Author: William Teach

Debt Deal Winners And Losers

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Over at the Washington Post, Chris Cillizza breaks down the winners and losers in the debt deal. Here are a few of his winners Tea party: There were major questions coming into the 112th Congress about who would blink first – the largely establishment-aligned leaders of the new Republican House majority or the tea-party-aligned freshman […]

 

PIMCO Chief: US Credit Rating Will Get Downgraded Regardless Of Deal

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Hmm, hasn’t President Snippy Pants been running around, scaring people, telling them the US credit rating will get downgraded if Someone Else doesn’t put a deal together? Not so fast, “according to PIMCO founder and managing director Bill Gross” When asked by CNN host Ali Velshi on Sunday whether the U.S. deserved to maintain its […]

 

Is There A Tentative Compromise Debt Deal?

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ABC News is reporting that there is tentative debt deal, per “congressional sources”. Here’s the deal they are reporting, according to both Dem and GOP sources A debt ceiling increase of up to $2.1 to $2.4 trillion (depending on the size of the spending cuts agreed to in the final deal). They have now agreed […]

 

Shocker! Economy Falters Dramatically In First Quarter

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I know, I know, you’re saying “how could that possibly happen after two years of far left Keynesian economic policies?” The economic recovery faltered dramatically in the first half of the year, and that means more trouble ahead. The latest Commerce Department figures show that the nation’s economic output was gasping for breath long before […]

 

Man With No Plan Demands Deal By Tuesday In Weekly Radio Whinefest

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There’s an old saying: respect the office, if not the man. But, what if the man uses the office to make the presidency as much of a joke as he is himself? Anyhow, Obama has used his perch to complain like a 5 year old who isn’t allowed to have a cookie before doing his […]

 

Is It Over For The Climate Alarmists?

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That’s the question that Powerline’s John Hinderaker asks, regarding the new report that NASA’s own data blows a gaping hole in global warming alarmism, a story I never got around to Thursday, due to time constraints from Real Life. John boils the whole thing down This could be the last nail in the coffin of […]

 

Politico Op-Ed: TEA Partiers Are Terrorists

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The actual headline reads “The tea party’s terrorist tactics“, which is interesting, when one considers that The Politico, like so many other leftist news outlets, refers to actual Islamist terrorists as militants and insurgents. And, having kept track of so many liberal blogs and forums for a long time, the Left generally thinks of Conservatives […]

 

Man With No Plan Ramps Up PR In Debt Debate

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President Snippy Pants is doing what he does best: voting present, then giving speeches As House Republicans slog toward a Thursday vote on raising the debt ceiling, President Obama and his staff have hit the airwaves in a massive, all-hands-on-deck public-relations effort to turn the tide of political opinion in their favor. All told, the […]

 

Why, Yes, Atheists Have An Issue With The World Trade Center Cross

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And, because it annoys them, they have to attempt to ruin it for everyone else (just to be clear, not all atheists should be blamed, just the group American Atheists) An atheist group has filed a lawsuit seeking to prevent a cross made out of World Trade Center steel beams from going on display at […]

 

Henry Waxman Asks Sec. Chu To Create Globull Warming Re-Education Program

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Because you haven’t been exposed enough to the so-called science of anthropogenic global warming, er, climate change, er, climate crisis, Henry Waxman wants more, and penned a letter to Energy Secretary Steven Chu (via Minnesotans For Global Warming). A few excerpts (full letter for your amusement at MGW) I am writing to urge you to […]

 

Just How Big Is The Federal Government? Over 100 Million Checks Sent Out Each Month

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Consider: the population of the United States is a bit over 311 million, yet, we start off with Obama unintentionally telling us that government is too damned involved in American life If nothing else, the crisis over the debt ceiling is reminding the country of the astonishing reach of the federal spigot, encapsulated by a […]

 

TSA Abuses Cancer Survivor For Second Time

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And, they apparently knew who they were patting down Thomas Sawyer, a 62-year-old bladder cancer survivor who made headlines last November after a pat-down left him covered in his own urine, has filed a new complaint with the Transportation Security Administration. Sawyer, who wears a urostomy bag that collects his urine through an opening in […]

 

Did Team Obama Pay The Washington Post For Fawning Coverage?

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Apparently, they watched a different speech than the rest of us did. Here’s Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s Monday night repeat, via Gateway Pundit: Don Surber has some other quotes which lambaste President Snippy Pants. And So It Goes In Shreveport eviscerates (whoops, sorry, uncivil word) Obama’s class warfare scaremongering blamestorming 5 year old tantrum presser. […]

 

Oh, Good, Obama’s Going To Be On TV Yet Again: Obama Bingo Time!

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What else is there to say that hasn’t already been said? In a fresh challenge to President Barack Obama, House Republicans unveiled reworked legislation Monday to avert a potentially devastating government default in barely a week – but along lines the White House has already rejected. Democrats countered quickly with an alternative that drew presidential […]

 

Shockingly, Obama Is Unable To Charm Businesses

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I know, I know, it’s extremely strange, historic and unprecedented, if you will, that an administration that spends much of its time railing against and demonizing private enterprise would have a tough time charming the same The Obama administration’s push to mend its relationship with business has gone cold only six months into the effort. […]

 

NY Times Advocates Taxing Food Behavior

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Here’s one from the Times’ Sunday Review by Mark Bittman, who “writes about food for the opinion section.” Wait, what? There’s a need to write opinion pieces about food? Only in extreme Liberal World. And that’s why we get Bad Food? Tax It, and Subsidize Vegetables WHAT will it take to get Americans to change […]

 

NY Times Blames The Deficit On……..

