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McCarthy: ‘Poison Photo-Drop’

By on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

From Natonal Review Online:

American soldiers, American civilians, and other innocent people are going to die because Pres. Barack Obama wants to release photographs of prisoner abuse. Note: I said, “wants to release” — not “has to release,” or “is being forced to release,” or “will comply with court orders by releasing.” The photos, quite likely thousands of them, will be released because the president wants them released. Any other description of the situation is a dodge.

If President Obama wanted to refrain from releasing these photos in order to protect the military forces he commands or promote the security of Americans — his two highest obligations as president — he could do so by simply issuing an executive order. The applicable statute expressly allows for it, just as it provides for Congress — now in the firm control of the president and his party — to withhold the photos from disclosure. Instead, Obama and congressional Democrats are choosing to release the photos. [Read More]

Bill Kristol notes at The Weekly Standard Blog, that Obama may be backtracking on the photo release.

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Barack’s Vegas Vacation

By on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

So it’s ok for the same President that said “You can’t get corporate jets, you can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime,” to corporate big-shots, can take a trip to Vegas to raise money for Harry Reid after running up a $2 trillon deficit?

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Obama: Thanks SEIU, California Drop Dead

By on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

From The San Diego Union Tribune:

California has immense fiscal problems. That’s not exactly news, but this is: President Barack Obama could soon make these problems far worse.

The background: In February, as part of overall spending cuts, the Legislature lowered – from $12.10 per hour to $10.10 – the state’s maximum contribution to the pay of 300,000 unionized In Home Supportive Services health workers. This saved $74 million.

Most state employees were also subject to pay cuts. But after an April 15 conference call involving Obama administration officials, aides to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and representatives of the Service Employees International Union, the White House threatened to withhold $6.8 billion in federal stimulus funds unless the Legislature and the governor canceled the home health workers’ pay cut before it begins on July 1.

The ostensible reason is an inventive reading of language restricting how stimulus money can be used. A more plausible reason is the SEIU’s political clout. It gave $33 million to the Obama presidential campaign.

This hardball is even more obnoxious than it first appears. The rationale under which California was allocated the $6.8 billion in stimulus funds was to help the state deal with surging Medicaid costs. But now the White House demands California back off its bid to contain such costs.

Then there is the bombshell April 13 investigation by the Los Angeles Times that found the $5.4 billion In Home Supportive Services program to be riddled by fraud. Attempts to investigate this fraud are severely limited. Why? Almost certainly because of SEIU political pressure during the drafting of bills dealing with in-home care. Whether dealing with the state or federal government, it sure is good to be the Service Employees International Union.

Beyond these specific concerns, there is a much larger issue: the appropriateness of the Obama administration’s use of stimulus funds as a tool of coercion. If it’s happening in California, it’s probably happening elsewhere. We think far fewer members of Congress would have backed the $787 billion stimulus bill in February if they knew this is how the president would use it.

For all these reasons and more, the Obama administration must drop its intervention into California politics. What’s gone on to date isn’t just disappointing and disturbing. It’s scandalous.

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Notre Dame Seniors Opt-Out of Graduation

By on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

From CBN News:

Because of President Obama’s appearance and speech at Notre Dame this Sunday, some seniors will not attend their own graduation ceremony and instead join a University prayer service on the grounds at Notre Dame. No indication yet as to how many seniors will forgo the graduation ceremony.

The student group behind this effort, ND Response, has made this wild hollywood style video showcasing their displeasure with Notre Dame and the President. I must say the production value is extremely high and I feel like I’m watching a trailer for some sort of hollywood blockbuster movie. Watch it here. [Read More]

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Miss California Keeps Her Crown-’Same as Obama’

By on May 12, 2009 in Uncategorized

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ACORN Exposed–Two Members of The ACORN 8 on Glenn Beck

By on May 8, 2009 in Uncategorized

The Association of Community Organizers for Reform Now, or ACORN, is currently under investigation for voter registration fraud in Nevada, and has been confronted with such cases across the United States in the last few years. What started as an organization with the mission to empower poor and minority Americans has been transformed into a corrupt and power-hungry outfit, doing whatever it takes to gain money and influence on the backs of the people it was meant to help, claim D.C. ACORN Chairwoman Marcel Reid and now terminated national board member Karen Inman. The two are members of “the ACORN 8,” a group which has now grown exponentially with current and former ACORN members who are seeking to look into the organization’s books, uncover the corruption, and get the organization back to its mission.

This segment of the Glenn Beck show is long, but well worth watching if you’re interested in learning about ACORN from two former national board members, one who is still inside the organization. At the end of the segment Reid makes a striking call to US legislators, “I would just like to say that ACORN does not need to be funded with any more taxpayer dollars until we find out what happened to the last tax Payer dollars that it was funded with.”

