Campaigner-in-Chief: Obama Fundraises More than All Incumbent Presidents Since Nixon Combined

Campaigner-in-Chief: Obama Fundraises More than All Incumbent Presidents Since Nixon Combined: "“Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined.”"

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Articles: Does global warming cause extreme weather?

Articles: Does global warming cause extreme weather?: "Dr. Bernard Weinstein, associate director of the Maguire Energy Institute at Southern Methodist University, in an op-ed in the New York Post, stated that oil companies enjoy no benefits not available to other businesses.  They are permitted to expense prospecting and drilling costs during the year those costs are incurred.  Weinstein estimates that these deductions amount to $2.8 billion, while wind and solar plants enjoy real subsidies not available to other businesses amounting to $12.5 billion per year -- and this does not include state subsidies."

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Climate scientists who have been claiming Texas is warming are totally wrong. | Watts Up With That?

Climate scientists who have been claiming Texas is warming are totally wrong. | Watts Up With That?: "Answering questions about global warming requires considerably more space than this 437-word column. So let’s focus in on the temperature history of Texas for now.
The 2011 Texas drought was exacerbated by the highest temperatures since 1895 during June, July and August. Several prominent climate scientists have blamed these record highs on global warming. These claims are puzzling because, in spite of the 2011 record highs, Texas records going back more than a century show slightly more cooling than warming. So I visited the National Climatic Data Center website to review Texas temperature records. The NCDC provides monthly temperature records for 10 Texas regions going back to 1895."

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Let’s just say it: The Democrats are the problem « Hot Air

Let’s just say it: The Democrats are the problem « Hot Air: "Although Ornstein and Mann claim to “have criticized both parties when we believed it was warranted,” they provide no links to all the op-eds they did about the extreme statements about Republicans being Un-American, comparing them to fascists, Nazis, racists and so on made by Democratic Reps. Nancy Pelosi (on her own and with Steny Hoyer), George Miller, Debbie Wasserman-Shultz, Barney Frank, Maxine Waters, Jerrold Nadler, Jesse Jackson Jr., Sam Gibbons, Tom Lantos, Keith Ellison, Baron Hill, Jared Polis, Steve Cohen, Sheila Jackson Lee, Eleanor Holmes Norton and Louise Slaughter. Or Senators Robert Byrd and Blanche Lincoln. Or current Califonia governor Jerry Brown. Or repeat offender Al Gore. People might be forgiven for thinking Democrats, not to mention Ornstein and Mann, take that extreme rhetoric for granted in their rush to condemn the GOP."

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Link Found Between Clinton, Gore, and Soviets

Link Found Between Clinton, Gore, and Soviets: "With the publication of this document, we have evidence to show that the shadiest people in the backgrounds of one of the oddest President/Vice President pairings in resent history were close conspirators - in a plot against Israel (and for oil) no less. Coincidence? Maybe - but with the record Clinton/Gore have in telling the truth, we probably won't know for a long time."

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Australian MP Supports what PM Said, Even Though He Doesn't Know What it is.

Who said you have to be smart to be a politician. This guy's a party-line man, for sure!

Anti-bullying hero bullies conference of school children « Hot Air

Anti-bullying hero bullies conference of school children « Hot Air: "Barack Obama and Joe Biden may be having second thoughts about assigning Dan Savage as their de facto “Anti-Bullying Czar” this year. According to Fox News, the sex advice columnist – Savage Love – and gay rights activist who founded It Gets Better seems to either have a hard time understanding the definition of bullying or has some serious issues with irony.

Really? So you picked a raunchy sex advice columnist who publishes a column called “Savage Love” as your ambassador to help out at risk children. What could possibly go wrong? Well, here’s what can possibly go wrong."

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Obama Campaign Publicly Targets Private Romney Donors

Obama Campaign Publicly Targets Private Romney Donors: "But this has become the modus operandi of the Obama Administration. While Obama claims that Sandra Fluke, who was attacked for her House testimony, is a private citizen, he has worked with groups like Media Matters for America (MMFA) to target private businesses for destruction if they oppose his agenda. It is Obama’s minions who suggested that the White House should put a boot on the throat of BP. It is Obama-connected 501(c)3 groups like MMFA that have targeted the American Legislative Exchange Council, and private businesses like Coca-Cola, AT&T and State Farm that give money to it. It is that same network that has aimed its fire at Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and talk radio more generally. It is those same folks who attacked donors to the Proposition 8 effort in California, trying to shut down their businesses with so-called “secondary boycotts.”
These people are bullies. With the bleedover from the Obama campaign to the Obama Administration, this is quasi-governmental action. Whatever it is, it’s certainly a chill on free speech and political giving."

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Video: The love of theory is root of all evil « Hot Air

Video: The love of theory is root of all evil « Hot Air: "In this case, Bill’s not talking about theoretical systems of government or economics, but of climate change.  This still applies, though it’s not as dire as the above examples.  Some of the AGW crowd are true believers; more, though, are motivated by the expropriation of private property and redistributive justice.  In fact, during the climate-change conferences, much of what gets discussed relates to “climate justice” and the disparities between wealthy nations and developing nations.  It’s not really the theory that people love — it’s the wealth and power they can grab by exploiting the theory."

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Review & Outlook: Freshman Class President - WSJ.com

Review & Outlook: Freshman Class President - WSJ.com: "To sum up, students now heading into a terrible job market will gain nothing from the latest Obama entitlement expansion. But all Americans can go to school on this textbook example of political recklessness and fraud. And the most painful lessons for taxpayers are still to come."

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Strassel: The President Has a List - WSJ.com

Strassel: The President Has a List - WSJ.com: "The Obama campaign has justified any action on the grounds that it has a right to "hold the eventual Republican nominee accountable," but this is a dodge. Politics is rough, but a president has obligations that transcend those of a candidate. He swore an oath to protect and defend a Constitution that gives every American the right to partake in democracy, free of fear of government intimidation or disfavored treatment. If Mr. Obama isn't going to act like a president, he bolsters the argument that he doesn't deserve to be one."

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Biden Makes Case for Commander-in-Chief Romney

Biden Makes Case for Commander-in-Chief Romney: "It appears Biden has forgotten how Obama sent our troops into Libya without even seeking Congressional approval. That’s a move that epitomizes unilateral action. And likewise, it seems he’s forgotten how, after sending the troops in, it quickly became evident that Obama hadn’t asked the hard questions first. If he had asked those questions, he never would have promised a war that was going to last “weeks not months.” And somehow, Biden also forgot that just under a month into the operation, the war in Libya had already cost Americans $716 million. That seems like a sterling example of a foreign policy that cost America more money."

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NPR: Maybe a slow economy is just what we need! « Hot Air

NPR: Maybe a slow economy is just what we need! « Hot Air: "Most of the economists Neuman quotes disagree with him, saying that slow growth combined with high unemployment is unhealthy — and wouldn’t become healthy until unemployment went below 6%, at least.  In most years, that would just be common sense.  In an election year with a Democratic incumbent in the White House, apparently the government-subsidized media feels more free to indulge counterfactual flights of fancy. I can’t imagine why …"

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Dems can’t hide Obama’s failings - Chicago Sun-Times

Dems can’t hide Obama’s failings - Chicago Sun-Times: "The line of reasoning that voters might prefer competence to likability got a boost from, of all people, former White House chief-of-staff Bill Daley, though he obviously didn’t mean to. In a Chicago speech, Daley said, “The president has a very difficult time with the business community. Most people in business and most people who are successful are Republican. That’s just a fact of life.”

Considering that fact of life, who would you rather have in the White House, a charisma-deprived guy from the party of success or the likeable guy from the party of, well, not success?"

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GDP Miss May Be High Point for Economy in 2012

GDP Miss May Be High Point for Economy in 2012: "Falling incomes, reduced savings and higher prices are not pillars on which to build economic recovery.
Throughout the first quarter, consumers heard lots of happy-talk from the media about how the economy was picking up steam. Americans are eternally optimistic about the future and believed much of it. When the dust finally settled though, their incomes had basically stagnated and they'd blown through a lot of savings keeping up with higher prices.
As the hangover sets in, expect a consumer pull-back in the 2nd Quarter. "

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Roasting the Ice Queen

Wow, Sibelius the Ice Queen finds out what Hell is like.

