jobs bill for the coming year has stalled in Congress. Republicans objected to major features of the bill. Various pieces of the proposed legislation are now being taken up separately. An earlier bill that reduced payroll taxes is due to expire at the end of the year. A large majority of A

"Ask Osama bin Laden ... whether I engage in appeasement."

Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration.

In the first month of his presidency, Barack Obama averred that if in three years he hadn't alleviated the nation's economic pain, he'd be a "one-term proposition."

After days of recrimination and days of finger pointing, the public has lost interest in who was most responsible for the failure of the supercommittee. It failed because its members each represented their party perfectly. The larger question is, what happens now?

Should American workers continue to get a payroll tax break? President Barack Obama has been pressing Congress to extend this year's payroll tax break — a two-point reduction from the usual 6.2 percent tax that workers usually pay to support the Social Security program. Obama says letting the break lapse would amo

When it was announced in October, the federal government's revamped Home Affordable Refinance Program was seen as a way to keep more underwater families in their homes. The Obama administration has said it hopes the revamped HARP will help 1 million more homeowners.

President Barack Obama proposes to extend the payroll tax cut for American workers, set to expire Dec. 31, and increase the cut for the "typical" American family from $1,000 to $1,500 per year.

Should American workers continue to get a payroll tax break? President Barack Obama has been pressing Congress to extend this year's payroll tax break — a two-point reduction from the usual 6.2 percent tax that workers usually pay to support the Social Security program. Obama says letting the break lapse would amo

"Bigfoot dressed as a circus clown would have a better chance of beating President Obama than Newt Gingrich, a similarly farcical character." So a "Republican insider" tells the National Journal, which surveyed the Washington crowd and found that Democrats and...

THANKSGIVING DAY, 2011 November 24, 2011 A PROCLAMATION BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA       

Congress fails. The can is kicked. Cue the finger-pointing at President Obama for failing to lead.

I have what I believe is a money-saving plan for the maintenance of the White House in Washington, D.C.: Rent it out.

In 2008, the slogan was "Yes We Can." For 2011-12, it's "We Can't Wait." What happened in between? Candidate Obama, the vessel into which myriad dreams were poured, met the reality of governance.

This US News report highlights a draft new BLM policy that critics argue would go much to far to discourage target shooting on federal lands under its jurisdiction. Officials say the administration is concerned about the potential clash between gun...

Much ado is being made about President Obama getting more campaign contributions than all of the Republican candidates combined. The reason is simple.

Since the Obama administration's decision — about which it has since waffled — to let states go their own way when it comes to medical marijuana, California's cities have struggled to tame the still-illegal trade, to accommodate patients without letting lawbreakers run unrestrained.

Why is Barack Hussein Obama wasting millions of our taxpayer dollars trying to help solve the European financial crisis when he can't solve the financial crisis in the United States?

Barack Obama was a principled opponent of the Iraq War from its beginning. But when he became president in January 2009, he was handed a war that was won. The surge had succeeded. Al-Qaida in Iraq had been routed, driven to humiliating defeat by an Anbar Awakening of Sunnis fighting side-by-side with the infidel Americans.

Forget hope and change. President Obama's re-election campaign is going to be based on fear and loathing: fear of what a Republican takeover would mean, and loathing of whomever the Republican nominee turns out to be.

When Michele Bachmann declared that Congress had given president Obama a $1.2 trillion blank check when the debt limit agreement passed, I decided that I should think about what is really going on.

Shocked by President Obama's unsustainable deficit spending, the Tea Party movement arose across the land. They called for reduced spending, lower taxes and a less intrusive, small government, viewed as a threat to liberty.

What do you do if you can't run on your record — on 9 percent unemployment, stagnant growth and ruinous deficits as far as the eye can see? How to run when you are asked whether Americans are better off than they were four years ago and you are compelled to answer no?

What can be weirder than genetically engineered salmon? A long-awaited environmental impact evaluation of the introduction of genetically-modified salmon is now in the hands of the Obama White House, the website TalkingPointsMemo confirmed on Thursday, and according to their...

The Everest-size electoral challenge facing President Obama is encapsulated in a single question in the latest Washington Post/Bloomberg poll: Would the economy be better or worse if a Republican were elected president in 2012?

Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a "post-racial society."

I don't know where Barbara Riddle (letter, Friday) gets her information from, but it is largely false.