A GREAT(?) Orator, Is He ?

Gingrich to his GOP competitors: Stop fighting and “get over it”

"He’s not the first to feel this way, but it does seem a little extra newsworthy when a presidential candidate scolds his competitors for attacking each other."
[Hot Air]

Cain's 'Chilean Model'

"Perry did call for a national dialogue on the matter. But Cain went much further, at least three times in debates calling for "The Chilean Model" to replace Social Security, bringing the idea to as many as 15 million viewers.

Chile's system, enacted in 1981, took government out of the pension business altogether and replaced it with a system of personal retirement accounts.

It outperforms Social Security on returns, yielding about 9.23% compounded annual returns over 30 years under private management.

That means Chilean retirees take home pension checks four times what they would have gotten if they had remained in their old Social Security system.

[IBD]

Oregon Gets $5 Million Federal Bonus for Signing Up More Food Stamp ‘Clients’

"In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls."

[Judicial Watch]

Obama’s Racial Crisis

"In the current racial circus, the president of the United States, in addressing an assembly of upscale black professionals and political leaders, adopts the style of a Southern Baptist preacher of the 1960s. He alters his cadences and delivery to both berate and gin up the large audience — posing as a messianic figure who will “march” them out to speak truth to power. In response, the omnipresent Rep. Maxine Waters goes public yet again, to object that the president has no right to rally blacks in this way, when he does not adopt similar tones of admonishment with Jews and gays. (Should Obama try to emulate the way he thinks gays and Jews talk in his next address to them?)"

[Victor Davis Hanson]

Census Bureau Admits It 'Artifcially Inflated the Number of Same-Sex Couples'--by 40 Percent

"The Census Bureau admitted yesterday that it had “artificially inflated the number of same-sex couples” in the United States, initially reporting a number that was about 40 percent higher than what it now believes is accurate."

[CNS News]

Obama's "Intercontinental" Railtoad

Crony Socialism: Obama Gives $737 Million to Solar Firm Linked to the Pelosi Clan

"It’s as if Solyndra never happened. The Obama Administration is giving $737 million to a Tonopah Solar, a subsidiary of California-based SolarReserve. PCG is an investment partner with SolarReserve. Nancy Pelosi’s brother-in-law happens to be the number two man at PCG."

[Gateway Pundit]

Rick Perry's vaccine shocker

Hard truth about mandatory shot that so far has gone un-trumpeted

[WND]

Chicago on the Potomac: White House reportedly takes Ford to woodshed over anti-bailout ad

"As part of a campaign featuring “real people” explaining their decision to buy the Blue Oval, a guy named “Chris” says he “wasn’t going to buy another car that was bailed out by our government,” according the text of the ad, launched in early September.

“I was going to buy from a manufacturer that’s standing on their own: win, lose, or draw. That’s what America is about is taking the chance to succeed and understanding when you fail that you gotta’ pick yourself up and go back to work.”

That’s what some of America is about, evidently. Because Ford pulled the ad after individuals inside the White House questioned whether the copy was publicly denigrating the controversial bailout policy CEO Alan Mulally repeatedly supported in the dark days of late 2008, in early ’09 and again when the ad flap arose. And more."

[Michelle Malkin]

The Medicare Monster

"Medicare’s problem is not just overspending. In a sense, the program’s travails mirror (and severely exacerbate) those of our economy and welfare state more generally: The stifling of competition and innovation creates a crushing inefficiency that makes the system unsustainable​—​giving off a strong whiff of institutional decline, and intimations of a terrible crash to come. Yet correcting the problem, in Medicare’s case as with our broader predicament, presents an enormous political challenge, because recipients of benefits are powerfully resistant to change. "

[Weekly Standard]

Regulation Nation

"In the belief that government regulation is blocking job creation, House GOP leaders aim not only to repeal specific regulations, but also to reform the rule-making system. Their key reform bill is the Regulations from the Executive In Need of Scrutiny Act, or REINS Act. It comes at a crucial time."

