“Slightly smaller than Oregon”: a White House briefing on Britain

So here's what the White House is telling American reporters - and by extension the American people - about Britain. It's laid out in an inch-thick "press kit", with the Seal of the President of the United States emblazoned on the cover, handed out to each of us on board the White House press charter en route from Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington to Stansted.

Privacy? Good Idea!

"I'm not very interested in Ashley Biden's cocaine use (assuming the woman in the video is in fact Ms. Biden). But then, I wasn't very interested in the Bush twins' underage drinking or the drug-related arrest of Sarah Palin's daughter's boyfriend's mother, either. Yet both were major news stories. Does anyone seriously believe that if there had been a video of Barbara or Jenna Bush snorting cocaine during their father's administration, the press would have refused to write about it", ...... as they have in the Biden case?

Miss Universe Displays Better Judgment than President Obama

Ms. Mendoza's relations with Hugo Chavez were apparently somewhat frosty, and he did not congratulate her on her victory. Now Miss Mendoza, who is enjoying her year as Miss Universe, has surfaced once again--at Guantanamo Bay! She and the 2008 Miss USA, Crystle Stewart, were invited to tour the base and meet with troops there. Miss Mendoza wrote about the experience on her blog at the Miss Universe web site:

A New Era of Govt-Controlled Business?

Most of the big bankers who met with President Obama in the White House last Friday want to pay back their TARP money, not take more of it. But the Treasury is conducting stress tests that could stop the TARP pay-downs and force the banks to take more taxpayer funds in return for even more federal control.

The big bankers say they are profitable. And with an upward-sloping Treasury yield curve and some market-to-market accounting reform coming from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), the outlook for banks should be getting better, not worse. So why is the Treasury jamming more TARP money down bankers' throats, especially after announcing a new plan to use private capital to clean up bank balance sheets and solve the toxic-asset problem?

It kinda sounds like the Treasury doesn't want to let go of its new uber-regulator status.

Obama's quota king

The Obama administration continues to populate top positions at the Justice Department with left-wing lawyers. In the latest instance, it has nominated Tom Perez to head the Civil Rights Division.

Perez was selected after President Obama's original choice, Thomas Saenz, ran into fierce opposition due to his efforts on behalf of illegal aliens. However, as Linda Chavez shows, Perez is also a radical choice, given his advocacy for racial preferences in medical school admissions.

AMERICANS WITH NO ABILITIES ACT (AWNAA)

WASHINGTON, DC (AP) - Congress is considering sweeping legislation, which provides new benefits for many Americans. The Americans With No Abilities Act (AWNAA) is being hailed as a major legislation by advocates of the millions of Americans who lack any real skills or ambition.

Proposal aimed at saving jobs could have opposite effect- Cost Americans $210 Billion

It's hard to imagine in today's economy - at a time when investment and job opportunities in America are needed more than ever - that our own government is considering institutionalizing a 15 percent to 20 percent cost and cash flow penalty for U.S. multinational companies versus our foreign competitors.

Over 10 years, this Obama budget proposal would cost U.S. multinational companies as much as $210 billion. This is $210 billion our foreign competitors would not have to pay, and it's $210 billion less to be invested by American companies in research and development, infrastructure and jobs.

No Joke !!! Government to manage (??) Auto WARRANTIES

The President will announce a new government-backed warranty program for all new GM and Chrysler vehicles purchased during this restructuring period. He said the following ....... and with a straight face !!!!!!!

"if you buy a car from Chrysler or General Motors, you will be able to get your car serviced and repaired, just like always. Your warranty will be safe. In fact, it will be safer than it’s ever been. Because starting today, the United States government will stand behind your warranty."

Can you imagine the paperwork required to get a defect repaired?

500+ people in Obama's overseas entourage !

With a staff of over 500 people, a fleet of armored helicopters, at least two 747's fitted out as "Air Force One", planes full of his armored car, Marine One helicopters and staff including six medical personnel, 200+ Secret service agents, White House butlers, kitchen staff, and eight person staff of Michelle Obama....... Obama heads overseas!!!

The Obama We Knew But (some of you) Denied

The man who is now president, Barack Obama, is precisely the man whose spiritual mentor for 2 decades, Jeremiah Wright, denounced "white folks greed" running "a world in need." Barack Obama is precisely the man whose political mentor, Saul Alinsky, advised the use of any and all means necessary to take power in America, and to clothe his deceit in "moral garments." Barack Obama is precisely the man whose most influential and moneyed backer was George Soros, the Fabian socialist whose financial schemes have garnered great wealth for him while leaving whole economies in shambles, the way ours is now.

Anyone still harboring the illusion that President Barack Obama cares one whit about the millions of Americans whose retirement funds and futures dwindle with each passing day of this "regime change" needs a reality check.

Economics !

A professor at Texas Tech said he had never failed a single student before but had, once, failed an entire class. That class had insisted that socialism worked and that no one would be poor and no one would be rich, a great equalizer. The professor then said ok, we will have an experiment in this class on socialism.

All grades would be averaged and everyone would receive the same grade so no one would fail and no one would receive an A. After the first test the grades were averaged and everyone got a B. The students who studied hard were upset and the students who studied little were happy.

But, as the second test rolled around, the students who studied little had studied even less and the ones who studied hard decided they wanted a free ride too; so they studied little. The second test average was a D! No one was happy. When the 3rd test rolled around the average was an F.

