|
Latest Articles: Corrupt Government
Obama throws NASA enviro-hack Hansen under the bus
Post Date: 2011-11-08 07:27:12 by Happy Quanzaa
19 Comments
FOIA reveals NASA's Hansen was a paid witness "We're going to punish our enemies and we're gonna reward our friends," President Obama famously told Hispanics in a Univision interview before last year's midterm election. And as Dr. James Hansen has just learned, your status as Obama's "friend" or "enemy" can flip fast. Hansen, chief of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, has been a darling of the progressive movement since he first testified on global warming before the Senate in 1988. Since that time, Hansen has been a relentless activist for draconian regulations on fossil fuels. This past Sunday, for the second time this ...
Jobless & shameless gal going for gold
Post Date: 2011-11-08 06:38:58 by Happy Quanzaa
10 Comments
Peyser: Unemployed and 50, now she comes forward Gold diggers -- unite! Sharon Bialek is 50, out of work and, according to one who knows her, she’s a smooth operator living way above her means. From the look of her heavily painted face, she’s also soon to be in acute need of a new tub of eyeliner. Enter Herman Cain. Bialek pranced into the Friars Club yesterday with lawyer -- who else? -- Gloria Allred aboard patent-leather do-me pumps. She proceeded to spill a dirty little secret she claims to have harbored these last 14 years -- presidential front-runner and fellow Republican Herman Cain made a pass at my junk! With that, she became the fourth woman to accuse the GOP ...
It’s happening: Democratic lawmakers say Fast and Furious proof of need for harsher gun laws
Post Date: 2011-11-07 19:34:28 by Capitalist Eric
0 Comments
Right on cue, Democratic lawmakers have begun to say the DOJ’s lethal and irresponsible Fast and Furious program underscores the need for stricter gun control laws: “This hunt for blame doesn’t really speak about the problem,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein at a recent Senate Judiciary hearing while discussing Fast and Furious. “And the problem is, anybody can walk in and buy anything, .50-caliber weapons, sniper weapons, buy them in large amounts, and send them down to Mexico. So, the question really becomes, what do we do about this?” The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings (Md.), and Rep. Carolyn ...
Complaint Says Jesse Jackson Sexual Harassed Gay Former Employee
Post Date: 2011-11-06 20:53:04 by Murron
24 Comments
Complaint Says Jesse Jackson Sexual Harassed Gay Former Employee FILED SEPT. 16th, 2011 2 of 10 docs. Complaint Says Jesse Jackson Sexual Harassed Gay Former Employee A gay former employee of Rev. Jesse Jackson’s Rainbow Push Coalition, claims he was sexually harassed by the Jackson, forced to clean up after Jackson’s sexual escapades with women in hotel rooms. Tommy R. Bennett, sued the Rainbow Push Coalition and Jesse Jackson Sr. in Cook County Court, alleging that the discrimination against him began “almost immediately” after he was hired, because of his sexual orientation. Bennett worked for Rainbow Push and Jackson from July 2007-December 2009, ...
Rush Limbaugh Larry Sinclair Obama Sex Drug Incident (transcript)
Post Date: 2011-11-06 20:25:20 by Murron
11 Comments
Rush Limbaugh Larry Sinclair Obama Sex Drug Incident November 4, 2011, Limbaugh compares Sinclair treatment to Herman Cains Rush Limbaugh Larry Sinclair Obama sex drug incident, November 4, 2011, Limbaugh compares Sinclair treatment to Herman Cains *** Update Below *** From the transcripts of the Rush Limbaugh show November 4, 2011. “Caller on the Double Standard for Black Conservatives” “BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: Cheryl, the Upper East Side of Manhattan, great to have you on the EIB Network. Hi. CALLER: Hi, Rush. It’s an honor to speak with you. RUSH: Thank you very much. Great to have you with us. CALLER: "Listen, I’m a black conservative, and I just ...
Conservative Receives Death Threat From Democratic Staffer In Mayoral Campaign
Post Date: 2011-11-06 15:28:03 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
The mayoral race in Mt. Vernon went beyond the typical mudslinging as a supporter of one of the candidates said a staffer for an opposing candidate threatened his life.
Obama -7 Broken Promises in Record Time
Post Date: 2011-11-06 08:48:19 by A K A Stone
0 Comments
Poster Comment:Obama is a satanist, just like his followers. Of course he is a liar.