[Weekly Standard]

Obama's Interior Chokehold on America

"How could a bureaucratic bottleneck in the Gulf of Mexico cost the U.S. economy nearly $20 billion and wipe out hundreds of thousands of jobs as far away as Ohio, Pennsylvania and California? 

Eleven months after the Secretary's announcement, drilling in the Gulf remains near a standstill. The government has used every stall tactic imaginable to delay permits and other administrative approvals that would help our economy and put hundreds of thousands back to work."

[American Thinker]

EPA Calls Compliance with Own Law “Absurd or Impossible” and Requests 230,000 New Employees

THIS IS FEDERAL BUREAUCRACY RUN AMOK!

"The EPA is asking taxpayers to fund up to 230,000 new government workers to process all the extra paperwork, at an estimated cost of $21 billion. That cost does not include the economic impact of the regulations themselves.

“Hiring the 230,000 full-time employees necessary to produce the 1.4 billion work hours required to address the actual increase in permitting functions would result in an increase in Title V administration costs of $21 billion per year,” the EPA wrote in the court brief."
[Red State]

Thought it couldn't get any worse than Solyndra?

OBAMA's CRONY CAPITALISM AT WORK - OVERTIME !

"President Obama's nominee for Commerce secretary served as chairman of the board of a solar energy company that recently received a $1.37 billion federal loan guarantee – the largest the Department of Energy has ever given for a solar power project."

[WND]

Tax Demagogues Are Lying Liars, in One Graph

WHO IS NOT PAYING THEIR FAIR SHARE ???? 

"The rich pay lower tax rates than we do.  Bush's tax cuts were only for the rich.  Both the Reagan and Bush tax cuts were sops to the rich.  Schmucks like you and me pay all the taxes so the rich can ride free.

You hear these lies every day.

These lies are rebutted by a single graph produced by the Congressional Budget Office, below.

 

The taxes included in this chart are for all federal taxes, not just income taxes.  Each quintile is one fifth of taxpayers, based on income.  The top quintile is the one with the highest incomes.

The most obvious observation is that the higher your income, the greater your federal tax rate is. Taxpayers in the top quintile paid about 25% of their income in federal taxes, while those in the bottom quintile paid about 5% in 2007."

 [American Thinker]  

Long Lines At State Offices For Low-Income Aid; Confusion About Food Stamps

"Long lines formed early Monday morning outside [Connecticut] state Department of Social Services field offices, as low-income residents sought one-time payments for losses incurred during Tropical Storm Irene.

 

[Hartford Courant]

Why should ANY of us be FORCED by the government to provide aid to these people?  Yes, I'm sympathetic to their plight, but we have church and civic welfare organizations to help.  Why should we pay for the woman who left her home with windows open as the hurricane approached?  Why should WE pay for food in her refrigerator that rotted because power was off?  No government organization paid me a dime when hurricane Charlie hit our home in Punta Gorda, Florida in 2004 and we had over $100,000 in damages.

[clipper]

Cain’s ‘9-9-9’ tax plan is fairer share

"Leave it to a pizza guy to come up with the $9.99 deal. Wait, sorry, that’s the 9-9-9 deal. And former Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain has made the proposal the centerpiece of his 2012 campaign for president.

Simply put (wait, sorry again, it is simple), the plan calls for setting the personal income tax, including Social Security and Medicare, at 9 percent for everyone; reducing corporate taxes to 9 percent; and establishing a new national sales tax of 9 percent.

Using stats compiled by the University of New Mexico’s Bureau of Business and Economic Research, it’s possible to quantify what his plan would bring in. A flat income tax of 9 percent would bring in about $1.12 trillion. Corporate taxes at 9 percent - about $270 billion. A national 9 percent sales tax, about $378 billion.

That’s only (only!) $1.768 trillion, well short of what this year’s tax revenue of $2.16 trillion. But wait. With some hefty growth (and using a projection not far above the Obama administration’s own estimates), the 9 percent income tax would bring in about $1.4 trillion, corporate taxes an estimated $321 billion, and the national sales tax about $450 billion.

