Category: Barack Obama

VIDEO: A Time for Choosing

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

“So we have come to a time for choosing,” warned Ronald Reagan in his famous speech nominating Barry Goldwater for President in 1964. It was one of the most important speeches in American history — and remains terrifyingly true today. Millions without jobs. American values under attack. Bailouts, deficits, and debt that threatens the future […]

 

UnAssing AFPAK

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

Jirga! 44’s hello ’bout ‘nnouncing the AFPAK Surge will be scaling down by 10K troops this year enroute to unSurging the force levels had some interesting stuff in it. Kinda. Zooming out of AFPAK (which featured only tiny bite sized bits about Land of the Pure – the PAK part of AFPAK) 44 unveiled a […]

 

Obama: Who Needs Victory When We Can Negotiate With The TahleeBahn?

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Barack Obama came before the American people tonight to unleash his latest campaign speech disguised as a foreign policy address. It was a presentation that even Politico calls “boring and predictable, balanced to please critics,” and one that “did not change the debate about the war.” But, one thing does seem like news. Obama […]

 

The Atlantic Magazine’s Lies: Of Breitbarts, Kochs, and RightOnLine

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Last weekend Americans For Prosperity once again held its RightOnLine conference, this year in beautiful downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota. Consequently, the Atlantic Magazine decided to do a report on what went on at RightOnLine. Unfortunately, the whole thing was filled with opinions stated as fact, misconstructions of facts, and outright lies. Sadly, along with the rest […]

 

Labor Lawyer Explains Why Boeing Shouldn’t Be Allowed to Make Airplanes in Right to Work South

Posted on by Dave Blount

The socialist goons staffing Obama’s National Labor Relations Board have two reasons not to allow Boeing to build airplanes in a right to work state like South Carolina. It’s not just that letting Boeing escape the suffocating unions that killed the car industry would peeve the Moonbat Messiah’s union friends. Labor lawyer Thomas Geoghegan gives […]

 

Lid Ready to Blow on Obama Regime’s Mexican Gunrunning Scandal

Posted on by Dave Blount

Obama is shoving ATF chief Kenneth Melson under the bus in an attempt to avoid accepting responsibility for the appalling federal scheme to facilitate the smuggling by Mexican criminals of American weapons. Will it be enough? Darrell Issa doesn’t think so: A spokesman for House Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa told The Daily Caller the […]

 

Video Interview: Eric O’Keefe and Getting Rid Of Obamacare With The Health Care Compact

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Obamacare will sink this country if it is ever allowed to come into full operation. So says Eric O’Keefe, Chairman of Sam Adams Alliance, a Chicago-based, free market organization, and chief advocate for the Health Care Compact, an effort that can replace Obamacare and give us a truly American way to address our healthcare problems. […]

 

Public Financing of Reconquistadors Explodes

Posted on by Dave Blount

Letting your enemies run your country isn’t cheap. The Community Organizer in Chief has been buying the support of militantly racist Reconquistadors with your money: The influential and politically-connected National Council of La Raza [The Race] (NCLR) has long benefitted from Uncle Sam’s largess but the group has made a killing since Obama hired its […]

 

VIDEO: Herman Cain Raises Voice at Blogger, Holds His Ground

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Herman Cain appeared at last weekend’s RightOnLine conference (June 18) to two standing ovations. His rousing campaign speech apparently hit all the right notes with the conservative audience in attendance. But afterward, in the blogger access room, there were a few sour notes, in one case Cain even angrily yelled at a blogger over a […]

 

South Carolina Worker Sues Federal Gov’t Over Possible Loss of His Job

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Barack Obama’s interference in the business operations of Boeing new Dreamliner manufacturing project will likely cause thousands of workers in South Carolina to lose their jobs. Because of this, one Palmetto State worker is suing the federal government for its part in his probable future job loss. This is a story about Obama’s status as […]

 

New Open Government and Spending Transparency Reforms Introduced

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

While the Obama administration plays its games with “czars,” more “boards,” and “committees” to implement government accountability policies, Representative Darrell Issa (R, Calif.) has introduced some measures that would do a far better job to meet those goals. President Obama has touted a “Government Accountability and Transparency Board” (GATB) as well as the Recovery Accountability […]

 

Obama’s Green Auto Decrees to Cost 260,000 Jobs

Posted on by Dave Blount

There’s a price to be paid for the trendy green posturing of our sanctimonious moonbat rulers, in terms of not only money but jobs: The Detroit News’s dogged David Shepardson has unearthed a study by one of world’s most respected automotive research firms that reveals that President Obama’s radical CAFE mandate that vehicles average — […]

 

Herman Cain: Obama’s NLRB ‘A Direct Assault on the Free Market System’

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Presidential candidate Herman Cain (R) recently spoke with FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Neil Cavuto about the dispute between the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and Boeing and its impact on the United States economy. Cain said what the NLRB is trying to do keeping Boeing out of Charleston is “a direct assault on the free […]

 

McConnell Wants Terror Suspects Held in Kentucky to be Sent to Gitmo

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Why are a pair of foreign terrorists sitting in a jail in Kentucky? That’s what Senate GOP Minority Leader Mitch McConnell wants to know. He wants them sent to the facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they belong. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Why is the Justice Department doing this? Why expose our heartland […]

 

