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**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 [...]

Plus, “are we better off?”

Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D. Yes, I’m still struggling. Like many of you, I am still carefully weighing all the costs and benefits of each declared GOP candidate. As the candidates continue highlighting each other’s unsavory left-wing alliances, I thought it might be helpful to compile a Hold Your Nose Tracker of the current top four [...]

**Written by Doug Powers In 2009, a weepy Nancy Pelosi denounced rhetoric she claimed was coming from the Tea Parties, claiming the protest could lead to a climate of violence. Since then, however, Pelosi has given Occupy Wall Street her blessing. Kelly Maher’s piece at the Daily Caller might have some wondering where Pelosi’s deep [...]

“Things got really bad before we came into office…”

“We’re in charge”

**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 [...]

“Evil is real, and so is courage”

**Written by Doug Powers Don’t worry — According to Warren Buffet this is nothing that can’t be easily remedied by raising Warren Buffett’s taxes. CBS News: The latest posting by the Treasury Department shows the national debt has now increased $4 trillion on President Obama’s watch. The debt was $10.626 trillion on the day Mr. [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Here’s White House Press Secretary Jay Carney this week in response to a question about whether President Obama planned to carry on with a vacation on Martha’s Vineyard scheduled for later this month: And I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the president would spend some time [...]

A shovel-ready claim

**Written by Doug Powers To say that Kucinich longs for the days of George W. Bush would be a wild over statement — after all, Kucinich wanted to impeach him — but maybe it’s not a stretch to say Dennis appreciated that Bush was more constitutionally considerate than the current president on the issue of [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Welcome to today’s debate on patriotism when it comes to unconditionally supporting a president at a time of war. Today’s debaters are MSNBC host Ed Schultz and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Ms. Clinton won the coin toss and has elected to defer to Mr. Schultz. Take it away, Ed: Republicans [...]

Yes we can!

**Written by Doug Powers President Obama, Nobel Peace Prize winner, launched an attack on another country while in another country, without the congressional approval that George W. Bush had and with only about half as many other countries on board. Obama seemed to feel this constituted enough of a moral high ground from which to [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s a tired cliché at this point, but in the absence of lucidity sometimes that’s all one can manage cling to: “We still would have lost the election because we had 9.5% unemployment. Let’s take it where that came from. The policies of George W. Bush and the Republican support for [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Hey, I’m sure they’ve made similar “mistakes” and accidentally shown fake covers of Clinton or Obama’s books instead of the actual covers. Okay, maybe not, but they might someday, and that’s the whole point: Newsday editor and colleague, Alan Fallick was watching CBS’ “Sunday Morning” this past Sunday, and watched Erin [...]

**Written by Doug Powers If you’re in a bookstore this weekend and hear alleged adults giggling like a Code Pink party when the cake finally arrives, it’s just these clowns re-arranging the shelves: The special relationship is being turned on its head, with US peace activists following the lead of their British counterparts to launch [...]

As you all know, President George W. Bush is on his book/rehabilitation tour — hitting every MSM and cable news show from the Today Show to Hannity, plus Oprah, Rush Limbaugh, and beyond. His candor, decency, self-effacement, and clear love of country stand in stark contrast to the current antagonist-in-chief at the White House, so [...]

How would the Founding Fathers react to the fall of the constitutional republic and the rise of Barack Obama? Artist Jon McNaughton puts it on canvas. Watch the video (I especially appreciate the criticism of Obama’s predecessor implicit in the clip and painting. As I’ve observed many times, the Big Government Republican paved and pre-socialized [...]

President Obama is headed to New Orleans this weekend to mark the 5th anniversary of Katrina. The papers and airwaves will be clogged with all sorts of retrospectives. My column today reminds you of the ugly racial demagoguery by leading Democrats and “civil rights” leaders from Jimmy Carter to Charlie Rangel to Malik Zulu Shabazz. [...]

“Help us, George W., you’re our only hope”

**Written by Doug Powers By way of Moonbattery, it’s time once again for “Fun with Google’s ‘auto-complete’ feature.” If you’re a fan of the president, you might want to just turn it off: That really happens. Go try it yourself. I hear Chris Matthews uses it as his version of “thinking about baseball” when he [...]

Guess who?

Exploding deficits, wrong president’s picture

Homewrecker

I’m not the only one with misgivings about the Bush “Miss Me Yet?” billboard. Reader W.E. Messamore came up with some new and improved “Miss Me Yet?” billboard photoshops, including my favorite: Bull’s-eye. Definitely want to see someone put this one up for real!

Let me count the ways…

It wasn’t Rush Limbaugh who ruined conservatism over the last eight years. Diana West says what 99 percent of Republican talking heads and strategists and self-designated defenders of conservatism won’t say. Read her latest post to see who the real problem has been. Hint: It’s the guy who said this… And the guy who did [...]

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