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I love how this works: Barack Obama pledged $100 billion in foreign aid to help bail out the ailing International Monetary Fund in April. Only after he announced it did he go to Congress and make his case for the money. And yesterday, Obama water-carriers on the Hill cooked up a fuzzy math scheme to [...]

Well, well, well. Reality bites the White House in the ass, again. From the administration that was against military tribunals before they were for them and which flip-flopped on a “truth commission” after a public backlash comes the decision to bail on the ACLU and fight the release of detainee “torture” photos after signaling last [...]

Senate Republicans couldn’t be bothered to stop the confirmations of so many conflict-of-interest-plagued, incompetent, rule-of-law-undermining Obama nominees from Gary Locke to Ron Sims to Eric Holder to Hillary Clinton, but they banded together today to block a deputy Interior Department choice…over a policy decision that had nothing to do with the nominee. What the hell? [...]

In my column on the SEIU today, I mentioned how the George Soros-funded group, Americans Coming Together, was hit with a $775,000 fine by the Federal Election Commission – the third largest civil penalty levied in the panel’s history — for gross campaign finance violations. Yesterday, in little-noticed news, California’s campaign finance panel fined Soros [...]

Nightmare.

Big Labor’s investment in Obama pays off by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2009 “We spent a fortune to elect Barack Obama — $60.7 million to be exact — and we’re proud of it,” boasted Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union, to the Las Vegas Sun this week. The behemoth labor organization’s [...]

I want to remind you of what Harry Reid said just a few years ago in response to Republican calls for Social Security and Medicare reform. Reacting to GOP warnings in 2005 about the impending insolvency of both programs, Reid sneered: “Today’s report confirms that the so-called Social Security crisis exists in only one place [...]

The Obama FDA doesn’t like the font size of the cholesterol claims on Cheerios boxes. Next, they’ll complain about the lack of leprechaun diversity on Lucky Charms boxes. Washington raised ciggie taxes to pay for SCHIP expansion and are gearing up to raise soda taxes to pay for Obamacare. No vice is safe from the [...]

The shooter in the Monday attack at Camp Liberty’s combat stress clinic outside Baghdad has been identified. He’s Sgt. John M. Russell of the 54th Engineer Battalion. He was on his third tour of duty. For the past 24 hours, the MSM has set a narrative suggesting that the shooter was under combat stress himself. [...]

This Thursday: Be there!

Three items from the Era of Hope and Change: 1) Team Obama pays back the Daley Machine. White House lobbies for the Olympics in Chicago. 2) Nepotism here, nepotism there, nepotism everywhere. 3) Shocker! Murtha’s nephew used the Murtha name, after all!

I’ve been seeing a lemming-like increase in hand-wringing articles about the need for a GOP “hero.” The latest comes from McCain/Bush flack Nicolle Wallace in “The Daily Beast” — Tina Brown’s liberal salon sprinkled with acceptable, non-conservative Beltway Republicans who swallow false premises whole. Wallace parrots the line that the Republican Party needs an “effective [...]

It’s going to dead people: Millions of Americans on Social Security are receiving $250 checks as part of the president’s stimulus plan — including an Anne Arundel woman who died more than 40 years ago. The woman’s son, 83-year-old James Hagner, said he got the surprise when he checked his mailbox late last week. “It [...]

Heading home soon after a lovely time at Wellesley. The College Republican women there are steel magnolias. Bright, beautiful, charming, fiercely conservative, and fearless. Thanks to the CRs and YAF for sponsoring the event. Fun fact: Conservative professors do exist at Wellesley. Real ones. Really!

After a long runaround, ironically, this could be the only way to finally get to the bottom of this mess and find out once and for all what she knew, and when she knew it. If it helps thwart just one more attack on our intellects, it’ll be worth it: But if anybody asks, I [...]

Funny?

Here’s a thread for my fellow space geeks. The shuttle Atlantis is still on schedule for a 2 p.m. ET liftoff, beginning its mission to repair the Hubble telescope. You can watch the launch prep and the launch itself here. There’s so much debris up there now that a stand-by shuttle is also on the [...]

Headed to Boston for a speech at Wellesley. Should be fun. Doug Powers will be guest-blogging here again and I’ll pop in after I land.

Dirty.

Late on Friday, the White House dumped Scare Force One staffer Louis Caldera and released a scant “review” of the stunt photo-op flyover that wrought havoc in New York City. The dump seems to have accomplished its mission. By Saturday night, the president was instantly comfortable joking about it in front of starstruck journalists who [...]

I spent a blissful Mother’s Day weekend unplugged and away from the news. So if you’re looking for outrage, faux outrage, and extended commentary on all the narcissism and nastiness at the White House Correspondents Dinner, you’ll have to look elsewhere. In a nutshell: Liberal comedian Wanda Sykes indulged in Palin-bashing, Rush Derangement Syndrome, and [...]

White House Military Office director Louis Caldera tendered his resignation this afternoon. The NY Daily News has the story. Here’s the official review of the incident. It does not cover DoD or FAA involvement. The report says “Initial planning” began in “March 2009 or earlier” without specifying who exactly initiated the planning and why. Caldera [...]

I mentioned President Obama’s new FCC “diversity” panel earlier this week. Well, they met yesterday. And it was every bit as bad as expected. FCC Chairman Michael Copps denied that the panel would move to reinstitute the Fairness Doctrine. But the social engineering/racial bean-counting efforts are underway. Moreover, Judicial Watch yesterday announced that it had [...]

The fraud-ridden money pit known as Fannie Mae needs more of your money. Who among the Fannie-kissers in Congress will say no? Say goodbye to another $19 billion: Fannie Mae (FNM.P), the largest provider of U.S. home mortgage funding, said on Friday it needs more capital from the U.S. Treasury after a $23.2 billion loss [...]

Government Sachs.

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My column today looks at the abusive relationship between Barack Obama and the hedge fund industry. He keeps taking their money. They keep getting publicly tongue-lashed. Looks like the cycle has ended. Last week, non-TARP lenders objected to the UAW-pandering Chrysler deal. This week, AQR Capital Management LLC hedge fund manager Cliff Asness — at [...]

Democrat Rep. John Conyers backs down from his pledge to investigate ACORN fraud: Bok, bok, bok. Matthew Vadum zeroes in on the right question: What happened in a mere two weeks to change Conyers’ mind? Did he get a call from friends of ACORN in high places? Did he get something else? Why drop the [...]

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi knew from September 2, 2002 that enhanced interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, were being used on jihadi detainees. She knew. From Day One. That’s what the CIA memo, published at Human Events, shows. ABC News follows. Pelosi’s spokesperson says his boss has a “recollection” that is “different.” Nancy Pelosi: Blink, blink. Allahpundit [...]

Saudi Arabia’s “Miss Beautiful Morals” contest.