CONSERVATIVE CLIPPINGS IS ON VACATION

We are off for four weeks while clipper takes a European cruise/vacation...... see you in mid - June ...... unless the Internet gods shine upon us and the Euro and British pound continue to fall, in which case we shall occasionally post some links...................... keep the faith!

An Old Quotation ........

"War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things, the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.” John Stuart Mill

Time For Plan B

"Tom Joscelyn traces, not for the first time, the relationship between Iran and al Qaeda: ....." [Power Line]

Abortion Opponents Are Fighting Language in Obamacare Bill That Obama Said Would Not Be Included in the Bill

"Another day, another lie revealed.
Essentially everything that we were told about Obamacare before the vote we can now conclude was a lie. …Including the fact that federal dollars will not be used to fund abortion." [Gateway Pundit]

A "Duty to Die"?

"One of the many fashionable notions that have caught on among some of the intelligentsia is that old people have "a duty to die," rather than become a burden to others.

This is more than just an idea discussed around a seminar table. Already the government-run medical system in Britain is restricting what medications or treatments it will authorize for the elderly. Moreover, it seems almost certain that similar attempts to contain runaway costs will lead to similar policies when American medical care is taken over by the government." [Thomas Sowell]

White House message machine spinning faster than ever

The White House SPIN MACHINE has switched into high gear to protect Obama's rear end from criticism for his delayed response to the oil spill.

"The White House bureaucracy devoted to managing public imagery has been growing since President Richard Nixon created the first office devoted to broad communications strategy in 1969.

Obama's White House message machine employs more than 60 people directly, at a cost to taxpayers of at least at least $4.3 million a year.

Those totals, however, don't include many more messengers who aren't in the annual report on the White House office staff that's submitted to Congress, including photographers and the communications staffs of Vice President Joe Biden and the National Security Council, all of whom are paid from different accounts.

They also don't include hundreds of political appointees scattered across cabinet departments and agencies who were hired with approval from the Obama White House and who work with the White House to present a coordinated message.

In all, about 350 people work on the president's message, according to Martha Joynt Kumar, an expert on the White House communications machinery and a professor at Towson State University in Maryland." [McClatchy]

Lindsey Graham Stumps AG Eric Holder

The Other European Volcano

"When Greece started to erupt, the volcanic ash spread over the social democrats’ smug vision of a perfect European Union."

Amnesty? Bureaucrats already drawing up plan to implement

"The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services, a division of the Department of Homeland Security, already has drafted a plan for processing 13 million illegal alien applicants for amnesty in a 30-week period at an estimated cost of $1 billion, WND has learned." [WND]

The Welfare State's Death Spiral

"What we're seeing in Greece is the death spiral of the welfare state. This isn't Greece's problem alone, and that's why its crisis has rattled global stock markets and threatens economic recovery. Virtually every advanced nation, including the United States, faces the same prospect. Aging populations have been promised huge health and retirement benefits, which countries haven't fully covered with taxes. The reckoning has arrived in Greece, but it awaits most wealthy societies." [Real Clear Politics]

Kagan, Obama, and the Harvard Legacy of Literary Fraud

"When Barack Obama’s two faculty mentors at Harvard Law got in trouble for plagiarism, they were rescued by Dean Elena Kagan." [American Thinker]

Obama Buyer's Remorse

"President Obama's disappointing performance has indisputably brought enormous buyer's remorse to many of his fans, the feeling that the "purchase" (i.e., voting for Obama) was a mistake. And while little can be done until November 2012, it may be useful to analyze why thoughtful people were seduced and, furthermore, learn to avoid future hoodwinking. In a nutshell, the American public was lead astray by conflating outward appearances -- "he seems so smart" -- with underlying substance -- "he is so smart." What we saw wasn't what we got." [American Thinker]

Kenya Believe it? NY Times Toddling Towards Truth On Obama's Birth Certificate

"We have previously derided the Times coverage of the "birther" controversy around Obama's birth certificate - they love to peruse polls suggesting that all birthers are daft but shy away from even hinting at a few basic facts.

But the recent signing in Hawaii of the so-called "birther-bill" allowing the Hawaii Dept. of Health to ignore repeated requests from the same people has prompted the Times to put some of the basic facts in evidence.

