Nancy Pelosi says that any tax on Wall Street transactions would have to be applied internationally, not just within the US because that would drive companies overseas.
Jamie Dupree enlightened us yesterday about this exchange between ethically-challenged attorney general Eric Holder and South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham.
Also, keep checking Jamie's blog for all the details of the on the Senate's new 2,047 page healthcare bill.
During his trip to Asia, Obama said those offended by the legal privileges given to Muhammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him."
Victor Davis Hanson writes, "there is a growing sense that America is in fact hemorrhaging - as both friends and enemies abroad smell blood in the water."
More than $98 billion in taxpayer dollars spent by government agencies was wasted. What else would you expect from government?
Our own chief federal oversight official for the stimulus program said that he can't certify whether the number of jobs "created or saved" by stimulus funds is accurate.
First we had made up districts in Arizona, now the Obama administration is providing economic stimulus to phantom districts in Texas.
Reason Magazine explains why you can kiss your freedoms goodbye if the Democrats manage to pass their healthcare legislation.
There are 3 trillion reasons to hope that the Senate is not as fiscally reckless as their counterparts in the House when it comes to healthcare legislation.
Since the beginning of the year, unemployment has risen from 7.2% to 10.2%. Here's why. I'll give you a hint: Obama didn't help matters.
Less than ten years from now, 40% of Americans will be obese. You wanna know why our healthcare costs are increasing? Just look in the mirror you blubberbutts!
This is what happens when you rush legislation through Congress. Millions of Americans may end up owing money to the IRS because of how the Obama administration set up its payment plan for its Obama stimulus checks.
The more details we learn about Major Nidal Malik Hasan and the days leading up to the shooting in Fort Hood, the more frustrated I become with our failure to stop this Islamic goon.
This editorial comes from Ireland, where even THEY see that America is afraid of being anti-Muslim .. that's why we failed to stop Nidal Malik Hasan.
From the nanny state government in the UK: Health and safety inspectors are to be given unprecedented access to family homes to ensure that parents are protecting their children from household accidents.
The Supreme Court won't hear an appeal from a group of Native Americans who think the name of the NFL's Washington Redskins football team is offensive. Good.
With every day that passes Obama's ego seems to get larger. He is starting to believe his own press. More and more pundits are seeing this and are commenting. Here's some fun reading from W. McCahill, Jeff Jacoby, Tony Fratto, The Tampa Tribune, Examiner.com. More later!
Here's my latest column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution: Moochers need free-market dose. NOTE: I had a little disagreement with my editor at the AJC over this one. I described the Democrats hell-bent on taking over our health care as "Looters" when I wrote the column. You see, I divide the nation into three classes: The moochers, the looters and the producers. The looters (government) loot from the producers and give to the moochers in return for moocher votes. So ... just substitute the word "looter" for "moocher" and you'll see it the way I wrote it. Editors ... something I'm going to have to get used to. Thank goodness we don't have them in talk radio.
And just how much did our precious and government-run Medicare program hand out in suspect Medicare claims last year? Read here and find out .. then throw up. It's your money you know.
This upcoming conference in Copenhagen on climate change has been deemed a complete wash. Those of you who were worried that Obama was going to sign away our sovereignty can rest easy.
Despite the fact that this cap-and-trade scheme is a fraud, countries like Britain are considering annual carbon allowances that would be rationed and you would be penalized if you use too much fuel.
Major Nidal Hasan proclaimed himself a
"soldier of Allah" on private business cards.What a complete failure on the part of our
intelligence community .. all because of political correctness.
There are ten states in this country that are on the verge of economic
disaster.If I'm not mistaken, nine
out of the ten states were Obama states.
This
should scare you ... No education secretary has ever had so much money for
government school improvement with so few conditions from Congress.
Churches around the world are being asked
to ring their bells 350 times during the Copenhagen climate change summit as a call to
action on global warming.
