January 2011
Obama's State of the Union Was Tantamount to... →
jessarmentrout:
“That Obama could utter almost identical words days after paying tribute to Kennedy on the 50th anniversary of the delivery of that famous speech and not making reference to it suggests a self-absorption rare even among presidents.”
“You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of...”
– Adrian Rogers (via combattant-de-la-liberte)
Trump: Mideast Explosion Could Destroy OPEC, Lower... →
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WatchBarack Obama – He Knows Business.
I’m speaking to you today from Manitowoc, Wisconsin, where I’m at an innovative company called Orion Energy Systems.
Just a few years ago, this was an empty warehouse. A major employer had shut down this factory, moved its operations abroad, and took a lot of jobs away from this town.
But today, as you can see behind me, this is a thriving enterprise once...
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NY Dem election official indicted for voter...
The 2009 primary election in Troy, NY attracted much attention for election shenanigans from Democratic officials who are associated with the Working Families Party. Well, yesterday, a grand jury issued indictments on 116 charges against a Democratic City Councilmember Michael LaPorto and Democratic Election Commissioner Edward McDonough. The Albany Times-Union and the Troy Record have been...
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White House quietly exempts pampered politicos...
If you would like to know what the White House really thinks of Obamacare, there’s an easy way. Look past its press releases. Ignore its promises. Forget its talking points. Instead, simply witness for yourself the outrageous way the White House protects its best friends from Obamacare.
Last year, we learned that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had granted 111 waivers to protect...
WatchAlexandria is something of a stronghold for the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, so maybe this did not come as a total surprise to CNN reporter Nic Robertson.
Woman #1 sets the stage for Woman #2:
“All the people hate him. He’s supporting Israel! Israel is our enemy. We don’t like him…Israel and America supported him. We hate them all!”
Woman #1 then explains that they will accomplish the...
Science Czar Holdren on Climate Change Skeptics:... →
President Obama’s top science adviser said there’s a need to “educate” GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda.
“It is an education problem. I think we have to educate them,” said John Holdren, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in an interview broadcast Sunday.
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“Egypt doesn’t have control of its people the way we do here.”
– Joe Biden, today on MSNBC
This wasn’t the thing to say.
(via thecookieateu)
Committee Passes Plan for Internet ‘Kill Switch’...
Pending legislation that would grant the President of the United States the power to pull the plug on the country’s internet access in a declared “emergency” returned to the forefront this week on the same day Egyptians faced a nation-wide blackout designed to curtail widespread government protests. Egypt flipped it’s so-called “kill switch” — will the U.S.?
The bipartisan bill is sponsored by...
Maddow Producer: ‘MSNBC Does Not Have a Political... →
Thanks to the tough investigative work done by The Hollywood Reporter, we can finally clarify that MSNBC is apolitical and they do not have nefarious reasons for focusing so much negative coverage on the former Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
In a story titled, “Sarah Palin: MSNBC’s Obsession With Her” the cable channel’s primetime programming veep and executive producer of the Rachel...
University Uninvites Bristol Palin Over Too Much...
Washington University in St. Louis, MO has uninvited Bristol Palin to speak at its annual “Sex Week” because it deemed her appearance had become, and would be, too controversial.
Palin was originally invited to talk about the importance of abstinence and, as the student newspaper Student Life says, counteract the liberal bent of the annual event. She was supposed to appear on a panel alongside,...
What Role is the Muslim Brotherhood Playing in...
So far, demonstrations in Egypt have protested against poor living standards and authoritarian rule. But, as the New York Times is reporting, but religion may soon play an increasingly integral roll in mobilizing anti-government forces:
With organizers calling for demonstrations after Friday prayer, the political movement will literally be taken to the doorsteps of the nation’s mosques. And as...
Joe Biden says Egypt's Mubarak no dictator, he... →
Someone needs to get Obama and Biden on the same page
Egypt protests: America's secret backing for rebel... →
Huh. I thought that this administration didn’t “meddle” in other country’s internal affairs. Go figure.
Rep. Moran: Dems Lost Because Many 'Don't Want to...
Virginia Democratic Rep. Jim Moran is blaming his party’s losses last November in large part on voters who “don’t want to be governed by an African-American.”
The comments were made following President Obama’s State of the Union speech Tuesday during an interview with Arab network Alhurra. Asked about the results of the midterm elections, the Virginia congressman...
“And if we truly care about our deficit, we simply cannot afford a permanent...”
– - Barack Obama, State of the Union Address
Dear Mr. Obama,
Please learn the difference between the word “ask” and the word “force”. You will find that the first word implies that the person has the option and freedom to deny, ergo, to say: NO. You will also find that the second word implies that...
White House Says Obama Will Tackle Gun Control →
A White House senior adviser said Tuesday night that President Obama is “going to address [gun control].” In an interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, David Plouffe responded to criticism that the president did not mention gun control in his State of the Union address. Some Democrats on Capitol Hill and gun-control advocates have called for new legislation in the wake of the...
AP: Obamacare Won’t Hold Down Costs and you can’t... →
Two of the central promises of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law are unlikely to be fulfilled, Medicare’s independent economic expert told Congress on Wednesday.
The landmark legislation probably won’t hold costs down, and it won’t let everybody keep their current health insurance if they like it, Chief Actuary Richard Foster told the House Budget...
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Obama Hammered by AP Fact Check...or those pesky...
The ledger did not appear to be adding up Tuesday night when President Barack Obama urged more spending on one hand and a spending freeze on the other. Obama spoke ambitiously of putting money into roads, research, education, efficient cars, high-speed rail and other initiatives in his State of the Union speech.
He pointed to the transportation and construction projects of the last two years and...
