Category: Barack Obama

Poverty Rate Rises Under Obama

Posted on by Dave Blount

How’s that Hope & Change working out for you? Unless you’re a well-connected crony capitalist or a power-drunk government bureaucrat, probably not too well: Amid a still struggling economy, more people in America fell below the poverty line last year, according to new census data released Tuesday. The nation’s poverty rate rose to 15.1% in […]

 

Obama Now Trying to Intimidate Consultants and PR Firms of Businesses

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

True to form, even as he says he wants to cut regulations, Obama’s regulatory army is marching hard against business and this week the president’s Labor Dept. has unleashed yet another salvo in order to hurt the business sector. Before I start this explanation of yet another Obama powergrab through his powers to regulate, may […]

 

Taliban Attacks US Embassy In Kabul – Does Obama Still Want To Talk With Them?

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, remember back in 2009 when Obama signaled he was willing to talk with the Taliban? And how back in March he was thinking about how to talk with the Taliban (and Hezbollah)? And in May, we learned he was actually holding peace talks with the Taliban? Yeah, how’s that working? Suicide bomb and gun […]

 

Obama “Jobs” Bill To Hit Municipal Bonds

Posted on by William Teach

What do municipal bonds have to do with Obama’s American Jobs Act? Well, according to Barron’s Municipal bonds have always been synonymous with tax-free income. That would end if President Obama gets his way. Under the jobs bill the President sent to Congress Monday, high-income individuals and families would no longer receive interest from state […]

 

Union Members Take Hostages, Destroy Property: But Remember, Tea Party is ‘Dangerous’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After months of accusations that it is the Tea Party movement that is somehow “dangerous” to America, much of such rhetoric coming from union members and their supporters, we get union members of the Longshoremen storming the Port of Longview, Washington taking hostages, destroying property, and generally acting like lawless thugs. Imagine what the news […]

 

Obama To Send Jobs Bill Over To Congress Monday Night (Updated with some plan links)

Posted on by William Teach

Remember, he wanted this thing passed “right away,” as he said multiple times during his joint address. Four days later, we might actually see the text of his proposal President Barack Obama plans to send the text of his jobs bill to Congress on Monday night, a White House official said Sunday. At a Rose […]

 

AFL-CIO Prez: Hey, Remember 9/11? Was a Great Union Moment, Right?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In one of the most disgusting examples of the self-absorption of the union mind set, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka decided that his 9/11 memorial would not be much about 9/11, but would instead be just another excuse to say how great unions are and how evil conservatives are. This isn’t just gauche, but insulting, infuriating, […]

 

Video: Obama Calls Lincoln ‘Founder of Republican Party’?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

During his faux “jobs” speech on Sept 8, President Obama went off script for a brief sojourn into history to reveal to one and all that he hasn’t a clue about the subject. I say off script because these words are not in the prepared text… Sorry, big guy, but Abe Lincoln was not the […]

 

Obama Weekly Address On 9/11: An A+

Posted on by William Teach

Unlike our liberal friends regarding George W. Bush, we on the right can, when it comes to President Obama, give credit where credit is due. Despite contradictory and sometimes defeatist talk, Obama has done a good job fighting the Islamic terrorists overseas, expanding things like drone strikes, and attacking them in countries throughout their operational […]

 

Irrelevant Jobs Speech: The Presidential Speech No One Attended

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama gave his much delayed “jobs” speech on Thursday, one he’s been promising since 2008. Unfortunately for this president, few people much cared. In fact, the most damning indictment about how irrelevant this speech and this president is was seen during the speech in the House gallery, a space that was, unlike any other […]

 

Actress Mila Kunis: Middle America Stupid for Not Loving Obama

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

It is always amusing to hear actors and actresses venture into the unfamiliar territory of politics when interviewers are cruel enough to broach such issues. Sadly, actress Mila Kunis is no exception to that Hollyweird tendency toward guffaw inducing political bloviating. Naturally and in keeping with most of the rest of the industry, in a […]

 

Lefty Protesters: Here’s a Poll to Help Us Find Out What We are REALLY Mad About

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

I had to laugh when I found out about the left’s newest protest du jour. They are hopin’ mad, don’t cha know? So mad that they are busy organizing marches, protests, civil disobedience, and all sorts of activities to protest it all. But amusingly they aren’t even sure what it is they are mad about. […]

 

Analysis Of Obama’s Speech: This Was His Jump The Shark Moment

Posted on by John Hawkins

Obama is still suffering from the Speech Illusion, the idea that he can come down from the mountain, read from a Teleprompter, cast a magic spell with his words and climb back up the mountain, while we scurry around and do what he proclaimed. — Maureen Dowd This speech was classic Obama….which is exactly the […]

 

