As the nation tunes in to hear President Barack Obama’s “Jobs Speech” this Thursday, it would be instructive to learn how the last bundle of Keynesian billions were spent on those fabled “Green Jobs” that were supposed to save our
Last week, I had a post wherein I discussed the fact that the DOJ had re-assigned Kenneth Melson, Acting Director of the ATF, and accepted the resignation of Dennis Burke, U.S. Attorney (Arizona), in hopes that Fast and Furious could
Chatter began to emerge on Thursday about the unique treatment received by the bankruptcy-declaring Solyndra, a government-dependent maker of solar panels whose scheme, shaped somewhere between a pyramid and a trapezoid, was described in the Washington Post no less the
Arnie Grape and I What’s Eating Gilbert Grape is one of my favorite films. Of all time! The cast is beyond perfect. Led by Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis and Leonardo Di Caprio, the love story that is Gilbert Grape puts
During the 2008 presidential campaign NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France invited candidates John McCain and Barack Obama to a race. John and Cindy graciously attended in New Hampshire, but bicycle-loving Barack was a “no show.” In an article entitled
From The Associated Press: President Barack Obama on Friday scrapped his administration’s controversial plans to tighten smog rules, bowing to the demands of congressional Republicans and some business leaders. Obama overruled the Environmental Protection Agency–and the unanimous opinion of its
I was on Fox Business Tuesday night discussing Transcanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline which was proposed in 2008 as a1,600 mile extension of an existing network. Its purpose would be to tap into oil supply currently being extracted from Alberta’s
Recovery Bummer: The economy added ZERO jobs in August. “Economists” had been expecting a significant increase. In a continuing pattern, job growth estimates for both June and July were revised downward. We expect today’s report to be revised downward next
The American left and its handmaidens in the Old Media spent 24 hours desperately trying to spin Obama’s attempt to schedule a joint session of Congress on the same day as the GOP debate as an example of how the
The American left and its handmaidens in the Old Media spent 24 hours desperately trying to spin Obama’s attempt to schedule a joint session of Congress on the same day as the GOP debate as an example of how the
Democratic political analyst James Carville appeared on Good Morning America and gave his critique of the White House’s handling of the “Jobs Speech” schedule conflict with the GOP debate.
When the President publicly ordered the leaders of the House and the Senate to appear at the White House the next day, prepared to answer his demands for a debt ceiling resolution, many observers noted the high-handedness of his way
The Special Report panel discusses the conflict between President Obama and John Boehner over the president’s request for a Joint Session of Congress to deliver his anticipated “Jobs Speech” on the same evening as a GOP Presidential debate. UPDATE: The
August 10, 2011, President Obama hosted his third annual Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan at the White House. Neil Munro of the Daily Caller noted that the invite list was much shorter than previous years and had been scrubbed of several
A recent AP-GfK poll shows some rather shocking news for President Obama: women are not too enthralled with him. This polling data may come as a surprise for many (and, indeed, possibly Obama himself), but not to conservative women. These
From the AP: Daryl Hannah was arrested outside the White House by park police for refusing to move off sidewalk. The sit-in protested a planned oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. The sit-in Tuesday involved dozens protesting the Keystone XL
Astronauts are stranded on the space station. America’s once-mighty Space Shuttle fleet has been disassembled and mothballed with nothing to replace it. The Russians, once the inferior player in the space race, is the only hope left to rescue the
The comment section of any blog or internet site is always a re-education. Not about diversity of opinion but about the human condition itself. No matter how close two people’s opinions might seem to be, eventually there will be a
The White House has announced that it is nominating Alan Krueger, a professor at Princeton, to be the new Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. In a Freudian copy-editing slip, the Fox News story (at least as of 8:44
Kerry Picket had an interesting report in the Washington Times yesterday. Apparently President Obama’s uncle Omar, an illegal alien living in Massachusetts, was arrested for drunk driving after nearly smashing into a police car. Picket also reports that the 67-year-old
White House: President Obama pays tribute to the first responders, those who have served, and those who lost their lives ten years ago in the September 11th attacks. Visit Serve.gov for ways to commemorate the solemn anniversary in your community.
The latest issue of Capitol File magazine has a glowing feature on CBS News Chief White House Correspondent Norah O’Donnell. In it she claims that past journalists that have filled the role of chief White House correspondent for a major
Unbeknownst to him, President Obama is doing Rush Limbaugh a favor. By participating in the multinational operation against Gadhafi, Obama is undercutting a longtime ally and moneyman behind Rush’s most persistent nemesis – Jesse Jackson. In 2001, investigative journalist Ken
One of the co-conspirators in a White House-approved plot to use federal resources to produce partisan propaganda to advance President Obama’s policy agenda has been chosen to lead an Obama 2012 get-out-the-vote (GOTV) effort. The Obama operative chosen to head
In the abysmal economic climate America presently finds itself in, almost no one is immune from unemployment, because joblessness threatens everyone. While Barack Obama duffs around on the golf course, one can’t help but wonder if he fully grasps the