The
latest Gallup polls show that Republicans have now surpassed Democrats as
the public's choice in the 2010 congressional elections.
You know the Democrats are desperate when they
turn to Bill Clinton for advice on how to pass healthcare legislation. Maybe they could make him the sex addict czar.
Despite what the lamestream media tells you, not
only are crimes against Muslims down, significantly, since 2001 but there
have been about the same number of crimes against Christians and far more
crimes against Jews.
Liberals can't compete on the radio and now they are
slipping when it comes to book sales.Who knows .. maybe we will soon have segregated New York Times
best-seller lists!Or
a Fairness Doctrine for books!
No matter how much
the Republicans warn us about this cap-and-trade scheme, the Democrats will push forward
with it nonetheless.The latest is
how it would stop any form of economic development requiring federal permits.
Apparently moonbat Alan Grayson's challenger down there in Central Florida is quite
a character himself.
Joe
Lieberman says he has "no other choice" but to filibuster a
health care bill that contains a government-run health insurance option.
How absolutely ridiculous does this sound ... A man claiming
to have been Barack Obama's homosexual lover and another claiming to have
Obama's Kenyan birth certificate say Laguna Niguel attorney Orly Taitz asked
them to lie in federal court.
Yesterday I told you about Rep. Cardoza of California who scored a $500 million medical
center in his district as leverage for his vote on Pelosicare.Here are some
more examples of the backroom deals that took place to get this thing
passed.
There are two different bills floating around in Washington right now
that want to rein in financial institutions.Here
are the differences ...
We will start off the week with a libertarian warning
about the slippery slope of government intervention.
Read this and tell
me how thrilled you are that The Community Organizer is our president.Maybe this will be enough to get you to take
that embarrassing Obama bumper sticker off your car.Why advertise that you're a screw up?
Considering the crowd that showed up in Washington yesterday to oppose a government takeover of our healthcare system, House Minority Leader John Boehner says that a "rebellion" is forming in this country.
In the aftermath of the government's cash for clunkers program, we learned that people who traded in their pickup trucks traded them in for ... pickup trucks.
Did you know that CBO estimates on Pelosicare assume that the government will collect $167 billion over the next ten years from people who fail to buy insurance?
This is government ... a House panel set up to "bring meaningful change" to earmark reform has done nothing in last year except request more earmarks.
A bill making its way through Congress says that banks can't give credit cards to people under 21 unless a parent co-signed or the card holder can prove they could pay the loan.
This is such a terribly simple concept ... let's only pay for healthcare that works. Here's how government intervention will only exacerbate any deficiencies in our current healthcare system. Not make them better.
Well ... here's your latest cost estimate on the PelosiCare bill from the house. It's $1.2 trillion. This is a small price for the looters when the aim is control over the people. It's a huge price, and likely to double, when the goal of the people is independence and liberty.
While the big battles are being fought in Washington, Democrats are quietly racking up smaller victories that have been on their wish lists for years. The Wall Street Journal has more.
Uh Oh. Now this is just not going to pass muster. It seems that ALL of the active ethics probes being carried on by the Democrat-chaired ethics committee are focused on black lawmakers. Bunch of racists, I way. We need a quota overhaul here.
And if you're still signed-in to Obama's hopey-changey message, for goodness' sake don't read this. You don't want to find out that to The Community Organizer, it's all about money .. money flowing his way.
Apparently hell froze over. You can now read a Boortz column in the Atlanta Journal Constitution. Here's the first one.
Mark Steyn on the Obama administration's promise to "speak truth to power."
The climate change summit in Copenhagen is just weeks away .. and apparently nothing major is expected to happen because the Obama and the Democrats have failed to pass cap-and-trade legislation in the United States.
What does The Wall Street Journal think of Pelosi's health care bill? How about "The Worst Bill Ever"
This jobs "created or saved" nonsense; you're not buying that, are you? Oh, wait. If you would by this "change you can believe in" nonsense you would buy almost anything ... so maybe you should read this.
