In 2013, there were 6,261 black homicide victims in the US — almost all killed by black civilians.

Obama has seen to the passage of the most radical legislation in recent American history and so-called 'progressives' should be thanking him for it - even as many of the rest of us rear in horror from its implications.

That distinctive presidential conduct is now gone forever, banished to the snows of yesteryear by Barack Obama. From the beginning of his presidency to the present, he has spoken specifically and in unprecedented fashion of Republicans as his rivals, his stumbling blocks, the primary cause of his troubles.

America is great not because it's a team. America is great because it is a nation whose founding documents elevated the rights of the individual.

Some candidates need to say provocative things that make noise to break through the media muffle and get themselves noticed.

What Obama is saying is simple: The United States has become Too Big To Fail.

Obama is talking to voters as though he is their boss, or their principal, or their father. He is not any of those things. He is their employee. And employers don't like it when their employees yell at them - even if their employees have it right.