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Redeemer Doubt (Larry On Radio + Open Thread)

By John Batchelor on August 28, 2011 at 8:15 PM in Current Affairs

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The spectacle of Mayor Mike Bloomberg (video below) pitching repeatedly the ordinary Hurricane Irene as a cataclysm from Hades makes this correspondent crabby. What foolishness. Eighty mile per hour winds from North Carolina to New Jersey. Lots of wind-blown rain.

For this, NYC is shut down from noon Saturday; the airports are closed; the subway and buses are off-line; and the only cabs are cruising with “Off-Duty” so you get to pay a cash fare of the driver’s choosing if you are lucky to find one.

Spoke Michael Vlahos, Naval War College, of the loss of confidence in the nation that makes us hesitant, fidgety, brittle, risk averse, gloomy. We speculated that it was the financial rot (including a rumored fail of Bank of America); we guessed it was the ten-year long war against trite shadows called Al Q; we supposed it was cynical pols who claw for TV time by announcing disaster management 101.

The result is that the Redeemer Nation has become another Europe waiting to be rescued by no one? As if we are Europe with the twist that we know there is no American Exceptionalism coming to rescue us.

We have become fearful of fear itself. Spoke Thaddeus McCotter of the Arsenal of Democracy that was once Detroit, of American exceptionalism that is now regarded as a ploy; of the rot of the banks too big to fail. Hurricane Irene passes over a defeatist culture. Doubt is the currency; and it’s worth just a little less than the crushed dollar.

In the devastating New England Hurricane of 1938, (left), a Category 3 that struck Long Island on September 21 with little warning, New Yorkers quickly went to work to rebuild and recover, and that was in the grip of a global collapse.

Today, we blame-shift and wait for the disaster relief check in the so-called “State of Emergency” that is declared by a cowed, arrogant, cynical political class.

  • Anonymous

    Mayor Bloomberg shouldn’t have been such an alarmist–especially when he knew that Janet Napolitano and President Obama were standing by and ready to leap into action and save the city.  He has the power to make the oceans stop their rising, you know.  In any case,   Irene was a windfall for Thee One.  It blew all other news off the air for 2 or 3 days.

    Is Napolitano creepy, or what?!?!

    • Anonymous

      Yes, and BO’s presidential approval level went from -23 or -24 to -17…with all of that distraction

      • Wbboe

        An outlier perhaps.  No reason for him to get a bump in the polls.  The only bump he deserves in on a golf course 9 strokes a side.

    • Wbboe

      Creepy alright.  Like something out of the night of the living dead.  Somebody needs to tell these big media alarmists the story of the little boy who cried wolf.  Also, if you call everything a crisis then nothing is a crisis, and no crisis no media. It is a self limiting strategy.

  • Anonymous

    Would you take leave or “work” from home?
    Federal agencies in D.C. area are OPEN Monday. Employees have the option for unscheduled leave or unscheduled telework. #dcirene

    • AbigailA

      It goes something like this:  “Oh, you’re working from home today?  Ok.  Wink wink.”

      With a cell phone for contact, a govt worker could be anywhere and say they are “working.”

      • Anonymous

        Well. actually, after my s-in-l had her knee replacement surgery, she worked from home on a government computer, and she had to maintain contact with her office on that computer.They also told her, they might just drop in on her unannounced.

  • Anonymous

    Hurricane Irene evacuation defended
    by New York mayor Michael Bloomberg

    Guardian [UK],
    by Chris McGreal   
    8/28/2011

    Washington – Hurricane Irene dumped vast amounts of
    water on the eastern US at the weekend, cut electricity to millions of people
    and prompted warnings of extensive flash flooding further inland. But ultimately
    the storm failed to deliver the catastrophic blow politicians had feared when
    they ordered the evacuation of more than 2 million people, shut down public
    transport in New York and other cities, and put the military on alert. The
    category 1 winds – the lowest on the hurricane scale – may not have packed as
    much of a punch as other storms

    http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/28/hurricane-irene-evacuation-michael-bloomberg

  • Anonymous

    Damage from Irene appearsto be less than feared

    Associated Press, by Christopher S.
    Rugaber   

    8/28/2011

    WASHINGTON — Damage from Irene appears to be less
    than feared, a bit of reassuring news for a fragile economy. Insured damage from
    Irene will range between $2 billion and $3 billion, and the total losses will
    likely be about $7 billion, according to preliminary estimates by Kinetic
    Analysis Corp. a consulting firm. Both figures are less than had been feared and
    will likely have little impact on the nation’s $14 trillion economy. “Irene left
    several places with black eyes, but it doesn’t seem to have delivered an
    economic knockout,” said Ryan Sweet, an economist

  • Anonymous

    Obama’s Illegal Uncle Arrested;
    ‘Uncle Omar’ Hits Cop Car,
    Tries to Call White House

    The Washington Times ^ | Sunday, August 28, 2011 | Kerry Picket A number of media outlets have already reported that an illegal immigrant from Kenya by the name of Onyango Obama, 67, was arrested last week on Wednesday after he rammed his SUV into a police car in Framingham, Massachusetts. He was later charged with DUI among other violations. I spoke to Framingham Public Information Officer Lieutenant Delaney who told me that when Onyango Obama was asked at booking if he wanted to make a telephone call to arrange for bail, the Kenyan immigrant replied: “I think I will call the White House.” It should be noted that the Times of…

    • Anonymous

      He is being held on an ICE warrant as an illegal alien who was supposed to have been deported…
      No report as to whether or not he reached anyone he knew at the WH.

      • Wbboe

        Perhaps Obama can give him amnesty.  I am sure he will be as much of a credit to this country as Obama is–another ostentation, free wheeling, free spending freeloader.  Ten strokes a side.

        • ~JustMe~

          Yea, the whole clan will be here soon….and getting a FREE pass!

          • ~JustMe~

            Opps should of read tribe!

    • Wbboe

      FlBreeze–Obama proves once again that he is Carteresque.  No not Cartier, Jimmy Carter.  Onyango is just a new age version of brother Billy who was dumber than owl shit, but was treated like a philosopher king be big media. 

      When OO calls the White House, I expect that because of his blood relative status, he will speak to EH (as in ehh?) who will i) waive the Immigration Laws for OO (i.e. using the Kenyan version of mi casa es su casa), ii) reject the dwi charge on the grounds that OO was simply imbibing cough syrup, iii) pass a stimulus plan to repair the damage to the police vehicle, and iv) commence a law suit for police brutality.

    • Wbboe

      FlBreeze, when I skimmed the headline and saw Obama’s illegal uncle arrested, I thought to myself not only has he been arrested, but he has been tried and convicted and is awaiting sentencing or a pardon from Obama for keeping his mouth shut.  Then I realized we were not talking about Obama’s “Uncle Tony” but his other illegal uncle OO.  Begs the question of how many other illegal relatives of Obama have been smuggled into this country.

      • Anonymous

        Didn’t That One’s father die driving drunk? Irony.

        • Wbboe

          Yes.  Screaming rip roaring blasted drunk– which can only mean he died happy.  And now he is happier still tip toeing through Allah’s garden communing with 23 virgins–3 more than he had on earth at any one time.

    • Anonymous

      Uncle? How many illegal relatives does this fraud have in this country?

    • Anonymous
    • Anonymous

      Here is more on the story from Australia:
      http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/barack-obamas-uncle-has-been-arrested-and-held-as-illegal-immigrant/story-e6frg6so-1226124269032
      Barack Obama’s uncle has been arrested and held as illegal immigrantJaAugust 29, 2011 10:00AM

  • Anonymous

    Martin Luther King’s Daughter: ‘Lincoln Remembered for Signing the Declaration of Independence’
    Sunday, August 28, 2011 At a ceremony to honor the opening of the new Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in our nation’s capital Friday, the late civil rights leader’s daughter Bernice made an historical error that would evoke tremendous ridicule and derision if she were a conservative. BERNICE KING: “But as I close, I close with the recognition that daddy is standing, Lincoln is seated. Lincoln remembered for signing the Declaration of Independence. Daddy being remembered as standing up for truth and standing up for justice and standing up for righteousness and standing up for peace and standing up for freedom. Daddy is now…

  • Anonymous

    Why Obama Can’t Support A Real Jobs Program

    Forbes Magazine ^
    | August 28, 2011
    | Paul Roderick Gregory

    President Obama’s much-anticipated jobs speech will undoubtedly cover more of the same things that already haven’t not worked. He will propose an infrastructure bank, extension of unemployment and food stamps, promotion of green jobs, more government-corporate partnerships, and a one-year extension of the payroll tax reduction. He’ll advocate a second stimulus. He may be flanked by his jobs commission, headed by the CEO of General Electric, which earlier issued a lame interim jobs report. His speech will not be about jobs. Instead, it will be a campaign speech in disguise. Obama cannot propose a real jobs program. His constituents would…

    http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulroderickgregory/2011/08/28/why-obama-cant-support-a-real-jobs-program/

  • Anonymous

    Study: Hispanics now outnumber blacks in college
    The Washington Post ^ | 08/25/2011 | Daniel de Vise For the first time, young Hispanics outnumber blacks on college campuses. A study released today by the Pew Hispanic Center finds that enrollment of Hispanic students aged 18 to 24 rose by 24 percent in a single year, reaching 1.8 million in October 2010. That’s 349,000 new Hispanic students. By contrast, black enrollment rose by 88,000 and Asian American enrollment rose by 43,000. White enrollment declined by 320,000.

