Obama is also the only president in the past 35 years to visit every electoral battleground state in his first year of office." [UK MAIL]
We believe this is an exciting time of opportunity for our sharpened pike business and believe our timely entry into the business of providing citizens with a means of demonstrating their displeasure with their government and our convenient locations in Washington, D.C. and around the country foretells a banner year for Acme and its stockholders." [American Thinker]
The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of jobs on their own families’ land" [Daily Caller]
UPDATE:
It is scary to realize that these idiot bureaucrats are capable of putting these regulations in place and baqcked down (for now) ONLY because the public rebelled. What government bureaus and departments DO NOT back down under pressure? Will a re-elected Obama administration be "more flexible" as Dear Leader whispered to the Russians? [clipper]
While Al Sharpton, the New Black Panthers, and all of the other racist race-hustling usual suspects clamor for justice for Trayvon Martin, I wonder if justice is even possible for George Zimmerman.
Tragically and frighteningly, we live in a time in which the law and truth appears to be losing relevance in America." [Lloyd Marcus]
"NO MORE"?"Many are quite concerned about Senate Bill 1813, a massive piece of legislation supposedly devoted to transportation issues. Besides including a provision allowing the IRS the power to revoke passports belonging to those who are delinquent with tax debt in excess of $50,000, it appears that the potential law may be used to measure the size of your carbon footprint each time you get behind the wheel. It's all because of a vague provision slipped into bill, which has already passed the U.S. Senate and is likely to be rubber-stamped by the House.
Known as the "Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act," SB 1813 is self-described as "[a]n Act to reauthorize Federal-aid highway and highway safety construction programs, and for other purposes"
An amazing proportion of the media has given us a painful demonstration of the thinking -- and lack of thinking -- that prevailed back in the days of the old Jim Crow South, where complexion counted more than facts in determining how people were treated." [Thomas Sowell]
In 1775 we rebelled against a King who ruled us with his edicts passed without our consent.... now in 2012 we've got Dear Leader Obama handing down edicts without our elected representative approval! Let's make it end in November 2012! [clipper]
This doesn't make Obama any different from other politicians -- but it sure makes him different from what he promised to be.
In March, Obama's campaign officially announced it would cooperate with Priorities USA, the pro-Obama super-PAC run by Obama administration and Obama campaign alumni.
So Obama's virginity pledges of no corporate money and no lobbyist money -- which were always riddled with loopholes -- are now officially defunct." [Washington Examiner]
Which candidate do you think is smarter?
Barack Obama 42%
Mitt Romney 33%
(Both are) 6%
Putting aside the question of just how smart Barack Obama is, this shows me that a lot of people aren’t really familiar with Romney. Because he’s really smart. And his smartness includes the dimensions on which Obama is usually considered smart by his admirers (again, the point isn’t whether you agree with them): articulateness and academic credentials." [Neo-neocon]
That same day, March 10, birdwatchers with powerful spotting scopes on the promenade deck of the luxury cruise ship Star Princess saw a little boat adrift miles away. They told ship staff about the man desperately waving a red cloth.
Not only is this one of the rarest astronomical events—the next one will not take place until December 2117—but in the 1760s, this heavenly rendezvous spurred the first international scientific collaboration, laying the foundation of modern science." [WSJ]
Obama is not just any liberal whose teeth are set on edge by traditional family values, or by individuals that have succeeded in business. For Obama, the politics of envy is more than a campaign strategy. Envy gnaws at his core. Envy is alive and personal. As we hear in speech after speech, Obama sees America as an unfair place where the fortunate live at the expense of the unfortunate. Envy and grievance give his life meaning, they give him a cause. He is here to lead America to a better future, where people like the Romney's are vilified instead of admired. He wants them to pay. He dresses envy up in prettier words such as fairness, but underneath the idealism is a well of darker feelings, stemming from his life with his own mother." [American Thinker]
Whatever that means. Next time one of your Democrat friends starts talking about speculation driving up the price of oil, ask him a few questions, like: How do you tell a speculator from a non-speculator? How, exactly, do “speculators” raise the price of oil? If the speculators are wrong about the fundamentals of supply and demand, won’t they lose their shirts? If speculators are responsible for high oil prices, why aren’t they also driving up the price of natural gas, which is at a historic low?" [Power Line]
But two new studies have found something unexpected. Such neighborhoods not only have more fast food restaurants and convenience stores than more affluent ones, but more grocery stores, supermarkets and full-service restaurants, too. And there is no relationship between the type of food being sold in a neighborhood and obesity among its children and adolescents. . ."
