U.S. Socialist Leaders Incite Youth Revolutionaries

"I posted here on an upcoming national activist "teach-in" on "Debt, Austerity and Corporate Greed" being organized by Democratic Socialists of America leaders Frances Fox Piven and Cornel West.

[New Zeal]

Is the Tea Party Pooped? It Must Keep Making Its Case

"Has the wind gone out of the sails of the smaller government movement? Is the tea party movement going through a hangover?
   
You can find some evidence for these propositions."
[Human Events]

Skunked

Like Pepé Le Pew, the Congress lights off a stink bomb whenever it speaks finances ....

"I speak, of course, to the budget deficit and Washington’s inability to recognize the intractable: 75% of the budget is non-discretionary and entitlement based. Without attacking entitlements – Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security – we are smelling $1 trillion deficits as far as the nose can sniff. Once dominated by defense spending, these three categories now account for 44% of total Federal spending and are steadily rising.

Unless entitlements are substantially reformed, I am confident that this country will default on its debt; not in conventional ways, but by picking the pocket of savers via a combination of less observable, yet historically verifiable policies – inflation, currency devaluation and low to negative real interest rates.  

Our clients, who represent unions, cities, U.S. and global pension funds, foundations, as well as Main Street citizens, do not want to be shortchanged or have their pockets picked. It is incumbent, therefore, in order to preserve the integrity of the U.S. Treasury market along with its favorable global interest rates, and to promote a stable U.S. economy, that entitlement spending be reduced, and that future liabilities be addressed in terms of healthcare and Social Security cost containment. You must attack entitlements and make ‘debt’ a four-letter word.”

[William H. Gross, Pimco]

The Liberal Addiction to Bureaucracy

"Ms. [Elizabeth] Warren's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform act, is a curious animal.  It is not part of a regular executive department, but part of the Federal Reserve System.  It is funded not from normal appropriations, but from the Fed's profits.  But it is not accountable to the Fed.  It is accountable instead to the Financial Stability Council, which can overrule the bureau's rules only with a two-thirds supermajority vote.  Right now according to the Wall Street Journal, Ms. Warren and her bureau are working on a bureaucratic plan to "punish banks and reward voters with mortgage principal writedowns," as if that will help turn around the continuing housing meltdown."

[American Thinker]

NBC News Silent on GE Tax Issue

"The Washington Post reported today that NBC News conveniently decided not to report on a  story that parent company General Electric avoided paying taxes on its income last year."
[Accuracy In Media]

Perfect: Obama Accepts Transparency Award in Closed Press Ceremony

HYPOCRISY ......... thy name is OBAMA

"President Obama finally and quietly accepted his “transparency” award from the open government community this week — in a closed, undisclosed meeting at the White House on Monday.

The secret presentation happened almost two weeks after the White House inexplicably postponed the ceremony, which was expected to be open to the press pool."
[Michelle Malkin]

Organized Labor or Organized Thugs? AFSCME Openly Threatens WI Businesses

"Union threats that were somewhat isolated a couple of weeks ago are now gaining in popularity among union bosses in Wisconsin. Business owners are now receiving threatening letters telling them that, if they don’t support government-sector unions, their businesses will be boycotted."
[RedState]

Does Harry Reid Really Want to Play the ‘Let’s Look at the Polls’ Game?

"Basing his opinion on a CNN poll, Harry Reid says the Tea Party is all but kaput: .....

Judging from the behavior of Charles Schumer, the Tea Party is still very much relevant."
[Michelle Malkin]

Why I Won't Vote to Raise the Debt Limit

Marco Rubio speaks out on our fiscal problems........

Caterpillar's Alarm Bell For Illinois

The CEO of Caterpillar (earth moving, tractors, BIG yellow trucks!) has told Illinois Governor Quinn that he is considering moving out of Illinois.  This after Illinois has raised state corporate income tax by 49%, from 7.3% to 10.9%.  Illinois now has the highest corporate income tax in the entire world!   And what is the Governor's response? ...... aw, don't worry, they wouldn't do that.

"Caterpillar, of course, is lucky. It can move. Unfortunately, small towns that rely on business with Caterpillar workers will go under. So will many small businesses that aren't able to move after such tax hikes.

If Quinn doesn't think Caterpillar has given him reason to panic, he'd better think again. By his indifference, he'll learn the bitter lesson of how fast a state can become just like Detroit."

[IBD]

Rep. Anthony Weiner had more than $2000 in upaid parking tickets in Washington, D.C.

Typical hypocritical, elitist, holier-than-thou behavior by THIS NY Congressman....

Jan 12, 2010 Rep. Anthony Weiner's website:

"Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Brooklyn and Queens), a member of the House Judiciary Crime Subcommittee, unveiled a new study showing that 180 foreign nations owe New York City $18 million in parking tickets. Rep. Weiner announced legislation which would ensure that this outstanding debt is paid to New York City."

Mar 29, 2011 Michelle Malkin website:

Crusader Against Unpaid Parking Tickets Had Over $2,000 in Unpaid Parking Tickets

US Launches 22 Tomahawk Missiles at Libyan Targets in Non-War

"Remember: This isn’t war.
Barack Obama may not have mentioned “rebels” or “war” in his Libya speech on Monday but that didn’t stop the US from launching 22 Tomahawk missiles at Libyan targets in the last 24 hours."
[Gateway Pundit]

Longtime Pro-Violence Radical Activist Frances Fox Piven Is SHOCKED She Is Getting Death Threats

"In the Nation magazine just last month, Ms. Piven expressed outrage that Wall Street bankers weren’t being dragged from their homes and led to the guillotine because of the country’s high unemployment rates and an anemic economy. “So where are the angry crowds, the demonstrations, sit-ins and unruly mobs? After all, the injustice is apparent,” she wrote."

[Capital Research Center]

Is Obama purging God from America 'by design'?

"Obama has been caught numerous times – seven, by WND columnist Chuck Norris' count – omitting the phrase "endowed by their Creator" when quoting the Declaration of Independence and misquoting the national motto "In God We Trust" in official White House communication."

[WND]

In Wisconsin, mob rule and intimidation

"It's an affront to democracy, but since it's by the left, the media look away."
[Star Tribune]

Just Who is the West Helping in Libya?

"Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi, the Libyan rebel leader, has said jihadists who fought against allied troops in Iraq are on the front lines of the battle against Muammar Gaddafi's regime."
[New Zeal]

Obama's High Food Price Policy Stealing Milk from Babies

"The price of corn has reached a record $7 a bushel. Other basic foodstuffs, including wheat, sugar, and soybeans are selling at or near record prices. Milk prices as well have risen to record levels, making it more difficult for families to purchase milk for their children. It is Obama, more than anyone, who is responsible for this state of affairs."

