TOLEDO, Ohio (Reuters) – Hope and jobs are in short supply in Ohio eight months after President Barack Obama won the recession-battered state in the 2008 election with promises of a better future. “People were looking for a savior to get us out of this mess and that’s why they voted for Obama,” said Jeff [...]
The Washington Post: Yesterday, Barack Obama was God. Today, he’s fallen from grace, the magic gone, his health-care reform dead. If you believed the first idiocy — and half the mainstream media did — you’ll believe the second. Don’t believe either. Conventional wisdom always makes straight-line projections. They are always wrong. Yes, Obama’s aura has [...]
Now Obamacare will become a “personal issue” for Senator Dodd, impassioning voters to support his struggles by submitting to Socialist legislation. Which, of course, is bull, because he makes enough money to get whatever coverage he damn well pleases. It’s not that I don’t sympathize, but you know… In his case, I don’t really care. [...]
DEMOCRATIC PARTY: Gov. Paterson lives it up at Taj with BET exec Rhonda Cowan (left) and a guest — hours before he revealed massive deficit growth yesterday. The New York Post: ALBANY — What’s Gov. Paterson got to celebrate? Just hours before delivering news of soaring budget deficits and lagging revenues from the recent millionaire’s [...]
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POLITICO: Four of the most powerful business leaders in America arrived at the White House one day last month for lunch with President Barack Obama, sitting down in his private dining room just steps from the Oval Office. But even for powerful CEOs, there’s no such thing as a free lunch: White House staffers collected [...]
U.S. Marines with the 2nd Battalion, 8th Regiment; on foot and under fire in Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Members of Golf Company pushed deep into the heart of the Helmand River Valley in an attempt to secure this part of the country in advance of the Afghan elections in August. . NPR:
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From the Leftist Ministry of Propaganda’s rag, Politico: A slew of recent polls suggest that the political landscape was not as dramatically transformed last November as Democrats had hoped. The question now is whether those numbers will impede the president’s ability to achieve the transformative goals he set out for himself, particularly in the area [...]
STLToday: America needs a public service academy BY Melissa Goldberg In the early 1800s, when the United States recognized a need for military leadership, President Thomas Jefferson authorized the creation of West Point, a school uniquely crafted to address those needs with a specially designed curriculum like none other in the country. Two hundred years [...]
SFChronicle: Police were called on a group of retirees who refused to leave Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s West Los Angeles office until she talked to them about health care reform. Los Angeles police Sergeant Rich Brunson said Thursday that police lured the group of seven outside somehow, then locked the building’s doors behind them. Brunson had [...]
WSJ: By KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL Democrats should be asking: What would Big John do? If anyone might have the right to revel in a bit of health-care schadenfreude, it’s John Dingell. Nancy Pelosi and Henry Waxman ought to feel lucky he’s foregone the pleasure. The Michigan Democrat, at least until last year, presided over the [...]
MyWay: By KEN THOMAS WASHINGTON (AP) – The government’s popular “cash for clunkers” program may be running out of money after only a matter of days as car shoppers flock to dealerships to take advantage of the rebates. The White House said Thursday it was assessing its options amid concerns the $1 billion budget for [...]