Movie Parody

Run Forrest...

Michelle Malkin » “Crucify them:” It’s the Obama Way

Michelle Malkin » “Crucify them:” It’s the Obama Way: "Not long after Administrator Armendariz made these comments in 2010, EPA targeted U.S. natural gas producers in Pennsylvania, Texas, and Wyoming. In all three of these cases, EPA initially made headline-grabbing statements either insinuating or proclaiming outright that the use of hydraulic fracturing by American energy producers was the cause of water contamination, but in each case their comments were premature at best — and despite their most valiant efforts, they have been unable to find any sound scientific evidence to make this link."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "First, no one is saying that “we should get rid of Planned Parenthood,” as Obama claims.  People oppose giving federal dollars to Planned Parenthood because their core business is abortions.  It’s their profit-driving activity, not handing out contraception, and certainly not performing mammograms, to which I’ll return in a moment.  Planned Parenthood should be able to operate on their own, just like any other business, and taxpayers shouldn’t have to subsidize it to keep it alive.  Obama’s claim is a strawman argument that amounts to a statement that a lack of federal funding equates to criminalization, which is ludicrous as well as demagogic."

Obama torches an army of straw men.

What 'Gutsy Call'?: CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission

What 'Gutsy Call'?: CIA Memo Reveals Admiral Controlled bin Laden Mission: "Finally, the memo is unclear on just what the mission is. Was it to capture Bin Laden or to kill him? The White House itself was unable to decide what the mission was in the hours after the Bin Laden kill, and actually switched its language. The memo shows why: McRaven was instructed to “get” Bin Laden, whatever that meant.
President Obama made the right call to give the green light to the mission. But he did it in a way that he could shift the blame if things went wrong. Typical Obama. And typical of him to claim full credit for it, when he didn’t do anything but give a vague nod, while putting his top military officials at risk of taking the hit in case of a bad turn."

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Michelle Obama’s August 2010 Vacation in Spain Cost American Taxpayers $467,585 According to Records Obtained by Judicial Watch | Judicial Watch

Michelle Obama’s August 2010 Vacation in Spain Cost American Taxpayers $467,585 According to Records Obtained by Judicial Watch | Judicial Watch: "Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it obtained documents from the United States Air Force and the United States Secret Service detailing costs associated with Michelle Obama’s controversial August 2010 vacation to Spain.  According to a Judicial Watch analysis, the records indicate a total combined cost of at least $467,585.

Judicial Watch obtained the Secret Service records pursuant to an August 2010 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.  (The agency notified Judicial Watch that it withheld 78 pages of responsive records in their entirety.) Judicial Watch obtained the U.S. Air Force records pursuant to a March 5, 2012, FOIA lawsuit."

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Comment On “Levitus Data On Ocean Forcing Confirms Skeptics, Falsifies IPCC” At Niche Modeling | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Comment On “Levitus Data On Ocean Forcing Confirms Skeptics, Falsifies IPCC” At Niche Modeling | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.: "If one accepts the IPCC radiative forcing values of anthropogenic radiative forcings of +1.6 (+0.6 to +2.4) Watts per meter squared and/or the solar radiative forcing of +0.12 (+0.06 to +0.30) Watts per meter squared as correct, what the Levitus et al data shows is that the global radiative feedback is negative (and this necessarily would include the water vapor, sea ice etc radiative feedbacks). That is

global radiative feedback  <  global radiative forcing.

Alternatively, the IPCC anthropogenic radiative forcings  and/or the solar radiative forcing could be in error.

Either way, the 2007 IPCC WG1 report has a serious error in it."

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Dem Rep. Admits Party Expects Votes in Exchange for Gov. Handouts

Dem Rep. Admits Party Expects Votes in Exchange for Gov. Handouts: "Talking with Al Sharpton on April 24, and addressing hopes that Democrats will be able to turn out voters this November, Fattah unabashedly claimed that “people who are unemployed, [are] not going to be voting for the party who wants to cut their benefits—cut access to food stamps, cut job training.” In other words, Fattah believes Americans who’ve been conditioned to live on Democrat handouts will certainly continue to vote for the Democrats. The last thing they’d do is vote for those rascally Republicans who want to rein in spending and encourage people to strive, once more, for some semblance of personal responsibility."

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Michelle Malkin » E-mail of the day: A daughter of Cuban immigrants tells State Farm to stand firm

Michelle Malkin » E-mail of the day: A daughter of Cuban immigrants tells State Farm to stand firm: "I am so disappointed in the things that I see and what is happening in this country. My parents came to Miami, FL in 1961 from Cuba. They lost everything they had and were blessed to have been able to find freedom here. We see what is happening. We knew it was coming. We’ve stood in line to vote next to political prisoners from Cuba that were in tears because they knew what was coming. They, like my parents, have seen it with their own eyes. "

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James Inhoffe | EPA | Crucify | The Daily Caller

James Inhoffe | EPA | Crucify | The Daily Caller: "“Of course they’re not [focused ‘fair and effective enforcement],’” Inhofe said in reaction to Giles’ words. “How can it be fair when they come in and make the accusations without developing the case, without having the evidence, and take enforcement actions that would put the company out of business — when they don’t have the evidence to back that up?”

“Their mission is to put people out of business,” Inhofe added. “Their mission is to kill hydraulic fracturing.”

Inhofe announced Wednesday that he is launching an investigation into the EPA’s tactics — specifically with regard to the Parker County, Texas case as well as cases in Pavilion, Wyoming, and in Dimock, Pennsylvania.

The apology has not deterred Inhofe’s investigation.

“This is all a part of Obama’s war on fossil fuels,” Inhofe added. “He knows he can’t win that war but he can stop hydraulic fracturing which has been safe for over a million applications, there has never been a case of groundwater contamination.”"

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EPA: Hey, sorry about that whole “crucify” thing, we’re all about being ethical « Hot Air

EPA: Hey, sorry about that whole “crucify” thing, we’re all about being ethical « Hot Air: "It’s more than a war on hydraulic fracturing, or on energy production.  It’s a war on liberty, waged by bureaucrats who want to crucify people like the Sacketts in order to pacify the rest of us."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "So even when he was “rich,” Obama couldn’t quite retire the student loans — and most of those students who fall into the high-debt category won’t win public office and write memoirs for extra income.  Wasn’t that Foxx’s actual point?

Of course, this is the same President who wants to force all of these young adults to buy expensive comprehensive health insurance that they don’t need in order to subsidize premiums for 45-64 year olds, too.  Pushing young adults into indentured servitude seems to be a habit of his."

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The Vetting - Exclusive: Obama Letter to Bell to Blurb 'Dreams from My Father'

The Vetting - Exclusive: Obama Letter to Bell to Blurb 'Dreams from My Father': "Clearly, Obama’s link to Bell was more than just a “hug,” but part of a sustained effort to align himself with the radical left--and to be seen by others as a legitimate radical--in the early stages of his public life."

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Big Brother Returns as 'Son of SOPA'

Big Brother Returns as 'Son of SOPA': ""CISPA would allow [Internet Service Providers], social networking sites, and anyone else handling Internet communications to monitor users and pass information to the government without any judicial oversight," writes Rainey Reitman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
In other words, concepts such as "probable cause" or even "reasonable suspicion" would no longer apply.
What sort of information are we talking about, though? And who would be reviewing it?
According to the American Civil Liberties Union, this legislation "would give the government, including military spy agencies, unprecedented powers to snoop through people's personal information - medical records, private emails, financial information - all without a warrant, proper oversight or limits."
Translation? "Big Brother is watching you.""

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Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz DNC Chair--Or Isn't She?

Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz DNC Chair--Or Isn't She?: " President Obama’s budgets are fantasies about what Congress could spend if money were no object. They are not an attempt to square the country’s needs and obligations with its resources. They represent a choice for voters only in the sense that fantasy is an alternative to reality.
Like Obama himself, who is more myth than man, Democrat policies are fairy tales Americans are learning to see through--and beyond."

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Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz DNC Chair--Or Isn't She?

