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Latest Articles: Obama Wars
He can't resist: Obama bashes Founders on the 4th of July
Post Date: 2010-07-06 11:56:24 by Badeye
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He can't resist: Obama bashes Founders on the 4th of July Jeannie DeAngelis It appears the President of the United States can't contain his disdain for America's historical roots. On Independence Day, instead of stressing the awesome concepts of the Declaration of Independence, Obama managed to turn a BBQ into an opportunity to disparage our founders, foster class warfare and further division. On July 4th the Commander-in-Chief invited the military to a White House cookout and then used the occasion to skewer the Founding Fathers. Rather than depicting America as "one nation, under God, with liberty and justice for all," once again Barack-the-great-divider separated ...
Bad news for Obama: Conservative Justice Kennedy tells pals he's in no rush to leave Supreme Court
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:57:15 by Badeye
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Bad news for Obama: Conservative Justice Kennedy tells pals he's in no rush to leave Supreme Court BY Thomas M. Defrank DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF Originally Published:Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 4:00 AM Updated: Tuesday, July 6th 2010, 9:40 AM WASHINGTON - President Obama may get liberal Elena Kagan on the Supreme Court, but conservative swing-voter Anthony Kennedy says he's not going anywhere anytime soon. Justice Kennedy, who turns 74 this month, has told relatives and friends he plans to stay on the high court for at least three more years - through the end of Obama's first term, sources said. That means Kennedy will be around to provide a fifth vote for the ...
Cost of Stimulus Cash Vexes Universities
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:46:27 by Badeye
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Cost of Stimulus Cash Vexes Universities Published July 06, 2010 | The Wall Street Journal Print Email Share Comments (34) Text Size The $18.2 billion marked out in last year's federal stimulus package for research and development was hailed as a boon for universities, but many that received funds are finding their share of the costs burdensome. The conundrum is apparent at the university of California. Since early 2009, the UC, which has the biggest research budget of any university system, has won $690 million in stimulus grants for research through the National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy and other agencies. The money has funded more than 1,600 projects in areas ...
Calling O's deficit bluff
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:44:40 by Badeye
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Calling O's deficit bluff First steps for cutting spending By ERIC CANTOR Last Updated: 1:16 AM, July 6, 2010 Posted: 12:58 AM, July 6, 2010 Catching flak from our European allies at last month's G-20 Summit over our failure to rein in spending, President Obama once again pointed his now-familiar finger elsewhere. "Next year, when I start presenting some very difficult choices to the country," he asserted, "I hope some of these folks who are hollering about deficits and debt step up -- because I'm calling their bluff." Coming from a president who two years ago captured the minds and imaginations of millions by promising to unite the country, this ...
Obama Decried, Then Used, Some Bush Drilling Policies (Day 77)
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:40:59 by Badeye
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Obama Decried, Then Used, Some Bush Drilling Policies By NEIL KING JR. And KEITH JOHNSON Less than four months after President Barack Obama took office, his new administration received a forceful warning about the dangers of offshore oil drilling. The alarm was rung by a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., which found that the government was unprepared for a major spill at sea, relying on an "irrational" environmental analysis of the risks of offshore drilling. The April 2009 ruling stunned both the administration and the oil industry, and threatened to delay or cancel dozens of offshore projects in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico. Despite its pro-environment pledges, ...
An ugly countdown: Here come the taxes
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:37:16 by Badeye
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An ugly countdown: Here come the taxes Tuesday, July 6, 2010 Welcome to the second half of the year. And welcome to the ugly countdown to across-the-board tax increases that your friends in the Obama administration long insisted would only affect "the rich." Come Jan. 1, income tax rates for everyone will rise, reminds Americans for Tax Reform. The 10 percent bracket becomes the 15 percent bracket. The 25s become the 28s; the 28s become the 31s; the 33s become the 36es; and those who now pay taxes at the 35 percent rate will, next New Year's Day, have to pay them at a rate of 39.6 percent. If you're married, you'll pay higher taxes. Have kids? Higher taxes. ...
