The consequences of President Barack Obama’s health care mandate and its infringement on religious liberty is affecting his popularity among Catholics.

Neil Munro of The Daily Caller points out that during several campaign fundraiser stops, Obama is promoting his past relationships with Catholic churches.

“My first job as a community organizer was with Catholic churches who taught me the power of kindness and commitment to others in neighborhoods…”

Obama’s comments came to light after forty-three Catholic groups across the country filed lawsuits opposing the administration’s health care mandate which forces Catholic institutions to pay for birth control for its employees.

As a slap to black Americans who have thus far overwhelmingly and enthusiastically supported him, President Obama recently threw blacks under the bus with his newly announced support of gay marriage.

Obama appeared to place political expediency over the social values of the large numbers of blacks who believe in traditional marriage.

Did Obama accidentally throw himself under the bus as well? Obama’s new position alienates black pastors — many of whom are now conflicted. Some even say they will no longer support the president.

By Cornelia Mrose:  Why aren’t black people allowed to have their own opinions? This is the question that Deneen throws at her readers in the introduction of her new book “Blacklash”:

“I believe in the power of the individual. I’m a freethinker.  Yes, I’m also black, but that fact has nothing to do with my belief in limited government. .. Why can’t a black woman question the outrageous spending of our government? Why do people assume that if I am black, I should automatically endorse entitlement programs for the poor? If white people can question government handouts, why can’t I question them too?”

“There is this strange notion that because I am black I should agree with all black people. But all white people are not similarly expected to agree with Bill Clinton or George Bush. Nor are all women expected to agree with Hillary Clinton or Michele Bachmann. So why is it that black people—especially black women—aren’t allowed to have their own opinions?”

Why? Because collectivists love to collect people and love to arrange them neatly into little drawers: one for blacks, one for women, one for the white heterosexual enlightened male, one for gays, one for Hispanics.  Deneen does not fit into any one of these little drawers.

Collectivists are orderly people. It’s no secret to them that controlling lots of people requires a structure in which the individual is caught – similar to a cobweb. Or similar to a filing cabinet with many drawers.

There is no drawer for Deneen: she is black and a woman; a conservative; a believer in free markets; a freethinker. The only thing to do with someone like her who violates the fundamental principles of drawer arrangements is to discard her. The trash can is the only appropriate place for her.

And that’s why she is trashed in the vicious way which she describes in the introduction to her book “Blacklash.”

Please read the entire commentary at The Differences of US…… move US…. to Think, a website published by Lisa Douglas.

President Obama’s support of gay marriage has split his progressive base.

Obama’s stance on gay marriage has alienated religious black pastors some of whom have openly stated they will no longer support the President.

Choosing the gay community and its fundraising capability over the social values of blacks may cost him politically in key swing states such as North Carolina and Ohio.

Clearly, Obama’s campaign is in deep trouble.  At this stage of the game, Obama should have a united base and then pivot to the middle to appeal to independents who will decide the outcome of the election.  Instead of running to the middle, Obama is playing damage control with religious black leaders.

Please watch my Fox News interview.

Please see comments from Mediaite.com.

From PJMedia.com:

Deneen Borelli is a dangerous woman. Her new book, Blacklash, How Obama and the Left are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation, provides an unapologetic portrait of how government dependency has destroyed initiative, and the family unit, in much of black America.

Borelli is dangerous in the same way Sarah Palin is dangerous, or any of the other counter-symbols to left-wing orthodoxy.  As a black conservative, with a sharp wit and courage to speak out, she is a beacon to others who might otherwise be too timid to break out of the confines of racial expectations.

Blacklash tells the story of how one woman who happened to be black also happened to be conservative.  With race playing such a central role in our national discourse, Borelli presents a dangerous symbol to a president who will need extraordinary racial cohesion to win re-election.  Beyond the symbolism, her message is even more lethal to the left: being a racial minority does not mean you have to think a certain way.

I had the opportunity to interview Borelli about Blacklash for PJ Media.

