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Sunday, September 30, 2012

George Soros Panics About Romney Win, Mother Jones Scrubs Story

George Soros Panics About Romney Win, Mother Jones Scrubs Story: "Is there possibly some panic among the liberal elite that the media are not telling us about? "

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Maybe We Need to Follow Canada’s Blueprint to Fiscal Solvency

Maybe We Need to Follow Canada’s Blueprint to Fiscal Solvency: "From 1970 to 2008, median income rose, in inflation-adjusted dollars, just over 32 percent while federal government spending increased 221 percent.  Since then, we’ve experienced a nearly 5 percent reduction in family income and federal spending has only accelerated.
If we want to see more money coming into Washington, the answer isn’t to raise the tax rates on people whose incomes have continued falling throughout this recovery; the answer is to implement policies that encourage private sector growth and lead to more tax dollars being paid by people with rising incomes, at lower rates, just as Canada did.
It’s time to slash corporate tax rates to at least 15 percent, extend the Bush tax cuts for at least 10 years, reform entitlement spending to limit its growth, and cut 10-12 percent of discretionary spending from the federal budget.
The longer we wait to make the necessary changes, the worse the problem will become and the more painful will be the cure when it finally is forced upon us. If we choose to elect individuals who will enable our irresponsibility, then we deserve the financial Armageddon we will get."

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For Obama 10% of the buck stops here « The Greenroom

For Obama 10% of the buck stops here « The Greenroom: "It’s a refreshing change to see the president accept any blame for the mess the next president will inherit from him in less than six weeks. Nevertheless, his remarks demonstrate that he is either lousy at math, a terrible liar, or both.

Consider: The national debt has risen $5 trillion under Obama’s stewardship. For him to claim responsibility for only 10% of that historical increase, he would have needed to add no more than $500 billion in new spending. Yet he crossed that threshold and then some in his first full month in office with the passage of his $800 billion-plus stimulus package.

A month later he passed a $410 billion omnibus spending package that even MSNBC described as including “8,000 pet projects” and “billions in earmarks like those he promised to curb in last year’s campaign.” That brings his cut of the new debt up to $1.2 billion, or 24%."

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Saturday, September 29, 2012

Republicans threaten to subpoena WH official - CBS News

Republicans threaten to subpoena WH official - CBS News: "Congressional Republicans are threatening to subpoena a White House official who declined to speak to them in their investigation of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) gunwalking operation: Fast and Furious.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, have pressed, unsuccessfully, for an interview with Kevin O'Reilly for a year. O'Reilly also declined to speak to the Department of Justice Inspector General (IG) who investigated Fast and Furious. Last week, the IG issued a scathing report that criticized many officials at ATF, the Justice Department and the U.S. Attorney's office and said O'Reilly had declined to be interviewed.

O'Reilly, then a White House National Security staffer, had phone and email exchanges about Fast and Furious from July 2010 to Feb. 2011 with the lead ATF official on the case: ATF Special Agent in Charge Bill Newell. Just days after Newell testified to Congress on July 26, 2011 that he'd shared information with O'Reilly, whom he described as a long time friend, O'Reilly was transferred to Iraq and not available for questioning. Thereafter, he declined interviews with congressional investigators and the IG."

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Caddell on the Media

Pat says the media have gone to a very worrying extent by censoring the Embassy attacks. I would agree.

Not So Hot - By Bjorn Lomborg | Foreign Policy

Not So Hot - By Bjorn Lomborg | Foreign Policy: "If we want to leave the world a better place, we need to carefully focus on the places and policies where we can do the most good. To tackle the biggest impact the DARA study identifies -- to avoid 3 million people dying from indoor air pollution -- people in the Third World need to have access to modern, less-polluting fuels to cook and keep warm. They need kerosene, pressurized gas, and other forms of modern energy. It is about getting more fossil fuels, not fewer.

This solution feels wrong for many comfortable Westerners, but it's what we need to do if we want to save three million lives. Imagine what you would do if your kids were dying because your living room was chock full of dangerous pollutants from burning dung and biomass? The transition to clean gas and distributed electricity only seems wrong because it was so long ago that our grandparents changed over to heat and light at the flick of a switch.

Does it matter that the report exaggerates, when it is all for the good cause? Yes, because scaring people don't make for good policy but encourages feel-good, do-little bad policies."

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More Revelations Regarding Elizabeth Warren’s Alleged Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Why This Matters | Ethics Alarms

More Revelations Regarding Elizabeth Warren’s Alleged Unauthorized Practice of Law, and Why This Matters | Ethics Alarms: "Today Prof. Jacobson delivers still more convincing evidence that Elizabeth Warren operated a continuous Massachusetts law practice (and not just a sporadic Federal law practice) without a valid law license, after his post yesterday that raised questions about her representations regarding her license to practice in Texas.* He is doing the job that the national and Massachusetts media should be doing. In the end, the significance of this episode may make the election or defeat of Warren superfluous, as well as whether she violated the rules of her profession and escapes the consequences. It may prove conclusively that the United States no longer has a trustworthy press that is dedicated to informing the public, but an ideological press that abuses its Constitutional power in order to manipulate the public.

That is far more catastrophic, I believe,  than electing one more unethical politician to the U.S. Senate."

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Krauthammer On Libya: Obama Deceived American People, Hoped Media 'Would Let It Slide'

Krauthammer On Libya: Obama Deceived American People, Hoped Media 'Would Let It Slide': ""At question is not the wisdom of the Libya operation, at question is the honesty of the Obama administration. This was clearly deception on part of the administration in sending Susan Rice to say this was a spontaneous demonstration, when as you reported, it was known inside the administration within a day that it was not. It was a terror attack. So why did they deceive? It's obvious. Because the attack took place five days after the Democrats had spent a week in Charlotte touting, spiking the football on Osama.

And essentially, since it's the only foreign policy achievement of the four years they repeated it over and over again, the great triumph over al-Qaeda. Well, within a week, al-Qaeda sacks a U.S. embassy, kills an ambassador and the administration did not want to admit it so it spent a week deceiving Americans to think it's about demonstration, its about a film, thinking, I think correctly that if it strung it out long enough the media would let it slide and now that it becomes it's obvious and true, nobody will care, I guarantee you. This is not a headline in the mainstream media.""

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Friday, September 28, 2012

Looking for answers on Libya | New York Daily News

Looking for answers on Libya | New York Daily News: "I understand that President Obama is very busy right now working on his reelection campaign, but for the sake of bring justice to the people who attacked Americans in Benghazi, is it too much to ask that he flex some of that much-vaunted foreign policy prowess to get us some answers? He is a Nobel Peace Prize winner, after all. Surely, the Libyans will cooperate if he asks. "

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Time: WH sticking to “spontaneous” attack story, kind of « Hot Air

Time: WH sticking to “spontaneous” attack story, kind of « Hot Air: "While she may have left herself a rhetorical out, Rice clearly communicated that the administration had no reason to believe that the Benghazi attack was terrorist-related, when four days earlier the Obama administration designated it as such.  Either the White House lied to Rice, or she lied to the media.  Either way, Rice should be tendering her resignation now."

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Huck Makes a Good Point

Well said, Mike!

Col. Allen West Whacks Opponent

This one will leave a mark:

Charles Krauthammer: Go large, Mitt - The Washington Post

Charles Krauthammer: Go large, Mitt - The Washington Post: "Four years later, mid-September 2012, the U.S. mission in Benghazi went up in flames, as did Obama’s entire Middle East policy of apology and accommodation. Obama once again played it cool, effectively ignoring the attack and the region-wide American humiliation. “Bumps in the road,” he said. Nodding tamely were the mainstream media, who would have rained a week of vitriol on Mitt Romney had he so casually dismissed the murder of a U.S. ambassador, the raising of the black Salafist flag over four U.S. embassies and the epidemic of virulent anti-American demonstrations from Tunisia to Sri Lanka (!) to Indonesia.

Obama seems not even to understand what happened. He responded with a groveling address to the U.N. General Assembly that contained no less than six denunciations of a crackpot video, while offering cringe-worthy platitudes about the need for governments to live up to the ideals of the United Nations."