Solargate Update: Obama DOE hired heavy Dem contributing Wall St execs to salvage $olyndra
Post Date: 2011-11-05 16:59:06 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
Energy Department hired Wall Street to Salvage $olyndra FBI agents (left) speak with unidentifiedSolyndra worker (right) at Solyndra head-quarters in Fremont, Calif., Thursday, Sept. 8, 2011. The FBI are executing search warrantsat the headquarters of California solar firmSolyndra that received a $535 million loanfrom the federal government.(AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) When solar company Solyndra was spiraling into bankruptcy, the Department of Energy paid a firm with heavy Democratic connections to analyze a potential bail out of the company — all while Solyndra execs continued to receive hefty bonuses for their work. The Energy Department hired Wall Street firm Lazard Ltd. in August to ...
Solargate Update: Obama hides the evidence, suboena request rejected
Post Date: 2011-11-05 07:53:56 by Happy Quanzaa
2 Comments
President Obama's attorney sent a letter to Congressional investigators on Friday, saying the White House would not cooperate with a subpoena requesting documents related to its doling out a $535 million loan guarantee to now bankrupt solar panel manufacturer Solyndra. "I can only conclude that your decision to issue a subpoena, authorized by a party-line vote, was driven more by partisan politics than a legitimate effort to conduct a responsible investigation," Obama's counsel, Kathryn Ruemmler, wrote in a letter to the top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce committee. (Read Ruemmler's full letter here). Committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich, ...
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers & Shredding Documents, After Exposed as Players Behind Occutard Protests
Post Date: 2011-11-04 05:11:50 by Happy Quanzaa
8 Comments
ACORN Officials Scramble, Firing Workers andShredding Documents, After Exposed as PlayersBehind Occupy Wall Street Protests 11/1/11: Jonathan Westin, organizing director, New York Communities forChange, attends a protest in NYC Officials with the revamped ACORN office in New York -- operating as New York Communities for Change -- have fired staff, shredded reams of documents and told workers to blame disgruntled ex-employees for leaking information in an effort to explain away a FoxNews.com report last week on the group’s involvement in Occupy Wall Street protests, according to sources. NYCC also is installing surveillance cameras and recording devices at its Brooklyn offices, ...
More than half ObamaCare deadlines missed by Obama administration
Post Date: 2011-11-03 18:31:15 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
The Obama administration has failed to meet more than half of the new health care law's deadlines, from submitting plans for new, value-based Medicare purchasing programs to publishing criteria for determining the medically underserved. A report requested by Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, indicates that the Department of Health and Human Services and other federal agencies missed 18 of 30 deadlines since the Affordable Care Act was passed in March 2010. In one instance, a National Healthcare Workforce Commission created by the law was appointed but has not been funded and has not submitted two reports that were due on April 1 and Oct. 1. In another example, the comptroller ...
Solatgate Update: Solyndra’s Banner for Obama Auctioned Alongside Test Chambers
Post Date: 2011-11-03 15:54:37 by Happy Quanzaa
1 Comments
Nov. 3 (Bloomberg) -- Scott Logsdon paid $400 for the 30- foot banner that served as a backdrop when President Barack Obama visited Solyndra LLC in 2010. Matt Sertic snagged a digital projector for $1,300. Others bid on laptops, T-shirts with Solyndra logos and environmental test chambers, the detritus of the solar-panel maker’s collapse after collecting $527 million in U.S. aid under loan guarantees from the Obama administration. More than 400 people attended the start yesterday of a two-day auction in a factory at the company’s idled Fremont, California, headquarters. “That’s a piece of Americana right there -- that was the banner that welcomed Obama,” said ...
Solargate Update: House subpoenas White House for Solyndra documents~GOP sees stonewalling across administration
Post Date: 2011-11-03 12:01:56 by Happy Quanzaa
1 Comments
Showing a growing frustration with the the Obama administration, congressional Republicans on Thursday authorized their second subpoena this week, demanding White House documents related to failed solar technology company Solyndra. By a 14-9 party-line vote the Energy and Commerce Committee’s investigative subcommittee authorized issuing a subpoena for any White House documents related to Solyndra, which received renewable energy loan guarantees under President Obama’s stimulus program. The request for documents could include details of the president’s own travel and communications. Democrats said it was “unprecedented” to subpoena documents from the ...