So today, a careful Times reader learns......... " [JustOneMinute]

9 indicted on charges of accessing Obama records

"Nine people were indicted Wednesday on federal charges of accessing President Barack Obama’s student loan records while they were employed for a Department of Education contractor in Iowa." [Western Journalism]

God forbid that we citizens ever find out anything about Obama's background!

The Federal Fat Police: Bill Would Require Government to Track Body Mass of American Children

A bill introduced this month in Congress would put the federal and state governments in the business of tracking how fat, or skinny, American children are.

ARE YOU TIRED OF GOVERNMENT'S INTRUSION INTO YOUR DAILY LIFE????

Holder admits: No, I haven’t read the Arizona law I’ve been dumping on

He has NOT EVEN READ THE 10 PAGE ARIZONA LAW !!!!!!

Unreal. Attorney General Eric Holder Refuses to Say “Radical Islam” at Hearing on Times Square Bomber

"The Obama White House removed confessed terrorist Faisal Shahzad from the Department of Homeland Security travel lookout list sometime after Barack Obama came into office.

Terrorist Faisal Shahzad had substantial connections to the Taliban, reached out to the Taliban, was influenced by Yemeni terror leader Anwar al Awlaki, made at least a dozen return trips to Pakistan since arriving in the United States in 1999, and he bought a one way ticket with cash to Pakistan.

He was “blogging” and asking for jihad as far back as 2006 but the Obama Administration took him off the terror watch list anyway."

(Another) OBAMA Nominee Advocates Redistributing wealth in Our Country

Here is President Obama's nominee to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the organization chiefly responsible (except for the 126 other new bureaus and departments) for setting policy under the new health care bill.

Top Obama advisers Jarrett and Axelrod given car privileges traditionally reserved for national security officials

"President Obama has expanded the very small group of top aides who are given the privilege of taxpayer-funded personal drivers — who take them from their house to work and back home again each day — to include two top political advisers. ...... The Bush White House did not give the same privileges to any of its political advisers, according to former Bush administration officials." [Western Journalism]

IT APPEARS THAT BARACK OBAMA IS USING A FRAUDULENT SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER

"Three experts are insisting that President Obama and the White House answer new questions about his documentation.

Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state.

In addition, the records indicate the number was issued between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama’s earliest employment reportedly was in 1975 at a Baskin-Robbins ice-cream shop in Oahu, Hawaii." [Liberty News]

Crist Gets Cozy With Harry Reid, White House

"It appears that newly Independent Senate candidate Charlie Crist may find support from key Democrats, including the Obama White House and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. .....

The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid placed a call to Crist last week. Reid has refused to say what they discussed, but the Journal says that "some Crist allies are taking it as a sign of cooperation to come."

Also, sources say the White House has been fielding calls from top Democratic operatives asking for permission to help Crist with his campaign." [Newsmax]

Michelle Obama: Food Profiteer Turned Food Cop

"Let me summarize first lady Michelle Obama's anti-obesity agenda: Shed as I say, not as I gain. While she crusades for organic foods and puts government pressure on corporations to stop marketing fast food and junk food to children, Mrs. Obama herself profited from the very same processed food industry she now demonizes.

In June 2005, a few months after her husband was elected to the U.S. Senate, Mrs. Obama hustled a seat on the corporate Board of Directors of TreeHouse Foods, Inc. Despite zero experience, the food-processing company put her on its audit and nominating and corporate governance committees. For her on-the-job training and the privilege of putting her name and face on their literature, the company forked over $45,000 in 2005 and $51,200 in 2006 to Mrs. Obama — as well as 7,500 TreeHouse stock options worth more than $72,000 for each year." [Michelle Malkin]

Hmmmmmmmm ...... ?

"And today, I'm happy to report that we received some very encouraging news... I should also note that the unemployment rate ticked up slightly from 9.7 to 9.9 [percent]." President Obama, May 7, 2010.