Barney Frank also wants financial institutions to pay into a pre-funded trust that would cover the cost of a government takeover, if ever necessary again.
Healthcare reform has become nothing more than a cheesy Washington soap opera starring Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid.
Government should not subsidize health insurance -- for the uninsured, the poor, the elderly or anyone else -- or regulate health insurance markets. Here's why.
Speaking of pay czars, just one year ago, would you have believed that an unelected government official, not even a Cabinet member confirmed by the Senate but simply one of the many "czars" appointed by the President, could arbitrarily cut the pay of executives in private businesses by 50 percent or 90 percent?
Our pay czar has extended his reach to now include 525 second-tier executives at the seven companies receiving "exceptional assistance" from the government.
Could it be that one reason Congress has performed so poorly is because, for 100 years, its members' compensation has been totally unrelated to their performance?
No better way to lead off the reading assignments than
something from Mark Steyn.Here's "A
Tale of Two Soundbites."
"Where's the
Outrage?" Republicans want to know
why The Community Organizer gets a pass on some of the very actions that would
have brought the media down on Bush like a hammer.Duhhhhhh.The media?
Central Florida's moonbat
Congressman Alan Grayson is wearing out his welcome with .... Democrats!His own party!A New York Democrats calls him "One fry short of a
Happy Meal."
Obama's healthcare reform plans rely on the idea that they
will achieve both accessibility and lowering costs.One cannot work without the other.Here's
why.
This attempt to institute Obamacare is an
assault on our values of individual choice, personal accountability, and
rewards for ambition.
Well now this could be interesting ... Senate Democrats say they would consider an "opt-out" option for states when it comes to a government option on healthcare.
This should scare the tar out of you: John Kerry has ascended to the unofficial role of Obama's global adviser on key issues that could reshape the nation's image around the world.
Looks like Barack Obama will not be going to Copenhagen in December to discuss the global warming scam with other world leaders.
Darn this guy is good. George Will explains how Obama has established the Social Security COLA as "the capstone to the architecture of the entitlement culture that is modern liberalism's crowning achievement."
Victor Davis Hanson says that the real key to being a "popular" America seems to be to empathize with non-Western totalitarians. Hence Obama's popularity.
Barack Obama, our CEO-in-chief has decided that companies which received the most bailout money will be forced to cut executive pay by 90%. Aren't you glad we have our imperial federal government to tell us how to run things now?
Okay, I'm ready for the "I'm never going to listen to you again" emails ... would conservatism be better off if women didn't vote? I think you know where this is going.
Seven months after passing the economic stimulus bill - that was supposed to create or save 3.5 million jobs over the next two years - 49 out of 50 states have actually lost jobs.
The third-ranking Republican in the Senate says the Obama administration is launching a Richard Nixon-like political strategy of making an "enemies list" of people who disagree with the president.
The Heritage Foundation explains that Obama's plan to give Social Security recipients $250 "starts the process of converting the program from an earned benefit funded by a worker's own contributions to a welfare program."
Senator Jim Inhofe reminds us: No matter how many times Congress debates it, and no matter how environmentalists couch it, cap-and-trade will do virtually nothing to stop global warming.
The Obama administration has come up with a brilliant way to implement another stimulus package: just don't call it a stimulus package and people will never even know!
Barack Obama's stimulus plan subsidizes .... golf carts? Yep. Those are your tax dollars.
This article from Forbes says that the stimulus bill may be worse than the health care bill when it comes to its effect on our federal deficit.
Iran vows to seek revenge, claiming that a bombing attack of the Revolutionary Guard was carried out by terrorists trained by America and Britain.
This sounds about right for government .... the Energy Department has concluded in an internal audit that it does not properly track whether manufacturers that give their appliances an Energy Star label have met the required specifications for energy efficiency.
What is $1.42 trillion? It's more than the total national debt for the first 200 years of the Republic, more than the entire economy of India, and more than $4,700 for every man, woman and child in the United States. Oh and our 2009 federal deficit.