Liberal media bias: worse than ever? « The Greenroom

Liberal media bias: worse than ever? « The Greenroom: "Nope, just more of the same “not really a story worth covering” from mainstream journos. Any story that might reflect negatively on the president and his party seems to be falling into the “not really news” category these days, bringing to mind a piece sharply satirizing the media’s slavering attitude toward Barack Obama from several years ago on the satiric site, The Onion: Media Having Trouble Finding Right Angle on Obama Double Homicide."

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Did the DoJ play Let’s Make a Deal with St. Paul, MN? « Hot Air

Did the DoJ play Let’s Make a Deal with St. Paul, MN? « Hot Air: "In other words, Perez was happy to have St. Paul continue to commit fraud as long as they didn’t interfere with his power to impose DoJ will in housing decisions in which the federal government has no real authority.

Is this a scandal?  The letter from the four Republicans say that the DoJ acknowledged that the deal was without precedent.  It should be a scandal, but unfortunately, politicization at the DoJ interests the media a lot less when a Democrat is in the White House."

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Thursday, September 27, 2012

Ann Coulter - Official Home Page

Ann Coulter - Official Home Page: "In addition to lying in the history books, liberals lied on their personal resumes. Suddenly, every liberal remembered being beaten up by a 300-pound Southern sheriff during the civil rights movement.

Among the ones who have been caught falsely gassing about their civil rights heroism are Bob Beckel, Carl Bernstein and Joseph Ellis. (Some days, it seems as if there are more liberals pretending to have been Freedom Riders than pretending to be Cherokees!)
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Obama's Biggest Opponent Is the Truth | Karl Rove

Obama's Biggest Opponent Is the Truth | Karl Rove: "What exactly about the past four years do Americans like? And why would they want four more years like them? Mr. Obama knows how most Americans would answer these questions, which is why he is being so fast and loose with the truth. Mr. Romney's job is to shine a light on this for voters."

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What Is Obama's Biggest Failure? - Katie Pavlich

What Is Obama's Biggest Failure? - Katie Pavlich: "As a recap, President Obama's "biggest" failure(s) are not telling enough stories, not changing the tone in Washington and not getting immigration reform through (despite having a super majority of Democrats his first two years in office.) Obama didn't say his biggest failure is not getting people back to work or not turning the economy around as he promised to do.

Obama has a habit of being inconsistent, whether it's giving different answers about his biggest failure, saying he hasn't raised taxes or making nearly everything a "top priority.""

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Obama Shocker: 'Not Enough To Put More Guards In Front of an Embassy'

Obama Shocker: 'Not Enough To Put More Guards In Front of an Embassy': "And yet, in front of the world today, we have the man ultimately responsible for these security lapses holding  up his helpless hands and telling us that security doesn’t matter -- that it's not about Marines guarding embassies but about something existential; one of those super-duper intelligent things where Obama talks at a level mere mortals can't comprehend or appreciate.

In the wake of the preventable murder of four Americans at the hands of terrorists, how dare Obama even nudge the insinuation that it will "not be enough to put more guards in front of an Embassy." It STARTS with Marines in front of embassies. It starts with Americans protecting their own at all costs and letting the world know just how high that cost will be if they dare attack.

Obama's ideals will not protect an embassy from terrorists, but you can bet the United States Marines can."

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CREWS: Homosexuals in the military demand special privileges - Washington Times

CREWS: Homosexuals in the military demand special privileges - Washington Times: "Even more outrageous is that we have to ask Congress to protect freedom of conscience for chaplains and those who serve in the military. The fact that Congress excluded a religious freedom protection amendment (authored in partnership with Alliance Defending Freedom), to the repeal sends a clear message that our current leadership does not consider, much less respect, the constitutional implications of their actions while they bow in allegiance to the powerful and aggressive lobby of those who supported the repeal."

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GOP recalls Obama's earlier victory lap on Libya - Washington Times

GOP recalls Obama's earlier victory lap on Libya - Washington Times: "“President Obama promised that he would restore America’s moral standing in the world. But in the last four years, instead of standing up for America’s interests and values, this president has led from behind,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus says in the video. “President Obama may think that the recent attacks in the Middle East are just ‘bumps in the road,’ but in reality that are a serious national security crises that reflect his weak leadership.”"

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RealClearMarkets - Apple's Been On a Tear - Without Government Assistance

RealClearMarkets - Apple's Been On a Tear - Without Government Assistance: "No matter that of the 33 energy loan guarantees made under the Energy Department's programs, 26, or almost 80 percent, have shown signs of trouble. "Trouble" ranges from missed production goals to bankruptcy filings."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "Speaking of legislative majorities, which party controlled Congress the two years previous to Obama’s election as President?  Why, it was the Democrats.  Who passed that budget that Obama “inherited”?  The Democrat-controlled House and Senate — including a Senator named Barack Obama.  And which President signed it into force with an omnibus spending bill in March 2009?  Obama did, which means he inherited the budget and its deficit from himself."

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CNN: Obama looked a little foolish by appearing on The View, huh? « Hot Air

CNN: Obama looked a little foolish by appearing on The View, huh? « Hot Air: "Well, I won’t argue the silliness of the low-information-voter outreach, but there is one key difference — or actually two.  The first is that Mrs. Romney isn’t running for anything, and the role of the spouses has traditionally been to do these soft-focus appearances.  The other is that Mitt Romney isn’t the President of the United States.  He doesn’t have a responsibility to take his duties seriously except to run for office, which has been his day job for the last several months.  Barack Obama is supposed to be doing the job he got four years ago, which entails meeting with heads of state — especially when they come to the US."

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The American Spectator : Letterman Stunner

The American Spectator : Letterman Stunner: "Dave pointed out that at the GOP convention, there was a debt clock and the dollars on it scared him. "How big is our debt right now," Dave asked him.
"I don't really know," said Mr. Obama. I AM NOT KIDDING!!!!! What? The POTUS doesn't know how big the national debt is? Can that be? I guess that if he is so uninformed that he thinks that a small tax rise on the rich and a few trims in federal projects here and there will solve the deficit catastrophe, it is possible he actually knows almost nothing except to be slick. And, wow, is he slick."

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The American Spectator : Obama's AARP Speech Broke My BS Detector

The American Spectator : Obama's AARP Speech Broke My BS Detector: "This is a brazen lie, and the President knows it. Factcheck.org, an outfit that is by no means biased in the direction of the GOP, confirms that the plan involves no vouchers: 'Under Ryan's plan the federal government would pay insurance companies directly, just as it now pays for most of the cost of health insurance for millions of federal workers and retirees." So, why did the President repeat this stretcher? During the question-and-answer period following his speech, Ryan matter-of-factly explained why Obama and other Democrats keep repeating it: "Voucher is a poll-tested word basically designed to scare today's seniors.… A voucher is when you go to your mail boxes, you get a check and you are on your own. No one is proposing that.""

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The American Spectator : Something Is Wrong

The American Spectator : Something Is Wrong: "I am referring to something worse: Have you noticed that in the past few years, and especially in the past few weeks since the murder of the Ambassador and his guards and colleague in Benghazi (a city that Erwin Rommel loved and whose inhabitants he praised), whenever the New York Times refers to Mohammed, they always call him, without quotation marks, The Prophet Mohammed, as if everyone with any sense understands that OF COURSE Mohammed is The One True Prophet and that it's just understood that Mohammed is The Prophet."

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Civic Report 71 | The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look

Civic Report 71 | The Great California Exodus: A Closer Look: "The data also reveal the motives that drive individuals and businesses to leave California. One of these, of course, is work. States with low unemployment rates, such as Texas, are drawing people from California, whose rate is above the national average. Taxation also appears to be a factor, especially as it contributes to the business climate and, in turn, jobs. Most of the destination states favored by Californians have lower taxes. States that have gained the most at California’s expense are rated as having better business climates. The data suggest that many cost drivers—taxes, regulations, the high price of housing and commercial real estate, costly electricity, union power, and high labor costs—are prompting businesses to locate outside California, thus helping to drive the exodus."

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Washington Versus America - NYTimes.com

Washington Versus America - NYTimes.com: "When you look around the richest precincts of today’s Washington, you don’t see a city running on paternalism or dependency. You see a city running on exploitation."

