Weekly Standard: Among the many shortcomings of the Budget Control Act and its spawn, the “Super Committee,” is that the threat of a sequestration “nuclear option”—in which some $600 billion would be cut automatically from national security accounts if congressmen do not find savings elsewhere—diverts attention from the damage the law has done already to [...]
Politico: Several influential New York state lawmakers have received threatening mails saying it is “time to kill the wealthy” if they don’t renew the state’s tax surcharge on millionaires, according to reports. Sheldon Silver “It’s time to tax the millionaires!” reads the email, according to WTEN in Albany. “If you don’t, I’m going to pay [...]
The Hill: House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) on Thursday unleashed some of his most stinging criticism against President Obama, accusing him of giving up on governing the country while he campaigns full-time for reelection. “Nothing has disappointed me more than what’s happened over the last five weeks, to watch the president of the United States [...]
Bill Ayers’s Website: What follows is the first official, collective statement of the protesters in Zuccotti Park: As we gather together in solidarity to express a feeling of mass injustice, we must not lose sight of what brought us together. We write so that all people who feel wronged by the corporate forces of the [...]
National Journal: Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain said on Thursday that he would definitely consider an invitation to run as the eventual nominee’s vice president, except if the nominee turns out to be Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Cain, who rocketed to the top tier of the GOP field in several recent polls, was asked by [...]
Voice Of America: A Pakistani doctor who allegedly helped the United States in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden is being accused of treason. A Pakistani commission said Thursday that the government should file conspiracy and high treason charges against Shakeel Afridi. Afridi is accused of running a fake vaccination campaign to help U.S. [...]
This is particularly significant, because both ABC News and NBC News have chosen to essentially ignore the story in an attempt to help Barack Obama get re-elected. Weekly Standard: Yesterday, CBS News investigative reporter Sharyl Attkisson told radio show host Laura Ingraham that the White House yelled and swore at her over her reporting on [...]
U.S. News And World Report: The burgeoning of populist protests in New York and other cities shows that resentment over the economy is growing, and Democratic strategists are moving aggressively to show that President Obama and his party are taking steps to solve the problem while Republicans are standing in the way. The Democratic National [...]
Related: The Return Of Van Jones And Marxist Street Protests NBC New York: President Barack Obama said the growing protest movement against Wall Street, which has been spreading across the nation, is voicing a widespread frustration about the country’s financial system. “I think it expresses the frustrations that the American people feel,” he said Thursday. [...]
Real Clear Politics: “Now, with respect to Solyndra and Fast and Furious, you know, I think — you know, I have been very clear. That I have complete confidence in the Attorney General Holder in how he handles his office. He has been very aggressive in going after gunrunning and cash transactions that are going [...]
Beltway Confidential: Attorney General Eric Holder received at least five briefing memos about operation Fast and Furious, which runs contrary to what he told Congressional investigators in sworn testimony. The memos were released today by House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., and Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa. Fast and Furious was a program run [...]
The Hill: Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) on Thursday introduced a House resolution that calls on GOP presidential candidate Rick Perry to apologize for his family’s decision to continue to lease a hunting camp that had a stone at the entrance painted with the word “N—–head,” and is still referred to by that name by [...]
New York Times: David Brooks: If only Mike Huckabee owned a publishing house. But what are the political and cultural effects of this long stagnation? So far, they have been oddly muted. There have been riots in Greece and London. There is denial in Berlin and Paris. There is the Tea Party and now there [...]
