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When he campaigned for the job he has now, Barack Obama said that Afghanistan was a war that we needed to win.  Now, we see the recent alleged gunning down of Afghan civilians by a member of the U. S. Military which has spawned Afghan President Hamid Karzai saying that foreign troops should stay on their bases and believes that the US is not cooperating with the probe into the incident... Read Mor

A flag has appeared in Lake County, Florida that has people raising their eyebrows.  It's an American flag that has President Obama's face on it.  It was flying over the Democratic headquarters there until veterans in that area lodged a complaint...

Conservative historian David Barton has said that the answer is, "yes." He goes on to list a long line of examples of situations where the President has acted in a way that is hostile to Christians and Jews. What do you think?

The Obama Budget has been called a road map to the future.  However, The Heritage Foundation has looked into it and it doesn't look as rosy as you might think.  They say that there are $1.689 Trillion in new taxes.  That amounts to $128 Billion more than what was stated by the Office of Management and Budget...

This is according to a UL Political Science Professor.

We're all seeing reports of gas prices going up, including one where Diane Sawyer of ABC News is amazed that the price heads up while a reporter is on the scene at a station in L.A. Will the President have trouble as a result of the price of gas and who is to blame for the high prices...

How many vacations does Michelle Obama take while so many have to worry about their next paycheck? Is the President fiddlng while Rome burns? What's with the party with B.B. King and Mick Jagger? Singing a couple of bars of an Al Green song a few weeks back was "cute" but who paid for this "Red, White and Blues" shindig at the White House?

The Navy has proposed decommissioning a squadron at the air station in Belle Chasse as part of its plans to meet President Barack Obama's budget cut orders. The Belle Chase Squadron is the only naval aviation unit dedicated to fighting drug smugglers.

Word is that $4 a gallon gas is headed our way sometime this summer. Given that this will be in the midst of a Presidential election, President Obama can't be happy about a story like that.

On "Winging It Wednesday" today our panelists discussed a number of national issues and as usual the debate got rather heated.

Former Louisiana Congressman and House Appropriations Chairman Bob Livingston says he is supporting News Gingrich.

ongressman Jeff Landry joined us on "Mornings With Ken & Bernie" today as the President is rolling out his new budget. Landry questions why we continue to cut defense spending while other powers keep increasing military spending.

The Obama Administration has announced that they have come up with a solution to the contraceptive requirements that they put out as part of the healthcare law.  But is it actually a solution?  Pro life leaders are saying it isn't.  They say it's the same policy worded differently...

A middle school is in some hot water today after displaying political cartoons created for a class assignment. The Saint Tammany Parish School displayed a picture of President Barack Obama with a bullet hole painted on it.

The Obama Administration recently approved new regulations that would require religious organizations to include birth control as a part of their benefits to employees.  Catholic leaders are criticizing the President, saying that he went against a promise he made in a speech at Notre Dame in 2009...

President Obama spoke before the Prayer Breakfast the other day and said that he felt that the teachings of Jesus as well as Jewish and Muslim beliefs backed him up.  But, Senator Orrin Hatch and Rick Santorum both had something to say about that...

It has been thrown around for years that Barack Obama has been steering America toward Socialism.  Now, a writer for The Telegraph, a British newspaper, is saying that this is exactly what Obama wants to do. Janet Daley is the author and she makes some interesting parallels between America now and where Britain and all of Europe was just 10 years ago...

Newt Gingrich has been calling President Obama a food stamp President.  But is he?  An article from Investors Business Daily makes the case for it.  Still, in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer, he claims that George W. Bush was the food stamp President, not him...

Great news for the oil and gas industry! President Obama announces a new oil and gas lease sale that will make 38-million acres in the central Gulf of Mexico available for drilling.

The President delivered his State of the Union Address and the reaction has been mixed.  Some have called it a wish list.  Some have said that it sounds pretty familiar.   What do you think?  Is this a speech full of good ideas or something straight out of the campaign HQ?...