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Obama Wants Power, Not
Jobs Jeffrey Folks Nothing can stop Obama from gaining the power he seeks except defeat in November. Even if his party loses control of the Senate, Obama has sworn that he will continue his takeover of America by deploying his czars and regulators to bring American businesses under heel. That move comes right out of the Nazi playbook.  The Battle of Athens (Tennessee) A Case Study in Grassroots Restoration of the Rule of Law Mark Alexander “The advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation ... forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.” —James Madison (1788) |
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propelled Barack Obama to
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Week ending 13 May 2012 |
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Wisconsin Boom State economy soars after collective bargaining fight Wisconsin has pulled back from the brink of fiscal insolvency after Governor Scott Walker's collective bargaining and budget reforms, despite doomsday warnings of fiscal disaster. Neighboring Illinois, whose Democratic governor opted for tax hikes, has not fared as well. |
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| The Obama Economy's War on Women
Surges as BLS Reports Females Leaving the Workforce in Droves Terence P. Jeffrey 324,000 women dropped out of the nation's civilian labor force in March and April as the number of women not in the labor force hit an all-time historical high of 53,321,000, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics... For both males and females combined, the rate of participation in the labor force dropped to 63.6 percent in April - the lowest rate since December 1981. |
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| Shrinking U.S. Workforce Masks An
Otherwise Sky-High Jobless Rate If the percentage of adult Americans in the labor force – that being the total number of people who are employed or looking for work – were the same as it was during the end of the Bush administration, the April jobless rate would be at 11.1 percent. That's 3 percentage points higher than the 8.1 percent reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics this month. |
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IG Report: Medicare paid $5.6 billion to 2,600 pharmacies with questionable billings The inspector general's office says its findings aren't just smoke. "What we are seeing in the data is extremely concerning," said Jodi Nudelman, a regional inspector general in New York who directed the research. Her team will turn over the names of the 2,637 pharmacies it identified for follow-up. They are "extreme billers, when you look at their peers and compare them". |
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| North Dakota Oil Boom Should
Inspire Federal Energy Policy Investor's Business Daily North Dakota's per-capita income jumped 78% in the past 12 years, largely due to its fossil fuel boom. Imagine the impact at the national level if Washington stopped blocking energy development. North Dakota has become a land of prosperity since 2000, when its per-capita income was $25,592... Last year it hit $45,747. |
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| Obama's Soros-Controlled Energy
Council Ken Blackwell When politicians want to look busy while avoiding tough decisions during an election year, what do they do? They form commissions and councils. And when President Barack Obama saw Americans struggling with higher gasoline and home energy prices, did he encourage more domestic oil exploration, off-shore drilling, or coal production, while lowering taxes on energy? Of course not. |
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| Election of French Socialist Has
High Earners Going Galt; England Set to Gain as Cameron is Cutting Taxes The toppling of Nicolas Sarkozy by François Hollande, the first socialist president to lead the country in 17 years, has sent ripples of fear through the wealthier arrondissements of Paris. Mr Hollande plans to implement a 75% tax rate on earnings over €1m (£800,000), on top of a 45% rate for people making €150,000 or more. |
Just Who Is John Galt? |
| Forward! Vorwärts! Avanti! More
Flexibility! Sara Noble When Obama speaks, read between the lines and pay attention to the nuances. Having been an attendee at Socialist meetings and having many Socialist advisors, be assured that if Obama picks a Socialist slogan, he knows what he is doing. His new slogan, Forward, could well be a message to his far left base. |
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| Presidential Narcissism Obama and Clinton – brothers beneath the skin. Victor Davis Hanson The common characteristics in Obama's I/me/my career have been such rhetorical, visual, and symbolic efforts to mask an absence of accomplishment (e.g., why not even one Harvard Law Review article, or perhaps a single publication as a University of Chicago lecturer, or a successful program as a Chicago community organizer, or a signature piece of legislation as an Illinois legislator, or an acknowledged legislative record as a U.S. senator?). |
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| In a New Biography, Obama asks: Am
I an American? Byron York Ever since the 2008 campaign, many voters, and some journalists too, have felt they know Barack Obama's life story. In fact, the story they know is the one Obama told them. Obama's first memoir, Dreams from My Father, published in 1995, has become the semi-official record of his life. But it is not the complete record of his life. |
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| Devastating! President Obama's
former doctor claims that the president lacks passion, feeling and humanity Jarrett Stepman In a revealing new book, The Amateur, author Edward Klein interviews President Barack Obama’s physician, Dr. David Scheiner, MD, who blasts the president’s health care plan and says that President Obama has an “academic detachment” that he could never break through. |
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| Jeremiah Wright Offered $150,000 to
Keep Silent “It [email] was from one of Barack’s closest friends.” “He offered you money?” “Not directly,” Wright said. “He sent the offer to one of the members of the church, who sent it to me.” “How much money did he offer you?” “One hundred and fifty thousand dollars,” Wright said. |
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| Just How Reliable are Hawaiian
Birth Certificates? Not Very it Seems A Hawaii birth certificate is not reliable evidence of Hawaiian birth, even under ordinary circumstances. The Barnes/Carter case is the prize example. Mike Zullo and his fellow investigators know of others. So the Obama eligibility question is not a laughing matter anymore. |
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| ObamaCare's Muslim Exemption Herbert London ObamaCare is specifically written not to apply equally to everyone. It is in most respects a law intended to discriminate – what some might call an extended Jim Crow law. If this seems exaggerated, consider: Jim Crow laws were based on racial discrimination, while ObamaCare is predicated on religious discrimination. | |
| Obama Repeats Whopper About Mom's Health Insurance Investor's Business Daily In a campaign infomercial, the president suggests his late mother's health insurer denied her coverage in her cancer battle. It's a heart-breaking story. Only it's not true. This isn't another case of Obama blurring the issue. This is the president deliberately deceiving the public to sell it socialized medicine. Worse, he used his late mother's tragedy to do it. | |
| Warren Continues to Lose Cred Over
