Walker responds to Obama

"Gov. Scott Walker on Monday afternoon responded to comments President Barack Obama made earlier in the day about the protests in Madison."
[Milwaukee Journal Sentinel]

Consumer Reports: GM's Volt 'doesn't really make a lot of sense'

"Consumer Reports offered a harsh initial review of the Chevrolet Volt, questioning whether General Motors Co.'s flagship vehicle makes economic "sense."The extended-range plug-in electric vehicle is on the cover of the April issue — the influential magazine's annual survey of vehicles — but the GM vehicle comes in for criticism."
[Detroit News]

NY Unions Bus in Reinforcements to Wisconsin Protests

"The New York AFL-CIO unions have been busing in reinforcements to Madison.
Unfortunately, not all of the reinforcements brought shoes."
[Gateway Pundit]

This union flunky sure looks well fed, if not well paid!

Capitulation: Madison capitol police give in to Big Labor Slumber Party occupiers

Unionized Capitol Police cave to labor unions!!!

"In Madison, Wisconsin — the Berkeley of the Midwest — deadlines don’t mean diddly-squat. Rules don’t apply. And the People’s House belongs not to hard-working taxpayers, but to Big Labor squatters who have grimed and slimed up the Capitol for almost two weeks."

[Michelle Malkin]

How Government-Employee Unions Bankrupted Most States, and Why The Charade is Now Over

The U.S. annual deficit...... the amount we are going "in the hole" for every year is $3,500 Billion ($3.5T).  That amounts to $33 each for EVERY PERSON WHO HAS EVER WALKED THE FACE OF THE ENTIRE EARTH !!!!!!!  

It Is ONE HELLUVA BIG NUMBER!

And we have out of control government spending to thank for that.

AWOL Dems defy ballot box

"The lawmakers in exile call this a defense of democracy. In truth, it's a step toward anarchy. If it catches on as a practice, it will officially end government by, of and for the people.

It's part of a disturbing trend by Democrats to embrace a by-any-means-necessary approach to governing. We saw it during passage of Obamacare, when the Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate blew up the rules to block a filibuster. In Massachusetts, Democrats used after-the-fact law changes in a failed attempt to keep a Republican from succeeding Ted Kennedy.

Obama trashed bankruptcy law to move the United Auto Workers ahead of General Motors' and Chrysler's secured creditors. And his regulatory agencies are bypassing Congress to enact policies he knows the elected representatives would never approve.

The strategy exposes the arrogant liberal conviction that they are justified in imposing their will on the people, because only they know what's best for America."

[Detroit News]

Why Can't We Be More Like Sweden?

"For a time, Sweden seemed immune to the kind of anti-immigrant sentiment blossoming elsewhere on the European continent. Its generous welfare and asylum policies have allowed hundreds of thousands of refugees to settle here, many in recent years from Muslim countries. Nearly a quarter of Sweden’s population is now foreign born or has a foreign-born parent."

[JustOneMinute]

Obfuscating Inflation

"The government in Washington D.C. seems to be going out of its way to obfuscate and confuse the American citizens as to various economic factors and what the reality is of the situation the people find themselves in.  Instinctively the people know matters are worse than what they are being told and with the most incompetent and unscrupulous resident of the White House in the country's history in charge there is great unease that their government is not being honest with its citizens.  More than ever the American people deserve to be told the truth.

The bottom line and the only meaningful job statistic the American people should pay attention to: if the monthly job creation number is not at least 250,000 every month then the United States is going backwards regardless of any games played by the various government agencies and their data. 

Another area of obfuscation is the true cost of living and the rising cost of commodities and industrial raw materials. "

Agricultural Raw Materials prices

Food Prices

Fuel prices

Metal prices

Trumka: Best Way to Create Jobs is to Raise Taxes

"What’s the best way to get Americans back to work?
Raise taxes, according to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka.

Specifically, he wants to raise the federal gas tax as a means to fund infrastructure spending.  "
[Michelle Malkin]

End Forced Unionism

"Americans do not understand what "labor unions" mean.  Nothing prevents a group of workers at a plant or office from getting together, signing an agreement which delegates power to negotiate contracts to certain representatives, and then proceeding with collective bargaining by those workers who chose to sign the agreement.  That is not unionism; it is simply a business arrangement, much like when an athlete has an agent or a client has a lawyer.

The problem with unionism is that those who do not feel such an agreement is needed are compelled to surrender their right to bargain for their working conditions and compelled, as well, to support a vast, expensive bureaucracy of labor satraps. "

[American Thinker]

Gingrich: If Palin Took Obama Actions, There Would Be Calls for Impeachment

"In an exclusive interview with Newsmax.TV Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said President Barack Obama’s decision not to fully enforce the Defense of Marriage law eventually could lead to a constitutional crisis, as he has directly violated his constitutional duties by arbitrarily suspending a law.

