William McSwain, a assistant U.S. attorney and executive editor of the 2005 Review of Department of Defense Detention Operations and Detainee Interrogation Techniques, commonly called the Church Report has a must read Op Ed in today’s Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama has reinvigorated the critics of George W. Bush’s antiterror policies by opening the […]
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100 Days, 100 Mistakes for the Obama Administration
The New York Post has compiled what may be the only retrospective of Barack Obama’s first 100 days you need to read… Of course the Post probably shouldn’t throw stones considering the major gaff they made. Here’s the top ten: “Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of ‘earmarks,’ urging changes in the way […]
Poll Question: How Would You Rate Barack Obama’s First 100 Days?
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Is April 21, 2009 The Day Bipartisanship Died?
There’s no doubt that our political process has become poised by hyper partisan rhetoric but so far we have resisted the temptation of criminalizing policy differences. That all changed on April 21, 2009 when Pres. Barack Obama suggested that Bush Administration lawyers who advised the CIA on the law and interrogation practices may subjected to […]
Paul Ryan: The GOP’s Alternative Budget
Paul Ryan the ranking Republican on the House Budget Committee lays out the GOP’s alternative budget proposal in an Op Ed in Today’s Wall Street Journal: Here’s an outline of what we propose: – Deficits/Debt. The Republican budget achieves lower deficits than the Democratic plan in every year, and by 2019 yields half the deficit […]
Holy Crap: $12.8 Trillion Spent, Lent or Committed???
From Bloomberg News: March 31 (Bloomberg) — The U.S. government and the Federal Reserve have spent, lent or committed $12.8 trillion, an amount that approaches the value of everything produced in the country last year, to stem the longest recession since the 1930s. New pledges from the Fed, the Treasury Department and the Federal Deposit […]
What Caused The Finacial Crisis?
A lot has been written about greed and mismanagement on Wall Street but that’s only half the story… Make no mistake greed and mismanagement played their part but so did government intervention and regulatory policy and that’s the largely untold story: Related Speaking of doom, what if Obama only makes it worse? – John Ibbitson, […]
If Republicans in Congress Had Any Courage…
… They’d follow the lead of MEP Daniel Hannan and rip Barack Obama to shreds the way Hannan tore Gordon Brown apart: You can read Daniel’s blog here.
NYT: Dear A.I.G., I Quit!
I hope Barack Obama, Timothy Geithner, Nancy Pelosi, Barney Frank, Chris Dood, Andrew Cuomo, Richard Blumenthal and all the pundits who have lead the AIG lynch mob are happy now: The following is a letter sent on Tuesday by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward […]
Kerry and Boxer: U.S. ‘Needs’ Cap-and-Trade on Carbon Emissions Even if Energy Costs Rise
I was going to mention this Washington times piece on Barack Obama’s climate plan yesterday… But I had the feeling if I waited one or more of our genius politicians would say something stupid. Enter Democratic Sens. John F. Kerry and Barbara Boxer: Democratic Sens. John Kerry and Barbara Boxer told CNSNews.com that the nation […]
Ironies: Obama Signs Law Banning Federal Embryo Research Two Days After Signing Executive Order to OK It
From CNSNews.com: On Wednesday, only two days after he lifted President Bush’s executive order banning federal funding of stem cell research that requires the destruction of human embryos, President Barack Obama signed a law that explicilty bans federal funding of any “research in which a human embryo or embryos are destroyed, discarded, or knowingly subjected to risk of […]
Don Surber: 52 Days, 52 Mistakes
I might as well join Michelle Malkin and Glenn Reynolds in linking to this slightly cheeky piece by Don Surber: 52 Days, 52 Mistakes Let me count them up, in no particular order. Some are big. Some are small. We all make mistakes. Here’s his: 1. A do-over on the oath of office. 2. Tim […]
WSJ: Obama’s Poll Numbers Are Falling to Earth
If you haven’t read it go read the Op Ed by Doug Schoen and Scott Rasmussen in today’s Wall Street Journal. Schoen and Rasmussen examine Pres. Barack Obama’s poll numbers and the narrowing gap between the approval/disapproval numbers: It is simply wrong for commentators to continue to focus on President Barack Obama’s high levels of […]
Confidence Inspiring: Obama Fumbled Brown Visit Because He’s Overwhelmed
Oh Lord, apparently Barack Obama and his staff didn’t fumble last week’s visit by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown out of malice… They fumbled it out of shear inexperience and/or incompetence. From the Telegraph: Sources close to the White House say Mr Obama and his staff have been “overwhelmed” by the economic meltdown and have […]
Is Obama Intentionally Destroying Our Economy???
Never assume malice where incompetence will suffice. Over the last few days I’ve been hearing various theories that essentially say… The Obama administration is deliberately damaging the economy and gutting the stock market on the theory that doing so will make it easier for them to argue “the free market has failed” and pave the […]