Archive for October, 2009
23 Oct
The Great Pumpkin!
23 Oct
Regulatory Commissars: About Those Attached Strings…
The Washington Post reports, “The Federal Reserve joined the Treasury Department on Thursday in imposing new limits on executive pay, extending the government’s control over compensation at taxpayer-owned companies to institutions that are merely government regulated.” Reread that and let it sink in for a minute. To put it in perspective, political analyst Rich Galen [...]
23 Oct
Detainee Détente
The Senate voted 79-19 Tuesday to remove an obstacle to Barack Obama’s plan to close the jihadi prison at Guantanamo Bay. The measure would allow the administration to bring foreign terrorism suspects to the U.S., though only if they are to be prosecuted here. The measure was attached to a $43 billion bill to fund [...]
23 Oct
The ‘New’ Missile Defense in Poland
On Sept. 17, President Obama stabbed our NATO allies Poland and the Czech Republic in the back when he unilaterally cancelled plans for basing in those countries a defense shield against long range missiles. Ironically, Sept. 17 was the 70th anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland that helped kick off Europe’s version of World [...]
23 Oct
Whither Will He Dither?
It has been nearly three months since General Stanley McChrystal asked President Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan, and still the “commander in chief” has declined to make a decision. Several media outlets, including the London Times, have blasted his inaction, and politicians on both sides of the aisle are decrying the administration’s handling [...]
23 Oct
RINO Lashes Out
The already newsworthy special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District took a turn for the ugly last week when RINO candidate Dede Scozzafava called local police on a reporter questioning her. John McCormack, a blogger for the Weekly Standard, found himself on the receiving end of questions from local police in Lowville, New York, [...]
23 Oct
Keeping Kinston Voters on the Plantation
Non-partisan local elections are the rule in North Carolina, so when Kinston voters overwhelming approved non-partisan elections for the town, the result should have been non-controversial. However, the Obama Justice Department overruled the change on the ground that equal rights for black voters cannot be achieved without the Democrat Party prominently displayed on a ballot. [...]
23 Oct
ACORN Lies Exposed Again
Just when you thought it was safe to visit an ACORN office again, yet another video was released this week at BigGovernment.com. James O’Keefe and Hannah Giles, the young conservative activists who posed as a pimp and prostitute in order to get ACORN’s advice on tax evasion and other illegal activities, released a sixth video [...]
23 Oct
War on Fox Continues
The White House fight with Fox News Channel continued this week as Senior White House Adviser David Axelrod and Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel hit the Sunday talk shows with claims that Fox does not produce news. Comrade Axelrod went so far as to tell ABC News on “This Week” not to treat Fox as [...]
23 Oct
New & Notable Legislation
Democrats in the Senate want to increase the national debt ceiling to more than $13 trillion, though, as usual, they’re seeking political cover rather than being “transparent.” The Democrat strategy appears to be to add a provision increasing the debt to a must-pass piece of legislation, such as the Defense Department spending bill. That would [...]