    • Anonymous

      Guess where all of the college grants are going…

  • Anonymous

    Anti-baby boom: Why U.S. birth rate keeps falling

    CNN ^
    | August 16, 2011
    | Jessica Dickler
    NEW YORK

    – Right before the recession hit, the U.S. was undergoing a mini baby boom. Now, birth rates are declining fast. The number of children born in the U.S. peaked with a record 4.3 million births in 2007, but has since fallen, dropping to 4 million births last year, according to….

    http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/11/pf/recession_birth_rate/

  • Anonymous

    Only Two Locations
    Had 85 MPH Gusts

    Real-Science.com ^
    | 8/28/2011
    | S Goddard

    NOAA said that maximum average wind speeds at landfall were 85 MPH, hurricane winds stretching outwards for 90 miles. In fact, only two locations even had gusts over 85 MPH.

    CHART:
    http://www.real-science.com/uncategorized/locations-85-mph-gusts

  • Anonymous

    Overhyped Irene makes Washington the inevitable butt of snickers
    washington post ^ | 8/28/2011 | By Petula Dvorak Have your fun, Gulf Coasters. Go ahead, LOL at us. And Californians, please join in. It is a national pastime, apparently, to whip out our rulers and measure our natural disasters against one another in an endless, cross-country, chest-thumping smackdown. Yes, you’re totally right, America, about Washington’s wimpiness. We nearly crashed Twitter last week when the 5.8-magnitude earthquake knocked the political biographies off our bookshelves and tipped over our patio chairs. The horror! As Hurricane Irene churned toward the Mid-Atlantic, we bought enough dry goods to stock

  • Anonymous

    Pollsters:
    Modern History Shows Obama Can’t Win in 2012

    Newsmax ^
    | August 27, 2011
    | David A. Patten

    The economy is so dismal that President Barack Obama will have to re-write the political history books if he hopes to win re-election, political strategists say. The latest bad news for Team Obama: Economic growth for the second quarter was revised downward from 1.3 to a mere 1 percent on Friday — far below the level of activity required to put a dent in the nation’s chronic, high joblessness. Those slumping GDP numbers followed an economic-outlook report by the Congressional Budget Office that likely touched off alarm bells in Obama’s campaign. Despite optimistic assumptions about GDP growth, inflation, and deficit-spending,…

    http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/obama-economy-jobless-polls/2011/08/28/id/408924

  • Anonymous

    Why so glum, Michelle?

    The Washington Times ^
    | August 28, 2011
    | Joseph Curl

    Man, how miserable is Michelle Obama? About 2½ years into her ceremonial stint as first lady, Mrs. Obama seems to have had quite enough of the gig. More to the point, she doesn’t seem to have ever warmed to the second-fiddle slot as other first ladies before her did. And even more than that, she doesn’t seem all that happy with the man she married 19 years ago. A look at just this past month is illuminating. On Aug. 9, the first lady sneaked out of Washington and flew aboard a government plane to Corvallis, Ore. On board, dozens of…

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/aug/28/curl-why-so-glum-michelle/

  • Anonymous

    Good Lord. If the media keep yappin about this storm, they might have it run into the next one to come down the pike. Not a mention of the dry conditions in Texas.

  • ~JustMe~

    The so called “Bus Tour” was not a bus tour at all

    This is really disgusting! The so called “Bus Tour” was not a bus tour at all !An AP reporter said that Obama might have ridden these expensive buses only one mile at each stop. Therefore, it wasn’t really a “BUS TOUR”! Obamaspent most of the “BUS TOUR” on an airplane traveling between stops. Itlooks like Obama has scammed the American people again……..with the help of the liberal media. It’s no damn telling just how much this “show” cost the American taxpayer.
    He FLYS into an airport somewhere in the midwest, hops into a brand new 1.1 Million $ bus, paid for by you and me, for a “bus tour” ‘around the midwest’, and after an hour or so, gets driven back to the airport for ANOTHER FLIGHT, lands at another airport where another 1.1 Million $ brand new black bus is waiting for him… and repeats all that until his midwest bus‘tour’ is done?? Oh yes……and THEN he leaves on a 12 day vacation to Martha’s Vineyard…….to REST UP from this campaign bus tour! And don’t forget……..those brand new shiny black buses aren’t DRIVEN to the location where they meet Obama. Those buses are loaded up on one or more C-17s. Then, they are flown to the destination ahead of AirForce- AND!…….this is REPEATED FOR EVERY CAMPAIGN STOP. On this ‘bus tour’, the Prez will lecture the ‘little people’ on how they need to live within their means and cut-back!
    http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=cb1_1314314885

    • Docelder

      It was a photo op. But he is campaigning… the corporate media will not interfere with his campaign.

    • getfitnow

      …and weren’t they built in Canada?

  • ~JustMe~

    Good God! What next!

    TSA officer admits to allowing drug dealers to bypass airport security

    Through the work of two buffalo women, a drug dealer was able to obtain a fake birth certificate and bypass security at a Buffalo airport:

    Today a drug dealer. Tomorrow a suicide bomber.
    This is going to be a problem.
    http://www.therightscoop.com/tsa-officer-admits-to-allowing-drug-dealers-to-bypass-airport-security/

    • Anonymous

      I know JustMe, what a shock, ehh?

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Disband the TSA and DoHS.

      • Scottymac54

        I agree.

        Neither is required. 

  • Wbboe

    John— I had coffee with the CEO of my former company shortly after the Wall Street crash.  He is a financial guy, and as a young man was part of  David Rockafeller’s group at Chase. His forecasting ability was second to none, and quarter after quarter year after year and decade after decade he was proven right.  That rare ability was key to our success.

    I asked him candidly what he thought about the future, in the aftermath of the crash.  He was uncertain then as we all were, but his uncertainty only served to underscore the seriousness of the challenge we faced.  He made the excellent point to me that you cannot have an economy without a banking system, therefore it was in the interest of the country to bail out the banks, regardless of how they got into the mess.  He warned me however that the moment we did so, the action would be met with blistering criticism.

    I agreed with him at the time, but when I saw the magnitude of the bail-out, the lack of oversight on how the monies were spent and the refusal to lend money to businesses who could provide jobs after the country had bailed them out, I changed my opinion.  What I did not realize at the time was that it worked.  In the case of Citibank, we loaned them $45 billion and as of this year they have paid it back in full and apparently the taxpayers made $12 billion profit off the deal.

    This information came to me in a round about way. Sally Krawcheck is perhaps the most influential woman on Wall Street today.  She is now the head of Wealth Management at Merrill Lynch Bank of America and her investment panel discussions at their site are very worthwhile. But her prior position was CFO at Citibank, and later head of the Citibank wealth management team.  She clashed with her new boss and her relationship with the new CEO who was brought in to turn hte thing around never congealed so she ended up resigning, and ultimately going to Merrill.  Her story is interesting.

    http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/business/16sallie.html?pagewanted=1

    But to me at least an even more interesting story of the new CEO Vikram Pandit with whom Sally clashed. According to NYT:

    Vikram S. Pandit was named Citigroup’s
    chief executive officer in December 2007, as the bank reeled from tens
    of billions in bad bets on the housing boom. (snip)

    Mr. Pandit moved skillfully to untangle the financial knots. Since
    succeeding Mr. Prince, he has strengthened the lax risk management
    practices that got Citigroup into so much trouble. He has cut 110,000
    jobs, about a third of the company’s work force, and stanched losses
    from toxic mortgage investments. With bailout funds, he also has
    bolstered Citigroup’s finances and slimmed down the company, selling
    $351 billion in assets in a challenging market.
    Keeping it afloat required
    $45 billion in cash from the federal government, the shedding of 110,000
    jobs, a third of its workforce, and the sale of pieces of the financial
    conglomerate.

    Lagging behind the rest of Wall Street, the bank returned to
    profitability in the first quarter of 2010. By  April 2011, it had
    squeezed out a $3 billion profit in the first quarter of the year
    as it contended with a series of mortgage troubles and sluggish
    economic growth across the globe. Citi had posted its fifth consecutive
    quarterly profit and completed a reverse stock split that, with the
    stroke of a pen, ratcheted its share price to more than $40 from $4. (snip)

    There were several signs that Mr. Pandit’s recovery strategy was on track. In December 2010, the Treasury Department cashed out its remaining ownership stake in Citigroup, turning taxpayers a $12 billion profit.

    Still, Citigroup still has plenty of hard work to do, as Mr. Pandit
    acknowledged. The bank faces significant pressure from new regulations
    and higher capital requirements, which could damp revenue. It also must
    contend with the fallout from high unemployment levels in the United
    States, turbulent market conditions in Europe and slower growth
    prospects around the world. 

    http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/p/vikram_s_pandit/index.html?inline=nyt-per

    • an observer

      This is such BS.
      Yes we need banks. Commercial Banks. Let’s re-seperate the speculative from the commercial!
      Also, you did not address the Fed’s actions regarding Citi and the rest of them.
      Who paid you to write this?

      • Wbboe

        Which part is bullshit?  The fact that they borrowed $45 billion and paid it back in three years, with a $12 billion profit to taxpayers?  What I am saying is look at the whole picture, and it will be harder for those on the other side to rebut what you are saying.

        No question that we need to separate speculation and commercial banking.  Like you perhaps (?) I lobbied for that with Cantwell, Harkin, Feingold and McCain’s offices when the inclusion of Glass Steeghal in the Financial bill was being proposed.  Obama killed it however.

        Last Friday, I spoke to a friend who is a well respected money manager and friend of Bill Clinton.  He asked me what I thought was the biggest structural impediment to our economy.  I told him that it was the abandonment of manufacturing, and the partial abandonment of high tech.