Her Minority Claim Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa with Megan Johnson Senatorial wannabe Elizabeth Warren, aka Fauxcahontas, said she listed herself as a minority in law school directories because she was hoping to meet others with Native American roots. So isn't it a shame that Liz took a pass on last weekend's 17th annual Harvard Powwow. |
Coulter: Warren Dances With Lies |
| "Cruel Irony" – Elizabeth Warren
Not Part Cherokee but, Ancestor was Part of Enforcement of 'Trail of Tears' Michael Patrick Leahy Jonathan Crawford, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford's husband and apparently Ms. Warren's great-great-great grandfather, served in the East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia commanded by Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap from late 1835 to late 1836. These were the troops responsible for removing Cherokee families from homes they had lived in for generations in three states. |
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| UK Court Sentences Muslims in
Paedophile Gang; Religion and Racism Charges Hurled at Prosecutors A judge today said nine men preyed on white girls as young as 13 for sex 'because they were not part of your community or religion' as he jailed them for a total of 77 years. The men, all but one originally from Pakistan, were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after they were convicted of luring up to 47 girls into sex with drink, drugs, fast food and free taxi rides over a number of years. |
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| N.J. Judge: Second Amendment
Prevails, Police Must Return Guns Seized from Blind Citizen Prosecutors argued Steven Hopler shouldn’t have guns because he’s a danger. However, a judge ruled otherwise, saying his disability shouldn’t take away his constitutional right to bear arms. |
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| Instant Justice for Sociopaths –
Semper Justitia Mark Alexander In the early morning hours of Sunday, 15 April, two thugs burglarizing neighborhood cars decided to burglarize a house. Unknown to the perpetrators, the house is owned by a Marine from neighboring Camp Lejeune..... |
Sometimes The Good Guys Win |
| File under Unintended Eco-Friendly
Consequences: Do you sanitize your reusable grocery bags? Oregon investigators have traced an outbreak of norovirus to a reusable grocery bag that members of a Beaverton girls' soccer team passed around when they shared cookies. Tests turned up the virus on the sides of the bag below the polypropylene handle. The results of the research have been published in the Journal of Infectious Diseases. |
New law may give shoppers the runs |
| The Moral Infrastructure Thomas Sowell The unwillingness of authorities to put a stop to [the Occupy movement's] organized disruptions of other people's lives, their trespassing, vandalism and violence is a de facto suspension, if not repeal, of the 14th Amendment's requirement that the government provide "equal protection of the laws" to all its citizens. |
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| House Member Claims Obama too close to Corzine to Investigate MF Global House Republicans say the Obama administration is too politically tainted to investigate former New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's role in the MF Global bankruptcy. Corzine has bundled more than $500,000 for the president's reelection campaign and lobbied administration officials on financial regulation. |
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| Rep. Gutierrez: I Drafted Amnesty Language for White House In stark contrast to prior Obama administration statements, Illinois Democratic Rep. Luis Gutierrez told The Daily Caller that he and the National Council of La Raza were deeply involved in the crafting and implementation of a controversial Obama administration memo that many conservatives believe amounts to a policy of amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants. |
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| Trayvon and Zimmerman: The Structure and Elements of a Disinformation Campaign Scott Swett The Trayvon campaign is accurately described as "disinformation" because deception is a fundamental part of its planning, strategy, and implementation. Leftist disinformation campaigns are common but not widely understood. This article is intended to make them easier to recognize. |
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| Washington
Post's Dana Milbank: The preezy of the United Steezy is making me queasy. I'm not troubled by President Obama's slow jam with Jimmy Fallon, who dubbed the commander in chief preezy during Obama's appearance on late-night TV. No, preezy is making me queasy because his nonstop campaigning is looking, well, sleazy and his ad suggesting that Mitt Romney wouldn't have killed Osama bin Laden is just the beginning of it. |
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| Obama's Not-so-Gutsy Call? WH Dithered for Nearly a Full Year Before Acting in Intel Barack Obama refused to act for several months. He wanted absolute proof first that Osama was living there. It wasn’t until May of 2011 that he agreed to attack Bin Laden’s compound, almost a year later.  Obama and the bin Laden Bragging Rights; Internal Memo Drafted to Protect Obama in case of Mission Failure Michael Mukasey A recently disclosed memorandum from then-CIA Director Leon Panetta shows that the president's celebrated derring-do in authorizing the operation included a responsibility-escape clause: "The timing, operational decision making and control are in Admiral McRaven's hands." |
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| Congress' Intelligence Heads:
Taliban Stronger The leaders of congressional intelligence committees said Sunday they believed that the Taliban had grown stronger since President Obama sent 33,000 more U.S. troops to Afghanistan in 2010. The pessimistic report by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Rep. Mike Rogers, R-Mich., challenges Obama's own assessment. |
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| Employment Hopes Fade for Second
Month Two consecutive months of lackluster job growth will spark fresh fears on the durability of the recovery. It will also prompt worries and memories of 2010 and 2011, when economic growth early in the year gave way to a spring swoon. |
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| Washington Post
Rebuts Obamas Malicious Infrastructure Lie John Hinderaker So once again, Obama was simply lying. Sure, many politicians have been willing to stretch the truth to get re-elected. But for flat-out misrepresentations, I cant recall one who can equal Obama. |
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| As Economy Sputters, Obama Tries
Distraction Investor's Business Daily What's surprising isn't that the economy's still struggling nearly three years after the recession ended; it's that anyone could have expected anything different. Obama's economic policies have put a stranglehold on the private economy, turning what could have been, and should have been, a powerful recovery from a deep recession into a record-breaking slog. |
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| "Who the hell is Julia and why am I
paying for her whole life?" Conn Carroll The cast of Morning Joe blasted the Obama campaign for their new "The Life of Julia" website this morning. The original purpose of the ad was to show voters how Obama's policies help women throughout their lifetimes. But as pretty much every member of the show concludes, that effort backfired: Obama Promises Women a Lifetime of Dependence Investor's Business Daily The Obama campaign website has a feature that's supposed to show how his policies will help a fictional "Julia" during her life. What it really shows is Obama's vision of cradle-to-grave government dependency. The campaign's "Life of Julia" interactive feature tries to depict how Obama would help, and Romney would hurt, women in America. A Better Life for Julia Heritage Foundation Yesterday, President Obama’s team introduced the “Life of Julia,” a portrayal of a liberal vision of life for one woman. Our version shows how conservative policies, like the ones outlined in Heritage’s Saving the American Dream plan, can empower Julia and all Americans without government interference at every stage of life. |
