Year: 2012

Like Charter Schools, Britain’s Academies Aim High

Posted on by Michael Barone

LONDON — 1776 is a number with great resonance for Americans, but not one you expect to be featured on a British government website. But there it is, on the home page of the United Kingdom’s Department of Education: “As of 1 April 2012, there are 1776 academies open in England.” Academies, as you might […]

 

Israel Publicity: IDF Apps, And Irrelevant Professors

Posted on by Ronn Torossian

Some random interesting media readings of the last few days: Interesting story by MJ Rosenberg on “Jewish Vote: Still Liberal After All These Years” in The Huffington Post.: : Statistically, with the exception of: Florida, American Jews really don’t live in swing states and their votes aren’t as important as media makes them out to be.: : Israel does continue […]

 

Shark Tank’s Javier Manjarres Booted from Wasserman Schultz Event

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Shark Tank’s Javier Manjarres was booted from the Florida Democratic Party’s Jefferson-Jackson gala dinner featuring Sen. Bill Nelson. : Manjarres posted today that his original trip to Tampa was cancelled and decided to attend the dinner and see what Sen. Nelson had to say. : Manjarres stated: After I arrived, I asked where the media check-in was. […]

 

Even Former Clinton Operative Stephanopoulos Doesn’t Buy Obama’s Outsourcing Lie

Posted on by Matt Vespa

On the July 15 episode of This Week, former Clinton operative, George Stephanopoulos exposed the egregious hypocrisy of Obama’s outsourcing attack on Romney. : Despite the fact that outsourcing has increased over the past three years, Chicago Mayor and former Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emmanuel thought this was a different circumstance because Obama is president. […]

 

Reuters Touts Obama’s Faux Tax Cuts

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Reuters has apparently singed up on Obama’s communication team if its latest lovefest over his plans to favor America with “tax cuts” just in time for the January election campaign is any indication. It took four, count ’em four, Reuters reporters to come up with this one! Reuters was pleased to note that Obama and […]

 

Obama: “You Didn’t Build That Business On Your Own”

Posted on by William Teach

Jazz Shaw writes that this is Obama channeling his inner Elizabeth “High Cheekbones” Warren, who said last year “there is nobody in this country who got rich on his own. Nobody.” What she was saying is that no one can succeed with out the big loving embrace of The Government, so people who got rich […]

 

“California’s Bad Bet Makes JPMorgan’s Look Minor”

Posted on by Craig Newmark

Absolutely true. The one I’m referring to was: made: by California legislators on Sept. 10, 1999. They decided that investment gains would cover 100 percent of the cost of retroactive pension increases they granted that day to hundreds of thousands of state workers. The politicians made the wrong bet — and the result has been a penalty […]

 

Don’t Buy Investor-Government Scheme

Posted on by Debra Saunders

There are some ideas so convoluted that only an expert (or wannabe expert) could love them. For example: collateralized debt obligations, which seemed like a good idea until the mortgage meltdown swamped the U.S. economy. Into this hallowed territory comes a new instrument, playing its siren song. San Francisco startup Mortgage Resolution Partners has come […]

 

Obama ‘Outsourcing’ Fundraising… to China!

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While Obama tries to get America focused on the false claim that Romney outsourced jobs as the chief of Bain Capitol, what was the President doing? Why, outsourcing his fundraising, of course. Outsourcing it to Shanghai, China to be precise. On July 11, Obama’s big money men were holding a nice fundraiser in Red China […]

 

Obama Hates Bain Capital, But Likes Their Money

Posted on by Matt Vespa

While Obama bashes Romney and Bain Capital, frivolously, for outsourcing, he gladly takes their money. : As Ben Shapiro reported in Breitbart on July 13: that Obama has received quite a bit of money from these “pioneers” in outsourcing with people like: Joshua Bekenstein. Bekenstein has been a managing director of Bain Capital since 1986. In 2008, […]

 

