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Wednesday wrap

2009-07-15T06:30:00.011-04:00

Anti-investment agenda yields predictable results ... President Barack Obama on Tuesday declined to predict how high unemployment will climb but made clear he expects it to keep worsening for a while as hiring lags behind other signs of economic recovery. "How employment numbers are going to respond is not year clear," the president said on a day when he was headed to Michigan, home of a

Tuesday wrap

2009-07-14T06:30:00.013-04:00

Architects of U.S. Job Freeze celebrate at White House ... In a meeting with President Obama today at the White House, top labor leaders pushed for a second stimulus package to create more jobs. “Since the onset of the recession, this country has lost an astounding 6.5 million jobs and $14 trillion in wealth. "We support the President's recovery and reinvestment program, and we believe it should

Monday wrap

2009-07-13T06:30:00.009-04:00

Officials, authorities licensed to steal ... It is time to treat the bloated pensions of public employees for what they really are, a criminal conspiracy to steal from the public. Any official who approves or facilitates these giveaways should be tried under the RICO racketeering law as should the workers who receive them. The same logic should be applied to corporate boards of directors,

Sunday wrap

2009-07-12T06:30:00.013-04:00

Americas: Thieving tyrants are wearing thin ... It's hard to imagine anyone who misses the presidency of George W. Bush more than Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez. While Washington all but ignored Latin America in the last decade, Chávez managed to bolster his standing at home and beyond by mocking Bush, the man he described as producing sulfurous emissions in the manner of the Devil himself, and

Saturday wrap

2009-07-11T06:30:00.005-04:00

Team Obama refuses to admit mistakes ... Despite persistently high unemployment, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said Friday the Obama administration's economic stimulus plan is on the "expected path." "I was just wondering, where do you think your plan went wrong?" asked Rep. Bill Posey, R-Fla. About 2 million jobs have been lost since Congress passed Obama's stimulus package in February.

Friday wrap

2009-07-10T06:30:00.003-04:00

Esquire compares Obama, Chávez ... As the Honduran constitutional crisis moves inexorably toward some endgame (this, the original "banana republic," must eventually come in from the cold), let's go easy on tossing around the term "military coup" and reflexively comparing the situation to Iran's ongoing tumult. According to the country's oddly prescient constitution, it was actually ousted

Thursday wrap

2009-07-09T06:30:00.007-04:00

Rules for Radicals used against the leftwing ... This country stinks and we won’t be happy until we’ve forced you to admit it. In other words, stop thinking of the Democratic Party as merely a political party, because it’s much more than that. We’re not just the party of slavery, segregation, secularism, and sedition. Not just the party of Aaron Burr, Boss Tweed, Richard J. Croker, Bull Connor,

Wednesday wrap

2009-07-08T06:30:00.005-04:00

Disgusted citizens picket v. oppressive gov't-union strikers ... The tables were turned on striking city workers Monday when angry residents carrying protest signs picketed their union hall in the 1500 block of Parent Avenue. The neighbours, incensed at the growing mounds of garbage along the sidewalk outside union HQ, vowed to be back again today, despite copies of a no-trespassing order waved

Tuesday wrap

2009-07-07T06:30:00.006-04:00

Nightmare on Main Street ... Union campaigns are exhausting, deeply distracting events, and even though EFCA, as it has come to be known, promises to do away with campaigns, I'm willing to bet that the likely compromise will keep some sort of campaign in place, while making it easier for unions to organize. We've been through two campaigns, and know all about their ability to disrupt. About 13

Monday wrap

2009-07-06T06:00:00.003-04:00

Authorities plunder U.S. economy ... Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. said the administration underestimated the severity of the slumping economy when pushing Congress this winter to pass the $787 billion economic stimulus package, but added that it's too early to consider a second massive spending measure to jump-start the economy. (washingtontimes.com)In case you missed it: The Union News

Sunday wrap

2009-07-05T06:15:00.003-04:00

Obama completes Mission Impossible ... It’s taken barely half a year to make George W. Bush look good to a lot of Americans who experienced “Bush Derangement Syndrome” or, like myself, were critical of several of his policies while President. I imagine Bush watching the evening news these days and just laughing as he watches Obama just “step in it” every time he encounters the same or some new

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2009-07-04T06:00:00.000-04:00

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Friday wrap

2009-07-03T06:30:00.011-04:00

Obama Job Freeze: You ain't seen nothin' yet ... Worse, the June jobs data mark a milestone of sorts: Our unemployment rate equals that of the no-growth Eurozone nations. Why is this job decline happening? The private sector — the real engine of economic and job growth — won't hire because it's scared of what it sees coming out of Washington. On the horizon, as far as the eye can see, are higher

