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Joseph Curl

jcurl@washingtontimes.com

Joseph Curl covered the White House and politics for a decade for The Washington Times. He can be reached at josephcurl@gmail.com and on Twitter @josephcurl.

Columns by Joseph Curl

President Barack Obama smiles at the wheel of a golf cart during golfing at Vineyard Golf Club in Edgartown, Mass., on the island of Martha's Vineyard, on Aug. 20, 2014. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

JOSEPH CURL: Obama needs to wake up and smell the progress

Minutes after a grand jury in Ferguson, Missouri, announced that it would not bring charges against a city police officer who shot a black teenager to protect his life, President Obama appeared in the White House briefing room to deliver a 65-sentence, 1,255-word statement.

December 21, 2014
Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., left, greets comedian Chris Rock, right, after Rock introduced Obama at The Apollo Theater in the Harlem section of New York, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

JOSEPH CURL: Racism: Can we talk about it? Yes — finally

Shortly after the Jan. 20, 2009, inauguration of America's first black president — which I attended, receiving high-fives from strangers, many of whom were black, and even a free cup of hot coffee from a giddy black woman as I, a white man, strolled through Northeast Washington, D.C., without fear — a friend and I took our teenage daughters to a rock show in Baltimore.

December 7, 2014
For President Obama, the new smog rules — dubbed "the most expensive regulation" in American history by manufacturing leaders — allow him to once again bask in the praise of the environmental community, which views this White House as perhaps the most consequential in U.S. history when it comes to its issues. (Associated Press)

JOSEPH CURL: Be afraid: This is the real Obama

In the weeks after voters cast a vote of no confidence on President Obama and his fellow Democrats, the president has gone on a scorched-earth campaign, unilaterally declaring amnesty for some 5 million illegal aliens, firing the only Republican in his Cabinet and rolling out a new federal rule dubbed "the most expensive regulation ever."

November 30, 2014
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton listens before delivering keynote remarks at the Global Alliance for Clean Cookstoves summit, Friday Nov. 21, 2014, in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

JOSEPH CURL: Hillary Clinton: This cycle’s Mitt Romney

A fantastical remark by Hillary Clinton went virtually unnoticed last week, especially by the mainstream media. By Monday, when President Obama let Ferguson, Missouri, burn to the ground by failing to deploy national guard troops to the city ripped by racial strife, the remark had been long forgotten.

November 26, 2014
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JOSEPH CURL: Obama sets off on scorched-earth rampage

President Obama, fresh off a shellacking in the 2014 midterm elections — in which he made himself a centerpiece, much to the chagrin of embattled Democrats — is about to embark on a scorched-earth rampage that will change the face of America forever.

November 19, 2014
MSNBC host Chris Matthews (MSNBC)

JOSEPH CURL: MSM says GOP tsunami means voters are choosing ‘none of the above’

To America's mainstream media, the midterm elections are a choice between bad and worse. Here's why, by their reasoning: No one — repeat no one — in their right mind could ever vote for Republicans, so clearly the country's voters are so disengaged and dissatisfied that they couldn't care less about who wins.

November 2, 2014
This photo taken Oct. 4, 2014 shows scaffolding around the Capitol Dome in Washington. Two weeks before election day, the nation’s likely voters have started seeing eye-to-eye with the election prognosticators. Most now expect the Republican Party to take control of the U.S. Senate, according to a new Associated Press-GfK poll. And by a growing margin, more say that’s the outcome they’d like to see. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

JOSEPH CURL: Mainstream media shocked latest polls show GOP pulling away

The mainstream media made a hearty go of it, attempting for the last few weeks to portray the Nov. 4 election as a toss-up. But poll after poll is now showing those reports to be nothing more than a barrel of red herrings: Republicans are solidly in the lead with just more than a week to go.

October 26, 2014