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September 30, 2009 -
China's 60th anniversary stirs pride, also unease - Comment: Something
else to worry about. While Obama exudes weakness at every
opportunity, China is showing off the military power in which they have
been investing heavily for many years now. |
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September 30, 2009 -
Congress approves tripling aid to Pakistan - Comment:
Symbolic gesture, recognizing recent progress by the new government in
Pakistan and the need to do more. To put it in perspective,
however, this is $1.5 billion over 5 years for a critical
national security interest of this country. Compare that to
Senate rebuffs Obama, McCain in backing cargo jets on the same
day, in which $2.5 billion is being redirected to buy 10 C-17s
which the military says it doesn't really need. |
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September 30, 2009 -
Obama's war council divided on Afghanistan - Comment: Dithering.
Any general worth his stars doesn't rely exclusively on the sifted
information he receives up through the formal chain of command. He goes
to the front and talks to the people who are leading the fight,
especially if there seem to be unexpected problems and a potential need
to change direction. A president needs to reach out beyond his White
House staff, political advisors, and the fawning bureaucrats protecting
their careers to avoid making really dumb mistakes (remember Kennedy?).
This would be like having a CEO who never takes time to talk to anyone
in the company other than his friends at the top, and thus loses touch
with the reality of the business. He's totally clueless as a real
leader of anything more than mindless drones who worship his rhetoric.
After he finishes his Olympic sales pitch in Copenhagen
as cover, Obama should get back onto Air Force One and head to Kabul for
a heart-to-heart with McChrystal and his team, as well as Karzai and
preferably Abdullah to show his concern about election fraud. If he
comes back to Washington to hold more inconclusive meetings and
speeches, that will be a mistake. |
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September 30, 2009 -
West goes to Iran talks - and readies sanctions - Comment: This
AP writer says "The fact that the meeting is taking place at all offers
some hope ..." Stop repeating the White House talking points!
It would offer some hope if the Iranians actually wanted to talk about
ending their nuclear weapons ambitions as well as their support for
international terrorism because they feared that it would soon lead to
their own destruction rather than expansion of their own power or the
return of the twelfth imam after triggering a global holocaust.
This meeting is a terrible diplomatic blunder by Obama, who is rapidly
proving his potential to be a far worse president than Carter (no small
accomplishment). |
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September 30, 2009 -
Democrat says GOP wants sick to just 'die quickly' - Comment:
No, we just want the intended political career of Rep. Alan Grayson (D -
FL) to die quickly in the 2010 election. He has just demonstrated
his unsuitability for office faster than some of his Democratic
colleagues who have at least tried to conceal their ignorance or harmful
beliefs. At least he is willing to openly say something really stupid,
and then defend it. He must dream of being VP someday. |
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September 30, 2009 -
Senators, AP seek more public info, fewer secrets - Comment:
What ever happened to all the promises of greater transparency by this
administration? As loathsome as Sen. Patrick Leahy may be in some
respects, there are some FOIA issues, but the larger problem is still
right there in Congress within his own party and their refusal to even
openly disclose new legislation. |
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September 28, 2009 -
Iran tests its longest-range missiles - Comment: Given
their recent expressions of friendship and military cooperation, try
doing a 1200 mile radius from Venezuela. That's just enough to
reach Miami - but their range is increasing with North Korean and
Russian technology.
Iran says advanced missiles can target any threat
Pay dirt: Digging, clues revealed Iranian site - Exposed after
many years of persistent lies. How can we possibly trust any
agreement with this duplicitous Iranian regime of fanatics to be
verifiable? |
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September 25, 2009 -
G-20 leaders push global economic reforms Friday
Costly and really brief: Is G-20 really worth it? - Comment:
No. |
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September 25, 2009 -
AP Analysis: New Iran charge boosts sanctions move - Comment:
Read the ludicrous bit at the end from a source in Kuwait who seriously
suggests that unilateral disarmament moves by established nuclear powers
might somehow persuade Iran to give up their nuclear program.