[Video - ACORN 8 Members with Glenn Beck]

Yesterday, Senator John Conyers killed a Senate probe into ACORN’s actions and Democrats remain divided on how to deal with the organization.

Find out more about the ACORN 8 and their mission at their website.

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Republicans Challenge Obama on Gitmo Closing

By on May 7, 2009 in Uncategorized

From The Hill:

House Republicans on Thursday opened up a political front against the Obama administration, attempting to block the president’s decision to close the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay and charging that Obama’s national security policy is endangering the country.

“The world suddenly did not become safer on Jan. 20, 2009,” Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said at a press conference in which he and other leaders introduced a bill to block any Guantanamo prisoners from reaching U.S. soil. “There are still terrorists around the world that are committed to killing Americans and destroying our way of life.

“The administration’s political decision to close this prison begs an important question: What is the administration’s overarching plan for defeating the terrorist threat? And where do they plan to put these terrorists?” Boehner asked. [Read More]

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Obama to have a “muted observance” of our National Day of Prayer

By on May 6, 2009 in Uncategorized

From Ryan J. Foley at Townhall:

The White House is planning a muted observance of Thursday’s National Day of Prayer, a response that has disappointed both Christian conservatives as well as the many atheist groups who wish to end the tradition all together.

White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama would issue such a proclamation Thursday but not hold any public events with religious leaders as President George W. Bush did.

Obama’s decision drew a rebuke from the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a private group that promotes prayer events around the country. The task force estimates 2 million Americans attended more than 40,000 events marking the day last year.   [Read More]

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Fear and Golf: The Swine Flu

By on April 27, 2009 in Uncategorized

Stay up on the latest swine flu at the Drudge Report, its constantly updated with the most up-to-date and scariest flu news from around the world. I thought I’d be covering it more here, and if it starts killing thousands or millions around the world, I will. For now, it’s still really bad in Mexico and probably getting worse, while cases in other countries, including the US, are growing but seemingly less serious than in Mexico… It’s not looking like the next black death.

What I want to cover is the “PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY!!!! AHHH!!!” declared by the Obama Administration. Around 50 cases in the United States, with no deaths so far isn’t so bad but, if Obama thinks it’s an emergency why is he playing golf all day?

Better question: Why is he playing golf, or basketball, or taking vacations, or having cocktail parties–doing anything fun–while over 100,000 American soldiers are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, and in the midst of a “public health emergency?”

President Bush didn’t do any of these things because while Americans were fighting in a War, and people were being killed by terrorists, and hurricanes and fires, he didn’t think it was appropriate. Even if he had, which both he and Obama have a every right to, the media would have savaged him for it like they did his Father during the gulf war. But Obama gets a pass, he always gets a pass from the media, it’s just sad.

Remember: Wash your hands and beat up your sick friends if they leave the house.

(I don’t actually condone any beating of friends so, do that at your own discretion)

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WSJ: Open Door to Prosecute Bush Officials Will “Haunt Obama’s Presidency”

By on April 23, 2009 in Uncategorized

From The Wall Street Journal:

Mark down the date. Tuesday, April 21, 2009, is the moment that any chance of a new era of bipartisan respect in Washington ended. By inviting the prosecution of Bush officials for their antiterror legal advice, President Obama has injected a poison into our politics that he and the country will live to regret.

Policy disputes, often bitter, are the stuff of democratic politics. Elections settle those battles, at least for a time, and Mr. Obama’s victory in November has given him the right to change policies on interrogations, Guantanamo, or anything on which he can muster enough support. But at least until now, the U.S. political system has avoided the spectacle of a new Administration prosecuting its predecessor for policy disagreements. This is what happens in Argentina, Malaysia or Peru, countries where the law is treated merely as an extension of political power.

If this analogy seems excessive, consider how Mr. Obama has framed the issue. He has absolved CIA operatives of any legal jeopardy, no doubt because his intelligence advisers told him how damaging that would be to CIA morale when Mr. Obama needs the agency to protect the country. But he has pointedly invited investigations against Republican legal advisers who offered their best advice at the request of CIA officials.

“Your intelligence indicates that there is currently a level of ‘chatter’ equal to that which preceded the September 11 attacks,” wrote Assistant Attorney General Jay Bybee, in his August 1, 2002 memo. “In light of the information you believe [detainee Abu] Zubaydah has and the high level of threat you believe now exists, you wish to move the interrogations into what you have described as an ‘increased pressure phase.’”

So the CIA requests a legal review at a moment of heightened danger, the Justice Department obliges with an exceedingly detailed analysis of the law and interrogation practices — and, seven years later, Mr. Obama says only the legal advisers who are no longer in government should be investigated. The political convenience of this distinction for Mr. Obama betrays its basic injustice. And by the way, everyone agrees that senior officials, including President Bush, approved these interrogations. Is this President going to put his predecessor in the dock too? [Read More]

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