Deep Cover at Organizing for America

Covert Blogger infiltrates Democrat political organizing meeting. Files interesting report. [American Thinker]

US Exposure to EU Bailout Is Big But Risk Is Limited

""Inflation and debt is not the answer to a problem caused by inflation and debt," said Michael Pento, chief economist at Delta Global Advisors and a critic of both the European plan and the Fed's approach to US fiscal stability. "It's a European problem that should have been dealt with by Europeans." " [CNBC]

"Barack Obama lectured (fellow) socialist Prime Minister Jose Luis Zapatero of Spain today on reining in the country’s debt. This comes from the same man who just tripled the US national deficit in less than one year." [Gateway Pundit]

Ga. Seniors Told They Can't Pray Before Meals

"Senior Citizens Inc. officials said Friday the meals they are contracted by the city to provide to Ed Young visitors are mostly covered with federal money, which ushers in the burden of separating church and state.On Thursday, the usual open prayer before meals at the center was traded in for a moment of silence." [WSBTV]

UPDATE:

Prayers Answered: Seniors Can Pray Before Meals at Georgia Center

The AP Whitewashes Its Favorite President

"The Associated Press takes up the question whether the Gulf oil spill is the Obama administration's Katrina and concludes that the administration has acquitted itself admirably. The AP headlines: Obama oil response: aggressive as crisis unfolded. ......

Two things about the AP story immediately jump out at the reader. First, it is based on interviews with administration sources. It accepts their narrative and repeats it uncritically. Second, despite describing the Obama administration's response as "aggressive," the AP does not detail a single action taken by the administration that did anything to effectively combat the spill. Yet this doesn't seem to bother the AP; its analysis takes place entirely on a symbolic level." [Power Line]

Are the Feds Trying to Nationalize Your Retirement Savings?

"For some time, there have been rumblings that the federal government might try to solve its budgetary problems by nationalizing (i.e., stealing) the money that millions of Americans have set aside for retirement in 401(k) plans and the like. One way they might do this is to confiscate the cash on hand in exchange for a promise to make future payments in the form of an "annuity." An involuntary annuity, in that scenario." [Power Line]

Don't leave it to Cleaver, part 16

"McClatchy News was responsible for the single worst story reporting the allegations of Reps. Andre Carson, John Lewis. Emanuel Cleaver and James Clyburn that Tea Party protesters abused black congressmen with racial epithets while demonstrating against Obamacare on Capitol Hill on March 20. The story is "Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressmen." .....

In recent installments of this series, we have posted correspondence -- both our own and that of our readers -- with McClatchy News investigative editor James Asher. (All previous installments can be accessed here.)

In any event, we have posted the eyewitness testimony of reader Greg Farrell contradicting the congressmen's story retailed by McClatchy and others. Indeed, Farrell has contacted Asher directly with the following message: ........." [Power Line]

Times Square terrorist's mystery mosque found?

"It remains a mystery: Where did the alleged Times Square terrorist – a Muslim man with an apparent zeal for Islam – go to mosque?

The Council on American-Islamic Relations says it surveyed the mosques in suspect Faisal Shahzad's home state of Connecticut and concluded Shahzad did not worship at any of them and therefore was not religious.

WND, however, has learned that federal agents investigating the alleged car bomber paid a visit to a radical mosque in Bridgeport, Conn., with ties to terrorism. Shahzad has lived in the Bridgeport area for nearly a decade." [WND]

THE GATHERING STORM

Healthcare's Impact On the Low-Skilled Worker

"Low-skilled workers have some of the highest unemployment rates in America. Adults without high school diplomas face an unemployment rate of 14.5%, almost three times as high as rates for college graduates, and well above the national average of 9.7%. The unemployment rate for teens, another low-skill group, is 26%.

Reasonable people likely presume that Congress and the administration are doing everything possible to help low-skilled workers get jobs.

But, come 2014, the new health care bill will make it harder for employers to hire low-skill workers. And, as workplaces around the country prepare to implement the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, employers are considering how best to comply. For some companies, that means that low-wage and part-time jobs will start to go, not in 2014, but now." [RealClearMarkets]

Two strikes for Sarah Palin…

"I was hoping this type of post could be avoided this year, but Sarah Palin just committed what I believe to be an unforgivable sin. ....." Learn what her sins have been ..... [Tax Day Tea Party]

90 seconds caused it all?

Nasdaq Said Order Pause By the NYSE Created Panic

8:29 am ET 05/07/2010 - StreetInsider

In a CNBC interview, NASDAQ CEO Bob Greifeld is partially blaming the primary market, or NYSE, for the crash yesterday. He said when the primary market stops taking orders on some stock it creates panic with market participants. The NYSE stopped trading for 90 seconds on certain stocks, including Procter & Gamble Co. (NYSE: PG), according to the NASDAQ CEO.