Is Debbie Wasserman Schultz DNC Chair--Or Isn't She?: " President Obama’s budgets are fantasies about what Congress could spend if money were no object. They are not an attempt to square the country’s needs and obligations with its resources. They represent a choice for voters only in the sense that fantasy is an alternative to reality.
Like Obama himself, who is more myth than man, Democrat policies are fairy tales Americans are learning to see through--and beyond."

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Disability Claims Also Rise in Obama's Culture of Dependence

Disability Claims Also Rise in Obama's Culture of Dependence: "The bottom line: hope and change has ushered in a culture of dependence that is steadily undercutting the ruggedness and the drive that once characterized the lives of Americans. In this way, Obama’s eagerness to expand the number of people on the government dole can actually be seen as an impediment to American greatness."

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Team Obama to unions: Bail out our convention, will ya? « Hot Air

Team Obama to unions: Bail out our convention, will ya? « Hot Air: "In one sense, Team Obama and the Democrats have a good case to make for insisting that Big Labor cover the convention costs.  They’ve already bought the Democratic Party; why not pay the bill?"

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Fox News Mole Charged With Grand Larceny

Fox News Mole Charged With Grand Larceny: "The Muto story has to be one of the biggest liberal media fails in recent memory. Gawker paid Muto $5,000 for his scoops on Fox News – and Muto promptly revealed that Mitt Romney likes horses. Fox News CEO Roger Ailes brought the hammer down on Muto immediately, uncovering the mole within 24 hours; he commented, “the mole shows a culture that believes in theft, a lack of loyalty, turning on his colleagues, lying to management, and there are some real, ethical, serious questions about it.”
As it turns out, Ailes was quite serious about Muto’s “theft” – and Muto will now face the possibility of prosecution. The Fox News mole has been whacked."

Fail!

Rep. Issa: Obama Admin Proving To Be "Most Corrupt In History" | RealClearPolitics

Rep. Issa: Obama Admin Proving To Be "Most Corrupt In History" | RealClearPolitics: ""We have a role to because we passed the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act some years ago… We are busy in Washington with a corrupt government, with a government that I said perhaps because of the money, the amount of TARP and stimulus funds, was going to be the most corrupt government history and it is proving to be just exactly that. This money going though the hands of political leaders is corrupting the process, whether it is Solyndra, GSA, or a number of other scandals. Our mandate is to go after the wrongful acts of government or to review for reorganization laws already passed. In the case of Wal-Mart, they will be punished under existing laws. As we review Wal-Mart, it has to be to look at government's role not simply hauling people in because it makes good headlines," Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) told Bloomberg Television today."

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Michelle Malkin » Conservative consumers: Stand your ground

Michelle Malkin » Conservative consumers: Stand your ground: "It’s not enough for conservative consumers to avoid cowardly businesses that cave to Van Jones and company. Beating back the anti-ALEC mob means getting ahead of them. Color of Change and its “hundreds” of callers are now pressuring State Farm (tweet them here) and Johnson and Johnson (tweet them here) to join the spineless herd and cut ties to ALEC.
I’ll say it again: Silence is complicity. Speak now or surrender your ground."

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Liberty Features Syndicate » Blog Archive » Soros: ‘A sovereign that can print the money can’t default, will never default.’

Liberty Features Syndicate » Blog Archive » Soros: ‘A sovereign that can print the money can’t default, will never default.’: "Contrary to what Soros says, dramatic budget cuts are a way to avoid the false dilemma of default or inflation that he lays out. There is in fact another way. It’s just hardly ever been tried before in history.

But then again, it’s not surprising that someone who has made billions trading currencies would prefer the devastation of inflation over either default or responsible fiscal policies. Those options actually have the benefit of liberating taxpayers from the tyranny of the bank cartel — which owns all of these sovereign debts that cannot otherwise be repaid."

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Racist Republicans

Watch the video below to see just how racist those Republicans are compared to tolerant, worldly Democrats

The Big Green Money Machine – how anti-fishing activists are taking over NOAA

The Big Green Money Machine – how anti-fishing activists are taking over NOAA: "For the first time in at least a century, U.S. fishermen won't take too much of any species from the sea, one of the nation's top fishery scientists says.” This is from an article written by Jay Lindsay for the Associated Press (link) and the top fishery scientist is Steve Murawski, who retired early in 2011 as Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor at NOAA Fisheries. So why are so-called “marine conservationists,” ENGOs, the handful of billion dollar foundations that support them and the upper echelons at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the U.S. Department of Commerce still claiming that radical surgery is needed to “save” our fisheries? The answer to that question is beyond me, and beyond anyone who’s likely to be looking at this website."

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Comments On The Paper “Skillful Predictions Of Decadal Trends In Global Mean Surface Temperature” By Fyfe Et Al 2012 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Comments On The Paper “Skillful Predictions Of Decadal Trends In Global Mean Surface Temperature” By Fyfe Et Al 2012 | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.: " As written, however, the Fyfe et al article adds no robust evidence that the models have skill at predicting temperature changes over decadal and longer time periods. Indeed, they provide further evidence of the lack of skill of the multi-decadal climate model predictions."

More climate model fails.

If I Wanted America to Fail

This video tells it like it is.

Michelle Malkin » Team Obama wants to help make your dream(s) come true before it’s too late

Michelle Malkin » Team Obama wants to help make your dream(s) come true before it’s too late: "This is so weird, because just yesterday I wrote out my bucket list, and right at the top was “meeting the first President to break the $5 trillion debt barrier during a $40,000 a plate fundraiser at the home of that dude from Perfect Storm and ER while surrounded by hypocrite Hollywood mega-millionaires.” How did they know?"

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Michelle Malkin » Watch: Jay Carney dodges female reporters’ questions about low % of women in Obama’s Secret Service

Michelle Malkin » Watch: Jay Carney dodges female reporters’ questions about low % of women in Obama’s Secret Service: "The Democrats are the ones who are gender quota-mongerers. The Democrats are the ones who use femme-statistics to push more mandates and government meddling when so many factors other than gender discrimination explain disparities.
But when held to account for their own rhetoric and ideology, the Democrats do what they always do: Cut and run.
After wrapping itself in the GOP-bashing “War on Women” cape, the White House is absolutely tongue-tied when it comes time to answer for gender hiring disparities at Obama’s beleaguered Secret Service."

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Michelle Malkin » Democratic activist arrested, charged with stealing 220,000+ Medicaid patient records

Michelle Malkin » Democratic activist arrested, charged with stealing 220,000+ Medicaid patient records: " Lykes “served as an executive committeeman of the Lexington County Democratic Party.”
Question: Who received the filched data?"

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Obama admin to use $8.3 billion “slush fund” to fake out seniors? « Hot Air

Obama admin to use $8.3 billion “slush fund” to fake out seniors? « Hot Air: "If HHS does do this, though, it will certainly be a demonstration project.  Democrats, including Obama, insisted that seniors and the disabled would have no problems with the Medicare Advantage cuts — that their choices would not be constricted in any practical sense, and that the pain would only be felt by the eeeeeeeeeeeevil insurers.  Using the slush funds to postpone those changes past the election will demonstrate that they have been lying all along — otherwise, why postpone the cuts?  Why not stay on schedule for the Great Leap Forward in American health care?"

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Ann Romney said what? « The Greenroom

Ann Romney said what? « The Greenroom: "Consider this: a few days ago, I come across a link on a social media site posted by a liberal woman. An educated liberal woman. An educated liberal woman who’s a college professor. The link was to a site claiming Ann Romney had recently said:"

Typical liberal: completely oblivious to the satire.

Articles: Obama's Springtime of Discontent

Articles: Obama's Springtime of Discontent: "This has not been a spring of promise and renewal for the Obama administration; rather, it has been one of threadbare political tactics and demagoguery dying on the vine and the reality of three years of Barack Obama taking root in the American consciousness."

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Government auditors call for end to $8 billion Medicare bonus program | Fox News

Government auditors call for end to $8 billion Medicare bonus program | Fox News: "In a rebuke to the Obama administration, government auditors are calling for the cancellation of an $8 billion Medicare program that congressional Republicans have criticized as a political ploy.

The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says in a report to be released Monday that the $8.3 billion the administration has earmarked for quality bonuses to Medicare Advantage insurance plans would postpone the pain of cuts to the plans under the new health care law. Most of the money would go to plans rated merely average.