        He disagreed.  He told me that it was the very thing you are saying: the failure to separate speculation and commercial banking.  He said I know these people and what they will do if they are not regulated. I love Bill he said, but this was a mistake. Of course that mistake began with Jim Leach, and most of academia at that time.

        • Anonymous

          But Wbboe, if I remember Harley’s explanation of this, didn’t this all start with A.C.O.R.N.’s thuggish tactics at banks’ board meetings and strong-arming them and their lobbies into pressuring congress and the president, starting with Carter (Community Reinvestment Act), into abandoning prudent FASB regulations on behalf of those whose ability to carry a mortgage was highly questionable?  This is all tied to perceived racism; charges by militant civil rights organizations who cried foul that “their people” were not being “given the same opportunity (of outcome)” as everyone else, e.g. people who were qualified for and held stable jobs with predictable wages.

          The CRA has been fiddled with since its inception in 1977 to the point that major pieces of legislation having to do with everything but mortgage and small business financing has been appended to it.  

          This area of vast and very complex legislation is no less complicated than trying to understand obamacare.  And it’s no wonder, then, that most Americans are unfamiliar with its many amendments.  This would be one area ripe for reform or, in light of the past 30 years, elimination from the law.

          • Wbboe

            Abagail, I do not dispute Harley’s interpretation of what got us into this mess, and no Alan Greenspan did not pay me to write those comments, as Observer suggested.

            Far be it from me to defend the failure of regulation, the pressure applied by unscrupulous politicians like Barney Frank and the black head of Fannie Maye to pressure the banks into abandoning sound underwriting practices, the predatory behavior of Goldman Sachs,. or the failure to extend credit to help revive the economy or to endorse further bail outs by taxpayers. 

            This analysis has value because it gets us to focus on the right issues, and concede the points we cannot defend. That is key to our credibility.

            If one of the least performers which could have dragged everthing down worse than Lehman Brothers was saved by good internal decisions, cost cutting and repaid the  taxpayer loan within 3 years with a 25% profit that is something we should say so, and move on to the other areas.

            If you read the article carefully, you will see that while it credits the new CEO, it goes on to say that the recovery of that bank may be compromised by the new regulations–and who do you suppose is the author of those regulations?  Obama and the same people who tanked the system to begin with Mssmrs Dodd and Barney Frank.

            Now that is firing for effect.

  • ~JustMe~

    No one saw this coming…Right!

    Ground Zero Mosque Imam Calls For Integrating Sharia Law Into American And British Legal Systems…

    (Herald Scotland) — AMERICA’S most controversial imam — the man at the centre of the storm over plans for the “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York last year — flew into Edinburgh yesterday to tell the Festival of Spirituality and Peace that greater integration between Islam and the West depends on the incorporation of Sharia law into the legal systems of the UK and the United States as well as Muslims adopting the culture of their host countries.
    http://weaselzippers.us/2011/08/28/ground-zero-mosque-imam-calls-for-integrating-sharia-law-into-american-and-british-legal-systems/

    • Anonymous

      This needs to be front page; quickly. People(particularly women) had better start screaming loudly about this and often, and you can be sure, somehow someway this shit will be in our system before we know it.  

    • Anonymous

      The Constitution says that Congress shall pass no law regarding religion. Sharia law, by virtue of being religious law, is un-Constitutional. Someone should explain this to the Muslims that think it can be integrated into US law. In addition, many of the things permitted in sharia law are illegal in this country now. Such as murder, be it an honor killing or not. So sharia law does not fit into the framework of US law. If that imam wants to live under sharia law, he should move to a country that already has it. We never will.

      • hc123

        They will sneak it in for mediation, and work from there. 

        • Anonymous

          Mediation is also a tool of US law. In fact, there are professional mediators. We don’t need to invoke sharia law to have mediation. We already have it.

          • hc123

            I am aware of this.

            In fact my neighbors just mediated a Get before their official divorce.

            Because Jews have lived and integrated into the west for about 1000 years its terms and conditions were quite normal and acceptable,  in line with our actual legal system. And after the Rabbis were done they proceeded down to the courthouse to finalize things.

            We do not as of now use Shariah, or any other legal system so completely and fundamentally different to our own, as a basis for our mediation.

            It is entirely possible a Shariah mediator would consult with the Koran and grant all custody of children to the father.

            It is entirely possible that a Sharian mediator would refuse to allow a woman to divorce her husband.

            These are just some off the cuff examples that are absolutely in the realm of the possible (in fact likely) if we open this door.

            Of course the parties in mediation could proceed to regular court if they had the backbone, money and knowledge to do so. 

            But Shariah mediation would begin the process of “normalizing” the Islamic family unit and its bizarre and completely sexist practices.

            Call me crazy but this wouldnt really thrill me. But I bet it is where they will begin chipping away at our resolve.

  • Anonymous

    Labor Day parade organizers:
    No Republicans allowed in parade

    WAOW.com TV 9,
    by Nate Barrett   
    8/28/2011 
    WAUSAU (WAOW)

    –Labor Day parade organizers confirm that no Republicans will be allowed to participate in this year’s Labor Day Parade. Council president Randy Radtke says they choose not to invite elected
    officials who have “openly attacked worker’s rights” or did nothing when state public workers lost most of their right to collectively bargain. The parade is sponsored by the Marathon County Labor Council. A Wausau city spokeswoman said the city does not contribute any money to the parade.

    http://www.waow.com/story/15344918/labor-day-parade-organizers-no-republicans-allowed-in-parade

    • Scottymac54

      At least the workers in unions will have at least one day where they can feel a bit safer in that environment.

      Maybe the rejected Republicans can meet up somewhere else and go “Mooslim”-hunting, or check behind the high school bleachers for commies before the school year starts.

  • Anonymous

    Early Obama Letter Confirms Inabilityto Write

    American Thinker, by Jack Cashill   

    8/29/2011

    On November 16, 1990, Barack Obama, then president of
    the Harvard Law Review, published a letter in the Harvard Law Record, an
    independent Harvard Law School newspaper, championing affirmative action.
    Although a paragraph from this letter was excerpted in David Remnick’s biography
    of Obama, The Bridge, I had not seen the letter in its entirety before this
    week. Not surprisingly, it confirms everything I know about Barack Obama, the
    writer and thinker.

    • Anonymous

      House of cards begins to crumble.

    • Anonymous

      House of cards begins to crumble.

  • Anonymous

    Keith Ellison for dummies

    PowerLine, by Scott Johnson   

    8/29/2011

    After he unexpectedly won the endorsement of the DFL
    nominating convention for Minnesota’s Fifth District congressional seat on May
    6, 2006, Keith Ellison faced a serious problem. The problem was how to deal with
    his well-known involvement with the Nation of Islam. Had Ellison not managed to
    dispose of the problem, his candidacy would likely have been irreparably
    weakened in the competitive DFL primary field. Ellison chose to deal with the
    problem by writing an audacious letter to the Jewish Community Relations Council
    on May 28, 2006.

  • Anonymous

    The Muslim Brotherhood,
    Genocide, and Obama

    American Thinker,
    by William Sullivan
    8/29/2011

    The Muslim Brotherhood has just issued an ultimatum to the Israeli ambassador in Egypt, telling him to “leave Egypt or die.”
    Brotherhood activists have rallied together, emboldened by their rise to prevalence in the political vacuum created by Mubarak’s resignation, to show the world that “[r]evolution is stronger than the Zionist attackers,” and they go on to say that “the entire Egyptian people are Hamas.” Interestingly enough, this
    statement might remind the reader of the powerful words of John F. Kennedy

    [Snip]: “I take pride in the words, “Ich bin ein Berliner.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/the_muslim_brotherhood_genocide_and_obama.html

  • Anonymous

    Warren Buffett, hypocrite

    New York Post,
    by Editorial   
    8/29/2011

    This one’s truly, uh … rich: Billionaire Warren Buffett says folks like him should have to pay more taxes — but it turns out
    his firm, Berkshire Hathaway, hasn’t paid what it’s already owed for years.

    That’s right: As Americans for Limited Government President Bill Wilson notes, the company openly admits that it owes back taxes since as long ago as 2002. “We anticipate that we will resolve all adjustments proposed by the US Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) for the 2002 through 2004 tax years … within the next 12 months,” the firm’s annual report says. It also cites outstanding tax issues…

    http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/warren_buffett_hypocrite_E3BsmJmeQVE38q2Woq9yjJ

  • Anonymous

    No, Showing Identificationis Not a ‘Poll Tax’

    Weekly Standard,
    by Mark Hemingway   
    8/29/2011

    There’s an entirely absurd op-ed by Georgia Congressman John Lewis in today’s New York Times about voter ID laws. You can
    probably guess where this is going, but here goes: Despite decades of progress, this year’s Republican-backed wave of voting restrictions has demonstrated that the fundamental right to vote is still subject to partisan manipulation. The most common new requirement, that citizens obtain and display unexpired
    government-issued photo identification before entering the voting booth, was advanced in 35 states and passed by Republican legislatures in Alabama, Minnesota, Missouri and nine other states —

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/no-showing-photo-id-not-poll-tax_591458.html

  • Anonymous

    For President Obama,
    more storms await on the horizon

    The Hill [DC],
    by Sam Youngman   
    8/29/2011

    President Obama arrived back in Washington after his August vacation to deal with a hurricane, but Irene was only the first of many tests awaiting the embattled commander-in-chief. With his approval ratings at the lowest point in his presidency, Obama returns to face a restless Congress, a hurricane that tore up the East Coast, continued unrest and uncertainty in the Middle East and an ailing economy that is not expected to improve much before the 2012 elections. “If the election were next Tuesday he’d lose. That’s how bad it is,” says a Democratic strategist.

