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Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Budget Cuts: The End of the Obama Czars
Post Date: 2011-04-13 03:10:46 by Murron
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Budget Cuts: The End of the Obama Czars Carol Browner, who recently left the administration, was one of President Obama's so-called policy "czars." The budget compromise defunds that position. (AP Photo) By Michael A. Memoli One of the final battles in Congress in the 2011 budget showdown was over a set of cuts close to conservatives' hearts: Planned Parenthood (read: abortion), environmental regulation and the health care reform law. Under the 11th hour compromise, funding for the Environmental Protection Agency was restored, and line items for Planned Parenthood and health reform will get their own separate votes. But beyond the sum total of cuts, conservatives ...
Obama Summons Congressional Leaders Ahead of Deficit Speech
Post Date: 2011-04-13 02:53:24 by Murron
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Obama Summons Congressional Leaders Ahead of Deficit Speech By Michael A. Memoli April 12, 2011 President Obama has called Congressional leaders to the White House Wednesday morning for a preview of his speech on deficit reduction that afternoon, the administration announced Tuesday. At his daily briefing with reporters, press secretary Jay Carney studiously avoided offering much in the way of specifics on Obama's message. "He will provide his vision tomorrow, and looks forward to working with leaders in Congress," he said. But among the prescriptions he is likely to offer to cut the deficit are raising taxes on wealthier Americans, asking them to pay more into Social ...
Lindsey Graham: The Little Metrosexual That Could
Post Date: 2011-04-12 19:03:02 by CZ82
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Lindsey Graham: The Little Metrosexual That Could By Stuart Schwartz The fussy, fastidious, and pampered senator from South Carolina just keeps chugging along supremely impressed with the face looking out from the mirror in his posh Senate office and his status as the Beltway insiders' favorite Republican. "I'm [...] at the front of the line" for Barack Obama on Capitol Hill, he brags to the New York Times, which describes his "delight" in letting "people know" how important he is. After all, he is Lindsey Graham and he is Washington, nestled among the Beltway's palace courtiers like a flea on a Carolina Dog. And, in the battle raging for the ...
Rectal Cranial Inversion Moment of the Day
Post Date: 2011-04-12 18:44:23 by CZ82
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Rectal Cranial Inversion Moment of the Day California Rep. Linda Sanchez By Neal Boortz Hey you – you voters out in California … Is there not anyone more capable of handling the duties of representing you in Washington other than this twit Linda Sánchez? Rep. Linda Sánchez says that she does not want a government shutdown because she personally cannot afford it. She claims to be living paycheck to paycheck. FYI .. Members of Congress receive an annual salary of $174,000, whereas the median household income for American is a little over $46,000 annually. Hey Linda – sounds like you need a new financial planner. If you can’t survive on $174,000 then you ...
Obamanomics: U.S. deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011 [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2011-04-12 17:59:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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US deficit up 15.7% in first half of fiscal 2011 (AFP) – 2 hours ago WASHINGTON — The US budget deficit shot up 15.7 percent in the first six months of fiscal 2011, the Treasury Department said Wednesday as political knives were being sharpened for a new budget battle. The Treasury reported a deficit of $829 billion for the October-March period, compared with $717 billion a year earlier, as revenue rose a sluggish 6.9 percent as the economic recovery slowly gained pace. The Treasury argued that the pace of increase in the deficit was deceptive because of large one-off reductions in expenditures made during the first half of fiscal 2010, compared with previous and subsequent ...
65 Ways That Everything That You Think That You Own Is Being Systematically Taken Away From You
Post Date: 2011-04-12 10:42:30 by Capitalist Eric
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Everything that you own is slowly being taken away from you. It is being done purposely and it is being done by design. Many Americans like to think of themselves as "well off", but as will be demonstrated below, we don't "own" nearly as much as we think that we do. The truth is that most of us have to frantically run around accumulating wealth as rapidly as we can so that we can somehow stay ahead of the rate that wealth is being taken away from us. The entire system is designed to take what you have away from you. There are many ways that this is accomplished - taxation, inflation, debt, interest, fines, fees, tickets, government seizures and good old-fashioned ...
