May 18, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from CNS News: (CNSNews.com) – Ahead of the G8 summit in Camp David on Friday, a group of United Nations human rights “experts” are throwing their weight behind a longstanding campaign for a so-called “Robin Hood tax” on international financial transactions. In a statement issued in Geneva – home to the U.N.’s human rights apparatus – ...
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May 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Hill: President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) clashed during a White House meeting on Wednesday, with the Speaker telling the president that he was “not going to allow a debt-ceiling increase without doing something serious about the debt,” Boehner’s office said. The president convened the meeting of the bipartisan congressional leadership ...
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May 17, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from ABC: Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., has a status update for Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin: Stop attempting to dodge your taxes by renouncing your U.S. citizenship or never come to back to the U.S. again. In September 2011, Saverin relinquished his U.S. citizenship before the company announced its planned initial public offering of stock, which will ...
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May 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from HUMAN EVENTS: How would you define “unemployment?” Statistics on unemployment are bandied around in the media all the time. Changes in these statistics are hailed as good or bad news for the President, with varying degrees of emphasis from the news networks, depending on which party the President belongs to. ...
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May 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from BIG GOVERNMENT: Obama’s 2013 budget just went down to defeat by a 99-0 vote in the Senate. In March, the measure went before the House for a vote – and went down to flaming defeat, 414-0. The Obama budget had been held up in the Senate by Democrats for fear of complete ...
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May 16, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from WASHINGTON TIMES: A group of Democratic and Republican House members say it’s time to punish themselves if Congress keeps failing at its basic duty of passing an annual budget — and they want to hit where it hurts: their own paychecks. Even though House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor ...
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May 13, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE WASHINGTON TIMES: Putting pressure on Congress to approve parts of his latest economic stimulus plan, President Obama urged Americans Saturday to push lawmakers to approve his multibillion-dollar “to-do list” for creating jobs. “Each of the ideas on this list will help create jobs and build a stronger economy right now,” Mr. Obama ...
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May 10, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from WEEKLY STANDARD: Matt Negrin of ABC reports that "A new ad by Obama tells the story of Brian Slagle, an autoworker in Ohio who says he was laid off and 'scared to death' until the president swooped in to save the industry." In the spot, Slagle says, "Obama stuck his neck out for ...
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May 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Chuck Biscuits
“When you’re talking about cutting meals on wheels, when you’re talking about cutting food stamps which actually is money that goes directly to small businesses markets in communities versus giving tax subsidies to farming corporations, these are the kind of cuts that the Republicans are talking about.”
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May 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from Washington Examiner: President Obama's spokesman warned the new socialist president-elect of France not to implement his campaign agenda of ending austerity measures, indicating that such a reversal could damage the world economy. "A balanced approach . . . Both fiscal consolidation and efforts to boost the recovery is the right approach for Europe," White House ...
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May 8, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
What the New York Times and Hollande don't admit is that the "growth" they both speak of is the growth of government, not the growth of the economy... Excerpted from The New York Times: WASHINGTON — With the victory of the Socialist candidate, François Hollande, in the French presidential election, the White House has lost one ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Exceprted from CNS News: The “real” unemployment rate — a broader, more inclusive measure of the country’s jobless picture than the one usually used — remained unchanged at 14.5 percent in April, as the economy created a paltry 115,000 jobs. Known formally as the U-6 unemployment rate, this measure includes those formally counted as unemployed, those ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Infidel كافر
Excerpted from THE DAILY CALLER: No one likes paying cell phone bills. What if you could get a free phone with a calling plan whose cost was paid by the federal government? What if you could have eight free cell phones? You can, and people do, Rep. Tim Griffin told The Daily Caller. The ...
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May 7, 2012 No Comments ›› Toro520
Excerpted from Pajamas Media: The big news in Friday’s employment report was not the miserable 115,000 jobs the economy added in April, but the disappearance of 340,000 workers from the labor force. We haven’t seen unemployment on this scale since the Great Depression. Indeed, since Obama took office, the labor force participation rate has fallen from ...
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May 6, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Agencie France Presse: President Barack Obama said Saturday the United States had climbed too far out of an economic abyss to take a chance on Republican Mitt Romney, firing up his reelection bid at his debut rallies. "We are not turning back the clock, we are moving forward," Obama said, seeking to revive the political magic ...
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May 5, 2012 No Comments ›› Pat Dollard
Excerpted from The Financial Times: Weaker-than-expected US jobs growth hit financial markets and cast a shadow over President Barack Obama’s plans for a formal launch of his re-election campaign this weekend. US crude oil prices fell more than $4 a barrel and were trading below $100 for the first time since early February after data showed ...
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