Before knowing anything about the Oregon junior college killer or how he got his weapons, President Obama delivered a rambling demand for more gun controls. At least he was honest enough to say he was politicizing a tragic incident.

Many politicians say something needs to be done about Medicare and other entitlement programs. Gene Dodaro, head of the Government Accountability Office, drove home the point. He told Congress "improper" entitlement disbursements made up 75 percent of all erroneous federal payments in fiscal year 2014. They cost taxpayers $124.7 billion last year.

In President Obama's last campaign he ridiculed his Republican opponent Mitt Romney for saying Russia was the most dangerous threat to the U.S. Russian President Vladimir Putin's ordering of air strikes in Syria caught Obama by surprise, leading Romney to say, "Russia has out-gamed us once again."