Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, has sent the following letter to Attorney General Eric Holder, seeking the appointment of an independent examiner to probe the Solyndra scandal: Rep. Smith to Atty. Gen. Holder
From the Associated Press: Obama promised Medicare beneficiaries that he’d veto any legislation asking them to sacrifice without also raising taxes on upper-income earners. But he didn’t issue them a complete pass. Instead, he’s proposing to raise a range of
From the Washington Examiner: Former Democratic National Committee Chairman, and doctor, Howard Dean backed a McKinsey & Co. survey today that found that almost a third of private-sector employers will drop their employee health insurance coverage when Obamacare’s government-managed insurance
From the BBC: A solar panel factory in eastern China has been shut down after protests by local residents over pollution fears. Some 500 villagers staged a three-day protest following the death of large numbers of fish in a local
From The Hill: Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said Tuesday that his committee plans to investigate government loan programs to private corporations in light of allegations of improper dealings between the White House and failed energy company Solyndra and wireless start-up
From The Washington Post: The latest Obama plan “doesn’t produce any more in realistic savings than the plan they offered in April,” said Maya MacGuineas, president of the bipartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. “They’ve filled in details, repackaged
Obama likes Golf, round ball aka Basketball, and hanging out with the guys having a beer summit. Is there what one might call a jock mentality in the White House? Friction about the roles of women in the Obama White
Today, in 1881, Chester A. Arthur is sworn in as President, following the assassination of James Garfield.
From The Washington Times: President Obama’s smooth path to the Democratic nomination may have gotten rockier Monday, after a group of liberal leaders, including former presidential candidate Ralph Nader, announced plans to challenge the incumbent in primaries next year. The
From BusinessWeek: There’s no hotter name in politics right now than the Tea Party. But anyone seized with a desire for smaller government who visits teaparty.com won’t find angry activists in tricorn hats spouting Thomas Jefferson. Instead, they’ll land on
From the Associated Press: Obama’s proposal comes amid Democratic demands that Obama take a tougher stance against Republicans. And while the plan stands little chance of passing Congress, its populist pitch is one that the White House believes the public
The White House is expected to announce a new deficit reduction plan today. The bulk of it appears to be, end the wars and let’s get the class warfare on to try and position the GOP badly for 2012. That’s
Today, in 1863, began the Battle of Chickamauga began. It ended in a staggering Union defeat.
This scandal is getting curiouser and curiouser. There are even rumors that MSNBC may actually cover the story this week.
From Reuters: President Barack Obama, in a populist step designed to appeal to voters, will propose a “Buffett Tax” on people making more than $1 million a year as part of his deficit recommendations to Congress on Monday. Such a
From the invaluable John Kass in The Chicago Tribune: The Solyndra scandal cost at least a half-billion public dollars. It is plaguing President Barack Obama. And it’s being billed as a Washington story. But back in Obama’s political hometown, those
From BusinessInsider: From its inception, Solyndra’s business model was flawed. It’s unique cylindrical, silicon solar cells were innovative, but only made sense when solar panel prices were high. By the time the Energy Department approved Solyndra’s loan — the first
Today, in 1787, the U.S. Constitution was signed in Philadelphia. Can we please celebrate by agreeing to eradicate anti-intellectualism from the conservative movement? (Vaccines!) There are few greater intellectual endeavors than the drafting of the Constitution. It seems we have
From The Hill: Senior administration officials met with Senate Democrats for an hour and a half on Thursday to answer their complaints about President Obama’s jobs bill. Democratic lawmakers voiced objections to several of the president’s proposals to pay for
A Politico item suggesting Obama’s Chief of Staff, Bill Daley, may not be up to the job is getting a good deal of buzz. Earlier yesterday, it was an item by James Carville suggesting some administration heads need to start
From Reuters: A New York Democrat candidate blamed President Barack Obama on Thursday for his loss in a special election for a House of Representatives district that had been held by the Democrats for more than 80 years. The Republican
Today, in 1992, the British Pound Sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism after being the target of an assault by speculator George Soros. In the end, it probably helped the UK, since this was s contributing
From Missouri Political News Service: We’ve just learned that the Missouri Health Insurance Pool has just voted on behalf of the state to accept $21 million dollars from the federal government to establish an health exchange here in Missouri. They
Michael Barone in The Washington Examiner: This result is a rebuke to Barack Obama, but it is a rebuke as well–a stinging one, perhaps more stinging–to Senator Charles Schumer. He represented much of this district for 18 years. The now-disgraced
From the Associated Press: Consumers paid more for a range of goods and services last month, and unemployment benefit applications jumped last week to the highest level in three months. The latest data offered a picture of an economy facing
