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Stealth altruism

**Written by Doug Powers What’s a week without more suspicious Solyndra news? This should be enough to get us by until the inevitable almost weekly document dump that could come tomorrow. From the Washington Times: Fast running out of money, solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC last summer sold off nearly $60 million worth of inventory for [...]

She wasn’t kidding

**Written by Doug Powers During the clamor to pass an extension of the payroll tax cut, President Obama asked “What does $40 mean to you?” His opponents of the way the extension was handled might now be able to counter with, “What does $9,500 mean to you?” (CBS News) Just before Christmas, American workers got [...]

**Written by Doug Powers This week the First Lady told an audience at a fundraiser that the economy has made “remarkable progress” these past three years. One example of a hiring spree uptick can be found in New York City, where a couple hundred workers have been or are being added to the payrolls due [...]

Mr. and Mrs. Cranky Pants by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 So, it turns out that the cool cat billed as “No Drama Obama” by his sycophants is actually quite the drama queen. While the White House publicly pretends to ignore conservative detractors of his administration, Chief Touchy-Touchy seems to be personally consumed by [...]

Battery maker on verge of going terminals-up

Book-Critic-in-Chief takes issue

**Written by Doug Powers In spite of the fact that even Warren Buffett is unsure what the “Buffett Rule” is, President Obama, fully aware that the US tax code is in dire need of more ambiguity, will push for it in his State of the Union speech tonight. Just to hammer home the point, Buffett’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If this doesn’t work, the backup slogan is “Please!?” From ABC News: Barack Obama campaigned for president four years ago promising “change we can believe in.” Now, he’s running for a second term touting the ways that “change is.” The emerging slogan for the 2012 campaign, on display during a high-profile [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s Friday afternoon, which means we’re sitting around waiting to see which documents get dumped out a second floor window of the White House before everybody heads off for the weekend. Until that happens, Jay Carney’s taken it upon himself to keep everybody entertained: WH reporter: “Do you understand the optics [...]

We can wait?

**Written by Doug Powers There’s no better way to show support for Occupy Wall Street during the acceptance speech than by delivering it while almost literally occupying a large chunk of Wall Street: President Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, a campaign official confirms [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday there was another White House document dump regarding Solyndra’s bankruptcy filing just after the 2010 elections. While Solyndra is the crown jewel in the Department of Energy’s “you can’t make a green omelette without breaking a few hundred million taxpayer eggs” trial-and-error initiative, there are many other examples. CBS News’ [...]

Better run it by OWS first

We can’t wait

Settled science

No money, but on your deathbed you will receive total consciousness

Millions, billions or trillions?

To the, uh, rescue?

Heaven can wait

The laid-back approach

Photoshop source: Ed Driscoll The Year in Obama Scandals — and Scandal Deniers by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 With 2011 drawing to a close, it is time to account. As an early-and-often chronicler of Chicago-on-the-Potomac, I am amazed at the stubborn and clingy persistence of President Barack Obama’s snowblowers in the media. See [...]

Punt to February

**Written by Doug Powers After a few days of positioning, John Boehner announced a little earlier today that House Republicans planned to accept a two-month payroll tax cut extension instead of the year-long deal they sought. Learn all about it on MSNBC’s holiday special, “How Obama Saved Family Friday Pizza Night.” From ABC News: House [...]

The real question is what does it mean to them?

Lots of green

Chose and lost?

Keystone Carolers on standby

**Written by Doug Powers As expected, President Obama and the First Lady will be traveling separately to Hawaii for vacation this month: ***** Obviously the separate travel is pricey, so keep that in mind while reading an Executive Order signed just over one month ago: ***** Stay tuned for Executive Order 13590: Promote “Do as [...]