Obama Forces Verizon To Hand Over Phone Records

Of course, that’s not the way most media outlets are terming it: we get headlines like U.S. Is Secretly Collecting Records of Verizon Calls, Report: NSA sought Verizon U.S. call records, and the original article, emanating from Glenn Greenwald (one of the only liberals willing to be critical of Obama) at the UK Guardian, NSA […]

 


Michelle Obama Has Fit Over Heckler

Granted, there’s a time and place for everything, and heckling someone giving a speech can be rude, but, it is protected by 3 parts of the 1st Amendment (free speech, redress of grievance, and protest peaceably). (Washington Post) First lady Michelle Obama experienced a rare face-to-face encounter with a protester late Tuesday — approaching the […]

 

Surprise! Obama Political Appointees Using Secret Email Addresses

This was not just Lisa Jackson, but others, and, apparently just because their regular inboxes are overloaded or something. (Newsday) Some of President Barack Obama’s political appointees, including the secretary for Health and Human Services, are using secret government email accounts they say are necessary to prevent their inboxes from being overwhelmed with unwanted messages, […]

 


Greenpeace Warmist: Hey, All You Warmists Shouldn’t Feel Guilty About Being Complete Hypocrites

Over the years I and other Climate Realists have consistently pointed out that Warmists rarely practice what they preach, and, at best, only take token measures within their own lives, such as replacing a bulb or two with CFLs. When you read my posts on “climate change” or comments around the web that theme will […]

 

Gang Of 8 Amnesty Bill Runs Into Problems With Back Taxes, Border Security

Quick, when you think of the Marco Rubio radio commercials, constantly broadcast on talk radio and TV, does the phrase “pay back taxes” come to mind? It shouldn’t, because Amnestyites have dropped any sort of tough posture from the bill, and Rubio has moderated his language just to say “pay taxes” (Politico) The question of […]

 



DOJ Wants You To Know That Insulting Islam Means You Might Have Broken Civil Rights Laws

Has anyone at the DOJ, especially the leadership, actually read the Constitution and the part about Free Speech? (Judicial Watch) In its latest effort to protect followers of Islam in the U.S. the Obama Justice Department warns against using social media to spread information considered inflammatory against Muslims, threatening that it could constitute a violation […]

 

Obama Has “No Patience For People Who Deny Hotcoldwetdry”

This from a the guy with the largest “carbon footprint” on the planet (The Hill) President Obama, echoing his new Energy secretary’s recent comments, said late Wednesday that he’s open to new climate policy ideas but has no interest in battling over whether climate change is real. “If I’ve got somebody who has a different […]

 

Good News: Obama Holds IRS Agent Accountable By Giving Him A Promotion

As the House Ways and Means and Oversight committees get ready to question IRS employees at the Cincinnati office, we learn something interesting (Washington Examiner) President Obama may have promised “to hold the responsible parties accountable” for the Internal Revenue Service targeting of conservative non-profit groups, but one of the agents at the center of […]

 

The Lois Lerner State Of Oppression

Rich Lowry provides an opinion piece over at The Politico on the real problem with Big Government, entitled The Lois Lerner State It is appropriate that the worst scandal of the Obama administration– the IRS targeting of conservatives – is a scandal of administrators and bureaucrats, of otherwise faceless people endowed with immense power over […]

 



6 Year Old Given Detention And Forced To Apologize After “Traumatizing” Other Kids With Gun

The only one traumatized in this whole affair is the 6 year old, who was the recipient of unhinged anti-gun behavior by adults who care little for the mental affairs of children (The Blaze) A 6-year-old kindergarten student in Massachusetts is accused of causing a “disturbance” and “traumatizing” other students by bringing a very tiny […]

 

A Coming Little Ice Age?

Forbes’ Peter Ferrara provides an interesting article regarding the current pause in warming, and starts off with lots and lots of history and scientific facts (which are very inconvenient for Warmists who willingly turn a blind eye to those), well worth the full read To the Horror of Global Warming Alarmists, Global Cooling Is Here […]

 

NY Times Editorial Board Upset That Illegals Have To Deal With Criminal Justice System

They’re basically recommending open borders. Perhaps they should look south towards Mexico, where illegals are treated harshly, or to most other countries in the world, which have strict immigration policies. Anyhow, here’s what the extremely white and male editorial board writes. Border Injustice Those who view fixing immigration as simply a matter of getting tougher […]

 




Sigh: Now A Warmist Blames The War On Terror For Climate Change

Warmists really can’t help themselves, blaming everything for “climate change” (and everything that happens on climate change). Here’s another wacko (via Climate Depot) (Pakistan Today…or, is that, as (NMP) Obama says “Pock-eeeeeee-stan”?) Former Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) director general (DG) Qamaruz Zaman Chaudhry on Thursday said climate change was on the rise due to war […]

 

DOJ Fought To Keep James Rosen Warrent Secret

Remind me, isn’t the Justice Department supposed to follow the Constitution and the Law? Apparently not when Eric Holder is in charge and they want to retaliate against a journalist (The New Yorker) The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that […]

 


In “Squirrel!” Speech, Obama Urges End To Global War On Terrorism

Not that he really it calls it that. If you remember, his administration changed it to “overseas contingency” early on. And while the NY Times says that this “was the most important statement on counterterrorism policy since the 2001 attacks, a momentous turning point in post-9/11 America”, there are two issues, the first being that […]

 

Issa: Lois Lerner Waived Her 5th Amendment Rights

As Orin Kerr points out, there is a lot of back and forth and varying opinions as to this matter, but not from Darrell Issa (Politico) Lois Lerner might win the legal battle but she’s prolonging the political war. Instead of simply taking the scorn of lawmakers for a day, repeatedly invoking the Fifth Amendment […]