NY Times Finally Discusses Obama’s Golf Image And How Bad It Looks

Posted on by William Teach

Oh, wait, sorry, my bad. The Fish Wrap does everything possible to avoid mentioning that Obama has played 72 times, 14 this year, and 11 weekends in a row, but, they do say For Many Politicians, Golfing Is Off Course Less than 20 miles from the Capitol’s steps, through the buttoned-down section of the city […]

 

Obama Bombs Bombing Libya

Posted on by Rachel Alexander

Obama has bungled hawkish military action in Libya so badly that even Republicans now appear to be opposing military engagement. While many people have doubts about intervening in the “Arab spring” uprisings sweeping the Middle East, there are a couple of despotic tyrants that most Americans agree must be removed. Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi is […]

 

Libyan Box

Posted on by Courtney Messerschmidt

War Powers! “44 has not sought, and Congress has not provided, authorization for the introduction or continued involvement of Great Satan’s Armed Forces in Libya.:  Congress has the constitutional prerogative to withhold funding for any unauthorized use of Great Satan’s Armed Forces, including for unauthorized chicanery regarding Libya.” Whee! So what? 44’s predecessors have sweetly […]

 

Illinois Congressmen Help Tip in Big Labor Amendment

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

On Monday I alerted you all to a jobs-killing, union-favoring amendment being considered in the House of Representatives in Washington, one that needed to be defeated. Unfortunately, the amendment was successful and now, in this dour economy, unions will be able to make matters worse just when we need a shot in the arm. (See

 

Obama Puts Unions Ahead of a Healthy Economy, Free Trade

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

President Obama claims that he wants to “create jobs,” and is happily touting several policies that he claims will create jobs in this jobless, non-recovery. Unfortunately, all his polices really do is shore up the high cost unions that kill job growth. As GOP Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConell says, Obama has “relentlessly pursued an […]

 

Thoughts on the CNN Republican Debate

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Well the CNN debate of some of the GOP candidates for president is now in the history books and I thought I’d give my impression of those vying there. Before I do that, I have to comment on John King’s constant guttural vocal tick. It sounded like he had Tourette Syndrome with the grunts and […]

 

Good News: Obama’s Not Calm About Horrible Economy

Posted on by William Teach

No, really Obama: It’s ‘nonsense’ I’m calm about state of economy In an exclusive interview with TODAY’s Ann Curry that aired Tuesday, President Barack Obama addressed the notion that he is unemotional about the human toll that the economic crisis has taken. “I think ordinary folks understand I spend all my time thinking about this […]

 

Urge Congress to Vote ‘NO’ On Striking $$ Saving Section From Federal Construction Projects Bill

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Today there may be a vote on striking a section of H.R. 2055 that will insure that federal construction projects for the military are fairly priced and will save money for the taxpayers. Some representatives want this advantageous section struck out and replaced with a union-favoring provision that will cost the tax payers millions and […]

 

Soros Funded MoveOn.Org Lies About Hacking Fox News Ticker

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

What’s the best way to counter what you think are the lies coming from your opponents? Is it to make up lies of your own? Apparently MoveOn.org thinks so. On June 9, MoveOn admitted using lies, subterfuge and fraud to “counter” what they maintain is the wrong-headed thinking of Fox News. I guess to a […]

 

Even Politico Wonders Where All Obama’s “Green” Jobs Are

Posted on by William Teach

It’s great that ThePolitico’s Darren Samualsohn is asking questions about Obama’s green jobs agenda, but, he forgot to ask a few others, such as “how many jobs did the green agenda cost?” We learned from Spain that for ever one created, two private sector jobs are lost. Also, how much do the ones actually created […]

 

More Arts Funding Boondoggles in Age of Obama Economic Meltdown

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Yes, it’s time for another tale of millions of your tax dollars wasted by the NEA on “art” in America. Supporters of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) like to puff themselves up as saviors of high “art” in lowbrow America. They love to imagine that without their advocacy for spending millions of our […]

 

Obama’s Plan To Make Your Electric Bills Jump 60 Percent

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Only a few days ago I wrote about how Obama’s new EPA rules would force Americans to pay up to 60% more on their electric bills. This weekend, the Chicago Tribune said the same thing. Leading off saying, “Consumers could see their electricity bills jump an estimated 40 to 60 percent in the next few […]

 

Obama Hosts a Kindred Spirit

Posted on by Dave Blount

Remember when Obama asked us to judge him by the company he keeps? Too bad voters didn’t take his advice; it would have spared the country one of its most destructive and expensive not to mention disgraceful chapters. Now that he’s in the White House, Comrade Obama has widened his social circle of communists, terrorists, […]

 

Obama Regime Stabs Britain in the Back on Falkland Islands

Posted on by Dave Blount

It’s official: under the treacherous foreign policy of the Obama Administration, the US government has become an enemy of America’s closest ally, Great Britain: Washington signed on to a “draft declaration on the question of the Malvinas Islands” passed by unanimous consent by the General Assembly of the Organisation of American States (OAS) at its […]

 

Obama’s New EPA Rules Would Destroy Our Energy Sector

Posted on by Warner Todd Huston

Half of America’s energy comes from coal-fired power plants but Obama’s new EPA rules would about destroy the coal industry driving our energy costs through the roof. That’s not all they would do, either. Even Paul Bedard of USNews says that Obama’s new EPA rules will “slam the coal industry so hard that hundreds of […]