Maureen Dowd in the New York Times: Obama does not want his fatal flaw to be that he compromises so much that his ideals get blurred out of recognition.
The Wall Street Journal explains: Almost two-thirds of all bad mortgages in our financial system were bought by government agencies or required by government regulations.
Remember Barack Obama's urgency to pass the $787 billion economic stimulus plan so that we could "create or save jobs"? Looks like 30,000 were saved or created thanks to the stimulus.
A Value Added Tax is to the Democrats what Viagra is to a man with ED. It gives you the chance to really screw someone. Click here for the dangers of the VAT ... and it doesn't include a 4-hour Clinton.
Despite what Washington may tell you, the greatest risk to our economy is not Wall Street .... It is Washington's massive debt. Tony Blankley will educate you.
The Democrats are showing their cards. Their plot to pass climate change legislation includes linking global warming to national security. Are you buying this line of horsesqueeze?
Residents at an apartment complex in Oregon are ordered to take down American flags because they live in a "diverse community" and the flags could be construed as "offensive."
According to this report, parts of the Baucus bill that is being voted on today don't even exist yet! Should be pretty hard to vote for something when you don't even know what it says ... right?
Barack Obama insisted that his $787 billion economic stimulus plan had to be passed ASAP in order to turn our economy around. There is one thing that that bill definitely didn't do and that is create jobs.
Iconography? What's that? Well ... you really need to click here to figure it out. Seriously ... watch this before you do anything else today. It is very very good. Now ... where do I get one of those LOL bumper stickers? (You gotta watch the whole thing). Well ... I did the research for you. You get it right here.
If you can't read the darn thing, how do you expect the American people to trust you that they are not getting screwed? The truth is, when it comes to this healthcare bill ... they don't trust the lawyer-speak anymore.
The European Union has decided that it would be very embarrassing for Barack Obama if the United States doesn't pass climate change legislation. Well when you put it that way ...
The dollar is falling. Gold is rising. Didn't we pass a stimulus plan to stop all of this? These folks that are running our dollar down; don't they know those dollars are propping up a puppet theatre in Atlanta? And is this all Obama's Fault?
So ... how big is the budget deficit for 2009 .. so far? Well, if we can drag you away from your People Magazine and Entertainment Tonight long enough to give this a second though ... here's your total. It's $1.6 trillion. Worry not, dear listeners. You won't have to pay this back. Your children will.
The Congressional Budget Office estimates that Max Baucus' healthcare bill will cost $829 billion over 10 years. How many of you actually believe that that will be the real cost of this healthcare plan?
Remember that story I shared with you about America's growing popularity abroad? Read this by Victor Davis Hanson, and then let us know what you think.
Since Nancy Pelosi and the looters are so enamored of the idea of a VAT .. perhaps you need to read this. This ought to really get our economy going, right? Another level of taxes for you to pay.
Handing out cash to urban outdoorsmen; Stimulus cash; YOUR cash. Oh yeah, I can just see how this is going to get our economy going. The only thing they should hand out to the "homeless" in Detroit is bus tickets or bicycles.
A taxpayer funded research unit on global warming destroys all of its original climate data that supposedly supports warming temperatures. Gee, I wonder why ... maybe because the earth has actually been COOLING for the last ten years?
Government hacks doing what they do best .... complaints have surfaced that South Carolina Congressman James Clyburn is putting pressure on the Department of Energy that stimulus funds he acquired should benefit his interests.
Speaking of ACORN, how close is ACORN to one of our favorite unions, the SEIU? Too close for comfort. In fact, let's hope the SEIU is using a condom.
One more on ACORN ... CEO Bertha Lewis has put the racial chip back on her shoulder, claiming that ACORN opponents are racist. Does anyone really care any more when someone starts screaming that word?