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Sunday, September 23, 2012

Obama’s childlike belief in the money tree « The Greenroom

Obama’s childlike belief in the money tree « The Greenroom: "There is something at once fascinating and frightening in the Obama campaign meme that the rich should be forced to “pay a little bit more.” It is featured in a current ad that contrasts this ostensibly harmless poll-tested demand with Mitt Romney’s heartless desire to give his rich buddies (and himself) a bigger tax break.

The attitude on the part of the president is nothing new. In April, long before the election season was in full swing but long after it was clear that shovel-ready didn’t necessarily mean shovel-ready, he laid out his revised deficit and debt reduction plan. He told an audience at George Washington University that “the rich can afford to give back a little bit more.” Notice that the wording is give back not give, as though tax revenues are monies that belong to the government in the first place."

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First Lady spent $10 million in taxpayer money on vacations last year - National Libertarian | Examiner.com

First Lady spent $10 million in taxpayer money on vacations last year - National Libertarian | Examiner.com: "Curse those fat-cat millionaires and billionaires, taking lavish vacations at five-star resorts while the rest of us languish in economic hell, our 401ks dwindling before our eyes. So which corporate jet-wielding cretin is it this time who spent $10 million on luxury getaways in 2010 alone, according to the Daily Mail?

Wait, that’s no CEO. It’s our own dear First Lady, Michelle Obama. And that ten mil she squandered on massages and high-end vodka isn’t even hers—it’s yours.

The Mail quotes a White House source as calling Mrs. Obama a “vacation junkie,” "

Just a reminder of the breathtaking "let them eat cake" attitude in the White House.

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Harry's Source Lied, Media Complied

Harry's Source Lied, Media Complied: "But it wasn't true. What we now know is true is that Sen. Reid's source was lying, Reid himself was a willing dupe who spread the malicious claim without any proof, and the credulous left-wing press was all too eager to give the stunt more attention than it merited. Reid should receive a mark on his credibility for repeatedly touting this false claim. It would be nice to see a few reporters confront him about it directly."

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Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue' | The Weekly Standard

Palin to Romney-Ryan: 'Go Rogue' | The Weekly Standard: ""At the founding of our country, a great American patriot wrote, 'If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace,'" says Palin. "Obama's motto seems to be, 'Let the good times roll in my day. The kids can deal with the catastrophic bankruptcy in theirs.' That's no way for the leader of a great nation to behave, and I hope Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney continue to call him out on it. Generations of American children are counting on them.""

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The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic

The Writing Revolution - Peg Tyre - The Atlantic: "For years, nothing seemed capable of turning around New Dorp High School’s dismal performance—not firing bad teachers, not flashy education technology, not after-school programs. So, faced with closure, the school’s principal went all-in on a very specific curriculum reform, placing an overwhelming focus on teaching the basics of analytic writing, every day, in virtually every class. What followed was an extraordinary blossoming of student potential, across nearly every subject—one that has made New Dorp a model for educational reform."

And in other news, water is wet.

CS Monitor: Say, this admission on Benghazi terrorist attack might cause Obama a few problems « Hot Air

CS Monitor: Say, this admission on Benghazi terrorist attack might cause Obama a few problems « Hot Air: "The cover story offered by the White House shows just how badly they miscalculated on the Arab Spring, and the inevitable seizure of power by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and the rise of AQ in eastern Libya, two utterly predictable consequences of Obama’s interventions.  It also shows that the Obama administration, from the top down, understood just how bad this story was — and either lied to themselves, lied to us, or a bit of both in order to avoid the consequences of it.  That might be the most damaging revelation of all."

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Permanent Spin | The Weekly Standard

Permanent Spin | The Weekly Standard: "So we are left with this: Four Americans were killed in a premeditated terrorist attack on the eleventh anniversary of 9/11, and for more than a week the Obama administration misled the country about what happened.

This isn’t just a problem. It’s a scandal."

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Paulson: Why Did The White House Take So Long To Admit Libya Attack Was Terrorism? « CBS DC

Paulson: Why Did The White House Take So Long To Admit Libya Attack Was Terrorism? « CBS DC: "President Barack Obama, United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and White House Press Secretary Jay Carney led the way by denouncing those who dared state the obvious version of what had happened in Benghazi, Libya – that it was about terrorism and not about the anti-Mohammad film.

Finally, a week later, the obvious has been addressed by Jay Carney at the White House and Mathew Olsen, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, who both now admit that the deadly acts against United States Ambassador to Libya Christopher Steven and three other Americans were indeed an act of terrorism, obviously committed on 9-11."

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Obama Says We Need Change in Washington -- in 2012!

On this, the President and I agree...

Taliban Attack Results In Worst American Airpower Loss Since Vietnam

Taliban Attack Results In Worst American Airpower Loss Since Vietnam: "What we have had for four years now is a corrupt media working hand-in-hand with the Obama White House to cover up and downplay every kind of bad news. The media's behavior in his regard has only gotten impossibly worse since Obama's reelection campaign began. But over the last few weeks, the media's shilling has devolved into nothing less than dereliction of duty.
We can't even sing that old refrain, What would the media do if Bush… because Bush never scapegoated an American citizen in order to take the focus and blame off of his own security failures. Bush never told the American people that the successful assassination of an American ambassador by al-Qaeda was a spontaneous protest over a film gone haywire.
But it's probably is safe to say that in final days of Bush's reelection bid, had America suffered its worst airpower loss since Vietnam and an ambassador been assassinated due to unforgivable U.S. security failures, the media would've made damn sure the American people knew exactly what happened."

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Friday, September 21, 2012

Thomas Sowell: 'Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter' | The Daily Caller

Thomas Sowell: 'Barack Obama is worse than Jimmy Carter' | The Daily Caller: "Minimum wages have done enormous damage to young blacks. If you back to the mid-1940s, the unemployment rate among black teenagers was a fraction of what it is has been — it was a fraction in 1949, which was a recession year, of what it has been and even in the most prosperous years since then.”

“And the difference was that in 1949, the minimum wage law had not been upgraded since 1938. So for all practical purposes, it had been destroyed by inflation. Once you start reinstating the minimum wage with increases, then you begin to get to 20, 30, 40 percent unemployment rate among black teenagers. But in the late 40s, there were years when a black 16-year-olds had unemployment rates under 10 percent.  Now, the question is not whether you’re empathizing or not. The question is whether your policies are ruining people.”"

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Obama’s Shaky Libya Narrative - The Daily Beast

Obama’s Shaky Libya Narrative - The Daily Beast: "Ten days after the attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, the White House’s official story about the incident appears to be falling apart."

Reality bites, doesn't it?

Ann Coulter - September 12, 2012 - LIBYA COMMEMORATES 9/11

Ann Coulter - September 12, 2012 - LIBYA COMMEMORATES 9/11: "I note that the American ambassador in Iraq has not been murdered and his corpse dragged through the streets. I also recall that, a few years ago, when Muslims around the globe erupted in rioting over some Dutch cartoons, one Muslim country remained utterly pacific: George W. Bush's Iraq.

Apparently U.S. invasions ordered by right-wing American politicians are the only ones that work in the Middle East. Fake uprisings orchestrated by Muslim fanatics are less propitious.

Learn your history, Americans. The American Revolution was not the revolt of a mob. It was a carefully thought-out plan for a republic, based on ideas painstakingly argued by serious men in the process of creating what would become the freest, most prosperous nation in world history.

The much-ballyhooed "Arab Spring," with mobs of men gang-raping American reporters, firing guns in the air and murdering their erstwhile dictators, is more akin to the pointless bloodletting of the French Revolution. "

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Fighting to end President Obama's war on coal - The Hill's Congress Blog

Fighting to end President Obama's war on coal - The Hill's Congress Blog: "President Obama’s war on coal is real. Don’t believe us? Come to Brilliant, Ohio or Clay, West Virginia and we’ll show you coal mines that were closed as a result of President Obama’s assault on hardworking Americans who work in the coal industry. Coal is a cheap, abundant, and reliable source of power. Almost 90% of Ohio’s power comes from coal and just across the Ohio River in West Virginia, over 95% of its power comes from coal. Needless to say, coal plays a vital role in not only powering the Buckeye and Mountain states, but coal generates nearly half of America’s electricity. So why would President Obama want to destroy such a vital part of America’s economy?"

