In another example of the different kind of politician Barack Obama was advertised to be, we see how big-time political donors get offered sweetheart appointments, often to ambassadorships, and quite obviously in thanks for swelling his campaign coffers. Among the appointments: Louis Susman, appointed ambassador to the UK, raised between $200,000 and $500,000 John Roos, appointed ambassador […]
(Image credit: Jason Reed/Reuters via the NY Times) President Obama, returning from a fund-raising trip, phoned campaign volunteers to tell them it was imperative health care reform happen this year, or it won’t happen at all. The conference call was put together by his political organization Organizing for America, and is part of a strategy […]
The Secretary of Defense under Bill Clinton, William Cohen, took President Obama to task in an editorial in the Washington Times over the President’s $1.4 billion cut to the American missile defense program. (Heads-up from Hot Air) Set against the backdrop of North Korea’s missile launches and nuclear tests, he argues we ought to err […]
(Image credit: ABC News) In a move that surprised few, President Obama nominated the front-running candidate to replace Supreme Court Justice David Souter in Sonia Sotomayor. Obama, who has listed “empathy” as a criteria for being a judge, which sounds nice but has little place in the role of an impartial legal umpire, will likely get […]
The California Supreme Court ruled today that Proposition 8, a voter initiative that amended the state constitution to define marriage as between a man and a woman, should be allowed to stand, but that previous gay marriages should not be dissolved. Proposition 8 passed in November with 52.24% of the vote in a fairly liberal […]
North Korea on Monday carried out an underground nuclear test that was confirmed by seismic observations in South Korea, which registered a 4.7 magnitude tremor as a result of the blast. President Obama called the test a cause for “grave concern”, and warned North Korea it would find neither security or peace on the belligerent path […]
So another Memorial Day is upon us, marking the unofficial beginning of the summer season and ushering in all the niceties and Americana that the lazy months of June, July, and August bring us year after year. I’ll unfortunately be spending the day the same way I spent Saturday and Sunday – at work (bacteria […]
In a surprising interview with C-SPAN’s Steve Scully, Drudge is reporting that President Obama, when probed about the staggering deficits and when we might run out of money in the future, replied, “We are out of money now.” He then makes the argument that the failures of Medicare and Medicaid are in a large part […]
One day after the Senate overwhelmingly voted against providing funds to close down Guantanamo Bay, President Obama gave an address reaffirming his intention to bring some Gitmo detainees to the US. Nearly simultaneously, the increasingly vocal former Veep Dick Cheney spoke at the American Enterprise Institute and blasted the phony moralizing and feigned outrageof partisan […]
More worrisome news from the sector of government economic control. The Treasury Department is expected to announce it will be pumping an additional $7.5 billion into car loan company GMAC, and as a result the federal government will assume a majority stake in the private auto finance company. Not only does it throw more taxpayer […]
In a stinging rebuke of President Obama’s intentions on Guantanamo Bay, the Senate voted 90-6 to deny funding to close down the detention facility there. This comes on the heels of a federal judge ruling that indefinite detention can continue. Even more damaging is the revelation from the New York Times that the Defense Department […]
In a blowout electoral defeat, the California ballot measures heavily promoted by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went down in flames yesterday by a nearly 2 to 1 margin. The only ballot initiative to pass was one which prohibited government officials from receiving a pay raise under a budget deficit, and the defeated measures dealt with shuffling […]
In a move that should concern anyone with a passing interest in the free market, Reuters is reporting that as part of a planned bankruptcy deal, GM plans to sell healthy assets to a new corporation initially owned by the government. A credit line would be extended to the new company, and the bulk of […]
On Sunday, President Barack Obama gave a much-anticipated commencement speech at Notre Dame. The appearance was controversial owing to Notre Dame, a Catholic university, taking the occasion to bestow an honorary degree upon the strongly pro-choice politician. Leaving aside the Notre Dame President calling peaceful protesters “religious vigilantes”, the event was somewhat anti-climactic, with Obama […]
An advisor to Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman said yesterday that if Sarah Palin and Rush Limbaugh are the major voices of the Republican Party in 2012, the GOP is destined for a devastating defeat. John Weaver, who helped craft John McCain’s “stellar” Presidential bid, predicted a “blowout” if the Alaska governor had a prominent role […]
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