The scores never increased as bickering, blame, name calling all resulted in hard feelings and no one would study for the benefit of anyone else. All failed, to their great surprise, and the professor told them that socialism would also ultimately fail because when the reward is great, the effort to succeed is great; but when government takes all the reward away; no one will try or want to succeed.

Could not be any simpler than that....

Did Canadacare kill Natasha Richardson?

Dr. Cory Franklin had a provocative piece in the New York Post yesterday exploring whether Canada’s government-run health care system contributed to the tragic skiing death of Natasha Richardson.

Are the blinders beginning to fall off?

The left leaning Economist magazine may be having second thoughts of its endorsement of the messiah:

After highlighting some of the problems Obama is having and declaring him "curiously feeble," the magazine tries to analyze what's wrong.

Government's grasp going global

Writing in the Chicago Tribune last week, President Barack Obama fell back on one of his favorite rhetorical tics: "But I also know," he wrote, "that we need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy. That is a false choice that will not serve our people or any people."

Really? For the moment, it's a "false choice" mainly in the sense that he's not offering it: "a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism" is not on the menu, which leaves "an oppressive government-run economy" as pretty much the only game in town

Is Obama a Prince Among Men?

When seeking office, the aspirant must pretend to be what he is not. After seizing power, he should impose his agenda quickly and ruthlessly before his subjects realize what he is doing and have time to react.

Sound familiar? It might, but this approach was designed 500 years before the Barack Obama campaign in 2008.

How Non-Political Can You Get?

Democrats complained endlessly about the supposed “politicization” of the Bush Justice Department. When asked about this at his confirmation hearing, Eric Holder piously pledged that his Justice Department would “serve justice” and “not the fleeting interests of any political party.” America, he intoned, was “in dire need of a less political and more independent Justice Department.”

The Cable News Race

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Gov't proposes rescue of Newspapers - prohibits political endorsements

With many U.S. newspapers struggling to survive, a Democratic senator on Tuesday introduced a bill to help them by allowing newspaper companies to restructure as nonprofits with a variety of tax breaks.

LOGO FOR 2012 ELECTION

Introducing my new logo for the next Presidential campaign...............

On Campus: The Pro-Palestinians' Real Agenda

"During a recent visit to several university campuses in the U.S., I discovered that there is more sympathy for Hamas there than there is in Ramallah.

Listening to some students and professors on these campuses, for a moment I thought I was sitting opposite a Hamas spokesman or a would-be-suicide bomber.

I was told, for instance, that Israel has no right to exist, that Israel’s “apartheid system” is worse than the one that existed in South Africa and that Operation Cast Lead was launched only because Hamas was beginning to show signs that it was interested in making peace and not because of the rockets that the Islamic movement was launching at Israeli communities." - Journalist

Barack (Mis)Speaks

Obama said, in his introductory statement:

At the end of the day, the best way to bring our deficit down in the long run is not with a budget that continues the very same policies that have led us to a narrow prosperity and massive debt. It's with a budget that leads to broad economic growth by moving from an era of borrow and spend to one where we save and invest.

This is entirely disingenuous. Obama's budget plan multiplies the federal deficit far beyond what it has ever been, in any prior administration.

Suggesting eligibility proof gets congressman scorned

A new member of Congress arrived in Washington to a flood of questions from his constituency about Barack Obama's eligibility to be president: Was he really born in the United States, and was he qualified under the Constitution's requirement that the office be occupied only by a "natural born" citizen?

Free Market Energy Experts Doubt Effectiveness of Obama's Green Jobs Policies

While President Barack Obama touted a greener future for America on Monday, free-market economists expressed skepticism about the prospects of green jobs and how effective government spending will be for long-term energy policy.

Local Catholic Bishop Will Boycott Obama’s Appearance at Notre Dame's Graduation

Bishop John M. D’Arcy, who presides over the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fort Wayne-South Bend that includes the University of Notre Dame, says he will not attend the university’s May 17 graduation because the commencement speaker will be President Obama whom the university intends to award an honorary doctorate in law.

House bonus bill is buried by the Senate

As I expected, all the huffing and puffing by those hypocrites in the House of Representatives over the AIG executive's bonuses was just exactly that. The whole kurfuffle was designed to incite class warfare, to get the American public all up in arms over the "outrageous" pay that certain very rich people get. It never was meant REALLY to recover a paltry $170 million out of the MILLIONS of MILLIONS that Obama & Co. are spending on bailouts. The Congressman were not REALLY interested in that..... they simply wanted to light the fuse.

NOW.... the U.S. Senate has appropriately sidelined the bill. It will never see daylight again. MEANWHILE, with America's angst in high gear, Obama & Co. are about to push through a bill designed to give Geithner (and Obama) vast new powers to take over companies EVEN THOSE WHO RECEIVE NO BAILOUTS !!!!!

This is truly police state tactics!!!!

UNDERGROUND: MY LIFE WITH SDS AND THE WEATHERMEN

Bill Ayers' comrade in the Weather Underground ........ Mark Rudd, is described in this book:

Older New Yorkers will remember Mark Rudd as the enfant terrible of the 1968 Columbia University strike, when radical members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) occupied administration buildings and President Grayson Kirk's office. Their stated rationale: To protest the university's plans to build a new gym in Harlem, thereby expropriating land and homes belonging to poor African-Americans and to end any research connected to the war effort. But their real goal, Rudd writes, was "not just ending the war [in Vietnam] but ending the capitalist system that had caused the war."

