Bob Woodward Calls Obama Threat 'Madness'

Veteran Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward on Wednesday called President Obama's threat not to deploy an aircraft carrier because of pending sequestration cuts a form of "madness."

Mr. Woodward, famous for his work on the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon in the 1970s, said:

“Can you imagine Ronald Reagan sitting there and saying ‘Oh, by the way, I can’t do this because of some budget document?’” Woodward said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”

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Sequestration Follies: Editorial

Washington Times -- Here we go again. Lawmakers are once more warning that the nation hangs on the brink of unimaginable disaster. Another cliff, you might say. Five days from now automatic budget restraint is scheduled to take effect, and nothing frightens a politician more than restraint on spending. It was put into place after President Obama refused to agree to a plan for more responsible reductions. To enhance the theatrics, this reduction goes by the intimidating name of sequestration. The only problem with sequestration is that it doesn’t restrain enough.

Mr. Obama wants us to believe otherwise and tries to strike terror among the ordinary and the easily frightened.

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U.S. Gov't 'Cancer' Research: Tobacco Industry's ‘Astroturfing’ Helped Create Tea Party

(CNSNews.com) - In a study published online on Feb. 8 by the journal Tobacco Control, researchers from the University of California at San Francisco--working under National Cancer Institute grants that have disbursed more than $12 million over the past 12 years--argued that the tobacco industry helped create the Tea Party Movement through a process the researchers called “astroturfing.”

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Long Lines, Tall Tales, and Federalized Elections

President Obama’s State of the Union address contained a justification for more federal control over state elections.  Former Justice Department attorney J. Christian Adams explains in a column why this is unconstitutional and unnecessary.

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