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| Medicare Slush Fund Shows Obama's
Abuse of Power Timothy P. Carney The New York Post's Benjamin Sasse and Charlie Hurt explained the awkward details of timing: "Open enrollment [for 2013 Medicare Advantage] begins Oct. 15, less than three weeks before voters go to the polls." So Obamacare would kick seniors out of their Medicare program three weeks before Obama's re-election. That, of course, would be politically damaging. |
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| Public Comments Overwhelmingly
Oppose HHS Anti-Conscience Mandate The federal website Regulations.gov released the first round of public comments on the administration’s proposed anti-conscience mandate on Wednesday. The comments were overwhelmingly opposed to the measure: out of 211 comments submitted, only six, less than 3%, offered support for the mandate. |
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| National Health Care(?) Leaves
Woman in Corridor Over a Full Day Doris, 95, was left on a hospital gurney for 28 hours and when her son asked where she was, doctors didn't have a clue The old lady was exhausted and in pain after falling in the shower and hurting her leg. But following the drama of the ambulance dash to A&E, she had been wheeled into an ante-room... and parked there, like a piece of left luggage, for 28 hours. |
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| Ex-CIA Counterterror Chief says
Pelosi Lied About Waterboarding Marc A. Thiessen The Washington Post In an explosive memoir released today, former CIA counterterrorism chief Jose Rodriguez provides new evidence that Rep. Nancy Pelosi lied when she declared she had not been briefed about the use of waterboarding. |
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| New Obama Slogan Has Long Ties to
Marxism, Socialism "The name Forward carries a special meaning in socialist political terminology. It has been frequently used as a name for socialist, communist and other left-wing newspapers and publications," the online encyclopedia explains. |
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| America's Historic Cokehead
President Daren Jonescu Does it bother you that the most powerful man on the planet was a longtime drug user? Does it bother you that he has attempted to use his drug abuse to gain credibility with young Americans? Does it bother you that his acknowledgment of having been a serious drug user has been given a pass in the news media? |
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| His Fulltime Job Obama's Shameless Electioneering Fred Barnes Obama offered his own version of the WWJD question – what would Jesus do? – on the issue of raising taxes on the rich. Obama wants to, arguing that seniors, young people, and the middle class shouldn't be forced to "shoulder the burden alone." |
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| Obama Abolishes the Press Conference Keith Koffler Obama has switched almost fully from governing to campaigning. So maybe the need for a West Wing gut check has declined, since policy is mostly being made not in Washington but in Chicago. The home, of course, of the Obama 2012 campaign. |
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| Government's Answer to "Fast and
Furious" Records Requests: Blank pages Sharyl Attkisson FOIA was originally intended to expedite the release of public materials to the public and media... Few requests filed by this reporter are answered within a year. When and if documents are ever produced, they are often heavily redacted and the timeliness of the information relative to the public interest has long since subsided. |
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| Is Fast and Furious the Next
Watergate? Alan Caruba “Many people in ATF saw what was happening and tried to warn the bureau, but the new corrupt and arrogant culture of management had become too powerful and intimidating. Field agents who spoke up were punished for having an opinion and daring to voice it. Whistleblowers had their reputation, careers, and finances shattered,” writes Katie Pavlich. |
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| A Primer On Energy John Hinderaker The only real question is whether we will have access to our abundant energy resources, not whether sufficient resources exist. According to the Congressional Research Service, we have the most fossil fuel resources of any country on Earth, but most of these resources are off-limits due to federal policies. |
Hard Facts: An energy primer (pdf) |
| Study: Wind Farms Linked to
Temperature Increase Writing in the journal Nature Climate Change, Professor Zhou and colleagues reported a temperature increase of up to 0.72 degrees Celsius per decade at wind farm locations, compared to nearby areas. They also found the effect to be greater at night than during the day. |
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| The New Reactionaries Victor Davis Hanson Twenty-first century progressivism is not aimed at political reform. There is no new effort at racial unity. There is not much realization that we are in a globalized, rapidly changing, high-tech economy or that race and gender are not as they were fifty years ago. Instead, progressivism has become a reactionary return to the 1960s – or even well before. |
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| Young Obama Voters Turn On President Paul Bedard They lapped up President Obamas 2008 promise of hope and change, but his inability to deliver has turned younger voters cynical and disillusioned, according to a new analysis of 18-29-year-olds who backed the president but are now skeptical of him. It will take a decade before they believe in hope and change, said GOP pollster Ed Goeas. |
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| White House Cites Nazi Supporter In Jewish Heritage Month Proclamation, Attempts Quickie Cover Up American Jewish artist and Nazi supporter Gertrude Stein was cited yesterday in a White House proclamation in honor of Jewish American Heritage Month 2012. |
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| Methodists Vote to Keep Stand on
Homosexuality The United Methodist Church is keeping doctrinal language that calls same-sex relationships "incompatible with Christian teaching." Methodists took the vote Thursday in their national legislative meeting in Tampa, Fla. |
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| The 4.2 Billion Dollar
Loophole Whistle-blower Exposes Payments To Illegal Aliens and their 'Claimed' Children The whistleblower has thousands of examples, and he brought some of them to [WTHR-TV]13 Investigates. While identifying information such as names and addresses on the tax returns was redacted, it was still clear that the tax filers had received large tax refunds after claiming additional child tax credits for many dependents. |
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| So Much for
Obama Killing Osama CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission Ben Shapiro The memo puts all control in the hands of Admiral McRaven – the "timing, operational decision making and control" are all up to McRaven. So the notion that Obama and his team were walking through every stage of the operation is incorrect. The hero here was McRaven, not Obama and left him with an 'escape' should it fail. |