[American Thinker]

Diplomats discuss Libya's future as Italy plots Gaddafi's escape route

"Efforts appear to be under way to offer Muammar Gaddafi a way of escape from Libya, with Italy saying it was trying to organise an African haven for him, and the US signalling it would not try to stop the dictator from fleeing."
[Guardian U.K.]

Media Matters' war against Fox

Yet another instance of the new CIVILITY called for by Obama and his leftist keepers....... ?????

"The liberal group Media Matters has quietly transformed itself in preparation for what its founder, David Brock, described in an interview as an all-out campaign of “guerrilla warfare and sabotage” aimed at the Fox News Channel."
[Politico]

EU to ban cars from cities by 2050

"Cars will be banned from London and all other cities across Europe under a draconian EU masterplan to cut CO2 emissions by 60 per cent over the next 40 years.

The plan also envisages an end to cheap holiday flights from Britain to southern Europe with a target that over 50 per cent of all journeys above 186 miles should be by rail."
[The Telegraph]

The world's largest army?

"I don't spend my fall weekends tramping around the woods in pursuit of a buck, but a lot of my friends and neighbors do.
This blogger adds up all the hunters in just a handful of states, and comes to a striking conclusion:"

[Bruce Ross]

Can We Save America?

"Sixty years ago in February I came to the United States.  I was classified as a "displaced person" from World War II with no identity or knowledge of when, where or to whom I was born, an orphan who had miraculously survived on the streets of a war ravaged city somewhere in central Europe.  On that bitterly cold overcast morning as I stood, alone at the railing of a ship, staring at the iconic image of the Statue of Liberty, I found myself arriving in a strange country itself coming face to face with a new and unwelcome role as the foremost nation on earth about to embark on being the most dominate economic and military power in modern history.

The current Ruling Class is predominantly made up of those active in various political movements in the 1960's through the early 1980's and is the most self-centered and egotistical generation in the history of the country.  Having been raised in unfathomable prosperity and told how unique they were, many sought out political and social philosophies which aided and abetted their determination to justify a hedonistic lifestyle, eliminate any ethical or behavioral absolutes and solidify their need for power and notoriety.

In order to awaken at least a part of the populace it has taken an imminent financial and societal disaster and the election of President Obama, who personifies the excesses of the past sixty years.  He is someone steeped in radical re-distributionist ideology; he is dishonest, as he is a believer in the end justifies any means; and he is dominated by an overweening narcissism.  Mr. Obama is the epitome of someone with a lack of character, as manifested in his indecisiveness and willingness to destroy America's future in order to permanently seize control over the citizenry.."

[American Thinker]

Norwegian Socialists to Vote on Bombing Israel

"The junior partner in the Norwegian government, the Socialist Left Party of Kristin Halvorsen, (Sosialistisk Venstreparti), plans to vote on a measure calling for military action against Israel if it decides to act against the Hamas in Gaza."
[Gateway Pundit]

Defense Secretary: Libya Did Not Pose Threat to U.S., Was Not 'Vital National Interest' to Intervene

"Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said that Libya did not pose a threat to the United States before the U.S. began its military campaign against the North African country."
[ABC]

FIGURES… SEIU Is Partner With Obama’s Conservation Youth Corps

"Big Government Socialists Never Sleep—
Just when you thought this radical administration was ready to cut back on their socialist agenda they surprise you with another shockingly radical initiative.

Team Obama announced this week the formation of their American Conservation Youth Corps.

[Gateway Pundit]

Obama’s Monetary Policy: Stick It to the Middle Class

"It seems that one heck of a prestigious dude — William Dudley, president of the New York Federal Reserve — decided to have a little tête-à-tête with local consumers, no doubt sensing a need to bolster their confidence in the Fed’s more-fishy-by-the-hour monetary policy. Mr. Dudley gave a nice PR speech highlighting “improvements” in the economy and the Fed’s “successes.”

Then came the questions. One guy had the audacity to hope he could make some sense out of the government’s insistence that inflation remains minimal despite the largest monthly increase in food costs in 36 years — and gas spiking so much that soon the cost of getting to work may exceed one’s wages. Dudley made use of a skill they must have taught him at Berkeley, proceeding to ram his Goldman Sachs resume, along with his Gucci loafer, right through his front teeth:

“Today you can buy an iPad 2 that costs the same as an iPad 1 that is twice as powerful,” he replied. “You have to look at the prices of all things.”

To which one truly great American responded: “I can’t eat an iPad.” He might as well have added, “I can’t drive an iPad to work either.” And at the rate grocery and gas prices are rising, by the end of this year, I couldn’t afford that iPad’s monthly service fee even if I had enough discretionary income to purchase the little piece of dazzling technology in the first place.
[ Pajama's Media]

After blitz of the Ritz, it's the siege of Fortnum & Mason: Anarchists hijack the anti-cuts demo and go on rampage in central London

• Hooded anarchists throw paint and set off flares on Oxford Street
• Police targeted with missiles and light bulbs filled with ammonia
• Windows at The Ritz smashed as masked youths run wild
• Anti-capitalist smash banks and cash points in city centre rampage
• Five police officers injured in clashes, one seriously
• Labour leader Ed Miliband likens protest to anti-apartheid movement

Obama in Weekly Address: Mission in Libya Is Succeeding…........................................................... For Al-Qaeda

"Yesterday we found out that the rebels we are helping in Libya are linked to Al-Qaeda. Their current leader Abdel-Hakim al-Hasidi was previously captured and imprisoned fighting against the US in Afghanistan."
[Gateway Pundit]

Revealed — The Left’s Economic Terrorism Playbook: The Chase Campaign by a Coalition of Unions, Community Groups, Lawmakers and Students to Take Down US Capitalism and Redistribute Wealth & Power

Watch the UNCUT video tape of this former SEIU (Service Employees International Union) executive describing his plan to bring down J.P. Morgan Chase bank in May, followed by collapsing the stock market and bringing our country to its knees.

Former SEIU Official Reveals Secret Plan To Destroy JP Morgan

Democrats advance 'lesbians-as-role models' plan

"A band of six Democrats in the California state Senate voted today to advance a bill that has been described as "the worst school sexual indoctrination ever" and would require that school children be taught to admire "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual" role models. 

"S.B. 48 micromanages public schools by forcing teachers, administrators, local school boards, textbooks, and instructional materials to promote a gaggle of sexual lifestyles that disturb parents and confuse kids," Thomasson said. "This costly state mandate targets children for sexual brainwashing, behind the backs of parents, teaching boys and girls to admire those who engage in homosexual, bisexual or transsexual behavior."

