The National Review isn't a science magazine. When it says things like "And in the most Obama-esque move" and references The Cato Institute, you have to take what they are saying with a grain of salt.
The main thing that caught my eye in this article was that it using dailymail.co.uk as it's source. It's rather common to see an article originate on dailymail, then get repeated by a hundred other news-like sites. They all use that first article as their only source, and no follow up.
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I started reading this, and was a little sceptical by the first paragraph, but when I saw Obama-esque and the Daily Mail references I had to check out their homepage. Definitely a bad source.