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| It Was the Power, Stupid! Victor Davis Hanson When the Right is in power, the press, the academy, the arts, the foundations, the liberal churches, and the zillionaire class all lecture us on greed, scandal, profit-mongering, wars against science, destroying the planet – the entire laundry list of exploitive greed. When the Left is in power, all of the above go silent. |
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| The Dog In the Manger In the
Night-Time; Obama has left a trail of silence behind him wherever he goes Michael Walsh The agent takes on an unknown author with no sales track record as a leap of faith, hoping for a payoff down the line; the writer benefits from the imprimatur of representation, since few publishers accept over-the-transom manuscripts. For Obama to shaft [Jane] Dystel the way he did is simply disgraceful – and, in retrospect, indicative of his fundamentally amoral personal character and his arrogant, manipulative nature. |
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Senators Look to Free Up House-passed Energy Bills U.S. Senators Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and John Barrasso (R-Wyo.) introduced legislation focused on strengthening the economy and creating jobs in the West. The Western Economic Security Today (WEST) Act incorporates several pieces of legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives that are awaiting action in the U.S. Senate. |
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| Harry Reid Draws Line Against
Keystone – Backs Up Obama Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he would not in any way help Republicans move Keystone approval across the finish line. "Personally, I'm not – I'm not one of the conferees – but personally I think Keystone is a program that we're not going, that I am not going to help in any way I can," Reid told reporters. "The president feels that way. I do, too." |
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| EPA Official's 'Philosophy' on Oil
Companies: 'Crucify Them' Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) took to the Senate floor today to draw attention to a video of a top EPA official saying the EPA's "philosophy" is to "crucify" and "make examples" of oil and gas companies – just as the Romans crucified random citizens in areas they conquered to ensure obedience. |
Mystery: The EPA "crucifixion" video vanishes |
 EPA Spends Tax Dollars to DevelopMinuscule Amount of Electricity The EPA awarded a $90,000 grant over the weekend to Vanderbilt University students "who designed a biohybrid solar panel that substitutes a protein from spinach for expensive silicon wafers that are energy intensive to produce, and is capable of producing electricity." |
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| #GreenFail John Hinderaker Perhaps the defining failure of Barack Obama's administration has been his ill-fated investment in "green energy." Much of this investment was rushed through Congress as part of the "stimulus" program with little or no scrutiny, but we can now see where the money went. |
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| America is Waking Up To the Fact
That it Has an Abundance of Oil Investor's Business Daily Over the past several weeks, this page has presented a series of editorials that aim to sort fact from fiction in energy economics. Readers by now may have noticed a common theme – that the Obama administration has consistently refused to learn the lessons of the market. Nowhere is this clearer than in its quixotic, expensive effort to create a new economy that no longer depends on oil. |
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| Social Security Faces Unfunded
Liability of $8.6 Trillion, or $73,167.83 Per Household The unfunded liability is the amount that has been promised in benefits to people now alive that will not be funded by the tax revenue the system is expected to take in to pay for those benefits. |
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| SCOTUS: Power is Top Prize in
Arizona Immigration Battle Brian Bergin, an attorney for Sheriff Larry A. Dever, whose Cochise County includes 83 miles of the Mexico border in Arizona, said he will be watching to see what the justices say about that during oral argument. "If the administration prevails in its argument that state law can be pre-empted by virtue of the objections of foreign interests, we've put ourselves in a position where I guess foreign policy becomes more important than homeland security." |
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| Michelle Obama's Spanish Jaunt Cost Taxpayers Almost 1/2 Million Dollar$ It cost taxpayers nearly a half-million dollars for first lady Michelle Obama to travel to Spain in 2010, according to an analysis by Judicial Watch. The right-leaning watchdog group estimated that the trip cost $467,585. It based its analysis on documents obtained from the U.S. Secret Service and the U.S. Air Force. |
Vacation Backlash: Blue Collar Dems Outraged |
| Environmentalist Icon Says He
Overstated Climate Change “we don't know what the climate is doing.” Investor's Business Daily Not many years ago, a celebrated scientist predicted a global warming disaster awaited humanity. Today, that same scientist admits his warning was too "alarmist." It's time Al Gore turned his limousine around, too. |
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| Forget Homeland Security, Now It's
About "Environmental Justice" Alan Caruba The Department of Homeland Security has added a whole new layer of authority to its portfolio. You thought it was about protecting the nation against acts of terrorism. Now it is about enforcing "environmental justice." The DHS has added Green Police to its concerns and, if you think this has nothing whatever to do with some jihadists trying to kill a lot of people as was the case on 9/11, you would be right. |
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| Sharpton, Jesse J., Mr. Holder: I'm
Calling You Out Quin Hillyer Mob-violence instigator Al Sharpton, racial shakedown artist Jesse Jackson, and Honorary New Black Panther (HNBP) Eric Holder now have a test: Do they have any shred of decency, humanity, and justice left in their race-hustling souls? |
MSM bury the story |
| 2012: The Art of Intimidation Christopher Chantrill What a joy it was to watch the Romney campaign executing on the Hilary Rosen flap, launching Ann Romney on Twitter in a heartbeat. And then the Romney war room followed up with the dog-meat play. Liberals thought that the dog-on-the-roof scandal had legs. But it turned out that the legs were Indonesian roast pooch. |
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| Many Teens Walkout as Anti-Bullying
Speaker Goes on Anti-Christian Tirade Dan Savage is the founder of the "It Gets Better" project, an anti-bullying campaign that has reached more than 40 million viewers with contributors ranging from President Obama to Hollywood stars. Savage, and his husband, were also guests at the White House for President Obama's 2011 LGBT Pride Month reception. |
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| It's Official Now That Muslim
PC-ism Has Infected the U.S. Military The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Tuesday ordered the entire U.S. military to scour its training material to ensure it doesn't contain anti-Islamic content, Danger Room has learned. The order came after the Pentagon suspended a course for senior officers that was found to contain derogatory material about Islam. |
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| Journalistic Malpractice CBS Under Fire for 60 Minutes Segment Attacking Israel Christian leaders, Middle East experts, and observers on Capitol Hill are crying foul on a CBS News report that they say erroneously blamed Israel for the persecution and migration of Palestinian Christians. |
CBS Lies about number of complaints |
| Student Loans a Campaign Ploy?
