The Spirit of Checks and Balances

" Senator Harry Reid of Nevada recently stated that the National Labor Relations Board, the regulatory agency established by the 1935 National Labor Relations Act, was “created in the same spirit of checks and balances” as the U.S. Constitution itself. NLRB “acts as a check on employers and employees alike,” said Reid.

Reid was defending NLRB’s decision to issue a complaint against Boeing, the aircraft manufacturer, for opening a new production facility in South Carolina to produce its latest commercial aircraft, the 787 “Dreamliner.”  "

[Letters From An Ohio Farmer]

Where are they? (Iowa & North Dakota Floods)

"Seems like there is a big difference in attitudes when it comes to geography


Where are the Hollywood celebrities holding telethons asking for help in restoring Iowa and North Dakota and helping the folks affected by the floods?"
[Beyond Puke]

Are You Better Off Now Than You Were Two Years Ago?

“Are you better off than you were four years ago?” -  Ronald Reagan before 1980 election

"And though we’re just over halfway through President Obama’s first term in office, it seems all Americans should ask themselves if we’re better off now than we were two years ago.

The answer [now] is just as straightforward: No, we’re not. Unemployment is at 9% and our national debt is over $14,000,000,000,000. According to Reuters, our floundering economy is only poised to get worse. Obama’s answer to the unemployment and incomprehensible debt is to raise taxes to the tune of $2 trillion: that’s “$1 trillion in new taxes on wealthier Americans (and small businesses)” and another trillion sought “in higher tax revenues by reducing tax breaks and subsidies.”  "

[Pajamas Media]

Another Step in the Infantilization of Humanity

"This is one of the dumbest, and yet most ominous, of recent headlines: Italian Seismologists Charged With Manslaughter for Not Predicting 2009 Quake.

The linked Fox story quotes a spokesman for the U.S. Geological Survey who says that Italy's criminal prosecution "has a medieval flavor to it." Actually, you would have to go back to a more primitive era to recapture the condition of childish dependence that this story reveals. Many Europeans, and a growing number of Americans, have abandoned any pretense of looking after themselves and believe that it is the duty of the authorities--whoever they may be in a particular instance--to protect them from all harm, if not all inconvenience."

[PowerLine]

DNC chair: Republicans think illegal immigration should be illegal, or something

"This is what happens when political correctness distorts clear and descriptive language. Immigration reform activists have insisted on removing the phrase illegal immigration from the political lexicon, despite the fact that the term is both accurate and objective. Once that happens, it’s easy for the weak-minded to forget that we have a fairly generous legal immigration system that illegal immigrants bypassed and violated on their entry into this country. And by “the weak-minded,” I mean Debbie Wasserman-Schultz"

[Hot Air]

Unexpectedly!

"Michael Barone elaborates on Glenn Reynolds' theme: why is it that after two years, bad economic news is still "unexpected?""
[Power Line]

Sarah Palin: Should We Be Borrowing Money From China to Give to the Muslim Brotherhood?

"Sarah Palin asked about Obama’s strange foreign policy of borrowing money from the Chinese to pay to the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt.

Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion to Egypt’s “new government.” It’s part of a $20 billion foreign aid package laid out with the Group of 8 countries in Europe today."

[Sarah Palin]

What Obama Did to Israel

"Every Arab-Israeli negotiation contains a fundamental asymmetry: Israel gives up land, which is tangible; the Arabs make promises, which are ephemeral. The longstanding American solution has been to nonetheless urge Israel to take risks for peace while America balances things by giving assurances of U.S. support for Israel’s security and diplomatic needs.

For two and a half years, the Obama administration has refused to recognize and reaffirm these assurances. Then last week in his State Department speech, President Obama definitively trashed them. He declared that the Arab-Israeli conflict should indeed be resolved along “the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps.”

The only remaining question is whether this perverse and ultimately self-defeating policy is born of genuine antipathy toward Israel or of the arrogance of a blundering amateur who refuses to see that he is undermining not just peace but the very possibility of negotiations."
[Krauthammer]

Clipper doesn't think he's a blundering amateur.  Obama's anti-Israeli position is well thought out, intentional and professional.  It is aimed at the destruction of Israel to benefit the rise of Muslim strength.

Criminal Deportees Worry Mexican Border Mayors

How do you say "chutzpah" in Spanish?

Isn't this just too damned bad.  Mexico's border town Mayors are upset because we don't warn them when we dump illegals back across the border to them!   Mr. Mayor, how about fixing the problem at its source?     [clipper]

Socialists Confer in Los Angeles

"The day began with an opening plenary entitled, “The people rise up: Egypt, Wisconsin, Los Angeles.” PSL member Muna Coobtee started the conference by pointing out that, “The root problem that causes misery for workers from here in Los Angeles to Ramallah is the dominant system in the world today—capitalism.” "
[New Zeal]

Iran building rocket bases in Venezuela

"German paper says Iranians paid cash to build mid-range missile launch pads on Paraguana Peninsula; Iranian engineers visited site in Feb."
[Jerusalem Post]

Less than 1500 miles to cover all of Florida.  

About 2000 miles to reach Washington, DC and New York!  

Will Obama have a Kennedy moment opportunity? 

[clipper]

In Iowa, Romney backs ethanol subsidies

REALLY ???

That's a strike against him, in my book
[clipper]

Another Look at Obama’s Social Security Number

Why isn't THIS Obama fraud being talked up?  Is the Whitehouse Spin Squad successfully beating it down?  This is CLEARLY a fraudulent use of Social Security and Obama should be prosecuted just like every (other?) illegal alien.   [clipper]

Thank you, Illinois taxpayers, for my cushy life.

Read up on the cushy retirement of this state government employee.  See how our governments, state AND federal, have created wealth distribution..... OUR WEALTH to those who spend a career idling away in cushy positions.  [clipper]

The Memorial Day BBQ will cost you 29% more this year thanks to inflation

"You may be lucky to get half at this weekend's Memorial Day cookout, which is set to cost 29 per cent more than last year, thanks to inflation.

Those thinking of hosting a BBQ - even a modest one - can expect to fork out an extra $45 on food to serve a dozen guests."

 [U.K.Mail]

Ryan talks debt reduction, mediscare

SEE THE VIDEO HERE

"While Democrats were dancing in the streets over NY-26 and late night hosts were having a field day with the advertisement showing a Paul Ryan lookalike shoving a wheelchair bound grandmother off a cliff, Ryan continued to calmly – and even with some humor – answer the inaccurate charges and explain precisely what it is that he’s trying to do with his budget proposal.