A Chilling Harbinger: Confiscation as Taxation

If Congress is willing to break the law to confiscate these (AIG) executives' bonuses, what will stop it from extending legislation to those who receive no government bailout money?

Roll call vote breakdown: The 85 House Republicans who supported Rangel’s 90 percent bonus tax

You can find the full roll call vote on HR 1586, tax cheat Charlie Rangel’s ass-covering, after-the-fact AIG bonus tax here. I have broken out the 85 Republicans (led by GOP Minority Whip Eric Cantor) who voted with Rangel and the Democrat demagogues.

Dispelling the Global Warming Myth

Earlier this month, the Heartland Institute sponsored the 2009 International Conference on Climate Change in New York. The Conference differed from most such events in that it was devoted to science, not politics or propaganda. Heartland has now made the materials presented at the conference available online, here. You can review the agenda, watch videos of the keynote presentations, read transcripts of some of the speeches, and see the Power Points that were presented by the speakers. These are very informative.

Fed's secrecy policy 2 years old tomorrow

"As America's economy continues in freefall, tomorrow marks an auspicious two-year anniversary – the day the Federal Reserve announced, with little fanfare, its decision to stop reporting to the public the M3 money supply, the broadest measure of three standards of measurement."

".... it took from 1776 to 1983 to grow the M3 money supply by $2.5 trillion. But the supply increased by $2.5 trillion in the next 14 years. And then from 1997 to 2001 – only four years – it increased by that amount again. "

And last week they increased it by another $1.2 Trillion !!!!!

Who's 'Hitler' now?

"President Obama's crack about his bowling acumen being worthy of the Special Olympics has raised a few hackles. Normally I'd say "lighten up," but this time some examination is in order. The first truly horrific thing Hitler did -- long before the German invasion of Poland -- was to issue orders to "clean up" and purify his society. The handicapped and the helpless were among the first targets, and it all started with a little, perhaps even seemingly innocuous, statement -- except it was in the form of writings in Mein Kampf instead of regrettable wise-cracks on The Tonight Show." - Doug Powers [The American Thinker]

Why I am depressed

"I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can't keep up and I can't stand to pay attention." - Scott Johnson

Banker fury over tax ‘witch-hunt’

Senior executives on both sides of the Atlantic on Friday warned of an exodus of talent from some of the biggest names in US finance, saying the “anti-American” measures smacked of “a McCarthy witch-hunt” that would send the country “back to the stone age”.

Is this the end of America?

The AIG bonus firestorm is a diversion from real issues , but it puts the ghastly political classes who make U.S. law on display for what they are: ageing self-serving demagogues who have spent decades warping the U.S. political system for their own ends. We see the system up close, law-making that is riddled with slapdash, incompetence and gamesmanship.

Administration Seeks Increase in Oversight of Executive Pay

Here it comes ..... government takeover of ALL businesses .... piece by piece.... slowly but surely !!!!

The Obama administration will call for increased oversight of executive pay at all banks, Wall Street firms and possibly other companies as part of a sweeping plan to overhaul financial regulation, government officials said.

Are We A Banana Republic?

If Congress can appease a howling mob of demagogues by enacting discriminatory tax legislation against a group of people who are, for the moment, politically unpopular, even though the vast majority of them have nothing to do with the supposed problems that have given rise to popular outcry--imagine, say, Congress enacting a surtax on the incomes of all homosexuals in response to a notorious case of homosexual molestation--then the idea that the Constitution affords us any sort of protection against arbitrary government power is an illusion.

No laughing matter

In turbulent times, it's good to know some things never change.

Comandante Obama

A cult of personality, nationalization and censorship.

"We still have the Constitution," the American told himself after the conversation had ended. "A Fidel? A Peron? In this country? Ridiculous." Yet he found that one image kept coming to mind: that of the 2 million people who had thronged the Mall on Inauguration Day, gazed upon a charismatic leader and chanted "O-ba-ma! O-ba-ma!"

A Hidden Agenda Behind the 90 Percent Tax?

This could be the ultimate class-warfare spread-the-wealth redistribution scheme, aimed squarely at punishing success and penalizing the so-called rich. Are YOU going to be the next hit with a Congressional penalty of some sort? What happened to the rule of law? prosecution - trial by peers - before a judge?

Pres. Obama Pulls Rug Out From Under Ex-Convict Pleading for a Job

Today's news reports on Pres. Obama's visit to California include a touching interaction with an ex-convict who has lost his job. But his comments about making sure that illegal aliens keep THEIR jobs illustrates the common occurrence of really smart people at the top of our government who just don't get it. They don't understand that there are a limited number of U.S. jobs and that when you fill those jobs with foreign workers (including illegal ones) American workers lose out.

Obama apologizes for remark

BHO, trying to play cutesy to the American public, in his appearance on Jay Leno's show saying that a recent 129 he scored in the White House bowling alley had been "like Special Olympics, or something."

I am one who believes that what escapes through one's mouth in unguarded moments reveals the true character..... apologies are but a social courtesy which do nothing to erase the original offense.

There is nothing wrong with AIG "bonuses"

The lesson from AIG is that the entire premise of the Obama administration -- we know better -- is fundamentally flawed. The Obama team can't effectively manage a single troubled company without getting itself and the whole country tied up in knots. The notion that we should invest the federal government with authority to control vast swatches of the economy can now be seen for what it is: madness. We should consider ourselves lucky that the public is getting a glimpse of its government in action on a (relatively speaking) low-dollar item of limited consequences.