Live Tweeting Obama’s Jobs Speech: More Big Government Boondoggles

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

As I often do, I live Tweeted Obama’s address to the joint session of congress, but for sure this speech was little else but yet another plea from Obama for giant piles of government money to be thrown around in a bacchanalia of Keynesian spending. He may not have used the newly verboten word “stimulus,” […]

 

As Texas Burns, Firefighting Aircraft Grounded by Feds

Posted on by Dave Blount

Here’s what the federal government is doing about the historic wildfires that have been devastating Texas — grounding firefighting aircraft: Nearly half of the federal government’s firefighting air tankers are sitting idle at a California airport, grounded by the Obama administration in a contract dispute just weeks before wildfires swept through Texas killing a mother […]

 

Obama Regime Puts the Squeeze on Construction Industry on Behalf of Unions

Posted on by Dave Blount

The current administration couldn’t care less about the interests of most Americans, but when it comes to unions, Obama et al. are devoted public servants. Here‘s what Big Union’s BFF is doing for them at the expense of the already moribund construction industry: The Labor Department is investigating pay practices at many of the top […]

 

USA Today Hit Piece on Christian Defense Attorney, Jay Sekulow

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

USA Today published a story recently by Bob Smietana of the Nashville newspaper The Tennessean attacking the integrity and work of well-known Christian First Amendment defense attorney Jay Sekulow that is shocking for what is left out. Sekulow is the head man of the American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), a Washington D.C.-based organization […]

 

Obama Hypocrisy: From ‘Talking to Each Other in a Way That Heals,’ to Dismissing ‘Kabuki Theater’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama is nothing less than a hypocrite on his admonitions over public discourse and the latest example of this truth lies in his refusal to condemn the violence-tinged language of Teamsters president Jimmy Hoffa not to mention his similar silence on the obscene rhetoric of many of the leading members of the Congressional Black […]

 

Even The Politico Is Having A Tough Time Being Positive About Obama’s Speech

Posted on by William Teach

One of Politico’s biggest Obama cheerleaders, Carrie Budoff Brown, must have been sighing quite a bit while writing the article. Not the hopey changey 2008 campaign sighs of adoration, but the kind of sigh one gets when the puppy poops on the carpet for the 10th time this week. She was even nice enough to […]

 

ObamaCare Increases Both Healthcare Costs and Number of Uninsured

Posted on by Dave Blount

There’s no guessing how much ObamaCare will end up costing in the long run, but it’s already clear that if not repealed before it becomes hopelessly entrenched, it will go down as one of the most expensive pieces of legislation in human history. The massive expense of a major new entitlement was justified by the […]

 

AP Editorializing in the ‘News’ Again

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

In a recent article on the dissatisfaction of Big Labor once again we see making its way into what is otherwise supposed to be a normal, everyday “news” story, the Associated Press indulging its penchant for using biased labels and left-wing “definitions” in order to push a left-wing agenda on its readers. Even while presenting […]

 

Obama Featured In Pro-Palestinian State Ad

Posted on by William Teach

Kinda funny when those “blue meat” speeches come back and bite you on the posterior, eh, Mr. Obama? President Barack Obama is the unlikely star of a new Palestinian media campaign. Part of a speech Obama gave in 2010 to the United Nations General Assembly is featured in an ad aimed to rally support for […]

 

Obama Jobs “Plan”: $300 Billion In Spending

Posted on by William Teach

Plan has to be put in quotations, of course, because a) we haven’t actually seen it yet, b) we’ll probably never see it, we’ll just hear about it Thursday night and during press conferences and campaign speeches, a c) we all know it will be the same old tired and failed ideas, per MSNBC: Obama […]

 

Rockford Tea Party Calls for Resignation of Teamsters President

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

After Teamsters President Jimmy Hoffa incited violence against Republicans as he introduced President Obama at Monday’s rally in Detroit, at least one organization called for Hoffa to resign over his intemperate and violent rhetoric. The Rockford Tea Party of northern Illinois made the call for Hoffa to resign. Here is what Hoffa’s ignorant rhetoric sounded: […]

 

Obama Plans To Continue His “Patriotism” Calls During Boring Joint Session Speech

Posted on by William Teach

Hey, if Obama can pre-questioning the patriotism of Republicans for not passing a plan that he hasn’t even introduced yet, I can pre-call the campaign speech boring. As John Podhoretz points out, Obama will continue his despicable “country before party” nonsense News reports suggest that on Thursday night, the president will tell Republicans in the […]

 

Dear American, You Owe the U.S. Gov’t $31,871

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Thanks to the profligate spending in Washington D.C., each American citizen’s share of the debt is now up to $31, 871, as you can see by the chart below… But that is nothing compared to where it will be in just a few short years. As the chart shows if things continue the way they […]