The new frontier: 'Covering' conservatives
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:35:34 by Badeye
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The new frontier: 'Covering' conservatives Updated 17h 56m ago By Jonah Goldberg There has been a lot of news in the last week or so: the resignation of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the death of Sen. Robert Byrd, the oil spill off the Gulf Coast, the Elena Kagan confirmation hearings, the cratering economy and stock market, even the World Cup. But for a few days at the end of June, Beltway pundits were consumed with the ballad of David Weigel, a blogger for The Washington Post, briefly assigned to cover the "conservative beat." And just what is the conservative beat? Well, according to many of the nation's leading editors, it's that shadowy, often-sinister world ...
Why aren’t businesses hiring?
Post Date: 2010-07-06 09:33:43 by Badeye
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Why aren’t businesses hiring? By: Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst 07/05/10 3:20 PM EDT That’s a question a lot of people have been asking, including Hale “Bonddad” Stewart at liberal Democrat Nate Silver’s highly informative fivethirtyeight.com blog. Stewart’s answers are plausible: there’s lot of unusued capacity and productivity increases indicate that employers are getting more production out of current employees. Then a simple final paragraph, which could have come from a Wall Street Journal or Washington Examiner editorial: “Uncertainty: there has been a tremendous amount of change over the last 12 months. Businesses are still trying to ...
Weak jobs gains spark worry of a slow recovery
Post Date: 2010-07-05 09:47:49 by Badeye
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Weak jobs gains spark worry of a slow recovery By JOHN CHALLENGER Last Updated: 5:34 AM, July 4, 2010 Posted: 1:34 AM, July 4, 2010 Comments: 1 | More Print No one has officially announced it yet, but a growing number of signs point toward a recovery. Employers have significantly curtailed layoffs. The service and manufacturing sectors are seeing gains. And, corporate profitability and productivity have been strong. However, despite many positive indicators, there is an overwhelming sense that this recovery is extremely fragile, and worries persist about a double-dip recession. One bright spot came in the household survey, which found that unemployment fell from 9.7 percent to 9.5 ...
Gates Tightens Rules for Military and the Media
Post Date: 2010-07-03 17:01:46 by WhiteSands
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Nine days after a four-star general was relieved of command for comments made to Rolling Stone magazine, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued orders on Friday tightening the reins on officials dealing with the news media. The memorandum requires top-level Pentagon and military leaders to notify the office of the Defense Department’s assistant secretary for public affairs “prior to interviews or any other means of media and public engagement with possible national or international implications.” Just as the removal of Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal from command in Afghanistan was viewed as President Obama’s reassertion of civilian control of the military, so Mr. ...
3 suspects in Russian spy ring case ordered held
Post Date: 2010-07-02 18:07:25 by WhiteSands
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Alexandria, Virginia -- Two suspects charged with having served as deep-cover Russian agents living in the United States have told investigators they are Russian citizens and have been living under false identities, according to a court document released Friday. A letter from prosecutors opposing bail for the suspects said that the man known as Michael Zottoli is really a Russian named Mikhail Kutzik. The government also said the woman known as Patricia Mills is a Russian citizen named Natalia Pereverzeva. Prosecutors said that Zottoli and Mills waived their rights to remain silent and made the admissions soon after being arrested at their Arlington, Virginia residence over the weekend. ...
Jobs creation too slow to help the recovery
Post Date: 2010-07-02 15:40:34 by Badeye
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Jobs creation too slow to help the recovery U.S. payrolls declined by 125,000 in June; jobless rate fell to 9.5 percentVideo President Barack Obama said Friday that employment growth was headed in the right direction. Perhaps, but it's doing so at a glacial pace that threatens to stall the recovery. On the surface, the employment report released Friday by the Labor Department was a mixed bag: Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the most since October; businesses added a net total of 83,000 workers, the sixth straight month of private-sector job gains; and unemployment dropped to 9.5 percent — the lowest level since July 2009 — from 9.7 percent. Scratch deeper and ...
Michael Steele: Afghanistan is "War of Obama's Choosing"
Post Date: 2010-07-02 14:55:55 by Brian S
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Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele suggested at a Connecticut fundraiser that Afghanistan is "a war of Obama's choosing" despite the fact that it began years before the president took office. Steele also said of U.S. military involvement in Afghanistan: "This is not something the United States had actively prosecuted or wanted to engage in." The United States and its allies invaded Afghanistan in October 2001, less than a month after the Sept. 11 attacks. Steele's comments were caught on amateur video and posted to YouTube. (See it below.) In the video, he can be heard suggesting that President Obama failed to understand that waging war in ...
