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Bait and Switch: Raising the National Deficit by Stealth

Like a relentlessly advancing cancer, the news about the US fiscal deficit and the accumulated debt, which is its result, keeps getting worse. Every week the press discloses some supposedly “new” information about either the federal budget, economic failure, projections

Obama's Economic Policy: Deny Truth

In a June 14th editorial entitled “Politicizing the Fed,” the Wall Street Journal sheds light on one of the dubious regulations of the upcoming financial reform bill. The Journal states: The biggest underreported threat comes from Subtitle I, Section 1801

Saturday Open Thread: Shakedown Edition

A few days ago, Texas Rep. Joe Barton, ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Commitee “apologized” to BP for the pressure the Obama Administration put on the company to fund an escrow account to compensate victims of the

Watch Alan Simpson School a Lefty

Alan Simpson, co-chair of the White House Debt Commission, provides a full and frank engagement with an activist questioning him on the proposed reforms of the Social Security system. He doesn’t duck. He doesn’t hide. He doesn’t grab the guy

The Damned Don't Cry: Blind Political Ambition

Made on the heels of the more successful Mildred Pierce and based upon a similar but, in this case, true life story of Virginia Hill and Bugsy Siegel, The Damned Don’t Cry may, in my opinion, completely mirror the foundations

BP's Excellent Oval Office Adventure

So President Obama is meeting in the White House tomorrow with BP’s chairman. The focus of public discussion of this event has been on it taking until the 57th day or so since the Deepwater Horizon rig caught fire following

U.S. Pays $400 Million in Bonuses to Federal Employees

From New Jersey’s Daily Record: The Obama Administration handed out more than $400 million in awards to federal employees last year, up by more than $80 million from the prior year, according to new government data. The biggest winners were

As the Worm Turns… MoDo Bashes 'Thin-Skinned' Obama

[youtube FcPQ9gww_qc&feature nolink] When you’ve lost the New York Times: The press traveling with Obama on the campaign never had a lovey-dovey relationship with him. He treated us with aloof correctness, and occasional spurts of irritation. Like many Democrats, he

How the Media Got It Wrong Re the Helen Thomas Affair

Much has happened since Rabbi Nesenoff emailed me his video interview of Helen Thomas containing her now-famous declaration that Jews should get the hell out of Palestine and go back to their homes in Germany and Poland. Upon first watching

Predictable: Enviros Give Obama a Pass on Oil Spill

From today’s Politico: As the greatest environmental catastrophe in U.S. history has played out on Obama’s watch, the environmental movement has essentially given him a pass — all but refusing to unleash any vocal criticism against the president even as

Hollywood, Nashville, The Gulf & Stereotypes

I was reading Pam Meister’s excellent piece here on Big Hollywood about Hollywood’s lack of attention to the continuing ecological disaster in the Gulf. In it she echoed my sentiments from a month ago when I wrote about the lack

Overnight Comedy Gold: Dog Walks Man!

If you want to laugh yourself silly tonight, you could do worse than to click on this link to the Houston Chronicle. As an illustration of the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand works, the photos you’re

Bachmann: Obama Worst President in United States History

Congresswoman Michele Bachmann is a rising star in the Republican Party, a true representative of the tea party spirit. She’s plainspoken, brilliant, and incisive. She’s running for re-election to the House in Minnesota. And today, I had the chance to

Actually, Obama Agrees with Helen Thomas

Timing couldn’t be worse on this one, and frankly, we are broke. Via the NYT: President Obama promised a $400 million aid package for the West Bank and Gaza on Wednesday, as the United States scrambled to come up with

The Passion of the Barack

The media in the backdrop of Barack Obama’s now infamous “whose ass to kick” comment has argued that this President’s critics are angry at him for not showing more emotion. That conservative bastion CNN features an article entitled ‘Why Obama

SEIU's Mary Kay Henry: Meet the New Boss, Same as the Old Boss

[youtube OLndSAUAClg] SEIU’s New Lavender Lady Labor Boss Politico’s Ben Smith was first to publish that Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger would not be the Purple Union’s new union boss, he created a shock heard round the