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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 [...]

“Who lost $1.2 billion?”

Photoshop: Tennyson Hayes Who is Kevin McNulty? One happy man. The White House and entrenched incumbent Democratic Sen. Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey gave him a surprise early Christmas gift — and New Jersey politicos are grumbling. According to the New York Post, McNulty was nominated to a federal judgeship for which he hadn’t been [...]

The Obama-mas Choir sings “Home for the Holidays” by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 They just don’t know when to quit. Consumed with the singular task of re-electing Barack Obama, progressives across the country will use the holiday season to propagandize their conservative relatives and friends. White House elves are directing the re-education Christmas [...]

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

Michelle Obama’s Unsavory School Lunch Flop by Michelle Malkin Creators Syndicate Copyright 2011 The road to gastric hell is paved with first lady Michelle Obama’s Nanny State intentions. Don’t take my word for it. School kids in Los Angeles have blown the whistle on the east wing chef-in-chief’s healthy lunch diktats. Get your Pepto Bismol [...]

Constitution, shmonstitution

“Throw grandma from the cliff” blowback

Over the last 20 years, I’ve done thousands of radio interviews with hosts and anchors around the country. WBAL’s Ron Smith in Baltimore was one of the first who spent time in-depth discussing my early books and columns. Whether he agreed or disagreed (the former Marine opposed the Iraq war), he was always gracious, deeply [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Last I heard, the House vote on the Senate-approved plan that would extend the payroll tax cut and unemployment for two months (which also includes a provision for the job creator that dare not speak its name) was to take place this evening. At this time, the odds of House passage [...]

**Written by Doug Powers It’s being reported that Kim Jong Il, who was a regional menace and global annoyance for years, has died at the age of 69. From CBS News: Kim’s death was announced Monday by the state television from the North Korean capital, Pyongyang. Kim is believed to have suffered a stroke in [...]

Can kicking on hold?

**Written by Doug Powers Alternate headline: Romney campaign to unveil breakthrough memory erasing technology: Mitt Romney said today he’s “the ideal candidate” for the Tea Party movement because his stance on issues lines up “pretty darn well” with the movement he says will soon realize that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich isn’t their best option for [...]

Keystone Carolers on standby

Under the bus. The news just hit Twitter: Team Obama is giving up on SEIU legal counsel Craig Becker, who served on the National Labor Relations Board through recess appointment. Withdrawal tweet here. (He had been previously defeated in the Senate on a cloture vote by 52-33.) You may recall that the radical union attorney [...]

**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 [...]

I’ve written before about Cozy Nancy Pelosi and her financial stake in the eco-adventures of billionaire T. Boone Pickens. See August 2008 – Nan and the Big Wind Boone-doggle. Refresher: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called congressional Republicans who want up-or-down drilling votes “hand maidens of the oil companies.” Let’s call Pelosi what she is: House [...]

My column follows up on Monday’s blog coverage of the West Coast Port Shutdown by the Occupy Wall Street movement (the D12 primer is here if you missed it) — and exposes how the so-called Big Labor progressives and their propaganda tools are the nation’s biggest enemies of economic and technological progress. It’s no coincidence [...]

Oh, there’s just one other thing

There is a Santa Claus. Donald Trump is bagging on his own debate on December 27th in Des Moines, Iowa. What will Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich (who called anyone not participating a coward) do now? More pointedly, what will dictator-appeaser, troop-smearer and executive producer Eason Jordan do now? Maybe Newsmax will hire him. They’ve [...]

**Written by Doug Powers Yet another day of “Occupy Congressional Hearing” for former MF Global CEO & Joe Biden phone-a-friend economic advice lifeline, Jon Corzine. C-SPAN 3 is carrying the hearing live. From USA Today: WASHINGTON – Jon Corzine has told a Senate panel that he never told anyone to “misuse” customer money that vanished [...]

“They don’t exist”

Kagan recuses

Scroll for updates…Oakland, Portland, Los Angeles mobbed, Occupiers vow to extend shutdown in response to “police brutality”…Update 10:47pm Eastern…Occupiers vow to block 3am shift in Oakland…arrests after trains blocked in Bellingham, WA… Here we go again. You remember where the “Day of Rage” 2011 festivities first broke out earlier this fall, don’t you? If you [...]

One more time

“Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes…”