[WND]

Trump: Obama Must Release Birth Certificate

"Donald Trump is calling on President Barack Obama to produce his birth certificate and end speculation he was born outside the United States.

"I want him to show his birth certificate. I want him to show his birth certificate," Trump said on ABC's "The View." "There's something on that birth certificate that he doesn't like."

[Newsmax]

NH Supreme Court: homeschooled girl must go to public school against mom’s wishes

"The New Hampshire Supreme Court upheld a lower court order Wednesday that sided with the father of a homeschooled student and forced her into a government-run school against her Christian mother’s wishes."
[LifeSite News]

Holder ignores demands for NAACP-influence data

"The lawsuit was filed by Judicial Watch, the public interest organization that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, over a refusal by the federal agency to provide information about the decision.

At issue in the case is whether the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People "improperly influenced" the Justice Department, the nation's highest law enforcement agency, "to drop a lawsuit against members of the Black Panthers who allegedly threatened and intimidated white voters outside a polling station during the 2008 election."

[WND]

Led into war by a president who can't be trusted

"Americans will have a hard time supporting President Obama's war in Libya -- because the United States is already fighting two wars, because the president never publicly made the case for involvement, because Congress never authorized the war, and because there are no identifiable American interests.

 

But just as important, for those Americans paying close attention, is the growing realization that the president can't be trusted. His assurances that America's military role in Libya will be limited in scope and duration carry little weight after the lies and evasions of his top aides. Not even a week into our war on Libya, the White House has already peppered Americans with a handful of falsehoods, equivocations and misleading statements."

[Washington Examiner]

White House: Libya fight is not war, it's 'kinetic military action'

"Now, White House officials are referring to the war in Libya not as a war but as a "kinetic military action." As common as "kinetic" might be among those in government, it still seems likely to strike members of the public as a euphemism that allows the Obama administration to describe a war as something other than a war."

[Washington Examiner]

Obama's War on the Middle Class

"It should be obvious that Obama and the left wing of the Democratic Party are not struggling to defend the middle class. Most of the time they are struggling to disenfranchise it by ignoring the basic rights of human liberty and of property that are guaranteed under our Constitution.

As Obama understands all too well, one of the hallmarks of all socialist countries is the absence of an independent middle class. From the Bolshevik experiment in Russia to socialist Venezuela today, it is necessary for communist leaders to eliminate that class of citizens who are not dependent on government for their welfare.  "

[American Thinker]

Who's in charge? Germans pull forces out of NATO as Libyan coalition falls apart

 

 OBAMA HAS SCREWED THIS ONE UP ....... ROYALLY !

• Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated
• French propose a new political 'committee' to oversee operations
• Germany pulls equipment out of NATO coalition over disagreement over campaign's direction
• Italians accuse French of backing NATO in exchange for oil contracts
• No-fly zone called into question after first wave of strikes 'neutralises' Libyan military machine
• U.K. ministers say war could last '30 years'
• Italy to 'take back control' of bases used by allies unless NATO leadership put in charge of the mission
• Russians tell U.S. to stop bombing in order to protect civilians - calls bombing a 'crusade'

Are We Getting Our Money's Worth in Higher Education?

"President Obama has stressed that a college education is critical to the future of America and our ability to compete in the world marketplace. To achieve that aim, our government is spending 60% more in 2011 than 2008 and providing 123% more in tax breaks for post secondary education (i.e., college). The Government has taken over all federally backed student loans, pushing almost all private lenders out of the 100 billion a year market.

But are we getting our money's worth?"

[American Thinker]

France proposes “political steering committee” to take over Libya mission

"Wait, wasn’t NATO supposed to take over operations once U.S. airstrikes had sufficiently disabled Qaddafi’s defenses to make air patrols a breeze? What happened?"

[Hot Air]

Libya: Obama's Got Some 'Splainin' to Do

"Can anyone please "splain" our Libya policy?  There have been so many positions taken by so many different folks in the administration from State to Defense to Executive over the past 2-3 weeks that I am a tad confused.  Even the latest version announced with classic stern face, upturned jaw and bellicose language was preposterous if you listened closely to the words. 

First of all, what exactly is the Libyan "conflict"?  Unlike other protests in the Middle East which have based on an effort to achieve some type of democratic reform, and for the most part have been peaceful assemblies, Libya is best described as an all out civil war among tribes based in different regions.  It gets worse.  While it has been possible to identify most of the protest leaders and their goals in other countries so we can at least evaluate what might ensue if their demands were adopted, we have no real understanding of who the Libyan "opposition" is other than they are all against Khadafy; and little grasp of what a post Khadafy Libya would look like with these guys in control."

[American Thinker] 

Yes, sex can kill you, U.S. study shows

"Sudden bursts of moderate to intense physical activity -- such as jogging or having sex -- significantly increase the risk of having a heart attack .............. "
[Reuters]

Bolivian President calls for US President Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize to be revoked

"'Two years ago we heard that President Barack Obama had won the Nobel Peace Prize, but is he defending peace in the world now, or isn't he instead fomenting violence?' "
[Sky News]

and .................

Russia's Zhirinovsky calls to revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize

Judge orders use of Islamic law in Tampa lawsuit

"The question of what law applies in any Florida courtroom usually comes down to two choices: federal or state.

But Hillsborough Circuit Judge Richard Nielsen is being attacked by conservative bloggers after he ruled in a lawsuit March 3 that, to resolve one crucial issue in the case, he will consult a different source.

"This case," the judge wrote, "will proceed under Ecclesiastical Islamic Law." "

[St. Petersburg Times]

Who's in charge? NATO members squabble over who leads Libyan bombings...and they can't even agree whether to assassinate Gaddafi

How much more evidence of Obama's lack of leadership do YOU need to be convinced he is too lightweight for the job of President?

"A war of words has erupted between the U.S. and Britain after the U.K. government claimed Muammar Gaddafi is a legitimate target for assassination.

U.K. government officials said killing the Libyan leader would be legal if it prevented civilian deaths as laid out in a U.N. resolution.

But U.S. defence secretary Robert Gates hit back at the suggestion, saying it would be 'unwise' to target the Libyan leader and that the bombing campaign should stick to the 'U.N. mandate'.

The infighting comes as a heated meeting of NATO ambassadors yesterday failed to resolve whether the 28-nation alliance should run the operation to enforce a U.N.-mandated no-fly zone, diplomats said.

