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CBS ‘60 Minutes’ Steve Kroft to Obama: “Are you punch-drunk?”
President Barack Obama said he believes the global financial system remains at risk of implosion with the failure of Citigroup or AIG, touching off “an even more destructive recession and potentially depression.”
His remarks came in a “60 Minutes” interview in which he was pressed by an incredulous Steve Kroft for laughing and chuckling several times […]
The Weekly Standard: “Obama in Trouble”
At his bizarre town hall last night, President Barack Obama joked that “Washington is in a tizzy” over AIG and the $165 million in bonuses to be paid to its executives. The New York Times yesterday quoted White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel complaining that the whole affair was a “distraction.” At Tuesday’s press […]
Only in America is failure rewarded: AIG executives to receive $165 million bonuses for losing trillion of dollars
It’s an outrage that American International Group executives expect to receive huge bonuses — of more than $165 million — for such ruinous deals that taxpayers have had to prop the company up with $170 billion in bailouts.
If AIG succeeds in taking taxpayers for fools, the White House can kiss future bailouts goodbye.
President Barack Obama […]
America Family Under Attack: Homeschoolers Ordered into Public Classrooms ( It begins… )
A North Carolina judge has ordered three children to attend public schools this fall because the homeschooling their mother has provided over the last four years needs to be “challenged.”
The children, however, have tested above their grade levels – by as much as two years.
The decision is raising eyebrows among homeschooling families, and one friend […]
Liberal Media Death Watch - FoxNews Beats all the Liberal Cable News Combined
CABLE NEWS RACE
TUES., MARCH 10, 2009
FOXNEWS O’REILLY 3,212,000
FOXNEWS HANNITY 2,376,000
FOXNEWS BECK 2,331,000
FOXNEWS BAIER 2,274,000
FOXNEWS SHEP 2,044,000
FOXNEWS GRETA 1,965,000
CNN COOPER 1,214,000
CNN KING 1,185,000
MSNBC MADDOW 1,041,000
CNNHN GRACE 986,000
MSNBC OLBERMANN 928,000
Source:DrudgeReport
Brave New World:U.N. to make ban on criticizing Islam mandatory? Would criminalize such comments in U.S.
“The United Nations has adopted what it calls a Resolution to Combat Defamation of Religion,” Dobbs said in the report. “The U.N. now wants to make that anti-blasphemy resolution binding on member nations, including, of course, our own. That would make it a crime in the United States … to criticize religion, in particular, Islam.”
Constitutional […]
Change is here:Obama to Sign Pork-Laden Omnibus Spending Bill
Obama administration officials Sunday announced that despite expressed “concerns” with the billions in earmarks contained in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill — and campaign pledges to “slash earmarks by more than half” — the President would sign the bill.
Taxpayers for Common Sense says the bill contains 8,570 earmarks at a cost of $7.7 billion. […]
Americas are tuning out of CNN, MSNBC and turning to Fox News in droves
[Via IntellectualRedneck] America is tuning out the liberal Main Stream Media and turning to Fox News in droves. Fox News is leading prime time and daytime cable news ratings during February for the 86th straight month. Many Fox News shows were up over 30% compared to last February.
February Ratings: FNC Beats CNN and MSNBC Combined […]
Bush’s Surge, Obama Flush:US troops to leave Iraq by August 2010
resident Barack Obama plans to announce that most U.S. forces will be out of Iraq in less than 19 months, the Associated Press said today, citing adminstration officials not authorized to speak publicly.Obama’s plan would leave an interim force of 30,000 to 50,000 soldiers to advise and train Iraqi security forces, from 142,000 now, the […]
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 […]
Do Americans still have freedom of speech? - Oklahoma City police officer pulls man over for anti-Obama sign on vehicle
[Via Oklahoma News] An Oklahoma City police officer wrongly pulled over a man last week and confiscated an anti-President Barack Obama sign the man had on his vehicle.
The officer misinterpreted the sign as threatening, said Capt. Steve McCool, of the Oklahoma City Police Department, and took the sign, which read “Abort Obama, not the unborn.”
Chip […]
Where is Obama’s hope and change? Fed Offers Bleak Economic Outlook
[Via NYTimes] The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben S. Bernanke, vowed on Wednesday to do whatever it took to pull the economy out of its downward spiral, even as he acknowledged that the most recent indicators were “dismal.”
Speaking at the National Press Club, the first time that a Fed chairman has taken questions from […]
Man Kills Himself In Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral
A man shot and killed himself in front of a cross inside televangelist Robert H. Schuller’s Crystal Cathedral on Wednesday, police and church officials said. The man handed a note and his driver’s license to two ushers, walked to the cross and then shot himself in the head as he appeared to be praying, Senior […]
Right Direction or Wrong Track - 26% Say U.S. is Moving in the Right Direction
Twenty-six percent (26%) of American voters say the nation is moving in the right direction, while 66% say it is heading down the wrong track, according to the latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey.
The number of voters who think America is moving in the right direction is down slightly from last week’s high of 29%, […]
Italian Bus Boasting Anti-God Ad Breaks Down on First Trip
[Via Fox News] The first Italian bus to boast an atheist advertisement rolled out Monday and certainly did not have God on its side.
No sooner had the bus — carrying the message, “The Good News Is There Are Millions of Atheists In Italy; The Excellent News Is They Believe In Freedom Of Expression” –- hit […]
27-year-old Illinois Congressman turns down Obama’s plea
[Via-CNN] It’s not often that a freshman member of Congress gets a ride on Air Force One and a personal shout-out from the President himself in front of the hometown crowd. Illinois Republican Rep. Aaron Schock got both last week but still voted against President Obama’s $787 billion stimulus bill.After joining Obama on the presidential […]
New York: Founder and CEO of Muslim TV channel beheads wife
Orchard Park police are investigating a particularly gruesome killing, the beheading of a woman, after her husband — an influential member of the local Muslim community — reported her death to police Thursday.
Police identified the victim as Aasiya Z. Hassan, 37. Detectives have charged her husband, Muzzammil Hassan, 44, with second-degree murder.
“He […]
Chicago Sun Times: “Obama offers no housing fix, little hope”
The nearly $800 billion stimulus bill will be signed, sealed and delivered in a day or so. Even those of us with doubts about its priorities, its big spending and its non-stimulus agenda of liberal goals hope it will deliver a much-needed jolt to our staggering economy. We’re all in this leaky boat together.
Still, doubts […]
Obama is headed for a one-term presidency
Less than a month ago, Barack Obama was sworn-in as chief executive amid historic promises of “change we can believe in.” But there won’t be a second Obama term if he doesn’t admit that, no matter how adroitly he wraps himself in Reaganesque rhetoric, Leviathan is no better suited for 2009 than it was in […]
Missing: 67 computers from Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab
The Department of Energy confirms a public-watchdog’s investigation that 67 computers are missing from the Los Alamos Nuclear National Laboratory, the AP reports. Of those, 13 have been lost or stolen in the past year.
The New Mexico lab, which is run by the Energy Department, says no classified information has been released. Computers with classified […]