Obamacare kills Medicare. Obamacare raids $500B from Medicare to spend on Obamacare, puts in place a 15 member board to ration Medicare – of bureaucrats. Our budget repeals the raiding, gets rid of the rationing board, preserves this program, makes no changes to the program for a person 55 years of age or older, and saves Medicare by reforming it for our generation, but it’s solvent.
The president’s plan does not save Medicare. It allows it to go bankrupt. It rations the program and raids the program. We will stop the raiding, and we save the program from bankruptcy."

[HOT AIR]

More ObamaCare Waivers

"The American Association of Retired Persons got an ObamaCare waiver. AARP will not have to carry health insurance for its corporate employees. ObamaCare is being used to pet political pets, exactly as planned."

[ResistanceAndLife]

WH really excited about new CAFE standards costing jobs

"In a move sure to please his environmentalist base as we gear up for the 2012 election, the Obama administration’s Department of Transportation (DOT) and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are quietly moving to make another round of changes to CAFE standards.

Unfortunately for Secretary LaHood, the Law of Unintended Consequences is still in play and ready to jump up and bite him where the sun don’t shine. In order to meet higher standards – particularly if those standards represent a significant jump from current technological capabilities – manufacturers are going to have to produce more “unconventional” (i.e., “green”) vehicles to bump up their average fuel efficiency across their fleet. Unconventional, green vehicles cost consumers more. And, according to the Energy Information Agency, more expensive cars during an economic downturn equal lower sales, which equals… (wait for it…) fewer jobs!"

[HOT AIR]

Sen. Rubio: "Why We Must Save Medicare"

Isn't This Just Like Saddam Having WMDs ?????

"President Obama told a bipartisan group of members of Congress today [March 18, 2011] that he expects the U.S. would be actively involved in any military action against Libya for "days, not weeks ..."
[ABC]

A Generational Divide?

"For conservatives, it is crucial that the truth about the nation's entitlement obligations be communicated to the public ahead of the 2012 election.  Boomers need to know that they are not responsible for the impending shortfall, and younger voters need to understand that the burden falling on them is not the fault of their elders.  It is the fault of a government that raids the nation's retirement fund to pay for ever greater spending on unconstitutional programs.

During the era of the greatest bull market for both stocks and bonds in American history, the [Social Security Trust]  Fund's real return has ranged between 1.6% and 0%. 

Compared with returns in the private market, those returns are dreadful.  Not to single out one fund, but the Vanguard Wellesley Income Fund, a popular option among retirees, has returned 10.23% since 1970.  Had investors entrusted only $100,000 to the Wellesley Fund in 1970, in place of the estimated $250,000 in 2011 dollars that each boomer will have contributed over a lifetime to the Trust Fund, that investment would now total nearly $5,000,000.  Instead of merely getting back what they paid in, or less, boomer retirees would have been driving Bentleys and flying off for spa vacations in Anguilla. "

[American Thinker]

The fake Chrysler loan payoff

"American taxpayers have already spent more than $13 billion bailing out Chrysler. The Obama administration already forgave more than $4 billion of that debt when the company filed for bankruptcy in 2009. Taxpayers are never getting that money back. But how is Chrysler now paying off the rest of the $7.6 billion they owe the Treasury Department?

The Obama administration’s bailout agreement with Fiat gave the Italian car company a “Incremental Call Option” that allows it to buy up to 16% of Chrysler stock at a reduced price. But in order to exercise the option, Fiat had to first pay back at least $3.5 billion of its loan to the Treasury Department. But Fiat was having trouble getting private banks to lend it the money. Enter Obama Energy Secretary Steven Chu who has signaled that he will approve a fuel-efficient vehicle loan to Chrysler for … wait for it … $3.5 billion."

[Hot Air]

Minnesota Governor Dayton (Democrat) Vetoes Voter ID Law

Fraud was obvious in 2008. As a result, the newly elected Republican legislature passes law requiring ID, supported by 80% of population . Democrat Governor vetoes it.

"In 2008, Minnesota Republicans were traumatized by the Coleman-Franken race, which Al Franken eventually won by a few hundred votes. National attention focused on the recount, which was scrupulously fair. The problem was that, as with any recount, all you can do is count for a second time the votes that were cast illegally on election day. I have no doubt that more legal voters voted for Norm Coleman than Al Franken, but once the ballots are in the box, there is nothing that can be done. Hence the urgency of the voter ID law.

Until now, Minnesota has had lax laws that facilitate voter fraud. Not only does the state have same-day registration, there is also an absurd system whereby a resident of a precinct can "vouch" for as many as 15 people who are not registered in the precinct and have no identification that would otherwise allow them to register. This means that the Democrats can station an operative at a polling place, bus in students from Wisconsin, illegal immigrants, etc., and allow them to vote illegally by having their operative vouch for the whole busload."

[Power Line]

Economic Stagnation Explained, at 30,000 Feet

"The man in the aisle seat is trying to tell me why he refuses to hire anybody. His business is successful, he says, as the 737 cruises smoothly eastward. Demand for his product is up. But he still won’t hire.

“Why not?”

“Because I don’t know how much it will cost,” he explains. “How can I hire new workers today, when I don’t know how much they will cost me tomorrow?” "

[Bloomberg]

‘Shut Up!’: Fmr. Clinton Adviser Walks Off Fox News Set During Fiery Interview

"During a fiery and contentious interview this afternoon on Fox News, former Bill Clinton campaign adviser Simon Rosenberg had enough of conservative talk-show host Ben Ferguson interrupting and talking over him. The disgust was plastered on Rosenberg’s face. But disgust soon crept from his face to his arms and then his legs, as Rosenberg got up and left during the interview after telling Ferguson to “shut up!”

The two were discussing Clinton’s backstage comments to Paul Ryan about compromising on Medicare. But don’t let the “compromise” subject matter fool you — the two pundits were sure to give an interview that was full of wild disagreement. The main point of contention seemed to be Rosenberg’s claim that Democrats were not fear-mongering. Ferguson found the preposterous, especially considering the recent Democratic ad that portrayed Paul Ryan dumping an old woman off a cliff."
[The Blaze]

Obama's Budget Rejected By Senate - 0 to 97 !!!

"The budget proposal released by the White House back in February didn’t win a single vote in the Senate on Wednesday— the final tally was 0-97. Senate Republicans pushed for the vote as a counterpoint to the defeat of Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan."

[ Politico]

You're forged! Trump declares Obama's birth certificate fake

"Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who staged a weeks-long public campaign questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to be president during March and April – and rose to the top of the pool of potential candidates for the 2012 GOP nomination then as a result – says he believes the "birth certificate" released by the White House is forged. 

His comments came yesterday in a telephone call to WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., who is appearing on wall-to-wall radio programs – between 10 and 20 per day – to respond to questions about his latest best-seller, "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama is Not Eligible to be President."

 

Trump asked Corsi about the book, its evidence and what is happening next in the effort to document whether Obama is, in fact, constitutionally qualified for the presidency under Article 2, Section 1's "natural born citizen" requirement."