So when is our FCC Diversity Czar Mark Lloyd going to appear before Congress for questioning? Fat chance. Remember, this is the Obama menace that applauds Hugo Chaves as he seizes control of and shuts down radio and TV stations.
The EPA under the Obama administration is giving an ultimatum to businesses: Support the Kerry-Obama climate tax agenda--or we'll punish your utilities and consumers without your vote.
How about $500,000 of your tax dollars to "conduct a special resource study to evaluate ways of protecting and interpreting sites related to the civil rights movement in the United States."
Do you remember John Mackey, CEO and founder of Whole Foods? Here's a recent interview with Mackey since the liberals decided to boycott his store because of his ideas for healthcare reform.
Saturday Night Live over the weekend says that it is impossible for Barack Obama to be leading our country on a path to socialism ... because Obama hasn't accomplished a darn thing since taking office.
According to Senator Roland Burris, it is George Bush's fault that Chicago did not get the Olympics for 2016.
Another one of these articles proclaiming healthcare to be a right. Gotta love it when liberals check their logic at the door.
Wow, an article that acknowledges that Bush v. Gore upheld that the "individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the president of the United States" except under a form set by a state legislature.
Need a good laugh? The earth has been cooling for almost 10 years now, but the governor of Tokyo says that the 2016 Olympics could be the last ... because of global warming. Where do we hatch these idiots?
Barbara Boxer and John Kerry have introduced a new cap-and-trade bill. I'm sorry, did I say cap-and-trade? I meant to say pollution reduction bill.
Abstinence education. $50 million that belonged to someone else seized and wasted.
I love this. Hugo Chavez and Muammar Gaddafi want to redefine the word "terrorism." Could you think of any two people who would do a worse job of redefining the word "terrorism" than these two jokers?
The Supreme Court is going to decide whether the family of an illegal immigrant who did not receive medical care for cancer while in custody can sue federal medical officials for damages.
The CATO Institute has a new website called Downsizing the Federal Government. Because lord knows we could use less imperial federal government in our lives.
Yesterday everyone seemed to have their boxers in a bunch over Obama's trip to Copenhagen to push for the Olympics to be in Chicago. Someone at National Review has calculated the cost to the taxpayers for his trip.
A scientific scandal is brewing. Looks like global warming scientists are in cahoots to review each others' papers on climate change and ignore the fact that they are incorrect.
You can't make the beast-with-two-backs in your dorm room at Tuft's University if your poor horny roommate is there and not participating. Not kidding.
The news about Social Security spending more in benefits than it takes in in taxes flew under the radar. The Heritage Foundation explains how we are in desperate need for reform.
You still don't believe that Obama would send you to jail if you don't go along with his plans? Well ... maybe this will convince you. Don't you just love what our government has become? Now you can go to jail for not paying something that Obama swears isn't a tax.
Phillip Howard wrote a wonderful book several years ago: "The Death of Common Sense." Now he explains why medical malpractice reform just isn't on the table. It's the trial lawyers, stupid!
Bush officials may be held personally liable for alleged violations of individuals' rights for actions following 9/11.
Barack Obama has shelved the current request for more troops in Afghanistan. Then we learn that the commander in Afghanistan has only spoken to the president once since taking over.
So you know how the government set up a website where you can supposedly track how stimulus money is being spent? Yeah, that's not working out too well. If you're surprised you just haven't been paying attention.
Government workers in the UK are going through people's trash to see what they are throwing away ... as you can imagine, some people have a problem with this.
The unemployment rate for young Americans has exploded to 52.2%. And this is the generation that will be paying the tab for the current Democrats' dreams and schemes.
Turns out that the same government school in New Jersey that had its students singing "mmm mmm mmm Barack Hussein Obama" has had its share of issues in the past.
I just love the leftist media in this country trying to defend the video of the school children singing their song about Barack Obama.
Paul Krugman is sad that the Obama administration let a good crisis go to waste, and didn't capitalize on the financial crisis to reign in those evil financial corporations!
