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The White House is sending President Obama to a familiar place: the land of make-believe. He’ll be at Disney World on Thursday to push for relaxing tourist visa requirements in the name of boosting the economy. From the Orlando Sentinel via William Amos: President Barack Obama will visit Walt Disney World during a planned trip [...]

**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’ [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Proof positive that you don’t get to be a billionaire by risking making matching fund challenges to people on your side of the argument who might actually take you up on the offer so they don’t appear hypocritical. From Reuters: Warren Buffett is willing to put his money where his mouth [...]

Better run it by OWS first

Tone it down.

Romney and McCain: The GOP Frenemies’ Club by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Michael Corleone said to “keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” But what, pray tell, do we do with our frenemies? This is the awful, election-year quandary of movement conservatives. And everything you need to know about our heartache can [...]

We can’t wait

Well, I’ve just finished scouring the White House visitor logs. Regular readers know I seem to be one of the few in the media who actually does such a thing. Regular readers also know that I’ve pointed out time and again that the logs are incomplete, misleading, obtuse, and designed to make it as difficult [...]

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This is a day to remember the victims of the horrific shootings at a Safeway in Tucson, Arizona exactly one year ago today; honor the heroes who intervened that day; and wish Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords well on her continued recovery. R.I.P.: Judge John Roll, 63. Dorothy Morris, 76. Dorwin Stoddard, 76. Christina Greene, 9. [...]

Headline first, then I’ll give you all the sordid background. The Detroit News reports this afternoon that the Obama administration is canceling subsidies to Russian steel firm Severstal for production of advanced high strength steel for autos in Dearborn, Michigan. Pricetag: $730 million… (h/t William Amos) Russian steel maker’s North American subsidiary will no longer [...]

Waxman nostalgic

Settled science

Photoshop credit: VVM Obama’s Super-Czar Is on the Loose by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2012 Here is the operating motto of the Obama White House: “So let it be written, so let it be done!” Like Yul Brynner’s Pharaoh Ramses character in Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments,” the demander in chief stands with [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Maybe it’s not as bad as it sounds. Technically a “call back” is a notch below a recall, and it only affects 8,000 vehicles — which is a mere, um, 100% of all Volts sold in 2011. Lucky sales didn’t catch fire or the fixes would have been a more massive [...]

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

Guess who

Millions, billions or trillions?

Well, he made good on one promise for once. President Obama has defied the Senate’s rejection of Dodd-Frank czar Richard Cordray and recess-appointed — just as he threatened last month and just as Soros operatives pushed him to do for months. The White House trumpeted the strong-arm move this morning. The President nominated Mr. Cordray [...]

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“Splitters!”

Yes, again. Those bulldozers are working overtime. Over Thanksgiving, I told you about the last batch of White House visitor logs quietly dumped over a busy holiday season. I noted MSNBC host Rachel Maddow’s August 5 visit (along with several other prog media personalities). It was her fifth visit to Casa Obama; she didn’t respond [...]

**Written by Doug Powers New York University is no longer the only school offering OWS classes. The notion of competition seems so… capitalist… but there it is nonetheless: Columbia University is offering a new course on Occupy Wall Street next semester — sending upperclassmen and grad students into the field for full course credit. The [...]

Heaven can wait

**Written by Doug Powers A measure attached to a one-year spending bill passed early in December prevents the Department of Energy from enforcing light bulb efficiency standards through September 2012. The standards themselves, however, will still be phased in. Until the funding kicks in that will allow the Department of Energy to police our artificial [...]

Familial clarifications

**Written by Doug Powers Too bad. I was looking forward to watching the “99er squatting on a police car” float made entirely out of roses, marigolds and a few thousand torn-up deposit slips from Bank of America lead the parade while Miley Cyrus lip-synched Liberty Walk, but it won’t be happening: (CNSNews.com) – Although an [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Last week the UN General Assembly held a moment of silence for North Korea’s Kim Jong Il (it’s over, you can start talking again, Jimmy). On Wednesday, in spite of the dictator’s abhorrent human rights record, the UN went a step further: (Reuters) – U.N. offices around the world lowered their [...]