Category: Barack Obama

Tax Cheats Received $1.4 Billion In Stimulus Tax Credits

Posted on by William Teach

Surprise! (Washington Times) Tax cheats were given $1.4 billion in government-backed mortgage loans under President Obama’s economic stimulus, and the government doled out at least an additional $27 million in tax credits to delinquents who took the first-time-homebuyer tax break, according to a government audit released Tuesday. Under government rules, delinquent taxpayers are supposed to […]

 

LA Times Styles Romney the Whites Only Candidate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On June 18 the L.A. Times turned in a sly performance attempting to paint Mitt Romney as the whites only candidate in a piece headlined, “Romney, Cows and Ice Cream: Targeting Conservative, White ‘Backbone’.” Romney is calling his current Midwest campaign stint a tour of the “backbone of America,” but it seems the Times is […]

 

Side Splitter: Politico Says Jury Still Out On “Green” Jobs And DOE Loans

Posted on by William Teach

So says the headline On green jobs and DOE loans, the jury is still out Yet, the information they provide right at the beginning blows that lie right out of the water The Energy Department’s clean-energy loan program hasn’t yet yielded the kind of moonshot-style success that President Barack Obama envisions would transform the U.S. […]

 

Food Stamp President Wants Even More People On Food Stamps

Posted on by William Teach

What he wants is more people dependent on the Central Government, owing their allegiance to Obama and the Democrats, as opposed to finding ways to get the economy moving so that people have the money to purchase food on their own with government help (CNN Money) More than one in seven Americans are on food […]

 

No, the SB 1070 Ruling is not a Victory for Arizona

Posted on by Terrence Jackson

Forgive my pessimism, but I fail to see how exactly anyone but illegal immigrants and liberals won in the Supreme Court ruling on SB 1070, the controversial Arizona law that was intended to hold illegal aliens accountable. Much of the meat and potatoes of the law was tossed; in fact, in my humble opinion, the […]

 

The Age Old Power Struggle: Chapter 2012

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Muslim cleric introduced Egypt’s new President, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi by saying: Our Capital ‘shall be Jerusalem, Allahwilling’.:  For his part, Morsi pronounced: Abroad women are ‘free,’ but not here. These types of proclamations do not bode well for Egyptian minorities, which includes members of the Coptic Church community, who make up about […]

 

“progressive” Media Spin Continues Unabated

Posted on by Michael Fell

Consistent with a clear pattern of widespread institutionalized “progressive” left media bias, Yahoo News once again uses headlines to promote their version of the news.:  They report that whoever wins the presidency in November will have negligible impact on the economy. The “news headline” reads: Poll: Election winner won’t impact economy much. http://news.yahoo.com/poll-election-winner-wont-impact-economy-much-073536119–finance.html The story […]

 

Ask Not What Obama Can Do for You in His Campaign…

Posted on by Donlyn Turnbull

With some degree of certainty, the Obama campaign may adopt this title as a slogan and begin printing t-shirts along with printing money. : I don’t believe he has a problem with either one. Welcome to the Obama campaign’s audacity of arrogance tour. One of the founding principles of good leadership is never ask someone to […]

 

Obama Plays Small Ball With Carp, Pythons

Posted on by William Teach

Unable to do anything meaningful to get the US economy moving, Mr. Obama has resorted to playing small ball in many states with issues that should simply be normal government business (Politico) President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney are jousting over the big national themes of 2012: the economy, the deficit, the crisis in Europe. […]

 

The Age Old Power Struggle: Chapter 2012

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Muslim cleric introduced Egypt’s new President, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi by saying: Our Capital ‘shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing’.:  For his part, Morsi pronounced: Abroad women are ‘free,’ but not here. These types of proclamations do not bode well for Egyptian minorities, which includes members of the Coptic Church community, who make up […]

 

Confiscated: Obama Afraid Latinos Will Attack Him With Forks At Luncheon

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

-By Warner Todd Huston Imagine if Bush had insulted his Latino guests like this. Latinos with forks, that seems to be Obama’s newest fear. At least, that’s the case judging from his actions at this years National Association of Latino Elected Officials (NALEO) luncheon since Obama had the Secret Service confiscate all the dinner forks […]

 

The Age Old Power Struggle: Chapter 2012

Posted on by Michael Fell

A Muslim cleric introduced Egypt’s new President, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Morsi by saying: Our Capital ‘shall be Jerusalem, Allah willing’.:  For his part, Morsi pronounced: Abroad women are ‘free,’ but not here. These types of proclamations do not bode well for Egyptian minorities, which includes members of the Coptic Church community, who make up […]

 

NY Times: Democrats Thought Mandate Was Constitutional Because They Said It Was Constitutional

Posted on by William Teach

Things are getting a little tense for Democrats and the far left Democrat voters as they see the good possibility that the Obamacare health insurance mandate will be shot down this week by the Supreme Court. There is even the possibility that the whole thing will be shot down because the wholly Democrat legislation did […]

 

Obama: What We Need Is “Bottom-Up” Economics

Posted on by William Teach

Because, you know, it’s all those people with no freaking money who make the economy run, create jobs, and open businesses. After his Typical Whining about Republicans, mischaracterizing the proposals, we get (UPI) “I believe we should do everything we can to help our entrepreneurs succeed,” the president said. “I want our companies to be […]

 

Democrat’s Newest Attack on Free Political Speech With Willing Assistance by Media

