Jun 2, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
And not choosing GM's office space. http://online.wsj.com/ President Obama announced the bankruptcy of General Motors yesterday before GM's CEO even spoke, and the feds will soon own 60% of the company. But whatever you do, please don't think the government is now running GM. "What we are not doing -- what I have no interest in doing -- ...
Continue ReadingJun 2, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Two federal studies add up the corn fuel's exorbitant cost. http://online.wsj.com The Obama Administration is pushing a big expansion in ethanol, including a mandate to increase the share of the corn-based fuel required in gasoline to 15% from 10%. Apparently no one in the Administration has read a pair of new studies, one from its own EPA, ...
Continue ReadingJun 2, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Pressure. Defiance. Collision. After George W. Bush's terms of endearment for Israel -- a country he once described as a "light unto nations" -- a different terminology is being used to describe its cloudy relationship with his successor, Barack Obama. At odds with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Palestinian statehood ...
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By Joseph Curl http://www.washingtontimes.com In another odd twist left unexamined by the media, the White House on Monday said it simply would not release the cost of President Obama's weekend jaunt to New York City, where the First Couple had dinner and caught a Broadway show. Spokesman Robert Gibbs, keeping the White House press corps in stiches, ...
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Now here's a real sob story. Watch the video HERE as poor poor pitiful ousurper cries about his miserable life....Gag Alert
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By Investor's Business Daily Economy: With General Motors' long-awaited "pre-packaged bankruptcy" finally here, America is on the verge of a new era — one where government, not investors and consumers, is the final arbiter of success. GM's bankruptcy pushes bondholders aside in favor of the U.S. government and the UAW. Though bondholders hold $27 billion in debt, ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 51 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Here our investigation yielded its first surprise: the Chicago connection. Sotomayor’s “ex-husband†is a Chicago attorney....Sotomayor’s “boy toys†could be evidence of inability to function in a normal male-female environment or, once again, “beards†designed to conceal her deeply-closeted sexuality. Chicago muckraker Andy Martin bares the “Chicago connection†to Second Circuit Appeals Judge Sonia Sotomayor and ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 5 Comments ›› Erik Wong
http://www.redstate.com/ Obama’s plan will eliminate the private insurance industry, “its premised on doing so.†He intends to create a socialist, government controlled health care system regardless. Obama wants a single payer healthcare system. His deception offers a “choice†that is intended to disappear shortly whether people want their private insurance or not. .
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 29 Comments ›› Erik Wong
News Media Journal: In a May, 29, 2009 posting on the WhiteHouse.gov website by Norm Eisen, Special Counsel to [Alleged] President Obama for Ethics and Government Reform, it is disclosed that the public will be included in a restriction barring lobbyists from having oral communications with government officials about specific Recovery Act Projects. Instead, the public ...
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By James Lewis American Thinker The London newsies of Fleet Street have no respect -- for very much at all, including the Queen, PM Gordon Brown or -- shock! -- not even for His Utterliness Barack Hussein Obama, He Who Must Not Be Laughed At. This lèse majesté will no doubt upset the ranks of the American ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 22 Comments ›› Erik Wong
General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in New York NEW YORK (AP) -- General Motors filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Monday as part of the Obama administration's plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a majority ownership stake to the federal government. GM's bankruptcy filing is the fourth-largest in U.S. ...
Continue ReadingJun 1, 2009 No Comments ›› Erik Wong
http://www.jpost.com/ President Barack Obama says he doesn't have time to watch cable television news. We sure hope he hasn't given up reading The Washington Post, and that he made time for Jackson Diehl's remarkably illuminating column, "Abbas's Waiting Game" (May 29). Mahmoud Abbas and Barack Obama. Diehl interviewed the Palestinian leader prior to his White House meeting with ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ Around Christmas of 1973, a fellow sophomore approached Frank Reed, a leader of Princeton University's Chicano Caucus, to hand him a formal complaint she had typed up and to ask him to support it. Sonia Sotomayor was head of the other Latino organization on campus, Acción Puertorriqueña. And after a history of fruitless student talks with ...
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Citigroup Stuck With Bernanke Offer Rival Banks Plan to Refuse Bloomberg: By Bradley Keoun June 1 (Bloomberg) -- When financial stocks slumped in February to the lowest level in at least 17 years, U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke told Congress the government might end up owning “substantial†stakes in the country’s biggest banks. Three months later, ...
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TNR: by Gabriel Sherman In early May, White House Counsel Greg Craig circulated a memo inside the West Wing. Part of a series of memos on protocol, it explained how to deal with writers researching books and articles on the White House. (Craig's unsurprising instructions: Clear interview requests with the press office.) While the memo didn't mention ...
Continue ReadingMay 31, 2009 7 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee that will consider Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination to the Supreme Court, said on Sunday she should apologize for a comment she made positing that “a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than ...
Continue ReadingMay 31, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Republican senators are starting to figure out how they will navigate the racial aspects of Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court, showing Sunday that they won't be tongue-tied when it comes to the politically tricky subject. Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic on the high court if confirmed, and just the third ...
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By Randall Hoven American Thinker: Some stories are more compelling than others. Some Latina females have compelling stories. So do some white males. Is this story compelling? * A woman went to private grade school, high school, college and law school, all in the normal sequence. * Immediately after law ...
Continue ReadingMay 31, 2009 3 Comments ›› Erik Wong
IRAN AND NORTH KOREAN ARE MAKING A MOCKERY OF HIM By RALPH PETERS http://www.nypost.com/ In the old days at Officer Candidate School, the "tac officers," snapping and snarling, would circle a hapless would-be lieutenant: "You're lost, Candidate." "You're confused. "What are you going to do now?" "Make a decision! Make a decision!" That cherished image of the bewildered victim of calculated harassment ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 4 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The New York Times: WASHINGTON - The selection of Judge Sonia Sotomayor for the Supreme Court has opened a new battle in the fight over affirmative action and other race-conscious remedies for patterns of inequality, with each side invoking the election of the first black president in support of its cause. Judge Sotomayor, whose parents moved to ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 27 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Contrarian Commentary: (NEW YORK)(May 29, 2009) Internet Powerhouse Andy Martin has scheduled a Monday news conference to deliver his latest column, "The Secret Life of Sonia Sotomayor." Martin's column is expected to cause a firestorm and may torpedo her nomination. Martin also plans to release a letter to President Obama. "Everyone has been looking in the wrong ...
Continue ReadingMay 30, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Live Leak: Back to Business as Usual Roll Call is reporting that during the typical Friday afternoon document dump -- a practice used to hide actions that might prove somewhat embarrassing to the White House -- the administration quietly announced that some of the former restrictions on lobbying ballyhooed about during the late campaign have been lifted. ...
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BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS Homosexual group founder handed federal Education Department post By Bob Unru WorldNetDaily The founder of the homosexual activist group GLSEN, which promotes homosexual clubs in high schools, middle schools and grade schools and is the driving force behind the annual "Day of Silence" celebration of homosexuality in many districts, has been handed a federal appointment ...
Continue ReadingMay 29, 2009 27 Comments ›› Erik Wong
http://www.breitbart.com/ . The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery Using borrowed money for a band-aid bailout of the economy should seem backwards to most people. However, it likely is a planned strategy to promote radical change. Those naively believing that President Obama is simply rewarding his far-left base, and will then move to the political center, must wise up. Read ...
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