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took the time during his speech to the UN to blast Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. About time someone called Ahmadinejad out.
I'll be looking forward to this ... Sen. Jim Inhofe is going to travel to this fall's climate change summit in Copenhagen to serve as a "one-man truth squad."
The Imperial Federal Government is issuing gag orders against private companies that dare to speak against nationalized health care.
As for ACORN? They're filing suit against the filmmakers who uncovered their slimy underbelly. Once again ... shows we need a "loser pays" legal system.
House Republicans have issued a report providing evidence that AARP will receive tens of millions of dollars in "kickbacks" if Democrat healthcare legislation becomes law.
Well Barack Obama managed to impress one world leader with his speech about climate change: Fidel Castro.
According to this columnist in London, Obama's speech to the United Nations was his most naïve speech to date. Please note that it is never good to received thunderous applause from the UN.
The Democrats rejected an amendment to the healthcare bill that would have required the House to post the final text of major bills online at least 72 hours before voting on them.
The founder of ACORN says that the recent conservative attacks are "complete fabrication" and are meant to undermine President Obama.
The Democrats argue that if we have government-run healthcare, less people will rely on the emergency room for primary care. Too bad that's not the case.
Would you care to take a pop quiz from a government school teacher on Barack Obama's healthcare speech to a joint session of Congress?
Rasmussen polls show that 59% of Americans believe that the current level of political anger in the country is higher than it was when George W. Bush was president.
The feds are issuing security bulletins on hotels and sports stadiums. Enjoy your trip out of town for that football game this weekend. Remember ... if something happens, whatever you do, don't mention that all contemporary terrorists are Muslims.
Zelaya is back in Honduras. Now with the help of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, maybe he can replicate the Hugo Chavez miracle there!
Barack Obama told leaders at the UN that we need to act swiftly on climate change. Too bad legislation in this country isn't getting anywhere anytime soon. Hopefully.
A climate change expert says that cutting carbon emissions won't do anything to stop climate change. Don't slow us down with the facts.
What's this? Congress may reject Obama's proposed mandate that banks offer 'plain vanilla' products because it "would give the government an unprecedented role in the marketplace." Since when did our Congress care about too much government?
A Bank of America in South Carolina is in hot water after an employee reportedly ordered the removal of American flags placed to honor a fallen Marine over fears that people would be offended.
Barney Frank and John Conyers want the Congressional Research Service to investigate ACORN.
Our economic stimulus is really working wonders for our economy, right? Looks like we have Congress to thank ... oh wait, what? Congress didn't write the economic stimulus bill ... some left wing radical organization did? Ya don't say.
Charlie Rangel continues to try and noodle through the issue of illegal aliens and healthcare reform.
Joe Biden is trying to do his best to ease the minds of health insurance companies, assuring them that their government takeover of healthcare will not be harmful for their businesses.
Looks like all of the evil, right-wing hate mongers made such a stink about this "inappropriate" NEA call that the White House set up new guidelines to make sure it doesn't happen again.
A new Gallup Poll shows that the majority of people believe that government is doing too much.
Here's something for Democrats to consider: Since passing tort reform in 2004, Mississippi has seen the number of medical malpractice claims plummet by 91% from its peak.
More and more Americans are starting to realize that this whole global warming scam is just that ... a scam. There is also much unhappiness on the left that cap-and-tax isn't doing so well. So the green groups are going to set up a "climate war room."
House Minority Leader John Boehner says that the Democrat healthcare bill is dead. Since he's a part of the Republican leadership, he should know "dead" when he sees it.
Barack Obama says that he will not stop Eric Holder from conducting an investigation into CIA terrorist interrogators. Of course he won't. The radical left would be less than pleased.
The teachers unions are becoming increasingly upset with Barack Obama saying that this is not why they helped to get him elected. They don't like his references to actually trying to get teachers to perform.
Barack Obama is making his first appearance at the UN. Here are some tips on how to avoid dictators.