Gingrich even suggested that, if a “President Sarah Palin” had taken a similar action, there would have been immediate calls for her impeachment. Asked directly whether Obama could be subject to articles of impeachment, Gingrich said, “I think that’s something you get to much later. But I think clearly it is a dereliction of duty. Clearly it’s a violation of his constitutional oath. Clearly it is not something that can be allowed to stand." "

[Newsmax]

Home of a Mexican Drug Lord being raided

This raid took place several years ago.  The amount of cash on hand was around 22 BILLION dollars!!!

State Budget Battles Herald the Return of the Grown-Ups

"Behold the return of the grown-ups.

Neither the first caucus nor first primary has been held. No Republican candidates have yet to declare formally. Who will face off against the union-label community organizer-in-chief? That’s not really important. Because the whole country recognizes that the presidential kick-off is taking place right now in state budget battles across the Midwest.

But there’s a limit to how many times the public can be fooled with lying rhetoric. The false heralds of  “stimulus” and “shovel-ready projects” and “jobs saved and created” have already sobered the fawning masses. Where two years ago they lunged towards the cliff, shouting “Yes we can,” they are now standing stalwart with heels firmly dug into the cliff’s edge, shouting “Stop before it’s too late!” "

[Pajamas Media]

Wisconsin Assembly Democrats Act Like Infantile Losers, Not Serious Elected Representatives Holding "Adult Conversations"

A textbook example showing how LEFTIST pressure from organizers can whip up otherwise rational adults into ridiculous behavior.

"The strongest unions in the country openly discuss this persuasion as a positive and incredibly important part of the “Fabric of America.” Andy Stern (the President of the SEIU) said, “We use the power of persuasion, and if that doesn’t work, we use the persuasion of power.” (Wall Street Journal) His power and labor force contributed millions to the Presidential election, but also, according to that article, put aside an additional $10 million fund to get people “un elected.”

Workers are called into weekly meetings with organizers and co-workers. Issues are “generated” if they don’t already exist. “Inside” people are used to create an issue and through persuasion, the “trickle down” effect is used. People begin to believe the issue is their own, because they have to. They easily jump on the bandwagon. The organizer’s goal is to swiftly create that environment. Ninety nine percent of the time I barely had to speak at a union meeting, the workers issues became everyone’s issues. I used “mob rules” mentality to my advantage. "

[Confessions of a Union Organizer]

Hey, hey, outta their way, CWA renting protesters for pay in NJ

"There appears to be efforts from unions to get more members to beat the drum today in Trenton. According to an e-mail obtained by The Star-Ledger, CWA Local 1038 is preparing for the rally with boxed lunches, leaflets and ponchos because of the expected rain.

The union is also offering to reimburse wages for anyone who takes a half-day off to participate in the rally."
[Michelle Malkin]

Leftist Mob Takes Over Wisconsin Republican Party Offices

The Brownshirts have arrived.

Hate-A-Rama: The Vulgar, Sexist, Racist, Homophobic Rage of the Left

"Barack Obama's new era of civility was over before it began. You wouldn't know it from reading The New York Times, watching Katie Couric or listening to the Democratic manners police. But America has been overrun by foul-mouthed, fist-clenching wildebeests."

[Michelle Malkin]

To Demonstrate How It Should Be Sung !!

Christina Aguilera and her ilk, take note...

Sweet: Illinois Republican wants fugitive Wisconsin Dems to pay state income tax

"A Republican lawmaker from Illinois introduced legislation Thursday that would subject Wisconsin senators who crossed the border to Illinois income taxes for their time working in “the Land of Lincoln.”"
[Hot Air]

Meeting Young Obama

A narrative concerning meetings with Obama as a Marxist revolutionary at Occidental College in 1980.

How can anyone now say he is not a SOCIALIST ?

Rubio and Reassurance

"If there is one word that answers Sigmund Freud's old question, What do women want?, it is this: Reassurance. That's Reassurance with a capital R. This is especially the case when we speak about modern American politics.

Sen. Marco Rubio is able to dominate a stage, to stir powerful and positive responses without ever provoking dangerous passion. He is Reassuring with a capital "R." Just as JFK was, just as Ronald Reagan was. And as Eisenhower surely was."

[American Thinker] 

Thought crime comes of age

"Orwell's dystopian 1984 vision has come of age. Judge Gladys Kessler of the federal district court for the District of Columbia actually held, on page 45 of her ruling upholding Obamacare, that Congress has the right to regulate mental activity."

[Power Line]

Obama's Louis XV budget

"Five days before his inauguration, President-elect Obama told The Post that entitlement reform could no longer be kicked down the road. He then spent the next two years kicking - racking up $3 trillion in new debt along the way - on the grounds that massive temporary deficit spending was necessary to prevent another Great Depression."