Then-Senator Obama Didn't Show Up for Vote on Student Loan Bill in 2007 As the president prepared for his push – which Democrats hope will also shore up support for the president among younger voters, a group among which enthusiasm for Mr. Obama has been lagging – Republicans on Capitol Hill noted that then-Senator Obama seemed to make the lower interest rates for student loans a lower priority. |
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| Obama's Political Twist on
Federally Backed Student Loans Cheri Jacobus In yet another election-year display of blatant presidential pandering, President Obama launched a nationwide college tour to erroneously claim that House Republicans were doubling student loan rates. Democrats and Republicans have been working on the issue so that it is remedied before the July 1st deadline. |
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| Warren Hammered by Sen. Scott Brown
Over 'Free' Student Loan "Let me get this straight: struggling students and families pay more, so multi-millionaire Warren can pay nothing? This sweetheart deal adds insult to injury for the students whose high tuition costs have already made Warren a wealthy one-percenter, and reveals yet again Professor Warren's hypocritical idea of fairness," wrote Brown's campaign manager Jim Barnett. |
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| Is There a Drone in Your
Neighborhood? There are at least 63 active drone sites around the U.S, federal authorities have been forced to reveal following a landmark Freedom of Information lawsuit. The unmanned planes – some of which may have been designed to kill terror suspects – are being launched from locations in 20 states. Most of the active drones are deployed from military installations, enforcement agencies and border patrol teams, according to the Federal Aviation Authority. |
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| Lulu Always Carries Feminine
Protection, It Saved Her Life One Saturday Night Looking at Lulu Campbell's bullet-riddled silver Toyota Tundra, common sense says the 57-year-old grandmother should be dead. It's impossible to tell how many bullets were fired at 2 a.m. Saturday morning on English Avenue, but what started as an armed robbery attempt turned into a full-blown firefight. |
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| America’s False Autism Epidemic Dr. Allen Frances Not so long ago, autism was the rarest of diagnoses, occurring in fewer than one in 2,000 people. Now the rate has skyrocketed to 1 in 88 in America (and to a remarkable 1 in 38 in Korea). And there is no end in sight. |
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| Obama Ban on Youth Farm Chores Part
of Larger Power Grab Kurt Nimmo Obama's plan to make life miserable for family farmers coincides with an effort by the United Nations under Agenda 21. Section one of the executive order mentions "sustainable rural communities," language right out of Agenda 21. |
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| U.N. Chief: "The world must
provide" Universal Access to Abortion and Contraception for Teen Girls United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday that millions of girls – teenagers and younger – need access to abortion and contraceptives in order to "avoid unintended pregnancies, unsafe abortions and sexually transmitted infections." |
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| Sink The Law of the Sea... Again Phyllis Schlafly The United Nations treaty called Law of the Sea was negotiated by the State Department, and then presented to Ronald Reagan for signing as soon as he became President in 1981. Reagan immediately recognized it as a bad treaty that would restrict U.S. sovereignty and require us to pay an international body half of all our royalties from offshore drilling. |
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| When Administrations
Implode Victor Davis Hanson Why is the president rashly picking such stupid fights? Apparently his team wishes to divert attention from generally bleak economic news. The economy still suffers from a dramatic spike in gas prices, chronically high 8 percent plus unemployment, sluggish growth, and serial $1 trillion annual deficits that have sent the debt soaring to $16 trillion. |
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| You Know You're in
Trouble When the Family Dog Hides as You Approach it Holding Salt and Pepper Shakers James Taranto One time Barack Obama went to an Indian restaurant and ordered the lassi. Was he ever disappointed when the waiter brought him a yogurt drink! We'll be here all week. But seriously, folks, we have a man-bites-dog story for you today. |
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| LEAKED STRATFOR EMAILS Democrats Manipulated the 2008 Election Results; McCain Refused to Follow Up Fearing Nation-wide Racial Violence John McCain's 2008 campaign staff allegedly had evidence that Democrats stuffed ballot boxes in Pennsylvania and Ohio on election night, but McCain chose not to pursue voter fraud, according to internal Stratfor emails published by WikiLeaks. 'The black Dems were caught stuffing the ballot boxes in Philly and Ohio as reported the night of the election and Sen. McCain chose not to fight.' |
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| Obama's Funny Money In 2008, the president's campaign-finance operation was highly suspect. John Fund The media lionized Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign for running as smoothly (and stylishly) as a Swiss watch. “We love things that are smart,” explained Time’s Mark Halperin...Well, only now are we learning that things weren’t quite as “smart” as we were led to believe. |
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| Washington Post Confession: We Tried To Bury That Story About ObamaCare Blowing Up The Deficit Washington Post columnist Patrick Pexton made a rather startling admission in the paper's Sunday edition: The Post never meant for their recent story about how President Obama's health care law expands the budget deficit to become a viral Internet sensation. In fact, they deliberately tried to bury the story. |
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| Million$ of Tax Dollars Being Spent
to Train Foreign Workers for English-Speaking Jobs While the president has been urging "insourcing," the government has been sending money to the Philippines to train foreign workers for jobs in English-speaking call centers. According to NY Democratic Rep. Tim Bishop and N. Carolina Republican Rep. Walter Jones, this is unacceptable and "shocking." |
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| CBO: Food Stamp Rolls Grow 70% Spending for the program, not including administrative costs, rose to $72 billion in 2011, up from $30 billion four years earlier. The CBO projected that one in seven U.S. residents received food stamps last year. |
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| The $5 Trillion Man: Debt Has
Increased Under Obama by $5,027,761,476,484.56... in 39 Months Although he has served less than a term, Obama is now the first American president to see the federal government's debt increase by more than $5 trillion during his time in office. |
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| Democrats Punt on Senate Budget Bill for