• Tensions with Britain as Gates rebukes UK government over suggestion Gaddafi could be assassinated
• No-fly zone called into question after first wave of strikes 'neutralises' Libyan military machine
• Italy to 'take back control' of bases used by allies unless NATO leadership put in charge of the mission
• NATO baulks at taking over operation with Turkey and European countries unwilling

• Russians tell U.S. to stop bombing in order to protect civilians

In the U.S. Mr Obama has made it clear he wants no part of any leadership role in Libya.

The President has already been criticised for continuing with a tour of Latin America as the military operation over Libya began. And yesterday he insisted again that while Gaddafi must go, the U.S. is not prepared to remove him by force, but merely to enforce the no-fly zone. 

Even that hesitant stance, which has already earned him the title of the Great Vacillator, left him criticised for not seeking proper approval from Congress before sending the American military in."

[U.K. Mail]

Senator Questions $2-Billion Loan to Brazil for Offshore Drilling as Domestic Production Languishes

"Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) is questioning how the United States has benefited from a $2-billion loan the Export Import Bank of the United States made to a Brazilian oil company for its offshore drilling operations.

Specifically, Vitter now wants to know:
-- The name of all U.S. companies that have increased exports based on this loan.
-- The specific product exports that have increased based on this loan.
-- The return on investment for this loan during the next 5 and 10-year windows.
-- The name of all U.S. and foreign investors, including institutional investors, that increased their shareholdings in Petrobras in excess of $50 million within a 6 month period before and after the ExIm loan.  [George Soros is a major investor in Petrobas]"
 [CNS]

The Goil From Ipanema

" "Right now, the president could order that oil production start in Alaska; that all permits be granted in the Gulf of Mexico; that Canada - our trusted ally, number one trading partner and largest supplier of oil - gets the permits they need to spend billions of dollars to build a pipeline across our border; or direct his Interior Secretary to stop holding up oil shale leasing on western lands.
"Instead, he's handing out loans for, and talking up the virtues of, Brazilian oil discoveries. These are discoveries his own policies are stopping right here in the U.S. The mystery of his approach is why it continues to be so anti-North American when it comes to where we get our oil."
[Power Line]

Union Thuggery: Why Isn't It News?

"[T]he big-media folks seem so anxious to peddle the same tired storyline -- right-wingers are violent and ignorant, left-wingers are peaceful and virtuous -- that they almost have to ignore anything that will spoil the narrative.

But in doing this, they only undermine their own position more. Word still gets out -- even to liberals at the Huffington Post. And people catch on: If there are big stories out there that traditional media won't cover because it offends their storyline, then why listen to traditional media at all?"

[Power Line]

Obama, The Accidental President

"Once upon a time there lived an emperor. One day two crafty weavers turned up at the palace and offered to make a new suit of clothes for the ruler -- clothes so marvelous that they would be invisible to those unfit for their positions, stupid or incompetent. And so when the emperor stepped out to show off his brand-new attire, the courtiers, fearful of being found out and ridiculed, would not admit to themselves the truth of what their eyes were telling them. Until an innocent child in the crowd of onlookers cried out, "He isn't wearing anything at all!", and the spell was broken.

Hans Christian Andersen did not indicate whether the weavers' names were David Axelrod and David Plouffe, but the similarity is striking. The two Davids brilliantly succeeded in packaging and selling to the country an unknown tyro from Chicago without a past or any visible qualifications other than imposing looks, a resonant voice and an ability to use the teleprompter. Like the weavers in the great Danish writer's fairy-tale, the Obama handlers insulated their candidate against criticism by preemptively warning that any doubt as to his fitness for office was proof positive of mean-spiritedness and racism. And the liberal crowd swallowed the bait hook, line and sinker."

[American Thinker]

No Wonder They Hate Governor Walker… Oshkosh Teachers Got 90 Sick Days a Year

"No wonder they hate Governor Scott Walker.
Oshkosh teachers were getting 90 sick days a year… They only worked 180 days a year."
[Gateway Pundit]

THE LEFT IS SILENT

BUSH - WAR MONGER, CRIMINAL

'American and coalition forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm Iraq, to free its people and to defend the world from grave danger' .... George W. Bush, 19 March 2003

OBAMA - HEROIC !

'Today we are part of a broad coalition. We are answering the calls of a threatened people. And we are acting in the interests of the United States and the world' .... Barack Hussein Obama, 19 March 2011

Libya and the Left's Sickening Hypocrisy on the Use of Military Force

"An evil Arab dictator has been in power for decades. He personally controls his country's vast oil wealth. A sponsor of terrorism, he has provoked the West to take military action against him in the past. Islamic fundamentalists despise him as much as the West does. When his people rise up against him, he murders them ruthlessly. The United Nations Security Council has passed resolutions condemning him. An American president, intent on promoting democracy in the Middle East, demands that the dictator abdicate. When the dictator fails to leave, the American president authorizes the use of military force. Our "allies," including Great Britain, are asked to help. The endgame for the use of force is unclear.

Sound familiar? No, we're not talking about Moammar Qaddafi and Barack Obama. We're talking about Saddam Hussein and George W. Bush. The difference is this: in almost the exact same set of circumstances, Bush was called "Hitler" by the Left. Leftists wrote plays and stories and movies about killing him. Democratic Party politicians, like Sen. Dick Durbin, likened our troops to "Nazis." Democratic Senators like John Kerry and Hillary Clinton, who voted for the military action, accused the president of lying. Mass demonstrations and protests, sponsored by the communist and socialist Left, broke out in the U.S. and Great Britain. Antiwar groups like Code Pink staged demonstrations at military recruiting stations, and had to be dragged shrieking from the halls of Congress. Opponents of the war shouted that Saddam's Iraq never attacked us, and that our military action was a violation of international law. The Left cried for the impeachment of Bush and Cheney."

[American Thinker]

The Democrat Party Halliburton Connection

Remember BIG BAD HALIBURTON COMPANY of the George W. Bush days ?   

Guess who's in bed with them now!

Where's the screaming and hollering from the left? 

"According to a story on the website of  Michael Savage, the list of names was only found in a Brazilian news source, and had to be translated. The list includes the CEO of General Electric, Jeffrey Immelt; Aris Candris, CEO of Westinghouse; John Faraci, CEO of International Paper; Anthony S. Harrington, CEO of the Albright Stonebridge Group; and last but not least, James T. Hackett, CEO of Anadarko Petroleum Corporation and Director of Halliburton Company.  "

[Yahoo]

US Cost of Living Hits Record, Passing Pre-Crisis High

"A special index created by the Labor Department to measure the actual cost of living for Americans hit a record high in February, according to data released Thursday, surpassing the old high in July 2008. The Chained Consumer Price Index, released along with the more widely-watched CPI, increased 0.5 percent to 127.4, from 126.8 in January. In July 2008, just as the housing crisis was tightening its grip, the Chained Consumer Price Index hit its previous record of 126.9."