No political fix for "Obama's Wall Street guy" Corzine's (D-NJ) bad bond bets
Post Date: 2011-11-03 09:55:00 by Happy Quanzaa
15 Comments
U.S. President Barack Obama (right) speaks as then-New Jersery Governor Jon Corzine (D) looks on at a campaign rally atFairleigh Dickinson University's Hackensack campus October 21, 2009 in Hackensack, New Jersey. Obama was supporting Corzinein his effort to win a second term as governor. (Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images) Former Democratic politician Jon Corzine's financial firm MF Global collapsed over the weekend in a spectacular bankruptcy that provided an insider's glimpse into how finance and politics work today. The telling detail about MF Global's business can be found in the contracts it signed with its biggest lenders, so-called "senior creditors." ...
Freddie Mac reports Q3 loss, asks for $6B in aid
Post Date: 2011-11-03 09:32:45 by Happy Quanzaa
7 Comments
WASHINGTON (AP) — Government-controlled mortgage giant Freddie Mac has requested $6 billion in additional aid after posting a wider loss in the third quarter. Freddie Mac said Thursday that it lost $6 billion, or $1.86 per share, in the July-September quarter. That compares with a loss of $4.1 billion, or $1.25 a share, in the same quarter of 2010. The government rescued McLean, Va.-based Freddie Mac and sibling company Fannie Mae in September 2008 after massive losses on risky mortgages threatened to topple them. Since then, a federal regulator has controlled their financial decisions. Taxpayers have spent about $169 billion to rescue Fannie and Freddie, the most expensive bailout ...
Fannie, Freddie Executives Snag Millions in Bonuses
Post Date: 2011-11-03 09:32:41 by Happy Quanzaa
4 Comments
A Republican senator is calling on President Obama to cancel the $12.8 million in bonuses that were approved for 10 executives at the government-seized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac that received a $170 billion taxpayer-funded bailout. “I am calling on the president of the United States to cancel those bonuses and explain to the American people, the taxpayers who bailed out Freddie and Fannie, why he continues to reward failure,” Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., said at a news conference Tuesday. The Federal Housing Finance Agency, the government regulator of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, approved the bonuses for 10 executives from the two government-sponsored agencies ...
Solargate Update: Obama considered bailout for Solyndra days before bankruptcy
Post Date: 2011-11-03 08:51:13 by Happy Quanzaa
1 Comments
View Photo Gallery — The Solar company failed after getting a half-billion dollars in federal loan guarantees. WASHINGTON — Days before a solar panel maker collapsed, the Obama administration considered a bailout that would have provided an infusion of cash and made the federal government a part-owner of the company. Officials rejected the plan, which was recommended in August by the investment banking firm Lazard Ltd. Lazard was paid $1 million for analyzing options related to the faltering company, Solyndra Inc. Details of the bailout plan were among nearly 1,200 pages of documents released by the government Wednesday, hours before a House subcommittee was set to vote on a ...
On FOIA, Obama wants a license to lie
Post Date: 2011-11-02 16:08:25 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
It's not often that the liberal American Civil Liberties Union and conservative Judicial Watch agree on anything, but the Obama administration's lack of transparency has brought the two together. Obama's Justice Department has proposed a regulatory change that would weaken the Freedom of Information Act. Under the new rules, the government could falsely respond to those who file FOIA requests that a document does not exist if it pertains to an ongoing criminal investigation, concerns a terrorist organization, or a counterintelligence operation involving a foreign nation. There are two problems with the Obama proposal to allow federal officials to affirmatively assert that a ...
Senate Dem seeks (MORE!) federal funding for shit
Post Date: 2011-11-02 15:47:51 by Happy Quanzaa
0 Comments
Senate Dem seeks federal funding for diapersSen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) on Tuesday introduced legislation that would allow federal block grants that states now use to subsidize child-care services to also allow for the purchase of diapers and "diapering supplies." The bill, S. 1778, would amend the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990 to allow diapers and related supplies to be bought with grant money provided to states. Under current law, the money is meant to subsidize child-care services to parents who are entering the labor force or are in job training and education programs. It also helps subsidize child-care services for certain eligible families. Under ...