    http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/178515-for-obama-more-storms-on-the-horizon

  • Anonymous

    Lew’s Lewd Letter

    American Spectator,
    by Jed Babbin   
    8/29/2011

    “Obama Takes Charge at Hurricane Command Center” blared the AFP headline on Saturday. But it was just another disappointment for Obama. By the time the over-hyped hurricane Irene blew into town, there wasn’t anything for Obama to take charge of. It could have been a big psychological moment for Obama’s campaign but it was just another let down for the man. The stock markets seemed to respond better to the East Coast earthquake last week
    than to Barry’s recent speeches. But Barry O’bama really has the luck of the Irish. With every sentient American worried about our still-sinking economy,

    http://spectator.org/archives/2011/08/29/lews-lewd-letter#

  • Anonymous

    George Will: Obama ultimatelyblames ‘James Madison
    forgiving us separation of powers’

    Daily Caller, by Jeff Poor   

    8/28/2011 

    Washington Post columnist George Will pinpointed
    Sunday what he views as the reason for President Obama’s plummeting approval
    rating: his failure to demonstrate leadership. “It’s also the fact it’s to look
    like a leader when you look like Alibi Ike — the character from a Ring Lardner
    short story,” Will said on ABC’s “This Week.” “He wasn’t a good baseball player
    but it was never his fault. This president has blamed George W. Bush, the
    Japanese tsunami, the euro, Greece, the Arab Spring, the Republicans, the tea
    party and ultimately James Madison for giving us separation of powers for
    all

    • AbigailA

      Oh that Publius were here today to school the “constitutional scholar” on the ratification of the constitution.  Short of physical stature, a whisperer in the dock, his grasp of the future challenges to self-government was nothing short of pure genious.  Madison prophesied obama.

  • Anonymous

    A Short Primer on the National Debt

    Wall Street Journal,
    by John Steele Gordon   
    8/28/2011

    With the national debt certain to be a front-and-center issue in the 2012 campaign, it is important to understand the true measure of its size. That size seems to vary considerably in news reports.
    Some news organizations use the debt held by the public, others use total debt.

    Still others report total future liabilities of the federal government, without making clear what, exactly, that means.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903480904576510660976229354.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEADTop

  • Anonymous

    The hope and change hangover

    Washington Examiner [DC],
    by Hugh Hewitt   
    8/28/2011

    National excess, like individual overindulgence, leads to uncomfortable aftereffects and even deeply painful ones. The “hope and change hangover” the country is experiencing is 100 percent the consequence of the policies adopted in 2007 and 2008 by President Obama in concert with Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid. Even the recession bequeathed to this trio of massive
    spenders combined with the dire consequences of the Panic of 2008 did not oblige the country to struggle through the dreariest recovery in modern times. This is an Obama-made becalming of the economic waters, an inevitability…..

    http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/08/hope-and-change-hangover

  • Anonymous

    My favorite storm video evah!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q64qvkVtXd0

    • Anonymous

      A Classic.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      LMAO. She’s in over her head, apparently.

  • Anonymous

    At least Irene took Obama`s debacle in Libya off the front page.

  • Anonymous

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/was-hurricane-hype-overblown

    August 28, 2011
    1:23pm
    28
    Comments

    Was the hurricane hype overblown?

    In the aftermath of Hurricane Irene, there seems to be a
    growing consensus that the storm was overblown by the media.

    As the skies clear, it’s looks like the East Coast suffered
    the typical property damage, flooding, and loss of life that
    comes with a Category 1 hurricane.

    What failed to materialize, however, was the storm of
    ‘biblical proportions’ predicted by the media.  Even when it
    was clear the storm was weakening, news anchors were reluctant
    to report the less than impressive facts.

    Meida critic Howard Kurtz notes
    the following exchange:

    When the Weather Channel’s Brian Norcross told MSNBC that
    forecasters had been expecting the first hurricane to make
    landfall in New York City since 1893—“and it didn’t
    happen”—anchor Alex Witt was openly skeptical.

    “Really, Brian?” she asked. Hadn’t Irene technically still
    been a hurricane when it came ashore in New York an hour
    earlier? “Can’t we still go with that?”

    No, Norcross said.

    I disagree with Kurtz, who blames government officials
    putting on a political show for the media.

  • Anonymous

    As of this morning, twenty four deaths are attributed to Irene, with millions of individuals facing the stress and financial hardships of cleaning up.
    Unfortunately, their trials pale in comparison to America’s recovery from the self-inflicted wound of Barry the Bamboozler’s path of destruction!

  • MG

    Finally, some revelation on how brilliant obozo is…NOT!!

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html

    And I agree with Mr. Chen affirmative action is a hinderance of development and minimizes achievements.

    • Anonymous

      He will go down in history as, how to elect a potted plant.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      I knew it! That weasel never wrote a damn thing upon entering public life and all the oratory speaking jabbering consisted of words that were not his. No wonder the TelePrompTer King stutters and stammers even when reading off a screen–they aren’t his words.

      He is

      Fake
      A sham
      A knock-off
      Bogus
      Counterfeit
      Spurious

      He’s an imitation president with imitation supporters in an imitation world full of imitation ideas, policies, and solutions.

  • Wbboe

    I saw this post at Hillaryis44 by Momaer:

    Obama is officially jinxed. At first he did not want to be bothered
    with a big storm barreling up the east coast hype or no hype. He just
    wanted to play golf everyday and slack (even more!) off. I suspect the
    military told him he had to leave early because they weren’t going to
    fly in that weather even for him. So he comes back early and to take
    advantage decides to pull a few robotic photo ops and see where FEMA is
    located. Instead of being the great Irene leader he is laughed at. He
    cannot catch a break because he is all marketing and no substance.

    OT but I periodically look at the Daily KooKoo site to see what is
    being floated before it shows up in the Obama press. It has been getting
    ugly for a while but this weekend I think even the biggest devotees
    have bailed. They are talking third party or not voting. Some of the
    biggest bots from 2007-2008 are saying they were wrong, conned, and lied
    to. One even said the Democrats committed fraud and stole his money!
    Cognitive dissonance is a hard thing to overcome but it is happening.
    Social workers are saying how much the poor hate Obama because all he
    cares about are the elites. The defenders are overwhelmed and completely
    outclassed by the newly awakened. The NY attorney general is their new
    hero simply because he is trying to follow NY law. It is funny, sad, and
    disgusting all at once
    ————————
    There is an old marketing theory called “sell the sizzle not the steak”.  This has been the time honored strategy of promoters, politicians and pornographers down through the ages.  But at some point, if the product does not deliver what it promises, then they sizzle wears off and they see the object of their affection in the cold light of day.

    That is happening now, with the Messiah. Fascination, admiration over has yielded to widespread disgust and mockery by his erstwhile over his blatant lies and lack of performance.  His response is condescension, more lies and showing us all how the other half lives. And when push comes to shove he falls back on the old bromide that he is our first black president.  How could we ever forget that?

    But that claim is no longer an affirmative defense to his incompetenece or malignant designs for this country.  Only a left wing billionaire oligarch like Buffett or others with cognitive problems cannot fail to see the serial failures, and that marketing is not substitute for performance. Modern brand theory says that the test of a brand is not the claims it makes, but whether it delivers on those claims. (See Branding Is For Cattle).  And while he did win the Advertising Age marketing campaign of the year award in 2008, today his benighted presidency are widely viewed as The Scam for the Ages.

    Today, his big media minions are advancing the argument don’t blame Barack.  Massive unemployment is the new norm.  The problem with that argument is it breeds complacency, ignores the impact on people lives, and relieves Obama of the burden of delivering what he promises.  Also, it plants the seeds of revolution, and invites police state methods to suppress rebellion.  Messiah Obama needs to go.

    • Docelder

      POTUS is “new coke”. If you liked it fine… but it ain’t coke. It never will be coke… and it could never replace coke. It was a mistake… POTUS is a mistake. I pray we learn from that mistake. I say we because we are all on this virtual Titanic together… those of us who booked the cruise and the rest of us who knew better. There is no fault at this point… just reality. POTUS was a mistake… that much is real. The rest of the story… who knows what was real and who cares at this point… it’s still the same mistake.

  • Anonymous

    Dear NQ Admin:  Why are my comments being posted with only ”edit” as an option?

  • Anonymous

    Getting the laugh down.  I’ve been practicing getting the perfect, derisive laugh down as I prepare for the inevitable onslaught from bots and my low-information, obama-sympathetic “friends” who think I’m a racist. 

    I think I’ve hit upon the right approach.  What do you think? 

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbp_JQ7RxqM&feature=related

  • Anonymous

    President Obama required two heavy-duty teleprompters on Monday during a
    three-minute speech in which he nominated Alan Krueger to serve as
    chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/three-minutes-two-teleprompters

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Assuming they’re on either side of the podium, they give his mouth something to do since he apparently needs two teleprompters to counteract the pronounced robotic look of the motion of his head as it turns from one side to the other.

  • Anonymous

    The shelves in the stores were empty, 
    everyone stocked up and spent, in some cases 
    money they didn’t have. 

    Yes, the spin will be the storm was good for the economy.
    Consumer buying was up and don’t forget the back to school
    buying.

    After the numbers come in “O” will proclaim-
    “See we are doing so much better,” 
    “I’m going to Disneyland.”

    What a Racket!!!!!

