We are sonorously told to respect the “Palestinians,” that their “government” is one we must work with to solve the ages old conflicts of the Middle East. We are also told by those advocating realpolitik between the west and the Muslim world that their system based on Islam is just as good as anyone else’s, [...]
Archive for March, 2009
30 Mar
You’re Fired! Obama Fires GM’s CEO
Last night, the CEO of General Motors, Rick Wagoner, was fired by the President of the United States. Perhaps not “fired” in the strict legal sense – if legalities matter anymore – but certainly fired for all effective purposes. In a statement by Wagoner released last night, the now-former CEO states specifically that Administration officials [...]
30 Mar
GM and Chrysler plans are not ‘viable’
The Obama Administration is rejecting the viability plans GM and Chrysler were required to submit by March 31, 2009. They are giving Chrysler 30 days to arrange a merger with Fiat. GM is getting 60 days to do a complete restructuring. GM CEO Rick Wagoner has resigned at the request of the Obama Administration. There [...]
30 Mar
Obama authorizes more debt spending in 45 days than Ronald Reagen did in eight years
The Congressional Budget Office found that the ten year deficits of the Obama Administration plan will be about $2.3 trillion higher than the $6.97 trillion the White House has projected. Can the US withstand that level of debt? We expect this level of debt from Argentina, Bolivia, and Mexico, but they are considered countries at [...]
30 Mar
Could your PC, mobile phone and IPOD be searched for illegal downloads at airports?
That is exactly what could happen under Acta, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. This agreement is currently being actively pursued among the G8 nations. The purpose of the Acta agreement is to prevent illegal downloading and ripped copyrighted movies. Big brother may soon be waiting when you get off the plane.
30 Mar
Bobby Jindal defends Rush “wants Obama to fail” statement
Bobby Jindal defended Rush Limbaugh’s “wants Obama to fail” statement without prompting. “It depends on what he’s trying to do,” Jindal told a crowd of about 1,200 Republicans at the National Building Museum. He pointed out Republicans should want to Obama to fail when he keeps the United States indebted to China, taxes Americans to [...]
30 Mar
Famous Congressional Tweets
Congress and Washington are embracing the new micro-blogging site Twitter. They have not all grasped the power or implications of the medium. Here are some famous Congressional tweets complied by csmonitor.com Tweet-fight Less than ten days later, Blumenauer did it again. This time, however, he was just responding to a tweet. A tweet from Senator [...]
30 Mar
Environmental nuts in California want to ban your big screen TV
Environmental nuts in California want to ban your big screen TV and they are in control of the California Energy Commission. The CEC plan proposes to ban about 200 television models. The plan was outline in a a dry-sounding reported entitled, “December 2008 Draft Efficiency Standards for Televisions”. I wonder if they will ban Obama’s [...]
30 Mar
U.N.’s Global Climate Change Plan Would Cause Economic Earthquake
While an earthquake shifts the ground beneath our feet, the United Nation’s climate change proposal would shift trillions of dollars in wealth transfers and entail “ job losses and gains, new taxes, industrial relocations, new tariffs and subsidies, and complicated payments for greenhouse gas abatement schemes and carbon taxes.” And while earthquakes inflict considerable amounts [...]
30 Mar
Obama’s Attack on the Middle Class
Obama and his public relations team have made it appear that his trillion dollars in higher taxes will fall only on “the rich.” Obama stresses that his tax increase is only for the richest 5 percent of Americans while the other 95 percent receive a tax cut. The fact of the matter is that the [...]