Figures… Obama Already Insulted Pro-American UK Conservative Cameron- Called Him a “Lightweight”

"He’s not even Prime Minister yet, but Barack Obama’s already insulted David Cameron.
He called Cameron a “lightweight.” " [Gateway Pundit]

Copy Machines, a Security Risk?

This video report on how virtually copier machines, by all manufacturers, store every image on an internal hard drive. Used machines, available for a song, can be purchased by the truckload and "mined" for copies of all sorts of documents. Examples reported here include police databases, checks, medical records, payroll records..... the list is endless.

Think twice about what you copy on that office or drugstore copier!!! [clipper]

Watch What Obama Does, Not What He Says

"The same standard should be applied to the Obama team. The president talks a great game about civility, the corrosive language of politics and the self-absorbed media that promotes conflict. But Obama's policies, behavior and the people in his administration suggest he isn't serious. Many in his administration are radical leftists." [RealClearPolitics]

Obama Freezes Budget for Program Designed to Stop Terrorists from Getting U.S. Visas

I has been almost TEN YEARS since the 9-11 attacks by foreigners who entered our country on suspiciously issued visas. A program set up by the Bush Administration to deal with lax visa issuing practices at our embassies has been frozen by the Obama Administration. Only 14 of the 57 "high risk" embassies have the Visa Security Program (VSP) in place. [clipper]

Mystery Solved

"As information about Faisal Shahzad accumulates, a number of misconceptions are being dispelled. It turns out that the Times Square would-be bomber was not, Mayor Bloomberg's speculation notwithstanding, someone who was unhappy about Obamacare. Nor was the bomber the random "white man" who was filmed by a security camera removing his shirt a block away from Shahzad's Pathfinder. Nor was he, to Contessa Brewer's deep regret, one of those dreaded Tea Partiers. Nor was his "motivation" a mystery, as suggested by the Associated Press. No, to the surprise of some--but not us--Faisal Shahzad was a jihadist." [Power Line]

Deep secrets of Obamacare, cont'd

"Fortune senior editor Shawn Tully covers some of the deep secrets of Obamacare found in the corporate documents subpoenaed by Democratic Reps. Henry Waxman and Bart Stupak. In the words of the headline: "Documents reveal AT&T, Verizon, others, thought about dropping employer-sponsored benefits." " [Power Line]

Home renovators alert: House passes Caulkers bill

"Homeowners could collect thousands of dollars in Cash for Caulkers rebates for renovating their homes with better insulation and energy-saving windows and doors under a new economic stimulus bill the House passed Thursday." [Breitbart]

Gibbs Can't Say, Won’t Check, If Obama Used Sexual Slur Against Tea Party Activists in Interview With Newsweek Editor

"White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said he did not know and could not imagine asking President Barack Obama whether he used the vulgar sexual term “tea baggers” to describe Americans active in the Tea Party movement " [CNS]."

Obama/Media vs. Arizona/America

"Folks, our country is in big trouble. What kind of man do we have in the White House? President Obama is a Harvard-educated lawyer. Thus, since he attended such a renowned school, I can only conclude that Obama willfully and knowingly distorted/lied about the plight of Hispanic-Americans in Arizona and the state's immigration law when he said, "...but now suddenly if you don't have your papers, and you took your kid out to get ice cream, you're gonna be harassed, ..." " [American Thinker]

Your Census boondoggle story of the week

More evidence of your taxpayer $$$$ at work !!!

The Intellectual Hegemon

Researcher "publishes article liberally salted with nonsense" in a leading North American journal of cultural studies, "Social Text". He later explained it was a hoax to test if such gibberish would receive accolades when "(a) it sounded good and (b) it flattered the editors' ideological preconceptions?" It did!

Liberals are from Mars, Conservatives are from Earth

"I realized that liberals really do live on another planet. Sometimes I feel like I'm having a Close Encounter of the Political Kind.

Conservatives can mistakenly assume that liberals think like they do, in a learned and rational way. This is an exercise in futility since liberalism is not based on logic.

To become a conservative, I've had to learn a whole new language, one based on reason. If conservatives want to understand the liberal mind, they should consider becoming bilingual too." [American Thinker]

Obama Uses Sexual Slur While Maintaining Civility?

