Deranged Envirowackos Demonstrate At Oil Exec’s House

How deranged? This deranged (Washington Free Beacon) Masked protesters carrying torches and threatening organized violence protested outside the home of an executive at a major oil pipeline company last week. Eight environmental activists gathered on the lawn of Mark Maki, a member of the Enbridge Energy Company’s board of directors and president of Enbridge Energy […]

 

House Passes Clean Debt Ceiling Hike

Many conservatives/Republicans range from agitated to apoplectic. Liberals are crowing. The Washington Post’s uber-leftists (like the WP’s opinion pages aren’t chock full of them, has to be at least a 85-15% split) goes with this provocative headline GOP debt limit extortion is dead Because attempting to limit the insane debt increases is apparently a bad […]

 


Krauthammer: Welcome To The Banana Republic

Surely, Charles Krauthammer’s comments will be deemed raaaaacist, in order to change the subject (Fox News) Syndicated columnist and Fox News contributor Charles Krauthammer took aim at the newest ObamaCare delay on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Monday, calling it “the stuff that you do in a banana republic.” The Obama administration announced it was […]

 


Jindal: Obamacare Is Not Compassionate

Governor Bobby Jindal puts Obamacare in context, and finds it vastly wanting in terms of economics and jobs (Politico) The verdict is in, and it’s not good: Obamacare is rippling through the U.S. economy with vast implications for American prosperity. On Friday, we learned that the Obama economy has hit stall speed, with a paltry […]

 


White House Tells Ocare Insurers To Let Consumers Change Plans

Do you remember the old Simpsons episode where Troy McClure said “there’s The Truth, and then “the truth””? With Obamacare, there’s Deadlines, and then “deadlines” (Washington Post) The Obama administration has quietly reworked rules and computer code for HealthCare.gov to try to stem an outpouring of discontent by some Americans who have discovered that the […]

 

Obameconomy: Wages Almost Flatlining

The jobs report released Friday was bad. “Unexpectedly”. We seem to see quite a few of these. Though the White House always tells us “it is important not to read too much into any one monthly report.” But there was another little bomb within the report, and Nelson D. Schwartz at the NY Times performs […]

 

Rep David Schweikert (R-Ariz) Introduces “Secret Science Reform Act”

What is it? It’s a way of forcing the Environmental Protection Agency, which has seemingly forgotten what their actual mission is, to end their secrecy in rule making (Fox News) Republican lawmakers in the House are pushing legislation that would prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from proposing new regulations based on science that is not […]

 


Team Obama To Allow Immigrants With “Limited Terrorism Ties”

Your government at work (Daily Caller) The Obama administration has issued new exemptions to a law that bars certain asylum-seekers and refugees who provided “limited material support” to terrorists who are believed to pose no threat from the U.S. The Department of Homeland Security and the State Department published the new exemptions Wednesday in the […]

 

States Look To Pass Laws To Broaden Obamacare Networks

One of the “unexpected” results of the “Affordable” Care Act’s notion of reducing health care costs has been a restriction of in-network providers. This is where quite a few folks found out that if they like their doctor, they can’t keep their doctor. Since most people who signed up through the Exchanges were people who […]

 


Hooray! Here Come Obama’s “Climate Hubs”

Yeah, OK, uh huh (NY Times) On the heels of the Senate’s passage of a long-awaited farm bill, the Obama administration is to announce on Wednesday the creation of seven regional “climate hubs” aimed at helping farmers and rural communities respond to the risks of climate change, including drought, invasive pests, fires and floods. White […]

 

Cover Oregon: Possible Criminal Fraud

You remember Cover Oregon, right? It’s the Obamacare website that has essentially singed up zero people. All the enrollments have come via old school paper applications. The website is really still not working (not that the federal website is fully working correctly, either). Now we learn (via The Blaze) (KATU) You already know the process […]

 

Obama To O’Reilly: I’m Waiting For John Kerry’s Approval On Keystone XL

He’s simply running the clock out, as well as highlighting his pitiful leadership skills (Fox News) President Obama told Bill O’Reilly Monday on “The O’Reilly Factor” that he was waiting to get an official recommendation from Secretary of State John Kerry before proceeding with the Keystone Pipeline. Obama also took issue with the number of […]

 



Is Obama An “Imperial President”?

There’s been quite a bit of discussion over Obama’s use of presidential authority: signing statements, executive orders, changing rules (many of which were established by his own administration), changing parts of laws, refusing to defend laws passed by the United States Congress, and generally just doing whatever he wants. The notion of Obama being an […]

 

White House: Not So Fast On that Keystone XL Pipeline, Cause “Climate Change”

So, the President with a carbon footprint around 41K metric tons, and a Sec of State who constantly takes fossil fueled flights all over the world, and also owns several homes and multiple fossil fueled vehicles, are telling us to hold our horses on Keystone XL (Fox News) A new environmental assessment from the State […]

 


Obama’s Executive Action Power Play

During the 2014 SOTU Obama formalized his plan to essentially ignore the duly elected Legislative Branch and act through Executive Orders. This is very much what he has been doing for the entirety of his time in the presidential office, excepting for a few big pieces of legislation, like Obamacare and the failed Stimulus. He […]

 

Koch Brothers To Harry Reid: Comments Are “Beneath The Office He Holds”

Are other Republicans paying attention, particularly elected ones? (Politico) The Koch brothers are firing back at Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid for his broadside on their political activities, with a spokesman calling Reid’s comments “beneath the office he holds.” After Reid on Thursday accused the billionaires Charles and David Koch of trying to “buy the […]

 


GOP 2016 Contenders Push To Decriminalize Marijuana

This isn’t so much about legalization, but decriminalization (Washington Times) Republicans eyeing the White House in 2016 are pushing their party to change its stance and accept a softening of federal marijuana laws – a dramatic shift from the GOP’s most recent contenders who railed against the drug and questioned its medicinal value. Sen. Rand […]

 

Climate Change Is Dead Last On List Of American’s Priorities

Surprise? This comes via The Hockey Schtick, a Wall Street Journal poll on the state of the union and what Americans care about, along with Obama’s approval rating. Here’s the chart Humorously, when Obama started yammering about “climate change” the Gore Effect kicked in, with light snow starting in D.C. And why should people care? […]