Unemployment rate dips as more workers leave labor force (625K stop looking for work)
Post Date: 2010-07-02 13:17:24 by Badeye
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Unemployment rate dips as more workers leave labor force Employment-seekers decline by 652,000 June, which may reflect people giving up on job-hunting and a reluctance to hire. Overall, the jobless rate falls to 9.5% from 9.7%, the Labor Department reports. By Don Lee Los Angeles Times Staff Writer July 2, 2010 | 6:49 a.m. Washington — Private employers added a smaller-than-expected 83,000 jobs in June, but the unemployment rate edged down to 9.5% as many workers dropped out of a labor market that remains very sluggish. The Labor Department reported Friday that total payroll employment, including government workers, was down 125,000 in June, reflecting the loss of 225,000 census ...
Independent Voters Favor GOP in 2010 ElectionTracking Prefer Republican candidate to Democrat by an average of 45% to 35%
Post Date: 2010-07-02 12:23:13 by Badeye
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Independent Voters Favor GOP in 2010 Election TrackingPrefer Republican candidate to Democrat by an average of 45% to 35% by Jeffrey M. Jones PRINCETON, NJ -- By an average 10 percentage-point margin since March, 45% to 35%, independent registered voters have consistently preferred the Republican to the Democrat when asked which congressional candidate they would vote for in their district. Independents' preference for Republicans has been generally consistent over this time, with the gap in favor of Republicans increasing slightly since March, from 8 to 12 points. Currently about one in five independent registered voters are undecided or prefer a candidate from outside the two ...
Obama Let the Immediate Drive out the Important in the McChrystal Affair
Post Date: 2010-07-02 11:08:48 by Badeye
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Obama Let the Immediate Drive out the Important in the McChrystal Affair By Ed Timperlake When President Obama replaced General McChrystal with the "brilliant" choice of David Petraeus, he created a critical job vacancy, technically demoting the Commanding General of Central Command (CENTCOM). Now with the increasing probably of war in the Middle East between Israel and Iran a very important Combat Command will have to wait for the Senate Confirmation of a yet to be selected replacement as Commanding General. So before they start building Styrofoam Greek Columns to enshrine President Obama's Lincoln/ McClellan or Truman/MacArthur moment, all Americans must recognize a ...
Payrolls drop by 125K, jobless rate falls
Post Date: 2010-07-02 09:22:25 by Badeye
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Payrolls drop by 125K, jobless rate falls Published July 02, 2010 | Associated Press Print Email Share Comments Recommend WASHINGTON -- A wave of federal census layoffs cut U.S. payrolls in June for the first time in six months, while private employers added a modest number of jobs. The unemployment rate fell to 9.5 percent, its lowest level in almost a year. Employers cut 125,000 jobs last month, the most since last October, the Labor Department said Friday. The loss was driven by the end of 225,000 temporary jobs for the 2010 U.S. Census. Businesses added a net total of 83,000 workers, an improvement from May. But that's also below March and April totals. The country has 7.9 ...
Top Justice Dept. Official Lied Under Oath About Dismissal of New Black Panther Case, Ex-DOJ Lawyer Says
Post Date: 2010-07-01 15:51:55 by Badeye
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Top Justice Dept. Official Lied Under Oath About Dismissal of New Black Panther Case, Ex-DOJ Lawyer Says Published July 01, 2010 A former Justice Department attorney who resigned last month in protest of the Obama administration's handling of a voter intimidation case involving the New Black Panther Party accused a top Justice official of lying under oath about the circumstances surrounding the decision to drop the case. J. Christian Adams, now an attorney in Virginia and a blogger for Pajamas Media, told Fox News in an exclusive interview that aired Wednesday that Assistant Attorney General Thomas Perez provided false testimony in May to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, ...