  • Wbboe

    Here is an interesting article.  It tells you how hypocritical the democrats have been over the years–touting social security, posturing as the great protectors of it and then secretly de-funding it.  However the coup d gras will be Obama’s jobs bill which he plans to unveil after Labor Day which has big media drooling and swooning for their messiah–as usual.  Their rapture notwithstanding, this bill calls for a suspension of the payroll tax which is used to fund social security and thereby hastens its path to insolvency. How can the left sit idly by and worship this guy?  How can they vote for him again in 2012?  The answer is they buy the sizzle not the steak.  Predictions of his political death among them are greatly exaggerated.

    http://www.redstate.com/dhorowitz3/2011/08/29/ok-obama-repeal-the-entire-payroll-tax-but-save-social-security/

    • Wbboe

      He keeps kicking the left in the gut and they keep saying oh thank you Messiah may I please have another.

      • Scottymac54

        You must feel very betrayed by “the Left”, or whoever they might be, in this instance.

        After all, you devoted so much time and energy to work for Hillary’s campaign as a volunteer, when it turns out that-suddenly-you’ve realized basic Democratic policy and ideals hold little appeal after all.

    • Anonymous

      Well, actually, Obama isn’t going to unveil a bill. According to Axelrod, he is going to unveil an outline of a plan..or something. I guess a bill is too much work..all that writing and legal research and stuff.

      • Ferd_Berfle

        In other words, he’s going to string together some time-worn phrases bearing no relationship to one another except that they’re in the same speech.

        Marvelous.

        • Wbboe

          Whereupon big media will proclaim it to be the greatest speech since The Funeral Oration of Pericles.  This thing is getting to be about as subtle as an attorney I once knew who would pull his tie when he wanted his witness to answer the question yes.  Before he was disbarred the jury caught on to his game and punished him with an adverse verdict.  Let us hope the electorate, and viewing public are equally perceptive.  I have seen examples where people who could not speak a word of Italian have seen the Puccini Play Madam Butterfly enough times that they can mouth the words. One would think this audience would see the inside game Obama and big media are playing and would reach for the vaudeville hook for both of them rather than endure further assault upon their intelligence.  Time will tell.

          • Wbboe

            The relationship between Obama and big media is absolutely positively incestuous– in the worst sense of the word.

            • Anonymous

              The problem for big media is that they are not nearly as big or as influential as they used to be.

          • Wbboe

            The relationship between Obama and big media is absolutely positively incestuous– in the worst sense of the word.

  • Anonymous

    Report: Gadhafi family membersin Algeria, ministry there
    says

    CNN, by Staff   

    8/29/2011 

    The wife and three children of Moammar Gadhafi are in
    Algeria, the state press agency said on Monday, citing the nation’s Foreign
    Ministry. His wife Safia, his daughter Aisha, two of his sons, Hannibal and
    Mohamed and their children, came to Algeria via the Libyan border. U.N. and
    National Transitional Council officials were informed of the development, the
    ministry said. Aisha, a former U.N. goodwill ambassador who has kept a low
    profile during Libya’s violent uprising, is due to give birth in early
    September, sources close to her family told CNN.

  • Anonymous

    Michelle Obama, Gloria Steinem, otherabortion rights activists
    headline fund-raiser

    Chicago Sun-Times, by Lynn Sweet   

    8/29/2011

    WASHINGTON–Feminist icon Gloria Steinem–the subject
    of a fascinating HBO documentary about her storied career–is teaming up with
    First Lady Michelle Obama and other key abortion rights activists to raise money
    for President Obama’s re-election drive.

    • Ferd_Berfle

      Nope. It’s still a wedge non-issue since the courts will never change the original ruling and besides, those without jobs can’t afford them anyway. It should rather takes the wind out of the sails of the hard right and hard left, who really have nothing to bitch about anymore–except each other. I’m busy trying to keep my household economy afloat in spite of the retrogressives and don’t have time for this frivolous already-decided, irrelevant nonsense.

  • Anonymous

    One in four Democrats
    want to dump Obama

    Washington Examiner,
    by Byron York   
    8/29/2011

    A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent
    of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012. In response to the question, “Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate for president in 2012?” — 72 percent said they
    wanted to see Obama renominated. But 27 percent, slightly more than one in every four…..

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/one-four-democrats-wants-dump-obama

  • Anonymous

    Earthquake! Hurricane! Alien Invasion!

    Wall Street Journal,
    by James Taranto
    8/29/2011
    LONDON

    –We’ll never forget where we were when the Great Virginia Earthquake of 2011 struck. We were riding in a taxi in Cambridge.
    As this was the Cambridge Cambridge and not the Harvard Cambridge–we were there for a Templeton Foundation conference–we didn’t feel any shaking, but we were
    monitoring our Twitter feed so we heard about it almost immediately. Some of our fellow conference-goers were from the Washington area; when we told them what had happened, they nervously phoned home to make sure all was well. It was.

    http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111904199404576538031623712352.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_MIDDLETopOpinion

  • Anonymous

    Obama remembers Katrina,after Hurricane Irene

    Agence France Presse, by Staff   

    8/29/2011

    WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama paid tribute
    Monday to the grit of the people of the US Gulf Coast, exactly six years after
    Hurricane Katrina roared ashore and inundated New Orleans. After a weekend in
    which Hurricane Irene tore up the US east coast, the president argued that
    federal disaster preparedness efforts had markedly improved since the botched
    government response to Katrina. (Snip) Obama vowed that his administration would
    keep fighting…..

    • Anonymous

      You knew this was coming from such a low rent cheap suit political hack like Obama. He remembers? He remembers the B.S. that was perpetrated by the media to cover up the truth and the facts. The fact was that the Mayor and Governor were warned way in advance of a major hurricane to take appropriate steps. They sat on their butts and did nothing. Negin did nothing to evacuate residents. And Blanco did not bother to even issue the required request for Federal help which her neighbor in Mississippi did. Two states – two different results.

  • Anonymous

    Interesting home invasion commercial; sorry, but I like it.
    http://www.Break.com/index/hot-woman-deals-with-home-invasion.html

  • Anonymous

    Interesting home invasion commercial; sorry, but I like it.
    http://www.Break.com/index/hot-woman-deals-with-home-invasion.html

  • Anonymous

    Gaddafi’s son Khamis killed
    in clash: rebel officer

    Reuters
    Tripoli

    - Fallen Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis has been killed in a clash near the capital Tripoli, a senior rebel
    officer said on Monday. Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, in charge
    of the Tripoli Brigade of the rebel army, said he had confirmation that Khamis was badly wounded in the clash near Ben Walid and Tarhoni. He was taken to a hospital but died of his wounds and was buried in the area, Al-Haragi said, without giving the timing. No independent confirmation of the death was available. A U.S.
    official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the United States…..

    http://news.yahoo.com/unit-led-gaddafis-son-carried-tripoli-massacre-hrw-084349630.html

  • Anonymous

    Gaddafi’s son Khamis killed
    in clash: rebel officer

    Reuters
    Tripoli

    - Fallen Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi’s son Khamis has been killed in a clash near the capital Tripoli, a senior rebel
    officer said on Monday. Colonel Al-Mahdi Al-Haragi, in charge
    of the Tripoli Brigade of the rebel army, said he had confirmation that Khamis was badly wounded in the clash near Ben Walid and Tarhoni. He was taken to a hospital but died of his wounds and was buried in the area, Al-Haragi said, without giving the timing. No independent confirmation of the death was available. A U.S.
    official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Reuters the United States…..

    http://news.yahoo.com/unit-led-gaddafis-son-carried-tripoli-massacre-hrw-084349630.html

  • Anonymous

    http://www.mmdnewswire.com/south-texas-grocer-63744.html

    South Texas grocer pleads guilty to food stamp fraud.

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    • Docelder

      What was stupid was giving some guy who claimed to invent the Internet and who said cow flatulence was warming the planet a Nobel Prize. Honestly, if any of us said those same things publicly we might get ourselves committed for an evaluation.

      • ~JustMe~

        Yea, then they went on to give it to a guy who was a community
        organizer from the South side of Chicago! Wonder how winter it’s gonna work out
        this year in that area?

      • Anonymous

        Saw fellow climate comic Jeffrey Sachs on the Morning Joe Show sit there and claim all natural disasters over the past year was because of climate change. Is he out of his friggin mind???? And no one including the Morning Schmo himself ever challenges him.

  • Anonymous

    Tony Blair’s sister-in-law incites Muslims to “liberate” Jerusalem
    http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/147264#.Tlw6S13VbO2

  • Anonymous
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    A  Reading from the Obama Scriptures (from John Smart)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqHOzCzeaY&feature=player_embedded

    • Anonymous

      funny!!!!!!

  • Anonymous
    • Scottymac54

      And their opponents are well armed, and waiting for an excuse to blow the other half of the nation to smithereens.

      In other words, the culmination of the “conservatives’” fever dreams may soon come to fruition, which will prompt the left to defend themselves through chaos.

      Good going, America.

      • Anonymous

        “the left to defend themselves through chaos.”

        Ah for those days of yesteryear when they would take to the streets and protest.

        Sorry Scotty, when todays proletariat gets angry they would not incovenience themselves so they just send angry Tweets.

        • Scottymac54

          Then why do you seem to blame them for every act of civil disorder that occurs?

          • Anonymous

            I don’t blame them for civil disorder. It’s their right to protest.

            There just are not nearly as many as there used to be.

            Now their idea of protest is from behind a keyboard on Facebook or Twitter.

            • Scottymac54

              I’m not sure you’ll see any sort of protest from either side, anyway…the controls are too tightly in place and we live in a scientific dictatorship.

  • Anonymous

    GOP may pick up leverage,
    momentum in NLRB battle

    Daily Caller,
    by Matthew Boyle   
    8/30/2011

    A political maelstrom may soon develop over the National Labor Relations Board, as Senate Republicans might finally have some
    leverage over Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. NLRB chairwoman and GOP member Wilma Liebman’s term ended this past weekend, bringing the Board’s total membership down to just three members. There are two Democratic members, Craig
    Becker and Mark Gaston Pearce, and one Republican member, Brian Hayes.