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What would you say if a Koch Brothers, right-wing effort was pushed on Americans with the knowing assistance of National Public Radio — and big money was paid to NPR for the effort? Would you say that this is an outrage, that NPR’s use of public airwaves to push a right-wing policy idea is a […]

 

UN Investigator Says US Drone Strikes May Be War Crimes

Posted on by William Teach

Let me be clear: I mostly support Obama’s use of drone strikes against Islamist terrorists around the world. It’s one of the few things on which I agree with him. Actually, it’s more like agreeing with Joe Biden, who recommended using more strikes and less troops in regards to the surge in Afghanistan. The United […]

 

Romney Is Not Reagan, But Is The Best Option

Posted on by Michael Fell

While it was definitely one of the elements, Ronald Reagan did more to help defeat the Soviet Union than conduct financial warfare via economic pressures.:  U.S. defense spending increased during his administration.:  Having faced the brunt of Adolf Hitler’s blitzkrieg, which was built post WWI in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, the Soviet Union’s […]

 

Success! Obama Spent $10B to Create 355 Jobs Per Year

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well, after the news from the Obama administration of its “highly successful 1603 tax program” the fantastic program that is responsible for successfully creating literally dozens of jobs at a mere cost of 10 billion tax dollars, why, I don’t want to hear you naysayers out there dissing the big guy again! The Washington Free […]

 

Holder Contempt Vote Forces Media To Finally Cover Fast And Furious

Posted on by William Teach

Ever since Operation Fast and Furious came out, most of the media have avoided mentioning the scandal as much as possible, and, yes, it is a scandal. The operation was bad enough in that the federal government was making straw purchases of guns and sending them across the border without alerting the Mexican government with […]

 

Obama Invokes Nixonian Executive Privilege But Scolded Bush for the Same Thing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Good for me but not for thee is Obama’s refrain as he invoked Executive Privilege to keep hidden his actions with the disastrous Justice Dept. program called Fast & Furious — a program responsible for several deaths of American law enforcement officers as well as hundreds of Mexican citizens. In 2007 when George W. Bush […]

 

Adieu France, So Long Stability

Posted on by Michael Fell

French Socialist President Francois Hollande’s newly elected government is planning to raise taxes on big companies while deterring businesses from engaging in layoffs by making that process more costly. Hoping to nudge companies into investing rather than paying profits to shareholders, the government plans to impose a new 3% tax on dividends. Other plans include […]

 

Chirpify: A New Twitter Political Fundraising Tool Debuts Today

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

A new Twitter-based fundraising tool debuts today and the new service already has the two biggest names in the Politics biz signed up as clients: Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. Chirpify begins at the top of the heap client-wise as it not only has teams Obama and Romney signed up as clients but it also […]

 

ObamaEconomy: Underemployed And Underpaid

Posted on by William Teach

Even the NY Times is forced to admit what everyone else except President “The private sector is doing fine” knows: the economy under Obama’s stewardship stinks at all levels Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle-class and working-class people who are […]

 

Fundraise and Fore! obama’s Answer to World Events

Posted on by Michael Fell

Israel issued warnings over security problems with Egypt. Militants from the Sinai Peninsula crossed over into southern Israel Monday and fired on a border security fence, killing one Israeli. The IDF moved tanks and otherarmed forces to the Israel-Egypt border in response to the attack. Egypt is on the offensive against Israel. Egypt’s presidential election […]

 

RO12 Film Premiere Review: Occupy Unmasked

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

One of the things we were treated to at this year’s Right Online event, sponsored by Americans for Prosperity, was the world premiere of the documentary film Occupy Unmasked. The one thing I can say about this film is it is absolutely intense. The amount of violence committed by the “Occupy” leftists is shocking when […]

 

Excitable Juan Williams: Killing The Mandate Will Harm Voter Trust Of Supreme Court

Posted on by William Teach

We last saw Juan Williams getting beaten like a rented mule by Michelle Malkin. He now has an article out proclaiming that if the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare they will damage the trust of the voters who, um, don’t vote for the Supreme Court in the first place (The Hill)Every political strategist working the […]

 

David Plouffe: Truth Assassin

Posted on by Michael Fell

Congratulations to Mackenzie Weinger and Reid J. Epstien for accurately reporting the news about White House senior adviser David Plouffe’s trip through television’s Sunday morning talk show circuit. It is truly a pity thatPlouffe and those in the White House who oversee his talking points script cannot demonstrate the same accuracy. Plouffe stated that Republicans […]

 

MSNBC Wonders If A White President Would Get Interrupted During Speech

Posted on by William Teach

As you’re probably aware by now, The Daily Callers Neil Munro “interrupted” Obama by daring to ask him a question at the end of Obama’s statement announcing his new de facto immunity program (I’m not calling it amnesty, because the illegals in question are not being given citizenship. Yet). It was an ill timed question […]

 

Emperor obama Rules by Decree on Immigration

Posted on by Michael Fell

Emperor wanna be barack hussein obama, knowing full well that over the years amnesty for illegal aliens has been consistently rejected by American voters, decided to bypass the American people and the Constitutionally legitimate legislative process to rule by executive fiat. The White House has ordered the halting of the deportation of 800,000 illegal aliens, […]

 

Dana Milbank On Obama Speech: “Skip The Falsehoods, Mr. Obama”

Posted on by William Teach

So, Thursday, Obama gave his big “rebooting” speech, which amounted to a hodge podge of every other speech he’s given over the last 5 years, including his election 2008 speeches. He offered nothing new, including his whining. Politicker has a selection of media tweets, which includes MSNBC’s Mike O’Brien begging Obama to stop after 20 […]