$1 TRILLION CREATED OUT OF THIN AIR

The Fed pumps TWICE AS MANY $$ into our system as in ALL OF LAST YEAR !

WATCH OUT ...... the inflation bubble will really grow!

Palin Says No Thanks

Palin said it's not a gift when Congress offers dollars with strings attached that would increase government and require the state to follow mandates from Washington, D.C.

"To me it's a bribe," Palin said.

They Couldn't Be That Dumb. Could They?

Can you imagine the Democrats' reaction if the Bush White House had given a European head of state a set of DVDs that can only be played on North American machines? It would have been conclusive proof of Bush's provincialism, lack of sensitivity to our allies' sensibilities, ignorance of the wider world, techno incompetence, failure to appreciate the superiority of European civilization, blah blah blah. That's how it would have been reported and editorialized on in every newspaper.

THIS SUMS IT UP !

On the job front, this is no Great Depression. Not even close

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Hybrid car sales go from 60 to 0 at breakneck speed

Americans have cut back on buying vehicles of all types as the economy continues its slide. But the slowdown has been particularly brutal for hybrids, which use electricity and gasoline as power sources. They were the industry's darling just last summer, but sales have collapsed as consumers refuse to pay a premium for a fuel-efficient vehicle now that the average price of a gallon of gasoline nationally has slipped below $2.

Dodd Allowed AIG To Thrive in His State, Approved Bonuses: Now Throws Them Under The Bus

Dodd wrote the BONUS EXEMPTION into the stimulus bill !!!!!!

Now he doesn’t have the stones to tell the President: “We screwed up, Mister President. Better we own up to the American people.”

And neither does Tim Geithner. Geithner knew about AIG’s bonuses, he allowed them, and he allowed the president to grandstand yeterday in a self-righteous speech about “outrage.”

Let the record show. This entire boondoggle was made possible by Liberal interventionist policy that believes the government has a duty to give your money to everyone else.

Obama Wants You To Trust Markets and Government; But He Offers to Ignore AIG Contracts

“This is how it starts. This is how the state sweeps away everything involved in legal free enterprise.” - former Communist country resident

AIG bonuses are not the problem. Democrats' policies are the problem

"This is not just a matter of dollars and cents," Obama railed, "it’s about our fundamental values." Translation: As a matter of economic substance, this pittance doesn't really matter, but why not grab yet another opportunity to bash greedy Wall Street, in the hopes that people might not start reflecting on the roles Messrs. Frank and Dodd played in the economic collapse and on the role of the Obama administration in prolonging it.

The American Legion Strongly Opposed to President's Plan to Charge Wounded Heroes for Treatment

The leader of the nation's largest veterans organization says he is "deeply disappointed and concerned" after a meeting with President Obama today to discuss a proposal to force private insurance companies to pay for the treatment of military veterans who have suffered service-connected disabilities and injuries. The Obama administration recently revealed a plan to require private insurance carriers to reimburse the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) in such cases.

Who is Barney Frank?

All those who care about the future of this country should be greatly concerned that Barney Frank, a leftist radical who publicly flaunts his homosexuality, is presently one of the most powerful politicians in America. His recent actions and statements make it amply clear that he will seek to use his present influence to implement as much of his extreme agenda as he possibly can. Given his party's hold on the White House and Congress his efforts may meet with much success.

Let's Hear It For Bankruptcy!

The reasons why bankruptcy is favored over bailouts......

Thousands Rally Downtown Cincinnati Against Government Spending

Thousands of Tri-State residents gathered Sunday on Fountain Square in downtown Cincinnati to voice their opposition to government spending bills recently signed by President Barack Obama.

Obama’s (Highly Creepy) ‘Pledge Project’

Anyone who is a student of totalitarian regimes, especially Nazi Germany, should recognize this tactic. Mr. Obama has organized his own cadre of Brown Shirts (or, if you prefer, Red Shirts) to agitate for his agenda.

Obama's futile search for 'moderate radicals'

The words we use are important, and each has its own specific meaning. So when the Obama Administration said that it was open to dealing with "moderate (?) Taliban," people should ask what in the world it means. The Taliban is by definition a radical organization that is not about to give on its maximalist demand of imposing Sharia law wherever it attains power. It is in its very essence contrary to everything we believe in as Americans.

Barack and Beijing

How ironic: we American conservatives may well be in the position of hoping the "Communist" Chinese can impose fiscal discipline on our shamefully incompetent government.

Rush? Rush Who?

Perhaps embarrassed by their absurd billboard contest, the Democrats have decided to stop talking about Rush Limbaugh.

Is the stimulus bill unconstitutional?

Last month, Congress enacted the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, popularly called "the stimulus plan." It gives billions of dollars to the states, but the gift has strings attached. One of its unique provisions changes state constitutions! That provision is unconstitutional, and its defect raises problems about the whole enterprise.

Erasing an important distinction

The Obama administration's renunciation of the term "enemy combatants" fills the news today. The concept of enemy or unlawful combatants of course derives from the Geneva Conventions. It is key to the distinction drawn by the conventions between those adhering to the laws of war and those who disdain them. The conventions distinguish between prisoners-of-war entitled to their highest protection and combatants not so protected.

Lobbyist ban limits Obama's options

Having campaigned on a promise that lobbyists won’t run his White House, President Barack Obama is discovering that what may make for a good sound bite on the campaign trail can complicate governing.

