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Blago Says On Tape Obama Is ‘All Take and No Give’ and Is ‘More Tony’d Up Than I Am’

From NewsMax.com: An angry Rod Blagojevich is heard grumbling on FBI wiretap tapes played at his corruption trial Wednesday that he is willing to appoint a favorite of Barack Obama to the U.S. Senate, but the newly elected president is “all take and no give.” “The arrogance of these people,” Blagojevich is heard saying on [...]

Day 70: Obama Finally Accepts Foreign Aid for Oil Spill

From Right Wing News: Well, it’s about time.   With a hurricane forming in the Gulf, oil washing up along the shorelines along the Gulf states, and major damage already done to the coast and industries, Obama finally has accepted foreign help: The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the [...]

Appeals panel considers whether Obama is even American

From World Net Daily: Three judges on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are beginning to review a case that alleges Barack Obama is not eligible to be president – in fact, he may not even be American. The federal court case was brought by attorney Mario Apuzzo on behalf of plaintiffs Charles Kerchner [...]

Welcome to the Real World: Grim Prospects for Young Adults under Obamacare

From The Heritage Foundation: As the Obama Administration’s allies are gearing up to spend $125 million over the next five years to sell the health overhaul law to the public, including seniors, there has been a noticeable vacuum in the discussion over the impact on younger adults. This topic was in the spotlight at a [...]

The Obama Tax Hike Exemption Card

From Right Wing News: Now this  card from Americans for Tax Reform is fun  work, You may have noticed that President Obama has broken his central campaign promise – a “firm pledge” that Americans making less than $250,000 would not see “any form of tax increase.” He first broke this pledge sixteen days into his presidency [...]

Is President Obama Trying To Kill The Gulf State Economies?

From Right Wing News: It sure seems like President Obama despises Republican states. The industry remains dormant in the Gulf. Like the dry fields of California, acres and acres of livelihood being destroyed by Democrat mismanagement, so to the Gulf states see their fields dying and they’re lives destroyed. From CNN: The offshore drilling ban imposed [...]

Jimmy Carter’s Second Term

From Intellectual Conservative: The year 1980 was considered a bellwether year in presidential politics. America was firmly caught up in the economic and foreign policy nightmare that was the Carter Administration. The prime rate was 20.5%, inflation was running at 14.8%, unemployment was a then record 10.8%, the 30 year mortgage rate was a staggering [...]

Health Care Law: Can Obama Administration Meet the Deadlines?

From ABC News: Three months after the $938 billion health care bill was signed into law, questions abound about whether the Obama administration can meet all the deadlines in the massive law while dealing with the political pressures of Congress. Meanwhile, the impact on Americans’ health insurance costs remains negligible, and premiums are actually rising as many Americans lose [...]

Another outrageous Obama DHS appointment

From Michelle Malkin: Here we go again. I’ve long reported on the danger of illegal alien sanctuary city policies embraced by woefully misguided (at best) and criminally reckless public officials seeking to appease the open borders lobby. One of the countless casualties of this deadly pandering was Houston PD officer Rodney Johnson, who shot and killed during [...]

Obama Could Face Impeachment If He Pardons Illegals

From NewsMax.com: Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly is warning that if President Barack Obama ever bypasses Congress and uses his pardon power to make millions of illegal aliens citizens, he could face serious calls for his impeachment. “If President Obama were to sign an executive order giving illegal aliens amnesty, his career would be over and [...]

It’s time to open impeachment file

From World Net Daily, by Former Congressman Tom Tancredo: Yes, yes, I know. An impeachment investigation will never be started while Nancy Pelosi is speaker of the House. The good news is that this obstacle to impeachment will likely be removed by January. It goes without saying that the impeachment process should never be a political [...]

Will Elena Kagan Defend the Rule of Law?

From The Heritage Foundation: The Senate Judiciary Committee will begin its hearing today on [Obama's] nomination of Elena Kagan to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Kagan is no stranger to the confirmation process; in fact, she devoted one of her few academic writings entirely to the subject,writing: The [...]

IRS Set To Tax BP Relief Money: Was This Obama’s Plan?

From Townhall.com: The Internal Revenue Service declared that it would tax BP’s Obama-mandated $20 billion slush fund at the same rates other income is taxed. It’s common knowledge that BP offered up the $20 billion only after Obama twisted his arm, so this new scheme shouldn’t come as a surprise. The President is desperate to fund his [...]

Obama Following the Alinsky Textbook

From HumanEvents.com: In his Chicago days, President Obama spent a great deal of time working with Marxist, Saul Alinsky-disciples Bill Ayers and Gerald Kellman. It should come as no surprise then, that he employs many of the tactics found in Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals in his handling of the BP oil spill. Here are a [...]

The Unengaged President

From National Review: What do General McChrystal and British Petroleum have in common? Aside from the fact that they’re both Democratic-party supporters. Or they were. Stanley McChrystal is a liberal who voted for Obama and banned Fox News from his HQ TV. Which may at least partly explain how he became the first U.S. general [...]

Barack Obama’s firing of Stanley McChrystal showed weakness and will backfire

From Telegraph.co.uk: For the Washington cognoscenti, the appointment of General David Petraeusmarked the crescendo of President Barack Obama’s Wonderful Week. In firing General Stanley McChrystal, Mr Obama, the ultimate cool cat, was transformed into Mr Angry. The law professor finally became commander-in-chief. Obama, so the Beltway groupthink goes, turned a lose-lose situation into a political victory by asserting [...]

Obama Fires McChrystal – We Can Fire Obama

From Townhall.com: Unless you live on the oil-saturated bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, you’re probably well aware that our President, who happens to have skin thinner than that of an Iberian Ribbed Newt, fired General Stanley McChrystal for committing the unpardonable sin: He told the ugly truth about Obama. Now, before I get flooded [...]

Collateral Damage in Obama’s War on Arizona

From Townhall.com: It wasn’t all that long ago when they fawned over him. But now, three congressional Democrats from Arizona are twisting in the wind, as their beloved party leader President Barack Obama continues to punish their cash-strapped state with a costly and unpopular law suit to prevent the implementation of Arizona’s new illegal immigration [...]

Obama Ditches Press Corps (See Also: Corpse) Once Again

From Michelle Malkin: Now that they’re being shunned fairly regularly, at some point, will the majority of the mainstream media ever regret doing Obama’s bidding-by-not-digging and helping carry him into the White House on their shoulders? I didn’t think so: Holed up with seven other global leaders in the woods of Muskoka, Canada, President Barack Obama [...]

Disclosure Act: Another Example of Unconstitutional Obamaism

From Right Wing News: On June 24 the House of Representatives passed by a bare minimum number of votes the DISCLOSURE Act, a law that is supposed to be a new effort to get around the recent US Supreme Court decision that struck down parts of Congress’ campaign finance law. Bare minimum or no there [...]