Author: William Teach

Good News: ObamaWorld Is Now Open For Business!

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That is, if you a tourist coming from another country. If you want to create jobs through something like, say, the Keystone XL pipeline, well, sucks to be you. If you are part of the oil industry, Obama’s EPA will try and stop you. If you are a small business, Obama’s extreme regulations will cause […]

 

FBI Shuts Down File Sharing Site Megaupload – We Need SOPA And PIPA Why?

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In a bit of serendipity, the day after the big Internet protest against SOPA and PIPA the FBI acts on the powers already granted under the law to shut down a massive file sharing site (NY Times) In what the federal authorities on Thursday called one of the largest criminal copyright cases ever brought, the […]

 

Cold And Aloof President Blames Media For Creating Cold And Aloof Image

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Which is rather strange, because the media created an image that Barack H. Obama was the Messiah (via Ace) (Politico) President Obama blames the press for creating the image that he’s aloof and disconnected from the rest of Washington, insisting in a new interview that he’s just more interested in spending time with his family […]

 

Breaking: Rick Perry To Suspend Campaign Today

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Via Mediate CNN political analyst Paul Steinhauser is reporting that Texas Governor Rick Perry is telling supporters that he will drop his bid for the GOP nomination Thursday afternoon, ahead of the South Carolina debate later Thursday night. Steinhauser said that CNN political reporter Peter Hamby has two sources that say Perry will drop out […]

 

Bummer: NY Times Green Learns The “Pleasures And Pitfalls” Of Solar

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Mostly, the Times writer, Craig Leisher, learns the pitfalls For our year living in the woods of Maine, I wanted a place where I could see and hear wildlife. Someplace both quiet and remote. In our part of Maine, quiet and remote means off the electrical grid. Our summer rental cabin had no electricity except […]

 

Liberal Washington Post Thinks Keystone XL Decision A Bad One

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Rather a surprising editorial from the Washington Post. After discussing the background of Keystone XL and Obama’s decision, we get We almost hope this was a political call because, on the substance, there should be no question. Without the pipeline, Canada would still export its bitumen – with long-term trends in the global market, it’s […]

 

Know What Obama’s Jobs Council Recommended? Drilling For Oil

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Google “oil job creation” and you will find tons of stories how some states, such as North Dakota, are seeing such an influx of new employees that the housing market cannot keep up. That these new employees have money to spend. Oh, and that there are tons of new employees. And then we get (Global […]

 

Sarah Palin Sorta Backs Gingrich In South Carolina

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Obviously, you can tell I’m not a big Sarah Palin fan anymore, but, putting that aside, I’m not so sure this sorta endorsement will help Gingrich. It may be the equivalent of John McCain endorsing Mitt Romney to Conservatives (CBS News) It wasn’t an endorsement, but Sarah Palin gave Newt Gingrich the next best thing […]

 

Climate Change Hoax Has Apparently Become Part Of The Culture War

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So says the Washington Posts Michael Gerson, who starts out calling Katharine Hayhoe, who had written the chapter in Newt Gingrich’s forthcoming book that ended up being whacked, a “moderate voice.” She’s anything but. A theory about the role of carbon dioxide in climate patterns has joined abortion and gay marriage as a culture war […]

 

Hooray! Obama Plans Yet Another Lazer Like Focus On Jobs And The Economy

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We learn this in a The Hill article which suggests that liberals and leftists will not particularly like the Presidents proposed budget. Fortunately, the Democrat led Senate will never bother to pass it. Anyhow Top White House officials are warning liberal and labor leaders to brace themselves for President Obama’s budget proposal. Gene Sperling, director […]

 

RON PAUL!!!!1!!! Flashback: Civil War Was Senseless

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An interesting article from Philly.com Paul is in party of Lincoln, but rejects what he stood for Can Ron Paul make Abe Lincoln a villain – in the Party of Lincoln? Why would he try in the first place? And who would help him? In all the attention that has surrounded the presidential candidacy of […]

 

Politico Notices That A GOP Win In November Could Mean The End Of ObamaCare

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Of course, since so many liberals and liberal companies have already received waivers, it wouldn’t mean all that much to themselves (Politico) Think the Supreme Court is where the future of President Barack Obama’s health care law will be settled? Think again. The real verdict on the future of Obama’s signature achievement will come in […]

 

Huntsman To End Campaign, Endorse Romney

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Well, this is a surprise, he ran such a great campaign, what with him following the tried and true primary season plan where the candidate panders to independents and moderates….what’s that? They are supposed to pander to the base? Well, darn. Well, at least he went and attacked President Obama….huh? He said in his running […]

 

White House Supposedly Comes Out Against SOPA, House Shelves It

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Saturday, the White House responded to two petitions asking that SOPA and PIPA be killed as legislation Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces of legislation concerning the very real issue of online piracy, including the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), the PROTECT IP Act, and the Online Protection and Digital ENforcement Act (OPEN). […]

 