The administration is defending the program, saying that without the bonuses many plans wouldn't have an incentive to improve quality."

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William M. Briggs » What Will You Do To Celebrate Earth Day?

William M. Briggs » What Will You Do To Celebrate Earth Day?: "On this most holy day, I shall trek—barefoot because my Cannondale SuperSix EVO Di2 ($11,000) bicycle is in the shop to be fitted with eco-friendly rubber tires—to the local Whole Foods (revenue about $9 billion) and go forth onto the organic vegetable aisle and there I shall stand and just be, absorbing passively the organicness of the three-dollar carrots and six-dollar bundles of kale."

Fabulous satire.

Spengler » Dog-Eating and Obama’s Identity

Spengler » Dog-Eating and Obama’s Identity: "It really isn’t unfair at all to bring Obama’s canine consumption to public attention. The president isn’t really one of us. He’s a dog-eater. He tells the story in his memoir to emphasize that viscerally, Obama identifies with the Third World of his upbringing more than with the America of his adulthood. It is our great misfortune to have a president who dislikes our country at this juncture in our history."

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Video: The 2012 National Debt Road Trip « Hot Air

Video: The 2012 National Debt Road Trip « Hot Air: "For our liberal friends who never tire of claiming the nation’s fiscal problems were inherited from the prior administration, buckle up and enjoy this instructive clip from our friends at Political Math (via Gabriel Malor)."

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Articles: Today's liberals are much like England's 18th century leaders

Articles: Today's liberals are much like England's 18th century leaders: "What makes Fluke a modern-day liberal?  First, she thinks that she's smarter than the unwashed masses.  Just like 18th century British leaders before her, she knows what's best for us, and she's determined to drive her philosophy down our throats.  Second, she thinks that she should be able to do whatever she wants and that the unwashed masses should pay for it.  Third, she has done nothing of consequence to prove her mettle, but she wants to make our world over in her image at our expense.  Finally, she is amoral and/or immoral, and she thinks that our society should embrace her principles despite their obvious shortcomings."

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There’s a killer in your house. « Pointman's

There’s a killer in your house. « Pointman's: "Research done by the Alab Laboratory in Berlin, detected several known carcinogenic chemicals and toxins being emitted when CFLs were switched on, including phenol, naphthalene and styrene. Their report advised that CFLs should not be left switched on for extended periods and their location should be as far as possible from a person’s head, to reduce the chance of inhaling the toxins. In some similar research, done for the Federation of German Engineers, the scientists came back with the recommendation that CFLs should not be used in an unventilated environment and again, that they should be placed as far away from the head as possible. They described the carcinogens as a kind of electrical smog produced around these lights."

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Investigate IRS Harassment of Tea Party Groups

Investigate IRS Harassment of Tea Party Groups: "In order to be recognized as non-profit groups, these organizations must register with the IRS – a purely ministerial function that has, in the past, been applied evenly and without regard to their political views.    
At least until now.
It seems that Tea Party groups are now being treated very differently than their counterparts on the political Left.  For the last two years, many have been stone-walled by the IRS when they have sought to register as non-profits and most recently, they have been barraged with increasingly aggressive and threatening demands vastly outside the legal authority of the IRS.  Indeed, the only conceivable purpose of some of these demands could be to intimidate and harass."

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Articles: Taxing Thoughts from Justice Sotomayor

Articles: Taxing Thoughts from Justice Sotomayor: "By replacing ObamaCare's current funding mechanism with an actual tax (where revenue goes into the coffers of the U.S. Treasury), Sotomayor would be exposing millions of Americans to the largest tax hike of their lives.  Her new tax would be more than what many Americans pay in income and payroll taxes combined.  Many Americans wouldn't be able to pay Sotomayor's tax.  If it were large enough to fully fund ObamaCare and if it hit "everybody," Sotomayor's tax would make millions of Americans into tax outlaws.
If Sotomayor's tax were not as large as an insurance premium, then ObamaCare would continue to suffer from the same fatal disease: underfunding.  ObamaCare, as currently configured, is underfunded because the penalty for not buying health insurance is much too low.  The maximum penalty of $2,085 per family is not even close to offsetting the price of a private health insurance policy.  If Congress would raise the penalty for noncompliance up to the price of insurance, then Americans could take ObamaCare more seriously, but it would be even more unpopular."

You've just gotta love the insight brought by a "Wise Latina".  Fantastic.

Your ongoing Obama green energy disaster of the day: Fisker Automotive - HUMAN EVENTS

Your ongoing Obama green energy disaster of the day: Fisker Automotive - HUMAN EVENTS: "So, for anyone still wondering: no, command economics can’t compete with the power and wisdom of the free market.  Subsidized production and artificially created demand are collapsing into a black hole of serial bankruptcies, as the dying days of Obamanomics leave us with nothing but a mountain of debt and empty factories.  And if you think that isn’t bad enough, try adding in the lost profit from the true opportunities obscured by the static of command economics, and the immense interest payments we, and our children, will be shelling out to finance the hundreds of billions of dollars Obama has wasted."

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Newsflash: One of the likely 2012 candidates had a polygamist father - HUMAN EVENTS

Newsflash: One of the likely 2012 candidates had a polygamist father - HUMAN EVENTS: "So you’ve got to go back to Mitt Romney’s paternal grandfathers to find an actual polygamist, while Barack Obama’s father was a polygamist at the time of his conception in 1961.

In neither case does this have any bearing on President Barack Obama or Mitt Romney, because neither man is responsible for the actions of his forebears, or had any control over the circumstances of his birth.  But the media isn’t going to treat both cases the same way.  You won’t hear Big Media expressing any deep concerns about members of strategic voting groups recoiling from the Obama family’s polygamous history, any more than you’ll hear them express concerns about Obama’s millionaire friends... even though none of Romney’s millionaire friends are likely to owe as much in back taxes as Warren Buffett does."

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Ten years ago, Democrats told us ANWR wouldn’t produce any oil for 10 years - HUMAN EVENTS

Ten years ago, Democrats told us ANWR wouldn’t produce any oil for 10 years - HUMAN EVENTS: "If it makes these Democrats look any better, remember that they claim to believe that the laws of supply and demand do not apply to American oil – at least, not until it has first been stored in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.  Until it has been sanctified by passing through the SPR, no amount of American oil affects the global price of oil in the slightest, and only the global price of oil has the tiniest affect on what consumers pay at the pump."

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WH: Keystone 'sacrifices American sovereignty' | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner

WH: Keystone 'sacrifices American sovereignty' | Campaign 2012 | Washington Examiner: ""It would be preemptively sacrificing American sovereignty" to approve the pipeline, White Hosue Press Secretary Jay Carney said, because a route for the northern portion of the pipeline has not been established."

Wow -- just toss any old nonsense around...

Dog War after action report: why didn’t the media know Obama ate dogs? - HUMAN EVENTS

Dog War after action report: why didn’t the media know Obama ate dogs? - HUMAN EVENTS: "“This constant focus on trivialities,” Stanley concludes, “might be more sufferable if it were at least balanced.  But it’s always the conservatives who are repeatedly asked ‘What would you do if your son was gay?’, ‘What newspapers do you read?’, or ‘Why do you hate black people so much?’  Yet Barack Obama – who went to the church of an anti-American radical loon, messes just about everything up and eats dogs – gets a free pass.”"

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Upon Review, Jobs Picture Not So Pretty | Fox Business

Upon Review, Jobs Picture Not So Pretty | Fox Business: "The odd trend in higher jobless revisions are borne out in the data from the Labor Department going back to January (see chart). The skewed numbers have Wall Street trading desks increasingly distrustful, which may have an impact on how stocks are traded before, during and after the weekly data are released.   "

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Ann Coulter: Obama’s silver spoon was “an affirmative action silver spoon” « Hot Air

Ann Coulter: Obama’s silver spoon was “an affirmative action silver spoon” « Hot Air: "The class warfare that has grown up between taxpayers and government program beneficiaries is real. Beneficiaries will vote and approve of the expansion of government, while exhausted taxpayers will resist that growth. That warfare won’t end until politicians and other limited-government advocates begin — consistently and creatively — to make more than an economic argument against an unsustainable social safety net. The impending insolvency of entitlement programs and/or the likely damaging effects of the deficit and debt are clearly not motivating government beneficiaries to vote against big government — but the knowledge that earned success is far likelier to bring happiness than handouts might inspire them to work their way out of dependence and into relative self-sufficiency and to then vote accordingly."