When a leading global warming proponent admits that the earth has actually been cooling ... the media is silent.
Jimmy Carter at it again. This time he says that the US may have been involved in a failed coup to overthrow Hugo Chavez in 2002. Our crazy uncle in the attic.
Frank Luntz explains the real reason for America's rage ... and race has nothing to do with it. Go figure.
This from the San Francisco Chronicle? Democrats seem to have shifted their thinking on a number of issues since President Obama took the oath of office.
Congressional leaders are discussing whether to stay home an extra week in November because of Veterans' Day. Let 'em stay ... it's not like they are doing much good in Washington.
It's been a while since we have had a Muslim outrage ... a taxpayer-funded document in Great Britain urges office workers not to eat around Muslims during Ramadan because it could make them feel hungry.
Obama is speaking to college students, letting them on a little secret: healthcare is the "defining struggle of this generation." What is really going to be the struggle for current college students? Dealing with our massive debt thanks to government spending.
According to a recent survey, 87% of businesses would cut employee benefits if the Democrats pass their healthcare bill (assuming that it will increase their costs).
Oh ... you just gotta read this National Review editorial about Jimmy Peanut. You'll find words like "banal," and "cynical," and the wonderful phrase "incessant moral preening."
The White House is also getting involved in Massachusetts politics ... urging constituents to demand that the laws be changed so that the governor can appoint a replacement for Ted Kennedy.
I mentioned this during the Government Outrage portion of the program yesterday ... the Heritage Foundation estimates that Obama's policies would spend $10.3 trillion on welfare programs over the next decade.
Oh, you're just going to love this. States with more conservative religious beliefs have higher rates of teen pregnancy. As Fark says, "Oh God, Oh God, Oh God"
Thomas Sowell compares being told fairytales as a child to Barack Obama's fables for adults.
According to Rasmussen, one year after the collapse of global financial firm Lehman Brothers, most voters (56%) continue to blame the nation's current economic problems on George Bush. Barney and Charlie skate free again.
Well ... there is definitely one sector of the economy that is growing ... this is good news for liberals who are so in love with government.
If the president really wanted to scare Wall Street to change its evil ways, he would have made one simple declarative statement: There will be no more bailouts.
Who do you believe are the most corrupt members of Congress? Here is what the watchdog groups have to say. But don't worry, I'm sure that YOUR representative is great ... it is just all the others that are scoundrels.
Healthcare is a human right, according to the "Universal HTMLCONTROL Forms.HTML:Hidden.1 Declaration of Rights"? Show me where that appears in the Constitution.
Barack Obama didn't make a big deal out of his race when he campaigned, and he still doesn't seem to now that he is president. Why can't others get over it?
Take a look at this picture from Obama's healthcare rally over the weekend. Got the message? Stability and security.
You have to read this one. Why? Because we're going to be hearing this more and more. Maureen Dowd says that "Some people just can't believe a black man is president and will never accept it.´ Yeah, Maureen. That's it. It's all about his skin color, you ditz.
And on that trust issue ... How about a little fact-checking on Obama's statements about health insurance.
The Senate's "gang of six" is working on closing any loopholes in the healthcare bill that would allow illegal immigrants to gain access to government health plans or subsidies.
Yet another "hockey stick" graph on global warming has been published ... and yet another "hockey stick" graph has been found to be fundamentally false.
The GOP a party of cranks? Have these people forgotten the vicious things Democrats would say about George Bush? Have they not logged on to democraticunderground.com?
The dollars is in decline. In fact, it has reached its lowest point in over a year. Could our borrowing and spending habits have anything to do with that?
With Barack Obama's speech tonight on healthcare reform, Dick Morris says that Obama will push seniors further and further away from supporting the Democrats.
Beware of the "trigger:" The newest idea from the plunderers to make sure private insurance is run outta town.
Never let a good crisis go to waste ... the media recognizes that Obama needs to create a "sense of crisis" in order to pass his healthcare reform.