[Krauthammer]

SEIU Protester Harasses Black Tea Partier: “Do You Have Any Children… That You Claim?”

So much for this "all-inclusive, racially tolerant" liberal mindset!

Will Senate Republicans Snatch Budget Defeat from the Jaws of Victory?

"Are the Senate Republicans going wobbly, again?  A CNN report indicates that negotiations are underway after several Republican leaders indicated they might accept a short-term spending bill as long as it included at least some spending reductions, and not necessarily the deeper cuts the House approved last weekend."

[American Thinker]

Don't let this happen !

Email your Republican U.S. Senator Now

Find your Senator's email address HERE

The Secret Behind the Gold Standard

"Some people have difficulty grasping the elegant mechanism by which the gold standard works so well. It simply defies their deeply rooted belief that we plain people can be more competent than elites.

Curiously, their skepticism belies a kind of benighted ignorance rooted in elitism."
[Gold Standard Now]

Obama Wants To Cut Our Budget

WOW .... he wants to cut $100 MILLION  !!!!!!  Let's try to visualize what cutting $100 million from a $3.5 trillion budget looks like.

House GOP Moves to Eliminate Obama 'Czars'

"If House Republicans have their way, the Obama administration's "czars" will no longer be able to dictate pay at bailed-out mega-firms or negotiate new emissions standards for U.S. vehicles. An amendment attached to the 2011 spending package, which passed the House last week, would strip funding for a select list of the so-called czars. "
[FoxNews]

CAIR confronts Allen West

and Col. West hands the antagonist his head .............

American Christian missionairies kidnapped, slaughtered by Somali Muslim pirates

"Today, we learn four Americans are dead after Somali Muslim pirates kidnapped and killed them in the Gulf of Aden."
[Michelle Malkin]

"There is no reason for any Somali boat to ride the ocean waves – their meager shipping needs can be handled by carefully monitored commercial vessels, and they can be allowed small fishing boats close to shore.  Protecting the huge amount of commercial and private sea traffic in the Arabian Sea, Indian Ocean, and Gulf of Aden would require a massive fleet, standing guard and awaiting action at the convenience of pirates.  Aggressively hunting down and killing Somali boats is a much more practical use of our limited but powerful naval resources, and transfers the initiative to our Navy instead of the pirates.  It’s time to take the initiative. "
[Human Events]

Don't hold your breath waiting for Obama to take action against these Muslims.....

Wisconsin State Senator Smacks Down Chris Matthews: 'You're Completely Uninformed'

"MSNBC's Chris Matthews tried Monday to push the liberal media meme that Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker exempted police and firefighters from his budget repair plan because their unions endorsed him in last November's election.

"Well one more time you're completely uninformed," replied Republican State Senator Glenn Grothman who then proceeded to tell the facts to the obviously clueless"
[NewsBusters]

Why We Bleed from Greed

"We are wounded today, bleeding red ink, and everyone knows who is guilty.  Our suffering is the fault of a small group of people, here and abroad: they are the greedy. 

You know them. We all can point them out.  Greedy people gobble up unfair amounts of precious resources, keeping vast sums for themselves and sticking it to the rest of us. The greedy are pushing us to the brink. If we had the courage to stand up to them we could solve so many problems. It is time we put a stop to all the damage such selfishness causes our great country. It may take a fight, but we can tackle the problem on principle."

[American Thinker]

 

Read this one all the way to the end ...................................... 

FL Governor Scott On Refusing Federal Tax Dollars For Unwanted Hi-Speed Rail

"As you may know last Wednesday, I informed U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood of the state’s decision to reject President Obama’s costly Tampa to Orlando high-speed rail project. Here are the facts about the project, and I ask you take action today to support this decision by sharing the facts on Facebook.   My decision to reject the project comes down to three main economic realities:

1. Capital cost overruns from the project could put Florida taxpayers on the hook for an additional $3 billion.

2. Ridership and revenue projections are historically overly-optimistic and would likely result in ongoing subsidies that state taxpayers would have to incur, which could cost from $300 million – $575 million over 10 years.

3. If the project becomes too costly for taxpayers and is shut down, the state would have to return the $2.4 billion in federal funds to D.C.

Let's get to work,

Governor Rick Scott"

[Tampa 912 Project]

BUSTED! Medical Fraud Exposed in Wisconsin! Josiah Cantrall on FOX News

Sale of the Century

"The deficit debate remains fixed on tax hikes and spending cuts, but there is another option."

[Newsweek]

After Wisconsin, How Do Democrats Argue Against a GOP Government Shutdown?