[WND]

Obama Skirts Rule of Law to Reward Pals, Punish Enemies

".... 1,372 businesses, state and local governments, labor unions and insurers, covering 3,095,593 individuals or families,  have been granted a waiver from Obamacare by Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. 

.... why are more than half of those 3,095,593 in plans run by labor unions, which were among Obamacare's biggest political supporters? Union members are only 12 percent of all employees but have gotten 50.3 percent of Obamacare waivers. 

Just in April, Sebelius granted 38 waivers to restaurants, nightclubs, spas and hotels in former Speaker Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco congressional district. Pelosi's office said she had nothing to do with it."

[Rasmussen]

Members of Congress Found to Get ‘Abnormally High’ Stock Returns Read more: Members of Congress Found to Get ‘Abnormally High’ Stock Returns

"A new study has found that investments held by members of Congress significantly outpace the broader market, raising questions about insider information available to elected officials — but not to ordinary Americans.

The study of stock investments by members of the House of Representatives replicates a previous study of U.S. Senators’ investments with similar results: House members were able to exceed the market’s gains by 55 basis points per month, more than 6 percent a year."
[MoneyNews]

Why Larry King will never be president

"Like would-be yentas trying to set you up on dates with their divorced friends, the political class is constantly trying to foist divorced candidates on the Republican Party, authoritatively assuring us that Americans don't have a problem with divorce anymore. Let's examine the truth of that claim.

Inasmuch as no serious Republican candidate for president is currently divorced, the facts can be considered without violating the 11th Commandment to never speak ill of a fellow Republican.

(That's unless you consider Newt Gingrich a serious candidate, which I don't – although as far as being fodder for late-night comedians, he's the man to beat.)"
[Ann Coulter]

OBAMA's IMPERIAL Gaffe

Glenn Beck comments .......

"Is it possible he lacks any and all situational awareness? Glenn sure seemed to think so.

“Nobody lifts their glass,” Glenn said.

“Nobody else does because their national anthem is playing and he awkwardly goes, oh, crap, put downs his glass and stands there and then it continues to play for 25 seconds,” Pat said. “Every single time there’s an international get-together, there’s a screw-up like this. It’s really bad.”

“Nobody in the Middle East is afraid of us. Look at this guy. They’re watching this tape right now with their head in their hands going– Mahmud, are you embarrassed? I’m embarrassed. Sure, we want to kill all the Americans, but this is just embarrassing,” Glenn joked.

Glenn wondered if The President thought that he was getting his toast was getting some impromptu theme music – a guess the President proved right."

The IMPERIAL Obama Administrators

Hear Ye, Hear Ye All You Peasants ........ The King's Men say ..........

Do as I Say (not as I do)

President's men fill up 'The Beast' in surprise visit to BP garage

"We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused"

""We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick."

"BP is responsible for this leak. BP will be paying the bill."

"We will be making sure BP pays for the damage it has caused,"

"The Beast" fueling up at a BP station

MSNBC Host Calls Conservative Laura Ingraham a “Right-Wing Slut” On His Radio Show

Left wing talk show head nutcase calls Laura Ingraham a "SLUT" ......

Can you imagine the SCREAMING AND HOLLERING from the LEFT 

if Glenn Beck had called Nancy Pelosi a SLUT !! [clipper]

[Gateway Pundit]

DEFUND LA RAZA - NOW !!!!!

The Commerce Clause

"Are there any limits, in principle, remaining on federal power in America?  We have seen in these letters that there are elected and appointed officials and citizens in the country who would answer, for all practical purposes: “No.” We have also seen that the question is not closed and that it is not just for lawyers or judges to decide; it belongs to all the people, and to all three branches of government.  Let us reflect on one path our nation took that, over the course of a couple of generations, made assertions of unlimited federal power commonplace in America; and let us consider some recent decisions by the courts that remind us that the constitutional conversation is not over. "

[Letters from an Ohio Farmer]

The Mystery of Barack Obama Continues

"Of all these marvels, the latest mystery and probably most perplexing is that of Obama’s social security number. It appears that Obama has multiple identities in term of possessing numerous social security numbers. Orly Taitz, an attorney who has filed numerous suits against Obama regarding his eligibility to serve as president, appears to be the first to discover this. In her suit, representing a number of military officers who are refusing to serve under an ineligible commander in chief, she hired private investigator Neil Sankey to conduct research on Obama’s prior addresses and Social Society numbers. Using Intelius, Lexis Nexis, Choice Point and other public records, Sankey found around 25 Social Security numbers connected with Obama’s name."
[Western JournalismCenter]

A Tell-All With Nothing to Tell

"A former member of SarahPalin's inner circle has written a scathing tell-all, saying Mrs. Palin was ready to quit as governor months before she actually resigned and was eager to leave office when more lucrative opportunities came around." [AP]

"In paragraph 13, we finally get to a specific claim: that in 2006, Palin's campaign for governor "coordinated with the Republican Governors Association, or RGA, in violation of campaign rules." The purported violation apparently consisted of Palin being filmed entering an Anchorage hotel. Whatever. This is what the AP calls "scathing?" Surely Mr. Bailey's "tell-all" has hotter stuff than that.

All of which is a reminder that Palin has largely dropped out of presidential speculation lately. At some point, pundits seemed to reach a consensus that she is staying out of the race, and most analyses now count her out. But she remains a powerful force in the conservative movement and the Republican Party."

[Power Line]

Pawlenty Calls For End Of Ethanol Subsidies In Iowa Announcement

WOW !!!! 

 Pawlenty tells IOWANS it's time to end federal, corn based ethanol subsidies.   That is gutsy !!!!
[clipper]

Obama’s economic advisers not bullish on America these days

"Earlier this year, Barack Obama formed a new presidential advisory committee on jobs and competitiveness that the White House hoped would alleviate at least two critical problems for the administration.  

First, after spending a year shoving ObamaCare down the throats of voters who clearly didn’t want it, Obama needed to re-establish that jobs had become a priority again.  

Second, and only slightly less important, Obama had to bolster the private-sector bona fides for his administration, which almost entirely lacked any such experience.

Obama invited the heads of several American companies to join his panel, and they’re probably delighted with the access.  But as Bloomberg discovered, it may not be making them any more confident of Obama’s economic policies:....."

[HotAir]

The Judicial Branch Mess

We lament the high cost of government ...... most often by complaining about the legislature's overspending and the executive's excesses ....... but rarely do we think of the taxpayer cost of our judicial system.  Shouldn't we? [clipper]

The Political Basis for the FairTax

"As the current debate over fiscal reform suggests, very few proposals for fundamental changes in tax policy have the potential to command support across the ideological spectrum.  The "FairTax" is the great exception.  Correctly understood, the Fair Tax Act (HR 25, S13 with 67 cosponsors), which would replace almost all federal taxes with a direct tax on consumption, should appeal to conservatives, progressives, and libertarians alike."