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President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration” - ABC News

President Obama Falsely Claims Fast and Furious Program “Begun Under the Previous Administration” - ABC News: "But this was not entirely an exoneration of the Justice Department run by Mr. Holder. “We found it troubling that a case of this magnitude, and one that affected Mexico so significantly was not directly briefed to the Attorney General,” the report stated."

Uhh, yeah, right.  He knew nothing.

Just a reminder: QE3 will work just as well as QE1 & 2 « Hot Air

Just a reminder: QE3 will work just as well as QE1 & 2 « Hot Air: "QE3 now looks like a Fed vehicle to explicitly introduce inflation as a last-ditch effort to generate some growth even as it degrades assets. "

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Michelle Malkin » Eddie Haskell Brooks

Michelle Malkin » Eddie Haskell Brooks: "Despite the best efforts of the Democratic-professional media complex to gin up faux-rage over Romney’s remarks, however, several polls show that voters agree with Romney’s fundamental critique of the indulgent Democratic politics of victimhood, identity and dependency. Yep, Brooks has the pulse of mainstream America — direct from his hallowed bubble at the Fishwrap of Record."

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iowahawk

iowahawk: "When I learned of the untimely passing of Neil Armstrong I was, like all Americans, deeply moved and saddened. I share your sense of loss for this American hero, even if his fame had been eclipsed by others over the years. But in our shared moment of grief, let us also celebrate his historic accomplishment in becoming the first astronaut eulogized by me, Barack Obama, our nation's historic first African-American president."

An oldie, but a goodie.

Romney to Obama: If you want to change D.C. from the “outside,” we’ll give you the chance in November « Hot Air

Romney to Obama: If you want to change D.C. from the “outside,” we’ll give you the chance in November « Hot Air: "He had to become an insider so that he could run for president as an outsider and then discover that you can’t change Washington from the inside. Got it? Romney’s played this game too at times, once saying back in 2007, “I don’t think you change Washington from the inside. I think you change it from the outside.” All newbie candidates spout this platitude as a rejoinder to charges that they don’t have enough government experience. The difference with O is that “change” was less a promise in his case than the foundation of a messianic myth; to hear him admit that he’s learned hard lessons about how difficult it would be to achieve is like hearing FDR say in 1935, “Maybe Washington’s not ready for a New Deal after all.” Other presidents managed to change things from the inside, including his Great Society predecessor Lyndon Johnson. As Romney says, if he’s not up to the task, let’s him return him to the “outside” so he can work for “change” there."

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Obama: “You can’t change Washington from the inside” « Hot Air

Obama: “You can’t change Washington from the inside” « Hot Air: "Okay, hold the phone — the President of the United States is powerless to influence Washington’s inner workings? I thought that was supposed to be the entire point of America electing him? You don’t think that maybe the real reason President Obama has failed to deliver on his many ambitious campaign promises — increasing transparency and bipartisanship, ending business as usual, creating jobs, and everything else that can be summed up by his erstwhile campaign slogan — could be because he finally got to Washington and figured out that, hey, actually… I’m fine with it just the way it is. Maybe?"

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Thursday, September 20, 2012

Chapter X: Obama brings Chicago politics to Washington | WashingtonExaminer.com

Chapter X: Obama brings Chicago politics to Washington | WashingtonExaminer.com: "While researching his blockbuster 2011 book "Throw Them All Out," Hoover Institution fellow and Stanford University professor Peter Schweizer and his researchers found 31 Obama bundlers and big donors whose firms received more than $16 billion in clean energy loans and grants.

The list of recipients unearthed by Schweizer includes such luminaries as former Vice President Gore, Silicon Valley venture capital king John Doerr, Sergey Brin, Dan Reicher and Larry Page of Google, Jim Rogers of Duke Energy, Tesla Motors' Elon Musk and CNN founder Ted Turner."

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Chapter II: The myth of the 'rock-star professor' | WashingtonExaminer.com

Chapter II: The myth of the 'rock-star professor' | WashingtonExaminer.com: "Obama was also a no-show for the faculty workshops, nonclassroom lectures and moot court cases judged by sitting members of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals of the U.S. Current Chicago Law School professor Lisa Bernstein said faculty lecturers are still encouraged to participate in as many such events as possible.

The pattern of minimal performance at the Chicago campus was not an exception to the rule for Obama. In the state Senate during the same years he was lecturing, Obama voted "present" nearly 130 times, the most of any legislator in the chamber.

When then-Sen. Hillary Clinton made Obama's state Senate voting record an issue in their Democratic presidential primary contest in 2007, the New York Times said it found at least 36 instances when Obama was the lone "present" vote or was one of six or fewer lawmakers casting that vote."

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Chapter I: A childhood of privilege, not hardship | WashingtonExaminer.com

Chapter I: A childhood of privilege, not hardship | WashingtonExaminer.com: "Tellingly, Obama has never lived in a black neighborhood. Maraniss reported in his book that when leftist activist Jerry Kellman interviewed Obama for a community organizing job in Chicago, he asked Obama how he felt about living and working in the black community for the first time in his life.

Obama accepted the job but chose not to live among those he would be organizing. Instead, he commuted 90 minutes each way daily from his apartment in Chicago's famous Hyde Park to the Altgeld Gardens housing project where he worked.

It was an early instance of Obama presenting himself one way while acting in quite a different way."

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DoJ silences Obama associate Daniel S. Mahru with his freedom «

DoJ silences Obama associate Daniel S. Mahru with his freedom «: "Illinoispaytoplay.com (IP2P) has learned that Daniel S. Mahru, former business partner of Antoin "Tony" Rezko, made a deal with the Department of Justice (DoJ) for his silence. IP2P is the first to report that on, October 4 2012, Daniel S. Mahru will receive probation at his sentencing hearing.

IP2P has also learned that this is being done to insure Mahru will not speak of crimes, of which he has knowledge, that implicate Barack Obama, Valarie Jarrett, Allison Davis, Tony Rezko and others. (Remember Tony recently saying he committed crimes for which Fitzgerald did not charge him.)"

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It is Obama, not Romney, who dislikes America « The Greenroom

It is Obama, not Romney, who dislikes America « The Greenroom: "Would a man who represents all Americans have been party to the passage of a game-changing health care law that was forged by one party only and behind closed doors? Should he cling to the law desperately when a majority of Americans want to see it repealed and the law’s own chief architect insists the law will raise, not reduce, health insurance premiums.

These are not the actions or thoughts of a man who loves his country. They are, however, the thoughts and actions of a man who loves himself."

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$1.8 trillion shock: Obama regs cost 20-times estimate | WashingtonExaminer.com

$1.8 trillion shock: Obama regs cost 20-times estimate | WashingtonExaminer.com: "Current federal regulations plus those coming under Obamacare will cost American taxpayers and businesses $1.8 trillion annually, more than twenty times the $88 billion the administration estimates, according to a new roundup provided to Secrets from the libertarian Competitive Enterprise Institute."

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Exclusive: Obama Reverses Position on Intel Briefs, Drops iPad for Live Meetings

Exclusive: Obama Reverses Position on Intel Briefs, Drops iPad for Live Meetings: "When Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen and the Government Accountability Institute reported that President Obama has attended less than half of his Presidential Daily Briefs (PDBs) on intelligence, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney called the findings "hilarious."  The next day, U.S. Libyan Ambassador Chris Stevens and three American staff members were murdered. "

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Romney Tape Gap NOT Recording Error (UPDATED) » Not Yet Europe

Romney Tape Gap NOT Recording Error (UPDATED) » Not Yet Europe: "But do you see the problem?  Looking into the distance at the room itself: the ceiling and support column, the chairs, etc, the placement of the camera has not changed in this time.  Mother Jones would have you believe that 1) the recording device suffered an unknown failure; 2) this was discovered and fixed; and 3) the device was either never budged in this process or it was placed down exactly in the same place afterwards.

I call bullshit.  I have had electronic devices fail, sure, but it has never been so obvious that I could fix it without at least picking it up and looking to see why.  Further, Corns isn’t an idiot, so this was obvious to him, too.  He’s clearly lying and knew that the tape had been edited in a critical place right from the beginning."