"Unfortunately Speaker Boehner seems to be on a course that would inevitably lead to a shutdown ... That's reckless," said Democratic Senator Charles Schumer'

"The obvious point here is that if it's so "reckless" to shutdown the government, why have Wisconsin legislators, the President and the DNC all supported the government shutdown in Wisconsin? Not only that, they have shutdown the government by fleeing the state and breaking the law, not to mention the illegal union strikes shutting down schools and national Democrats helping to organize the angry mob descending on Madison. "

[Weekly Standard]

The Bottom of the Teachers’ Union Barrel?

"The story focuses on Central Falls school in Rhode Island, an educational institute in such a sorry state of affairs that their drop-out rates were staggering and many students didn’t even log enough classroom time to receive a grade. Last year, in an apparent sign of throwing up their hands in despair, the school board took the drastic measure of firing all 88 of Central Falls’ teachers."

Fear not, however.   The union came to their rescue.  Not only were they rehired, but they were given a $3,000 raise.  The AVERAGE teacher's salary in this poverty stricken small town now makes $76,000 per year (I should say .... per 9 months), where the town average income is $22,000 per year.  And 93% of the students STILL FAIL TO MEET MINIMUM MATH AND READING LEVELS.

Communist Revolutionaries Descend On Madison

SEI Union Organizing Nationwide Teacher Revolt

You say you don't believe this headline? 

Go HERE to see their schedules and venues.

The Wrong Budget Debate

"The one who has gotten it mostly right was Gov. Daniels at CPAC, but you would never know it from the media coverage, which focused mostly on whether he was too short to be president. Daniels aimed his remarks not only at the economics, but mostly at the philosophical issue of what kind of society do we want, and what the proper role of government should be. His key point was that the only number worth discussing in the debate over deficits and cuts is $3.7 trillion -- the proposed budget for next year. Its sheer size is the problem, and if the size of government continues to grow and the debt obligations continue to explode it will be impossible for us to remain "self governed"; we will inevitably cede control over more and more of our lives to feed the central authority that needs to cover its self-fulfilling obligations. He uses the simple example of ObamaCare to make the case -- why shouldn't we simply trust the folks to use their own money to buy the kind of health care best suited to them, allow choice and competition to work, and minimize the role of government to supporting only the truly needy; that's a trillion dollars that stays with the folks, and doesn't pass through government hands on its way toward redistribution after the bureaucracy takes its cut. If you couch the debate in those terms, the choices become not which program to fund or not, but what government the people choose to have."

[American Thinker]

Government Worker Unions: The Long Good-bye

"The "Madison Uprising" is the beginning of the end of the incestuous relationship between government and the unions.  That fact has been recognized by the public sector unions and the Democratic Party and is why they have pulled out all the stops and reverted to their 1960's playbook in order to maintain the status quo.  However, it is a battle that the unions and the Democratic Party will lose regardless of the immediate outcome in Wisconsin."

[American Thinker]

This Just In: The NY Times Discovers A New Race

"The NY Times editors continue to work on their five minutes.  Their latest draft includes some great material about leadership and Obama's Muslimosity.  The mini-howler is here: ....."

[Just One Minute]

Hey-Hey, Ho-Ho, This Is What Thugocracy Looks Like – More Leftist Hate at Madison Rally

"You’ve got to give the leftists credit today. They didn’t beat any skulls on the cement.
It took quite a bit of discipline."

 

This is what the teachers of our children (from public schools)  look like !!!!!!

Doctors At Madison Protest Sign "Sick" Excuses For Teachers

This video should be sent to everyone you know in Southern Wisconsin so they can identify and report these "doctors" to their medical licensing board.

[Hot Air]

Ryan's Charge Up Entitlement Hill

"Paul Ryan doesn't look like the menacing sort. He's amiable in a familiar Midwestern way, his disposition varies between cheerfully earnest and wry, and he uses words like "gosh." Yet to hear Democrats tell it, the 41-year-old Republican congressman is the evil genius, the cruel and mad budget cutter who threatens grandma's health care, grandad's retirement, and the entitlement state as we know it."

[WSJ]

When Teachers Strike: A Memoir

A mother and housewife describes her experiences during a teacher's strike in 1980.