Shocker! Heavily Liberal States Back ObamaCare

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Well, all are heavily liberal other than one (Washington Times) Eleven states and the District of Columbia are siding with the Obama administration in the legal battle over the constitutionality of the new health care law, as more than half the states prepare to challenge the law before the Supreme Court. Attorneys general in California, […]

 

Good News! $6.5 Billion In Taxpayers Funds At Risk In “Green” Ventures

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We just saw a Friday document dump from the White House, where they were fretting about the planned layoffs at Solyndra. This should bump the fretting up to Category 5 (and probably earn CBS’ Sharyl Attkisson another profanity laced tirade from White House personnel) (CBS News) Solar panel maker Solyndra received a $528 million Energy […]

 

Book Proclaims Obama Didn’t Want To Take Pictures With Soldiers In Baghdad

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A little red meat for a Friday morning. In the book “The Operators”, this passage appears, via Buzz Feed After the talk, out of earshot from the soldiers and diplomats, he starts to complain. He starts to act very un-Obamalike, according to a U.S. embassy official who helped organize the trip in Baghdad. He’s asked […]

 

Romney Attacked For…Wait, Speaking French?

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Well, this is a strange one (Politico) A new Web ad from Newt Gingrich’s campaign, “The French Connection,” stresses the similarities between Mitt Romney and John Kerry, tying the two Massachusetts politicians together with the fact that both of them speak French. “Just like John Kerry, he speaks French, too,” the ad’s narrator says of […]

 

Romney Gets Big Endorsement From Architect Of Arizona’s Immigration Law

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This is a pretty big endorsement, considering that the GOP primary season is heading into South Carolina, a state with a large illegal immigrant population, and which has passed an Arizona type law (Washington Times) Mitt Romney collected the endorsements Wednesday of the architect of Arizona’s immigration-crackdown law, marking the final step on a journey […]

 

Warren Buffett Goes Weasel On Paying Higher Taxes

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Buffett finally comes out and says he is willing to voluntarily pay higher taxes, but, there is a catch (Time) Warren Buffett is ready to call Republicans’ tax bluff. Last fall, Senator Mitch McConnell said that if Buffett were feeling “guilty” about paying too little in taxes, he should “send in a check.” The jab […]

 

Doomsday Clock Moves To 5 Minutes, Partly Due To Climate Change Hoax

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If only the Warmists would practice what they preach, it wouldn’t be an issue (Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists) It is five minutes to midnight. Two years ago, it appeared that world leaders might address the truly global threats that we face. In many cases, that trend has not continued or been reversed. For that […]

 

Romney Takes New Hampshire, On To South Carolina

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Not that it was a particularly big surprise that Romney won the Granite State (CNN) Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney won a convincing victory in the New Hampshire primary, the second straight triumph for Romney and one that bolsters his front-runner status to take on President Barack Obama in November. All six Republican contenders head […]

 

Good News! Electric Car Subsidies Help The 1%!

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Who profits from the electric car subsidies? This should make the Occupiers unhappy, but, since they support Obama and the Democrats overwhelmingly, they will barely make a peep (Fox News) Once again, going green has taxpayers seeing red. This time however, billions in federal subsidies for electric vehicles are going those who need them the […]

 

Americans Overwhelmingly Fear An Obama Re-Election

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That’s hard to understand, because he’s done so much for the America! (US News) When it comes to how Americans view President Obama going into the new year, there appears to be very little spirit of Auld Lang Syne. Instead, according to the new Washington Whispers poll, many voters aren’t forgetting what they dislike about […]

 

Wait, There Was A Debate Sunday, Too?

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Was anyone else aware of this, other than The Politico’s Maggie Haberman, or, were we all focused on the NFL Playoffs? Fortunately, Maggie was there to provide 6 takeaways 1) For the most part, the attacks on Mitt Romney didn’t stick Romney was under much more forceful attack in Sunday morning’s debate than he was […]

 

When The Government Can Sue The Government For More Taxpayer Money….

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….we should turn the concern meter up to 11 (Fox News) School districts and their supporters around the US have launched a wave of lawsuits asking courts to order more spending on public education, contending they face new pressures as states cut billions of dollars of funding while adding more rigorous educational standards. About half […]

 

Eugene Robinson: Extreme Rick Santorum Shouldn’t Be Let Near White House

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One thing that I have missed during the King Obama years has been the truly unhinged lefties being unhinged. They were a lot more fun when Bush was president, but, hey, with the 2012 silly season in full swing, they are coming out of the woodwork (Washington Post) Before there was the Tea Party to […]

 

“Climate Change Castaways” Have Long Years To Wait

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This story jumped up and hit me when I took my morning perusal of Memeorandum, seeing what the big stories of the day are, so, I didn’t have to hunt around for an unhinged Warmist story (Sydney Morning Herald) THE President of what could be the first country in the world lost to climate change […]

 

Poll: Romney Leads Among Likely GOP Primary Voters, Santorum Rising

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But Newt is still hanging in (Rasmussen) Former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum, coming off his photo finish with Mitt Romney in the Iowa caucuses, is now in second place among Republican voters in the race for the party’s 2012 presidential nomination. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey, taken the night after the caucuses, shows […]