Obama said, referring to the vote on the Recovery Act, " 'That helped to create the tea-baggers and empowered that whole wing of the Republican Party.....". "Tea-bagging" refers to a well-known sexual practice and is certainly a derisive descriptor of an adversary.

So how can Obama say the following "We've got politicians calling each other all sorts of unflattering names." without being labeled a HYPOCRITE.... again? [clipper]

The jihadists’ deadly path to citizenship

The list of known jihadists who "married" American women in order to obtain U.S. citizenship is lengthy. It is a tried and proven practice, including for this Times Square car bomber.

China May ‘Crash’ in Next 9 to 12 Months, Faber Says

" Investor Marc Faber said China’s economy will slow and possibly “crash” within a year as declines in stock and commodity prices signal the nation’s property bubble is set to burst. The Shanghai Composite Index has failed to regain its 2009 high while industrial commodities and shares of Australian resource exporters are acting “heavy,” Faber said." [Bloomberg]

General Motors Deceptive Advertising Challenged by Watchdog Group in FTC Filing

"The Competitive Enterprise Institute today filed a formal complaint with the Federal Trade Commission, arguing that General Motors misleadingly claimed in a national TV ad that the company has paid back taxpayer bailout loans .....

CEI explains in the complaint, “gives the false impression that GM has used its own funds to pay back all the bailout money that it received from the federal government. In fact, GM has only repaid a fraction of those funds—barely ten percent. Moreover, GM apparently repaid its loan by using other federal funds.” " [CEI]

REGULATORY REFORM: THE ANTI ANTI TRUST LAW

"In effect, firms labeled too big to fail (TBTF) would become utilities, closely regulated but ultimately guaranteed by the government. In return for what Hassett describes as “bureaucratic meddling” they can keep their profits but socialize their losses through an implicit public guarantee." [Dick Morris]

Despite plan, not a single fire boom on hand on Gulf Coast at time of oil spill

Government has had a plan in place since 1994. But successive administrations have failed to execute the purchase of the boom materials needed to implement it. All the pre-approvals have been in place. This administration FAILED to implement it!!

Check out the Carbon Footprint of Al Gore's New Ocean-View Mediterranean Villa

" Somebody’s going to be purchasing a hell of a lot of bogus carbon offsets." [Michelle Malkin]

"The Los Angeles Times reported last week that Al and Tipper Gore greatly expanded their carbon footprint with the purchase of their fourth luxury home. The 'global warming' business has been very, very good to the Gores." [DougRoss Journal]

Obama Administration Working With Egypt & Russia to Rid Israel of Nuclear Weapons

"The United States is working with both Egypt and Russia to rid Israel of its nuclear weapons, as part of a comprehensive plan to neutralize Iran’s nuclear power." [Gateway Pundit]

Also Read:

• Obama Refuses to Dine With Jewish Leader
• Obama Won’t Allow Any Photos of Him With PM Netanyahu
• Stunner. Obama Has Refused All Israeli Military Requests Since Entering Office in 2009
• Obama Administration Denies Visas to Israeli Nuclear Scientists
• Barack Obama Announces Historic Shift in America’s Relationship With Israel

US inflation up 2% in March

"US inflation rose two percent in March compared to the same month a year earlier, according to the consumer price index published on Monday." [AFP]

The spiral begins !!!!
Isn't our economy doing GREAT !!!

Why Left Talks About 'White' Tea Parties

"Opponents of the popular expression of conservative opposition to big government, the tea parties, regularly note that tea partiers are overwhelmingly white. This is intended to disqualify the tea parties from serious moral consideration. .....

... the Left really does see the world through the prism of race, gender and class rather than through the moral prism of right and wrong. .....

One of the more dangerous features of the Left has been its replacement of moral categories of right and wrong, and good and evil with three other categories: black and white (race), male and female (gender) and rich and poor (class).

Therefore the Left pays attention to the skin color -- and gender (not just "whites" but "white males") -- of the tea partiers rather than to their ideas." [RealClearPolitics]

On Becoming an Un-Hyphenated American

"The knock on the door sounded official.

It was the United States Census. "Do you live here? What is your name?"