Madness in Madison

"The Democratic/government-union days of rage in Madison, Wisconsin, are a disgrace. Wisconsin congressman Paul Ryan calls it Cairo coming to Madison. But the protesters in Egypt were pro-democracy. The government-union protesters in Madison are anti-democracy; they are trying to prevent a vote in the legislature. In fact, Democratic legislators themselves are fleeing the state so as not to vote on Gov. Scott Walker's budget cuts."
[Real Clear Politics]

States to become referees of feds' constitutionality

"Two states [Arizona, Montana] have introduced legislative plans that would set up standing commissions whose members would be tasked with reviewing "all existing federal statutes, mandates, and executive orders" to determine their constitutionality, then recommending to lawmakers whether that state should "nullify" any federal law or regulation "that is outside the scope of the powers delegated … to the federal government." "

[WND]

The national anthem isn’t a pop song

Our national anthem...... "It is not a pop ballad or a soul tune. Nor is it a Broadway standard or a heavy metal song. It is not something that the American Idol judges should ever have to critique (though Randy would undoubtedly declare any rendition of it “pitchy”). It is a song about the courage and devotion shown by a group of Americans who in the course of a raging British naval bombardment refused to let the Stars and Stripes fall, no matter the cost to life and limb. And it became a song about the kind of nation we have been and still are, through war and peace, boom and bust. It is about the never-say-die, never-give-in, never-yield attitude that has been the hallmark of our national character and our military’s steadfast defense of freedom from Valley Forge to Fort McHenry to St. Lo to Inchon to Baghdad and Kandahar. It’s about firemen and policemen running into the World Trade Center on 9/11. It’s about that flag flying proudly and defiantly over the land of the free and the home of the brave."

[The Daily Caller]

Fire Them All, Impeach The Rest !!

The Wisconsin Teacher's union rioting at the state capitol in Madison has been going on for three days now.  As many as 10,000 have been picketing, shouting and occupying the Capitol Building.  These are mostly teachers who have "called in sick" to such an extent that school's have been shut down in Madison.  The "sick" ploy is a ruse to get around the law which says that unauthorized absences from their job may be grounds for dismissal.

Isn't this a prime example of the BULLYING behavior about which progressives, including the White House, been cautioning us to avoid?

Teachers are rioting because newly elected Governor Walker has proposed that in order to balance the budget (a requirement under Wisc. law), teachers pay some small amount for their heretofore free health insurance and retirement plan.

Obama has called Walker's proposal an attempt to bust the union and has sent his chief union goon, Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, out to Madison to stir the pot. Obama's campaign organization "Organizing for America" has been spending his campaign funds in support of the striking teachers.

Meanwhile, to prevent a vote in the Wisconsin Senate on the proposal, fourteen Democrat Senators have fled the state to a motel in Illinois.  This prevents the Republican Legislature from assembling a quorum to vote.

I think the law is on Governor Walker's side to do the following two steps:

• Fire all the teachers found to be picketing rather than lying abed at home sick.  They are guilty of unauthorized absence from their job.
• Begin impeachment proceedings against all 14 legislators who are guilty of nonfeasance.
• Remind Obama to keep his mouth and hands out of state government.

[clipper]

Did an FCC official do work for PBS simultaneously?

"..... January 7 of this year.  That was the last day of employment for Yul Kwon, the former deputy chief of consumer and government affairs at the FCC.  According to Cecilia Kang at the Washington Post, Kwon — who won a million dollars on the CBS show “Survivor” in 2006 and had been with CNN and Discovery in between — went back into show business with PBS, hosting its new show “America Revealed,” which PBS announcedtwo days after Kwon left the FCC. "
[Hot Air]

Drug Follows Melanoma Wherever It Goes

"A nanoparticle that targets melanoma and highlights cancerous tissue is entering an early-stage clinical trial. Researchers testing the nanotherapeutic agent, which has been under development for over a decade, hope it provides a way to target melanoma and map its spread throughout the body. Researchers have tested the drug in animals and found no toxicity. Safety tests in five melanoma patients should be completed by the end of the year."
[Technology Review]

Here's A Way To Thank Our Military For Their Service

I always try to talk directly to our military service men and women to thank them for their service.  Sometimes, however, it is not convenient or possible to speak directly to them.  Here's a way to convey your feelings anyhow.

DNC playing role in Wisconsin protests

Obama campaign funds going towards creating riots in Madison !!!!

Tea Party Out to Defeat 3 Longtime GOP Senators

"What does a longtime Republican senator with a national reputation for working well with Democrats do in the face of a potentially career-ending tea party challenge?

If you're Richard Lugar of Indiana, you tell them to "get real."

If you're Olympia Snowe of Maine, you fight off the "Snowe Removal" effort by making key alliances with tea party activists and highlighting your record of fiscal conservatism.

And if you're Orrin Hatch of Utah, you woo them."
[NewsMax]

Have teacher unions nuked the fridge?

"It started in New Jersey, where Chris Christie decided that the only way to real education reform was to challenge the powerful teachers union in the state, 200,000 members strong, and to do it loudly and boldly.   That effort has spread through several states, with the latest battleground erupting in Wisconsin, where teachers staged a wildcat strike with mainly unwitting students in their tow......

