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Well, the dueling press conferences are over. California GOP gubernatorial candidate and corporate whiz Meg Whitman, with her husband standing at her side, repeated her denial that the couple knew about Nicky Diaz-Santillan’s illegal alien status before June 2009. Crapweasel lawyer Gloria Allred produced the document she promised yesterday — a Social Security Administration no-match [...]

Hey, remember last summer, when Nancy Pelosi came to my home state of Colorado and the Dems hired non-English-speaking day laborers who didn’t have a clue about what was going on to protest for Obamacare? Well, Pelosi’s fellow Californian, Sen. Barbara Boxer, borrowed a page from the House Speaker in recruiting day labor stooges to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers We’ve seen Alan Grayson’s shameless out of context ad against his Republican opponent Daniel Webster, so turnabout is fair play. Comeuppance courtesy of Townhall.com by way of The Right Scoop: **Written by Doug Powers Twitter @ThePowersThatBe

Last week, my syndicated column gave a brief, brutish history of Obamacare inquistions. The column ended with this warning: Sebelius’ threat last week against individual market health insurers who raise rates to cope with new federal coverage mandates will be far from this desperate administration’s last. As health costs skyrocket, doctors abandon the profession, hospitals [...]

Lots of last-minute rebukes of Team Obama on Capitol Hill to report as Congress adjourned for the midterm elections break. The Senate gave the president the back of the hand on recess appointments. And now we learn that House Democrats rejected the First Lady’s aggressive push to fund her anti-childhood obesity/union payoff campaign by raiding [...]

How about some late-night good news from Capitol Hill? Senate Republicans did something right, stood their ground, and forced Democrats to bow on blocking White House recess appointments during the midterm election break. See? Saying no — HELL NO — can pay off. Via The Hill: Senate Democrats agreed Wednesday night to a Republican demand [...]

Not again. From Zoe Baird to Michael Huffington to Bernie Kerik, the political class can’t seem to follow the same tax and immigration laws everyone else is required to follow when it comes to hiring and paying their household help. Tim Geithner got away with it. But as the links above show (and it’s by [...]

Scroll for updates… GOP turns up the heat on panicked Dems over tax hikes: Appearing at the weekly Republican leadership press conference, House Republican Leader John Boehner (R-OH) decried Democratic Leaders’ intent to adjourn for the fall without allowing an up-or-down vote to stop all of the tax increases set to take effect on January [...]

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Look for the union label My column today sheds light on SEIU Local 1199, which is spearheading this weekend’s disgruntled lefty protest in Washington. As Big Labor’s Tea Party-bashing rhetoric ramps up, it’s time for workers to put the blame for their troubles where it really belongs — on the heads of their own corrupt, [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The hopefully future ex-Florida Representative and inspiration for the invention of the straight-jacket is down by seven points in Florida: In one of the most closely watched U.S. House races in the nation, Republican Daniel Webster now holds a 7-point lead over Democratic Rep. Alan Grayson in Central Florida’s 8th Congressional [...]

The cavalry to the, uh… rescue

**Written by Doug Powers It’s no secret that Team Obama loathes Fox News, but this spin is “zero sum game” theory at its most desperate and laughable. From a Rolling Stone interview: I think Fox is part of that tradition — it is part of the tradition that has a very clear, undeniable point of [...]

As you all know, Rahm Emanuel is preparing to return to Chicago to launch his mayoral bid. One problem: The tenant leasing Emanuel’s Windy City home isn’t planning on moving anywhere. Chicago Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed reports: It’s Chicago politics at its best. Sneed hears an effort by Chicago mayoral hopeful Rahm Emanuel to move [...]

Lonely, he’s Mr. Lonely…but at least he’ll always have TOTUS. Yep, looks like President Obama’s reverse Midas Touch is kicking in again today. The White House appears to be scrounging for rally attendees. Via Fox News: The president is headed to Madison as part of a series of rallies in swing states leading up to [...]

You know, maybe all those SEIU workers who will be bussed in for the left-wing Washington rally this weekend ought to take a detour and protest at the SEIU headquarters instead. Fresh off the wires, news of the FBI’s corruption probe of the Purple Army: The FBI and the U.S. Labor Department are investigating prominent [...]

Grim reaper photoshop credit: Manly Rash Ed Morrissey at Hot Air has an exclusive sneak peek at the economic havoc that Obama’s eco rules are wreaking. Bottom line: More than 800,000 jobs are at risk in a broad cross-section of industries. Read the details here. On a related note, the Obama’s offshore drilling moratorium isn’t [...]

From the AFL-CIO blog, violence-promoting labor chief Richard Trumka urged his fellow leftists to seize back power from the Tea Party movement and take back “control of the national conversation.” Gloves off: With the economy continuing to stagger and job creation not moving quickly, “working people are justifiably angry and frustrated” as they approach the [...]

Longtime readers of this blog know the tragic story of Los Angeles teenager Jamiel Shaw, who was gunned down by an illegal alien gang member in 2008 amidst brown-on-black violence in California’s open-borders sanctuary. The Shaw family has remained active and vocal in the fight against illegal immigration. Flashback: Appalled by the Colbert Congress fiasco, [...]

One citizen’s searing rejoinder to the Colbert Congress fiasco last week: *** On a related note, many of you have not forgotten slain Arizona rancher Robert Krentz. His suspected illegal alien killer is still on the loose. A tragic update: His widow, Sue, was struck by a drunk driver after church services yesterday in Douglas. [...]

She’s melting!

How would you like to be a voter in a district where your own congressman led an economic boycott against you and the rest of your state? If you had no choices at the ballot box, you might vote with your feet and move somewhere more hospitable. In Arizona’s 7th congressional district, represented by open-borders [...]

Some must sacrifice so others can have more

**Written by Doug Powers Add another one to the pile of disgruntled former funnelers of the Hope & Change Kool Aid: I knocked on doors in my neighborhood of Kensington, Brooklyn. I started talking to strangers about Obama on the subway. I told people they needed to pay attention to this guy and read his [...]

**Written by Doug Powers There’s no better way to ensure that visitors from an advanced civilization elsewhere in the universe want to vaporize the Earth immediately than by making them sit through a United Nations meeting as soon as they get here. To that end, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs will choose [...]

**Written by Doug Powers I’m starting to think that going after John Boehner might not be going very well. The “Boehner smokes, golfs, smokes some more, has a tan and takes **loads of money from lobbyists” approach may have run its course, so now the New York Times has decided to take on Boehner’s staff. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers As the world leaders were back in the City scheming to divvy up money that doesn’t belong to them, the spouses hung around with FLOTUS and received a basket that I’m predicting will come to be known as “the re-gifting heard ’round the world”: First lady Michelle Obama underscored her healthy [...]

Reporting for snooty!

Good news today for the Delphi salaried retirees who were screwed over by Team Obama’s auto task force and the UAW. As I reported Wednesday, the Delphi white-collar workers were in court today for a hearing on their federal lawsuit challenging the backroom deals that led to massively slashed pension benefits for non-union workers while [...]