Thursday wrap

2009-07-02T06:30:00.014-04:00

Obama revealed by Lioness of White House press corps ... Following a testy exchange during today’s briefing with White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, veteran White House correspondent Helen Thomas told CNSNews.com that not even Richard Nixon tried to control the press the way President Obama is trying to control the press. “Nixon didn’t try to do that,” Thomas said. “They couldn’t control (

Wednesday wrap

2009-07-01T06:30:00.011-04:00

Today's spotlight: International CollectivismObama Doctrine exposed: Meet America's new best friends ... Assembly president d'Escoto, a former Sandinista foreign minister in Nicaragua in the 1980s, noted that the United States had joined the list of countries that gave initial support to the draft resolution. The document was initiated by Antigua and Barbuda, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El

Tuesday wrap

2009-06-30T06:30:00.006-04:00

U.S. as Banana Republic: Obama sends in the Federal Czars ... I’m not going to discuss his reckless decision to allow the private Federal Reserve Banking System to serve as the czar of the financial industry. However, it appears that his appointment of numerous czars without senate approval is unconstitutional. Let me just say this. It should be clear to anyone who has the slightest idea what’s

Monday wrap

2009-06-29T06:30:00.018-04:00

Today's spotlight: International CollectivismLatAm Leftist Thug Miscalculated ... Zelaya is an ally of leftist leader Venezuela President Hugo Chávez, who expressed support of his referendum along with Cuba's Fidel Castro. Honduras had joined ALBA, the alliance of leftist leaders in the region as an alternative to free-trade agreements they say are dominated by the US. Across Latin America,

Sunday wrap

2009-06-28T06:30:00.011-04:00

Team Obama silent as another rogue LatAm Leftist shreds Constitution ... Leftist president of Honduras has set up polling stations for a referendum despite opposition from Congress, the Supreme Court, and the military. Manuel Zelaya is trying to change the constitution to allow presidents to serve more than a single four-year term. However, the Supreme Court and the attorney general say the

Saturday wrap

2009-06-27T06:30:00.009-04:00

Obama FDA cracks down against Cheerios ... Only four percent (4%) of voters nationwide agree with the federal Food and Drug Administration that the popular breakfast cereal Cheerios should be regulated as a drug. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 87% disagree and oppose such regulation. Survey participants were told that the FDA made its claim because the cereal is

Friday wrap

2009-06-26T06:30:00.008-04:00

Obama Dems party on lavishly during Job Freeze ... Straw huts, hula dancers and kids playing with hula hoops were all on display Thursday evening in the White House's backyard — not the typical congressional picnic. President Barack Obama wanted it this way for the annual picnic for members of Congress and their families. "I just want to say to all the members of Congress, you've been working

Thursday wrap

2009-06-25T06:30:00.009-04:00

Anatomy of U.S. Job Freeze revealed ... Here are some of the moves Congress and the White House are considering that could sap business profits, at least in the short term. Democrats argue many of these steps are needed to protect the country's long-term economic health. Pay or play. As part of a health insurance overhaul, employers could be presented with a mandate requiring they either

Wednesday wrap

2009-06-24T06:30:00.015-04:00

Obama fumbles anti-capitalist agenda ... Acknowledging that his $787 billion economic stimulus package has not worked as well as he'd expected, President Obama on Tuesday said Americans should not be satisfied with the pace of the recovery, even as he found himself on the defensive over Democratic health care reforms. In the testiest news conference of his young administration, the president said

Tuesday wrap

2009-06-23T06:30:00.008-04:00

Unions rip innovative, voter-approved anti-corruption law ... A philanthropist, a politician and a union leader took the stand Monday in Denver District Court to decry the effects of Amendment 54, which bans some government contractors from making campaign contributions. Under the voter-approved rules, if an entity receives no-bid government contracts totaling more than $100,000, the executives

Monday wrap

2009-06-22T06:30:00.014-04:00

Obama Job Freeze puts more union members on the dole ... Welfare rolls, which were slow to rise and actually fell in many states early in the recession, now are climbing across the country for the first time since President Bill Clinton signed legislation pledging “to end welfare as we know it” more than a decade ago. Twenty-three of the 30 largest states, which account for more than 88% of the

Sunday wrap

2009-06-21T06:30:00.008-04:00

Innovative Anti-Corruption Law boosts Colorado ... Political fundraising in Colorado had an end-of-2008 rush, then slowed dramatically as 2009 brought a voter-approved ban on contributions from certain government contractors and their kin. A comparison of the first quarters of 2009 and 2005 — the most recent similar cycle — shows a decline in fundraising by anywhere from a fifth to two- thirds