Third Year; Chairman Reneges on Promise to Hold Debates and Votes “It’s hard to negotiate with somebody who won’t tell you where they are,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Budget Committee, who said Mr. Conrad was breaking a promise he made to debate and vote on a budget. |
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| The Real GSA Scandal: Job-Killing
Big Labor Payoffs Michelle Malkin Stop the presses: Big-spending Democrats are finally up in arms over a federal boondoggle. Details of the U.S. General Services Administration bacchanalia get worse by the day. But the scandal is still small potatoes compared to the potential billions GSA is pouring down the Big Labor drain. |
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| How About That Green Energy? New
Report Devastating Wind Energy Alone Lost 10,000 Jobs Since 2009 A recent lengthy report by Reuters confirms what many conservatives have long known: President Obama's promise to create millions of so-called "green jobs" has been a colossal and expensive failure. |
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| GM Battery Lab Explosion Costs to
Exceed $5M GM said last week the explosion was created by gases that vented from an experimental battery pack inside an enclosed room in its battery lab in the Alternative Energy Center building. GM likened the incident to a natural gas explosion, as gases from a battery gathered in the room during extreme testing and ignited. Road to Bankruptcy Fisker Automotive Dumps 12 More Employees Electric car company Fisker Automotive has fired an additional 12 workers from its flagship plant in Delaware, leading to concerns that the once-bustling car company will fail to live up to its promise to produce a new line of plug-in hybrids. For Ford the Focus is on Zero Electric vehicle sales have been slow out of the box, despite marketing hype, government incentives and the hopes of green car advocates. Total sales last year were 17,425, which is less than 0.1 percent of the U.S. car and light truck market. |
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| Al Sharpton Reeling in Debt MSNBC's Al Sharpton is reeling in debt and back taxes. The liberal provocateur owes nearly $1 million to creditors and the federal government as a result of his failed bid for the 2004 Democratic presidential nomination. His campaign's unpaid bills exceed $888,000, according to federal filings. |
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| 'Stand Your Ground' Popular with
Blue-state Pols To date, Democrat governors who have either signed a stand your ground bill into law or at least refused to veto it include, "Kathleen Blanco of Louisiana, Jennifer Granholm of Michigan, Brian Schweitzer of Montana, John Lynch of New Hampshire, Brad Henry of Oklahoma, Phil Bredesen of Tennessee, Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Janet Napolitano of Arizona." NAACP Firmly Behind "Stand Your Ground" Case Against Jacksonville Woman The NAACP's Jacksonville chapter has thrown its support behind a woman who will be sentenced Monday in a shooting where she claimed self-defense against an abusive husband under Florida's Stand Your Ground law. Dershowitz Blasts Zimmerman Prosecution: 'Not Only Immoral, But Stupid' Alan Dershowitz said, "An affidavit that willfully misstates undisputed evidence known to the prosecution is not only unethical but borders on perjury because an affiant swears to tell not only the truth, but the whole truth, and suppressing an important part of the whole truth is a lie." |
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| Retreat:
Florida Democrat at the center of Trayvon Martin media circus was for
Stand Your Ground law before she was against it Rep. Frederica Wilson (D, Fla.) voted for the self-defense law when she was a state senator in 2005, five years before she was elected to represent Miami – and Martin’s family – in Congress. Wilson has made several appearances on MSNBC and other news shows denouncing the shooting; however, she has tiptoed around the statute in question. |
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| Gun Laws Are Only For Law-Abiding
Citizens Alicia Colon The liberal media are quick to highlight such events like Friday's 'Cracker Barrel' murders of three near Cleveland but they will rarely report how a registered gun in the hands of a well-trained citizen prevented the loss of life. We can't depend on the New York Times, L.A.Times or the Washington Post to report these incidents but they are readily available on the Internet. |
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| Negroes With Guns Ann Coulter After the Civil War, Democratic legislatures enacted "Black Codes," denying black Americans the rights of citizenship – such as the rather crucial one of bearing arms – while other Democrats (sometimes the same Democrats) founded the Ku Klux Klan. For more than a hundred years, Republicans have aggressively supported arming blacks, so they could defend themselves against Democrats. |
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| John Corzine Ignored While Whale
Whistler Draws DOJ Wrath... You can't make this stuff up! Bill Frezza Marine biologist and whale watching ship captain Nancy Black faces 20 years in prison, not for "harassing" whales (which believe it or not is a crime), but because she has been charged with lying to Justice Department prosecutors investing allegations that some of her crew members whistled at a whale to keep it hanging around their boats. |
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| MF! Jon Corzine, Amid Scandal, is
Among Obama's Top Bundlers Jon Corzine – under federal and congressional investigation following accusations that the securities firm he headed illegally took clients' funds before collapsing – is among President Obama's top re-election campaign bundlers, raising at least $500,000, according to the campaign's filing Friday with the Federal Election Commission. |
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| Obama's Problem? His Record Jonah Goldberg [Here's] the problem for Obama. He's sticking to his rhetorical guns on the assumption that he's the great orator his fans have always claimed. It's admirably Gipperesque, I suppose, but the problem is that Obama has never once significantly moved public opinion on domestic issues with his arguments. |
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| Obama Intends to 'Nick' the Brits
and Instead Gaffes Over The Falklands Jim Picht The Maldives are a group of Islands off the coast of India, half a world away from the Falklands. The story for people who enjoy presidential gaffes is that Obama got the wrong islands in the wrong ocean, but because Obama is so clearly brilliant, we'll just file this away as an anomaly, along with the extra states. |
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| Wasserman-Schultz Has Tax Tables
Turned on Her by Opponent Democratic National Committee chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz has been called on to release her personal income tax returns. The request was made by her congressional opponent, Republican Karen Harrington of Florida. |
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| Democrat Party Leader Resigns Over
Sexual Harassment Charges; Activists Also Call for Chairman to Resign The executive director of the N.C. Democratic Party resigned Sunday as calls for his ouster mounted amid questions regarding a secret agreement to pay a former staffer to keep quiet about sexual harassment allegations. |
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| Fed Employees Owe Over $1 Billion