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» Critical audio gap in “complete” Romney tape released by Mother Jones (Update – Corn responds, 1-2 minutes missing) - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

» Critical audio gap in “complete” Romney tape released by Mother Jones (Update – Corn responds, 1-2 minutes missing) - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "Yet the complete audio and video is not complete.  There is a gap in the recording immediately after Romney’s now famous discussion of the 47% of voters who don’t pay taxes.  The cut in the audio and video comes while Romney is in mid-sentence, so we actually do not have the full audio of what Romney said on the subject."

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Elitist media complain Romney not regular guy

Elitist media complain Romney not regular guy: "The embassy’s statement was obviously responding to something, and if anyone in the administration – even that rogue embassy official! – knew the Internet video was upsetting our dear Muslim friends, why on earth weren’t our embassies protected?"

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Obama calls for ‘democracy with a small d’

Obama calls for ‘democracy with a small d’: "“I think that recapturing the spirit that existed not just in the civil-rights movement but in the union organizing movement, in the populous movement. I think there is a running thread; one of the better angels of our nature in this country which has been the notion that, you know, we can sit around the table and find common ground and make democracy work in the way that it should be working.”

He continued, “It’s not popular right now to say that, and to believe in sort of a common good, but I think that notions of a common good are the glue that hold our society together and make democracy possible.”"

Including, of course, redistribution.

Video: RNC jumps on Obama’s redistribution quote « Hot Air

Video: RNC jumps on Obama’s redistribution quote « Hot Air: "This is what happens when we focus on fairness instead of growth."

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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller

The Democrats think Romney just self-destructed by pointing out, um, THEIR ENTIRE STRATEGY | The Daily Caller: "The economy is collapsing. Our embassies are being overrun. Our diplomats are being murdered, and our own government is blaming it on the First Amendment. And Obama doesn’t know what to do about any of it, except for his usual plan of lying his ass off. So he and his enablers in the media hope you’ll be distracted by Romney’s “gaffe” of criticizing the Democrats’ strategy. They hope you’ll be offended that Romney pointed out what the Dems have been telling you your whole life: You need the government to provide for you, and you can’t go a single day without a handout. They hope you’re as credulous as the people who voted for them last time."

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Morning Jay: How the Media Misrepresents the Race | The Weekly Standard

Morning Jay: How the Media Misrepresents the Race | The Weekly Standard: "And what did the media overlook last week?

-Gas prices increased on average by $0.04, despite the end of the summer driving season. With Brent crude prices remaining elevated, gas prices are probably not going to come down any time soon.

-The Consumer Price Index increased by 0.6 percent month-over-month. This is an extremely large jump, built mostly around increased energy prices.

-Retail sales, excluding gas and cars, were flat.

-Manufacturing production fell by more than 1 percent last month alone, and capacity utilization dropped by 1 point.

-The jobs report from August was an absolute misery."

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CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work requirement | WashingtonExaminer.com

CRS report: number of able-bodied adults on food stamps doubled after Obama suspended work requirement | WashingtonExaminer.com: "Obama administration officials have insisted that their decision to grant states waivers to redefine work requirements for welfare recipients would not “gut” the landmark 1996 welfare reform law. But a new report from the Congressional Research Service obtained by the Washington Examiner suggests that the administration’s suspension of a separate welfare work requirement has already helped explode the number of able-bodied Americans on food stamps."

Rules for Radicals.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

How China's Rehypothecated "Ghost" Steel Just Vaporized, And What This Means For The World Economy | ZeroHedge

How China's Rehypothecated "Ghost" Steel Just Vaporized, And What This Means For The World Economy | ZeroHedge: "In conclusion we can only add that we hope none of this comes as a surprise to our regular readers: we have been warning for years that i) the inventory of the world's credible assets is literally evaporating in absence of technological efficiency and CapEx spending (which is also the reason for the ECB's endless lowering of collateral requirements) and ii) illegal rehypothecation of assets, which infinitely dilutes claims on real assets, can and will lead to total losses even for investors who thought they had strong collateral backing."

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Moe Lane » #rsrh The cyber-libertarians discover that liberals are not cyber-libertarians.

Moe Lane » #rsrh The cyber-libertarians discover that liberals are not cyber-libertarians.: " It turns out that liberals are actually, shock, happy to use the power of the State to enforce social and domestic policy! "

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» Empowering people who start fires to define freedom of speech is how freedom of speech dies - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

» Empowering people who start fires to define freedom of speech is how freedom of speech dies - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "Empowering the people who start fires to determine what we can and cannot say is how freedom of speech dies in this country.

We already are pretty far down that path."

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Twenty-eight years later, it’s finally 1984 « The Greenroom

Twenty-eight years later, it’s finally 1984 « The Greenroom: "It is more than analytically flawed for the Obama administration to focus on the “Bacile” video.  It is so superficial and convenient as to appear cynical, as if the video is the readiest excuse to hand for the administration’s bizarre, twilight behavior.  This approach puts American liberty on the spot, rather than recognizing that there are hostile as well as friendly forces at work in the Arab Spring, and that they showed their intentions in flashing neon on 9/11 last week.  The Obama administration’s posture on this development seems to argue a colossal lack of knowledge, understanding, and analysis.  Indeed, it comes off as an ideology-accelerated “war is peace” fairy tale."

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Monday, September 17, 2012

Oh, to be young and unemployed – USATODAY.com

Oh, to be young and unemployed – USATODAY.com: "Problem is, the policies of the past several years haven't done anything to move growth in that direction. At dubious best, they have perhaps cushioned the crash, though with the unemployment rate above 8% since February of 2009, it hasn't been much of a cushion. But to see real improvement, we're going to have to do something different over the next four years from what we've done over the past four years. Will we see that kind of change? We'll find out in November."

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Morning Examiner: Obama’s alternative Middle East reality | WashingtonExaminer.com

Morning Examiner: Obama’s alternative Middle East reality | WashingtonExaminer.com: "The reality is that Obama has failed internationally for the same reason he has failed at home: arrogance. Obama has supreme confidence in the power of his own rhetoric and his own personal story. He believes he can bend history to his will. “I would like to think that with my election… you’re starting to see some restoration of America’s standing in the world,” Obama said in 2009. “John, I’ve got great confidence in my ability to sway the American people,” Obama told Speaker Boehner in 2011. But his failures, first in the debt limit debate and now in the Middle East, show that Obama is far less effective than he thinks he is. Domestically it has cost the United States our top-notch credit rating. Internationally it cost four Americans their lives. Will the Americans people hold Obama accountable?"

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» Boston Globe unintentionally proves Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic fraud - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

» Boston Globe unintentionally proves Elizabeth Warren’s ethnic fraud - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "I won’t bore you with all the stories from people unrelated to Warren recited in the Globe article.  But this is the heart of Warren’s defense on whether she actually has Native American ancestry, that because some real Native Americans can’t prove their ancestry, Warren not being able to prove her ancestry is proof she’s Native American.

Think about that.  The complete absence of any documentary evidence that Warren has Native American ancestry becomes the proof for Warren having Native American ancestry."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: " Incumbent presidents have an advantage in optics — the White House.  Forget for the moment that proper leadership called for the head of state to be seen back in the Oval Office and handling the situation.  That’s exactly the kind of image his campaign should be projecting, too.  Instead, fundraising was a higher priority for the campaign than either providing an example of leadership, or even the appearance of leadership."

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Sunday, September 16, 2012

Obama Has Failed Because His Policies Succeeded

Obama Has Failed Because His Policies Succeeded: "Rush Limbaugh saw this coming before most, and spoke to it on January 16, 2009 by saying, "I hope he fails." And although Limbaugh faced intense criticism for saying it, his point was spot on. He knew that Obama's policies would spell our demise if successfully implemented.
Just look at Limbaugh's statement from the perspective of today, September 2012. We've had 43 straight months of unemployment above 8%, gas prices have risen more than 100%, national debt has exceeded $16 trillion-plus, and the average family's net worth has fallen 40%.
As Limbaugh predicted, and as Ryan now so clearly states, these things are not the result of Obama's policies failing but of Obama's policies succeeding.
Our country simply cannot survive four more years of Obama's success.  "

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Friday, September 14, 2012

Fed's 'QE Infinity': Four Things That Could Go Wrong - US Business News - CNBC

Fed's 'QE Infinity': Four Things That Could Go Wrong - US Business News - CNBC: ""If the unemployment rate stays elevated, as I know it will, and inflation eclipses (Bernanke's) 2 percent target, what is his next move? What part of the Fed mandate takes precedence?" he added. "Economic growth comes from more people working and more people becoming productive, and all the Fed can do is destroy our currency's purchasing power.""

