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White House Dangerously Fickle About State Secrets

When it comes to compromising national security, Obama goes for it when it gets him good PR.

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Who Endorsed Obama Dissents! Resigns from American Physical Society Over Group’s Promotion of Man-Made Global Warming

From Climate Depot: Nobel prize winner for physics in 1973 Dr. Ivar Giaever resigned as a Fellow from the American Physical Society (APS) on September 13, 2011 in disgust over the group’s promotion of man-made global warming fears. Climate Depot has obtained the exclusive email Giaever sent titled “I resign from APS” to APS Executive Officer [...]

Poverty In America: A Special Report

From PrisonPlanet.com: America is getting poorer.  The U.S. government has just released a bunch of new statistics about poverty in America, and once again this year the news is notgood.  According to a special report from the U.S. Census Bureau, 46.2 million Americans are now living in poverty. The number of those living in poverty in [...]

Obama tainted by loan guarantees to solar firms

Michael Barone Senior Political Analyst One factor favoring President Obama’s re-election, according to a recent article by political scientist Alan Lichtman, is the absence of scandal in his administration. Lichtman may have spoken too soon

Obama launches another snitch police squad

From Michelle Malkin: They’re baaaaack. It’s another legion of Obama snitch police. The Obama 2012 campaign has rolled out “Attack Watch”. “Get the facts. Fight the smears.” And report all dissidents and enemieshere. The announcement was made earlier today on the official BarackObama Twitter account. Twitter’s already having a ball with it: Just check out the #attackwatch hashtag. If [...]

Solyndra loan: White House pressed on review of solar company now under investigation

From The Washington Post: The Obama White House tried to rush federal reviewers for a decision on a nearly half-billion-dollar loan to the solar-panel manufacturer Solyndra so Vice President Biden could announce the approval at a September 2009 groundbreaking for the company’s factory, newly obtained e-mails show. The Silicon Valley company, a centerpiece in President [...]

Where are the Jobs in the American Jobs Act?

From Fox Business: On Sept. 8 President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress to present the American Jobs Act. In his speech the president outlined tax breaks for individuals and small businesses, funding for infrastructure projects and an extension of unemployment benefits. But the looming question remains: will these moves actually create jobs? There is no [...]

E-Verify ‘flags’ Obama’s Social Security Number

From World Net Daily: A private investigation reveals that the Social Security Number being used by Barack Obama does not pass a check with E-Verify,the electronic system the U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has created to verify whether or not prospective employees have the required authorization to work [...]

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Obama Seeks Do-Over on Economy

From Fox News: “I want to thank the members of this body for your efforts and your support in these last several months, and especially those who’ve taken the difficult votes that have put us on a path to recovery. I also want to thank the American people for their patience and resolve during this [...]

Obama talks a big game — but offers more of same

From The New York Post: With his back against the wall, Barack Obama woke up from his depressed slumbers last night and gave us the first glimpse of Obama the Orator we’ve seen since his talk in Arizona after the Gabrielle Giffords shooting back in January. His jobs speech was an energetic, spicy humdinger that finally gave his depressed [...]

Ozone regulation: In the pea soup

ASSAILED by the right, Barack Obama socked it to the left on September 2nd, by backtracking on a new rule to mitigate air pollution. As proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)—a hate object to many Republicans—the rule would have reduced ambient ozone, a toxic gas created by power-plant emissions and exhaust fumes, to less deadly levels than America currently permits. According to the EPA, this would by 2020 have saved up to 12,000 lives and 2.5m working days and school days lost to the toxic effect of ozone on American lungs each year.

America’s jobs crisis: A choice of medicines

BARACK OBAMA began his first term trying to turn around a struggling economy and reassure an electorate consumed by anxiety about jobs. It increasingly looks as though he will end it in the same way. On September 2nd the government reported no net jobs were created in August

California’s public universities: Excellence for fewer

NINE of the ten campuses of the University of California—led by Berkeley—once again made it into an annual ranking of the world’s leading universities, published last month by Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China. All’s well in Californian higher education, it might seem.But that is not what Pat Brown or Clark Kerr would say, were they alive today. They were, respectively, governor of the state and president of the University of California (UC) in 1960, when California adopted a “master plan” that became an international model.

Obama ‘proud’ of Hoffa after controversial comments

From Glenn Beck: President Obama got a fiery warm up to his Labor Day speech, courtesy of Jimmy Hoffa, Jr, who promised to take out any of those anti-union “son of a bitches” out. Of course, the President came out and rebuked that violent rhetoric, right? Nope! Instead, Obama claimed he was “proud” of Hoffa. [...]

Obama Faces Widening Pessimism

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