    (Snip)
    Becker’s recess appointment runs out at the end of the year, and the Board would lose its quorum if another member weren’t either recess-appointed or Senate-confirmed by then.

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/gop-may-pick-up-leverage-momentum-in-nlrb-battle/

  • Anonymous

    Obama routinely bypasses Congress, conservatives say

    Daily Caller,
    by Neil Munro   
    8/30/2011

    Obama administration officials are increasingly using regulation
    and litigation to bypass Congress, say free market advocates and
    social conservatives. “It is outrageous,” said Dan Kish, vice president at the Washington, D.C.-based Institute for Energy Research and a former Capitol Hill staffer. “Like it or not, Congress has the power to write laws.” But these critics also say little can be done about it before November 2012

    (Snip) “The president is making an end run [around the law] by … refusing to defend it in court,” said Maggie Gallagher, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.

    http://dailycaller.com/2011/08/30/obama-routinely-bypasses-congress-conservatives-say/

  • Anonymous

    An Unusual Economy?

    Creators Syndicate Inc.,
    by Thomas Sowell   
    8/30/2011

    Many in the media are saying how unusual it is for our economy to be so sluggish for so long, after we have officially emerged from a recession. In a sense, they are right. But, in another sense, they are profoundly wrong.The American economy usually rebounds a lot faster than it is doing today. After a recession passes, consumers usually increase their spending. And when businesses see demand picking up, they usually start hiring
    workers to produce the additional output required to meet that demand.

    (Snip)
    Government intervention may look good to the media but its actual track record…..

    http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2011/08/30/an_unusual_economy
    –

  • Anonymous

    Living American dream illegally

    Boston Herald, by Jessica Heslam   

    8/30/2011

    Obama Onyango lives in a modest, single-family home
    on a quiet, leafy street in Framingham. (Snip) It almost sounds like the
    American Dream. A 2011 version of it, maybe. Because the 67-year-old Kenyan who
    happens to be President Obama’s uncle wasn’t supposed to be living here, let
    alone driving drunk here. He’s what some people call undocumented. What others
    call illegal. Immigration authorities had been on the lookout for Onyango and
    found him last week after Framingham cops busted him on an operating under the
    influence charge. He’s currently locked up in Plymouth County Jail on an
    immigration warrant.

    • Anonymous

      I hope every illegal immigrant who gets busted for DUI tells the cops to “Call
       the White House”. lol

      Seriously, what precedent does this set if he’s allowed to remain in this country?

      BTW, Just how many illegal relatives does That One have in this country?No wonder he’s “pro-amnesty”.

      • ~JustMe~

        Freeloaders, the lot of them!

      • Scottymac54

        More hypocrisy from the anti-Muslim right.  How?

        If this guy was just a regular, garden variety Arab Muslim, and the president himself was non-black, you’d have the Gellers, Schlussels, etc. setting up picket signs, chanting thugs, etc., a veritable lynch mob up there in Framingham.

        It’s because he’s black AND Muslim that nothing else will happen to him, all charges will go bye-bye, no threats of “unrest” will be invoked, and everything will be forgotten, just like the birth certificate, Michelle’s statements, Barky’s preachers, etc.

        There’ll be all this howling, but all for naught, because it’ll be an in-house thing.  God Forbid, anyone should stand up and protest, just because a thing is wrong.

        Or corrupt.

        It’ll be politicized and the Republicans and their offshoots will never serve their constituents, because they have to prove to the world how black-friendly they all are.

  • Anonymous

    Losing Immigration Distinctions

    National Review,
    by Heather Mac Donald
    8/30/2011

    The New York Times claims that “waves of anti-immigrant hostility have made many in this country forget who and what we are,” in an editorial modestly comparing Alabama’s recently-enacted penalties against illegal immigrants and their employers to the Fugitive Slave Act. I have never met a legal immigrant from a country other than Mexico who does not strenuously oppose illegal immigration

    (snip) Are such legal immigrants “anti-immigrant”? Or are they against illegal immigration — a distinction which the illegal-alien lobby works incessantly to erase.

    http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/275820/losing-immigration-distinctions-heather-mac-donald#

  • Anonymous

    A Vineyard Too Far

    National Review Online,
    by Victor Davis Hanson   
    8/30/2011

    By Sunday afternoon, the Gallup tracking poll showed a 17-point spread in the president’s approval rating — 38 percent approval to 55 percent disapproval. Such polls are fickle and can go up and down quickly, often depending on unwarranted and unfair perceptions and media hype, hinging on everything from hurricanes to killing bin Laden. That said, these recent abysmal
    numbers might suggest that for the first time, a considerable number of Americans is starting to be turned off not just by Barack Obama’s economic policies, but by Barack Obama himself. But why now? The president’s latest Martha’s Vineyard vacation…..

    http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/275821/vineyard-too-far-victor-davis-hanson

  • Anonymous

    The Motley Fool

    Weekly Standard,
    by Joseph Bottum    
    8/30/2011 

    So, the vice president goes to China—and if that sounds like the beginning of a bad comedy routine, it’s because our current vice
    president has made it one. The man is a walking pratfall, a clown of the tongue-tied, stumbling kind, and only the media’s determined effort to shield the Obama administration from laughter has kept Joe Biden’s miscues, misunderstandings, and mispronouncements from becoming our long-running national
    joke. He began the month of August, for example, by boasting to reporters that…..

    http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/motley-fool_591422.html

  • Anonymous

    Promise of Jobs from Solar, Wind Power
    a Hard Sell in the Desert

    National Journal,
    by Coral Davenport   
    8/30/2011
    SEARCHLIGHT,
    Nevada

    –It’s easy to find Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s house in his tiny desert mining hometown. “You looking for Dirty Harry? Just look for the house with the wind turbine in the yard and the
    big solar panels on the roof,” says a patron at the Searchlight Nugget Casino bar. Reid’s passionate personal commitment…..

    http://nationaljournal.com/energy/promise-of-jobs-from-solar-wind-power-a-hard-sell-in-the-desert-20110829

  • Anonymous

    What Liberals Fear More
    Than Obama Losing

    American Thinker,
    by Geoffrey P. Hunt
    8/30/2011

    The left are now wringing their hands fearing their agenda is overripe, blaming everyone else for their own spoiled pickling. While Obama’s sinking prospects for re-election are disquieting, the real source of liberals’ despair is their sudden, unexpected realization that the progressive agenda is dead in its tracks and will likely be in full retreat after 2012.

    Obama is finished, but the demise of their identity politician is neither the main event nor surprising. He was a lame duck after he returned from Copenhagen empty handed in September 2009, expecting…..

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/what_liberals_fear_more_than_obama_losing.html

  • Anonymous

    DeMint repeats he won’trun for re-election

    The State
    [Columbia, SC],
    by Adam Beam
    8/30/2011

    ”Pending some unforeseen circumstances,” U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint told the Columbia Rotary Club Monday he will not run for re-election in 2016. ”If you see the finish line, you can give it all you’ve got,” DeMint said. ”There are very few people who have been (in Congress) over 10 years who are still fighting for something. That’s what Americans want us to do, right now, is to fight for the right thing–even if we lose.” DeMint added he will
    not run for president, either, quipping, ”I think I’m the only senator who does not see a president when I look…..”

    http://www.thestate.com/2011/08/30/1951663/demint-repeats-he-wont-run-for.html

  • Anonymous

    Obama in the ‘I’ of the hurricane

    Detroit News,
    by Jason Vines   
    8/30/2011 

    President Obama “boldly” ended his much-criticized vacation on Martha’s Vineyard in order to lead the efforts of the East Coast
    surviving Hurricane Irene.

    (Snip) Obama was injecting himself into the “I” of the storm for two reasons:
    1) to avoid any further damage from his trip to the Cape, and
    2) to take heed the words of his ‘ol buddy Rahm Emmanuel
    ” take advantage of every crisis.” Being a hurricane hero would be yet another way to show up utter failure George W. Bush.
    Remember that little Katrina thing?

    http://www.detnews.com/article/20110830/MIVIEW/108300357/1467/opinion01/VinesObama-in-theIof-the-hurricane

  • Anonymous

    Questions arise over Onyango Obama’s
    driver’s license and social security number

    Washington [DC] Times,
    by Kerry Picket
    8/30/2011

    Boston radio talk show host Howie Carr brought up on his
    Monday’s show that Onyango Obama, President Obama’s long lost half uncle who was arrested by Framingham, Massachusetts police last week, charged with DUI, and found to have a warrant out on him by immigration authorities at ICE, has a valid social security number and a Massachusetts driver’s license. Mr. Carr
    contacted the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles and asked spokesman at the state motor vehicle how someone Onyago Obama’s circumstances could get a driver’s license. He later told his audience what he discovered:

    http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/watercooler/2011/aug/30/picket-questions-arise-over-onyango-obamas-drivers/

    • Anonymous

      FROM THE COMMENTS:

      Is there anybody in that family who ISN’T a drunk, a fraud
      and a worthless layabout?