Officials tell AP Iran has second enrichment plant
New Iranian enrichment plant sparks western fury - Comment: Fury?
So what are they going to do about Iran? Wag their tongues at
Ahmedinejad in the UN about this "serious violation" which "strengthens
our suspicions"? Netanyahu warned about what we eventually did to
flatten German cities in World War II. The problem is that a
twelver like Ahmedinejad may actually want to provoke such an
Armageddon.
We should go back to a new version of a mutual assured
destruction policy. If Iran tests one nuclear weapon, then every nuclear
power in the world has the right to conduct nuclear tests of their own
in Iran.
Make it clear that they will gain no advantage by
having such a weapon. On the contrary, they will assure their own
annihilation. They may be able to do harm to us, but we can
certainly do far more harm to them. Few countries will be keen to
obtain nuclear weapons once they see how well our modern ones work. They
won't be joining an exclusive club of military powers. They will be
assuring their own destruction. |
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September 22, 2009 -
AP sources: Instead of troops, maybe more drones - Comment:
Going back to the pre-9/11 strategy, like Clinton's preference to fire a
few missiles into the dirt and declare that he had retaliated and might
even do more someday if provoked - which was never really credible.
This will reinforce the Taliban and Al Qaeda expectation that Obama will
eventually give up and pull out if they continue to apply enough
pressure to raise the political cost of fighting the war.
Obama - go watch "Charlie Wilson's War" and pay attention
to the final scene.
We screwed up the endgame in Afghanistan
by leaving the Afghans to suffer under different tyrants once the ones
of concern to us (Soviets) were gone. The way to finish the game is to
not treat them like pawns in our own grand Asian or global strategy, as
past empires have done, but rather to work with the local Afghan leaders
(not the latest corrupt tyrant wannabes in Kabul). Look at how quickly
public attitudes shifted against the Taliban in Pakistan once their
atrocities in Swat reminded citizens elsewhere of the threat they posed,
and how little they had to offer other than sustained and brutal misery. |
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September 21, 2009 -
Clout fading, US vies to set G-20 meetings agenda - Comment:
As in the London G20 summit, European and other
foreign bureaucrats seem to be shaping the agenda while it remains
difficult to even discern a coherent summit strategy out of the White
House. Is that the strategy? Is Obama's strategy to just let
others take the lead, and go along with whatever damage they inflict on
us? |
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September 21, 2009 -
AP SPIN METER: $2 trillion in health savings? Where? - Comment:
Even the AP is starting to acknowledge that they were duped by the White
House in May. What savings? |
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September 20, 2009 -
Obama: Health insurance mandate no tax increase - Comment:
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September 20, 2009 -
Rep. Rangel: Popular lawmaker with ethics issues - Comment:
How long will the ethics investigation drag on before they decide to do
nothing more than a "naughty, naughty!" statement? Public political
pressure might cause the Democratic leadership to strip him of his
chairmanship role, but this is just another example of senior
politicians from "safe" districts expecting to be able to act
irresponsibly with impunity. Voters in his district may like him well
enough, but that doesn't mean he should hold a national leadership role. |
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September 20, 2009 -
Obama favors investigation into ACORN's activities - Comment:
Trying to distance himself from ACORN now - but what about all that
campaign money he gave to them? What about the statements he made
to them about seeking close consultation at the start of his presidency?
Note that here in Chicago, 4 local members of the House
and both Senators Durbin and Burris voted not to cut off ACORN funding.
In any case, watch for those votes to become meaningless gestures by
quietly killing off the measure in conference between the House and
Senate leaders. That's the usual tactic - let everybody pretend to be
voting for the measure to gain some political cover while it is
controversial news, and then kill it once the public attention span is
assumed to have passed to other issues already. It's already being
treated as a political spin control issue rather than a serious problem. |
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September 19, 2009 -
Obama rolling into week of high diplomatic stakes - Comment:
The high stakes aren't for Obama as much as they are for America.