[American Thinker]

Older bin Laden widows think younger wife tipped off US

"THE three widows of Osama bin Laden are turning on each other in custody, with two older Saudi women blaming a much younger Yemeni wife for leading American intelligence to their hideout."
[The Australian]

Presidential Limo Not As Unstoppable as Previously Reported

...... after which he found time to quaff a pint (or two ?) in an Irish pub ...... HERE

Watch Out! Feds Could Seize Your Private Retirement Savings

Here it comes ....... feds looking at taxing IRA's even more, taxing (already taxed) Roth IRAs and taxing "tax-free" municipal bonds.

We simply MUST REDUCE GOVERNMENT SPENDING

Biden to move to IMPEACH OBAMA ?

The Last Fig Leaf of the Legality of This War in Libya Falls Off Today

Costa Mesa [California] takes a stand on the costs of a public workforce.

They're calling it "Madison on The Pacific"

"The results of California’s 2010 midterm elections were tremendously discouraging for voters eager to rein in the influence of the state’s public-employee unions. While other states, like Wisconsin, elected political leaders willing to confront union power aggressively, Californians could only look on in frustration as pro-union politicians prevailed across the Golden State. But there is at least one beacon of hope in California: the Orange County city of Costa Mesa, which has charged ahead to address budget deficits by making massive cuts to its municipal workforce."

[City Journal]

Obamacare waiver corruption must stop

"Selective enforcement of the law is the first sign of tyranny. A government empowered to determine arbitrarily who may operate outside the rule of law invariably embraces favoritism as friends, allies and those with the best-funded lobbyists are rewarded. Favoritism inevitably leads to corruption, and corruption invites extortion. Ultimately, the rule of law ceases to exist in any recognizable form, and what is left is tyranny."
 [Washington Times]

Mama Grizzly takes on Greta

Watch from 11:00 on ........ Sarah challenges the media ...... "Hammer our records, our present day statements, .....  lay off the petty stuff"  !!!!

Senator Rubio Introduces The REFUND Act On Panama City Radio Show

The REFUND Act, introduced in the U.S. Senate by Marco Rubio (R-FL), requires that if a state refuses federal funding on a project (as Florida did on $2 Billion for "hi-speed rail"), the federal government is required to apply the money to REDUCE THE NATIONAL DEBT !!!!   What a GREAT concept.
[clipper]

Survey: Recent college grads wising up about Obama

"A recent informal survey of 500 post-grads primarily between the ages of 22 and 28 — 83 percent of whom voted for President Barack Obama in 2008 — found just 27 percent of Obama’s previous youth supporters plan to vote for him again, The Daily Caller reports. That’s a drop of almost 60 points.

[Today's liberals] compliantly conform – like little windup, patchouli-daubed lemmings – to a carnival-prize caricature of what they imagine nonconformity to look like. You know, the usual stuff: neo-Marxism, environmentalist activism, sexual relativism, big-government nanny statism, an actions-without-consequences rendering of reproductive rights, and other such populist nonsense. Simply put, today’s progressive nonconformist conforms …

 So what is a young person – brimming over with that instinctive, defiant impulse to rebel against “the man” – to do?

Well, in this up-is-down, spend-money-to-save-money world, conservatives have become the contemporary nonconformists. Today’s rebellious youth are telling the progressive establishment to put its moral-relativist, redistributionist party-line pig swill in its well-used chamber pipe and smoke it."

[Hot Ait]

NOW… Obama Attacks Israeli Leader Netanyahu After Yesterday’s Call to Give Jerusalem to Hamas

YESTERDAY: "In his Muslim speech on Thursday, Barack Obama told Israel to give Old Jerusalem, including the tomb of Jesus, to Hamas."

LAST NIGHT: "US President Barack Obama told aides that he does not believe Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will be able to make a peace deal, The New York Times reported on Thursday night."
[Gateway Pundit]

Netanyahu should give his speech to Congress and then tell Obama there is no point in wasting the time meeting with him because Obama does not believe Netanyahu will make a deal.  [clipper]

Liberal Cartoonist Can't Get Anyone To Publish His Anti-Obama Pieces

"Ted Rall's cartoons and opinion pieces were all the rage when he was attacking George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, and American soldiers.

But now that there's a man in the White House the press absolutely adore, the once syndicated polemicist claims he's having a hard time getting anyone to publish his work:

A sample of recent rejections, each from editors at different left-of-center media outlets:

· "I am familiar with and enjoy your cartoons. However the readers of our site would not be comfortable with your (admittedly on point) criticism of Obama."

· "Don't be such a hater on O and we could use your stuff. Can't you focus more on the GOP?"

· "Our first African-American president deserves a chance to clean up Bush's mess without being attacked by us."

Obama is the one they ought to be blackballing. He has been a terrible disappointment to the American left. He has forsaken liberals at every turn. Yet they continue to stand by him. Which means that, in effect, they are not liberals at all. They are militant Democrats. They are Obamabots."

[NewsBusters]

Israel Expects Obama to Take Back ‘1967 Lines’ Demand

"...... Prime Minister Netanyahu expects to hear a reaffirmation from President Obama of U.S. commitments made to Israel in 2004, which were overwhelmingly supported by both Houses of Congress.”  

 

“Among other things,” Netanyahu reminded Obama, “those commitments relate to Israel not having to withdraw to the 1967 lines which are both indefensible and which would leave major Israeli population centers in Judea and Samaria beyond those lines.” "

[IsraelNationalNews]

Think prices are high? Just wait ’til summer

"Prepare yourself for a summertime inflation shock.

An expert who helps put together the government's Consumer Price Index (CPI) says that the closely-watch inflation gauge could rise abnormally "after June."
 [NY POST]

OBAMA TELLS ISRAEL: TURN OVER THE TOMB OF JESUS TO HAMAS

"Today when Barack Obama told Israel to move back to the 1967 borders he effectively gave half of Jerusalem, the Wailing Wall, The Temple Mount, Old Jerusalem, The holiest Christian Church in the world, The Church of the Holy Sepulchre to Hamas-Fatah terrorist alliance."

[Gateway Pundit]

Feds Must Stop Writing Gibberish Under New Law

" The federal government is rolling out a new official language of sorts: plain English.   

Obama signed the Plain Writing Act last fall after decades of effort by a cadre of passionate grammarians in the civil service to jettison the jargon.

It takes full effect in October, when federal agencies must start writing plainly in all new or substantially revised documents produced for the public. The government will still be allowed to write nonsensically to itself."