      • Ferd_Berfle

        No

  • Anonymous

    ‘This Is WAR’

    — Congressional Black Caucus Travels US Cities Using Violent Rhetoric:

    Declares ‘War’ on Racist Tea Party, Says Tea Party Wants to Lynch Blacks, Calls for Bank Runs, Civil Unrest in Their Neighborhoods and Homes

    VIDEO:

    http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-war-congressional-black-caucus-travels-us-cities-using-violent-rhetoric-declares-war-on-racist-tea-party-says-tea-party-wants-to-lynch-blacks-calls-for-bank-runs-civil-unrest-in-th/

  • Anonymous

    Politico’s ‘Is Rick PerryDumb?’ Hit Piece Is Just aTaste
    of What’s Coming in 2012

    Big Journalism, by John Nolte   

    8/30/2011

    One day, in the heat of the 2008 presidential
    election, the mainstream media’s anointed candidate was strolling through a
    swing-state neighborhood looking for a quick photo-op so he could be seen
    touching the flesh of a few “bitter-clingers” — and then something amazing
    happened. One of those “bitter clingers,” a man simply minding his own business
    in his front yard, dared to ask the mainstream media’s anointed candidate the
    kind of tough question the mainstream media never would. The Anointed One, not
    used to tough, probing questions, revealed something in his answer about his
    True Beliefs — the

  • Anonymous

    Is President Obama Dumb?Hannity Panel Debates The
    Issue

    Mediaite, by Frances Martel   

    8/30/2011

    With Texas Governor Rick Perry’s college grades out
    in the open, the question of whether he has the intellect for the nation’s top
    job was put on the table this morning, much to conservatives’ chagrin, by
    Politico, officially turning it into a campaign talking point.

  • Anonymous

    Critics:
    Obama slow to fill disaster aid coffers

    Associated Press,
    by Andrew Taylor   
    8/30/2011
    WASHINGTON

    –The government’s main disaster aid account is running woefully short of money as the Obama administration confronts damages from Hurricane Irene that could run into billions of dollars. With less than $800 million in its disaster aid coffers, the Federal Emergency Management Agency has been forced to freeze rebuilding projects from disasters dating to Hurricane Katrina to conserve money for emergency needs in the wake of Irene.
    Lawmakers from states ravaged by tornadoes this spring, like Missouri and Alabama, are especially furious.

    http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Critics-Obama-slow-to-fill-disaster-aid-coffers-2146793.php

  • Anonymous

    Iran has been discreetly assisting Libyan Rebels while criticizing NATO.

    http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jj6m9cMuH8ZXj5AgMQLjLVHFDhlA?docId=CNG.9b666507647200654b641466e2317b3d.501

    These are the same rebels who refuse to send any Libyian national to a western country for extradition (Such as Magrahi – the Lockerbie bomber) but are demanding that other countries send them members of Qaddafi’s family.

    I am just wondering how soon these new Arab Spring governments in Egypt and Libya will turn on the United States and western countries.

  • Anonymous

    Poll:
    Obamacare support
    at all time low

    Washington Examiner,
    by Conn Carroll   
    8/30/2011

    Americans’ opinion of Obamacare has reached an all-time post-passage low according to the Kaiser Health Tracking poll. Only 39% of those surveyed have a favorable view of the law, two points below the previous nadir of 41% first set in May 2010. Forty-four percent of Americans have an unfavorable view. While there continues to be a sharp partisan divide over the law, the Kaiser poll shows Americans’ views converging. Democratic and
    Independent support for Obamacare has fallen to all-time lows of 60% and 33% respectively. But Republican support for the law is at an all-time 24% high.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/poll-obamacare-support-all-time-low

  • Anonymous

    How to Sell our National Birthright

    Industrial Heating,
    by Barry Ashby   
    8/30/2011

    It all began innocuously. There were announcements last autumn that Sinomach, a Chinese builder, wanted to buy land near Boise,
    Idaho, to build a 30,000-acre city and industrial park modeled after special economic zones (SEZ) that exist in China. We find with some investigation that state-owned Sinomach (China National Machinery Industry Corporation), established in January 1997 and active in 130 countries, is managed by the Communist Party of China (CPC).

    http://www.industrialheating.com/Articles/Column/BNP_GUID_9-5-2006_A_10000000000001085224

  • Anonymous

    Democrats start feeling
    like Republicans

    Daily Mail
    [Charleston, WV],
    by Don Surber   
    8/30/2011

    One of the memes this summer was that the Republican
    presidential candidates were too weird, even for Republicans.
    The pollsters began asking: “And thinking about the people who may be candidates in the upcoming elections for the Republican presidential nomination, would you say you are more (satisfied) with your choices or more (dissatisfied) with your choices?”…..

    http://blogs.dailymail.com/donsurber/archives/41220

  • Anonymous

    Discrimination suit vs. MCSO dismissed

    Arizona Republic,
    by JJ Hensley   
    8/30/2011

    A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit accusing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office of discrimination, negligence and abuse during one of Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s worksite-enforcement raids, writing that there was no evidence of unconstitutional conduct. The lawsuit stemmed…..

    http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2011/08/30/20110830maricopa-county-sheriffs-office-discrimination-suit-dismissed.html

    • Scottymac54

      So many on the Left (and also cheap-labor happy righties) just cannot bring them to accept that Sheriff Arpaio is a good example of what a lawman in America SHOULD be.

      From what I’ve read, nothing he’s inflicted on the prisoners in his care will leave lasting damage, and come back to shoot us all in the foot.

      He understands the meaning of the word “BORDER”, and seems to get the importance of at least attempting to enforce it.

      He does not seem to need every action to be “covert”.   He is honest, sometimes bluntly so to the media, and will even take pains to show why he does what he does, why such and such tactic may be legal but will not yield results, etc.

      I’m sure the man is not perfect, but who would be in that position, and isn’t it refreshing to at least see someone doing their job, and not deciding he has to be dishonest in order to get it done?

      Americans refuse to get it.  Border security IS national security….but I guess “jihadis” are more cinematic. 

  • Anonymous

    White House: Only ‘FerventPartisan’ Would Suggest ObamaTo
    Blame For Job Losses

    Cybercast News Service, by Eric
    Scheiner   

    8/30/2011

    When asked questions about the president’s upcoming
    speech on jobs and economic growth yesterday, White House Spokesperson Jay
    Carney claimed that only the most ‘fervent partisan’ would suggest the 8 million
    plus jobs lost in this recession were lost because of actions Barack Obama took.
    The question was asked by CBS reporter Norah O’Donnell.

  • Anonymous

    The entitlement tsunami is here

    Washington Examiner,
    by Conn Carroll   
    8/30/2011

    When President Obama announced the debt-limit deal with Congress in late July, he claimed the legislation would result in “the lowest level of annual domestic spending since Dwight Eisenhower was President.”

    We’re spending less now then we did over 50 years ago? How is that even possible? In short, it’s not. The United States spent an inflation-adjusted $327 billion on non-defense spending in 1961, Eisenhower’s last fiscal year in office.In 2011, according to a new Congressional Budget Office report released Wednesday, we will spend $2.9 trillion…..

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/article/entitlement-tsunami-here

  • Anonymous

    New Mexico Governor Rushes to
    Undo the Agenda of Her Predecessor

    New York Times,
    by Marc Lacey   
    8/30/2011
    SANTA FE, N.M.

    — When Gov. Susana Martinez of New Mexico handed over the keys of a state-owned jet to a wealthy businessman and his wife for $2.5 million last week, she was eliminating one more remnant of her predecessor, Bill Richardson. “Last year, when I was running for governor, I not only promised taxpayers that I would not use this state jet as a personal air taxi, I promised New Mexicans across the state that I would get rid of this symbol of greed and excess in state government,” she said at a news conference on Thursday…..

    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/30martinez.html?_r=2

  • Anonymous

    How Obama lost hispresidency in August 2009

    St. Louis Post-Dispatch, by Andrew
    Breitbart   

    8/30/2011

    When the history of Barack Obama’s one-term
    presidency is written, August 2009 will be remembered as the turning point. It
    was then that thousands of ordinary citizens began to rise up against a health
    care bill being forced through Congress. And it was then that the Obama
    administration declared war, through its union proxies, against the American
    people.(snip) The Gladney attack was a small part of a much larger campaign of
    intimidation, directed from the White House. The acquittals in the Gladney case
    cannot erase what happened, even though the high-flying lawyers brought in by
    the SEIU outmatched the rookie

  • Anonymous

    Labor Dept. Signs ‘Partnerships’ with ForeignGov’s to Protect
    Illegal Workersin U.S. – Thread
    Closed

    CNSNews.com, by Edwin Mora   

    8/30/2011

    U.S. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis today signed
    “partnership” agreements with ambassadors from a group of Latin American nations
    aiming to protect what she described as the labor rights of both legal and
    illegal migrants working in the United States. During the signing ceremony
    hosted at Labor Department headquarters in Washington D.C., Solis said the
    agreements are aimed at educating migrant workers, regardless of how they got
    here, about their rights under U.S. law and to help prevent them from being
    abused in the workplace, either through wages, loss of job, or deportation.

  • Anonymous

    Republicans to Unveil Bill to Force
    Major Changes at the UN

    Bloomberg,
    by Nicole Gaouette and
    Bill Varner    
    8/30/2011

    House Republicans are planning to introduce today legislation that seeks to force major changes at the United Nations, using as
    leverage the U.S.’s 22 percent contribution to the world body’s operating budget. The bill by Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, the Republican chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, would require the UN to adopt a voluntary budget model in which countries selectively fund UN agencies rather than according to a
    set formula. It would end funding for Palestinian refugees, limit use of U.S. funds to only purposes outlined by Congress and stop contributions to peacekeeping operations until management changes are made.