Read the entire interview here.

From TheBlaze.com by Tom Borelli:

The coal industry is on the verge of extinction. Coal’s precipitous fall from providing almost half of our electricity is not a result of free-market forces but from government regulation driven by President Obama with aggressive support from crony capitalists and environmental activists.

Tragically, the destruction of the coal industry is a case study in Obama’s heavy handed command and control energy policy. Under this scheme, the chosen industries such as wind and solar companies are showered with government grants and loans while coal – a competing and therefore an undesirable source of electricity – gets punished with excessive regulations.

Read Tom’s entire commentary at TheBlaze.com

Watch Tom’s interview about Obama’s war on coal on Glenn Beck TV (GBTV.com):

Part 1

Part 2

From RedAlertPolitics.com:

Government spending has gone wild and “all of us are on the government plantation,” according to a new book from Deneen Borelli, a fellow at The National Center for Public Policy Research.

Her new book, Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation, takes on what she calls the “liberal black establishment” – Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP and Representatives Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), Bobby Rush (D-Ill.) and Charlie Rangel (D-NY).

Read the entire story at RedAlertPolitics.com

By Tom Borelli:

Market forces are turning President Obama’s dream of a renewable energy into a nightmare.

BrightSource Energy, a thermal power solar company, canceled its initial public offering (IPO) at the last minute.  Despite the backing of venture capitalists, loans from the government and deals with corporations, the company feared it could not find enough investors for the new stock.  According to the New York Times:

As a result, the stock prices of even leading companies are down sharply. Shares of First Solar, for example, are down 93 percent from their 2008 high, closing at $22 on Thursday.   Shares of Suntech have dropped 96 percent from their 2007 peak, closing at $2.80 on Thursday.  The I.P.O.’s of two alternative energy companies have run into trouble, and the American subsidiaries of Solar Millennium, a German solar thermal power company that is in insolvency proceedings, recently filed for bankruptcy protection.

“It’s an election year, there’s policy risk, these stocks have been serial underperformers,” said Chris Kettenmann, an analyst at Miller Tabak. “The industry pulse that we are hearing is accelerated consolidation.”

And it may get worse before it gets better.

The spectacular failure of solar company stocks and BrightSource’s canceled IPO shows market forces are more powerful than Obama’s command and control energy policy.

Read the entire story here.

By Tom Borelli:

The Department of Energy (DOE) threw a life line yesterday to solar energy company First Solar.

After concerns that the company’s deal with Exelon to supply a huge solar energy project would fall apart because First Solar was not getting the anticipated support from the government, yesterday Forbes reported that the DOE’s loan guarantee was back on track.

“First Solar had entered into a deal with Exelon Corp to build and operate the Antelope project for $1.36 billion. Exelon Corp reserved the right to walk away from the project in case the project failed to receive funds from Department of Energy by the 23rd of February. The DOE had approved $646 million in loans for the project, but had delayed processing the funds because of issues encountered in obtaining local permits. ^[1] The issues were resolved in mid-February, ending the uncertainty related to the sale of the project.”

First Solar’s stock has been getting hammered this year with its share price trading at five year lows and with the company possibly on the way to bankruptcy. The DOE loan caused a huge bump in the stock price and rescued a failing company at a critical juncture.

With Obama’s focus on green energy, the President could not allow another solar company to fail.

Read entire Forbes story here.

Tom Borelli is quoted in a FoxNews.com story about the latest concern regarding another conflict of interest surrounding Apple board member Al Gore.

Apple is powering its new data facility using products from Bloom Energy whose major investors include Gore’s venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers.

Read The National Center for Public Policy Research’s press release for more details.

Both Tom and I attended Apple’s shareholder meeting in February of this year to ask if Gore “violated the company’s Business Conduct Policy,” due to our concerns on whether Gore was behind Apple ending its membership with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce because of the trade group’s opposition to government regulation for greenhouse gases.  Please read more about this here.