Sep

29

Green Con Jobs Update: More Obama Supporters Put in Positions Where They Could Help Themselves to Taxpayer Money

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This Frank Drebin picture is going to get quite a workout in the coming months, so get used to it: We’ve known previously that “clean energy” projects involving Obama’s campaign donors and even Nancy Pelosi’s brother in law have received huge government loans to start companies that even many in the administration knew would do [...]

Sep

28

The 6 Degrees of Separation in the Latest Billion Dollar Government Loan for a Solar Company

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Finish investigating the Solyndra debacle before continuing to shell out billions in taxpayer loans for “clean energy” startups? Eh, what for? The Energy Department announced Wednesday that is has finalized more than $1 billion in loan guarantees for two separate solar projects. The decision comes several weeks after Solyndra, a California-based solar manufacturer, received a [...]

Sep

23

New York Times Headline Blames U.S. for Missing Solyndra Warning Signs; Update: Video Link to Solyndra Hearings — Execs Invoking the Fifth Amendment

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The latest New York Times story about Solyndra is fairly open and honest regarding the Obama administration’s complicity in the $500 million boondoggle, but the Times’ headline writer is still in “protect Obama” mode: The “U.S.” missed warning signs? The Bush administration ultimately voted against giving Solyndra a taxpayer-backed loan. To me it sounded like [...]

Sep

21

Big Surprise: Solyndra Execs to Plead the Fifth at Congressional Hearing

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Geez, give them one of the biggest platforms they’ve ever had to promote the importance of continuing to support “green jobs” and clean energy even in the face of a few completely innocent pitfalls, and they clam up: Solyndra LLC’s chief executive and chief financial officer will invoke their Fifth Amendment rights and decline to [...]

Sep

15

How Many Plates Can the White House Keep Spinning Before One Falls?

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What’s described below could end up making Solyndra look like a kid caught stealing a pack of gum from the corner store, and I keep wondering how long things like this can go on before one very large shoe drops: The four-star Air Force general who oversees Air Force Space Command walked into a highly [...]

Sep

9

The Solyndra Saga Continues

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Yesterday we talked about an FBI raid of one of President Obama’s bankrupt pet “green” companies that taxpayers took another one on the chin for. At the time the reports were that nothing was confiscated. That has changed. Not only has the company had material removed, but the FBI has also raided the homes of [...]

Sep

8

FBI Raids Obama’s Pet ‘Green’ Project

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What a, uh, surprise. The solar company touted by Obama as a wonderful example of “green tech” that recently went under and took $535 million worth of taxpayer money with it has been raided by the FBI: FBI agents armed with search warrants descended Thursday morning on bankrupt solar company Solynrda. The investigation comes after [...]

Jul

26

Sure, Obama Administration — Bring on That China-Style High Speed Rail System!

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In 2008, then-candidate Obama praised China’s “vastly superior” infrastructure and expressed a desire to rapidly bring that style of high-speed rail system and other infrastructure “improvements” to the United States. Later, the administration even dubbed Joe Biden as the “Conductor or the train to the future” (if that isn’t disturbing, nothing is). So how’s China’s [...]

Jun

15

John Edwards Mug Shot Released, and He Still Smells Terrific!

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The mug shot of troubled high-end ambulance chaser John Edwards (aka “Mr. Two Americas” aka “Silky Pony” aka “The Breck Girl”) was released today. The stress must be getting to him: Oh, sorry, wrong one… the Edwards mug shot is here: Politicians know to always smile in their mug shots — you never know when [...]

Jun

13

More Problems for Weiner: The Weiner-Mobile is Unregistered

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Anthony Weiner isn’t just an Internet sex aficionado, he’s also a plate-swapper: When Weiner (D-Queens, Brooklyn) was photographed by the Daily News fleeing the Capitol in his Nissan Pathfinder, it was clear the July 2007 registration sticker in his window was expired, and there was no inspection sticker to be seen. Weiner, through a staffer, [...]

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