Archive for February, 2009
Anti-Stimulus Protests Sprout Up
[Via Investor’s Business Daily] Holding signs reading “Stimulate Business, Not Government,” “Families Against Porkulus” and “Say No To Generational Theft,” protesters opposed to the $787 billion stimulus package have been mobilizing across the country.
It started last Monday in Seattle, then moved Tuesday to Denver, where President Obama signed the stimulus bill into law. That was […]
US Officials: Hamas Slipped Note to Obama Via Senator (Jean Francois Kerry)
[Via CNN] Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas passed Sen. John Kerry a letter for President Obama while Kerry visited Gaza on Thursday, senior State Department officials said. Sen. John Kerry tours Gaza’s ruins with U.N. officials Thursday, the day he reportedly got a letter from Hamas. The letter for the president is in the hands of […]
ACORN Breaks into Home
[Via ABC2News] Some community activists could face criminal charges after breaking into a home in Southeast Baltimore.
Police were at the home Thursday night looking for fingerprints and other evidence.
The activists who staged the break-in belong to the Association of Community Organizations For Reform Now or ACORN.
After snapping a lock with bolt cutters, ACORN member […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Tx): Stop 60% of Porkulus Bill, Elect GOP in 2010 (Video)
Our favorite congressman of the day, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R.-Tx) was on Hannity’s show last night. This is a winner as far as I am concerned. The bailouts of the Auto, Banking, and Insurance industries have been a waste of money. Those industries are still flat on their backs. That is because a government handout […]
Alan Keyes on Barack Obama: “He’s a radical communist…He’s going to destroy this country”
Former presidential candidate visits Hastings
[Editor’s note: the reporter got the facts wrong: Obviously, Alan Keyes is no longer a Republican. He’s a part of America’s Independent Party.]
(2/19/2009) By Curt Casper - He is a Republican who has ran for President 3 times - the latest just this past year. Thursday night Alan Keyes was a […]
Senator’s bank comment “nationalization of banks” sinks Wall Street
Stocks extended losses on Friday, with the S&P down more than 2.5 percent after U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd said the nationalization of banks is a possibility, according to a Bloomberg report.
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Watch for the Palin-Santelli 2012 Signs
[Via National Review] I’ve had a case of deja vu today.
I’m noticing the tone. I’m seeing the enthusiasm. And I’m digging out from the sheer volume of e-mails I’ve been getting today about that CNBC dude. The reaction to Rick Santelli’s Chicago-trading-floor incident this morning echoes the emotional reaction my inbox had to Sarah Palin’s […]
Get ready for a wave of bank failures: Is Citibank next?
[Via CNN Money] In less than two months, regulators have seized 13 banks. Experts think many more banks will collapse before the financial crisis is over.
If it’s Friday, there must be a bank failing somewhere across the country.
For five consecutive weeks, industry regulators have seized control of a bank after the market closed on […]
Eric Holder is correct - We are a Nation of Cowards … Here is why
[Via American Thinker] Of course, Eric Holder is correct. When it comes to race we Americans are, for the most part, a nation of cowards. This cowardice was on full display during the most recent presidential election and continues today.
As they are in so many other areas of life, chief among our American cowards […]
If President Bush gets gold on spending deficit, Obama should get Platinum
[Via RealClearMarket] The projected 2009 deficit then stood at $482 billion. In January it was forecast by the Congressional Budget Office at $1.2 trillion. Pres. Obama’s new plan now ups that to $1.7 trillion. If W got the gold, the new Administration has landed the Platinum in just its qualifying heat.
If historic U.S. budget deficits […]
Gas guzzling SUV and Fuel-efficient hybrid may now pay the same Mile tax: Transportation secretary says taxing how much we drive may replace gasoline tax
[Excerpts via Newsday] Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood says he wants to consider taxing motorists based on how many miles they drive rather than how much gasoline they burn — an idea that has angered drivers in some states where it has been proposed.Gasoline taxes that for nearly half a century have paid for the federal […]
Good News: Netanyahu to form Israeli government
[Excerpt from Reuters] A decade after being ousted by Israelis entranced by his then rival’s pledges of peace accords and modest governance, Benjamin Netanyahu has won a new lease on power over a country now more given to disaffection and fears of war.
President Shimon Peres on Friday handed him a mandate to form Israel’s next […]
2-termer Bill Clinton has some advice for rookie Obama: Tone down the gloom and doom
Not that anyone recalls President Obama asking, but ex-President Bill Clinton has some advice for his fellow Democrat in the White House this morning:: Tone down the economic despondency talk some and ratchet up the optimism a bit. All gloom and doom could worsen the situation. Scare people. “I just want the American people to […]
CLINTON TO OBAMA: SHOW US THE HOPE! - Talk optimistically on economy
[AP via Google News] It used to be gospel in the nation’s power center: Presidents didn’t talk publicly about what the markets were doing. The notion was that anything a president said on this subject could be too easily misinterpreted, sending Wall Street into a dive. Now, former President Clinton says he thinks President Barack […]
Analysis: Democrats self-destructing over ethics
[Google News via AP] The Obama administration and the new Congress are quickly handing over to Republicans the same “culture of corruption” issue that Democrats used so effectively against the GOP before coming to power.Freshman Sen. Roland Burris, D-Ill., is only the latest embarrassment.
Senate Democrats accepted Burris because they believed what he told them: He […]
Chicago Politics:Black pastors to ask Burris (Obama’s replacement) to resign
[Via breitbart.com] A group of black ministers who supported U.S. Sen. Roland Burris as he fought to get his job now plan to ask for his resignation following revelations that he tried to raise money for the disgraced governor who appointed him, one of the ministers told The Associated Press on Thursday.Many of the city’s […]
What Americans are saying about $75 billion housing plan
What Readers are Saying:
The plan is a discrace! I pay my mortgage and bills on time. I live on a fixed income. I find it tough each month to make ends meet, but do. I did not go out and buy a home I could not afford. No one is helping ME! The Bleeding […]
From $75B to $275B: Obama’s $275 Billion Housing Plan to Help 9 Million Families
President Obama unveiled his much-anticipated plan Wednesday to fight the housing crisis, pledging up to $275 billion to help stem a wave of foreclosures sweeping the country.
All of us are paying a price for this home mortgage crisis. And all of us will pay an even steeper price if we allow this crisis to deepen—a […]
Housing Advocates (ACORN) Launch Civil Disobedience Movement
A housing advocacy group kicked off its “home-staying campaign” today to help homeowners facing foreclosure remain in their homes.
The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), the nation’s largest community organization of low and moderate-income families, has trained volunteers how to peacefully sit-in and prevent a homeowner from being evicted because of foreclosure.
These residents […]
It’s funny how a caucasion or even hispanic can be insulted or degraded….NY Post cartoon of dead chimpanzee stirs outrage
A New York Post cartoon that some have interpreted as comparing President Barack Obama to a violent chimpanzee gunned down by police drew outrage Wednesday from civil rights leaders and elected officials who said it echoed racist stereotypes of blacks as monkeys.The cartoon in Wednesday’s Post by Sean Delonas shows two police officers, one with […]