 [CNS]

HHS EXPLAINS WHY NEW HAMPSHIRE SHOULD BE EXEMPTED FROM OBAMACARE

U.S. DEBT EQUALS ALMOST TWICE VALUE OF ALL GOLD EVER MINED ON EARTH

".... there is a way to bring about restraint.  It is called the gold standard, and it is the only foolproof method of placing the government under fiscal discipline.

Under the gold standard all financial instruments -- including dollar notes and government securities -- must ultimately be backed by existing physical metal.  At today's prices, America's national debt would roughly translate into double all the gold ever mined.  This should give a good idea of the excessiveness involved here.  In any case, the gold standard would have made it impossible for the fiscal fix we are now in to come about."

[American Thinker]

The Dangers of CFLs Even Greater Than Previously Known

"New evidence of CFLs causing fires -- even exploding -- as well as new environmental concerns have come to light since my article The CFL Fraud published.  Here are some of the additional fires:....."
[American Thinker]

Stephen Colbert's Free Speech Problem

""Why does it get so complicated to do this? I mean, this is page after page of legalese," Mr. Colbert lamented. "All I'm trying to do is affect the 2012 election."  Well, that's pretty much what the nonprofit group Citizens United said to the Supreme Court in the case that Mr. Colbert is trying so hard to lampoon."

[WSJ]

A Decent Respect

"What about the more particular question, about American rejoicings at the killing of bin Laden? Of course, no self-respecting, self-governing people will condone dancing in the street to celebrate cruel necessities. Nor would it be a proud moment for such a people to make these cruel necessities applause lines in campaign rallies. But only a good people—a people able to take responsibility for choosing right over wrong—can be a self-governing people, and the world will be a sad place when good people can no longer rejoice at the triumph, however small and incomplete, of good over evil."

[Letter From An Ohio Farmer]

Police Capture 2 TRUCKS Carrying 513 ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS Heading to the US

"TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico - Police on Tuesday detained 513 undocumented migrants from Latin America and Asia who were crammed into two trucks bound for the United States, prosecutors in southeast Mexico said.

The migrants, from Latin America, Japan, China, India and Nepal, "were traveling in inhuman conditions" in the southeastern state of Chiapas, near the Guatemalan border, the local attorney general's office said in a statement."
[Fox News NY]


You cannot convince me that these were simply poor migrants seeking to earn a living wage to send back to their families for a few years, then return home! [clipper]

Who’s Up for $50 Light Bulbs?

"A provision in the energy law signed by President Bush in 2007 mandates all light bulbs to be 70 percent more efficient in their use of electricity by the year 2020 (a bill mandating that government be 70 percent more efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars is nowhere in sight).

In December 2007, many of these state efforts became moot when the federal government enacted the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, which requires all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310–2600 lumens of light^[8] be 30% more energy efficient (similar to current halogen lamps) than current incandescent bulbs by 2012 to 2014. The efficiency standards will start with 100-watt bulbs in January 2012 and end with 40-watt bulbs in January 2014.  [wikipedia]

But don’t worry, if you like lots of light, the 100-watt eco-friendly bulbs will be affordable — provided you’re rich:"

[Michelle Malkin]

Indoor floodlight 65W LED replacements were on sale today at my local Home Depot for $54.97 each!!   My home uses 16 of these floodlights in recessed ceiling cans.  I am saved the pain however, because these LEDs cannot be used on dimmer circuits .... all of mine are on dimmers.  So, for the price of one LED floodlight, I bought three cases of regular old incandescent bulbs. [clipper]

Toyota Prius Alpha orders soar to 25,000

and GOVERNMENT MOTORS thinks they're competing with their VOLT ?   

As of the end of April, since late 2010, the VOLT has sold a GRAND total of 2,029 cars.

[clipper]

On Catholic Campuses, Preferential Option for Democrats

"On the occasion of Speaker John Boehner’s recent commencement address at the Catholic University of America, 78 faculty members from Catholic colleges and universities signed an open letter criticizing him. Claiming that his voting record is at variance from the Church’s “most ancient moral teachings to preference the needs of the poor,” the letter alleges that Boehner’s support for legislation to address the needs of the poor is “among the worst in Congress.”

Advising him that it is his “moral duty as a legislator” to put the needs of the poor foremost in his considerations, the signatories enclosed a copy of the Compendium of the Social Doctrine of the Church — the catechism for Catholic obligations in public life.

It is ironic that this particular group of Catholic faculty members would choose to draw from the Compendium to educate the speaker on what the Church really teaches. The Compendium cautions that the first right — ahead of all other rights — is the right to life. Pronouncing abortion a “horrendous crime,” the Compendium warns about the illicitness of supporting abortion. Yet several of those signing the letter have publicly campaigned for pro-choice Catholic politicians — all Democrats — who not only promised to support a woman’s right to choose, but have consistently voted to expand abortion rights."

[National Review]

Shared Scarcity versus Renewed Prosperity

"Rep. Paul Ryan, Chairman of the House Budget Committee delivered a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago highlighting the very real {and serious} fiscal issues facing America today. In a most compelling way Ryan drew the contrast between the progressives {democratic party} vision of shared scarcity and the vision of renewed prosperity shared by the more fiscally responsible conservatives.

Rep. Ryan's speech for the most part will be overlooked by the liberal government/media complex. His speech will be greatly maligned by the progressive/collectivist sites that populate the blogoshere. "

[LeftCoastRebel]

The 'Education' Mantra

"One of the sad and dangerous signs of our times is how many people are enthralled by words, without bothering to look at the realities behind those words. 

One of those words that many people seldom look behind is "education." But education can cover anything from courses on nuclear physics to courses on baton twirling.

Unfortunately, an increasing proportion of American education, whether in the schools or in the colleges and universities, is closer to the baton twirling end of the spectrum than toward the nuclear physics end. Even reputable colleges are increasingly teaching things that students should have learned in high school."

[Thomas Sowell]

The Article Liberals Are Too Stupid to Write (and Republicans too reluctant to read)

"Why, after all this, does President Obama enjoy an approval rating near 50%?  How can people even think of voting for him over the Republican nominee in 2012?  Well wonder no more.

............................. lots of data ..............................

That's it.  This entire debate is about a difference that is less than 4% of GDP.  According to IMF figures, government in the US is spending 41% of GDP in 2011.  The current debate is about whether government spends 40% or 44% of GDP.  That is, whether we should be more like Luxembourg (39%), Canada (42%) or Norway (44%)."

[American Thinker] 

Gingrich Goes Off The Tracks

"This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress.  On "Meet the Press" Sunday, Gingrich denounced House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan's plan to restructure Medicare, saying, "I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering.  I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate." "

[Washington Examiner]

No Mexican Trucks on U.S. Highways, Lawmakers Tell DOT

" In a recent letter to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, a bipartisan group of 44 lawmakers urged the Obama administration not to reinstate a cross-border program involving Mexican trucks.