Boom - $2.17 trillion."

[Washington Times]

Police ban Bible from Christian café

"Police in Lancashire [U.K.] have told the owner of a Christian café to stop displaying Bible texts on a video screen, because it breaches public order laws."
[The Christian Institute]

Being Obama

It’s all about him.

Amazon Kindle Tablet Could Shake Up Tablet Wars: Here's How

"Amazon’s unveiling of a Kindle tablet would shake up the industry and pose one of the biggest threats to the Apple iPad -- which is why the technology world has its eyes on the online retailer as it prepares for a media gathering in New York this week ahead of the holiday season."

[PC World]

Even Republicans Rejected Info About Obama’s Past

Whistle blower tried to warn us about Obama's radical, Marxist past at Occidental College.  Was ignored by media. [clipper]

Obama's FY 2011 Debt Bigger Than Nixon's Entire Government

"The administration of President Barack Obama has already increased the national debt in fiscal 2011--which ends this coming Friday--by an amount greater than the cost of the entire federal government in fiscal 1970, when Richard Nixon was president."

[CNS]

Obamacare Undercover

"While Democrats try to keep ObamaCare out of the electoral spotlight, the Obama administration is preparing a rude awakening for Americans in 2014.

The Washington Examiner has an op-ed by Kansas Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, reporting that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has issued a proposed rule that would require health insurers to turn over all patient records and business data to the federal government.

The ostensible purpose of the rule is to allow HHS to micromanage insurance risk for every company in the so-called exchanges that begin operating in 2014 under ObamaCare."

[American Thinker]

Thus begins another government run redistribution of wealth. 

[clipper]

Putin Once More Moves to Assume Top Job in Russia

"Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin, who transformed post-Soviet Russia by imposing Kremlin control over most aspects of public life, moved on Saturday to return to the presidency and could remain until 2024, giving him a rule comparable in length with that of Brezhnev or Stalin."

[NY Times]

Obama raising with Missouri stimulus beneficiary

"President Barack Obama will raise money in early October with a Missouri businessman whose company benefited from a $107 million federal tax credit to develop a wind power facility in his state. 

Tom Carnahan, a scion of Missouri’s most prominent Democratic political family, is listed on Obama’s campaign website as a host of a $25,000-per-person fundraiser to be held in St. Louis on October 4.

His energy development firm, Wind Capital Group, was helped by a sizable credit authorized in the stimulus, for an energy project in northwest Missouri."

[Politico]

The Left's Big Obsession

"The "leftist mind" has been undone by its allegiance to bad ideas.

.....  the political left's obsession with equality.  A lefty is like a child at a birthday party complaining that another kid got a bigger piece of cake than he did.."

[American Thinker] 

The Questions Never Asked About Palestine

"As the Palestinian-Arabs and their friends make their latest push for "Palestinian" statehood at the United Nations this week, once again the wrong questions are being asked, while the pertinent questions every reporter, activist, and foreign minister should be asking never arise.

 

Why do "Palestinians" need a state of their own?  Who are these "stateless" people?  What is their history?  Where have they been for all of these years?

In the spirit of "you don't know what you don't know," here are some Hansel-and-Gretel-like bread crumbs to guide journalists and others to the questions they might ask:"

[American Thinker]

Texas School Punishes Boy for Opposing Homosexuality

"An honors student in Fort Worth, Texas, was sent to the principal’s office and punished for telling a classmate that he believes homosexuality is wrong.

Dakota was in a German class at the high school when the conversation shifted to religion and homosexuality in Germany. At some point during the conversation, he turned to a friend and said that he was a Christian and “being a homosexual is wrong.”

[FoxNews]

Can A Public Person Be Libeled?

"In the United States, I would generally say No. With respect to defamation, under American law, it is essentially open season on public figures, especially politicians. But Joe McGinniss may have provided us with the acid test, in the form of an email he wrote to an anti-Palin activist in Alaska in January of this year.