After he just abandoned the missile defense program in Eastern Europe,
what other damage to our national security interests will he do next?
Watch out for the preparations for the Copenhagen summit
on climate change in December, and attempts to create a new global
regulatory framework for financial markets. Both initiatives weaken our
sovereignty in crucial ways which could do a lot of further damage to
our economy for a very long time. A saboteur could hardly do it better. |
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September 19, 2009 -
Ex-CIA directors urge Obama to drop abuse probe - Comment:
As stated from the start, this is a very
serious threat to human intelligence and our national security. |
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September 16, 2009 -
Senate's 10-year health fix would cost US $856B - Comment:
Don't be fooled. Here comes the
Department of Unhealthy and Inhumane Services, as in other countries
already. |
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September 16, 2009 -
Senate Dem: End 'bottomless pit' stimulus projects - Comment:
Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND) seeks political cover over Homeland
Security's wasteful spending in his state. |
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September 15, 2009 -
Focus is on Main St. as firms fight Wall St. rules - Comment:
Lobbyists are trying to fight off more misguided intervention in
American business by the federal government, including the G20 Summit
plans for more global regulation of the financial services industry.
Reuters -
Obama trade policies threaten 585,800 US jobs: study |
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September 15, 2009 -
Obama administration unveils fuel economy rules - Comment:
Does it bother anybody else that this "will have the effect of taking 42
million cars off the road"? Why should anybody believe that this
will help the US auto industry? "Cash for clunkers" mainly helped
the imports. |
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September 15, 2009 -
Obama to talk with autoworkers, AFL-CIO members - Note that his
trip includes a visit to Philadelphia to do a fundraiser for his
friend Arlen Specter. |
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September 14, 2009 -
Eastern Europe not feeling the love from Obama - Comment:
Once again, those who have lived under tyranny are quick to recognize
the dangers posed by Obama and Congress. |
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September 14, 2009 -
Senate plan to creates winners and losers - Comment: Max
Baucus floats more bad ideas for health care "reform" as the Democrats
focus on party politics and how to ram their agenda through and still
survive in 2010 rather than make a genuine bipartisan effort to develop
better legislation. |
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September 14, 2009 -
Sarkozy wants happiness used as economic indicator - Comment:
Like the 9/12 story about Stiglitz below, beware of politicians who
think economic growth is not a priority and that the "social justice" or
global fairness agenda of the left is the main responsibility of all
governments. Bottom line - France has lagged in
GDP growth for decades, and there's no plan to change that situation.
That makes it politically appealing to simply change the metric for
success. |
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September 12, 2009 -
U.N. panel wants new global reserve system - Comment: If
you thought things were bad thanks to Congress and the White House or
the Federal Reserve, wait until the U.N. and economists like Joseph
Stiglitz get to transform global financial markets to suit their own
agenda. |
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September 12, 2009 -
AP - Thousands of downtown DC protesters blast Obama |
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Photo of the 9/12 March on Washington. See also
www.BigGovernment.com for
more coverage. |
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9/11 is now being promoted as a "National
Day of Service" by the Obama administration. We weren't
attacked by terrorists because of any lack of voluntary community
service among Americans. |
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September 10, 2009 -
AP Analysis: 'You lie!' further erodes discourse - Comment:
Stand with Joe Wilson against the liberal attacks.
See his blog, and donate to support his 2010 campaign.
Rep. Wilson apologizes, but says won't be muzzled |
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September 9, 2009 - Obama heckled during speech: 'You lie!' - Comment:
Moment of truth. After
Joe Wilson (R - SC) apologized for the
outburst, the AP changed the headline for this story to
Obama heckled
by GOP during speech: 'You lie!' as though all GOP members
were responsible just because some laughed at one point in Obama's
highly partisan, offensive, and inaccurate remarks. Here's the AFP
version with a more honest headline -
US lawmaker to Obama: 'You lie!'
Thomas Jefferson said: "If the people have all the facts and know the
truth, the people will never make a mistake."