The lawmakers cited cost, safety and security concerns as reasons for not reviving the U.S. Department of Transportation’s proposed program.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and Rep. Daniel Lipinski (D-Ill.) are leading the bi-partisan effort, which includes 13 Republicans and 31 Democrats."

[CNS]

Obama Willing to Sacrifice Economy for Politics

" This summer, the huge Boeing assembly plant here will begin producing 787 Dreamliners — up to three a month, priced at $185 million apiece. It will, unless the National Labor Relations Board, controlled by Democrats and encouraged by Barack Obama's reverberating silence, gets its way.

Last month — 17 months after Boeing announced plans to build here, and with the $2 billion plant nearing completion — the NLRB, collaborating with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, charged that Boeing's decision violated the rights of its unionized workers in Washington state, where some Dreamliners are assembled and still will be even after the plant here is operational."
[George Will]

Ignore Geithner’s debt ceiling scare tactics

"Over the past 12 months through April, net interest expense of the federal government was $213.1 billion. Will there be no money to make these payments if the debt ceiling isn’t raised? There will be plenty. Over the past 12 months through April, the Treasury collected $2.27 trillion in revenues. In April alone, when individual tax returns are due, revenues totaled $289.5 billion, a bigger than expected gain, confirming that the economy recovered smartly over the past year.

It would be criminally insane for the Treasury to stop making interest payments on our debt just because Congress failed to agree on raising the ceiling when the revenues are certainly available to make the payments and auctions will continue to rollover maturing debt. It is insane for administration officials to suggest otherwise."

[James Pethokoukis]

2012 Presidential White Paper - #1 Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich

"Among all likely candidates for President in 2012, none has a record in public office or in commentary on public affairs as long or as thorough as former House Speaker Newt Gingrich.  He has been voting or commenting on every important issue facing American politics, almost without interruption, for more than 30 years.  An exhaustive analysis of every nuance of each proposal is neither possible here, nor terribly useful for our purposes.  This report will focus on the highlights of his 19-year congressional voting record, as well as the economic policy positions he has most consistently championed in his post-congressional writings up to the present day.   

Gingrich is best known for leading the 1994 “Republican Revolution” that swept the GOP into the House majority for the first time in over forty years, and he deserves immense credit for that.  His actual voting record in the House, however, was somewhat less stellar."

 [ClubForGrowth]

Taj Mahal Schools

"There's an old joke about a policeman around midnight spotting a drunk crawling around a lamp post. When asked what he was doing, the drunk replied "looking for my lost car keys." "Where did you lose them," asked the police officer? "Over there," said the drunk pointing off into the dark." "Then why look here," asked the cop? "Because there's more light here," answered the intoxicated gentleman.

Alas, like the drunk looking around the lamp post, would-be educational reformers have transformed "improving education" to the much easier "just spend more money," and if that fails, just spend even more. The results will be identical -- no car keys and no academic improvement."

[American Thinker]

Union Thugs Provide Card-Check Preview

"Card-check legislation is the unions' top priority and is strongly favored by Barack Obama and most Democrats. Why? Because under card check, there is no secret ballot. The unions know who is supporting them and who isn't. How will they treat the ones who don't sign the union card? The same way they treated the communications union workers who didn't appreciate having their money stolen by the bosses. If you think union violence is an old-fashioned concept, just let the Democrats adopt card check."

[PowerLine]

Former “alarmist” scientist says Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) based in false science

"David Evans is a scientist. He has also worked in the heart of the AGW machine.  He consulted full-time for the Australian Greenhouse Office (now the Department of Climate Change) from 1999 to 2005, and part-time 2008 to 2010, modeling Australia’s carbon in plants, debris, mulch, soils, and forestry and agricultural products. He has six university degrees, including a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. The other day he said:

The debate about global warming has reached ridiculous proportions and is full of micro-thin half-truths and misunderstandings. I am a scientist who was on the carbon gravy train, understands the evidence, was once an alarmist, but am now a skeptic.

And with that he begins a demolition of the theories, premises and methods by which the AGW scare has been foisted on the public."
[HotAir]

Obama's stance will hurt Boeing

"This summer, the huge Boeing assembly plant here will begin producing 787 Dreamliners – up to three a month, priced at $185 million apiece.

It will, unless the National Labor Relations Board, controlled by Democrats and encouraged by Barack Obama’s reverberating silence, gets its way.

Last month – 17 months after Boeing announced plans to build here, and with the $2 billion plant nearing completion – the NLRB, collaborating with the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, charged that Boeing’s decision violated the rights of its unionized workers in Washington state, where some Dreamliners are assembled and still will be even after the plant here is operational.

The NLRB has read a 76-year-old statute (the 1935 Wagner Act) perversely, disregarded almost half a century of NLRB and Supreme Court rulings, and patently misrepresented statements by Boeing officials."

[George Will]

Medicare Trustees Cast Doubt on ObamaCare Health Savin

Read the report ..... at least read the "Overview" - page 10 of the report....... [clipper]

"The 2011 annual report from the Medicare Board of Trustees casts doubt on the ability of the ObamaCare health reform law to achieve significant health care costs reductions, stating it is “very uncertain” whether the sweeping reform will succeed in reducing health care costs.

ObamaCare purports to reduce health care costs in two main ways: by forcing providers to implement efficiencies in the short term through gradual and predictable reductions in Medicare payments and by instituting broader health care delivery reforms over the long term. The Medicare Trustees report casts doubt on both approaches."

[CNS]

Oh, Che Can You See?

Here's a case study example of how we can fight misguided left-wingers........

Obama Announces New Oil Drilling for EPA to Block

"One of President Obama’s 2012 slogans should be “Drill, maybe, drill.” Obama knows that merely a call for drilling isn’t actually drilling, so publicly he can sound as drill-happy as Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (as he did early last year and is starting to again). As long as the EPA is there to block or revoke permits, Obama can, with a wink and a nudge, keep the “green” in his corner:"

[Michelle Malkin]

Helping to End Eminent Domain Abuse

"The United States House is currently considering the "Private Property Rights Protection Act."  This bill would be an important step in ensuring that all Americans, not just those in some states, have protection from eminent domain abuse.

In 2005, the House overwhelmingly passed this legislation in a bipartisan manner 376-38.  Unfortunately, it died in the Senate.  Congress once again has a chance to make it clear that no matter what state you live in or how much money your property generates, you will be protected from eminent domain abuse."

[American Thinker] 

Demagoguery 101

"Constructive and civil debate — like the one Obama initiated just four weeks ago on deficit reduction? The speech in which he accused the Republicans of abandoning families of autistic and Down syndrome kids? The debate in which Obama’s secretary of health and human services said that the Republican Medicare plan would make old folks “die sooner”?