in Back Taxes U.S. Sen. Scott Brown is pushing a new bill that he said would make it easier to collect back taxes from federal workers and members of Congress. The Massachusetts Republican said that a recent report by the Internal Revenue Service showed that in 2010, 98,000 federal employees owed a combined $1 billion in back taxes. |
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| More DC Workers Caught Collecting
Unemployment While Working Lisa Mallory, director of Department of Employment Services, said that since February's suspensions, the agency had discovered improper payments to other current employees. "We found another batch of 100," she said. Officials have not estimated how much those 100 employees might have collected in improper benefits. |
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| Bob Beckel Drops F-Bomb on Live TV; In Typical Lib Fashion Blames the Show's Host for His Error In a blooper that is as hilarious as it increasingly becomes painful, it slowly dawns on Beckel what actually happened, as Hannity insists he apologize and Beckel, after saying he won’t several times, finally realizes the cameras are actually rolling. When he finally figured it out, he told Hannity to “run your show better,” then covered his head in shame and refused to speak, other than to say “I’m going to be fired.” |
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| Nancy Pelosi: We need to revise
that whole 'free speech' part of the Constitution Terence P. Jeffrey House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday endorsed a movement announced by other congressional Democrats on Wednesday to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would allow Congress to regulate political speech when it is engaged in by corporations as opposed to individuals. |
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| Bring Back the '50s? Marvelous! Don Surber Politico reported that Democrats want to portray Mitt Romney as Don Draper, a character on "Mad Men," a TV show about an advertising firm in the 1960s. Unlike "Bewitched," this is a drama that wins tons of awards. Unlike "Bewitched," not many people watch it, as it averages fewer than 1.5 million viewers a week. |
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| Investigate Nugent but Not
Farrakhan? Investor's Business Daily Team Obama is eager to distract the American people from the economic stagnation, job loss and sheer incompetence of this administration. Let's talk about Nugent, not Solyndra, the Chevy Volt, the soon-to-be $16 trillion debt ($5 trillion of which is Obama's), Fast and Furious or even Hilary Rosen. |
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| Zoning the Ocean "This is pure administrative fiat" Audrey Hudson President Barack Obama has an ambitious plan for Washington bureaucrats to take command of the oceans-and with it control over much of the nation's energy, fisheries, even recreation in a move described by lawmakers as the ultimate power grab to zone the seas. |
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| Media Malpractice Mark Hemingway Once upon a time, [Al] Sharpton was covered by the media only as a colorful race hustler who stirred up trouble. Now Sharpton is the media, host of the MSNBC show Politics Nation. Despite scant evidence that race was a factor in Martin’s death, Sharpton came to Florida to tape on location, thundering that Martin was a victim of racial injustice. |
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| Obama as Farce William L. Gensert Karl Marx said history repeats itself, "first as tragedy, then as farce." Barack Obama has reversed that. His first term was certainly farce; his second will be tragedy. Obama has Forrest Gumped his way through his presidency, except without the success, charm, and endearing sweetness of the original. |
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 The Real Reason for the Tragedy of
the TitanicChris Berg Regulated entities tend to comply with the specifics of the regulations, not with the goal of the regulations themselves. All too often, once government takes over, what was private risk management becomes regulatory compliance... At the accident's core is this reality: British regulators assumed responsibility for lifeboat numbers and then botched that responsibility. |
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| Medicare Trustee: Obamacare will
Explode Deficit by $340Billion President Obama's landmark health-care initiative, long touted as a means to control costs, will actually add more than $340 billion to the nation's budget woes over the next decade, according to a new study by a Republican member of the board that oversees Medicare financing. |
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| "Voter
Fraud?" "That's a problem that doesn't exist" –Eric Holder Voter Fraud Potential Exposed as Young, White Man Passes for AG Eric Holder at Polling Place The video shows a young man entering a Washington, DC polling place at 3401 Nebraska Avenue, NW, on primary day of this year – April 3, 2012 – and giving Holder's name and address. The poll worker promptly offers the young man Holder's ballot to vote. Holder has maintained that voter fraud is not a major problem in the United States, and that voter ID would not curb voter fraud in any case. |
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| Records
Show Obama White House = Hostile Workplace for Women Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show. According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000). |
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| Failed GSA Administrator Skipped
'Vegas Vacation' to meet with Solyndra Martha Johnson, a top-ranking General Services Administration official who resigned after taxpayers discovered they had paid for an $800,000 GSA conference in Las Vegas, wasn’t even at the conference in question. Instead, she was meeting with disgraced green energy company Solyndra. |
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| Obama Hammered for 'Jetting
Around,' 'Out of Touch' While Regular Folks Suffer President Obama, during an interview with St. Louis's KMOV, was hammered for "jetting around, [taking] different vacations and so forth, sometimes ... under the color of state business." The interviewer, Larry Conners, suggested even that folks "get frustrated, even angered" seeing the president take these trips. [Local reporter obviously didn't get the MSM "hands off" memo.] |
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| Obama
Campaign Headquarters, DNC Lack Diversity; A Potential Embarrassment to both Him and His Party The apparent lack of racial diversity at the Obama campaign headquarters comes at a time when the national black unemployment rate is nearly double the rate for whites. The DNC has come under fire from African-American groups in recent years alleging that the party organization has failed to award contracts to black-owned business despite repeated pledges to advance the interests such firms. |
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| Cornell Study: Obama's Inequality
Argument Just Utterly Collapsed James Pethokoukis The tax and regulatory polices of the past three decades did not lead to stagnation for the middle class at the hands of the rapacious rich. Claims to the contrary – such as those made by Obama, the Occupy movement, and many liberal economists – never really passed the sniff test of anyone who lived through the past few decades. And now we know why. |