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Democrats caving on Keystone? « Hot Air

Democrats caving on Keystone? « Hot Air: "Obama has to defend ObamaCare in this election; other than Dodd-Frank and the Lily Ledbetter Act, it’s his only real legislative accomplishment.  He’s not going to spend his time talking about the success of “shovel-ready” projects, after all.  If he’s talking about how terrific ObamaCare is while his fellow Democrats in the House and Senate campaign on what a screw-up it is, that’s not going to help any Democrats in this cycle.

Right now, though, it looks like Democrats on Capitol Hill aren’t concerned about loyalty to a sinking Obama.  It’s every politician for him/herself."

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Soledad O'Brien Attacks Allen West for Progressive Caucus Remarks

Soledad O'Brien Attacks Allen West for Progressive Caucus Remarks: "So, after misleading her audience a bit by not playing West’s full remarks in the proper context, O’Brien started naming random members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus in a tone that tried to tell the audience that those members were in fact not communists.
In a heated exchange, O’Brien asked, “So Keith Ellison is a communist? ... Raúl Grijalva is a communist?”
Except, according to Trevor Loudon, Grijalva, a left-wing Arizona Congressman, does have connections to the Communist Party and those sympathetic to it."

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Soledad O’Brien Confronts Allen West Over His Communist Allegations | Mediaite

Soledad O’Brien Confronts Allen West Over His Communist Allegations | Mediaite: "“I’m calling it this,” West clarified. “Communist, progressive, Marxist, statist, another term being used. I’m looking at things they believe in. If you don’t think we have to stand upon truth and be able to identify and clearly contrast the different principles and values and ideologies of governance here in this country, then we’re never going to get to the fact of accepting the true debate happening in America. We don’t need a bureaucratic nanny state. We need to stay a Constitutional Republic. I think a lot of people need to study that and understand what it is.”"

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Michelle Malkin » No More “Mr. Obama Is a Nice Guy”

Michelle Malkin » No More “Mr. Obama Is a Nice Guy”: "Let it be noted that Mr. “Nice Guy” never goes out of his way to show his opponents respect. In 2008, Obama openly bragged that his campaign strategy is: “If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun.”
Remember when he sneered at millions who turned out for the nationwide Tax Day tea party protests in 2009: “You would think they’d be saying thank you.”"

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West On Calling Dems 'Communists': 'No I Dont Regret It Whatsoever'

West On Calling Dems 'Communists': 'No I Dont Regret It Whatsoever': "When asked if he has any regrets about referring to some Democrats as "Communists," Rep. Allen West (R-FL) doubled down, explaining he had "no regrets whasoever," and elaborated on the ideological similarities between contemporary American "progressive" views and those of Marxists."

Watch the video to see a straight-shooter in action.

PJ Media » Toward Fairness — Some Modest Proposals

PJ Media » Toward Fairness — Some Modest Proposals: "The president went to Harvard. That’s a very elite school. A degree from Harvard opens a lot of doors that aren’t available to people who haven’t gone there. Is that fair? I don’t think so. A lot of perfectly intelligent people would like to go there, but either they can’t afford it, or they can’t get in, so they become very disappointed when they’re rejected. That doesn’t sound fair to me. I say we should  abolish Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and all the elite universities. After all, if no one could go there, then no one would ever be disappointed that they couldn’t go there. Sure, it’d be sad to close  those revered institutions, but I’m sure their employees would understand that losing their jobs was a noble sacrifice to ensure a fair society. Then again, with unemployment skyrocketing, maybe that’s not a good idea. Maybe a better solution would be to simply rename every college and university in America “Harvard.” Then everyone could go there!  Only in America, right? How’s that for fairness?"

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Obama Breaks FOIA Standards to Stonewall Keystone XL Information

Obama Breaks FOIA Standards to Stonewall Keystone XL Information: "But while extreme environmental groups like Friends of the Earth, which opposes the pipeline, had no problem receiving similar information after its FOIA request, IER’s request has been delayed. After four months and multiple submissions, the Obama administration has refused to comply, violating FOIA standards. The decision to delay the Keystone Pipeline was clearly so politicized that the agencies involved are willing to break the law to cover their tracks. This can hardly be the transparent government that the President promised us when he ran for president in 2008."

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How Romney Can Beat the Buffett Rule | Karl Rove

How Romney Can Beat the Buffett Rule | Karl Rove: "With the country's serious economic challenges, all the president can offer is the Buffett Rule? Mr. Obama is shriveling before our eyes—not physically, but in stature and leadership. No wonder the average of all polls since Rick Santorum suspended his campaign April 11 shows Mr. Obama leading Mitt Romney by only 46.4% to 45.6%.

We may be at a political tipping point where acts confirm impressions that become impossible to shake. Mr. Obama is in danger of being seen as weak, inept and not up to the job. If Mr. Romney calls the president out on his small-minded political games and pivots to an ambitious reform agenda, he will make it much more likely that, come next January, Mr. Obama can turn his attention to writing his third autobiography."

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Indonesian Source: Obama Would Have to Hunt for Dog Meat in Jakarta

Indonesian Source: Obama Would Have to Hunt for Dog Meat in Jakarta: "Fidogate has just gone international. Already the Left is defending Obama for eating dog meat on the grounds that his stepfather--who was Indonesian--wanted to share his culture and customs with him. But there’s just one problem with this: it wasn’t his culture or custom."

So did Obama really eat dog meat, or is his book a fabrication?  I think the evidence tends to suggest "fabrication".

Reid cites seniors' love of junk mail to argue for passage of postal reform bill - The Hill's Floor Action

Reid cites seniors' love of junk mail to argue for passage of postal reform bill - The Hill's Floor Action: ""And when talking about seniors, seniors love getting junk mail. It's sometimes their only way of communicating or feeling like they're part of the real world," Reid continued. "Elderly Americans, more than anyone in America, rely on the United States Postal Service, but unless we act quickly, thousands of post offices ... will close. I've said this earlier today; I repeat it.""

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "This is Obamanomics in a nutshell; hyperventilating over 0.0313% of the problem while ignoring the other 99.9687% of it."

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Will Media Cover for Obama in Grisly Marine Photo Scandal?

Will Media Cover for Obama in Grisly Marine Photo Scandal?: "Anyway, where are McCain and the mainstream media now? Where’s the effort to find who in the  Obama administration is responsible for the pictures of U.S. soldiers with Afghan corpses?
Looks like the Rumsfeld haters’ chickens are coming home to roost."

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Michelle Malkin » The real GSA scandal: job-killing Big Labor payoffs

Michelle Malkin » The real GSA scandal: job-killing Big Labor payoffs: "And as the pro-competition watchdog website The Truth About PLAs points out: “Numerous (GSA) projects have been awarded to contractors submitting PLA bids at the expense of qualified firms opposed to PLA mandates. Full and open competition has been curtailed in violation of the federal Competition in Contracting Act. Taxpayer dollars have been wasted. Skilled nonunion craftspeople and their qualified employers have been denied jobs and opportunity as a result of this needless policy.”
For Obama’s union donors and their GSA fixers, the party’s still on."

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Articles: Can the President Lower Gas Prices?

Articles: Can the President Lower Gas Prices?: "Sadly, we seem to have a president who is so ideologically driven that he abhors even the thought of providing usable economical energy for the people who elected him, even if it will come online only long after he has left the presidency.
As unlikely as the concept seems to be, for once, and only in a limited sense, Obama is correct.  Even a blind squirrel occasionally finds a nut, after all, just as Obama is correct in saying that we need to reduce our consumption of oil.  Of course, he is tarnishing this astute observation by offering to replace it with algae burgers for our gas tanks.  Fossil fuels will continue to be the main source of our energy for the reasonably foreseeable future, and we have them in abundance.
While ordinary citizens (and not a few illegal aliens) are upset about the current trend of gasoline prices, and ask themselves if they will be able to afford to drive to work, it is necessary to remember that as energy prices climb, so does unemployment.  Americans might not have a job to drive to."