In this same spirit of comity and mutual respect, Obama’s most recent invitation to civil discourse — on immigration — came just 11 minutes after he accused opponents of moving the goal posts on border enforcement. “Maybe they’ll need a moat,” he said sarcastically. “Maybe they want alligators in the moat.”"

[Charles Krauthammer]

CNN host admits he advises Obama

"Glenn [Beck] and the radio guys sure though [CNN's] Fareed Zakaria’s close relationship to the White House was a little odd for the supposedly unbiased reporter."
[Glenn Beck]

A Good Hot Shower

"Not much compares with the joy of lolling in a hot shower with water streaming full force down one's body, massaging one's back and shoulders, and easing the wrinkles on one's face. In an age of near universal regulation, censorship, and media conformity, an old-fashioned hot shower is one of the few pleasures of life that remain. Or so it would seem. In fact, the long arm of environmental extremism now extends even into your shower."

[American Thinker]

House GOP abandons pledge to force agency-by-agency budgeting

The GOP wimps out again !   

That's STRIKE TWO.

Bloodsucking Capitalists: Emotional Reading of Excerpts at Tucson School Board Meeting From a Book Used in the Controversial Ethnic Studies Curriculum for Grades 3rd – 12th

and this CRAP is being taught in GRADE SCHOOLS, MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND HIGH SCHOOLS  the School Board asks the parent to not use foul language.   She is reading from THEIR OWN TEXTBOOKS !!!!!!

Some California city lifeguards making more than $200,000 a year

and just wait until California's bankruptcy demands FEDERAL taxpayer BAILOUT !!!!

Hold Boehner to his PROMISE

We MUST HOLD HIM TO THIS !!!!!!

" I made clear that without significant spending cuts and reforms to reduce our debt, there will be no debt limit increase.  These cuts should be greater than the accompanying increase in debt authority the president is given, and they should be actual cuts and program reforms.  Broad deficit or debt targets that punt the tough questions to the future are not acceptable. "
[John Boehner]

New Yorkers soon to get emergency cell phone alerts in what Bloomberg calls 'quantum leap forward'

Newspeak straight from the MINISTRY OF TRUTH's Thought Police via the telescreen ...... remember

WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH

    [1984 - George Orwell]

"Emergency officials will soon be able to blast critical alerts to anyone with a cell phone in a certain section of the city.

"Making sure that [people] get useful and life-saving information, quickly and easily, right on their mobile phones, will help more people get out of harm's way when a threat exists," said Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator W. Craig Fugate.

The messages, including urgent blasts from the President, information on imminent threats and Amber Alerts about missing children, will supercede all other phone traffic so they won't be stalled or delayed."
[NY Daily News]

Bin Laden burial at sea ‘demeans family:’ sons

"The burial at sea of Osama bin Laden “demeaned and humiliated” his family, the sons of the slain Al-Qaeda founder have said, while accusing US President Barack Obama for obliterating a defenceless family."
[Khaleej Times]

Proposition Twenty

"Americans are increasingly worried about the federal government's staggering burden of debt.  The federal government's gross federal debt (debt held by the public plus intragovernmental obligations) will blow past $15 trillion by the end of September.  That will just surpass 100% of projected GDP, a level seen in our history only at the end of World War II."

[American Thinker]

There have been several peoposals on how ro fix the problems associated with a Balanced Budget Amendment, but this Proposition 20 seems to fill the loopholes.  [clipper]

59% Favor Cutoff of Federal Funds to Sanctuary Cities

"New legislation being considered by the House would stop all federal funding for cities that give sanctuary to illegal immigrants, and most voters like the idea. But very few believe Congress is likely to pass such a measure."
[Rasmussen]

Let your Congressman know your feelings on this. 

Click HERE

Consumer Reports Knocks the Volt

"Let’s see… taxpayer money is being dumped into a car that the public can’t afford and/or doesn’t want. Demand for the expensive product is to be created by high gas prices combined with goading the public into buying one by scaring them with a mythical crisis pushed by an enviro-hypocrite who goes around in a private jet telling everybody the oceans are going to rise and flood the same coastlines where he recently invested millions in a seaside mansion. In a nutshell, the theme park impresarios who proposed “Six Flags Over Chernobyl” had a more solid business plan."
[MichelleMalkin]

Expansive Executive Power Means Never Having To Say You're Sorry

"Imagine, for a moment, that these were George W. Bush’s policies at work. A quest for regime change in Libya, conducted without even a pro forma request for Congressional approval. A campaign of remote-controlled airstrikes, in which collateral damage is inevitable, carried out inside a country where we are not officially at war. A policy of targeted assassination against an American citizen who has been neither charged nor convicted in any U.S. court.

Imagine the outrage, the protests, the furious op-eds about right-wing tyranny and neoconservative overreach. Imagine all that, and then look at the reality. For most Democrats, what was considered creeping fascism under Bush is just good old-fashioned common sense when the president has a “D” beside his name."

[JustOneMinute]

It Begins… TSA Now Checking Baby’s Butts

How long before they start checking YOURS ???

Show me the Money: John Boehner, "cut trillions," "Debt-ceiling hike without deep cuts would be ‘arrogant’"

"Speaker John Boehner will call on Congress to offset a debt ceiling hike with spending cuts of a greater amount, an ambitious proposal that puts House Republicans on a collision course with Democrats who want much more modest spending restrictions attached to the vote.

I will be the first to commend Boehner if he steps up to the plate and fulfills the mandate of the tea party that put him where he is and gets serious reform put in place in exchange for a debt ceiling hike.

Unfortunately, given his performance during the "budget battle" recently wherein he folded like a cheap 20-dollar suit, despite one of the most historic mandates in history, I am more than skeptical and highly doubt that he is up to the task.

If he doesn't perform during the debt ceiling showdown, the GOP is toast and will be thrown into the dustbin of history, as it should be.

And a viable fiscally conservative third party will emerge that tea-partiers, libertarians, independents and true conservatives can support."
[LeftCoastRebel]

Who’s Up For Another Fannie Mae Bailout?

"Mortgage finance giant Fannie Mae (FNMA.OB) on Friday said it would ask for an additional $8.5 billion from taxpayers as it continues to suffer losses on loans made prior to 2009."
[Michelle Malkin]

Craig Becker is a Natural Fit in a Socialist Administration

"... it is no surprise that we are learning Craig Becker, a Presidential appointee to the National Labor Relations Board and a key player in screwing Boeing for moving the 787 assembly line to South Carolina, has a paper trail of socialist views going all the way back to college."
[Red State]

Pelosi Sends Out Pro-Abortion Fundraising Email for Mother’s Day

"For Mother’s Day this horrible woman sent out a pro-abortion fundraising email to democratic donors."
[Gateway Pundit]

Thoughts on a Surreal Depression

"History’s revolutions and upheavals — whether the Nika rioting in Constantinople, the periodic uprising of the turba in Rome, the French upheavals, or the Bolshevik Revolution — are rarely fueled by the starving and despised, but by the subsidized and frustrated, who either see their umbilical cord threatened, or their comfort and subsidies static rather than expansive — or their own condition surpassed by that of an envied kulak class. Perceived relative inequality rather than absolute poverty is the engine of revolution.