[CNBC]

Unemployment rises in nearly all metro areas

"The Labor Department said Friday that the unemployment rate rose in 351 metro areas, fell in only 16, and was unchanged in 5. That’s worse than December, when the rate fell in 207 areas and increased in 122."
[USA Today]

The defaming of Toyota

I'll bet you did NOT read about this in your local fish-wrapper of record!

"After an exhaustive ten-month investigation by Ray LaHood’s Transportation Department, assisted by NASA engineers, the United States government has officially concluded that there is no evidence​—​no evidence whatsoever​—​of any mechanical or electronic defect in Toyotas that would cause sudden, unintentional acceleration. No killing machines, no Watergate-style corporate cover-up​—​and no comment, of course, from Henry Waxman or Bobby Rush."

[Weekly Standard]

Obama Squeaks Up

"..... the dithering of the Obama administration has raised a more fundamental question: Have our elites—and not just those running the Obama administration—become so encumbered by self-doubt, so weakened by sophistication, so seduced by the excuses provided by the claim of helplessness, that they are incapable of acting decisively? Once Americans tried to seize every moment of opportunity. Now we are far more likely to stand back and watch history unfold, while explaining why we can’t do anything to shape that history. After all, our foreign policy establishment explains condescendingly, the challenges are daunting. So many forces are beyond our control. The risks are great. The obstacles are overwhelming.

There is another word for this widespread attitude of passive self-doubt. That word is decadence.

Last week’s farcical ferry, bobbing aimlessly in the waters off Tripoli, was an image for our government’s embrace of helplessness, for its acceptance of decline. It recalled the downed helicopters in Iran in early 1980, emblems of the failed Carter administration. But at least President Carter sent helicopters. In so doing he overruled his secretary of state, who wished to do nothing. So far, this president is performing in this crisis at a sub-Jimmy Carter level of assertiveness and command."

[William Kristol]

DISGUSTING… WI Progressives Blame Scott Walker For Teacher’s Suicide

"The Progressive, a liberal website in Wisconsin, reported this week that a Wisconsin teacher committed suicide because of Governor Scott Walker’s union bill. The website says she was “distraught” to learn that she was going to have to pay 12.6% instead of 6% of her insurance premium cost?"

[Gateway Pundit]

Amtrak CEO Forced to Take Car to Biden Station Ribbon Cutting Because His Train Broke Down

"Today, a Wilmington, Delaware train station was officially renamed for Joe Biden, the man charged with ensuring that every stimulus project comes in on time and on budget. Naturally this particular station came in $5.3 million over budget. That, however, was a small price to pay to add another piece to the puzzle of cost-effective reliable mass transit, as those in attendance at the ribbon cutting would find out as soon as the Amtrak CEO got there… by car. The train on which he was going to arrive at the ceremony for the Conductor of America’s Train to the Future broke down."

[Michelle Malkin]

Truth to Power

 David Horowitz vs. the professoriat.

Wisconsin after the Union Takeover

"Wisconsin has become the latest setting for organized liberal activism.  Pro-union forces are setting out to execute the power-plays of leftism: divide, intimidate, and conquer.  Community organizers are working tirelessly to increase the opposition through lies and distortion in the hope of building cold-blooded hatred for Walker and his allies. 

Traditional Wisconsin symbols have been co-opted to foment anti-Walker sentiment.  UW Madison mascot Bucky Badger is portrayed as a victim of Walker's budget cuts, cheese is promoted as union-friendly, and some even claim that Walker has cut state funding for the Green Bay Packers.

Shockingly, the absurdity doesn't end there.  The Wisconsin Dog Rescue is joining others in vilifying Walker as a dog-hater, and liberal blogs steadfastly avow that "Governor Scott Walker wants to kill puppies."

Common citizens and private businesses are the next objects of union wrath.  Director of the Wisconsin Professional Police Association Jim Palmer signed a letter giving businesses who donated to Gov. Walker's campaign one week to publicly denounce Walker or face a union-organized boycott."

[American Thinker]

Rubber Bullets Fly at Anti-Obama Protest In Rio

"A molotov cocktail was launched in front of the US consulate in Rio de Janeiro late Friday in protest of the arrival of President Barack Obama, the O Globo newspaper in Rio reported. "
[Forbes]

America Slouching Towards Fiscal Armageddon

"America is in grave danger.  Our government's out-of-control spending and our politicians' refusal to implement meaningful budget reforms are leading us towards a fiscal crisis that can undermine our very way of life.  We are spending ourselves into oblivion.  With each passing day, we are $5 billion in deficit spending closer to the edge of an abyss that can cripple our economy, destroy America's wealth, and lead to catastrophic social consequences for all current and future generations. Yet our leaders in Washington refuse to face reality and continue to play political games while the country's budget crisis deepens and the threat grows exponentially."

[American Thinker]

Government-Union Reform Spreads Beyond Wisconsin

"The fight in Wisconsin is about who controls government: the voters, through their elected representatives, or government unions? Collective bargaining means the government cannot employ workers except on terms the union accepts. Government unions also politicize the civil service — the money they collect through the state payroll system makes them major political players. Unsurprisingly, unions want government to serve their interests instead of the public’s.

Fortunately, other states are following Governor Walker’s lead. Many states across the country have passed or are moving to pass legislation restoring voter control over their government: ....."

[National Review]

The Strategy of Short-Term CR Opponents

Arguments supporting STOPPING the nickle-dime Continuing Budget Resolutions and get back to passing the entire current year budget...... [clipper]

The McClellan Republicans

"George McClellan was the dashing commander of the Army of the Potomac at the start of the Civil War, whom the troops loved but whom Abraham Lincoln scorned as timid and quick to retreat.

I have taken to calling the House Republican the McClellan Republicans –always preparing to fight but never quite getting to the political battlefield that is the great spending debate. 

The U.S. is spending $3,600 billion a year, with $1,600 billion of it borrowed. The House GOP is quivering at the prospect of a showdown over forcing a cut of 6o of the $3,600 billion!"
[Hugh Hewitt]

Let your Representative know you want them to MOVE.... take on the Dems!

Union-Backed Mayor Loses In Recall Election

"Despite the efforts of county employee unions, Republican Mayor Carlos Alvarez of Miami-Dade County was ousted from office.
 
Voters angry over a property tax rate increase and salary raise for county employees voted to recall the mayor on Tuesday."
[CNS]

House Votes to End NPR Funding

"The House voted to block all federal funding for NPR, a week after the embattled public radio station found itself the subject of a conservative activist's undercover video recording that led to the ouster of its chief executive......"
[Newsmax]

Jesse Jackson: Stop Playin' Us Bro, Insulting Our Intelligence

"Lets delve into a few of Jackson's lies. ....

