“President of the United States” on The Daily Caller

New York (CNN) — Not everyone expects a response when they write a letter to the president of the United States. But Caroline Jamieson got much more than she expected when her husband ended up in jail and afraid he would be deported. (more)

It’s time for the New York Times, the paper of record, to stop being so ridiculously prude with regards to printing curse words, especially when they're used in titles or within quotes. (more)

The Clinton Presidential Library is blocking the public release of nearly 2,000 pages of documents from Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan’s tenure at the White House. How are they doing it? (more)

Washington is a town that is all too accustomed to watching phenoms fall flat. Every few years, a new telegenic messiah arrives to walk upon the waters of the Potomac, and promptly sinks. (more)

Tim Carney has a column at the Washington Examiner detailing BP’s lobbying influence, which begs the following history lesson and first-hand account for voters, generally unaccustomed to such sleaze, to fully appreciate the game presently being played out in Washington. (more)

President Obama is demonstrating why born, bred and even accomplished academics prove quite often to be terrible leaders. The academic world is of course enormously valuable to America, populated with extraordinary and thoughtful individuals; but by definition, it is a world of debate; it is a world of theories and suppositions. If you add to that a litigious nature; you have a law professor, add to that a peculiar childhood with radical Marxist influences throughout, you have Barack Obama, an effective activist, professor and community organizer. However in the case of now President Obama it is worse. It is worse because of his current title. President Obama has never held in his public or private life a single position of consequence until now and that is dangerous for all of us no matter your political ideology. (more)

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My erstwhile boss, the legendary crisis-management guru Linda Robinson, used to say, “Good PR can’t fix bad facts.” (more)

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid offered tentative support for President Obama’s proposed alternative to the line-item veto. (more)

The White House called for a new presidential power Monday to slash spending that would be similar to a line-item veto. (more)

Persistent odors of hypocrisy and cynicism waft through the Oval Office. Campaign promises to abandon warmongering policies of President Bush have been conveniently forgotten. Worse, those dreadful and embarrassing strategies have been adopted by President Obama. Why is mainstream media silent? Where is the outrage? (more)

I have to admit utter shock when I watched the President of the United States in a DNC-produced video plead “It will be up to each of you to make sure that the young people, African-Americans, Latinos, and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again.” Shocking because I can’t believe this so-called “uniter” purposely singled out particular groups of Americans as part of his coalition as if it was perfectly acceptable. This is as blatant an “Us v. Them” as I’ve ever seen. (more)

Recent polling puts the number of Americans with trust and confidence in Congress at an all-time low of 22 percent. The poll’s margin of error is 22 percent. No wonder the White House, with the consent of Congress, established the Deficit Commission to do what Congress is constitutionally required to do. But if the people don’t trust Congress—that obscure, amorphous body—why should Congress trust Congress? (more)

On October 31, 2008, at a campaign rally at the University of Missouri, candidate Barack Obama said “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” Not everyone took him literally. In the fourteen months since he became president, however, he has clearly demonstrated that is precisely what he intended to do. It’s what motivates his supporters and infuriates his opponents. It is the standard by which Americans ultimately will judge his presidency. (more)

You could say there is a war raging here in the homeland, an un-Civil War, where foot soldiers on both sides are American patriots fighting for what they believe is the best path to achieve a bright future. It is a struggle between Organizing for America and the Tea Party. (more)

A lot has been made recently, on both the right and the left, regarding the changes made last week by the Texas Board of Education in that state’s social studies curriculum and textbooks. A leader of the winning conservative faction on the board maintained that they were only adding needed balance to an already ideologically-charged curriculum, arguing that “academia is skewed too far to the left.” A leader of the losing liberal faction countered that “the social conservatives have perverted accurate history to fulfill their own agenda.” In particular, moderates and liberals on the board decried a decision by the conservatives to reduce the prominence of Thomas Jefferson in certain aspects of the history curriculum, given Jefferson’s authorship of the phrase “separation of church and state.” (more)

I have always resented the liberal presumption of intolerance among conservatives – the notion that we huddle around campfires in endangered forests and seethe in our abhorrence of gays, ethnic minorities, illegal immigrants and France. (more)

Shortly after the president’s inauguration last year, a short-lived controversy ensued over whether the Obama White House had done away with the Oval Office dress code enforced under the Bush administration. This was in response to photographs of not just the president, but many of his advisers, casually meeting in the Oval sans jackets. The controversy quickly died because photographs surfaced online of many past presidents not wearing a jacket in the Oval Office, including President George W. Bush who reportedly enforced the inherited ‘jackets required’ rule. (more)

Arizona’s Republican primary may not be until Aug. 24, but as March dawns in the Grand Canyon state former Congressman J.D. Hayworth is working hard to win voter support in his uphill conservative primary challenge to Sen. John McCain. (more)

Editor’s Note: Daily Caller High is a group of young writers cutting their teeth in the world of political punditry. This week, two contributors continued on last week’s assignment to write on an issue from President Obama’s first year in office that they applaud or agree with. The rest of the pieces reflect on this past week’s Tea Party convention, the Republican Party, and the men and women serving our country overseas.
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