Obama: Being An American Not A Matter Of "Blood Or Birth"
Post Date: 2010-07-01 15:08:16 by Badeye
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Obama: Being An American Not A Matter Of "Blood Or Birth" "Being an American is not a matter of blood or birth, it's a matter of faith," President Obama declared at a speech he gave on immigration. Obama also blamed "resentment" to new immigrants on poor economic conditions. "Now, we can't forget that this process of immigration and eventual inclusion has often been painful. Each new wave of immigrants has generated fear and resentments towards newcomers, particularly in times of economic upheaval," Obama said.
Offshore drillers want their jobs back
Post Date: 2010-07-01 15:01:15 by Badeye
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Offshore drillers want their jobs back Michael Broom, a roughneck from Columbia, Miss., connects pieces of drill pipe on a Hercules Offshore rig, a few miles from Port. Fourchon, La. By Steve Hargreaves, Senior writerJuly 1, 2010: 12:55 PM ET NEW ORLEANS (CNNMoney.com) -- On a wind-beaten drilling rig a few miles off Louisiana's coast, things are getting dicey. "We have real rough conditions this morning," rig boss Greg Bramlett -- aka Mountain Man -- tells his crew during a shift change. "Seas are running eight to 10 foot swells." 28diggEmail Print CommentWith Hurricane Alex churning up the Gulf of Mexico, Bramlett is talking about the weather. He might as well ...
Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling
Post Date: 2010-07-01 14:55:04 by Badeye
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Obama Underwrites Offshore Drilling Too bad it's not in U.S. waters You read that headline correctly. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration is financing oil exploration off Brazil. The U.S. is going to lend billions of dollars to Brazil's state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil's Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro. Brazil's planning minister confirmed that White House National Security Adviser James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about the loan. The U.S. Export-Import Bank tells us it has issued a "preliminary commitment" letter to Petrobras in the amount of ...
Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four
Post Date: 2010-07-01 14:19:26 by Badeye
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Obama Mocked Commissions, Then Established Four Posted by Brian Montopoli President Obama's National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform is meeting today as part of its efforts to craft recommendations by December on how best to address America's red-ink problem. Mr. Obama established the commission in February, saying debt and deficits can "hobble our economy" and "saddle every child in America with an intolerable burden." Yet the president's decision to establish a commission to address a problem he described as potentially catastrophic seems odd in light of his earlier criticism of commissions in general. As Ari Shapiro noted on National ...
Boehner slams Obama for 'failing to lead'
Post Date: 2010-07-01 14:10:56 by Badeye
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Boehner slams Obama for 'failing to lead' By Michael O'Brien and Molly K. Hooper - 07/01/10 12:20 PM ET House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday slammed President Barack Obama for "failing to lead" on the economy and other issues facing the United States. The top House Republican excoriated the president a day after he, during a town hall meeting in Wisconsin, criticized Boehner and other top Republicans for their approach toward Wall Street reform and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. "For someone who asked to be held to a higher standard, President Obama spends an awful lot of time making excuses and whining about others," Boehner said at ...
Where ‘nice’ Obama has got us
Post Date: 2010-07-01 12:17:27 by Badeye
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Where ‘nice’ Obama has got us Why would Ahmadinejad take him seriously when even Karzai flips him the finger? by Mark Steyn on Thursday, July 1, 2010 8:00am - 4 Comments ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images In 1939, Capt. Peter Sanders, serving with the Tochi scouts on the Afghan-Indian border, was blown up by a Waziri booby trap and lost his right arm. Shortly afterwards, he accepted an invitation to lunch from the tribesman who’d planted the bomb. Awfully decent of the chap, and not a bad spread, all things considered. Not everyone cares for the old stiff upper lip: “I spit on your British phlegm!” as the Khazi of Kalabar remarked in what remains the seminal work on ...
List of Biden's Political Blunders
Post Date: 2010-07-01 12:15:22 by Badeye
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List of Biden's Political Blunders Published June 27, 2010 -- On June 25, 2010, Vice President Biden was visiting a custard shop outside Milwaukee when the shop manager told him his dessert would be on the house if he lowered taxes. "Don't worry, it's on us," the manager said. "Lower our taxes and we'll call it even." Biden replied: "Why don't you say something nice instead of being a smartass all the time?" -- On May 6, 2010, Vice President Biden said in an address to the European Parliament in Belgium that Brussels could be the "capital of the free world." The comment came at the top of a speech used to discuss the threats ...
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