Recently, the Obama administration announced they would no longer require Guantanamo Bay detention facility trials be moved to civilian criminal courts on U.S. soil. Their reasoning: Congress blocked funding that would be needed for the prisoner transfer as well as the establishment of a secure location on U.S. soil. It’s true that Congress wouldn’t allow the prison transfers or appropriation of funds. But, at least Congress isn’t saying one thing and doing another.

While President Barack Obama claimed his goal was to bring more transparency to the detainee process and no longer hold enemy combatants in legal limbo just like the Bush administration – in reality he was asserting even more legal authority on grounds so shaky it would make a Cirque Du Soleil performer get queasy.

Contrary to expressed opinion, the 2010 midterm elections were both a referendum on the Obama Administration as well as the ability of the Democratic Party to hold its fragile coalitions together and mobilize their base. Democrats employed a cloak and dagger strategy with an okey-doke philosophy to downplay their numbers and what they wanted out of this. The Tea Party Movement of center right conservatives of all stripes took the Democrats and Republicans off of their game plan in an unpredictable disorganized non-coordinated fashion.

While candidates struggled for money, Obama sat on his $150 million surplus from the 2008 Presidential Campaign in likely anticipation of a 2012 run where he would have problems generating the same level of funds raised in 2008. Rather than appreciate the messages of the Glen Beck, Sean Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, Fox News stations, etc. simply for what they were — dissenting opinions; Obama the democrat went on the defense making the American people the enemy, seeing racism in any opposition to a black president with a supportive pile on expressed from the previously traditional media, and letting the President show his true colors in noting “We won and you loss,” or “They need to get to the back of the bus” or definitions of those who opposed his policies as “the enemy.”

Chris Ladd argues that the Obama administrations recent weapons treaty with Russia is a fitting tribute to Reagan’s legacy.

Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee discusses the Obama administration’s failures in dealing with the Christmas Day bomber.

Historically, the public exposure of state-sponsored mass murder or terrorism through a transparent judicial process has strengthened the forces of good and undercut the extremists.

The Nuremberg trials were a classic case.

Like the childhood game of “Telephone”, the question on the American side of the equation comes down to how much that message of stern resolve on the Iranian nuclear issue comes to bear once incorporating the varying opinions and approaches that encompasses our foreign policy over the past several years.

If the Obama Administration wants to get artists involved to push their agenda, fine. They can do that through groups like Organizing for America. But leave the NEA out of this. This is a government agency that is supposed to support all Americans, not just the ones that support whoever is in office.