Liar on the Left, Liar on the Right
Post Date: 2011-04-12 10:31:45 by Capitalist Eric
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As we opined previously, the weeks long debate about the possibility of a government shutdown was nothing more than a distraction. And, as is generally the case in scripted Hollywood entertainment, this one was a nail-biter, coming down to the last minute before Obama’s and Pelosi’s Blues finally struck a deal with Boehner’s Reds. The nation was saved. We anxiously await the next sequel in the saga, which is currently in final production and will reportedly involve President Obama unveiling his new spending (as opposed to savings) plan, the possibility of actually invading Libya with ground troops (the special effects will be re-mastered in HD with embed-style ...
A Tale of Two Bridges
Post Date: 2011-04-11 17:21:16 by CZ82
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A Tale of Two Bridges By F. Vincent Vernuccio on 4.11.11 @ 6:07AM What do you do if you lose 25 percent of your population in a decade, bringing your city to a 100-year low, and you have a perfectly good private bridge? Well, why not have the taxpayers build a new $5.3 billion bridge using public money! It may sound strange but that is exactly what a combination of unions, government officials, and businesses are trying to do in Michigan. The project is called the Detroit River Intentional Crossing (DRIC), currently being promoted as the New International Trade Crossing, and would connect Southeast Michigan to Canada. The problem is there is already a privately owned bridge -- therefore ...
Democrat Attorney General in Missouri to Oppose ObamaCare Law
Post Date: 2011-04-11 17:03:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri’s Democratic attorney general broke with his party on Monday and urged a federal judge to invalidate the central provision of the new health care law. The filing of the court brief by Attorney General Chris Koster, a onetime Republican state legislator who switched to the Democratic Party in 2007, underscores the act’s political tenuousness in a critical Midwestern swing state. Mr. Koster’s action followed months of pressure from state Republicans that he join attorneys general from other states who are challenging the constitutionality of the law. Rather than join the litigation, however, Mr. Koster chose to file a “friend of the ...
Government Motors Recalls Cruze After A Steering Wheel Falls Off
Post Date: 2011-04-11 16:55:42 by Happy Quanzaa
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Imagine turning your car’s steering wheel, or giving it a gentle tug, and having it break away from the steering column. Now you’re speeding along holding the suddenly useless wheel. It sounds like a vision from a cartoon, or every driver’s nightmare. And it happened to at least one driver of a 2011 Chevrolet Cruze compact car last month, and General Motors Corp. is recalling 2,100 of the cars as a result. While the recall affects a relatively small number of vehicles, it is an unpleasant development for Chevrolet, which has been riding high on the success of its new small car. Chevrolet sold 50,205 Cruzes through the end of March. That’s well short of the 76,821 units ...
Chicago public school forbids kids from bringing their lunch from home
Post Date: 2011-04-11 16:22:01 by CZ82
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Chicago public school forbids kids from bringing their lunch from home Rick Moran No doubt, children will bring all sorts of stuff from home for lunch that fails to meet Michelle Obama's standards for "healthy" eating. But what the hell business is it of school authorities to play mommy and prevent kids from bringing a meal from home? Chicago Tribune: Fernando Dominguez cut the figure of a young revolutionary leader during a recent lunch period at his elementary school. "Who thinks the lunch is not good enough?" the seventh-grader shouted to his lunch mates in Spanish and English. Dozens of hands flew in the air and fellow students shouted along: "We ...