[Power Line]
"The contempt in which the Obama administration holds women, while unfortunate, is a trademark, and it comes as no surprise. Whether it's the intensely personal attacks on any conservative woman, from Palin to [So. Car. Governor] Haley and now Romney, or the misogynistic inner sanctum at the White House, complete with pay inequity based on gender, Democrats discount women as useful but expendable.
Underlying the Obama/Axelrod strategy to capture the "woman's vote" is the belief that women (and, for that matter, most individuals) are not capable of making informed choices in their own best interest. Only state-sponsored programs and mandated alternatives are acceptable "choices." Religious choice, reproductive choice, and even the choice to stay home and raise children rather than handing the kids over to state are to be mocked. The exception, of course, is the choice of taxpayer funded abortion.
The idea of a War on Women was a misguided attempt at damage control after the Obama camp alienated the Catholic Church over provision of contraception and abortion. Backpedaling from a Catholic voter blowback, Axelrod and Obama teased a war on woman from a rat's nest of comments and speeches attributed to the Santorum campaign and used that projection to wail that Republicans want to abolish contraception (and clean water, air, safe food, and elder care). Adding Sandra Fluke to the mix and mandating that insurers of religious organizations provide contraception to employees of those organizations, the Obama team thought they had a winner.
Based on the events of the past weekend between Rosen's unwitting dismantling of the War on Woman and Axelrod's desperate and embarrassing interview on Fox News Sunday, the battle for women is over. The Dems lost. The bigger fight for the future of the U.S. is at hand, and the Obama juggernaut has been exposed as eminently stoppable." [Mark Walker]
“So, sometimes I think that the job doesn’t really change at all--that as solicitor general my life was spent trying to persuade 9 people and now it’s just trying to persuade 8 people,” said Kagan." [CNS]
Hill [Obama's Attorney] repeatedly explained to Judge Jeff S. Masin that, “We do not believe the president’s birth certificate is relevant to this case.”
Agreeing with Hill, Masin ruled in a written opinion the same day that New Jersey law does not require Obama to produce any proof he is eligible to be president in order to be placed on the primary ballot." [WND]
This is an amazing production." [Gateway Pundit]“Forcing the Church to buy insurance that goes against her teachings is a violation of religious freedom… When the government tampers with a freedom so fundamental, one shudders to think what lies ahead.”
It opens with a woman's saying, "My boyfriend and I were going on vacation." She appears to be in a clothing store and needs to get a few accessories. With her Citi card, of course. Then the scene changes. She picks out "a new belt" (it's a rock-climbing harness) and "some nylons" (rock-climbing ropes). "And what girl wouldn't need new shoes?" she asks. (Yes, for rock-climbing, of course.)
But the Times, just like the people of Wisconsin, employs union labor. When it comes to its own employees, the New York Times Company sings an entirely different tune. Today’s New York Post reports on the bitter hostility between CEO Pinch Sulzburger and the paper’s labor force:
“The Times is in labor turmoil,” wrote health and science reporter Donald McNeil. “Journalists are openly angry. Even the sacred Page One meeting has had a protest” …
Negotiations with the Newspaper Guild, in which the company is proposing to gut the company’s once lucrative retirement and pension programs, remain acrimonious. " [Power Line]
To gin up class warfare against America's wealth creators, Obama on Wednesday paraded out a handful of Democratic Party loyalists, who happen to be millionaires, in an attempt to persuade the public that the folks who pay the most taxes are not being bled enough.