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U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald named as source of leak. «

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald named as source of leak. «: "At the very least the media should ask these two questions:

1) Why would Fitzgerald decide to make an arrest a week before making it?
2) Why would Patrick Fitzgerald leak this information to the Chicago Tribune?

"Something rotten in Denmark"

There is another question that the media won’t ask. It concerns a matter that is troublesome to those of us interested in hearing the truth from our government and from the members of the Fourth Estate whose mission is to keep government honest.

Why would Patrick Fitzgerald's office pretend, along with Rod Blagojevich and his lawyers, that the protective order, entered into Court Records on 4-19-2009, prevented Rod Blagojevich from disclosing what was said in the phone conversations recorded by the feds?"

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» Obama admin not so sensitive to Christian college’s religious feelings - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion

» Obama admin not so sensitive to Christian college’s religious feelings - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion: "How ironic in light of the deep sensitivity to religious feelings in the Middle East being exhibited by the Obama administration this week.

In case you had not heard, in late August a federal judge ruled against religious freedom in favor of Obamacare by throwing out a suit filed by Wheaton College."

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Michelle Malkin » White House speech censors and the return of DhimmiTube

Michelle Malkin » White House speech censors and the return of DhimmiTube: "So will the White House demand that YouTube take down all incendiary videos of Obama bragging about killing Bin Laden, too?"

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Team Obama: See what China’s propagandists and disinformation specialists say about Romney! « Hot Air

Team Obama: See what China’s propagandists and disinformation specialists say about Romney! « Hot Air: "You know what’s really ironic?  Campaign officials attacking Romney as clueless by using a news service widely regarded as a disinfomation channel for China’s communist regime.  But don’t take my word for it — ask Reporters Without Borders, an NGO that can hardly be described as “conservative.”  In 2005, RWB called Xinhua “the world’s biggest propaganda machine … at the heart of censorship and disinformation” in its service to the regime in Beijing:"

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Obama’s Horrible, Gaffe-Laden Week Goes Unreported | Mediaite

Obama’s Horrible, Gaffe-Laden Week Goes Unreported | Mediaite: "Following what can only be correctly described as a gaffe regarding Egypt, the president made what can only be correctly described as a gaffe on the campaign trail.

While attending a campaign rally on Wednesday in Las Vegas – yes, a campaign rally, on a day marked by such solemnity that the press viewed it necessary to harangue Romney for even broaching the subject of politics – President Obama drew a comparison between the sacrifices of his campaign volunteers and those of the American service personnel who lost their lives in Libya just hours prior."

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Nanotech In Sunscreen: What’s The Harm? | Blogs @ redOrbit.com

Nanotech In Sunscreen: What’s The Harm? | Blogs @ redOrbit.com: " Most journalists covering nanotech, unfortunately, take the word of agenda groups — and not actual scientists — on the nano sunscreen issue. Unfortunately, as newspapers close and science sections are gutted, it’s up to readers to try to decode some of this for themselves.
As I wrote last year: “Find out who’s behind the fear-mongering, what actual studies have been done and what is simply fantasy.”"

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Why We Need the First Amendment | World Affairs Journal

Why We Need the First Amendment | World Affairs Journal: "Why can't the President of the United States bring himself to defend free speech in front of a murderous mob? Because apparently he doesn't respect it. The Washington Post reports:

The White House has asked YouTube to review an anti-Muslim film posted to the site that has been blamed for igniting the violent protests this week in the Middle East.

Tommy Vietor, spokesman for the National Security Council, said the White House has “reached out to YouTube to call the video to their attention and ask them to review whether it violates their terms of use.” "

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Bernanke and the Fed just gave Romney a huge gift | AEIdeas

Bernanke and the Fed just gave Romney a huge gift | AEIdeas: "But yesterday, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke finally admitted what most folks outside Washington already knew: The economy, three years into a supposed recovery, remains in terrible shape and is unlikely to get much better anytime soon.

In fact, Bernanke said there’s such little hope for improvement that he and the Fed are going to embark on a radical new experiment in money printing in order to try and do something, anything, to boost growth and create jobs.

In short, the Fed chairman’s move clearly suggested Obamanomics isn’t working today and is unlikely to work any better tomorrow. We cannot stay the course. And since Washington won’t act, he will."

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Mark Steyn: An act of war, not a movie protest | president, say, america - Opinion - The Orange County Register

Mark Steyn: An act of war, not a movie protest | president, say, america - Opinion - The Orange County Register: "The president is too lazy and cocksure to have learned any prepared remarks or mastered the appropriate tone, notwithstanding that a government that spends more money than any government in the history of the planet has ever spent can surely provide him with both a speechwriting team and a quiet corner on his private wide-bodied jet to consider what might be fitting for the occasion. So instead he sloughs off the words, bloodless and unfelt: "And obviously our hearts are broken..." Yeah, it's totally obvious."

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Krauthammer: 'al-Qaidastan developing in Libya' [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller

Krauthammer: 'al-Qaidastan developing in Libya' [VIDEO] | The Daily Caller: "“So to imply that we somehow had mistreated Muslims — which was the premise of the speech and how the Iraq war had inflamed the Arab world against us — well, there was no storming of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo in those days. What we’re seeing now is ‘al-Qaidastan’ developing in Libya, the meltdown of our relations with Egypt. You’ve got riots in Yemen, attacks on our embassy in Tunisia. This entire premise that we want to be loved and respected and we’re going to apologize has now yielded all of these results, and these are the fruits of apology and retreat and lack of confidence in our own principles.”"

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Review & Outlook: The Obama Street Journal - WSJ.com

Review & Outlook: The Obama Street Journal - WSJ.com: "Egged on by the likes of the Tax Policy Center, the media are demanding an absurd level of detail from Mr. Romney that no candidate in history has ever been required to offer. (What will you do about the tax treatment of municipal bond interest?) Meanwhile, Mr. Obama is awarded with a get-out-of-policy-jail-free card for his budget that proposes to take on debt indefinitely until the economy crashes. A middle-class tax increase is far more likely—we'd say a certainty—under Mr. Obama's plan than it is under Mr. Romney's."

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Articles: Obama Is a Spokesmodel for Tyranny

Articles: Obama Is a Spokesmodel for Tyranny: "Forget calling Obama "incompetent."  This tiresome meme presupposes that Obama wants to do what's right for America but doesn't know how.  Does anyone honestly believe that anymore?
Yes, he's incompetent, in that he's a fairly unimpressive bloke with no skills, imagination, or ability to learn, who couldn't run a third-rate laundromat.
But so what?  His sponsors didn't install him for his competence.  They installed him so that he could strut on the runways of the world, showing off his fashionable skin color and perfectly creased pants, while babbling whatever useful venom they put on his teleprompter."

...

"Does L'Oréal spokesmodel Beyoncé attend board meetings in which the location of new factories or other nitty-gritty corporate business is decided?  Why should she?  Her job is to go out there and look good and sell the brand."

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Articles: The Empty Chair Is Losing

Articles: The Empty Chair Is Losing: "Yet there are no real accomplishments, which would be bad enough if it stopped there, but in actuality, everything is much worse since many trusted the "one" in 2008 to solve all the ills of the nation and humanity.  All he has done during his tenure is torture the economy into submission with poor decisions, bad legislation, overregulation, and threats of onerous taxation."