We wrote here about the absurd and even contradictory claims about Sarah Palin that are circulating in the news as a result of McGinniss’s about-to-be-published book. But making an absurd allegation isn’t enough to libel a public person; you have to say something that you know to be false, or subjectively believe is likely false.

What is intriguing about McGinniss’s email, which has fallen into the hands of Big Government, is that McGinniss bluntly admits that there is no evidence to support the lurid rumors about Sarah Palin and her family, some of which he passes on in his book. "

[PowerLine]

San Juan Capistrano Fines Family for Reading Bible without Permit

"The city of San Juan Capistrano, California is laying heavy fines on a local couple for hosting semi-regular bible readings in their home."
[Reason]

GOP lawmakers seek answers from Sebelius regarding CLASS Act

"Last week, a report from a Republican working group revealed that administration officials, in the rush to pass Obamacare, ignored internal warnings from government experts about the fiscal sustainability of a long-term care insurance entitlement program included in the health reform law. Throughout the health care debate, officials within the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as well as the Health and Human Services Department, repeatedly warned that the CLASS Act [Community Living Assistance Services and Supports program] would be a fiscal disaster. Yet, the final version of Obamacare not only included the CLASS Act; it even counted CLASS as a cost-saving measure."

[Hot Air]

Hey Professors, Pay Up

"As you might know, Michele Bachmann claimed that a woman came up to her, crying, saying that her child suffered mental retardation after being vaccinated for HPV.  A couple of professors question her claim. 

Two bioethics professors have offered to pay more than $10,000 for medical records that prove the anecdote Bachmann told after Monday night's Republican presidential debate is true[.]"

[American Thinker]

Time to pay up professors!!!!!

This Week’s ‘Albert Gore Jr. Award for Eco-Hypocrisy’ Goes To…

"…Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick"
[Michelle Malkin]

Graph for the Day for September 19, 2011

"We don't use formulas and there is no required minimum test score, GPA, or class rank. We read each application thoroughly, one by one.  We focus first on academic excellence -- courses, grades, and test scores. Beyond academics, we look for qualities such as leadership, concern for others and the community, and achievement in the arts, athletics, and other areas. We're also seeking diversity... " University of Wisconsin-Madison.

[Center For Equal Opportunity]

Watergate Times Three

"You think Richard Nixon's presidency was the worst scandal ever?  Well, so far, anyway.

A similar Watergate scandal could erupt for Barack Obama.  The only difference is that there may be three of them.

The insane Solyndra loan, the LightSquared cronyism, and the Operation Fast and Furious gun-running debacle have all come into America's consciousness at the same time."
[American Thinker]

Harry Reid on Obama’s ‘Tax the Rich’ Proposal: Finally Those Who Got America Into Debt Will Have to Pay

"Privately, DC Democrats like Harry Reid know they need and even depend on the rich, but publicly they reject them like red-heads at Danish sperm banks.

Reid spoke earlier about President Obama’s “jobs plan” and the tax increases for the wealthy contained therein. As someone who presided over the biggest spending Congress in history, Reid accepted his share of responsibility for the deep financial hole in which America finds itself. Just kidding — he blamed the debt on the rich not paying their fair share, which of course was Bush’s fault, and welcomed Obama’s plan to finally make the rich pay:....."

[Michelle Malkin]

Chi Trib Columnist: Hillary Should Replace Obama

"President Barack Obama’s got a decidedly downbeat message from his hometown newspaper on Monday – please don’t run for re-election.

The message did not come directly from the Chicago Tribune, but from a distinguished member of its editorial board, veteran columnist Steve Chapman.

Even so, the fact it was printed in the Windy City’s most prominent newspaper – which endorsed Obama in 2008 – is a major blow to the president."