As I said it, a gleam came into his eye. "Are you a Ukrainian-American?" he asked." [American Thinker]

ObamaCare: An Unmitigated Disaster

"Americans are learning that ObamaCare will pile on insurmountable debt and cause government to encroach on every area of our lives. ObamaCare is, as Yuval Levin said, an "unmitigated disaster -- for our health care system, for our fiscal future, and for any notion of limited government." And the more we learn about the specific provisions, the more we discover that the bill does not reflect our values -- faith, family and freedom -- nor does it strengthen those principles that are the foundation of a great nation." [American Thinker]

New 'safety plan' would control what you eat

"Critics say a bill pending in the U.S. Senate would do for Americans' food supply what "Obamacare" is doing to the nation's supply of health-care" [WND]

Obama and Sowell: who can tell when people have made enough money?

Obama's statement "I do think at a certain point you’ve made enough money." is described by Thomas Sowell In 'Intellectuals and Society" .......

Many intellectuals and their followers have been unduly impressed by the fact that highly educated elites like themselves have far more knowledge per capita—in the sense of special knowledge—than does the population at large. From this it is a short step to considering the educated elites to be superior guides to what should and should not be done in a society. They have often overlooked the crucial fact that the population at large may have vastly more total knowledge—in the mundane sense—than the elites, even if that knowledge is scattered in individually unimpressive fragments among vast numbers of people.

If no one has even one percent of the knowledge currently available, not counting the vast amounts of knowledge yet to be discovered, the imposition from the top down of the notions in favor among elites, convinced of their own superior knowledge and virtue, is a formula for disaster.

Sometimes it is economic disaster, which central planning, for example, turned out to be in so many countries around the world during the twentieth century that even most governments run by communists and socialists began replacing such top-down economic planning by freer markets by the end of the century…Other forms of this general notion include judicial activism, urban societies, and other institutional expressions of the belief that social decisions cannot be left to be determined by the actions and values of the less knowledgeable population at large.

Obama lawyers want more secrecy at White House

"The federal government is arguing that previous court rulings applying the Freedom of Information Act to records such as the visitor logs at the White House are incorrect, and President Obama's administration should be allowed to withhold from the public the information it chooses." [WND]

"My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government." BHO 2009

Don't leave it to Cleaver, part 11 - McClatchy News in Disrepute

"This morning we received an email message from McClatchy News DC investigative editor James Asher promoting a current story. Of all the news outlets that covered the fabricated March 20 story of Reps. Carson, Cleaver, Clyburn and Lewis regarding the racial abuse to which they were subjected by Tea Party/Obamacare protesters on Capitol Hill, McClatchy's may have been the worst: "Tea party protesters scream 'nigger' at black congressmen."

As we have discussed in previous installments of this miniseries, two journalists have reviewed the evidence supporting the incident. The Washington Post's ombudsman essentially found no evidence to support the incident in his review." [Power Line]

Grateful for ObamaCare, drug lobby goes to bat for Harry Reid Read

Remember when President Obama thanked Majority Leader Harry Reid and the Senate for “standing up to the special interests?” If you don’t, watch this video.... just the first 25 seconds is enough to get the idea. And remember that Obama said that same sort of thing a dozen times.

Then watch this video. Be sure to catch that part at the end, where the ad for Harry Reid, facing the toughest reelection of his life, was paid for by PhRMA — the drug lobby.

And check these numbers from 2009, showing that PhRMA spent more than any single-industry lobby — or the numbers from 2010’s first quarter showing the same thing.

Of course, we already knew PhRMA liked the bill, and that it will be very profitable for the drug industry. But this Reid ad brings into focus the magnitude of the President’s mendacity:

Obama thanks the Reid for “standing up to the special interests” by passing the bill. Then the single biggest industry lobby also thanks Reid for passing the bill, with a big-money TV ad.

This episode should be enough to make every discerning person ignore the President every time he claims to be taking on “special interests.” [Washington Examiner]

Did HHS Sect. Sebelius Spike a Report

"The economic report released last week by Health and Human Services, which indicated that President Barack Obama’s health care “reform” law would actually increase the cost of health care and impose higher costs on consumers, had been submitted to the office of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius more than a week before the Congressional votes on the bill, according to career HHS sources, who added that Sebelius’s staff refused to review the document before the vote was taken." [Western Journalism]