These are strange and dangerous times. An insolvent federal government, an exporting China and India, and an almost complete indifference to federal immigration, tax, and regulatory laws have all combined to create a well-entitled but increasingly angry population, one “empowered” and made more, not less, bitter by the last two years of governance in Washington."

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Free the Federal Lands for States to Develop

"When the United States was formed the Congress owned no lands.  It is time to establish the right of land ownership for every state in the union.

Consider the tremendous economic activity and the attending prosperity that is now occurring in North Dakota (population less than 700,000).  The key is that oil and gas drilling and related business development are under the mandate of North Dakota, not Washington, DC."

[American Thinker]

 

Commie Van Jones’ Political Group Targets “Celebrity Apprentice” After Trump’s Attacks on Obama

"The radical far left group ColorofChange led by commie-Truther Van Jones is targeting “Celebrity Apprentice” after Donald Trump’s continued attacks on America’s worst president, Barack Obama. The radical group wants the celebrity stars to denounce Trump and call him a racist for daring to question Barack Obama’s hidden school records. "
[Gateway Pundit]

As much as you might dislike Trump, or his attitude, he DID force BHO to release his "birth record".  Perhaps the Donald can do the same with BHO's college records.  [clipper]

Ariz. Sheriff: Feds Order Release of Illegals to Phony Up Numbers

"The U.S. Border Patrol has told its agents to stop arresting illegal aliens crossing the border from Mexico to keep the illegal immigration numbers down, Arizona Sheriff Larry Dever tells Newsmax."

[NewsMax]

House Passes Offshore Energy Bill to Combat Soaring Gas Prices

"By a vote of 266-149, the Republican-led House of Representatives just passed the Restarting American Offshore Leasing Now Act (H.R. 1230). This is American Energy Initiative legislation that will help address soaring gas prices and create new jobs by increasing offshore energy production.

H.R. 1230 is the most recent bill in the American Energy Initiative, and it requires the Secretary of the Interior to move forward and conduct offshore energy lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and Virginia that have been delayed or canceled by the Obama Administration. This is critical with gas prices rapidly reaching $4 throughout much of the country."

[John Boehner] 

BLS BS

"The economy added 244,000 new jobs in April, but the unemployment rate climbed to 9.0% all because "more people are looking for work".  I am also hearing the spin that "the numbers aren't great, but the direction is good."  That is the mantra being spun on the networks this morning.

Hogwash!

The civilian employment ratio has not improved, and in fact it is now starting to tail downward again. "
[American Thinker]

Fannie Mae seeks $8.5 billion more in federal aid

"Fannie Mae asked the government Friday for an additional $8.5 billion in aid after declining home prices caused more defaults on loans guaranteed by the mortgage giant.

The company said it lost $8.7 billion in the first three months of the year. Those losses led Fannie to request more than three times the federal aid it sought in the previous quarter. The total cost of rescuing the government-controlled mortgage buyer is nearing $100 billion - the most expensive bailout of a single company."

[AP]

Go Ahead, Make Our Day

"The Obama Administration has resurrected the notion of a per-mile tax on driving our cars. An attempt of this nature would be a 21^st century Intolerable Act. Installing a federal tracking device of any sort on our cars and then using it to tax the miles we drive would probably produce an outrage and backlash unlike anything we've seen yet, and I eagerly welcome the Federal Government to try it. It could truly be "a bridge too far" for the forces of the statists. 

 

Imagine the resourcefulness Americans would employ to dodge this tax.  Go ahead, try to place some sort of device in every vehicle in America; see how fast they all accidentally get hit with electromagnets, high voltage, or other unfortunate accidents.  Watch speedometer cables disconnect themselves, watch the young and typically liberal computer geeks of America turn their attention to the destruction of whatever network the government builds to enforce their tax.  Watch auxiliary gas tanks get installed on one vehicle in order to fill others, watch gas cans get filled for lawnmowers every single time a vehicle goes in for a fill.  Watch resourceful red state country boys pull the old pickups from behind their outbuildings and drive them unregistered across the great expanses of flyover country. "

[American Thinker] 

The food desert in your own backyard

WHY ?

does our federal government get into this?
where does our Constitution require federal goverment to do ANYTHING? 

GOP House Intel Chair Thinks We Are No Better Than Animals

“The risks of release outweigh the benefits, Conspiracy theorists around the world will just claim the photos are doctored anyway, and there is a real risk that releasing the photos will only serve to inflame public opinion in the Middle East.”

“Imagine how the American people would react if Al Qaeda killed one of our troops or military leaders, and put photos of the body on the internet,”  [Rep. Mike Rogers, Chmn House Intel. Comm.]

"Oh, really Mr. Rogers? We dumb old rubes can’t control ourselves, I suppose. You are so much Better and Smarter Than Us ™. I mean, it’s not like we’ve seen thousands of American civilians killed by Jihadists. Good thing we all didn’t see pictures of innocent people on fire jumping to their own deaths, huh? " 
[RedState]

How Photos from Obama’s Speech on Bin Laden’s Death Were Staged

"Reuters White House photographer Jason Reed describes how the president made his speech to a single TV camera, then immediately after finishing, he pretended to speak for the still cameras."
[Poynter]

Obama floats plan to tax cars by the mile

"The Obama administration has floated a transportation authorization bill that would require the study and implementation of a plan to tax automobile drivers based on how many miles they drive."
[The Hill]

The Mysterious Mr. O

"Imagine this scenario: You're divorcing your spouse, but he or she refuses to release personal financial records.  You both hire attorneys.  In fact, your ex spends a substantial amount of money on legal fees to avoid the release of records.  Your spouse enlists the help of officials and governors all over the country to keep the information well hidden.

And one day, years later, your ex releases the sought after documents.  You scratch your head in wonderment.  Why did this person hide them in the first place?"

[American Thinker]

Outsider hired for Obama speeches

"On top of the more than half a million dollars it spends on speechwriters, the White House is using tens of thousands of taxpayer dollars on a public relations firm headed by Democratic image maker Michael Sheehan — once dubbed by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as an “extraordinary media coach” who helped her master the teleprompter.

Mr. Sheehan’s firm, Sheehan Associates, could receive more than $100,000 under a current contract and has been providing occasional speech and consulting services to the White House since 2009, federal purchasing records show."

[Washington Times]