Americans figured this lie out in July and August after they checked the
facts. Obama is still trying to market a defective product.
Angry customers tell their friends when they have a bad experience - and
it becomes at least ten times as hard to ever win them back again.
Soon the AP
put out another story -
FACT CHECK: Obama uses iffy math on deficit
pledge - and the GOP leaders took issue with Obama's plan -
GOP
complains Obama still stuck on bad plan
It's time for the GOP to be the death panel and try to
pull the plug on this legislation. Let the Democrats try to ram it
through by reconciliation if they want to go "nuclear" to push their
agenda despite what so many Americans said during August. It is time for
some principled brinksmanship by the Republicans, rather than
appeasement. Otherwise, it will be MAD for both sides (mutually
assured destruction). The Republicans still have a chance to save
themselves with voters. The Democrats clearly aren't listening.
AP Analysis: Obama gambles on making nice, no vetoes - Are they
kidding? This is like Clinton - my way or the highway - but worse.
There isn't even a serious pretense of bipartisanship by Obama.
Obama: Time for 'bickering' is over on health care - Is Obama
kidding? Wishful thinking on his part. We have not yet begun
to fight! Stay tuned for the
9/12 March on Washington DC as reflected by the petition
delivered to Congress today with over 1.3 million signatures.
Surrender now? "Nuts!" Where's a Patton when we need
him? At least the Tea Party Express is getting closer to Washington
every day. Help is on the way. There will be better candidates for
Congress in 2010. Americans will find them, and support them, to bring
change to Congress. |
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September 9, 2009 - AFP -
Obama issues bold demand for health care action
US at 'breaking point' in health care crisis: Obama -
"Put simply, our health care
problem is our deficit problem. Nothing else even comes close."
"These are the facts. Nobody disputes them." Wrong again, on both
counts. Repetition of lies doesn't make them true. Health
care is not the source of our deficit problem, and
expanding the government role in health care will just make the
situation worse. |
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September 9, 2009 - Family Research Council press release -
President Obama's Campaign Style Speech Points to a Health Care Plan on
Life Support |
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September 9, 2009 -
Court signals it may loosen campaign spending |
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September 9, 2009 -
Obama disapproval on health care up to 52 percent - Comment:
He isn't likely to reverse this trend with another speech. That's
what they thought he could do a few weeks ago in August when he tried to
stage some town hall meetings, like the one he did in
Bozeman, MT. They
are still approaching this as a marketing problem, as in campaign mode.
They don't get it that there is strong, principled opposition to many of
their proposals even among people who accept that there is certainly
room for improvement in our health care system. We didn't create the
best health care system in the world by having government lead it. On
the contrary, it is still the envy of the world (despite the price tag)
despite several decades of government initiatives and burdens which have
helped to escalate the costs. |
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September 9, 2009 -
Taxpayers face heavy losses on auto bailout - Comment:
Confirming the obvious. The question is simply how many billion
will have been lost, and when they will admit it. |
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September 9, 2009 - Big Hollywood blog by Mike Baron -
Forming the 'Leave Me Alone' Party - Comment: One
reader suggested a party name of STOMP - the "Stop Treading On Me
Party". Nice graphic to go with the story about the
political continuum from Progressive to Free. |
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September 8, 2009 - Fox News -
Obama Delivers Stay-in-School Speech Amid Controversy - Comment:
Hundreds of comments - but few seem to have noticed the
Get Schooled launch yet. |
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September 8, 2009 -
Get Schooled Initiative Launches – Aimed At Broadening Americans’
Engagement in Solving the Education Crisis - Initiative releases
poll revealing vast majority of Americans do not believe U.S. education
system is world's best, have concerns over its impact on the nation's
economy - Comment: Press release by the Gates Foundation about
the Get Schooled launch tonight. Never let a good crisis go to
waste, right? Pay attention - it's
not just the Obama speech today. |
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September 8, 2009 - Washington Post -
Ex-Council Member to Lead Protest of D.C. School Voucher Cuts -
Comment: Did anyone forget that Obama killed off this successful
school voucher program, which largely helped minority kids in one of the
worst public school districts - Washington DC? His former Senate
colleague Dick Durbin (D-IL) led the move to quickly end the program
earlier this year. |
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September 8, 2009 -
Obama tells students each has something to offer - Comment:
Mentions why Wakefield was selected as the venue of the speech today.