.... taking the kids out of classes to march with them underscores another significant concern of the public regarding education.  Most of the students marching with their teachers had no idea of the finer points of Governor Scott Walker’s proposal to bring teacher pension contributions in line with the private sector, a position the union called “slavery” just a couple of months before conceding the point.  Nor do they understand the budget gap that Walker faces, or the nuances of economic policy, tax burdens, and growth policies.  All they know is what their teachers told them — and that speaks to political indoctrination conducted in public schools by activist teachers, and the inability of parents and communities to weed out inappropriate politicking in classrooms."

[Hot Air]

IRAN denies cancellation: Warships to cross Suez Canal

"Report by Iranian TV denies claims that ships had withdrawn their applications to transit into the Mediterranean............

Iran plans to cross the Suez Canal, despite reports to the contrary, Press TV reported on Thursday."
[Jerusalem Post]

San Francisco's hate of religion taken to Supreme Court

"A city's (San Francisco) official condemnation of Roman Catholic Church teachings as "discriminatory," "insulting," "callous" and "defamatory" is being taken to the U.S. Supreme Court because of the Constitution's requirement that government not be "hostile" to faith."

[WND]

More Bad News on the Budget

"The budget is about $3.7 trillion. Of that we take in about $2 trillion in taxes. The rest is being borrowed at present. There's no way we can possibly put more than 20% of federal revenue toward interest, and this presumes a 3% interest rate on that debt, which is insanely optimistic after we manage to pile on another double. If we get a "Greece" style response and rates shoot upward, well, you can forget about it.

We must get rid of fully half of all federal spending and we must run a primary budget surplus including all off-balance sheet items such as Social Security and Medicare."

[Power Line]

Segway look out. Honda's gonna make a fortune with this!

Healthcare Reform Law Requires New IRS Army Of 1,054

"The Internal Revenue Service says it will need an battalion of 1,054 new auditors and staffers and new facilities at a cost to taxpayers of more than $359 million in fiscal 2012 just to watch over the initial implementation of President Obama's healthcare reforms. Among the new corps will be 81 workers assigned to make sure tanning salons pay a new 10 percent excise tax. Their cost: $11.5 million."

[US News & World Report]

Watch Wisconsin: SEIU, teachers’ unions attempt state hijacking over cuts

"As Wisconsin goes, so go the nation’s bankrupt and near-bankrupt states.

The SEIU has declared full-scale war on the Badger State over attempts to rein in bloated public union pay and benefits."
[Michelle Malkin]

Obama's Media Machine: State Run Media 2.0?

Is the Obama Whitehouse developing news media outlets it can control, cutting off traditional repoting?

"
"The administration has narrowed access by the mainstream media to an unprecedented extent," said ABC News White House correspondent Ann Compton, who has covered seven administrations. "Access here has shriveled."

Members of the press have always had quibbles with White House media strategies, calling cut-backs in access an affront to transparency, even as administration officials insist they're simply taking advantage of new technologies.

But some say the current dynamic is different, and dangerous.  "They're opening the door to kicking the press out of historic events, and opening the door to having a very filtered format for which they give the American public information that doesn't have any criticism allowed," said University of Minnesota journalism professor and political communication analyst Heather LaMarre."

[ABC News]

UK Inflation Surges to 4%, Highest Since Nov. 2008

"British consumer price inflation surged to double the Bank of England's target in January, official data showed on Tuesday, raising pressure on the central bank to look seriously at increasing interest rates."

[Reuters]

The Administration's FY 2012 Budget: A First Look

Obama's new 2012 budget released today ACTUALLY spends more, and increases our debt more than his last budget and more than he projected for 2012 back in 2010!   What a bald-faced, lying, cynical, narcissist he is!

OBAMA TO THE NEXT GENERATION: SCREW YOU, SUCKERS!

"...the core challenge of this time is not the cost of discretionary spending. Obama knows this; everyone knows this. The crisis is the cost of future entitlements and defense, about which Obama proposes nothing. Yes, there's some blather. But Obama will not risk in any way any vulnerability on taxes to his right or entitlement spending to his left. He convened a deficit commission in order to throw it in the trash. If I were Alan Simpson or Erskine Bowles, I'd feel duped. And they were duped. All of us who took Obama's pitch as fiscally responsible were duped."

