More of the Blame Game
In his address at a Democratic Party fundraiser in Dallas on Monday, President Barack Obama once again blamed former president George W. Bush for the nation’s current economic woes. Absent from his remarks, of course, were any references to his administration’s aggressive assault on the insurance, banking, health care and manufacturing industries. In his own [...]
President Says NO Health Care Rationing, His New MediCare Chief Says We’re Going to “Ration with Eyes Open”
Over the course of the next ten years, the American population is projected to grow by 8% overall; the population over the age of 65 will grow by 61%. Skeptics of the recently-adopted Health Care Reform are becoming increasingly vociferous, questioning how the Obama administration plans on lowering costs against these statistics the American public [...]
Continued Controversy Over Guantanamo Bay, Terrorists, and Tribunals
Late last week, one of the first terrorism suspects admitted to Guantanamo Bay reached a plea bargain with his military prosecutors, marking only the fourth conviction of a prisoner detained at the facility since 2002. Ibrahim Ahmed Mahmoud al-Qosi stood accused of serving as an accountant, supply chief, cook and bodyguard for al-Qaeda’s primary figure, [...]
Border Security Dollars Being Wasted
The Obama administration has allocated $640 million for the border security mission to create additional courts and increase the number of border guards, security teams and FBI task forces. But who’s going to pay the court fees, salaries and benefits for a decade or two?! Simply throwing money at the problem does not fill the [...]
Conservatives Have Reservations About Kagan Nomination
After a week of questioning, conservatives and even some liberals, including Senators Arlen Specter (D-PA), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT), have reservations about Elena Kagan. Among them are her penchant for international law, which she says should be referenced in Supreme Court decisions; her lack of judicial experience; her unwillingness to discuss pertinent legal issues; and [...]
President Obama Flip-Flops on Commissions
While in pursuit of the presidency, candidate Barack Obama mocked Senator McCain’s idea of establishing a presidential commission to investigate the emerging economic crisis. Candidate Obama declared that such commissions were diversionary tactics employed by weak politicians who could only talk but that he, in contrast, would be a president of action and answers. Ironically, [...]
AG Holder’s DOJ Dismisses Case on Black Panthers
After winning an open-and-shut case during the Bush Administration against the new Black Panther Party for election intimidation (standing outside of a polling place with night sticks and shouting racial insults), the new leadership of Eric Holder’s DOJ has ordered DOJ attorneys to drop nearly all charges and dismiss the case, prompting one career prosecutor [...]
BP, Obama and Energy Policy: Implications of the BP Oil Spill
On Tuesday, June 15, 2010, President Obama addressed the nation to assure the American people that he was doing everything in his power to deal with the current and future consequences of the BP oil spill. In the address, he asked BP to pay lost wages and damages for those affected and announced a revitalization [...]
The 20-Minute Meeting
After weeks of inaction, followed by weeks of aggressive language (think “kicking a$$” and keeping a boot on the neck of BP execs) and threats of federal lawsuits, President Obama finally found time to meet with the president of BP on Wednesday… for a total of 20 minutes! For those of you keeping track, that’s [...]
Obama Supports UN Investigation of Israel
After the interception of a “humanitarian” vessel by an Israeli Special Forces and intelligence unit resulted in the deaths of nine passengers, the international community has risen up against Israel. Challenging a long-standing tradition of US support for Israel, a nation with a truly top-tier intelligence apparatus that knew who and what was on the [...]