Another version of the same story. |
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September 8, 2009 -
Obama advises caution in what kids put on Facebook - Comment:
Ironic addition to his speech today, given the
Get Schooled initiative
(which leads into Facebook networking)
Updated version of the same story with further details |
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September 8, 2009 -
Understanding President Obama's Speech - Comment: The
perspective of the
Center for Education Reform (CER). Refer to the CER's
Parent's Guide for discussion of the speech, or their
grassroots action center. |
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September 7, 2009 -
Obama thanks labor for hard-won rights at work - Comment: Obama
thanks the unions which worked so hard and spent so much to bring him to
power. Lenin had it wrong about capitalists
selling the rope to hang themselves. It's the radicals who persuade
productive, hard-working people that it is in their self-interest to
loot and destroy competitive industries and thus national economies for
their own benefit.
Look up
Trotskyism - perpetual global revolution against capitalism rather
than limiting the objectives to national borders or specific groups with
grievances to exploit. Mao's
Cultural Revolution showed where this fanatical opposition and
organized hatred of any successful group (notably among youth) leads. |
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September 7, 2009 -
Health care fight: Echoes of Bush, Social Security - Comment:
When in doubt, vilify George W. Bush and the Republicans by a DNC ad
campaign, "No Friend To Seniors". Does anybody still believe that
Obama favors working together to find bi-partisan solutions? |
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September 7, 2009 -
Senate chair proposes fee on insurance companies - Comment:
Don't be fooled. This is a tax by stealth on every business which
provides health insurance benefits, and on everybody who has such
insurance. It will drive their premiums up - not drive health care costs
down. It just transfers the price via the
insurance companies so that everybody will hate them for raising
premiums again, as opposed to hating the legislators for taxing them
directly or cutting Medicare coverage for seniors. Expose this
outrageous "trial balloon" before Obama's big speech.
Later version of the same AP story with additional details.
Obama labels the insurance companies once again as unfair or
unaccountable, as though government bureaucrats would be more
responsive. More government is always the answer - whether
directly or indirectly, such as through regulatory mandates. |
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September 7, 2009 -
AP Analysis: More wrangling could doom health care - Comment:
Anybody else remember the Monty Python Spamalot scene with the
"I'm not dead yet" song, as in the movie
"Monty Python and the Holy Grail"? Time to club this health
care proposal over the head and put it on the heap of dead legislation
before it plagues us all. Monty Python could
spoof that because everybody in the UK knew that the National Health
Service was a dismal failure, while the rulers were oblivious to the
misery. See what Daniel Hannan
has said. |
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September 7, 2009 -
Observers say neat Afghan vote totals show fraud - Comment:
They obviously need more community activists to teach them how to do
election fraud without it being so transparent. |
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September 7, 2009 -
Somalia, neighboring Seychelles clash over pirates - Comment:
Trading hostages for pirates? It still seems to be a "catch and
release" policy toward pirates, particularly now that less international
attention is on the problem, as though it were old news or an inevitable
problem. |
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September 7, 2009 -
Obama to name manufacturing adviser at picnic - Comment: So, now
we're going to have a manufacturing czar with no experience who helped
unions take over GM and Chrysler? |
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September 7, 2009 - Accuracy in Media -
The Blogger Who Nailed Van Jones - Comment: Interesting
presentation about how Van Jones was exposed. What ever happened
to investigative journalism here? |
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September 6, 2009 -
Controversy over fiery remarks fells Obama adviser - Comment:
Later version of the story, including a memorable Howard Dean quote from
a "Fox News Sunday" interview that he thought Jones "was brought down"
and that his resignation was "a loss to the country."