I believe Jackson and company are intentionally distorting the truth, misleading, manipulating and abusing the American people. They have been getting away with it for far too long. It is time they are called out and held politically accountable. "

[American Thinker]

The car from Atlas Shrugged Motors

"GM has announced a production run of 100,000....... "sales are anemic: 326 in December, 321 in January, and 281 in February." .......[but WAIT, Obama's Economic Advisory Board Chairman and General Electric CEO, Jeffrey ]    Immelt announced that GE will buy 50,000 Volts in the next two years, or half the total produced. Assuming the corporation qualifies for the same tax credit, we (you and me) just shelled out $375,000,000 to a company to buy cars that no one else wants so that GM will not tank and produce even more cars that no one wants. ......"
[Power Line]

Figures. Leftie Tractor Driver at WI Protest Had No License – But Plenty of Drunk Driving Arrests

"Protesters flood the streets around the Capitol on Saturday. The man driving the tractor identified himself as Tod Pulvermacher. Online court records show that a Tod Pulvermacher has been convicted of drunken driving and has no valid driver’s license.

Japan Earthquake: before and after

An amazing set of before/after photos.  Be sure to slide your cursor back and forth across each photo.  There is a second set of these to be viewed by clicking on the appropriate link at the bottom or top.

[clipper]

Why The Japanese Aren't Looting

As one raised in Japan through my formative years, age eleven to eighteen, I understand and agree with this synopsis.  [clipper]

"Foreign observers are noting with curiosity and wonder that the Japanese people in disaster-plagued areas are not looting for desperately-needed supplies like bottled water. This behavior contrasts sharply with what has so often happened in the wake of catastrophes elsewhere, such as Haiti, New Orleans, Chile, and the UK, to name only a few.  Most people chalk up the extraordinary good behavior to Japanese culture, noting the legendary politeness of Japanese people in everyday life."

[American Thinker]

Do Labor Unions Deserve Special Treatment?

"Labor unions occupy a favored status under federal law. Given their steady decline and the problems that are now being caused by public sector unions, perhaps the time has come to reconsider whether according preferential treatment to unions is sound public policy."

[Power Line]

Democracy, Natural Disasters, and Political Ignorance

"The massive destruction and tragic loss of life in the recent earthquake in Japan will surely rekindle debates over how well democratic governments handle natural disaster. The good news is that democracies handle natural disasters much better than nondemocratic nations. On the other hand, the quality of democratic disaster policy is still negatively affected by widespread political ignorance.

[includes discussion of .....]

I. Why Democracies Handle Disaster Better than Dictatorships.

II. How Political Ignorance Makes Disasters Worse. 

III. The Special Case of Extremely Rare Large-Scale Disasters. "

[The Volokh Conspiracy] 

Outrage! US Government Funding La Raza with Your Tax Dollars

"The United States government is funding the National Council of La Raza with our tax dollars. La Raza, which literally means in Spanish “The Race,” is a radical organization that advocates open borders and amnesty for illegal aliens. I pulled and analyzed the tax return Form 990, the form filed by 501(c) 3 organizations to the IRS, and here is what was reported:  "

[Human Events]

USA Inc.

"If the United States were a company, what financial shape would it be in? And what would it make sense to do to put the company on a sounder footing? These are the intriguing questions that a group of investment analysts from Kleiner Perkins, headed by Mary Meeker, set out to answer. The resulting report, which includes 460 Power Point slides, is here. It is titled "USA Inc." "

[Power Line]

Obamacare Would Collapse Without Insurance Mandate

"When the Supreme Court considers whether Congress has the constitutional power to compel individuals to buy health insurance, the argument supporting Congress may rest on a non sequitur and a semantic fiat."

[George Will]

Barack Obama: A Management Appraisal

"In addition to examining the roots of Barack Obama's political philosophy, an evaluation of his management style, such as might be undertaken by an independent business consultant, is likewise instructive. ........

Lacking both the relevant education and experience, were he applying for an executive position in any company, he would in all likelihood be quickly rejected.  His refusal to divulge school records and grades would also work against him.  If the business to which he applied was involved in any form of sensitive or defense work, his past associations with radicals would result in the denial of any security clearance. ..........

From a business standpoint, his lack of performance and organizational skills would demand that any ethical consultant approach the Board of Directors with a very strong recommendation that Mr. Obama be fired.  Perhaps in 2012, he will be."

[American Thinker] 

Massacre of the Israeli Fogel family by a Palestinian terrorist

YouTube and Facebook removed this video from their sites. Who influenced whom?

"On Friday night two Palestinians slayed an entire Israeli family in their house while they were sleeping: Rabbi Udi Fogel (36), his wife Ruth (34), 11-year-old Yoav, four-year-old Elad and three-month-old Hadas."

[My Israel]

See more on this at:     Scenes from a massacre

Call an Ambulance for Political Correctness

" In the old days, when an ambulance arrived at your door, the first thing the EMT would ask would be something like: “Where does it hurt?” or “What are the symptoms?”

But we live in a Politically Correct world now, and so the Mass. Department of Public Health has issued a new directive, “Guidance on the Collection of Race and Ethnicity by Ambulance Services.”

In this document, the first question to the sick person is not: “Do you want to go to the hospital?” The first question is: “Are you Hispanic/Latino/Spanish?”

My curiosity piqued, I found the new EMT directive on the Massachusetts state website. It’s indeed as silly as it sounds.

If you’re in Massachusetts and experience a medical problem and have to call an ambulance, here’s a hypothetical scenario that may someday await you…"
[Michelle Malkin]

and OBAMACARE will improve this?

Rachel Maddow wrong about union campaign contributions

"MSNBC host Rachel Maddow is amassing quite a portfolio of clips in which she misstates the facts. Her latest is from an appearance on Tuesday’s Tonight Show. The topic for the segment was the current standoff in Wisconsin, but as the interview progressed, the subject shifted to the symbiotic relationship between public employee unions and the Democratic Party."
[examiner.com]

Dana Perino: It’s Interesting How Obama Says Things That Are So Quickly Proven False (Obama Lying Again)

“It is interesting to me how the administration allows President Obama to say things that are so quickly proven false… The facts are standing in the way of their rhetoric.” [Perrino]

Drunken Rangel Aide Has Restaurant Meltdown: 'You're a Disgrace to our Race'

Charlie Rangel's deputy chief of staff, Geoffrey Eaton, threw such a fit over a missing umbrella during Thursday night's downpour at Harlem's popular Chez Lucienne restaurant that management had to call police to escort him out.