[The Atlantic]

THE RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

Subject:  IT HAS ONLY BEEN 2 YEARS! THE RECORD SPEAKS FOR ITSELF   Time for the revelation of some very interesting numbers: Two years ago today, Barack Obama was inaugurated as president of the United States . Are you better off today than you were two years ago? Numbers don't lie, and here are the data on the impact he has had on the lives of Americans: January 2009 TODAY % chg Source Avg. retail price/gallon gas in U.S. $1.83 $3.104 69.6% 1 Crude oil, European Brent (barrel) $43.48 $99.02 127.7% 2 Crude oil, West TX Inter. (barrel) $38.74 $91.38 135.9% 2 Gold: London (per troy oz.) $853.25 $1,369.50 60.5% 2 Corn, No.2 yellow, Central IL $3.56 $6.33 78.1% 2 Soybeans, No. 1 yellow, IL $9.66 $13.75 42.3% 2 Sugar, cane, raw, world, lb. fob $13.37 $35.39 164.7% 2 Unemployment rate, non-farm, overall 7.6% 9.4% 23.7% 3 Unemployment rate, blacks 12.6% 15.8% 25.4% 3 Number of unemployed 11,616,000 14,485,000 24.7% 3 Number of fed. employees, ex. military (curr = 12/10 prelim) 2,779,000 2,840,000 2.2% 3 Real median household income (2008 v 2009) $50,112 $49,777 -0.7% 4 Number of food stamp recipients (curr = 10/10) 31,983,716 43,200,878 35.1% 5 Number of unemployment benefit recipients (curr = 12/10) 7,526,598 9,193,838 22.2% 6 Number of long-term unemployed 2,600,000 6,400,000 146.2% 3 Poverty rate, individuals (2008 v 2009) 13.2% 14.3% 8.3% 4 People in poverty in U.S. (2008 v 2009) 39,800,000 43,600,000 9.5% 4 U.S. rank in Economic Freedom World Rankings 5 9 n/a 10 Present Situation Index (curr = 12/10) 29.9 23.5 -21.4% 11 Failed banks (curr = 2010 + 2011 to date) 140 164 17.1% 12 U.S. dollar versus Japanese yen exchange rate 89.76 82.03 -8.6% 2 U.S. money supply, M1, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) 1,575.1 1,865.7 18.4% 13 U.S. money supply, M2, in billions (curr = 12/10 prelim) 8,310.9 8,852.3 6.5% 13 National debt, in trillions $10.627 $14.052 32.2% 14 Just take this last item:  In the last two years we have accumulated national debt at a rate more than 27 times as fast as during the rest of our entire nation's history. Over 27 times as fast! Metaphorically, speaking, if you are driving in the right lane doing 65 MPH and a car rockets past you in the left lane 27 times faster . . . it would be doing 1,755 MPH! This is a disaster!

Obama 'Furious' With Hillary State Department Over Egypt

"Is a civil war brewing between the Obama White House and Hillary Clinton's State Department?"

[NewsMax]

The MASSIVE Increase in Bureaucratic Red Tape Coming Down The Pike

New bureaus, departments & agencies created by Obamacare.

Obama administration official urges cable companies to carry Al-Jazeera

"AL Jazeera is filled with anti-American propaganda. It is also awash in anti-Semitism. The material broadcast stokes terror and violence.

Why would the person who Barack Obama appointed to be the Assistant Secretary at the Department of Homeland Security, Juliette Kayyem, advocate American cable companies carry the channel-a channel that cannot help but inflame tensions and anger and one that is not known for unbiased accuracy."

[American Thinker]

Clothing Prices to Rise 10% Starting in Spring

"Retailers and clothing makers cut frills and experimented with fabric blends to cut prices during the recession. But as the world economy recovers and demand for goods rises, a surge in labor and raw materials costs is squeezing retailers and manufacturers who have run out of ways to pare costs.

Cotton has more than doubled in price over the past year, hitting all-time highs."

[CNBC]

What Happens in Vagueness Stays in Vagueness

"I recently watched a television program in which a woman described a baby squirrel that she had found in her yard. “And he was like, you know, ‘Helloooo, what are you looking at?’ and stuff, and I’m like, you know, ‘Can I, like, pick you up?,’ and he goes, like, ‘Brrrp brrrp brrrp,’ and I’m like, you know, ‘Whoa, that is so wow!’ ” "
[City Journal]

Dubunking the leading Obamacare litigation myths

"In recent days, much ink has been spilled and a great deal of hot air expended by ObamaCare apologists seeking to defend the constitutionality of the radical overhaul of Americans’ healthcare delivery system.

In the process, a lot of misinformation has been disseminated. Here are some of the most common myths being peddled in defense of ObamaCare:  "

[Washington Examiner]

Nicolas Sarkozy joins David Cameron and Angela Merkel view that multiculturalism has failed

"French president Nicolas Sarkozy has joined David Cameron in condemning multiculturalism as a failure.

[U.K. Prime Minister] Cameron launched a scathing attack earlier this months on 30 years of multiculturalism in Britain warning that it fostered extremism.

His damning verdict came just months after German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that multiculturalism in Germany had failed."

[Daily Mail]

Don't hold your breath waiting for Obama to jump on THIS bandwagon.

The hypocrisy of Michael Moore

"Michael Moore is a hypocrite. He embodies all that is wrong with Hollywood: He is a shameless, self-serving propagandist masquerading as an idealistic “artist.”

