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Over the weekend, White House operatives were all over the map with their stimulus job estimates.
(I think they were using “Mayan Math.”)
Anyway, talk show host Bill Wills in Cleveland asked White House spokesman Bill Burton about it. Burton airily dismissed criticism of the discrepancies as “petty.”
Here’s the audio:

And transcript:
WILLS: And finally Mr. Burton, on [...]

Who is Ellie Light?
I predict you’ll start seeing the question as a popular bumper sticker soon (a la “Who is John Galt?”…and voila, someone has already made a t-shirt!).
It’s a handy rhetorical rejoinder the next time the White House or your nutroots neighbors and co-workers try to tar the Tea Party or any other [...]

In October, I gave you a closer look at Altgeld Gardens — a long-troubled public housing complex on Chicago’s South Side where youth violence has proven immune to “community organizing” solutions and the grand redevelopment schemes hatched by Mayor Richard Daley and slumlord/Obama crony Valerie Jarrett.
In this month’s City Journal, Heather Mac Donald shines light [...]

What is it about natural disasters that brings out so much stupid on both sides of the political aisle?
Haitians are suffering. We should debate how best to help them in the short and long term.
But how about a ceasefire on this kind of crap, via Tim Blair:
“Actor Danny Glover believes that the Haitian earthquake was [...]

Photoshop/CoC card set credit: Tennyson Hayes
It’s not quite the Mother of All Distractions, but it’s up there. Maybe the First Cousin of All Distractions.
The White House unveiled its ballyhooed $90 billion plan to punish banks with a “Financial Crisis Responsibility Fee” this afternoon. It’s faker than the fake garden vegetables the First Lady served [...]

Five days after the Christmas Day bomber tried to blow up NWA Flight 253 over Detroit, President Obama is still on vacation in Hawaii. He has delivered two hasty, tie-less statements on homeland security from a makeshift podium in Honolulu whose underwhelming sum impact has been the equivalent of voting “present” (Obama’s career m.o.) By [...]

Back on June 12, I detected Michelle Obama’s fingerprints all over the Americorps IG scandal and flagged the First Lady’s former chief of staff-turned-Americorps senior adviser, Jackie Norris.
So, this is no surprise via Byron York:
Congressional investigators looking into the abrupt firing of AmeriCorps inspector general Gerald Walpin have discovered that the head of AmeriCorps met [...]

Maurice Clemmons had many enablers — starting in Arkansas with clemency-crazy Mike Huckabee and stretching to Washington state where he was surrounded by people who witnessed his threats against law enforcement and did nothing to stop the Lakewood PD massacre. This week, police charged four family and friends with aiding him and plan to indict [...]

“She’s glamorous.”

“Let the good times roll.”

If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.
- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy Stern [...]

Turkeys of the year
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2009
As we gather ‘round the Thanksgiving table, bow our heads in prayer, and feast on the holiday bird, it is only fitting to take a moment to fete the unforgettable turkeys of 2009.
1. The stimulus. Back in February, I wrote that if the trillion-dollar stimulus plan were a [...]

“An educated scoundrel is still a scoundrel.”

The House is now in a rare Saturday session for the government health care takeover ram down.
Welcome to the new Imperial Congress.
Keep a close eye on the vulnerable Democrats listed here by USA Today. Here is their current tally of House Dems voting no:
The New York Daily News has just published a statement from hometown [...]

Conservatives owe NY-23 candidate Doug Hoffman immeasurable gratitude. He overcame impossible odds (single digits just a month ago) to come within two points of defeating Democrat Bill Owens. Hoffman had zero name recognition. National Republican Party officials dumped nearly $1 million into the race on behalf of radical leftist GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava, who [...]

Who’s there?

Yes, the woman who bragged about recruiting Marxist rabble-rouser Van Jones is lambasting conservatives for spurning radical leftist ACORN/Big Labor embracer Dede Scozzafava:
White House senior adviser Valerie Jarrett said Sunday on ABC’s “This Week” that the rise of a Conservative Party challenger in a closely watched upstate New York House election shows that the Republican [...]

There’s a new website dedicated to exposing White House senior adviser/Chicago consigliere/real estate mogul Valerie Jarrett.
Call her out.
Policing Obama’s culture of corruption takes eternal vigilance.

Speaking truth to power.

Here’s the First Lady’s latest video pitch for Obamacare aimed at women:

Nope, still no mention of the mother of Dontae Adams, one of the minority patients on Chicago’s southside shipped out of the University of Chicago Medical Center under the patient-dumping program spearheaded by Mrs. Obama, Valerie Jarrett, and David Axelrod.
FLOTUS skates again.
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You’ll note in [...]

Legacy.

A panel of constitutional scholars told the Senate that lawmakers can’t really do anything about Team Obama’s massive proliferation of unaccountable appointees with unlimited authority — until they get caught exceeding their assigned powers.
Which, of course, we know so little about because the White House has kept so many czar budgets and staffing out of [...]

(Photoshop: Reader Ben)
I’d say the cost projection of the failed Obamalympics crony-fest from the Associated Press is vastly underestimated:
President Barack Obama’s failed bid to bring the 2016 Olympic Games to Chicago cost more than a bruised ego.
Taxpayers shelled out probably $1 million or more for the president, his wife and others to fly to [...]

From Michelle Obama’s failed pitch to the International Olympic Committee:
“Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad’s lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis, and others for their brilliance and perfection.”
Um. Ew. Oof.
Mrs. Obama was 20 years old when Lewis first competed in the Olympics in 1984.
Senior White House adviser and [...]

Scroll for updates…And the winner is…Rio

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My column commemorates the noble Olympic “sacrifice” of the First Lady in Denmark.
Mrs. O’s emotional pitch was supposed to bring tears to the eyes of the audience, according to crony White House Olympics cheerleader Valerie Jarrett. Chicagoans are no doubt shedding tears — over the ballooning costs [...]

When I worked in Seattle covering corporate welfare and city government, I became strange bedfellows with a diverse alliance of libertarians on the right and Ralph Naderites on the left who oppose “public-private partnership” deals between developers and statist Democrat AND Republican politicians.
These “public-private partnership” scams inevitably involve tax-increment financing gimmickry to siphon off tax [...]

Michelle Obama wants you to know that the all-out Chicago Olympics bid is not for The Cronies.
It’s for…The Children!
Especially, says Mrs. O, the fat children:
We need all of our children to be exposed to the Olympic ideals that athletes from around the world represent, particularly this time in our nation’s history, where athletics is [...]

Photoshop: Paul Croteau
My syndicated column today — reprinted below with added links, pics, and info — gives you a rundown of the Obama cronies inside and outside the White House who stand to gain the most from the Chicago 2016 Olympic bid.
Chicagoans of all political stripes who oppose massive government funding of Mayor Richard [...]

Photoshop: Paul Croteau
No Games Chicago is holding a protest against the Daley/Obama crony bid today at 5:30pm in Chicago. City Hall. 121 N. LaSalle St.
Here.
Another blog, No Chicago Games, lists the Top 10 reasons why Chicago should not host the Olympic Games, worth reprinting in its entirety:
The Top 10 Reasons Why Chicago Shouldn’t Host the [...]

At the White House briefing today, spokesman Robert Gibbs touted the “tangible economic benefits” of the Obamas’ Chicago Crony Olympics bid.
Well, there would certainly be “tangible economic benefits” for certain Chicago crony developers — like Michael Scott, Jr.
And fellow business crony Gerald Fogelson.
The Chicago Tribune reported last week:
A key member of Mayor Richard Daley’s Olympic [...]