"I said, 'Shhhh.' He yells at me, 'Bleep you, and mind your own bleeping business . . . you're a disgrace to our race.' "

"I was appalled that someone who is a president at the NAACP and works with Charlie Rangel could behave like that in a public place and towards women. He was clearly intoxicated."

[Jammie Wearing Fool] 

Not simply intoxicated .... in my book Rangel's Deputy was exhibiting the hyper-arrogance typical of the ruling elites who have taken over our governance in the last few decades.  [clipper]

3% Say Ivy League Schools Produce Better Workers

" A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey finds that 79% do not think Ivy League students make better workers. Eighteen percent (18%) are undecided"
[Rasmussen]

I guess that's why the top levels of this federal administration are populated by Ivy League grads. [clipper]

The union bullies in Wisconsin target businesses

"Wisconsin's public employee unions are now hell-bent on punishing selected Badger State taxpayers for the transgressions of electing Scott Walker and sending too many Republicans to the legislature."

[American Thinker]

Unreal. Eric Holder Now Forcing Dayton Police Force to Hire Minority Applicants Who Can’t Pass Test

"Attorney General Eric Holder has stepped in and is forcing the city of Dayton to lower its standards so that more minority applicants can pass the test."
[Gateway Pundit]

OBAMA Jobs Accounting????

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signed budget repair bill also rescinded his order to layoff 1,500 state workers.

Let's see .... under BHO's accounting rules, did Walker save or create 1,500 new jobs?

[Power Line]

Obama Thinks it Would be 'easier' to be President of an Authoritarian, Communist Nation

Did you hear Obama's address to our nation yesterday wherein he described the tsunami threat to our west coast?  

As he told us about the dangers of being mear the beaches and the need to evacuate to higher ground ..... he commanded "DO AS YOU ARE TOLD" just as imperially as any monarch.  

Wouldn't most Presidents who are elected by the people say something like.... PLEASE, DO AS YOU ARE TOLD or I ASK YOU TO FOLLOW INSTRUCTIONS OF LOCAL OFFICIALS or even FOR YOUR OWN SAFETY, MOVE TO HIGH GROUND WHEN WARNED?  

They would not be ordering us imperially... DO AS YOU ARE TOLD..... indeed !!!
[clipper]

This is what Obama's call for "Civility" has spawned .... WHERE IS HE NOW ?

"Union thugs threatened and harassed a group of tea party patriots yesterday in Merrill, Wisconsin.

The patriots were collecting names to recall Senator Holperin when a mob of union thugs harassed them and ripped up their petition.

The local tea party was originally going to hold their petition drive at an area restaurant.
But, the restaurant canceled after getting more than 50 threatening calls including threats to burn down their business."

[Gateway Pundit]

THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT TEACHER'S UNION LEADERSHIP

Here is the retiring General Counsel of the National Education Association (NEA - - Teacher's Union) giving a farewell address to teachers wherein he emphasizes that the UNION is NOT about CHILDREN....... but about POWER.  This may be news to the liberal teachers in the audience. but certainly not to us conservatives. This has been the M.O. of the NEA for years!

They Achieve their power, he points out, because 3.2 million (unwitting ?) teachers pay the union MILLIONS of dollars !!!

DEATH THREATS

"Since the MSM appears intent on downplaying the growing intimidation and escalating threats of violence around the union power issue, I am reprinting verbatim an email that was sent to Republican senators. The email was signed, but I have deleted the name pending what I hope will be a thorough police investigation."
[WTMJ - Newsradio]

"The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that Wisconsin's Division of Criminal Investigation is looking into multiple death threats against several Republican legislators, including Senator Fitzgerald.

This threat is made more credible, according to Fitzgerald's spokesman, by the fact that Democratic Party activists have "actually gone so far as to go up to [Fitzgerald's] house and bang on the windows at 6 a.m. demanding that he come out."

The Democratic Party and its union allies have gone way too far in Wisconsin, and we all had better pray that no one gets hurt."
[Power Line]

Debarred short seller with checkered past lobbied Education Department on for-profit colleges

"Before a jury found Manuel Asensio had illegally defamed a company whose demise he would profit from, and before securities regulators barred him from employment in the banking industry for the rest of his life, he used to take down companies with savage reports under the banner of his investment bank, Asensio & Company.

Then, as an “activist” short seller, he would compile damning research on a business, take a market bet its stock would go down, publish his report, and profit when it did go down."

The revelations also come on the heels of charges by Oklahoma Republican Sen. Tom Coburn that Education Department officials were “tipping hedge funds” with inside information, allowing them to take trading positions ahead of the market. Doing so, Coburn said at a Senate hearing last week, “is highly unethical and if proven to be the case, some people ought to be going to jail in the Department of Education." "

[The Daily Caller]

Reckless Disregard for the Truth: My Incredible Interchange With the NPR “Ombudsman”

NPR Ombudsman twittered:  "#NPR Ron Schiller said in the full two hour Okeefe video he is a Republican, and was raised as a Republican. that didn't make it in video"

Patterico challenged: "Uh-oh! There goes that James O’Keefe again, with his heavily edited and deceptive videos! Why, I bet he wasn’t even wearing a pimp costume! Her message was repeated by Jack Shafer of Slate and Radley Balko of Reason — and more than 100 others, as you can see.

Just one problem: the message was flatly untrue. And when I called her on it, her regard for facts was about what you would expect from an NPR ombudsman."

[Patterico's Pontifications]

Read this entire exchange wherein the NPR Ombudsman refuses to correct her assertion that NPR's Ton Schiller said he IS a Republican.  The full video recording shows (at 12:52:48) that he said "I voted mostly Democratic lately".

Wisconain Senate passes collective bargaining bill

"......... rather than include the collective bargaining provisions in a broader budget bill, which they can’t pass without Democrats because it’s “fiscal” in nature, they’re going to strip out the CB part and pass it separately. That’s not fiscal, according to Wisconsin law, so a simple quorum will do."
[Hot Air]

Wis. GOP strips public workers' bargaining rights 

A Battle We Cannot Afford To Lose

"Patriots since the founding of our country have always risen to the challenges of their time. Today, we must do the same. As the debt crisis deepens, the time is growing short. We must demand that our lawmakers speak truthfully about the budget, and offer real solutions.

We know that the biggest threat to our way of life today is our growing debt.  Yet progressives in government and in the media disrespect us. They label us extremists and racists when all we are calling for is a responsible government that controls its spending."