This week the famous left-wing movie director filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court against the producers of his 2004 anti-war, anti-Bush film, “Fahrenheit 9/11.” The reason: Mr. Moore is demanding $2.7 million in unpaid profits that he says are owed to him. He has already pocketed nearly $20 million in profits from the blockbuster documentary. In other words, he has reaped a huge financial windfall. But this is not enough for him."

[Washington Times]

Food prices at record highs (Europe)

"Food prices hit a record high in January, contributing to unrest in North Africa and stoking fears about how the world will feed itself as the population continues to explode. Europe's agricultural markets play a key role in determining supply and prices, and European leaders have made the concept of "food security" a major part of their rhetoric in the first months of this year."

[Prague Post]

Navy spent $450,000 of taxpayer money on Super Bowl flyover... when the stadium roof was shut

"The U.S. Navy has been criticised for spending almost half a million dollars of taxpayers' money on a flyover at the Super Bowl - while the stadium roof was closed.

The estimated $450,000 expense was for four fighter jets that flew from Virginia to Texas and over the retractable roof of Cowboys Stadium in Dallas.

As it was broadcast on screens at the Super Bowl XLV on Sunday, spectators inside the stadium got the same view as people watching the five-second shot at home."

[U.K. Mail]

The Real 'Birther' Conspiracy Theory

"I have come to see that when there are actual conspiracies afoot, they fall into two general categories, conspiracies of execution and conspiracies of concealment."

[Amerian Thinker]

Congress Has Time and Options on Debt Limit

"The massive federal budget deficit is unsustainable today because of out-of-control spending. Consequently, the federal government is about to run up against its statutorily imposed debt limit. Fortunately, Congress has options, and it has time to consider them carefully"  

[Heritage Foundation]

Who's Policing Amtrak Joe Biden's Rail Boondoggles?

"Compounding matters now, cronyism runs rampant in the federal rail bureaucracy. Biden's lobbyist son, Hunter, sits on the Amtrak board of directors. Amtrak Vice President Eleanor Acheson is a close pal of — you guessed it — Joe Biden. She oversees the very Law Department accused of interfering repeatedly with the taxpayer advocates in the inspector general's office. Acheson hired Biden's former Senate staffer Jonathan Meyer as her deputy general counsel. Meyer called it a "happy coincidence."

In another such fortuitous coincidence, one of the top beneficiaries of the new White House rail bailout is GE Transportation — the leading manufacturer of diesel-electric locomotives. President Obama recently named GE CEO Jeffrey Immelt to head the new White House jobs council."

[Michelle Malkin]

Supreme Court warned: Don't avoid eligibility

"A veteran attorney who has pursued a lawsuit challenging Barack Obama's presidential eligibility since he was elected is telling the U.S. Supreme Court that if its members continue to "avoid" the dispute they effectively will "destroy the constitutional rule of law basis of our legal system."
[WND]

Watch What He DOES ..... Not What He Says !!!

"During Sunday’s interview, Bill O’Reilly asked Obama if he is “a man who wants to redistribute wealth,” as The Wall Street Journal has described him. 

The president denied it, again saying, “I didn't raise taxes once; I lowered taxes over the last two years.”  "

[CNS]

Egypt After Mubarak

A thorough discussion of the alternative forms the post Mubarak government might take.

Lynching? It's OK With the NAACP

"One might think that calls for the lynching of one of the most prominent African-Americans in public life would be right up the NAACP's alley, but no: when the African-American in question is a Republican, the NAACP is AWOL:"
[POWER LINE]

A Flap over F.L.A.P.

In two Arlington Texas schools the study of ARABIC is MANDATORY !!!! Funded by our FEDERAL taxpayer $$$$$$.

Oh the Irony!… Code Pink Founder Medea Benjamin Rescued from Cairo Chaos By Pro-American Army Officer

"This week we can report the humiliating irony of virulently anti-U.S. military activist Code Pink co-founder Susan “Medea” Benjamin who was rescued by a U.S. Army trained Egyptian Army officer. Benjamin writes at OpEdNews that she was kidnapped in Cairo by “pro-Mubarak thugs.”"
[Gateway Pundit]

House Will Vote Next Week to Block Funding for Obamacare

"House Republicans aim to pass a spending measure next week that would immediately cut at least $32 billion from the government’s $3.7 trillion budget in an effort to trim record budget deficits.

Republican lawmakers are expected to unveil details of the spending-cut package on Thursday ahead of a wide-ranging debate on the House floor next week."
[Gateway Pundit]

A 'high-speed' boondoggle

"Where can Congress start cutting spending? One obvious answer: high-speed rail.
The Obama administration is spending billions of stimulus dollars for rail projects that make no sense and that, if they're ever built, will be a drag on taxpayers indefinitely."
[NY POST]