Archive for May, 2009
California - The ungovernable state (Disaster waiting to happen)
ON MAY 19th Californians will go to the polls to vote on six ballot measures that are as important as they are confusing. If these measures fail, America’s biggest state will enter a full-blown financial crisis that will require excruciating cuts in public services. If the measures succeed, the crisis will be only a little […]
Anti-War Voices Lose Influence
Will the last activist who hopes the antiwar cause will re-emerge as a central tenet of the Democratic Party please turn out the lights on the way out the door?
Little evidence exists that any antiwar movement is alive, well and influencing policy in this country.
Certainly no voice for it is coming from Barack Obama’s White […]
Video of innocent WA man being beaten to death while watering lawn- no hate crime (Where is CNN, MSNBC, NYTimes?)
Video of the incident was shown in court on Friday. Paroline is seen watering a traffic circle garden as two women argue with him over orange cones he set up in the street at South 61st Street and Cooper.Prosecutors said one of the women then contacted Brown, who was in a nearby house.
The video then […]
Palin hits Notre Dame for recognizing Obama
Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, a strong pro-life advocate, weighed in on the issue with me by e-mail: “My favorite grandpa, Clem James Sheeran, was Catholic. Irish to the core, his favorite place (other than church) was Notre Dame. I can’t imagine what he would think as the university recognizes someone who contradicts the core […]
MILLIONS IN STIMULUS CHECKS: FOR DEAD PEOPLE?
This week, thousands of people are getting stimulus checks in the mail. The problem is that a lot of them are dead. A Long Island woman was shocked when she checked the mail and received a letter from the U.S. Treasury — but it wasn’t for her. WATCH DICK BRENNAN’S […]
U.S. Attorney’s office tells employees not to log on to Drudge Report
The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts directed employees earlier this month not to log onto the Drudge Report website with government-issued computers due to potential viruses on the site.
In an e-mail message sent May 4, Paul Harvey, an information-technology official for the Boston office, wrote that security specialists with the U.S. Attorney’s Office at the […]
Panetta to CIA employees: We told Pelosi the truth (Who is telling the truth?)
CIA Director Leon Panetta just sent a stern message to his employees defending the agency against Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s criticisms.
His message: We didn’t mislead Congress; stay focused on your job.
Panetta’s note was sent to reporters via the CIA press office. Here’s the key graph:
“Let me be clear: It is not our policy or practice to […]
“The Worst Is Yet to Come”: If You’re Not Petrified, You’re Not Paying Attention (Video)
The green shoots story took a bit of hit this week between data on April retail sales, weekly jobless claims and foreclosures. But the whole concept of the economy finding its footing was “preposterous” to begin with, says Howard Davidowitz, chairman of Davidowitz & Associates.”We’re in a complete mess and the consumer is smart enough […]
The Obama Card (Video)
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Tax Hikes: Coming Soon to a Theater Near You
Nancy Pelosi is watching California’s Prop 1A intently. In only a hundred days and change, President Barack Obama has committed $6.5 trillion to waste, fraud, and abuse. That’s $6,500,000,000,000.00, which is more than all the costs of World War I and World War II combined.
And you think it can’t get worse? Believe me, it can.
Things […]
Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’ (So we need to SPEND more on Health Care)
On Bloomberg (can’t link due to copyright)
Obama said US Long Term Debt Unsustainable. He doesn’t blame spending BUT health care. So we need to spend more to save money.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aJsSb4qtILhg&refer=worldwide
Muslim Demographics: The Islamic Tidal Wave (Must See Video)
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Obama warns Netanyahu: Don’t surprise me with Iran strike
U.S. President Barack Obama has sent a message to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanding that Israel not surprise the U.S. with an Israeli military operation against Iran. The message was conveyed by a senior American official who met in Israel with Netanyahu, ministers and other senior officials. Earlier, Netanyahu’s envoy visited Washington and met with […]
Out-of-Wedlock Birthrates Are Soaring, U.S. Reports
Unmarried mothers gave birth to 4 out of every 10 babies born in the United States in 2007, a share that is increasing rapidly both here and abroad, according to government figures released Wednesday.
Before 1970, most unmarried mothers were teenagers. But in recent years the birthrate among unmarried women in their 20s and 30s has […]
70% of black babies are born out of wedlock
Eugene Cane (an African American writer for the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel) tackles the tough social question regarding single parenting in the African-American community. An issue, which he believes has an impact on everything from crime to education to poverty.
“Why are there so many out-of-wedlock births in the African-American community?” He asks, and presents statistics indicating […]
Wall Street Journal: ‘The Obama administration’s behavior in the Chrysler bankruptcy is a profound challenge to the rule of law’…
The rule of law, not of men — an ideal tracing back to the ancient Greeks and well-known to our Founding Fathers — is the animating principle of the American experiment. While the rest of the world in 1787 was governed by the whims of kings and dukes, the U.S. Constitution was established to circumscribe […]
Karzai: Terrorists ‘extending reach’ into Afghanistan, Pakistan
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Obama energy options may be long wait …Technology costly, scarce
President Obama’s plan to move quickly to replace fossil fuels with renewable energy sources relies on technology that analysts agree is neither affordable nor available on a commercial scale and won’t be for many years to come.
Expensive, small-scale pilot projects are under way that convert vegetation into fuel for cars and capture carbon dioxide […]
Retail sales drop unexpectedly in April
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Are Saudis running U.S. policy?
Parts of the United States’ policy in the Middle East under the Obama administration may, in fact, be influenced by Saudi Arabia, which is worried over increasing overtures by the U.S. for a dialogue with Iran and may be leveraging the Pakistan situation to its advantage, according to a report from Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin.
The […]