How do you feel about 'life settlements' bonds? They are apparently already causing a lot of controversy for Wall Street.
Newsweek Article: "See Baby Discriminate." The article actually makes some significant points ... right up to the place where the authors say "It's horrifying to imagine kids being 'proud to be white.'" And that "..a pride message (to white children) would be abhorrent." Say what?
Obama's green jobs czar Van Jones -- the one who was a "truther" and believed white communities were poisoning black communities - resigned over the weekend.
Senator James Inhofe says, "I never dreamed I would see an administration try to disavow all the things that have made this country different from all others."
That huge wildfire that's eating SoCal? It could have been prevented with a controlled burn months ago. Environmental nut-jobs stopped it.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer says that he will not vote for healthcare reform if it requires increasing taxes or deficit spending. Well there goes that plan.
We already knew the White House estimates a $9 trillion deficit. What they didn't tell us is that this number was based on brisk economic growth for a solid decade.
The government may "restrict fast food establishments near school grounds and public playgrounds" in order to combat childhood obesity. Because what else are parents for?
Harsh interrogations work. Bring me my toolbox, will ya? I'm just about as fed up as I could possibly be with all this politically correct Wussification nonsense.
Massachusetts will hold a special election in January to fill Ted Kennedy's seat, but the governor will make an interim appointment before then ... or not.
The White House is trying to defend Barack Obama's lack of visibility on the healthcare debate. Look .. he's turned it over to Pelosi, just as he did with "stimulus."
The next president of the AFL-CIO says that politicians are going to pay a price if they abandon a government option for healthcare. They'll pay a price if they do as well. Forced retirement.
Published sources say that George Will's next column will call for U.S. ground troops to leave Afghanistan.
Now some people are worried that the Obama administration is spending stimulus money too fast and therefore isn't properly assessing where money would have the most impact.
First on the list ... well, just read this excerpt:
"Barack Obama in August became a Huey for today, a rabble rouser with a better tailor, an unrumpled and modulated tribune of downtrodden Americans, telling them that opponents of his reform plan--which actually does not yet exist--are fearmongers employing scare tactics. He also told Americans to be afraid, very afraid of health-insurance providers because they are dishonest (and will remain so until there is a "public option" to make them "honest"). And to be afraid, very afraid of pediatricians who unnecessarily extract children's tonsils for monetary rather than medical reasons. And to be afraid, very afraid of doctors generally because so many of them are so rapacious that they prefer lopping off limbs of diabetes patients rather than engaging in lifestyle counseling that for "a pittance" could prevent diabetes."
Slobbering Barney Frank and Ron Paul have teamed up on legislation to restrict the lending powers of the Federal Reserve and to do a complete audit of the central bank.
Belinda loves these new compact fluorescent light bulbs. I don't. This WSJ article has it right .. they give off lousy light.
Did you know that Chris Dodd won't reveal the details of his trillion dollar healthcare bill .. even to his fellow Senators? Talk about transparency.
A Republicans polling firm found that Obama's healthcare reform plan is facing even more public skepticism than Bill Clinton's healthcare proposals did in 1994.
There are calls for the Senate to change the way that Senate vacancies are filled.
John Stossel explains how limiting patient out-of-pocket expenses is going to raise the price of healthcare. Somebody please explain this to President Obama.
Speaking of the Tobin tax ... here's an example of how officials in Great Britain want to use the Tobin tax to stifle that which they have deemed "too big and socially useless."
Who is going to take over the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which has jurisdiction over healthcare reform, now that Ted Kennedy is no longer in power?
Obama vs. the CIA. This ought to work our real well for our efforts to gather intelligence on those Muslim groups that want to kill as many of us as they can.
The Obama administration says that the recession was longer and deeper than expected. Gee, you mean all of this government spending hasn't helped things?
Thomas Sowell writes: "The idea that government officials can play God from Washington is not a new idea, but it is an idea that is being pushed with new audacity."