Rep. Loretta Sanchez sparks outrage from fellow... →
Behind closed doors, California Democratic Rep. Loretta Sanchez has proposed removing Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords from the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) until she recovers from injuries sustained after being shot in the head on Jan. 8 in Tucson, The Daily Caller has learned.
The proposal sparked an outrage, according to those in the room — including from those in Sanchez’s own party.
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“I’d like to make sure that we once and for all kill all U.S. funding for that...”
– Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) - On the waste that the UN is to the US (via thecookieateu)
Senate Republicans introduce Obamacare repeal bill... →
South Carolina Republican and conservative firebrand Sen. Jim DeMint introduced legislation to repeal Obamacare on Wednesday, the first official step in bringing the House-passed repeal bill fight into the staid upper chamber.
But a slew of mostly moderate senators declined to support DeMint’s legislation, raising questions on the unity of the Republican caucus.
Conspicuously absent from the...
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Rep. Dennis Kucinich sues cafeteria over olive pit...
Rep. Dennis Kucinich has rapped a U.S. House of Representatives cafeteria with a $150,000 lawsuit for selling him a vegetarian sandwich wrap in 2008 that he says caused dental damage when he bit into an olive pit.
The lawsuit that the Cleveland Democrat filed Jan. 3 against operators and suppliers of the Longworth House Office Building cafeteria says the sandwich he bought there “on or...
Obama's Plan Would Cost Another $20 Billion →
President Obama’s agenda spelled out in his well-received State of the Union address would boost spending an additional $20 billion and lead to higher taxes, according to a line-by-line analysis from the National Taxpayers Union Foundation.
“President Obama’s speech last night hinted at tax reform, and spending restraint, but also opened the door to tax increases and major...
After 'Citizens United': Money Can’t Buy You Love →
Two months before Election Day, The New York Times reported that “Democratic officials” believed “corporate interests, newly emboldened by regulatory changes,” were trying to “buy the election.” But it turned out the election was not for sale—at least, not to the highest bidder.
According to data collected by the Center for Responsive Politics, Democrats and Republicans each shelled out $1.6...
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Opening Statements to Begin Monday in Arizona...
Opening arguments are set to begin in Phoenix on Monday in the trial of an Iraqi immigrant accused of killing his daughter because he allegedly believed she was too Westernized.
Faleh Hassan Almaleki is accused of what prosecutors say was an October 2009 “honor killing” over his daughter’s behavior. He will go to trial after failing to reach a plea deal with prosecutors.
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Is it good to be good? →
coeus:
In the main, I agree. Last fall, I spoke on these issues at literary festivals, universities, libraries and fundraisers across Canada. I would hold aloft a bag of butterscotch candies and ask my audience to imagine that each candy represented a piece of gold bullion – enough to enable decent clothing, food and shelter for a year. I then tossed candies willy-nilly.
“That,” I told...
U.N. funding an early target for House Republicans →
evilteabagger:
jessarmentrout:
Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, told The Hill that oversight would be a key function of the panel, particularly funding to the U.N. Human Rights Council (HRC) that is “a waste of taxpayer dollars.”
Hot damn.
Awesome.
About darn time. Personally, I think we should get out of the UN completely and dry up...
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Far Left Activist Slashes Throat of Man He...
22-year-old Casey Brezik, a far left student at Metropolitan Community College — Penn Vally, thought he had stabbed the governor in Kansas City and was disappointed when he learned that the victim was actually the school’s dean of instruction, Al Dimmit Jr.
Ed Driscoll reported:
Ever hear of Casey Brezik? Neither did I, until now. At the American Thinker explains how a story that doesn’t fit...
“My principle focus…my number one focus…is making sure we are competetive, that we are growing and that we are creating jobs-not just now but well into the future.”—President Obama in his State of the Union ‘Preview’ video, Jan 2011
“That is why jobs must be our number one focus in 2010, and that is why I am calling for a new jobs bill...
“Obama plans to use the State of the Union to present himself as a fiscal...”
– The White House Looks for Work-By Peter Baker, New York Times
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Now that is just rich! I think soda almost shot out my nose when I read that.
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Tom Ridge: Unindicted Co-conspirator...or we're...
(For those of you who don’t know about this story, Dr. Kermit Gosnell is an abortion doctor who was recently arrested. According to prosecutors, Gosnell “induced labor, forced the live birth of viable babies in the sixth, seventh, eighth month of pregnancy and then killed those babies by cutting into the back of the neck with scissors and severing their spinal cord.”
Patients were...
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'Harry Potter' Actress' Brother Sentenced in Her...
The brother of the Muslim actress Afshan Azad, who played Padma Patil in the “Harry Potter” films, was sentenced to six months in prison Thursday for beating his sister after he heard her talking to her Hindu boyfriend.
Ashraf Azad, 28, called his sister a “prostitute” and screamed ”Marry a Muslim or you die!”
during a three-hour beating, during which, the actress said in a...
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Obama to Push New Spending in SOTU Speech →
President Barack Obama will call for new government spending on infrastructure, education and research in his State of the Union address Tuesday, sharpening his response to Republicans in Congress who are demanding deep budget cuts, people familiar with the speech said.
Mr. Obama will argue that the U.S., even while trying to reduce its budget deficit, must make targeted investments to foster job...
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Joan Rivers Calls Michelle Obama "Blackie O"....or...
Comedienne Joan Rivers revealed she once ditched a joke about First Lady Michelle Obama from her stand-up routine - because she feared she’d be accused of racism.
Recalling the wisecrack to shock Jock Howard Stern, the comedy legend said: “We used to have Jackie O now we have Blackie O!”
The audio can be heard here on RadarOnline.com.
Rivers wrote the quip about President...
