From Right Wing News: Remember that iftar dinner the president sponsored? The dinner that got him in trouble because he came out in strong support of the mega-mosque at Ground Zero, support from which he backed away the very next day? Well, it turns out he delivered another blatant lie at that dinner, one that [...]
From Townhall.com: The Columbus Dispatch is busy today working to correct the lies “misinformation” delivered by Pres. Barack Obama during his recent visit. When Obama landed in the state capital on Wednesday, he set out to demonstrate the unmistakably positive impact of his stimulus plan. But the Columbus Dispatch is saying, “Uh, not so fast, [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: When President Barack Obama signed the latest bailout for spendthrift states and government unions, he claimed the $10 billion earmarked for education spending would save the jobs of 160,000 teachers. But as we pointed out before the bill was signed, this number was completely made up. Since local governments always exaggerate the number of government [...]
From CNSNews.com: The 1,200 National Guard troops that are being deployed incrementally to the southwest border “will not be doing direct law enforcement,” said U.S. National Guard Bureau Director of Communications Jack Harrison when asked if the forces would be interdicting drugs and undocumented immigrants. “The two mission sets are criminal analysts and enter-identification team,” [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: As states roll out their newly mandated high-risk pools under ObamaCare, a troubling trend is emerging. Pennsylvania and Maryland released documents on their state websites earlier this summer that implied their plans would cover elective abortions. Additionally, New Mexico posted a draft summary of its high-risk pool services that listed elective abortion [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, host Christiane Amanpour asked Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA): “You are, by all accounts, one of the most — if not the most — powerful and successful speakers of — in the history of the United States. You’ve passed so much legislation. The President was elected with a [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: The White House has some tough questions to answer about the Deepwater Horizon disaster in light of a new report from the Center for Public Integrity. In the critical first days after the explosion, the U.S. Coast Guard disregarded its own firefighting policy and might have caused the oil rig to sink [...]
From 73 Wire: I had a little fun in this space recently with Obama’s Saturday Radio Address, during which he suggested Republicans actually WANT people to suffer in order to gain a political edge. That the Democrats have made this approach to governance a cornerstone of their success should not be lost on anyone here; [...]
From CNSNews.com: Maryland will join Pennsylvania as the second state to use federal tax dollars to pay for abortions under the new health care law signed by President Barack Obama in March, according to information released by Maryland’s State Health Insurance Plan. Maryland will receive $85 million in federal funds for its federally mandated high-risk insurance [...]
From Life News: The day after revelations that the Obama administration allowed federal taxpayer funding of abortions under the new national health care law that was supposed to prevent it, new information shows President Barack Obama has authorized abortion funding in a second state. The first abortion funding had the Obama administration approve a Pennsylvania [...]
From CNSNews.com: If you want proof that President Obama’s Executive Order on taxpayer-funded abortion was a sham, look no further than Pennsylvania, says House Republican Leader John Boehner (Ohio). Boehner and other Republicans point to reports that the Health and Human Services Department is giving Pennsylvania $160 million to set up a new high-risk insurance [...]
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 [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: When is a timeline not really a timeline? When the President says so. See GITMO, Healthcare, etc…now add Afghanistan. At a press conference today, President Obama said of his Afghanistan withdrawal timeline, “We didn’t say we’d be switching off the lights and closing the door behind us. We said we’d begin a [...]
From World Net Daily: Two private investigators working independently are asking why President Obama is using a Social Security number set aside for applicants in Connecticut while there is no record he ever had a mailing address in the state. In addition, the records indicate the number was issued between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama’s [...]
From CNSNews.com: When President Obama asked former Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.) and Democrat Erskine Bowles to chair his debt commission in February, he told them to consider any and all ways to reduce the federal deficit – including new taxes, apparently. Bowles, a former chief of staff in the Clinton White House, told Fox News [...]
From The Heritage Foundation: Yesterday, the actuaries at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the agency that runs the giant entitlement programs, released their analysis of the new health care law. The AP reports that “White House officials have repeatedly complained that such analyses have been too pessimistic and lowball the law’s potential to [...]
From All American Blogger: As I wrote at Pajamas Media, President Obama is currently on a Health Care Comedy Tour. He is addressing his myrmidons across this country and utilizing Saul Alinsky’s advice. This isn’t about logic or forming a coherent argument. This is about ridicule, “man’s most potent weapon.” Those are the words of the [...]
From HumanEvents.com: President Barack Obama is often seen wearing a battered White Sox cap to let the world know he’s not just a baseball fan, but a dedicated follower of Chicago’s working-class, gritty South Siders rather than the more genteel cross-town Cubs. Baseball, like politics, is not taken lightly by real fans, and particularly not [...]
Obama has been arguing that the recent health care reform is no attempt at a government takeover of healthcare. How many times have you heard it? “If you like your current plan, you can keep it! If you like your current doctor, you can keep your doctor!” Et cetera, et cetera… Here is his quote [...]
Due to the recent Health Care Reform Invasion passed by Congress and signed by Obama, individuals who utilize Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) or Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) with their insurance plan will see a 40% tax hike on over-the-counter drugs as well as 20% penalties (up from 10%) for non-medical withdrawals, FSA caps, medical tax deduction [...]