Funny With Money: NPR Cancels Newspaper Subscriptions, While Anchors Make Six Figures

Top 5 salary earners at taxpayer funded NPR ........
1. Managing Editor Barbara Rehm, $383,139.
2. All Things Considered host Robert Siegel [pictured], $350,288.
3. Morning Edition host Renee Montagne, $332,160.
4. Morning Edition host Steve Inskeep, $331,242.
5. NPR afternoon programming director Richard L. Harris, $190,267.

NPR cancels newspaper subscriptions to save money!

"A forest of straw men"

This is not just intellectual laziness. It is the moral arrogance of a man who continuously dismisses his critics as ideological while he is guided exclusively by pragmatism

Obama's Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth

It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama's high levels of popularity, and to conclude that these are indicative of high levels of public confidence in the work of his administration. Indeed, a detailed look at recent survey data shows that the opposite is most likely true. The American people are coming to express increasingly significant doubts about his initiatives, and most likely support a different agenda and different policies from those that the Obama administration has advanced.

Chinese Rights Leader's Family Defects to U.S.

I guess they fled on foot over the border in order to live in our horrible country where people are oppressed and mistreated!

Obama decries earmarks, signs law with 9,000 of them

Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of "earmarks," urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them....

Bingo! Call It Communism

This article lists each item in the Communist Party USA's platform for the 2008 election. Of the 44 line items listed, 22 have ALREADY BEEN ENACTED BY OBAMA, 21 are in the works, 1 is not being done. Links and sources are provided in this article which backup the assertions.

THESE FACTS SHOULD BE SHOUTED FROM THE ROOFTOPS OF EVERY AMERICAN HOME !!!!!!

Good Ideas

Walter Williams describes why Congress DOES NOT have unlimited power!!!!

Waters Helped Bank Whose Stock She Once Owned

And yet ANOTHER ethically challenged DEMOCRAT U.S. Representative is exposed !!!!!

A Turning Tide?

He's denounced as a socialist by conservatives, criticized as a polite accommodationist by government-is-the-answer liberals, and increasingly, dismissed as being in over his head by technocrats. - Newsweek

Obama, Geithner Get Low Grades From Economists

U.S. President Barack Obama and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner received failing grades for their efforts to revive the economy from participants in the latest Wall Street Journal forecasting survey.

FBI raids office of D.C. CTO, Obama appointee

Another hustler bites the dust .... brought to us by the "most ethical Administration ever !"

Obama Makes Use of Signing Statements

President George W. Bush was EXCORIATED for issuing "signing statements" along with bills he signed. These statements are a means by which the president can reject provisions of a bill he deems unconstitutional without vetoing the entire legislation.

Now B.O. is doing the same thing !!!! President B.O., after signing into law a $410 billion budget bill on Wednesday, declared five provisions in the bill to be unconstitutional and non-binding, including one that would effectively restrict U.S. troop deployments under U.N. command and another aimed at preventing punishment of whistleblowers.

CFLs may increase greenhouse emissions in cold climates

A recent report by BC Hydro estimates new lighting regulations will increase annual greenhouse gas emissions in British Columbia by 45,000 tonnes annually as consumers use more energy to heat their homes after switching to more energy efficient — but cooler — lighting.

Different presidents, a different Corps?

Compare these video shots of Pres. George W. Bush's reception by the Marines with that given to B.O. !

Rush Limbaugh and the Two Minute Hate

The truth is that conservatives generally don't have a single leader. They are united by their devotion to the rights of individual citizens, their adherence to traditional morality and the principles of republican government, and their opposition to socialistic meddling with individual freedom. But within that framework of belief, they tolerate and even encourage a diversity of views about specific issues and approaches.

The New American Class Structure

In the old Soviet Union, the ruling elite shopped at different stores, lived in different areas, and enjoyed a life apart, one very different from the lives of ordinary citizens. America is all too rapidly going down the same path. We are at a peculiar moment in history where the top American political leadership excoriates the perquisites of private wealth and power -- the luxury retreats, the private jets -- while shamelessly helping themselves to unprecedented levels of the same levels of consumption, or more.

Terrific: Tax-subsidized ACORN mob teams up with L.A. teachers

Your "Stimulus $$ AT WORK"

Isn't this a great country ..... the President orders taxpayer money to subsidize his favorite "community organizer's group" ACORN, who then picket and protest your school board from doing its job!

Clinton Announces Million-Dollar Scholarship Program for Palestinian Students

As you are struggling to save or pay for your AMERICAN child's college costs aren't you pleased to know how your money is being spent?

Freeman hits 'Israel lobby' on way out

President Barack Obama's controversial pick for a top intelligence post blasted the "Israel lobby" on his way out the door Tuesday....... This is the guy who would have been in charge of preparing the much maligned National Intelligence Estimates. Can you imagine having a person with questionable ties to those who wish us ill to have this responsibility? SOUNDS LIKE A SORE LOSER, TO ME !

Atlantic stimulus rift grows

Gordon Brown, UK prime minister, was struggling to organise the summit. Britain’s most senior civil servant claimed it was hard to find anyone to speak to at the US Treasury. “There is nobody there. You cannot believe how difficult it is,” he told a conference of civil servants.

OBAMA's difficulties finding appointees who can pass the scrutiny of a skeptical Congress are growing to the point where it is compounding the confusion of the already disorganized, inexperienced gaggle now "in charge".

Welcome to Thunderdome

The president's assault on capitalism is being waged with the organization and intensity of a counter-insurgency.