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Blog: Bob Woodward Inadvertently Confirms The Coming Economic Apocalypse

Blog: Bob Woodward Inadvertently Confirms The Coming Economic Apocalypse: "Turbo Timmy Geithner confesses the desperate nature of the situation. The government is broke.  Geithner fears the world knows this when he says: "Suppose we have an auction and no one shows up?" Geithner knows that we cannot finance our deficits using traditional credit markets. The deficits are too large and the government has no credibility regarding the required spending cuts. Geithner was admitting that markets would not allow the US government to continue its profligate ways. That admission is major news, although not to Woodward and his politically-oriented audience."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "There have been few foreign policy stumbles as bad as Barack Obama’s dismissal of the Egyptian alliance in memory, and few backtracks as blatantly embarrassing, either."

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Thursday, September 13, 2012

Airbrushed History and Dusted-Off Promises | Karl Rove

Airbrushed History and Dusted-Off Promises | Karl Rove: "Mr. Obama sounds like he believes he's done all he needs to and done it all properly, except for failing to "tell a story to the American people" as he explained to CBS News in July. No course changes are needed for the next four years, just more time to let his most excellent policies finally work their magic. If this is the best he can do over the next 54 days, he's in trouble."

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Wednesday, September 12, 2012

The Obama Paradox - Reason.com

The Obama Paradox - Reason.com: "Margaret Thatcher said socialists “always run out of other people’s money.” Charles Prince, then head of Citigroup, said in 2007, “as long as the music is playing, you’ve got to get up and dance. We’re still dancing.” A worst-case scenario is that the 2012 election will be remembered as one in which voters thought the music was still playing and danced away, only to discover before long that the other people’s money had run out.

"

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: " Kasich doesn’t need his recollection refreshed.  Obama needs a refresher course in math."

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Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Fiddling While Rome Burns: Obama Isn't Working -- Literally

Fiddling While Rome Burns: Obama Isn't Working -- Literally: "But Mr. Obama’s laziness should hardly surprise anyone. After all, in an interview with Barbara Walters, the president admitted that laziness was the thing he “deplored” most in himself. "You know, it's interesting,” Obama told Walters. “There is a deep down, underneath all the work that I do, I think there's a laziness in me. It's probably from, you know, growing up in Hawaii and it's sunny outside, and sitting on the beach.”
There you have it, straight from the president’s own mouth—further confirmation as to why the president of the United States has spent just 412 hours of his presidency on the economic disaster and has attended less than half of his intelligence briefings, a fact the president’s spokesman finds “hilarious.”"

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Articles: Obama's Slogan

Articles: Obama's Slogan: "Consider this inconsistency:  Billionaire Warren Buffett -- whose company owes taxes going back ten years -- is warmly welcomed at the White House as an Obama supporter.  Meanwhile, Obama criticizes the Rich for not paying their "fair share" of taxes, and slams Romney for allegedly having an off-shore bank account.  And what about this one: General Electric's CEO Jeffrey Immelt chairs Obama's Job Council while GE exports thousands of jobs overseas."

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Fact Check: Osama Bin Laden Alive, General Motors Dead

Fact Check: Osama Bin Laden Alive, General Motors Dead: "Bin Laden’s alive – or at least his cause is, forwarded in large measure by the sympathetic policies of Barack Obama. And GM is dead, thanks in large measure to the GM bailouts that prevented GM from truly reorganizing, instead dooming it to a long crawl into the abyss. So while Barack Obama runs around the country guzzling beer with average Joes, getting hugged as though he hasn’t left America with the smallest workforce participation in 30 years, let’s remember: his big bumper sticker accomplishments have been miserable failures on a more general level."

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The PJ Tatler » Expect Nothing from the DOJ IG Report on Fast and Furious

The PJ Tatler » Expect Nothing from the DOJ IG Report on Fast and Furious: "I knew the fix was in when I read this:

Horowitz told Issa that agencies and officials named and criticized in the report were being allowed to respond to the IG’s findings in an effort to make it as fair and accurate as possible.  The new hearing has been scheduled for next Wednesday.

Are you kidding me?  The DOJ Inspector General never afforded Republican political appointees any right of review and revision during the Bush administration.  In fact, the DOJ Inspector General entirely ignored stacks of exculpatory evidence that the targets of Bush-era IG reports gave to the Inspector General.  That’s right, the Department of Justice Inspector General not only didn’t allow the targets to see, much less respond to the IG’s findings, but ignored documents they gave the IG."

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Blog: Bob Woodward Inadvertently Confirms The Coming Economic Apocalypse

Blog: Bob Woodward Inadvertently Confirms The Coming Economic Apocalypse: "Credit markets have (or nearly have) stopped US government debt financing. That's why we have the Federal Reserve, the counterfeiter of last resort. If government can raise the debt limit, then it would be legal for the Treasury to issue new debt. The Treasury's sibling, the Fed, would buy it by printing new money. That would allow the government to pay its bills for a while longer. "

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Monday, September 10, 2012

Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings? - The Washington Post

Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings? - The Washington Post: "The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting."

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Soft on Wall Street - NYPOST.com

Soft on Wall Street - NYPOST.com: "In fact, neither Obama nor Clinton can hold a candle to the corporate crime-fighting record of George W. Bush, that supposed lapdog for large corporate interests."

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Are Democrats Really the "Pro-Science" Party? | RealClearPolitics

Are Democrats Really the "Pro-Science" Party? | RealClearPolitics: "A narrative has developed over the past several years that the Republican Party is anti-science. Recently, thanks to the ignorant remarks about rape made by Rep. Todd Akin, the Democrats have seized the opportunity to remind us that they are the true champions of science in America. But is it really true?

No. As we thoroughly detail in our new book, "Science Left Behind," Democrats are willing to throw science under the bus for any number of pet ideological causes – including anything from genetic modification to vaccines."

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Sunday, September 9, 2012

A Nation of Sandra Flukes - Mark Steyn - National Review Online

A Nation of Sandra Flukes - Mark Steyn - National Review Online: "Sexual liberty, even as every other liberty withers, is all that matters: A middle-school girl is free to get an abortion without parental consent, but if she puts a lemonade stand on her lawn she’ll be fined. What a bleak and reductive concept of “personal freedom.”"

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Why Democrats, including me, are abandoning Obama | Fox News

Why Democrats, including me, are abandoning Obama | Fox News: "Democrats are jumping ship because President Obama is offering nothing but blame for the previous administration and his own pipe dreams at a time when voters need some real assurance if they’re going to believe the economy can be saved.  Unfortunately, speaking as one of those Democrats, I have little hope that President Obama will change."

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Saturday, September 8, 2012

Michael Moore: No Obama Didn't Save Detroit | NewsBusters.org

Michael Moore: No Obama Didn't Save Detroit | NewsBusters.org: ""One recent poll here showed Romney leading Obama by four points! How can that be? Didn't Obama save Detroit?"

Moore answered his own question, "No, he didn't. He saved General Motors and Chrysler."

"'Detroit' (and Flint and Pontiac and Saginaw)," continued Moore, "are not defined by the global corporations who suck our towns dry and then split town to make more money elsewhere (except, of course, they continued to design and built crap cars, so eventually they didn't make the money at all). These cities in Michigan are about the people who live here, and in the process of 'saving Detroit,' Mr. Obama had to fire thousands of these people, and reduce the benefits and pensions of those who were left.""

Looking bad for the LightWorker...

» TSA Kicks Woman Off Flight For Bad Attitude Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!

» TSA Kicks Woman Off Flight For Bad Attitude Alex Jones' Infowars: There's a war on for your mind!: "“With this latest announcement, TSA admits that it has been clandestinely punishing passengers for refusing to go through the invasive whole-body scans with an even more intrusive aggressive pat-down and that soon those more invasive pat-down will creep from airport to airport,” adds Leocha.
A third example of obedience training that has nothing to do with genuine security is the TSA’s policy of ordering travelers to “freeze” on command when they are lined up at the security checkpoint."

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Friday, September 7, 2012

Decline and Fall: The Tragedy of Barack Obama - Michael Knox Beran - National Review Online

Decline and Fall: The Tragedy of Barack Obama - Michael Knox Beran - National Review Online: "In a recent interview with CBS This Morning anchor Charlie Rose, Obama conceded that during his first two years in office he did too little to win the battle for hearts and minds:

When I think about what we’ve done well and what we haven’t done well, the mistake of my first term — couple of years — was thinking that this job was just about getting the policy right. And that’s important. But the nature of this office is also to tell a story to the American people that gives them a sense of unity and purpose and optimism, especially during tough times.