Romney Demands Apology From Obama For Feckless Bain Attacks

Posted on by William Teach

He won’t get it, obviously. Team Obama has nothing else to run on (NY Times) Mitt Romney demanded an apology from President Obama on Friday for making what he called “reckless” and “absurd” allegations in an escalating battle over whether Mr. Romney’s business record included outsourcing American jobs. After days in which the Obama campaign […]

 

Mitt Romney’s Vice Presidential choice should come from the Sunshine state

Posted on by Josh Bernstein

With the Republican nomination wrapped up for Mitt Romney, the attention now turns to who will be his running mate. There are a lot of great choices to choose from and this decision should be well thought out and taken very seriously. Picking the wrong running mate could have disastrous consequences. Most vice presidential picks […]

 

Chile at a Crossroads

Posted on by Russell E. Hoss

Chile’s accession to the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in 2010 was more than just a confirmation that they’d earned the right to join: the world’s top ranked economies. As the first South American country to be accepted into the OECD, it was also a symbolic affirmation of several decades worth of market-oriented reforms that […]

 

WaPo Hypes Poll On…Weather!? Buries Anti-Tax Hike Sentiment

Posted on by Matt Vespa

With the scorching heat and the infamous derecho that left D.C. in the dark on June 29, it seems perfectly logical for folks in the Washington area to blame “global warming” as we all bake in the 100 degree heat. In fact, The Washington Post conducted a poll that showed that a majority of Americans […]

 

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers for VP

Posted on by Matt Vespa

Romney needs a solid conservative running mate on the Republican ticket. : In 2012, we have more solid VP names being talked about lately. : Bobby Jindal, Chris Christie, Marco Rubio, Rob Portman, Bob McDonnell and others have been mentioned would be superb choices. : However, I do agree with the Wall Street Journal, in the case of […]

 

American Energy Means American Recovery

Posted on by Michael Fell

There is widespread consensus that America needs to become energy independent. America’s ever growing dependence on foreign energy puts her at ever-greater risk in a world that is increasingly unstable. Given the current political upheavals in the Middle East, this reality is slapping America in the face with increasing costs at the pump, which are […]

 

Holder’s DOJ Unaccountably Hikes Claims of Number of Texans Lacking Photo I.D.

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder originally said that some 600,000 Texans lacked a voter I.D. and therefore would be disenfranchised by the Texas voter I.D. law, but Department Of Justice lawyers have suddenly upped that number greatly. Holder’s DOJ now claims that 1.4 million otherwise eligible Texas voters don’t have proper I.D.s. Unfortunately, Holder did […]

 

ZERO EFFECT: The Unintentionally Hilarious Trailer for Pro-Obama Movie

Posted on by Matt Vespa

It’s Friday, so what better way to kick off the weekend than a hilarious trailer promoting an over-the-top pro-Obama movie.:  Judging by the 2:30-long trailer for The Obama Effect, the movie, set in 2008, is the fictional account of a man named John (played by Charles S. Dutton) who suffers a heart attack and discovers […]

 

Condi for VP?

Posted on by Matt Vespa

  Yesterday afternoon, the Drudge Report stated that Condoleezza Rice was a frontrunner for VP spot on the Republican ticket this year. :  Larry O’Connor, who was sitting in for Chris Plante, complimented Drudge this morning on WMAL: stating “he got a tip, he followed up, he verified it and published it.” : In other words, he […]

 

The FBI Says The Trayvon Martin Shooting Had Nothing To Do Race; Race Hustling Poverty Pimps Hardest Hit

Posted on by John Hawkins

For race hustlers like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, the NAACP, and the New Black Panther Party, Trayvon Martin’s death was good for business. They exploited the whole event for headlines, TV time, and fund raising. Endless death threats were made against George Zimmerman and his family. White people were beaten “for Trayvon.” There were so […]

 

Not A Shocker: The Food Stamp President Loves Welfare, Too

Posted on by John Hawkins

In yet another attempt to seduce more Americans into dependence on: government, the Obama Administration is: waiving the work requirements: for welfare. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent: an “information memorandum” to states this afternoon exercising waiver: authority under the Social Security Act for the provision that “parents and: caretakers receiving assistance under the [Temporary Assistance for Needy: Families (TANF)] […]