[Newsmax]

Sheriff Arpaio's posse to review Obama BC

"Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio in Arizona has constituted a special law enforcement posse to investigate allegations brought by members of the Surprise, Ariz., Tea Party that the birth certificate Barack Obama released to the public April 27 might be a forgery, WND has learned. 

The posse, under the authority of Arpaio's office, will consist of two former law enforcement officers and two retired attorneys, headed by Michael Zullo, a retired police detective originally from Bergen County, N.J."

[WND]

US taxpayers could be on hook for Europe bailout

"The U.S. is coming to Europe's financial rescue.

So far, America's role is fairly limited. But if the crisis continues to grow and the U.S. takes on a wider role, U.S. consumers and taxpayers could feel a bigger impact. The biggest exposure could come from America's status as the single largest source of money for the International Monetary Fund."

[MSNBC]

Obama's Solyndra scandal reeks of the Chicago Way

"Those of us from Chicago know exactly what the Solyndra scandal smells like. And It doesn't smell fresh and green."

[Chicago Tribune]

China Puts Squeeze on Rare Earth Metals Resulting in Compact Flourescent Bulb Prices to Skyrocket

"Thanks Congress. Thanks EPA. Thanks global warming junk scientists.
Thanks to US lawmakers the labor-intensive compact fluorescent light bulb production is thriving – in China."
[Gateway Pundit]

Is revolution hitting U.S. streets tomorrow?

"Protesters training to incite violence, resist arrest, disrupt the legal system"

[WND]

Obama campaign attacks author probing eligibility

"The Obama campaign for the 2012 presidential race has launched a new "fight the smears" type website, this time called "AttackWatch.com," with a personal attack on Dr. Jerome Corsi, the author of the best-selling "Where's the Birth Certificate?"

 

The ominous black and white website has a blood-red color overlay over a photograph of Corsi, whose book is credited with causing so much concern inside the bowels of the Obama White House that an attorney was dispatched on a special trip to Hawaii in April to obtain a purported copy of the state's "Certificate of Live Birth" for Obama, even though administration officials had said for years that was a document that wasn't available."

[WND]

47 Different Taxes We Pay: Can You Think of More?

Here's a list of taxes we pay .........

Solyndra, Barack Obama, and Crony Capitalism: Picking a Loser to be a Winner

"The company's solar panel factory was heralded as a centerpiece of the president's green energy plan -- billed as a way to jump start a promising new industry. And internal emails uncovered by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee that were shared exclusively with ABC News show the Obama administration was keenly monitoring the progress of the loan, even as analysts were voicing serious concerns about the risk involved. "This deal is NOT ready for prime time," one White House budget analyst wrote in a March 10, 2009 email, nine days before the administration formally announced the loan."

[ABC News]

Just a reminder of what poverty looks like in America

".... the Census Bureau today released its annual poverty report, which showed the number of poor Americans is up from 43.6 million last year to 46.2 million this year — roughly one in seven Americans and the highest poverty rate in 15 years."
[Hot Air]

However, see:

Air Conditioning, Cable TV, and an Xbox: What is Poverty in the United States Today?

E-Verify 'flags' Obama's Social Security Number

"A private investigation reveals that the Social Security Number being used by Barack Obama does not pass a check with E-Verify, the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not prospective employees have the required authorization to work legally in the United States."

[WND]

Crickets Chirp As White House Spams & Sends Out Union Press Releases

"Last week, many Americans watched President Obama stand in front of of his teleprompters and Congress and sell—no, demand—a still unwritten bill dubbed the American Jobs Act.

Then, a most peculiar thing happened. The White House spammed reporters’ e-mail boxes (something that was supposedly stopped in 2009) and began issuing union press releases of unions backing the unwritten “jobs bill.” For the moment, try to ignore the fact that the White House press releases are touting Obama campaign donors’ acceptance of the unwritten jobs bill."