Was Obama really so naïve in 2009–10 as not to understand the importance of “telling a story,” of making an argument, of at the very least candidly explaining a bill in order to rally the country to his cause?

And if he was not so naïve, why did he do what he did?"

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Forward: June, July Jobs Revised Down, Participation Level Plummets to 30-Year Low

Forward: June, July Jobs Revised Down, Participation Level Plummets to 30-Year Low: "The American Enterprise Institute's James Pethokoukis is deep-diving the numbers and Tweeting out analysis as he goes. According to Pethokoukis, if the labor participation rate was the same as when Obama took office, the unemployment rate would be 11.2% today. If the participation rate hadn't dropped just last month, the unemployment rate would've increased to 8.4% this month instead of dropping to 8.1%."

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Fact-checking Obama: Math required « Hot Air

Fact-checking Obama: Math required « Hot Air: "In other words, even in those few areas where Obama offered some specifics, they were just like the rest of his speech.  They didn’t add up … just like Obamanomics in general."

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The Democrats' Soft Extremism - WSJ.com

The Democrats' Soft Extremism - WSJ.com: "What a fabulously confident and ingenuous-seeming political narcissist Ms. Fluke is. She really does think—and her party apparently thinks—that in a spending crisis with trillions in debt and many in need, in a nation in existential doubt as to its standing and purpose, in a time when parents struggle to buy the good sneakers for the kids so they're not embarrassed at school . . . that in that nation the great issue of the day, and the appropriate focus of our concern, is making other people pay for her birth-control pills. That's not a stand, it's a non sequitur."

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Thursday, September 6, 2012

Fact Check: First Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle

Fact Check: First Lady's False Fairy Tale of Struggle: "If, as the Democrats eagerly pointing out, Mitt Romney enjoyed the privilege of private wealth, the Obamas have enjoyed privilege funded by public money and public life. And until entering the national spotlight, they gave little to charity, contributing instead to a church that preached racial grievance. “[T]ruth matters,” Michelle Obama told the nation last night. That, too, is a lie--because so far, she has evaded it without consequence."

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Gallup Sued by DOJ after Unfavorable Obama Polls, Employment Numbers

Gallup Sued by DOJ after Unfavorable Obama Polls, Employment Numbers: "Senior Obama Campaign adviser David Axelrod reportedly contacted The Gallup Organization to discuss the company's research methodology after their poll's findings were unfavorable to the President. After declining to adjust their methodology, Gallup was named in an unrelated lawsuit by the DOJ. "

Venezuela.

Man dies after doc takes lunch during kidney op - The Local

Man dies after doc takes lunch during kidney op - The Local: "A 72-year-old man having a tumour removed from his kidney died after the chief anesthetist and nurse took a lunch break in the middle of the surgery."

Ahh, yes.  Government medicine.

Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Clinton rejects Obamanomics, embraces Reaganomics - Conservative News

Clinton rejects Obamanomics, embraces Reaganomics - Conservative News: " The great Clinton economy began when he embraced the essence of Reaganomics: tax cuts, spending restraint, welfare reform, free trade and the end of his own budget-crushing entitlement program, universal health care.

Clinton, it is mostly forgotten, was on the verge of becoming a failed president in his
first two years.  Even the Democratic-controlled Congress had defeated his much touted stimulus package and an enormous hike in energy taxes.  HillaryCare, the forerunner to Obamacare, was dead in the water by the summer of 1994, with the Senate Democrats hoisting the white flag on this signature issue on the eve of the Congressional elections.

Clinton’s most significant achievement was a huge but unpopular tax rate increase that Obama seems determined to duplicate.  So unappealing was his record, the Republicans swept both houses of Congress in November for the first time in four decades."

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CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ... - CNN.com

CNN Fact Check: About those 4.5 million jobs ... - CNN.com: "The figure of 4.5 million jobs is accurate if you look at the most favorable period and category for the administration. But overall, there are still fewer people working now than when Obama took office at the height of the recession."

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Monday, September 3, 2012

Echoes

Is there an echo in here?

Instapundit

Instapundit: "But Robert Rector, a welfare reform zealot who nevertheless does know what he’s talking about, has now published a longer analysis of the 20% rule. Turns out it’s not as big a scam as I’d thought it was. It’s a much bigger scam. For one thing, anything states do to increase the number of people on welfare will automatically increase the “exit” rate–what the 20% rule measures–since the more people going on welfare, the more people leave welfare for jobs in the natural course of things, without the state’s welfare bureaucrats doing anything at all. Raise caseloads by 20% and Sebelius’ standard will probably be met. (Maybe raise caseloads 30% just to be sure.) So what looks like a tough get-to-work incentive is actually a paleoliberal “first-get-on-welfare” incentive. But the point of welfare reform isn’t to get more people onto welfare.

It’s understandable that MSM reporters and non-profit checkers–some of whom may have been given only a few hours to get to the bottom of a subject they’ve never written about before–would easily fall for a bit of bureaucratic fakery. Do they have to be so self-righteous about it?"

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Sunday, September 2, 2012

Obama Blames Washington Gridlock, Partisanship On Family, Daughters

Obama Blames Washington Gridlock, Partisanship On Family, Daughters: "On CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday show, Jessica Yellin said she interviewed Obama for a forthcoming documentary and asked him why he did not do more outreach to Republicans in the beginning of his term to bridge the divides Obama often rails against.
Yellin said Obama told her one of the reasons he did not was because he wanted to spend more time at home with his kids and family. "

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Hit the Road: Newsweek's Obama Issue Is Best Selling

Hit the Road: Newsweek's Obama Issue Is Best Selling: "You may recall the recent Newsweek cover that featured a photo of President Obama, mouth agape, coat over his shoulder, appearing above the words "Hit The Road, Barack." The media establishment just hated that issue. The magazine buying pubic, on the other hand, seems to have lapped it up as the issue has apparently become one of Newsweek's best sellers."

They're still not going to get the message.

The Green War on the Poor - Robert Zubrin - National Review Online

The Green War on the Poor - Robert Zubrin - National Review Online: "But what would the effect on prices be? Currently, western bituminous low-sulfur coal has a cost of $0.01 per kg at the mine, or $0.03 delivered to most users. Coal is about 90 percent carbon by weight. The green tax would thus multiply the cost of coal by nearly a factor of 40. A thousand cubic feet of natural gas contains about 18 kg of carbon. Taxing its carbon at a rate of $1.21 per kg would thus increase the price of a thousand cubic feet of natural gas from its current level of $2.50 to about $24.30, a tenfold increase. A barrel of oil contains about 110 kg of carbon. The green tax would thus hike the price Americans pay for oil by $133 per barrel over the world price (i.e., to about $230 per barrel today). As coal and natural gas provide the energy to produce not only the bulk of the nation’s electric power, but also most of its steel, aluminum, fertilizer, pesticides, food, plastics, electronics, glass, and many other products, and as oil provides the fuel to transport them, the cost of all of these would soar as well."

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Where's the outcry? Seniors suffer under Obama – USATODAY.com

Where's the outcry? Seniors suffer under Obama – USATODAY.com: "Thank goodness we have a Democrat in the White House. Otherwise, America's seniors would be facing a serious crisis."

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The PJ Tatler » Behold the Self-Hating White Person

The PJ Tatler » Behold the Self-Hating White Person: "Among progressives, low-rent snark like “frighteningly white” is required to prove you are part of the in-crowd. Imagine being part of a movement that not only requires regular self-immolation, but demands that you enjoy it and hector those who bristle at such cheap and pathetic bullying. Be glad you’re not a part of it, and be glad that, until now, you never heard of Geoffrey Dunn."

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» They’re still just JournoLists - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion

» They’re still just JournoLists - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion: "You need no better proof than the sleazy comment by the (now former) Washington Editor of Yahoo! News that the Romneys like to party while black people drown.  The comment was caught on an open mic, and therefore became controversial.

But among the established and aspiring journalists in the room, the comment elicited no criticism.  Only by luck of an open mic was the truth revealed of how a highly influential and respected journalist thinks, and how willing he was to share that agenda with those who work with and under him.  It was the JournoList in another form."

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