[Jeff Lukens]

Welfare State: Handouts Make Up One-Third of U.S. Wages

"Even as the economy has recovered, social welfare benefits make up 35 percent of wages and salaries this year, up from 21 percent in 2000 and 10 percent in 1960, according to TrimTabs Investment Research using Bureau of Economic Analysis data."
[CNBC]

The [DEMOCRAT] U.S. Senate defeated a pair of spending-cut bills Wednesday

"Spurred on by Tea Party fiscal conservatives, Republicans want steep spending cuts for this year, but Obama has warned that too much belt tightening will hurt economic recovery."
[CNBC]

Only in America - GM's Electic Car Volt Will Cost over $40,000.00

"What do you do with a failing car company with failed ideas, inferior products, crushing union-pension 'legacy' costs and a business model that is just plain outdated?

Well you take over the company, supersede contract law, don the company Government Motors and with leftists and Obama at the helm you make things like ---

THE VOLT
you get 40 miles before you must recharge the batteries 

 [Left Coast Rebel]

The stripped down model costs ONLY $41,000 !  But ..... not to worry, we taxpayers will pay you $7500 as a tax credit, if you buy one of these !!! 

The Schiller syndrome, cont'd

"In "The Schiller Syndrome" I took a look at the speech by NPR chief executive Vivian Schller at the National Press Club on Monday. One could fairly understand Schiller's patronizing hogwash as requiring translation into the opposite of the thoughts expressed, which is what I tried to do.

Now come senior NPR executives Ron Schiller and Betsy Liley, letting their hair down with potential donors purportedly connected to a Muslim Brotherhood front group seeking to support NPR in its good works. Unburdening himself in private before a friendly audience, Ron Schiller is all NPR id to Vivian Schiller's NPR superego. The two Schillers are not related by blood or marriage, but they are for practical purposes the same person."

[Power Line]

Additional commentary .......

NPR Can’t Keep Their Story Straight

Breaking ....

NPR CEO VIVIAN SCHILLER RESIGNS

 

Undercover sting catches NPR talking about Obama birth story

"A top officer for National Public Radio has confirmed that many Americans still question whether Barack Obama is eligible to be president, but that the tax-supported organization just isn't reporting on it.

It was Betsy Liley, NPR's senior director of institutional giving, who was meeting with another NPR executive, senior Vice President Ron Schiller, when an undercover recorder was running."

[WND]

Democrats attack Republican candidate's children

This is PRECISELY the sort of intimidation that occurred in the Soviet Union and in Czechoslovakia under the Communists.    Friends and relatives of mine from these former Communist countries have told me that this kind of retribution against political opponents was standard fare under Communism.  Now it is happening here in the U.S.A.!!!!

Cut Wages and Benefits for Public Employees

"Here's a radical thought.  It's not just wrong that a public employee earns more than his counterpart in the private sector; it's wrong for a public employee to be paid on par with his private sector cousin.  In fact, as policy, public employees should earn less than their private sector counterparts.  Why?  There was once another name for a public employee: "civil servant," with the emphasis on servant. "

[American Thinker]

Union Myths

"The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians."

[Thomas Sowell]

Reid Laments Funding Cuts (your tax $$) to Cowboy Poets

Here is an example of the epitome of liberal elitism and arrogance !!!!!!

"In the middle of his tirade against House Republicans' "mean-spirited" budget bill on the Senate floor Tuesday, the Senate Majority Leader lamented that the GOP’s proposed budget cuts would eliminate the annual "cowboy poetry festival” in his home state of Nevada."

[Politico]

The Powers of This President

"Not all the powers President Obama has wielded or claimed seem clearly identifiable in the U.S. Constitution. Whether that is tolerable or even desirable appears to require consideration since the entire point of having a constitution is to limit government in the hope of fending off tyranny. "

[American Thinker]

Drivers detained for paying tolls with U.S. currency

"A man in Tampa, Fla., has uncovered what he calls an illegal scheme by the state's turnpike authority to detain motorists who pay tolls with $20, $50 or $100 bills until they disclose personal information recorded by the state."

[WND]

Number of healthcare reform law waivers climbs above 1,000

"HHS posted 126 new waivers on Friday, bringing the total to 1,040 organizations that have been granted a one-year exemption from a new coverage requirement included in the healthcare reform law enacted almost a year ago."

[The Hill]

These waivers which exclude organizations, mostly labor unions, from complying with the new OBAMACARE laws have been granted to organizations representing over 2.6 million people.

[U.S.] Government posts biggest monthly deficit ever

"The federal government posted its largest monthly deficit in history in February at $223 billion, according to preliminary numbers the Congressional Budget Office released Monday morning.

That figure tops last February’s record of $220.9 billion, and marks the 29th straight month the government has run in the red — a modern record. The last time the federal government posted even a monthly surplus was [under George W. Bush] September 2008, just before the financial collapse."
 [Washington Times]

This is a larger deficit in ONE MONTH than in the entire year of 2007 under George W. Bush. See HERE.

Obama, Reid and Pelosi 'Deceitfully' Hid $105 Billion in Obamacare

"Rep. Michele Bachmann tells Newsmax that President Barack Obama, Sen. Harry Reid and Rep. Nancy Pelosi should apologize to the American people for the $105 billion appropriation they “deceitfully” hid in the healthcare reform legislation."

[NewsMax]

The Clean Energy Scam

"This is the same quality of thought widespread in Washington when it comes to energy. As I like to say, the basic metric of energy analysis and fuel comparison is the BTU ("British Thermal Unit"), while the basic metric of energy policy in Washington DC is the BSU (no definition required). If DC-BSU's had the equivalent BTU content, we'd have solved all our energy problems before Jimmy Carter finished putting on that first Cardigan."

[Power Line]

The Fallacy of Tyranny

"... the aggrandizement of power by our national government is only part of the tyranny faced by Americans today.  At every level of government, the expansion of bureaucratic power threatens people's personal freedom over how to live their lives.  That expansion is taking place without the informed consent of the citizens.  And for Americans who value freedom, it is important to understand why that is happening and what can be done about it."

[American Thinker]

Are Public Sector Unions Doomed?

"It may not happen this year or next, but the power of the public sector unions will be broken, because there is no alternative. The ability to buy politicians who then "negotiate" pay and pension increases with their union friends delayed the inevitable for a while, but unions have priced themselves out of the market in the public sector, just as they did in the private sector. They are, I think, doomed."

[Power Line]

Union Goons Storm Ohio Restaurant and Threaten Republican Lawmakers

You will not see or read about this in the Main Stream Media outside of Columbus!!!

"Ohio Union thugs stormed the Easy Street Cafe last night where a group of Republican lawmakers were dining. The union thugs attacked the owner and threatened the Republican lawmakers. Police had to be called to remove the thugs"

[Gateway Pundit]