Archive for November, 2009
Government Waste:Improper government payments hit 98 billion dollars
Improper payments by the U.S. government to people, firms and contractors rose sharply to $98 billion in fiscal 2009 and President Barack Obama plans new rules to clamp down, the White House said Tuesday.
Over half the mistakes were made in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, and although some of the deterioration reflected stricter measurement, it […]
U.S. Home Building Unexpectedly Slumps in October
U.S. Home Building Unexpectedly Slumps in October
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ
New home construction slowed unexpectedly in October to the lowest level in six months, the Commerce Department said Wednesday, resurrecting fears that the housing market may be slow to recover.
A separate report showed consumer prices inched upward in October, but not enough to make inflation a […]
Liberal CNN Poll: 61% Oppose Tax-Funded Abortions, 63% Oppose All or Most Abortions
CNN Poll: 61% Oppose Tax-Funded Abortions, 63% Oppose All or Most Abortions
Washington, DC — As Congress remains embroiled in a massive debate over whether to force Americans to pay for abortions through the new government-run health care programs, a new CNN poll finds 61 percent oppose government funding abortions with public dollars.
It also found 63 […]
Liberal Groups Say Stimulus Didn’t Work (For the first time, I agree with Liberals on this)
Conservatives are not the only ones that think the president’s stimulus package was a colossal failure.
Believe it or not, the NAACP, the AFL-CIO and La Raza are complaining that the stimulus has not worked, telling the president that he must do more to fight unemployment. With unemployment among African-Americans above 20 percent in several states, […]
Palin bars press from college speech
The media will be barred from covering a speech by Sarah Palin at a Missouri university next month. The former Republican vice-presidential nominee and ex-governor of Alaska demanded the ban as part of her contract with the College of the Ozarks….
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk …
We Told Ya: Even Obama Warns of ‘Double-Dip Recession’ (You Aint Seen Nothing Yet…Wake Up People)
Speaking in the heart of America’s biggest lender, President Obama told Fox News in an interview Wednesday that the piling on of U.S. debt could drag the country into a “double-dip recession,” though he said he’s still considering additional tax incentives for businesses to reverse the rising unemployment rate.
The president, who is in China as […]
Fox Nation:Our Most Embarrassing President? (Obama Bow Video)
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Obama Bows, the Nation Cringes
A little traveling, like a little learning, can be a dangerous thing. Barack Obama on the loose in a foreign land is enough to frighten protocol officers and embarrass […]
Liberal Lunatics:AP Digs for Dirt in Palin Autobiography; News wire assigns 11 reporters to fact-check former governor’s book, but didn’t fact-check Obama’s
Sarah Palin is no normal politician, and at the Associated Press, apparently “Going Rogue” is no normal book.
When the former Republican vice presidential candidate and former Alaska governor wrote her autobiography, the AP found a copy before its release date and assigned 11 people to fact check all 432 pages.
The AP claims Palin misstated her […]
Exclusive: Jobs ‘Saved or Created’ in Congressional Districts That Don’t Exist (No Surprise here)
Here’s a stimulus success story: In Arizona’s 15th congressional district, 30 jobs have been saved or created with just $761,420 in federal stimulus spending. At least that’s what the Web site set up by the Obama administration to track the $787 billion stimulus says.
There’s one problem, though: There is no 15th congressional district […]
Caption:Michelle Obama
Hoffman ‘unconcedes’ in N.Y.-23 House race
Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman has “unconceded” in New York’s special House election after reports that the vote margin between him and Rep. Bill Owens (D) has narrowed.
Hoffman conceded the race on Election Night after learning he trailed Owens by 5,335 votes. But the Syracuse Post-Standard reported last week that the margin had shrunk to […]
Millions may have to repay part of Obama tax credit
For more than 15.4 million people, the Making Work Pay tax credit enacted as part of the $787-billion economic stimulus package could turn out to be a Making You Pay Back tax credit.
That’s the finding of a government watchdog report out today about the credit, which provides as much as $400 for individuals and as […]
Obama Admits That He’s Never Used Twitter (What about that for a hope and change America?)
President Barack Obama has one of the most popular Twitter accounts with over 2.6 million followers. It should be no real surprise that most of the time it’s not him tweeting from it, instead its various people within the White House communication team that use the account to send out information. And now that he […]
Child Abuse:CNN Features Boy Who Won’t Say Pledge Till Gays Have Equal Rights (This is what we get when we send our children to public schools)
CNN on Monday featured a fifth grade student who is refusing to say the Pledge of Allegiance in his classroom until gays and lesbians have equal rights.
Not surprisingly, he was treated with far greater respect by the cable news network than Tea Party and town hall meeting protesters were earlier in the year.
The boy and […]
The $6,500 for existing homeowners is NOT Retroactive (Taxpayers must close on the replacement home between Nov. 7, 2009 and April 30, 2010)
More American homebuyers will get tax relief thanks to changes made to the First-Time Homebuyer Credit. H&R Block (NYSE: HRB) advises the popular credit is now more accessible to existing homeowners and first-time homebuyers in three ways:
1. Through a tax credit worth up […]
Audit: Despite staff and spending cuts, post office lost $3.8 billion last year
The Postal Service reported a net loss of $3.8 billion for the 2009 fiscal year, about $1 billion more than the previous year.
The loss comes despite a reduction of 40,000 in career employees and billions in cost-cutting measures.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com …
Arrest at Walmart leads to charges of racism
ST. LOUIS (AP) - Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store and touched off what she calls a racially charged dispute with white customers and authorities, the young black schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years.
Witnesses have told authorities that Ellis cut […]
Roubini: Bad news for the unemployed: The Worst Is Yet To Come! (W Shaped Recession. Enough of Hope and Change)
Roubini is back!
After a summer of mixed messages, he’s now firmly back to stark warnings, most recently sounding the alarm about a massive bubble due to the dollar carry trade.
And today in the Daily News he has some bad news for the unemployed: the worst is yet to come.
Also, remember: The last recession ended in […]
Palin Says Presidency ‘Not On My Radar Screen’ [Says That Oprah Wasn’t Center of Universe]
Palin Says Presidency ‘Not On My Radar Screen’
TODAY staff and wire
CHICAGO - Sarah Palin tells TV talk show host Oprah Winfrey that she doesn’t have her sights set on the 2012 presidency.
“I’m concentrating on 2010 and making sure that we have issues to tackle,” Palin said in the interview taped last week and broadcast on […]
Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama’s bow made him look like an idiot
So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper’s source, at least one Japanese paper isn’t running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.The good news for O-bots? It wasn’t unprecedented. Nixon evidently made a modest bow to Hirohito in the early 70s. The bad […]