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EON Says EU Should Create Carbon Target of 50% Cut by 2030 - Bloomberg

EON Says EU Should Create Carbon Target of 50% Cut by 2030 - Bloomberg: "The European Union should adopt a target to cut greenhouse-gas emissions by 50 percent by 2030, rescuing the region’s carbon market, said EON AG. (EOAN)
Without reform, the market will stagnate, Johannes Teyssen, chairman of the utility’s management board, said today in a briefing with reporters in Berlin.
“The emissions-trading system in Europe is a ‘dead man walking’, the system is mortally ill,” Teyssen said today."

The natural result of a really stupid idea.

Congressman Col. Al West Tells It

And without a teleprompter, either. Watch this video to see what a real American President should sound like.

WaPo Author who Tied Romney to KKK Resigns over Plagiarism Scandal

WaPo Author who Tied Romney to KKK Resigns over Plagiarism Scandal: "Unlike what the Washington Post brass did after it had to apologize to a Republican for a gross distortion, the newspaper seems to have all but fired Flock after it was forced to apologize to a peer mainstream media organization, further proving the low level of esteem mainstream organizations like the Post hold conservatives and Republicans.
For the Washington Post, a reporter cannot be caught plagiarizing from mainstream organizations in their fraternity but can go undisciplined when they engage in nearly libelous conduct against Republicans."

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Van Jones: Obama 'Forced' to Sit with 'Racist' Cop at Beer Summit

Van Jones: Obama 'Forced' to Sit with 'Racist' Cop at Beer Summit: "Did the President himself agree with his employee Jones' private assessment of Sgt. Crowley? Was the beer summit something the President felt forced into by "the right wing and the law enforcement establishment"? These questions might be worth asking now that the White House is once again taking sides in a case with obvious racial overtones."

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Zero Sales of Ford's Focus Electric in February and March

Zero Sales of Ford's Focus Electric in February and March: "GM has cut back production on the much-touted Chevy Volt thanks to their propensity for bursting into flame during crashes. Overall, electric cars cost more to buy and maintain, and are generally less reliable than gas-powered cars. Jim Lentz, Toyota’s US sales CEO, said, “Right now, from a cost standpoint and a performance standpoint – range for customers – I don’t think EVs are ready for primetime.”
But that won’t stop the Obama administration from pouring taxpayer dollars into them – and helping the top 1 percent, which can afford to buy these vehicles. As the Daily Caller reported last month, the White House wanted to give $10,000 subsidies to people for buying Chevy Volts, even though the only folks who can afford the car are generally rich anyway."

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Hypocrisy alert: Obama used tax loopholes in 2011 to lower his tax bill - National Libertarian | Examiner.com

Hypocrisy alert: Obama used tax loopholes in 2011 to lower his tax bill - National Libertarian | Examiner.com: "How sincere was the president when he complained that the current system is so unfair that he, a rich guy, gets to “keep hundreds of thousands of dollars in additional income” while other parents struggle to send their kids to college? Suffice it to say that he wasn’t sufficiently bothered to resist helping himself to a loophole in the tax code that decreased his taxable income in 2011 by nearly $50,000."

He should pay his fair share!

Obama in Colombia this weekend: I’m scouting out a potential vacation spot for Michelle « Hot Air

Obama in Colombia this weekend: I’m scouting out a potential vacation spot for Michelle « Hot Air: "The juxtaposition of an offended dismissal of the American people’s legitimate concerns about his jet-setting behaviors with a cutesy comment that he’s scouting a new relaxation spot for Michelle just further illuminates that Barack Obama is out of touch. Many people I know haven’t taken a full-fledged family vacation in years, but the president thinks he’s justified in taking more than three a year."

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What Reagan Actually Said | The Weekly Standard

What Reagan Actually Said | The Weekly Standard: "Barack Obama’s appeal to Ronald Reagan is illuminating in a number of ways. It’s illuminating that today’s liberals need to appeal to the example of Reagan to sell their policies. That’s a posthumous victory for Reagan, and an important contemporary victory for Reaganism. Even more, it’s illuminating because it gives us reason to go back and read the Reagan speeches Obama cited, and see how compelling they were and how thoroughly the president misrepresented them."

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Working Conditions Are Terrible for Teachers in [Nearby City] « The Greenroom

Working Conditions Are Terrible for Teachers in [Nearby City] « The Greenroom: "When the governor first began making his claims of improved schools last fall, WEAC reacted in the traditional manner – by drawing up talking points. One memo, dated November 29, is still posted on the web site of the West Allis-West Milwaukee Education Association. It’s not unusual, until you get to the sample statement/press release that locals were supposed to use as a model. I repost it here in its entirety – warts and all:"

This is funny and very revealing.

Analysis: Obama's green jobs have been slow to sprout | Reuters

Analysis: Obama's green jobs have been slow to sprout | Reuters: "But the millions of "green jobs" Obama promised have been slow to sprout, disappointing many who had hoped that the $90 billion earmarked for clean-energy efforts in the recession-fighting federal stimulus package would ease unemployment - still above 8 percent in March."

You're kidding!!  Really?  Wow, who would have guessed it?

Not Going to Make Any Excuses

Good new ad.

Axelrod Slams Obama Economy, Says Vote for Romney

Good point, Axelgrease, very good point.

Hypocrisy: Obama Said Big Donations Buy Access Average Voters ‘Can’t Imagine’

Hypocrisy: Obama Said Big Donations Buy Access Average Voters ‘Can’t Imagine’: "In the wake of reports today that President Obama has used the White House both to grant access to special large donors and friends like Hilary Rosen, many media figures have suggested that this isn’t anything rare – it’s business as usual, and shouldn’t be considered out of bounds.
But there is one major politician who would disagree: Barack Obama, circa 1996.
When Obama was running for Illinois State Senate in 1996, he gave an interview to Joe Frolik of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In it, he called the Clinton campaign “disturbing to someone who cares about certain issues.” But he was most disturbed, he said, by the “realization that politics is a business … As oppose to a mission.”"

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Geithner: Hey, how about that “remarkably successful” Obamanomics that might not produce growth this spring? « Hot Air

Geithner: Hey, how about that “remarkably successful” Obamanomics that might not produce growth this spring? « Hot Air: "Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner made the Sunday talk-show rounds this morning, but seemed to have a little difficulty in getting his talking points straight. On Meet the Press, David Gregory had to ask Geithner twice whether he’d call the economic policies of the Obama administration a success.  Geithner finally said that they have proven “remarkably successful,” even though nominal unemployment has been above the 8% mark that Barack Obama promised his policies would prevent for 38 straight months, and real unemployment rests somewhere between 11-12%:"

"The American troops are completely surrounded and we expect them to surrender any moment." -- Baghdad Bob

Jack Welch on Obama

That's got to have left a mark.

Obama: OK, now immigration reform really is my top priority « Hot Air

Obama: OK, now immigration reform really is my top priority « Hot Air: "Let me translate all of that for you: “I’m President Obama and I’m ineffective. I can’t do what I want to do. My hands are tied.”"

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The sun is setting on solar power, the money’s gone and nobody’s asking any questions. « Pointman's

The sun is setting on solar power, the money’s gone and nobody’s asking any questions. « Pointman's: "Billions and billions and we’ve ended up with pretty much nothing. Actually, that’s not quite correct. What we will have, within a decade or two, is a clear up job that’ll make Chernobyl look like a training day. As the vast arrays of panels age, they’ll crack and contaminate the topsoil with poisonous chemical particles. Take a careful look at the picture below, because that’s what we’ll have to pay to detoxify, and make no mistake, we’ll be the ones paying, despite a few of the companies installing these panels having given undertakings to dispose of the panels at the end of their service life. The hard-nosed investor in me reckons they’ll be safely bankrupt by the time any such expensive undertakings have to be honoured."

The inevitable outcome of state enterprises.

Boondoggle U. | The Weekly Standard

Boondoggle U. | The Weekly Standard: " The brand new UC Merced, with a $100 million annual budget, got an exemption from the across-the-board cuts entailing layoffs, furloughs, and program eliminations at the other nine campuses, but that only seems to have exacerbated hard feelings within the UC system. Over the past couple of years, as California has spiraled downward into a 12 percent unemployment-generating recession, faculty and administrators at the more prestigious and prosperous campuses have either called openly for UC Merced’s closure or hinted at withdrawing their own well-endowed campuses from the state system and going private."