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| How (and Why) Obama has Impeded
Recovery Alan Caruba During and after his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama was hailed as the second coming of Franklin D. Roosevelt. History records that Roosevelt presided over the Great Depression, begun in the previous administration of Herbert Hoover who got most of the blame. Roosevelt's policies extended it well beyond the normal recovery from recession. |
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| German Salafists [Muslims] Plan
Mass Proselytization Campaign Salafism is a branch of radical Islam, practiced in Saudi Arabia, that seeks to establish an Islamic empire (Caliphate) across the Middle East, North Africa and Europe – and eventually the entire world. The Caliphate would be governed exclusively by Islamic Sharia law, which would apply both to Muslims and to non-Muslims. |
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| Second Largest Teacher Union Hires
Socialist/911 Truther Sara Noble Remind me why we support public education again? At least the Totalitarians are out in the open. The Socialists, Communists, Democratic-Socialists (euphemism for Socialists and Communists) are hiding in plain sight and they are in charge of our children. They are making public education their base of operations for obvious reasons. |
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| Unions Balk at Foreigners Getting
U.S. 'Stimulus' Jobs Michigan once had the worst unemployment rate in the U.S. So when stimulus tax dollars poured into the state's electric car industry, residents had reason to celebrate. But what happened next has angered some of President Obama's most ardent supporters. |
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| Obama Pledges Immigration Reform to
Univision Viewers Obama vowed in an interview with Univision to pursue comprehensive immigration reform and attacked Romney and GOP lawmakers, saying they would oppose his efforts. President Obama promised to pursue immigration reform in his second term, but said Republicans in Congress may keep him from succeeding. |
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| So Much for Transparency – WH: Visitor Logs Can't Be Used To Verify Visitors Joel Gehrke If the White House visitor logs can't be used for "verifying" the identity of White House visitors, are the logs "still providing the American people with an unprecedented amount of information about their government" as promised? |
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| Paul Ryan, Up Close John Hinderaker His knowledge of the facts and data as they relate to budget policy is encyclopedic. But Ryan is not merely a wonk; he is also skillful at discussing budget issues in a way that is both understandable and compelling. We have all seen him do this on video and television; I would say that in person, he is even more impressive. |
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| Why Obama Hates Paul Ryan A left-wing extremist can't compete intellectually with a voice of reason. Peter Ferrara The president is angry because he has been completely shown up by Paul Ryan, who stepped up in his budget and provided the leadership that Obama promised America in 2008, and America so badly needs, but that Obama has not only failed to deliver, but refused to deliver. |
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| America Elected an Ignoramus Alan Caruba Whole books can and will be written about Obama’s ignorance and failures of judgment that Americans will have to live with for a very long time, especially as future generations try to dig out from his tripling of the national debt, the highest unemployment rates since the Great Depression, and a housing market that has yet to have rebounded. |
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| What Happened To Our Cheap Oil? Alicia Colon Journalists know that the U.S. has more oil than the entire Middle East, but we're not allowed to drill for it because of environmental activism. They've ignored the news reports for the latest oil discoveries. But do they ask who's funding these radical eco groups or are they too afraid to find out that it may be those who supply our current oil needs and don't want us to be independent? While We Dither On Oil, It's Drill, Beijing, Drill Investor's Business Daily A Chinese oil company is now the world's top producer. While we sleep and watch pump prices rise, China, India and even Cuba seek supplies the world over, including drilling off the Florida coast...The U.S., however, stands alone as the only major country not actively seeking new supplies. “Greenbacks” Energy Boondoggles versus Real Energy Paul Driessen [Americans] increasingly understand that new taxes and restrictions on oil companies are not in their best interest. In fact, a recent Harris Interactive poll found that over 80% of US voters support increased domestic oil and gas production to create and preserve jobs, lower pump prices and increase government revenues. |
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| Obama's Social Agenda (His and Hers) Now a Pre-requisite for a Federal Contract Alex Pappas Want to win a contract to operate concessions on federal property? Be ready to explain how your business promotes Obama administration desires like "climate friendly strategies" and the first lady's "Let's Move!" anti-childhood obesity effort. |
More 'Chicago-way' politics |
| House Demands IRS Documents on Alleged Harassment of Tea Party Groups Darrell Issa, Chair of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Jim Jordan, Chair of the Subcommittee on Regulatory Affairs, Stimulus Oversight and Government Spending, have sent this letter to the IRS demanding an explanation by April 16, 2012 of alleged harassment of Tea Party Groups applying for tax-exempt status under § 501(c)(4): |
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| Birmingham News
Drops the Ball on Black-on-white Crime Selwyn Duke Yesterday I reported on the stabbing of white truck driver Nick Stokes by members of a black motorcycle gang called the Outcasts of Alabama. It's not merely a scary story but also an unusual one, mostly because of the behavior of law enforcement. The Adamsville, AL police department not only failed to question or detain any of the gangsters, but, outrageously, also told Stokes that they "don't mess" with the Outcasts. |
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| Oblivious to the Obvious The Document Can't Even Pass the 'Pitch Test' Nick Chase Is Barack Obama's long-form birth certificate a forgery? Definitely yes. But the problem with most of [the examination] is that it's "geeky," requiring at least some computer knowledge to understand that the technical arguments for the "birth certificate" being fake are valid. After studying it for a while, I realized that the forgery fails the "pitch test." |
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| FBI: American Universities Infected
by Foreign Spies Hearkening back to Cold War anxieties, growing signs of spying on U.S. universities are alarming national security officials. As schools become more global in their locations and student populations, their culture of openness and international collaboration makes them increasingly vulnerable to theft of research conducted for the government and industry. |
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