Van Jones was still attacking in his resignation:
"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy,
opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me."
"They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide." That
sounds more like his own radical tactics for many years.
Why did Obama, or his advisors like Valerie Jarrett,
let this guy anywhere near the White House? |
September 6, 2009 -
Obama 'green jobs' adviser quits amid controversy - Comment:
Good riddance. Unfortunately, too many people may think that this solves
the problem. There's a whole swamp to be drained - and this is just the
first drip to go. The MSM will treat this as insignificant news, and
quickly ignore it by accepting that this ends the matter - while many
other bad things go unchallenged. Where is the investigative journalist
zeal of the Watergate era to follow the money and the abuses of power
without fear? The MSM have become irrelevant.
Was there any MSM coverage of the vicious smear campaign which Van Jones
led against anybody who disagreed with him? Even his resignation lashes
out at others, as though they are the problem and he is just an innocent
victim. Thank you, Glenn Beck,
for helping to rid us of Van Jones. |
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September 5, 2009 -
Recession hits nest eggs; US promotes ways to save - Comment:
Since savings for retirement is a good idea, Obama thinks it should be
an automatic federal mandate for employees to invest part of their
salary into a 401(k) plan unless they opt out of it. At some
point, will that option go away? Will the tax penalties for early
withdrawal of such savings be relaxed? |
September 5, 2009 -
AP Analysis: Will Obama flinch or fight - or both? - Comment:
He's already on the ropes. Not yet down for the count, but his
left side is exposed to a strong right. He should have stuck to
basketball.
We're still waiting for those threatened "further steps" on Iran this
September. There doesn't seem to be much evidence that the Iranian
leadership respects him - and his growing unpopularity and indecisive
nature at home isn't going to help. There are even more hard-line
leaders in power than before in Iran. |
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September 5, 2009 -
Hillary movie puts campaign finance limits at risk - Comment:
The Citizens United case in the Supreme Court may affect corporate and
labor union campaign contributions and ads.
Watch for the restrictions to come off, but for liberals to then blame
conservatives for it and feign outrage. Think about it. Haven't Dems
been cutting deals recently with major corporations and labor unions to
run expensive ad campaigns which help to push their agenda, rather than
just having their big donors fund various non-profits or front groups to
channel the money and ads through them? Since that's not in support of
an election campaign at the moment, that's all OK, of course! |
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September 5, 2009 -
G-20 pledge continued economic stimulus - Comment: Pay attention
to the preparations for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh, as well as the
Copenhagen summit later this year. Do we really want the US
government to collaborate with foreign governments to impose salary
controls on bankers? That is a very slippery slope. Why
should Americans and Europeans or others face the same salary cap rules?
This expands government power and control over industry, and such
practices lead to greater corruption. Meanwhile, blind faith
commitment to the "stimulus" plan goes on. Take a look at what was
already happening back in January,
while Americans were still sleeping. |
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September 5, 2009 - AP
INSIDE WASHINGTON: A lawmaker's long reach - Comment:
Trying to earmark jobs in Guam for military base construction projects
to favor construction workers from Hawaii. That's one way to try
to steer $10 billion in federal tax dollars to buy support for his race
for governor. |
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September 4, 2009 -
Thousands around world rally against Hugo Chavez - Comment:
Congratulations. Despite the state media control in Venezuela,
activists are figuring out how to use Internet tools like Facebook to
organize opposition to this tyrant. Too bad that
virtually none of the news media in the United States has paid any
attention to this story - like our own Tea Parties or the protests in
Iran. Are they on the side of the tyrants (like Obama), or do they
just think that any such resistance is futile and therefore not
newsworthy? |
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September 4, 2009 -
European countries call on G-20 to tackle bonuses - Comment:
Pay attention to the preparations for the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh. |
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September 4, 2009 -
Dems signal resistance to Afghan troop increase - Comment:
Impatient to retreat and focus more spending on their domestic agenda
rather than national security interests. |
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September 4, 2009 -
Returning Congress target of health care lobbyists - Comment: Seniors
- time to respond to the AARP mailing to 8 million people promoting
Obama's agenda by cutting up your card. |
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September 4, 2009 -
Hidden pockets of elderly said to be in poverty - Comment:
Suddenly, as seniors turn against the health care "reforms", the
administration looks for other ways to buy them off.