It is being waged in President Obama's recovery act that calls for an additional 600,000 government jobs, an unprecedented expansions of the State.

The assault is taking place in the media when stories focus on golden parachutes and the inner workings of private companies in which we would have never have had a stake in had President Obama - and President Bush before him - not forced us down the path of Socialism.

It is being waged when President Obama passes a Recovery and Reinvestment Act that is filled to the brim with the pork he promised to eliminate.

It is waged when, like a wolf in sheep's clothing, President Obama masquerades as a nuanced unifier devoid of petty ideological pretensions.

One thing that the Obama administration can count on is if capitalism is to be destroyed, it will take the present administration down with it.

What the government worker unions know

The purpose of a union is to interpose itself between the employer and the employee to the benefit of the employee. The existence of public sector unions tells us that the people most intimately familiar with government, those who experience it every moment of every work day, don't trust it!

A taxing situation

USA Today recently carried a story about conventions that have been canceled, at least in part, due to the public's negative reaction to seeing some people having a good time while they are not. Class warfare costs, but not the people at whom the rhetorical mortars are aimed.

CNN Correspondent Now the Communist Candidate in El Salvador

Mauricio Funes, a former CNN talking head is running for President of El Salvador on the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) ( the communist revolutionaries in El Salvador) ticket. The journalist-turned-politician “considers himself to be El Salvador's Barack Obama.”

‘Manchurian Candidate’ Starts War on Business

Back in the 1960s, Lyndon Johnson gave us the War on Poverty. In the 1970s, Richard Nixon launched the War on Drugs. Now that we have seen President Barack Obama’s first-year legislative agenda, we know what kind of a war he intends to wage

A voice of sanity

"Sitting here in this room in the last two hours and the coming from, first Europe, and, second, from a former communist country where I spent most of my life, I almost don't believe my eyes to see how much you believe in government and how much you don't believe in the market.

This is for me a shocking experience. And I have to say that very loudly. As a professor of economics, I have my theoretical arguments about the impossibility of running the economy from above." .... VÁCLAV KLAUS

Do-Over In Minnesota?

All things considered, a runoff election looks like the best choice. Given the disparate standards applied by Minnesota's counties and the extreme closeness of the race, it is too late to have a reliable tabulation of the votes.

When Barack Obama and Gordon Brown see 'opportunity', we really do have a crisis

"..... what this looks like to me is a power grab: a seizing of the moment by the forces which always believed in state domination. The Left sees an opening here, first for telling a critical lie about the historical origins of this crisis, which was propelled as much by the Left-liberal determination to spread prosperity through easy credit to the poor, as by the greed of bankers. And then, out of the wreckage, to restructure the economy along the lines that it always wanted, complete with central controls over the pay levels in private financial institutions.

We are being led to believe that public debate should be all about economic mechanics when it should really be about political principle: just how many freedoms do we want to lose while governments pretend that they are the solution?"

Wikipedia scrubs Obama eligibility

CENSORSHIP OF REPORTS CRITICAL OF "THE LEADER" BEGIN

Wikipedia, the online "free encyclopedia" mega-site written and edited entirely by its users, has been deleting within minutes any mention of eligibility issues surrounding Barack Obama's presidency, with administrators kicking off anyone who writes about the subject, WND has learned.

The Voice of America Silenced on Radical Islam

"I’ve been wondering how this change in vocabulary actually occurs: is it a spontaneous mood shift, a group decision, or a directive from on high?

The answer just arrived, in the shape of a leaked memo dated March 2 from Jennifer Janin, head of the Urdu service at the Voice of America. The directive can be found in its entirety at “Urdu Language Style & Guidelines #3.” Addressed to the Urdu radio, television, and web teams, as well as to the director and program manager of VOA’s South Asia Division, her diktat insists on no connection being drawn from Islam to politics. In gist:

Islamic terrorists: DO NOT USE. Instead use simply: terrorist.

Islamic Fundamentalism/Muslim Fundamentalists: AVOID.

Islamist: NOT NECESSARY.

Muslim Extremists: NOT NECESSARY. Extremist serves well.

Sweden’s Government Health Care

OK” you say, “Sweden is the world’s socialist wonder.” Sven R. Larson tells about some of Sweden’s problems in “Lesson from Sweden’s Universal Health System: Tales from the Health-care Crypt,” published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Spring 2008).

Mr. D., a Gothenburg multiple sclerosis patient, was prescribed a new drug. His doctor’s request was denied because the drug was 33 percent more expensive than the older medicine. Mr. D. offered to pay for the medicine himself but was prevented from doing so. The bureaucrats said it would set a bad precedent and lead to unequal access to medicine.

The Obama Double Tax Whammy

In essence, then, Obama plans to take money people otherwise would have given to the charities of their choice and give it to the charities of his choice.

The morning conference call and Democrat media manipulation

Sympathetic editorials and commentary soon follow these conference calls, putting a clear message into the public psyche. These messages are further reinforced by think tanks, non-profits, academics, and private sector allies in a web of influence and alliances that is as Machiavellian as a crime family and as ideologically fanatic as a cult. Regardless of truth or context millions are programmed with these messages, dreamed up by these influential leftist buddies in a morning teleconference.

White House nightlife under investigation

".... the reports of the partying at the White House, "with the likes of Steve Wonder and other high priced entertainment stars," will be the focus of document requests being submitted to the General Services Administration. The requests will seek to determine how much taxpayer money is being used.