Shouldn't they spread the wealth around?  Pay their fair share?  Isn't their implicit mantra "from each according to his ability, to each according to his need?"

Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House | The Weekly Standard

Former Dem. Congressman Kennedy Alleges 'Quid Pro Quo' for Access to White House | The Weekly Standard: "Patrick J. Kennedy, the former representative from Rhode Island, who donated $35,800 to an Obama re-election fund last fall while seeking administration support for a nonprofit venture, said contributions were simply a part of “how this business works.”

“If you want to call it ‘quid pro quo,’ fine,” he said. “At the end of the day, I want to make sure I do my part.”"

Chicago.

Jay Carney on Rosen’s WH visits: I personally know three women named “Hilary Rosen” « Hot Air

Jay Carney on Rosen’s WH visits: I personally know three women named “Hilary Rosen” « Hot Air: "Admit it. Deep down, although you hate yourself for it, you kind of admire the sheer balls it takes to lie to a room full of reporters like this with a straight face. Not even a hint of sheepishness in his demeanor at playing this dumb, even though the “Hilary B. Rosen” who turns up in the White House logs has the same middle initial and the same unorthodox spelling of “Hilary” (with one L) as our heroine. You earned your pay today, Jay."

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Obama: We didn’t have “the luxury” for Michelle to not work « Hot Air

Obama: We didn’t have “the luxury” for Michelle to not work « Hot Air: "Yes — if  you want to be a productive member of society, life can be very busy. When time is scarce, no doubt we’ve all wished we could clone ourselves, but we all must make choices about how we spend that time and structure our lives. You can go to school, or not; get married, or not; have children, or not; these are all perfectly viable and respectable life choices that individuals can decide for themselves. And to imply that being a stay-at-home parent is necessarily a luxury, rather than a partnership between two parents who both work hard to achieve shared goals, is a really good way to insult a heck of a lot of average Americans."

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Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers - The Globe and Mail

Healthy polar bear count confounds doomsayers - The Globe and Mail: "The debate about climate change and its impact on polar bears has intensified with the release of a survey that shows the bear population in a key part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought, and might be growing."

Glowball Warming Fail.

Obama's Campaign Will Take the Low Road | Karl Rove

Obama's Campaign Will Take the Low Road | Karl Rove: "As he did Tuesday at Florida Atlantic University, Mr. Obama will attack "these same trickle-down theories" about taxes that almost led to "a second Great Depression." But if the Bush tax cuts were so evil, why didn't Mr. Obama repeal them during his first two years, when his party controlled both houses of Congress? Instead, in December 2010 Mr. Obama agreed to extend them for two more years."

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The Export-Import Bank Nightmare

The Export-Import Bank Nightmare: "Investment gimmicks subject to endless political pressure by central-planners are dubious and inherently inefficient ways to invest money. The unintended consequences of government-backed loans have been disastrous and continue to encourage companies to lobby Congress for special perks and privileges at your expense. This is a form of European-style socialism, and it is time to stop repeating failed policies.

Fiscal conservatives in Congress must make the Ex-Im bank an “ex-bank.”"

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Taxpayers Set to Lose $30+ Billion on the Auto Bailout

Taxpayers Set to Lose $30+ Billion on the Auto Bailout: "The total auto bailout loss is undoubtedly - probably dramatically - higher than $30 billion.  And counting.
Only the biggest of Big Government proponents can consider this titanic loss a “success.”"

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The Real Barack Obama Is Dedicated To Expanding Government Power At Expense Of Liberty - Investors.com

The Real Barack Obama Is Dedicated To Expanding Government Power At Expense Of Liberty - Investors.com: "The lights of personal and economic freedom in America are starting to flicker. If Obama gets a second term, they will go out. As Charles Krauthammer said, Obama "will take the country to a place from which it will not be able to return."

Upon arrival, we will sink into a new dark age of absurdities designed by Obama. Centuries of American law and civilization will be turned upside down. The sacred will be defiled, the repugnant exalted, the Constitution inverted. Instead of protecting us, it will be used to exploit and enslave us."

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Three Amigos U.S., Canada And Mexico Fall Into Rift Amid Obama's Neglect, Protectionism - Investors.com

Three Amigos U.S., Canada And Mexico Fall Into Rift Amid Obama's Neglect, Protectionism - Investors.com: " Most summits are mush-mouthed affairs full of pleasantries. Tuesday's "Three Amigos" summit was different: a litany of how President Obama has alienated our neighbors.

You wouldn't know this from reading the mainstream media, which reported the disastrous summit with anodyne headlines like: "Obama talks trade, energy with Canada, Mexico leaders at Summit" (Associated Press) and "Obama, Mexico's Calderon vow more drug crime cooperation" (Reuters).

Obama's neglect of our nearest neighbors and biggest trade partners has created deteriorating relations, a sign of a president who's out of touch with reality. Problems are emerging that aren't being reported."

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Buffett Rule proposal just a modern bill of attainder for Romney? « Hot Air

Buffett Rule proposal just a modern bill of attainder for Romney? « Hot Air: "Having the Senate push through an Obama campaign strategy document for a floor vote as a way to throw mud at his political opponent has to be one of the most cynical uses of power in modern Beltway times — especially since the Senate hasn’t bothered to pass a budget resolution in three years.  Instead of fretting over the budgets of 400 families, shouldn’t the Senate be focusing on the nation’s budget, a responsibility assigned to them by law?"

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Articles: What? The Magic Words Aren't Working!

Articles: What? The Magic Words Aren't Working!: "The Constitution is for the most part clearly written and does not require a law degree to be understood.  The law degree seems to be needed to pretend that we are still adhering to the Constitution."

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Hostile Workplace | Washington Free Beacon

Hostile Workplace | Washington Free Beacon: "Female employees in the Obama White House make considerably less than their male colleagues, records show.

According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000)."

Obama's War on Women.

Obama: Government spending “is not some socialist dream” « Hot Air

Obama: Government spending “is not some socialist dream” « Hot Air: "But the larger problems with the president’s remarks are that they betray his ignorance of two important truths: (1) The government has no money of its own, so, technically, all government programs are redistributive and (2) Our entitlement programs are broken and he has absolutely no plan to reform them. The social safety net is about to rip underneath us because the president refuses to take any steps whatsoever to strengthen it.

Government spending, like all of life, is constrained by reality — and the reality is that we cannot spend money we do not have. We will never have the money to reinforce the social safety net if we do not focus on economic growth. The objection to increased public investment in education, health and other programs is, in many cases, not ideological at all (although in some cases it is, usually from the standpoint that it shouldn’t be the federal government that provides the net), but practical: Such investment is not the best way to grow the economy."

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Great news: Subprime lending escalating again « Hot Air

Great news: Subprime lending escalating again « Hot Air: "Lenders are targeting auto loans, one of the few areas left outside of the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau established by Dodd-Frank in 2010.  At least, it’s outside of their jurisdiction at the moment. The NYT reports that the CFPB hasn’t yet decided on whether to extend their power in that direction.  Let’s see — Obama and a Democratic Congress gave a bunch of activist bureaucrats the ability to set their own boundaries.  I’m certain that they won’t use that ambiguity to claim jurisdiction over every facet of American life they possibly can … aren’t you?"

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The Buffet Rule hurts Warren Buffet’s secretary « The Greenroom

The Buffet Rule hurts Warren Buffet’s secretary « The Greenroom: " A Gallup survey from April of 2011 reveals that a robust 54% invest in the market. It is possible, even likely, that the number of investors, which was in decline, has fallen further in the ensuing year, and it is a fact that some of this investment capital is tied up in 401(k) plans or other tax-deferred instruments. But even allowing for those contingencies, it remains the case that a hefty percentage of the middle class population—including Warren Buffet’s secretary—would be adversely affected by the Buffet Rule."