Wisconsin Unions Recall
Post Date: 2011-04-10 14:09:53 by Happy Quanzaa
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FILE -This Feb. 26, 2011 file photo shows supporters of the effort to recall State Sen. Bob Wirch, D-Pleasant Prairie, one of the 14 senators that left the state in effort to stop the passage of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill, cheering during a rally at the Brat Stop in Kenosha, Wis. Nearly a month after the Wisconsin standoff over union rights ended, some of the fervor from that debate has shifted to recall efforts targeting lawmakers in both parties _ Republicans who voted to cut back collective bargaining and Democrats who fled the state to try to stop them. (AP Photo/Journal Times, Gregory Shaver, File)
Mark Levin: Budget Deal is Historic Scam
Post Date: 2011-04-10 10:39:05 by Happy Quanzaa
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Debt Jumped $54.1 Billion in 8 Days Preceding Obama-Boehner Deal to Cut $38.5 Billion for Rest of Year
Post Date: 2011-04-09 12:37:53 by Hondo68
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House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) at the White House on Wednesday, April 6, 2011. (AP photo/Charles Dharapak) (CNSNews.com) - The federal debt increased $54.1 billion in the eight days preceding the deal made by President Barack Obama, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) and House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) to cut $38.5 billion in federal spending for the remainder of fiscal year 2011, which runs through September. The debt was $14.2101 trillion on March 30, according to the Bureau of the Public Debt, and $14.2642 on April 7. Since the beginning of the fiscal year on Oct. 1, 2010, the national debt has increase by $653.4 billion. ...
VIDEO: TSA pedophile molesting 6 year old
Post Date: 2011-04-09 12:09:01 by Happy Quanzaa
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'Historic' Deal To Avoid Government Shutdown
Post Date: 2011-04-09 03:29:55 by Murron
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'Historic' Deal To Avoid Government Shutdown By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON (AP) -- Perilously close to a government shutdown, President Barack Obama and congressional leaders reached a historic agreement late Friday night to cut about $38 billion in spending and avert the first federal closure in 15 years. Obama hailed the deal as "the biggest annual spending cut in history." House Speaker John Boehner said that over the next decade it would cut government spending by $500 billion - and won an ovation from his rank and file, tea party adherents among them. "This is historic, what we've done," agreed Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ...
King Barack's Waivers
Post Date: 2011-04-08 15:24:07 by Happy Quanzaa
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When Barack Obama declared during the 2008 presidential campaign, "We are the ones we've been waiting for," I remember thinking that this imbecilic slogan was a perfectly calibrated appeal to the puerile solipsism that defines the contemporary progressive. What did not occur to me was that Obama might have been speaking in the majestic plural. Now, having observed this imperious executive in action for two years, I begin to suspect that he was using the word "we" in the same way that Queen Victoria employed it when she famously observed, "We are not amused." This would certainly be consistent with Obama's restoration of a royal prerogative, the special ...
WI Vote Fraud Bimbo Worked For Prosser - Shades of KneePad Katy
Post Date: 2011-04-08 09:56:55 by war
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Too many questions, too few answers, far too much suspicious behavior Solidarity Wisconsin, April 8, 2011 The current and historical conduct of Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus is too highly suspicious not to warrant a complete, non-partisan investigation into her conduct as well as her political allies and personal funding sources. To rely on such an unreliable and overtly compromised, partisan player in highly controversial election would be unethical, to say the least. WI Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca explains the situation this way: The way Waukesha County Clerk Kathy Nickolaus revealed her discovery of 14,300 previously uncounted votes raises disturbing questions, ...
Vote Fraud Bimbo In Wisconsin Kept Results On Her Own PC
Post Date: 2011-04-08 09:34:45 by war
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WAUKESHA, Wis. — A stunning discovery of votes in Wisconsin could give the state's hotly contested Supreme Court race to the conservative incumbent in an election largely seen as a referendum on Republican Gov. Scott Walker's explosive union rights law. Adding another twist, the county clerk who said she incorrectly entered vote totals in the race has faced criticism before for her handling of elections and previously worked for a state GOP caucus when it was controlled by the candidate who stands to benefit from Thursday's revelation. The corrected totals gave Justice David Prosser a 7,500-vote lead over little-known liberal assistant state attorney general JoAnne ...
