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**Written by Doug Powers There are still a lot of people who believe that the notion of self reliance and limited government is a feature of America instead of a glitch, and they long to see a return to those founding principles. These are folks who understand that America didn’t declare independence because the King [...]

Intersection as busy as ever

**Written by Doug Powers “Pass this jobs bill” has been abandoned in favor of something with a little more urgency: “We can’t wait!” It’s called “We can’t wait” because “Who needs Congress” sounded too brazen. From CBS News: With Republicans continuing to stall action on President Obama’s $447 billion jobs bill, the White House is [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In January of 2010, a “green” automotive startup called Fisker, the recipient of a $529 million US Dept. of Energy loan, purchased a former GM plant in Wilmington, Delaware. Almost immediately there were suspicions of a possible quid pro quo deal involving Joe Biden. For now, though, those allegations can be [...]

Missing in action

**Written by Doug Powers White House Spokesman Jay Carney today didn’t stray from Joe Biden’s side over his latest round of fear mongering. Transcript from Real Clear Politics: “I think it would be hard to find anyone that doesn’t agree,” White House press secretary Carney said about Joe Biden’s remark that rapes will increase if [...]

Irony of the Week

**Written by Doug Powers I wonder if Mickey Mouse signed the petitions too. From Politico: An Indiana Democratic county chairman accused of submitting petitions with hundreds of faked signatures for Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton in the 2008 primary resigned Monday, according to reports. St. Joseph County Democratic Party Chair Butch Morgan stepped down from [...]

The Great Pane Robbery

Don’t forget “grandma will get pushed off a cliff”

**Written by Doug Powers Another bus tour is under way to promote the $447 billion “save the jobs of the same people whose jobs were supposed to have been saved by the first stimulus” bill. As expected, President Obama is suggesting breaking the bill into smaller pieces. The problem is apparently that the American Jobs [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If this is any indication, there’s a chance that an even larger portion of Obamacare will collapse under its own weight before anybody gets the opportunity to repeal the entire monstrosity. It turns out that there is indeed a “death panel” involved with the health care bill, but so far I’m [...]

**Written by Doug Powers This flashback could be coming to the campaign ads of many GOP hopefuls, not to mention Obama, fairly soon: ***** Reason.com points this out: One other thing to note is that Romney praises Kennedy for helping make the case that federal support was necessary to fund the state-based coverage expansion. Romney [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In June of last year, when “Recovery Summer” was just kicking off, construction began on an Orlando parkway to be named after President Obama and, fittingly enough, paid for with stimulus funds. The first section of road has been completed: Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony that showcased President [...]

You knew it was coming. The Kamp Alinsky Kids are taking a sight-seeing tour today. After a month of trashing Zuccotti Park at a public cost of $2 million per day, the riff-raff is marching uptown to occupy…wealthy people’s private homes. According to the NY Daily News: “A ‘Millionaires March’ will visit the homes – [...]

Catch-22

**Written by Doug Powers Logo credit: Sloane Buried within an ABC News story about today’s release of hundreds of Solyndra-related emails is a reminder of what White House Spokesman Jay Carney said at a press conference late last month after being asked about the involvement of a Department of Energy consultant and Obama fundraiser named [...]

**Written by Doug Powers The Obama administration was preparing to toss another very expensive life preserver, but Solyndra had already forever slipped beneath the rolling, green waves. From the Washington Post: The Obama administration’s Department of Energy was poised last summer to give Solyndra a second major taxpayer loan of $469 million, even as the [...]

**Written by Doug Powers This is purportedly an attempt to increase revenue, but the proposed debt collector stimulus would only apply to the collection of government loans: WASHINGTON (AP) — To the dismay of consumer groups and the discomfort of Democrats, President Barack Obama wants Congress to make it easier for private debt collectors to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Starting next year, Bank of America announced they’d be charging debit card customers a $5 monthly fee. The bank said it’s in response to an amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill that was pushed by Dick Durbin to limit the per-transaction fee banks charge retailers when their customers swipe debit cards (“interchange [...]

Sending up solar flares

**Written by Doug Powers Speaking to a gay rights group in Washington last night, President Obama said the following, all while keeping a poker face: Noting that he had just returned from California, Mr. Obama said he had “held some productive bilateral talks with your leader, Lady Gaga.” The pop diva, with sky-high heels and [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Put Warren Buffett in the “for it before he was against it but still doesn’t seem to mind if his name is on it” category: Billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett, who has become the face of President Obama’s $447 billion jobs-creation legislation, indicated Friday he did not agree with the president’s [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Two weeks ago I received this email signed by the President: Doug – Supporters like you are the reason I’m here, and the values we share have always made our organization more than just a political campaign. So whenever I can, I want to take the opportunity to meet you. Last [...]

**Written by Doug Powers This one’s better if you first read a quote from the First Lady from back in June: “See, what you all need to know about the President you helped to elect is that when it comes to the people he meets, Barack has a memory like a steel trap,” For even [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Clearly this must be Bush’s fault: When a random sample of 1004 adults were asked to compare the 43rd and 44th presidents, 34 percent of respondents said Obama had been a worse president than Bush, while 22 percent said he was about the same. Forty-three percent, a plurality, said they preferred [...]

“Over-suggesting”?

**Written by Doug Powers Yesterday, President Obama promoted his “jobs bill” at a bridge that might not even be eligible for jobs bill money. Andrew Malcolm at Top of the Ticket noticed something during Obama’s latest “Bridge to Bankruptcy” speech that would be much more widely reported if Michele Bachmann or Sarah Palin had said [...]

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