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Articles: Obama as Farce

Articles: Obama as Farce: "Our president, who believes himself the living embodiment of American exceptionalism, veers wildly between bragging about how successful he is and puling loudly about how unfairly he is being treated.  Every jeremiad from the man is laced with an unsaid but implied "you people don't appreciate me, even after all I've done for you."  Although at times, he skips the unsaid and the implied.
He boasts of his accomplishments, which amount to nothing more than brazenly redefining abject failure as success, or taking credit for things he had nothing to do with.  Is there anything funnier than hearing the most anti-oil president in the history of the nation take credit for oil production?  He stands in front of some pipes and makes a speech, and suddenly, he is the "Energy President."  Could he look more desperate?"

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Exclusive - O'Keefe Responds to DC Investigation: 'Shooting the Messenger'

Exclusive - O'Keefe Responds to DC Investigation: 'Shooting the Messenger': "“[He] simply asked the question ‘Do you have an Eric Holder?’” O'Keefe said in an exclusive statement to Breitbart.com.
“The voting procedures within our nation’s capital then allowed for a ballot to be offered without verification. The automatic response of the D.C. Board of Elections is to shoot the messenger rather than addressing the issues of integrity within their own election process.”"

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The incredible power of clouds (and Roy Spencer’s work) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax

The incredible power of clouds (and Roy Spencer’s work) « JoNova: Science, carbon, climate and tax: "Spencer & Braswell’s 2011 paper  confirms the difficulty in sorting out what is feedback and what is forcing, finding that it is not possible with current methods to separate the two.  Neither the most nor the least sensitive models could predict the changes in energy before or after changes in temperature."

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Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air

Obamateurism of the Day « Hot Air: "If Obama is so unhappy with unelected officials with no accountability to voters making life and death decisions, then why did he propose the Independent Payment Advisory Board as part of ObamaCare?"

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Chris Christie: This nation is turning into “people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check” « Hot Air

Chris Christie: This nation is turning into “people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check” « Hot Air: "Christie said he hasn’t seen a less optimistic period in the country in his lifetime.

“Government’s telling them stop dreaming, stop striving, we’ll take care of you,” he said at a theater at the New York Historical Society. “We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society. That will not just bankrupt us financially, it will bankrupt us morally.”

“We’ll have a bunch of people sitting on a couch waiting for their next government check,” Christie said."

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Just a reminder: “Buffett Rule” that Obama won’t stop talking about is aimed mainly at around 400 taxpayers « Hot Air

Just a reminder: “Buffett Rule” that Obama won’t stop talking about is aimed mainly at around 400 taxpayers « Hot Air: "United States and set for a vote in the U.S. Senate that’s targeting something like 130-135 households across the entire country. Which, incidentally, explains why the Buffett Rule would set a federal rate of 30 percent for millionaires, not the 15 percent needed to make sure they’re on par with John Q. Public, which is supposedly Obama’s big concern. If they set the minimum rate at 15 percent instead of 30, the already razor-thin amount of extra revenue they’re going to get out of this would all but vanish."

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Will the Left's Love of Foreign Law Extend to Voter ID?

Will the Left's Love of Foreign Law Extend to Voter ID?: "As Texas’s voter ID case works its way through the courts, maybe Justice Ginsburg, who recently lauded the Constitution of South Africa over that of America, will follow South African law, which also requires an I.D. to vote. "

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Obama’s war on women: True but false! « Hot Air

Obama’s war on women: True but false! « Hot Air: "Bias and sloppy analysis aside, my biggest complaint with establishment media “fact-checking” is the condescension and arrogance involved in pretending political debates are much simpler questions of fact. The Orwellian — or Pythonesque — “True But False” rating is just the poster child for the problems inherent in the effort."

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Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models | Watts Up With That?

Hansen and Schmidt of NASA GISS under fire for climate stance: Engineers, scientists, astronauts ask NASA administration to look at empirical evidence rather than climate models | Watts Up With That?: "We, the undersigned, respectfully request that NASA and the Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) refrain from including unproven remarks in public releases and websites. We believe the claims by NASA and GISS, that man-made carbon dioxide is having a catastrophic impact on global climate change are not substantiated, especially when considering thousands of years of empirical data. With hundreds of well-known climate scientists and tens of thousands of other scientists publicly declaring their disbelief in the catastrophic forecasts, coming particularly from the GISS leadership, it is clear that the science is NOT settled.

The unbridled advocacy of CO2 being the major cause of climate change is unbecoming of NASA’s history of making an objective assessment of all available scientific data prior to making decisions or public statements."

49 former NASA scientists and astronauts sent a letter to NASA Administrator Charles Bolden last week admonishing the agency for it’s role in advocating a high degree of certainty that man-made CO2 is a major cause of climate change while neglecting empirical evidence that calls the theory into question.

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George W. Bush: “I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts” « Hot Air

George W. Bush: “I wish they weren’t called the Bush tax cuts” « Hot Air: "“Allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire” sounds innocuous. It’d be a different story if Democrats said what they really want to do: “We want to raise taxes by $166 billion.” That’s what allowing the Bush tax cuts to expire amounts to — a massive tax increase on income-taxpaying Americans. (Remember, nearly half of Americans pay NO income taxes! This hike doesn’t affect them, so they have no reason to oppose the expiration of the tax cuts — and every reason to vote for politicians who promise them handouts.)

What is, perhaps, worse about this proposed massive tax increase is that it would hit Americans at the same time that other tax cuts are expiring and various Obamacare tax hikes are taking effect. Consequently, Americans could face up to a $494 billion tax increase in 2013 — what some are calling Taxmageddon. We might not be in the midst of a recession, but job growth is still anemic and such a massive tax hike is the last thing we need if we want job creation to soar."

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Attrbibution of the Warm Winter To Global Warming – An Example Of The Mistatement Of Reality By Some Climate Scientists | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.

Attrbibution of the Warm Winter To Global Warming – An Example Of The Mistatement Of Reality By Some Climate Scientists | Climate Science: Roger Pielke Sr.: "This figure shows that much of the planet, in terms of areal extent, was cooler than average. "

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Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds - The Washington Post

Health-care law will add $340 billion to deficit, new study finds - The Washington Post: "“This isn’t just a persnickety point about the intricacies of budget law,” Blahous said. “If Medicare were going insolvent in 2016, you’d better believe right now there would be more pressure on lawmakers to do something about it. . . . It’s essential that there be a full public understanding of the most economically significant federal law in years.”"

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Michelle Malkin » Obama administration: Buffett Rule never intended as a way to reduce the deficit

Michelle Malkin » Obama administration: Buffett Rule never intended as a way to reduce the deficit: "According to the Obama administration’s official position this week, the Buffett Rule isn’t about chipping away at the deficit, but rather putting fairness in the tax code:"

Here's Obama from the January SOTU:

We don’t begrudge financial success in this country.  We admire it.  When Americans talk about folks like me paying my fair share of taxes, it’s not because they envy the rich.  It’s because they understand that when I get a tax break I don’t need and the country can’t afford, it either adds to the deficit, or somebody else has to make up the difference — like a senior on a fixed income, or a student trying to get through school, or a family trying to make ends meet.  That’s not right.  Americans know that’s not right.  They know that this generation’s success is only possible because past generations felt a responsibility to each other, and to the future of their country, and they know our way of life will only endure if we feel that same sense of shared responsibility.  That’s how we’ll reduce our deficit.  That’s an America built to last. 

Does this fall into the category of "say anything to get elected"?

The Truth about 'Stand Your Ground' Laws

The Truth about 'Stand Your Ground' Laws: "The police are usually not at hand when you are attacked by a criminal. The Second Amendment guarantees the right of law-abiding citizens to defend themselves. And laws like Castle Doctrine and Stand Your Ground reinforce that right, especially in states where it had been eroded, not to take innocent life, but instead to preserve it."

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Obama's Attack on the Supreme Court: I Have Been in This Movie Before

Obama's Attack on the Supreme Court: I Have Been in This Movie Before: " I had liked fellow Chicagoan Barack Obama until I read The Audacity of Hope, and realized that beneath the superficial guise of a new, ecumenical politics, then-Senator Obama was committed to a radical agenda at odds with constitutional norms and economic common sense.
As president, Obama has behaved in ways reminiscent of Mbeki. There is the same contempt for constitutional checks-and-balances; the same resort to false allegations of racism; the same attacks on private citizens and the media. And like Mbeki, Obama is protected by a largely supine, sympathetic media."

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