May

15

Your Stimulus Dollars at Work, Part XXIV

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I’m told the administration is filing this under “erections saved or created”: The NBC Investigative Unit has raised questions about two grants totaling nearly $1.5 million dollars distributed to the University of California San Francisco. The money was part of the federal stimulus program and went to studies into the erectile dysfunction of overweight middle [...]

May

10

Sacrifice: Obamas Won’t Be Vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard This Summer

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Gee, I wonder why? With the approach of summer many are wondering whether the Obama’s would return to the Island for another vacation. Well, today the Boston Herald reported that, “President Obama will not return to Martha’s Vineyard.” The fact that it’s an election year is certainly a factor in the decision not to vacation. [...]

May

5

Bill Maher: Real Comedian

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News flash: Bill Maher finally said something funny… unintentionally, of course. Actually there are a couple of hilarious jokes in this one paragraph: “I think the second term for Obama is more important even than the first,” Maher said. “Obviously, it was important to get the first black president elected. But if the first black [...]

Apr

25

Labor Department Poised to Ban People Under 18 From Performing Chores on Family Farms; Update: Government Does an Election Year Cave-In

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“Hope and Change” in theory — “a Federal regulator on every family farm” in practice. Here’s the latest example of big-government gone wild: The Department of Labor is poised to put the finishing touches on a rule that would apply child-labor laws to children working on family farms, prohibiting them from performing a list of [...]

Apr

5

Marion Barry: We’ve Got to Replace These Asian Businesses With African-American Businesses

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Don’t take this too seriously, I think it’s just the crack talking: “We’ve got to do something about these Asians coming in, opening up businesses — those dirty shops,” Barry said Tuesday night, after winning the Democratic primary for the city’s Ward 8 seat and effectively securing a third council term. Barry went on to [...]

Mar

29

‘Do What We Say, Not What We Do’

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President Obama in 2009: “You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas or go down to the Super Bowl on the taxpayer’s dime.” Fast forward to this week: First lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha are visiting Las Vegas after stopping in South Dakota on a family trip. A spokeswoman for McCarran [...]

Feb

27

Jesse Jackson: Show Your Love and Appreciation to Obama for Being the ‘Food Stamp President’

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A while back the White House denied Newt Gingrich’s charge that Obama is the “food stamp president,” a title they instead tried to bestow upon, you guessed it, George W. Bush. According to Jesse Jackson this past weekend, Team Obama should wear the title as a badge of honor. Transcript from Newsbusters: Say, it’s an [...]

Feb

26

Flashbacks to a Time Forever Ago When High Gas Prices Were the Fault of White House Policies

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I’m only 45 years of age but I don’t think I’ve ever felt older than I have these past few weeks. Suddenly I’ve turned into one of those “I remember back when…” people who reminisces about how things used to be “back in the day.” What makes it bizarre is that “back in the day” [...]

Feb

22

Another Clown Under the Obama Administration Big Top Hails Unemployment Checks as ‘Economic Stimulus’

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Our economy is in the most capable of hands. So far various Keynesian snake oil vendors at the Hope & Change Circus have said that food stamps are stimulus, that government regulations are great job creators and that unemployment checks help stimulate the economy. Obama adviser Valerie Jarrett doubled-down on the latter recently: If it’s [...]

Feb

22

Obama Sings the Blues

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Yet another “panty melter” for Chris Matthews, courtesy of the latest in the Party Time at the White House series. If Obama wanted to sing some blues Americans could relate to, he should have recorded this at a gas station or unemployment line: He’s pretty good… hopefully we can help him launch a full-time singing [...]

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