It was right to criticize corporate execs for using taxpayer bailout money on bonuses and corporate junkets. In the face of this criticism, it is an outrage for Barack and Michelle Obama to party on, as Rome burns. It's like throwing a party at a funeral"

Is Talk Cheap?

"They say talk is cheap. But in fact it can be devastatingly expensive. Among the generation of Germans who were enthralled by Hitler's eloquence, millions paid with their lives and their children's lives for empowering this demagogue to lead them to ruin and infamy.

Words can shield the most blatant reality. Legislation to take away workers' rights to a secret ballot, when deciding whether or not they want to be represented by a labor union, is called the "Employees' Freedom of Choice Act." The merits or demerits of this legislation have seldom been debated. Who could be against "freedom of choice"?"

Sowell goes on to give other examples of Obama's "expensive talk".

How Buckley, Gergen and Brooks finally realized Barack Obama's left leanings.

The elite journalists got Obama wrong. The troglodytes (Limbaugh, Sowell, et al) got him right. As our national drama continues to unfold, bear that in mind.

All three elites used to insist that Obama was some species of centrist or moderate. Now that Obama has proposed the most massive expansion of government in the history of the republic, each has recognized that just conceivably he might have been mistaken.

American debt, bailouts, anxiety as old as Pilgrims

Let us bow our heads and remember: America was founded on crushing debt, failed bailouts and the worst kind of stimulus.

The Sleight of Hand Behind Obama's Agenda

Our economy is in such bad condition because we are paying for past sins in three principal areas: energy, health care and education -- importing too much oil and not finding new sources of energy, not reforming health care, and tolerating too many bad schools....... says BO.

Amazing. As an explanation of our current economic difficulties, this is total fantasy.

Clever politics, but intellectually dishonest to the core. Health, education and energy -- worthy and weighty as they may be -- are not the cause of our financial collapse. And they are not the cure. The fraudulent claim that they are both cause and cure is the rhetorical device by which an ambitious president intends to enact the most radical agenda of social transformation seen in our lifetime.

Will Catholic hospitals close under new federal abortion legislation?

The legislation has some Roman Catholic bishops threatening to shutter the country's 624 Catholic hospitals rather than comply

Priceless photo of the day: Homeless…with a cellphone

Homeless person in D.C. uses CELLPHONE to snap Obama pix. Do you wanna bet who pays the bills for that cellphone?

Clinton's Apology Tour

"Never waste a good crisis ... Don't waste it when it can have a very positive impact on climate change and energy security," ... Clinton said.

When Rahm Emanuel made his notorious "never let a crisis go to waste" comment, some assumed it was one of those occasions when a politician inadvertently told the truth, and that Emanuel would be taken to the woodshed by his boss. But no! The Obama administration proudly proclaims that it is exploiting the fear caused by the current economic crisis to advance its partisan agenda. Many others have made this point, but it is worth repeating: the Democrats accused the Bush administration, falsely, of doing exactly that after 9/11. And now they gleefully tell us that this is precisely their own strategy.

Obama's Radicalism Is Killing the Dow

Mr. Obama's $3.6 trillion budget blueprint, by his own admission, redefines the role of government in our economy and society. The budget more than doubles the national debt held by the public, adding more to the debt than all previous presidents -- from George Washington to George W. Bush -- combined

A lousy giver too

BO gave the British Prime Minister Brown "A box of 25 DVDS including ET, the Wizard of Oz and Star Wars? Oh, give me strength. We do have television and DVD stores on this side of the Atlantic. Even Gordon Brown will have seen those films too often already." "..... is he just that stupid or is he doing it on purpose, consider the fact that Gordon Brown is blind in one eye and has some visual deterioration in the other (how much is unclear). A calculated insult could not have been more on-target."

BO IS BEING INTENTIONALLY OFFENSIVE !!!!

Bail Out History

BAIL EM OUT! ???? Hell, back in 1990, the Government seized the Mustang Ranch brothel in Nevada for tax evasion and, as required by law, tried to run it. They failed and it closed. Now we are trusting the economy of our country and our banking system to the same nit-wits who couldn't make money running a whore house and selling whiskey

Obama's safety net: the TelePrompter

Obama’s reliance on the teleprompter is unusual — not only because he is famous for his oratory, but because no other president has used one so consistently and at so many events, large and small

Saudi/Manchurian candidate to be vetted

Obama administration picked a man, Charles Freeman, to head the group responsible for preparing the President's daily National Intelligence Estimate. Freeman has long known ties to China and Saudi Arabia having been paid by both for "services". HOW IN THE HELL CAN WE SURVIVE IF WE CONTINUE THIS LEFTWARD RUSH IN OUR ADMINISTRATION?

Mission Accomplished! Did Obama intentionally nuke the economy?

Is President Obama intentionally attempting to bring the stock market to its knees? Some argue that, indeed, he is. "The free market has failed," he could say, "just as it failed the housing market!"

Obama Sells Out African-American Children

A little-noted provision of the Democrats' budget bill would kill a scholarship program in the District of Columbia that allows some children to escape from the District's awful public schools and attend private schools, like the Obama girls. In today's Wall Street Journal, William McGurn profiles Sarah and James Parker, who with help from a voucher program, attend Sidwell Friends with Sasha and Malia Obama. The Parkers will no longer be able to attend if this bill passes. It will, of course, have no effect on the President's children, and BO will have satisfied the teacher's unions.

US Treasury secretary attacks oil, gas tax breaks

"We don't believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don't think that's good economic policy and we think changing those incentives is good for the country," There goes EXXON-MOBIL stock !!