Revised formula counts more Americans in poverty - later version
of the same story |
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September 4, 2009 -
Jobless rate at 9.7 pct.; 216K jobs lost in Aug. - Comment:
Meanwhile, Biden is still out there trying to tell people that the
government is creating and saving jobs. Look out for low-flying
pigs. Remember, these figures exclude a lot of people who gave up
or are now underemployed. |
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September 4, 2009 -
Gibbs: Furor over school speech is 'silly season' - Comment:
Still trying to defend this uninvited intrusion into school curriculum.
Read the original lesson plans to see
the intent. |
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September 3, 2009 -
Obama speech to students draws conservative ire - Comment: see
more details about this story, and the "Get
Schooled - You Have The Right" initiative. The blowback across
the country about this speech has been swift and strong, with many
schools refusing to show it to kids. |
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September 3, 2009 -
Analysis: Obama speech a sharp test of leadership - Comment:
Failing fast. |
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September 2, 2009 -
Bloodshed at Iranian camp tests US-Iraq transition - Comment:
Outrageous. |
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September 2, 2009 -
Big speech: Obama wants control of health debate - Comment:
Obama wants more control. Now there's an honest headline out of
the AP for a change. Is he perhaps trying to distract attention
from the petitions against the health care legislation that day?
See the very end of the story. Then review and
sign the
"Free Our Health Care Now" petition (like 1.2 million others) as
promoted at the National
Center for Policy Analysis website. Similar
story -
Obama to deliver health care address to Congress |
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September 2, 2009 -
Health talks to go on despite White House rebuke - Comment: So,
now the White House has chosen to vilify Senator Grassley and Senator
Enzi for daring to listen during August. Somehow I can't shake the
mental image of David Axelrod and Rahm Emanuel in high chairs, each
banging his spoon and throwing a tantrum because they aren't getting
what they wanted. Time for Americans to be the adults in the room,
and stand up to these little tyrants. |
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September 2, 2009 - New poll shows Congress' popularity dropping -
Comment: Proof yet again, if any were needed, that no matter how bad
things may be, Congress can still make them worse. |
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September 1, 2009 -
Obama praises Islam at Ramadan dinner - Comment: More
praise, as in his Cairo speech earlier
this year. This Christmas season, Obama should
celebrate Ashura and reach out to the Iranian Shiite leadership by
flogging himself in public for past sins. |
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September 1, 2009 -
Asian automakers get record 50pct-plus of US sales - Comment:
Once again, Congress tries to help the US auto industry and fails.
They still haven't even paid the dealers. |
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Explanation
of the News Archive feature |
| Note
that at www.Breitbart.com you can
see reader comments about the articles by following the "Show Comments"
link which is found at the bottom of each article. Since most
articles no longer show up for visitors there within 24 hours, many
articles have few comments unless they were very hot topics that day.
The AP often releases multiple versions of the same story, even with
very minor revisions, in which case a new page is created for each
version. That causes reader comments to be scattered across
multiple versions of the story. We do not attempt to link to every
version of the story. |
| At
some point links may no longer work because the other websites involved
will purge their content, but a Google search for the same headline may
still find them through other sources for reference. |
| This
tool was created to make it easier for conservative voters to go back
and find relevant political stories long after they have disappeared
from the current headlines. In some cases these stories were
hardly even mentioned at the time in the liberal news media, or quickly
disappeared from the news, so many voters may be completely unaware of
them. Some of the stories display obvious bias by the reporters,
but readers can be the judge of that. The comments reflect our own
editorial opinion on these stories. |
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