Bruce Bartlett, Ex-Reagan Economist: Idea That Deregulation Leads To Jobs 'Just Made Up'
Post Date: 2011-11-01 14:23:37 by Skip Intro
0 Comments
WASHINGTON -- Key proposals from the Republican presidential candidates might make for good campaign fodder. But independent analyses raise serious questions about those plans and their ability to cure the nation's ills in two vital areas, the economy and housing. Consider proposed cuts in taxes and regulation, which nearly every GOP candidate is pushing in the name of creating jobs. The initiatives seem to ignore surveys in which employers cite far bigger impediments to increased hiring, chiefly slack consumer demand. "Republicans favor tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, but these had no stimulative effect during the George W. Bush administration, and there is no reason ...
Solargate Update: DOE monitoring another stimulus recipient
Post Date: 2011-11-01 11:21:17 by Happy Quanzaa
1 Comments
Vice President Joe Biden visits Ener1 Inc.’s plant in Greenfield, Ind., in January.| AP Photo An advanced battery manufacturer that was awarded millions in federal stimulus dollars is now in financial hot water and is being closely monitored by the Energy Department. New York-based Ener1 received a $118.5 million grant to expand its manufacturing operations in Indianapolis, Ind., run by a subsidiary EnerDel, which received a visit from Vice President Joe Biden earlier this year. But NASDAQ pulled the firm from trading Friday for failing to file its most recent quarterly report on time. Ener1 also let go of its chairman, Charles Gassenheimer, late last month. Now DOE says it's ...
Solargate Update: Second ‘stimulated’ green firm KO’d
Post Date: 2011-11-01 09:26:20 by Happy Quanzaa
2 Comments
WASHINGTON -- Another one of President Obama’s “green jobs” companies has bitten the dust. Massachusetts-based Beacon Power Corp., which got a $43 million loan from the Department of Energy, filed for bankruptcy over the weekend -- sparking new questions about the troubled green-energy loan program. The company’s collapse came just two months after California solar-power company Solyndra went under following a questionable $535 million loan from the same program funded by Obama’s stimulus law. “This latest failure is a sharp reminder that DOE has fallen well short of delivering the stimulus jobs that were promised, and now taxpayers find themselves millions ...
Regulators Investigating Democrat Ex-NJ Gov Corzine's MF Global for Missing Money
Post Date: 2011-11-01 08:39:18 by Happy Quanzaa
17 Comments
9:55 p.m. | Updated Federal regulators have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars in customer money has gone missing from MF Global in recent days, prompting an investigation into the brokerage firm, which is run by Jon S. Corzine, the former New Jersey governor, several people briefed on the matter said on Monday. The recognition that money was missing scuttled at the 11th hour an agreement to sell a major part of MF Global to a rival brokerage firm. MF Global had staked its survival on completing the deal. Instead, the New York-based firm filed for bankruptcy on Monday. Regulators are examining whether MF Global diverted some customer funds to support its own trades as the ...
Another Dem pol caught stealing
Post Date: 2011-11-01 07:31:18 by Happy Quanzaa
2 Comments
Californiaassemblywoman MaryHayashi charged withfelony grand theft Published: Saturday, Oct. 29, 2011 - 12:00 am | Page 3A Assemblywoman Mary Hayashi has been charged with felony grand theft after allegedly being caught by security officers stealing nearly $2,500 in clothing from a San Francisco Neiman Marcus store. The 45-year-old Castro Valley Democrat, wife of a Bay Area judge, pleaded not guilty Thursday in San Francisco Superior Court and is free on $15,000 bail pending further proceedings Nov. 15. Sam Singer, spokesman for Hayashi, said the arrest occurred after she left the store while using her cellular phone. "The incident in San Francisco was a mistake and a ...
White House Now Stresses Feeding the Press
Post Date: 2011-10-29 14:42:02 by Happy Quanzaa
1 Comments
TIPS FROM THE POOL…INTO THE DEEP END My what a difference a year and seven months makes. Earlier this week a White House Pool Report showed off the improved relations — at least in terms of sustenance — between the White House and the press corps. Few can forget the March 2010 incident when a reporter was locked in a closet for hours during a Florida fundraiser because V.P. Biden and staff didn’t want him mingling with the guests. The local reporter subjected to the closet treatment was The Orlando Sentinel‘s Scott Powers. An hors d’oeuvre he never got to try: Rosemary flatbread with grapes, honey and gorgonzola. Now President Obama makes overt gestures to ...
Latest [Newer] 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 [Older]
|