[Red State]

Multiculturalism Defined

MULTICULTURALISM:   State-sanctioned grievance industry that stokes division and resentment, while always under the delusion that it is doing something positive called "celebrating diversity." 
[James Delingpole]

Rep. King Upset With Amnesty for Obama Uncle

When we revolted against the King in 1776, we did so partly because of favored treatments received by the King's people in the colonies.    When we wrote and adopted our Constitution we demanded EQUAL TREATMENT BEFORE THE LAW of all people, NOT FAVORED TREATMENT FOR THE PRESIDENT AND FAMILY.    We should demand that this investigation proceed. 

[clipper]

"It's the Investment Spending, Stupid": We've Got a Sub-Par Recovery for Investment, Not Consumption

"Here is the true reason for the recession’s persistence.  Private investors, despite the full recovery of real consumer spending, remain apprehensive about the future of new investments, especially new long-term investments. I have argued repeatedly during the past three years that an important reason for this apprehension and the consequent reluctance to make new capital commitments is regime uncertainty—in this case, a widespread, serious fear that the government’s major policies in areas such as taxation, Obamacare, financial reform, environmental regulation, and other areas will have the effect of depriving investors of control over their capital or diminishing their ability to appropriate the income that the capital generates. President Obama’s harping on the desirability of making “the rich” pay their “fair share” of the government’s ever-rising costs only exacerbates regime uncertainty. Business leaders have spoken again and again of how the present political environment is discouraging risk-taking and entrepreneurship."  [Carpe Diem]

Liberal Media Believes Palin/Tea Party Supporters Toothless Racists

"Obama pretends to be a president. But when pressured, the real Obama comes up for air revealing himself to be a community organizer; a rabble-rousing promoter of entitlements and class envy willfully dividing Americans along racial lines. Obama and his minions are evil.

We have seen Obama in numerous cowboy movies. Obama is the loud mouth guy standing on the steps of the jail-house yelling at the crowd. He works the crowd into a frenzy causing them to overrule the sheriff and the law, drag out the prisoner and hang him without a trial.

Since the beginning of his presidency, on numerous occasions, our community-organizer-in -chief has worked his minions into a frenzy to punish white police, banks, Wall Street, corporate CEOs, private jet owners, Arizonians, insurance companies, doctors, the rich, and anyone opposing Obamacare.

As testimony to the effectiveness of the Tea Party, Obama has instructed his minions, Congressional Black Caucus and unions to escalate their slander and level of vitriol which now includes threat of violence. The left has set aside September 17^th as their National Day of Rage. Lord knows what evil they have scheduled. The left has created a violent hate-filled game titled, "Tea Party Zombies Must Die". www.teapartyzombiesmustdie.com

[Lloyd Marcus]

Ten years on at the 9-11 7-11

".... I’m coming back just this once to tell you about my trip to 7-11.

It was actually only near 7-11; I didn’t go in. The parking lot was too crowded. It was raining and it was early in the morning and my windows were fogged up but I pulled in across the street, turned my headlights off, and one of the three or four dozen men who were hanging around the lot (despite the miserable downpour) came out to see me."

[Hot Air]

We The People

Obama's Unemployment Rant

While Senator Obama was campaigning for the presidency, he explained in some detail the problems facing the country, notably high unemployment.  After two and a half years into his first term, President Obama continues to explain, eloquently, the problems facing America.  When he was inaugurated in January, 2009, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the non-farm employment in this country was 131,555,000 vis-a-vis 130,788,000 in August 2011, a decrease of 767,000 employees.  Voters elected Mr. Obama to solve problems, not continue to talk about them.

[Dan Uffner]

PBS alters transcript to hide Obama gaffe

.... and who says the media is not IN THE TANK for Obama?

The Least Serious President in the History of the Republic™ Makes the Most Irrelevant Speech in the History of the Republic

"This speech will go down in history. Unfortunately, not in a good way. Traditionally, the President will speak to a joint session of Congress for an annual State of The Union address, or some pressing policy matter or something of relatively great importance. Now, I'm not saying unemployment is unimportant,but the President's speech was."

[Left Coast Rebel]