"According to Vice President "Slow Joe" Biden, Senator Al Franken (D-Minnesota), a/k/a, Stuart Smalley, is a "leading legal scholar." " [American Thinker]
In a letter exclusively obtained by The Daily Caller, the organization has asked the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration to “investigate and learn the source of the breach and prosecute those responsible to the fullest extent of the law.” It also provided evidence suggesting the leak might have been the result of “IRS employee misconduct.”
The dispute stems from a March 30 post on the pro-gay Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) website, which boasted that it had obtained documents revealing that Mitt Romney “donated $10,000 to the National Organization for Marriage [NOM] in 2008 …” " [Daily Caller]
According to the 2011 annual report on White House staff, female employees earned a median annual salary of $60,000, which was about 18 percent less than the median salary for male employees ($71,000).
The Obama campaign on Wednesday lashed out at presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney for his failure to immediately endorse the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, a controversial law enacted in 2009 that made it easier to file discrimination lawsuits." [The Washington Free Beacon]
The following are 35 shocking statistics that prove that things have gotten worse in America…." [Independent Journal Review]
"A photo of Obama’s “army” originally posted on the campaign’s Tumblr site and run in conjunction with a BuzzFeed story on the Obama campaign reveals a stunning lack of diversity among the president’s Chicago staff.
The Obama campaign’s Chicago headquarters has it all—from Jack Daniels and Ping Pong to bouncy balls and ironic desk mementos." [Washington Free Beacon]
The Taliban would also beat women in the street.
Now the Obama Administration is helping the Taliban set up an official office in Qatar. This is while the Afghan government is scaling back its support for women’s rights.
Meanwhile, in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood’s presidential candidate announced this week that his first goal is to set up Sharia law in Egypt. Under this system women and Christians will face daily discrimination and abuse.
This week the Obama Administration invited the Muslim Brotherhood to the White House." [Vision To America]
At that press event, Obama told any justice thinking of overturning ObamaCare's central tenet that "in the absence of an individual mandate, you cannot have a mechanism to ensure that people with pre-existing conditions can actually get health care."
But this is false.
In fact, Obama himself argued precisely the opposite during the 2008 campaign, saying a mandate wasn't needed to achieve universal coverage. "The reason people don't have health insurance isn't because they don't want it," he said then. "It's because they can't afford it." " [Investors Business Daily]
Then NBC News thought an apology might end the growing firestorm.
Then, finally, just like a White House with something to hide about Fast and Furious, news was leaked late Friday that NBC had finally fired the producer responsible for this unpardonable act." [Breitbart]
Thus, federal agents whose work is to protect public officials and their friends may prohibit the speech and the gatherings of folks who disagree with those officials or permit the speech and the gatherings of those who would praise them, even though the First Amendment condemns content-based speech discrimination by the government.
The new law also provides that anyone who gathers in a “restricted” area may be prosecuted. And because the statute does not require the government to prove intent, a person accidentally in a restricted area can be charged and prosecuted, as well." [FOX]
WATCH VIDEO HERE
But, after the article was posted for a few hours it suddenly disappeared down the memory hole.
Here is the original article." [Gateway Pundit]
It’s complete bull. Total Kabuki theater. Arby’s is not and has not ever been a national sponsor of Rush’s program. In the radio industry, advertisers can buy “Run of Schedule” — commercials that are to be aired during different times of the day for more than one day on local stations. Arby’s most likely told local stations not to run their ads during Rush’s show. That is not a cancellation of an ad buy; there’s no loss of money.
This is prog gesture politics to create the appearance of an anti-Rush advertising stampede. It’s astro-turfed by lying Media Matters hitmen." [Michelle Malkin]
