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I know, I know, the White House’s preferred terminology is that the U.S. is in a state of “military kinetic action” with the Libyan regime. When the no fly zone was imposed we were assured that it was to protect civilians from genocide and that coalition forces would not engage regime forces to defend or [...]

When I came across this story on WHDH’s website I hoped it was another case of the media getting hoaxed like the Sarah Palin disses Christina Aguilera nonsense.  Unfotunately that doesn’t appear to be the case. The lowlights:
Less than two years after entering bankruptcy, General Motors will extend millions of dollars in bonuses to most [...]

Will.i.am of the Black Eyed Peas gets it. Why doesn’t the media? With his Super shout out for Obama’s efforts to keep the country “stimulated”, will understands that our president’s policies represent more of the same. Because his earlier argument that spending is stimulus didn’t sell with the public, we have “investments” to “win the [...]

With President Hu Jintao of China in the U.S. for a state visit former Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty took to the pages of the Wall St. Journal and the Washington Post to argue against raising the debt limit. Hopefully, our largest creditor was able to find the time amid all the pomp of lavish [...]

According to the Los Angeles Times President Obama is still pushing the driving metaphors on his fundraising tour on behalf of Congressional Democrats. So what did folks get for their $30,400? Andrew Malcolm reports on the President’s stop in Tinsel Town http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2010/08/obama-democrat-findraiser-in-chief-.html. A snippet:
The president has also fallen into recycling the same jokes — one [...]

Congressional Democrats are undoubtedly walking around with a newfound swagger today. The political strategists in the White House have finally settled on the message to save their House and Senate majorities: “It could be worse”. First they invented the nigh impossible to verify or refute metric of jobs “created or saved” and now this. They [...]

It seems fitting that President Obama signed “financial reform” into law and the US Senate belatedly passed another extension of unemployment benefits on the same day. Because what the Democrats are doing in Washington D.C. is hurting economic recovery rather than helping foster growth. It’s tempting to compare their actions to those of BP in [...]

President Obama went to Holland, Michigan yesterday to promote another “green economy” project funded by stimulus cash. A South Korean company is receiving $151 million taxpayer dollars to build a factory that will one day hopefully employ 300 in the manufacture of batteries for electric cars. That’s $500,000 per job, which for this administration is [...]

Calling for a “rollback” of the tax cuts for “the wealthy” has been a populist mantra for President Obama and his allies in Congress. As with much of our president’s rhetoric, the gulf between his promises and reality is rather wide. The truth is that come January most Americans, not just the rich, will see [...]

President Obama is in Toronto for the G8 summit. With unemployment in America just shy of 10%, an environmental disaster in the Gulf, record budget deficits that the Fed Chairman has repeatedly called “unsustainable”, one would hope our president’s mind would be focused like a laser beam on issues that affect Americans. Nope.
When U.S. President [...]