Aug 19, 2009 43 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Canada Free Press: “In my own life, in my own small way, I have tried to give back to this country that has given me so much,†she said. “See, that’s why I left a job at a big law firm for a career in public service,â€â€” Michelle Obama. We were wrong. Michelle Obama, as we reported on ...
Continue ReadingAug 19, 2009 7 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Bloomberg: Aug. 18 -- “UPS and FedEx are doing just fine. It’s the Post Office that’s always having problems.†-- Barack Obama, Aug. 11, 2009 No institution has been the butt of more government- inefficiency jokes than the U.S. Postal Service. Maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles. The only way the post office can stay in business is ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 4 Comments ›› Erik Wong
I Hate The Media: Cash-for-Clunkers is so messed up that even a liberal Democrat is calling it messed up. Turns out car dealers can’t pry money out of the federal government to pay for the clunkers they took in trade. So Democrat congressman Joe Sestak of Pennsylvania is demanding “immediate action†from President Obama to correct the ...
Continue ReadingAug 18, 2009 12 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Mr. Little Stuff... Rasmussen: The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Tuesday shows that 31% of the nation's voters Strongly Approve of the way that Barack Obama is performing his role as President. Forty percent (40%) Strongly Disapprove giving Obama a Presidential Approval Index rating of -9 (see trends). Just 6% of voters now expect a tax ...
Continue ReadingAug 15, 2009 31 Comments ›› Erik Wong
AmericanThinker: By Andrew Thomas The left is already telegraphing its strategy to discredit the town hall movement. Conservatives must wise up and use a little jiujitsu of our own. It is important to note from the start that the struggle between liberty and socialism will never end, at least not in our lifetimes. If by chance it ...
Continue ReadingAug 15, 2009 26 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Washington Post: Crowds' Ire Sharpens Cardin's Resolve for Bill Comfortable at home in his favorite chair, Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin was watching a cooking show Sunday night, until he flipped to CNN and glimpsed his future: a man in a raucous crowd screaming at Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) about health-care reform. Back at home 24 hours later, nothing, ...
Continue ReadingAug 15, 2009 29 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
In an attempt to deny us our right to participate in the dialogue part of the American poltitical process, first the Joker and his mercenary army tried to claim we didn't exist when we were showing up at Town Halls, then they tried to claim we were paid agents of the insurance industry, and ...
Continue ReadingAug 15, 2009 36 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Politico: CHICAGO – Minnesota GOP Gov. Tim Pawlenty took an aggressive line against President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul Friday and insisted that a rejection of the Democratic plan could usher in a Republican resurgence. “It appears that President Obama is making great progress on climate change, he is changing the political climate in the country ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 22 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The Missouri post at the top of the Featured Stories is a perfect example. ACTIVISTS are travelling all across the country on special operations. We are meeting and planning with resistance leadership throughout the union. We are working behind the scenes in ACTIVE planning for the broader strategy needed for the next ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 6 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: The White House on Friday was looking over a list of names submitted by FOX News of people who say they received unsolicited e-mails on health care from the White House, Barack Obama's presidential campaign or his political organization, Organizing for America. After a testy exchange Thursday between FOX News' Major Garrett and White House ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 11 Comments ›› Erik Wong
FOX News: BELGRADE, Mont. -- President Obama on Friday finally had to face a challenge at a town-hall-style meeting about the bottom line of his health care plan. A Montana man asserted that Obama would have to raise Americans' taxes to pay for his plan to overhaul the health care system. Obama agreed that he couldn't cover another ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 14 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
The conservative movement in Missouri is quickly learning that when push comes to shove, ACTIVE is there. ACTIVE has been working closely with the Tea Party coalition and other groups to ensure a physical as well as video presence at local events. This was brought about by the SEIU beating of a conservative man ...
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Washington Post: With polls showing rising concern over the government's grim financial situation, key Republicans and a growing number of Democrats say it will be hard to push an ambitious health reform bill through Congress unless it reduces projected federal spending on medical care and begins to bring the national debt under control. "It's not good ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 38 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
ABC News: "Experts" who "track" hate groups across the U.S. are growing increasingly concerned over violent rhetoric targeted at President Obama, especially as the debate over health care intensifies and a pattern of threats emerges. The Secret Service is investigating a Maryland man who held a sign reading "Death to Obama" and "Death to Michelle and her ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 8 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
And the winds of war die down, though nowhere near entirely... Bloomberg: ug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. Senate should abandon efforts to pass legislation curbing greenhouse-gas emissions this year and concentrate on a narrower bill to require use of renewable energy, four Democratic lawmakers say. “The problem of doing both of them together is that it becomes ...
Continue ReadingAug 14, 2009 5 Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Fox News: Much has been made of the chance for true, interactive democracy offered by the freewheeling town hall format that lawmakers are using in health care forums across the country. But what the White House is calling a "town hall meeting" does not quite follow in the tradition of the public-driven forums that sprouted centuries ...
Continue ReadingAug 13, 2009 46 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Human Events: A racially charged activist group called “Color of Change†founded by Van Jones, a special advisor to the Obama Administration, is trying to silence popular radio and Fox News personality Glenn Beck by calling for a boycott of Beck’s TV advertisers. On July 28th, Beck made a comment on the Fox & Friends morning ...
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Politico: Obama has uttered more than a half-million words in public since taking office Jan. 20 - and a POLITICO analysis of nearly every word in this vast public record shows that domestic topics dominate, so much so that Obama sounds more like a peacetime president than a commander-in-chief with more than 100,000 troops in ...
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CBS: ELGIN, lll. ― The battle of the bulge isn't going so well in Elgin, but organizations in the far northwest suburb don't seem interested in fixing the problem with "fitness grants." Elgin was recently named the fattest city in Illinois. The dubious distinction was revealed by City Councilman David Kaptain, who said he saw it in ...
Continue ReadingAug 10, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
The Wall Street Journal: WASHINGTON -- Bipartisan opposition is emerging in the Senate to a plan by House lawmakers to spend $550 million for additional passenger jets for senior government officials. The resistance to buying eight Gulfstream and Boeing planes comes as members of both chambers of Congress embark on the busiest month of the year for ...
Continue ReadingAug 9, 2009 1 Comment ›› Erik Wong
MIAMI (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton said Sunday he would lead an international trade mission of private investors to Haiti in October to pursue energy and other development amid signs the nation is stabilizing. Clinton burnished his credentials as an elder statesman last week when he visited North Korea to retrieve two American journalists ...
Continue ReadingAug 8, 2009 8 Comments ›› Erik Wong
Don't be fooled by what the story says, $150 Million is not a "Staggering" sum compared to the $1 Trillion + it will take to socialize American Medicine. WASHINGTON -- The nation's drugmakers stand ready to spend $150 million to help President Barack Obama overhaul health care this fall, according to numerous officials, a staggering ...
Continue ReadingAug 8, 2009 19 Comments ›› Erik Wong
IBD Editorials: Health Care: The latest poverty data highlight what many keeping calling the "crisis" of the uninsured. Some 47 million people lack medical insurance, a record. A social disaster? Hardly. It goes without saying that there now seems to be a broad consensus that the great tragedy of our health care system is that so many ...
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