Obama's 'Let them eat cake' moment deep sixed by media
Post Date: 2011-04-07 15:05:34 by Happy Quanzaa
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As gasoline prices soar, while domestic oil production struggles under regulatory and permitting burdens imposed by the Obama administration, the American public is suffering, and so are Obama's reelection prospects. The sad fact is that Obama wants high energy prices. "Under my plan of cap and trade plan makes electricity rates will necessarily skyrocket"'; "coal powered plants, natural gas, you name it..whatever the plants were...they will have to retrofit their operations..that will cost money and they will have to pass those costs onto consumers" In 2008, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar indicated he would still oppose a measure to open up offshore areas to ...
Obama’s Bribes to the Washington Post & CBS
Post Date: 2011-04-07 13:50:54 by Happy Quanzaa
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In a blow to the autonomy of the media it has been discovered that employees of two Old Media outlets are the happy beneficiaries of hundreds of thousands of federal dollars from an Obamacare slush fund. CBS and the Washington Post have both taken large payments from Obama’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP), with the Post getting $573,217 while CBS has received a whopping $722,388. Matthew Boyle reported that the news of the media giants taking federal cash was revealed at a hearing before the House Energy and Commerce Committee last week. The question here becomes one of disclosure. Will CBS and the Washington Post put disclaimers on any story they relate about Obamacare? ...
Non-tax paying Government Electric to nation's largest solar power plant
Post Date: 2011-04-07 09:35:55 by Happy Quanzaa
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NEW YORK (AP) - General Electric says it's going to build the nation's largest solar panel factory, part of a $600 million dollar bet on the future of solar power in the United States. The new plant will employ 400 people and produce enough solar panels to power 80,000 homes per year, GE said Thursday. The company isn't saying where the plant will be located, but it does say that there are multiple locations being scouted. . GE says its thin film solar panel has been certified as the most energy efficient of its kind by the National Renewable Energy Lab in Colorado. The technology for the panel, called CdTe thin film, lends itself to low-cost, large-scale manufacturing. GE ...
Barry Obama on high gas prices: Tough luck, suck it up. Fantasy Fuel is on the way.
Post Date: 2011-04-06 16:24:27 by Happy Quanzaa
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Obama says little short-term help for gas pricesObama pushes clean energy, says he can do little to affect gas prices in the short term FAIRLESS HILLS, Pa. (AP) -- Pitching the promise of energy independence, President Barack Obama cautioned Wednesday that it's going to be tough to transition from America's oil-dependent economy and acknowledged there's little he can do to lower gas prices over the short term. "I'm just going to be honest with you. There's not much we can do next week or two weeks from now," the president told workers at a wind turbine plant. It's a theme Obama's struck before as he tries to show voters he's attuned to a top ...
'I'd kill myself first!' John Edwards 'suicidal' over facing jail, claim pals
Post Date: 2011-04-06 14:55:15 by Happy Quanzaa
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Disgraced politician John Edwards is said to be deeply depressed - to the point of being suicidal - over the prospect of a criminal trial that could end with him being jailed if found guilty. The 57-year-old former Presidential candidate reportedly told a close friend: 'I won't go to jail. I'd kill myself first!' He has lost 20lb in the last year and is a 'broken spirit,' reports the National Enquirer. Fallen: John Edwards, left, looking tired and drawn in at the funeral of wife Elizabeth lastDecember and, right, as a fresh and fuller-faced Democratic presidential hopeful in 2004 According to the Enquirer, a close source said: 'I think John is suicidal. He ...
Washington Post and CBS receiving money from ObamaCare slush fund
Post Date: 2011-04-06 13:43:22 by Happy Quanzaa
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Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program (ERRP) — a $5 billion grant program that’s doling out cash to companies, states and labor unions in what the Obama administration considers an effort to pay for health insurance for early retirees. The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 in taxpayer subsidies and CBS Corporation secured $722,388 worth of Americans’ money. “It is fine with me if they continue covering the ObamaCare debate,” said Rep. Marsha Blackburn, Republican of Tennessee, in an e-mail to The Daily Caller. “When NBC used to cover energy ...
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