A Mankiw-Krugman wager?

Harvard economics professor Gregory Mankiw has challenged Paul Krugman to bet some of his Nobel money on the Obama administration's growth forecast over the next few years.

Obama's War on the Economy

Do you know that carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere is
Þ only slightly more than 1/3rd of 1/10th of 1 percent?
Þ just recovering from the lowest level in the history of the earth?
Þ the source of carbon for all life forms, on land or in the sea?
Þ only slightly above the suffocation level for green plants?
Þ a fraction of the level for which evolution designed plants?
Þ so low as to cause some people breathing problems?
Þ increased by 130 times and more when administered to sick patients?
Þ considered, thanks to Al Gore, a pollutant by the U.S. Supreme Court?

The sobering voice of Mr. Market

Since it became apparent that Barack Obama would be elected president at the end of September 2008, the stock market has steadily declined.

Obama Lied; The Economy Died

If President Obama were to try to misrepresent his positions for the next four years, there would be nothing he could say that would approach the inaccuracy of his claim last week that he is not for big government. It is the essence of the man and his presidency. He doesn't like America the way it has been since its founding, and it would take an abusively big government to realize his dreams of converting America into something quite different. If you don't know that, you don't yet know Obama.

The President is running out of people to blame.

The market has notably plunged since Mr. Obama introduced his budget last week, and that should be no surprise. The document was a declaration of hostility toward capitalists across the economy.

Obama's plan to hike taxes meets fierce opposition

".... the president's plan to charge fees to industries that spew greenhouse gases amounts to a stealthy tax increase for all Americans that will far exceed the new $400 annual tax cut for workers that he wants to extend beyond 2010."

Congressman Proposes Bill: No Gitmo Detainee May Set Foot on U.S. Soil

Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) has introduced a bill that would prevent any of the detainees in the soon-to-be-closed Guantanamo Bay prison from being allowed into the United States.

White House Knocks Jim Cramer For Calling Obama Budget "Greatest Wealth Destruction By a President"

"This is the greatest wealth destruction I've seen by a President."

Ryan on Obama's Budget

But what's most distressing about this budget is that it takes a decidedly ideological turn away from the principles that built this country and built this economy for the type of governing system we see in Europe that provides a kind of economic and social stagnation we have not seen here in America.

Global Warming: Using the Polar Bear to Impose Costly Measures

Any activity producing or using energy—building a new bridge in Alabama, opening a factory or power plant in Arizona, expanding a dairy operation in New York, constructing a school in Idaho—could be affected by this new OBAMA driven revision to the Endangered Species Act. This would require: "each federal agency shall, in consultation with and with the assistance of the Secretary, insure that any action authorized, funded, or carried out by such agency is not likely to jeopardize the continued existence of any endangered species or threatened species or result in the destruction or adverse modification of habitat." The bottom line: Environmental activists could use the ESA to hold up any of thousands of projects across the U.S. This would include many if not all of the "shovel ready" projects that are funded in the stimulus package.

Barack Obama is not who we (they ?) thought he was

Here is evidence of a party swept up in its own revolutionary fervor — caught up in the self-flattering belief that history has called upon it to solve all problems at once. So programs are piled on top of each other and we wind up with a gargantuan $3.6 trillion budget. We end up with deficits that, when considered realistically, are $1 trillion a year and stretch as far as the eye can see. We end up with an agenda that is unexceptional in its parts but that, when taken as a whole, represents a social-engineering experiment that is entirely new.

The Obama Economy - since nomination

Since BO's nomination, when the Dow Jones was about 14,000, investors running in fear of his Socialist policies have driven the DJIA down by more than 50%

Obama: Stock 'fits and starts' are normal reaction

Further evidence supporting my belief that Obama's actions are absolutely intentional .... a drive to take our country into the cesspool of Socialism.

Another Democrat Tax Dodger

I just found out how much I owe in taxes. I don't have to pay until Obama nominates me for something, right?

Another Campaign Promise Bites the Dust

Even the Associated Press complains of Obama's retreat from his "No Earmarks" campaign promise.

Throwing Rush Under the Bus

The White House's attack on Rush, on the ground that he "wants President Obama's economic agenda to fail," is stupid even by White House Press Secretary standards. What we conservatives want is for America's economy to succeed. That's why we oppose President Obama's economic policies; we think they are poorly conceived and will damage the economy. Thus, for the sake of America's success, we hope that Obama will fail to implement his misguided policies. How tough was that to follow?

Pelosi Snowed-Out of Global Warming Rally

A blizzard Sunday night and early Monday morning blanketed the nation’s capital with snow, causing events to be cancelled and delayed across the city.

Obama Proposes a European U.S.

Obama's intentions are now clear..... he is bound and determined to move us into a SOCIALIST form of government. Perhaps that is why the waiting line to get into the Tampa Gun Show yesterday was about one-hour long!!!!!

Clarity

We now know for certain that Obama is an out-and-out statist bent on redistributing income and clamping down on free markets. He desires, as Charles Krauthammer has shown, to convert our free and vibrant economy into a European-style nanny state.

photo is courtesy of Dr. Michael Hankamer

How Dumb Does He Think We Are?

I'm afraid Obama is successful uttering these absurd claims just because so many Americans are VERY ill-informed of his actual BEHAVIOR. They hear his words but know nothing of the details of his actions. This man's reputation for DOING the exact opposite of what he says is growing daily.