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….if the first thought that came to mind was “enormous and reckless spending by Obama and the Democrats,” well, sorry, nope, uh uh, you have to go back to the B and T words With President Obama and Republican leaders calling for cutting the budget by trillions over the next 10 years, it is worth […]

 

Remember, When The Weather Is Hot, That’s Proof Of Globull Warming

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And when it is very cold and snowy…..well, the Warmists are blaming that on anthropogenic global warming nowadays, too. Latest to push the meme is Andrew Revkin “Living with the greenhouse effect” was the subtitle of my October, 1988, cover story for Discover Magazine – my first lengthy exploration of the science pointing to a […]

 

NY Times: Hey, Obama Should Violate The Constitution And Raise The Debt Ceiling

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Well, as to the first part, op-ed contributors Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule state that it would be perfectly Constitutional, and offer an extremely dubious rationale PRESIDENT OBAMA should announce that he will raise the debt ceiling unilaterally if he cannot reach a deal with Congress. Constitutionally, he would be on solid ground. Politically, […]

 

UK Minister: Denying Climate (Hoax) Deal Like Denying Hitler

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We could probably term this as a jumping the shark moment, yet, the anthropogenic global warming movement/cult jumped the shark about a decade or so. Unfortunately, the show hasn’t yet been cancelled LONDON, July 21 (Reuters) – World leaders who oppose a global agreement to tackle climate change are making a similar mistake to the […]

 

DHS Thinks All You White People Are Potential Terrorists

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I usually tend to ignore the hysteria from Alex Jones websites, but Joseph Watson at Infowars catches something interesting from the Department Of Big Sis A new promotional video released by the Department of Homeland Security characterizes white middle class Americans as the most likely terrorists, as Big Sis continues its relentless drive to cement […]

 

UN Security Council Declares Globull Warming A Threat To World Peace

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If they really believed that, they would turn all the power off at every UN building in the world, and stop flying all over the world for climate change (hoax) conferences in exotic vacation locations. Anyhow The United Nations Security Council has declared that global warming is a threat to world peace and stability, in […]

 

Gang Of Six Raw Offer: As Bad As You Thought It Would Be

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Shocked? When both National Review and The Politico hate it……… Starting with National Review But now, along comes the Gang of Six plan, and some Republicans are apparently intrigued by it. They shouldn’t be. It’s a terrible, terrible plan. It will hand the president a huge strategic victory and deliver nothing that the GOP should […]

 

Are You Ready For The United Nations’ Green Helmets?

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Because the UN does such a wonderful job with their Blue Helmets A special meeting of the United Nations security council is due to consider whether to expand its mission to keep the peace in an era of climate change. Small island states, which could disappear beneath rising seas, are pushing the security council to […]

 

Attacks Against Bachmann Are Sexist And May Violate Several Laws

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The Boston Herald notices the sexism inherent in the treatment of Bachman and Palin GOP mega-stars U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin – both top Republicans who buck the status quo – have been unfairly mocked and broadsided with loaded, gender-biased questions, prominent women from both parties told the Herald yesterday. “You have two […]

 

HuffPo: You Climate Realists Are The Real “Alarmists”

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And all this time, I thought I was using the word “alarmist” in the correct context, ie, people who practice chicken littleism on the climate, like Kelly Rigg: Will the Real Global Warming Alarmists Please Stand Up? I wish I had a dollar for every time someone called Al Gore an alarmist. I wish I […]

 

Oh, Noes, GOP Has Not Backup Debt Plan As Issue Turns “Scary”

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It’s so terrible There’s a narrative gaining traction in Washington as a debt crisis looms: House Republican hard-liners might soften their stance once they’ve gotten a vote on their Cut, Cap and Balance proposal. But if that’s the case, the conservatives aren’t in on the plan. Well, that’s pretty much it for a story by […]

 

If Only You’d Forgo Meat And Cheese Once A Week, We’d Save Gaia

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I’m sure you can easily guess what we could save Gaia from, right? If every American skipped meat and cheese one day a week, environmentally it would be the same as the country driving 91 billion fewer miles a year. That’s the figure calculated by the Environmental Working Group, which in a report out today […]

 

GOP Shifts To The Hard Right On Debt Talks (?)

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So says the Politico in a wonder article that could have been written by the DNC or the uber politicized White Democrat House Turning right with a vengeance, Republicans will bring to the House floor Tuesday a newly revised debt-ceiling bill that is remarkable for its total absence of compromise at this late date, two […]

 

NY Times: This Prolonged Recession Is The Fault Of You Consumers

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Because, darnitall, you silly consumers just won’t spend yourselves into massive debt in the manner (NMP) Obama has THERE is no shortage of explanations for the economy’s maddening inability to leave behind the Great Recession and start adding large numbers of jobs: The deficit is too big. The stimulus was flawed. China is overtaking us. […]