    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-30/republicans-to-unveil-bill-to-force-major-changes-at-the-un.html

  • Anonymous

    No one has made more money from “Climate Change” hype than Al Gore:
    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/583159/201108291855/Perry-Vs-Gore.htm

  • Anonymous

    No one has made more money from “Climate Change” hype than Al Gore:
    http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article/583159/201108291855/Perry-Vs-Gore.htm

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous
  • Alice Wolf

    We need NASA back.  We don’t need to vacate the space station and leave the satelites that monitor weather conditions in the cosmos, unwatched down here on earth.  There was a huge solar flare very recently and because we, on our planet in our solar system, circling the Galaxy are in a vulnerable position at present, we hare experiencing, and will continue to experience catastrophic events more and more. 
    That is why we need to free up US credit.  We need to fund the research done in space so that we can learn more about the effects of
    stuff going on up there upon our planet.   Blacklisting carbon dioxide so that the Hedge Funders etc can sell carbon credits in the name of man made global warming is obviously another scam.
    All this hoo ha! about the hype over Irene makes a mockery of scientific achievements to date, and casts a cloud over those who genuinely are interested to increase mankinds chances of survival.
    We need some educated people to run for Congress who are not blown away by promises of free dinners and tickets to the ball game.  We need for sanity to prevail on Capital Hill, and for the demons that are currently in possession of our legislators to be commanded to leave.
    Okay, all together now, please shout FUERA to these demons and make sure that they never return.   We know they are losers, so why would we tolerate them any longer?  
    Our republic is too precious to relinquish to a bunch of demon possessed politicians and lobbyists.  What thinkest thou?

  • Anonymous

    BO sends out talking points for 9/11 observance..”not just about us”
    http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/30/us/politics/30terror.html?_r=2&partner=MYWAY&ei=5065

  • Anonymous

    FROM:

    Michelleobamasmirror.com
    by UnSkinnyMinnie

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/08/early_obama_letter_confirms_inability_to_write.html
    Early Obama Letter Confirms Inability to Write Good
    analysis of The Wons’ lack of writing skills and affirmative action mindset that
    have landed them where they are today. While at Princeton and Harvard
    Law, MA0 was extremely intimidated by her intellectual superiors and thus felt
    so alienated that this experience stoked her already massive fires of self
    righteous anger towards white people and the so-called system. It could not have
    been a positive experience for MA0 to have her professors take her by the hand
    and inform her that she wouldn’t make it without their help and the AfAct fairy
    tale. This opinion presumes, of course, that MA0 had a normal sense of pride in
    her accomplishments, and did not depend on getting by on her skin color and
    ethnicity. Butt I am sure that is not the case, as she obviously has no qualms
    at playing or using the race card in any situation. I am also
    convinced that the extra year MA0 spent at Harvard Law (ostensibly pursing and
    earning her Master of Laws, or LL.M. due entirely to her exceptional acumen) was
    actually REMEDIAL work that was necessary for the AfAct fairy tale princess to
    be allowed to graduate and hopefully pass the bar exam. Butt
    what do I know, the daughter of white Southern blue collar parents, one would
    could never have dreamed of even a chance at an Ivy League education?
    Moi?

  • HELENK

    how the DOJ rolls under Holder.
    Gibson guitar owner donates to republicans.
    Martin guitar owner donates to democrats. Used the same wood as Gibson but NO raid.

    I do not know about anybody else but this sickened me. We no longer have a department of Justice , we have a political strong arm squad that threatens American citizens who do not follow backtrack;s and bunch ideology.

    no longer prosecute voter fraud if it against ” Holders people”

    give guns to drug cartels , get  people killed and cover up the crime

    http://hotair.com/archives/2011/08/30/another-interesting-tidbit-in-the-gibson-guitar-saga/

    unemployment needs to start in DC asap

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • Anonymous

    Labor leaders must pay for parade
    if GOP banned, mayor says

    Reuters
    | 30 Aug 2011
    | John Rondy

    The mayor of a Wisconsin town said on Tuesday a local labor council would have to reimburse the city up to $2,000 for a Labor Day parade if organizers exclude Republican lawmakers from attending. The move in Wausau, Wisconsin, came after a county labor official said last week that Republican politicians were not welcome at the event due to their party’s stance against collective bargaining when state lawmakers voted to curtail it earlier this year. Wausau Mayor Jim Tipple told Reuters on Tuesday that the decision to exclude elected Republicans “flies in the face of public policy.”

    http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/30/us-labor-day-wisconsin-idUSTRE77T64220110830

  • Anonymous

    Black Workers Discover ‘Help’ From Washington Often Isn’t
    IBD Editorials ^ | August 30, 2011 | WALTER E. WILLIAMS Overall U.S. unemployment is 9.1%. For white adults, it’s 8%, and for white teens, 23%. Black adult unemployment stands at 17%, and for black teens, it’s 40%, more than 50% in some cities, for example, Washington. Chapter 3 of “Race and Economics,” my most recent book, starts out, “Some might find it puzzling that during times of gross racial discrimination, black unemployment was lower and blacks were more active in the labor force than they are today.” Up until the late 1950s, the labor force participation rate of black teens and adults was equal to or greater than their white…

  • Anonymous

    Three NLRB decisions ‘willkill jobs and force
    businessclosures,’ critics say

    Daily Caller, by Matthew Boyle    

    8/30/2011

    On Tuesday the National Labor Relations Board
    announced three new decisions that industry experts say will likely hurt the
    economy and cost American jobs. The first and likely most controversial NLRB
    ruling overturned a 2007 decision that gave workers nationwide the right to
    protect themselves from union bosses’ bullying and coercive tactics with secret
    ballot elections. Via its newly-decided Lamons Gasket case, the NLRB eliminated
    the 2007 Dana Corp ruling, which the National Right to Work Foundation said
    protected workers from “coercive practices” union organizers often used to
    “bully or mislead employees.”

  • Anonymous

    Grassley, Issa:
    Shakeup Won’t Stop Probe of ATF

    Wall Street Journal,
    by Mary Lu Carnevale   
    8/30/2011

    There might be more to come in the investigation of the anti-gun-trafficking program that sparked the shakeup at the Bureau of
    Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to two lawmakers who have spearheaded the congressional probe.
    “There’s a lot of blame to go around. As our investigation moves forward, and we get to the bottom of this policy, I wouldn’t be surprised to see more fall out beyond the resignations and new
    assignments announced today,” said Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa). Mr. Grassley, along with Rep. Darrell Issa (R., Calif.), have been investigating…..

    http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/08/30/grassley-issa-shakeup-wont-stop-probe-of-atf/

  • Anonymous

    To Cut Medicaid Costs, GOPGovernors Target Illegal
    Immigrants

    Wall Street Journal, by Janet Adamy   

    8/30/2011

    Republican governors have a new target in their quest
    to cut Medicaid costs: illegal immigrants. In a report released Tuesday, the
    Republican Governors Association outlined 31 solutions that it says would bring
    down the cost. Medicaid is a top budget item for states, and governors from both
    parties have complained it’s busting their purse as more people lose jobs and
    qualify for the federal-state insurance program for the poor. The RGA has
    floated most of the ideas before, but one jumped out as new. Solution No. 5
    would “require the federal government to take full responsibility for

  • Anonymous

    Warren ‘Raise My Taxes’Buffett’s Company MayOwe IRS $1
    Billion

    Newsbusters, by Noel Sheppard   

    8/30/2011

    As NewsBusters reported Monday, American media almost
    completely ignored a report that Warren “Raise My Taxes” Buffett’s company
    Berkshire Hathaway has been fighting with the IRS for almost a decade over taxes
    it owes. On Tuesday, the organization digging into Berkshire Hathaway’s numbers,
    Americans for Limited Government, estimated the total could be as much as $1
    billion: (Snip) According to page 56 of the company report, “At December 31,
    2010… net unrecognized tax benefits were $1,005 million”, or about $1 billion.
    McCarty explained, “Unrecognized tax benefits represent the company’s potential
    future obligation to the IRS and other taxing authorities. They

  • Anonymous

    Sharpton’s Debut: The ReviewsAre In and It’s Not
    Pretty

    Big Journalism, by Larry O’Connor   

    8/30/2011

    Last night saw the debut of Al Sharpton’s new show on
    NBC News’ cable outlet MSNBC. “Politics Nation” started with a monologue by the
    host delivered in his now familiar bumbling, bewildering and bombastic style.
    Though a couple sentences were not easy to understand, the over-all message was
    clear: The GOP candidates for president are like pre-1960’s racist
    segregationists. Considering Sharpton’s entire career leading up to this point
    pretty much consists of him making loud accusations of “racist” through a bull
    horn

  • Anonymous

    Obama Administration: Lost in Space

    Big Government, by Jason Killian Meath

    8/30/2011

    Astronauts are stranded on the space station.
    America’s once-mighty Space Shuttle fleet has been disassembled and mothballed
    with nothing to replace it. The Russians, once the inferior player in the space
    race, is the only hope left to rescue the stranded astronauts. No, this isn’t
    the treatment to a B-list summer movie — it is playing out before our eyes. It
    never had to be this way. When historians look back on the American space
    program over the past 5 years, they are bound to scratch their heads and wonder,
    “what on Earth happened?”

  • Anonymous

    Obama says U.S. helped free Libya

    Politico,
    by Matt Negrin
    8/30/2011

    President Obama said in a speech to veterans on Tuesday that Libyans are “free” after the American military helped them fight
    their dictator. “Despite 10 years of continuous war, it must be said: America’s military is the best it’s ever been,” Obama said at an American Legion conference in Minnesota. “We saw that most recently in the skill and precision of our brave forces who helped the Libyan people finally break free from the grip of Muammar Qadhafi.”

    http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0811/libyans_are_free_8d69a931-5208-48c1-8bf8-920c94682e5d.html

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    • Anonymous

      Help, erase my name..Disqus-ted got my name wrong when I posted on myu new computer

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