Today President Obama spoke from the White House about the Christmas terrorist attack aboard an aircraft. He used blunt, unambiguous language, a refreshing change from the slop we usually hear from government officials. However, his speech was largely a rehash of how much had gone wrong, and the process of “review” of the system, to [...]
On 8/30 General Stanley McChrystal submitted his comprehensive plan to accomplish the Afghanistan mission President Obama declared. He and the troops continue to struggle, and continue to wait for their Commander in Chief to make a decision.
On October 20, White House Press Secretary Gibbs told reporters that consideration of General McChrystal’s report and resource [...]
9/6 Update:
At Midnight on Saturday the White House issued Van Jones’ letter of resignation. Jones accused his critics of being “opponents of reform,” and of “using lies and distortions to distract and divide.”
Let is not forget that what he called “lies and distortions” were
several videos of Jones making offensive and outrageous remarks in speeches [...]
Rahm Emanuel is President Obama’s Chief of Staff and senior adviser. He’s deeply involved in decisions about how to deploy Trillions of taxpayer dollars to rescue banks and financial institutions that have become insolvent. The Administration is now considering ways to penalize executives of these institutions by confiscating through the tax system all or portions [...]
There has been a lot of media attention to President Obama’s budget announcements of last week. In fact, the actual budget has not yet been developed. Last week the Administration published several documents that were about the budget, but did not include the hundreds of pages of line items and numbers that will be included [...]
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Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we all are [...]
Obama’s campaign website hasn’t yet been purged of contradictory campaign rhetoric. It includes this page called “Fact Check” that purports to be several rebuttals to a GOP campaign ad warning that Obama would bring about nearly One Trillion in new spending. It starts on defense quoting CNN:
CNN Fact Check: The [GOP Ad's] Claim That Obama [...]
Through his Executive Orders, President Obama is finally beginning to lift his campaign’s fog of ambiguity, revealing his real agenda. Obama speaks continuously of unity, consensus and pragmatism but when he uses Presidential authority it’s to advance rigid, leftist ideology. One of his first executive orders is a perfect example.
A 1961 law prohibits the use [...]
One would have to be obtuse indeed not to appreciate the dramatic symbolism of the nation’s first African-American President’s being inaugurated the day after the the nation takes a day off to remember Martin Luther King.
For this old guy, who as a student in the Sixties participated in a low-risk civil rights demonstration in [...]
Greg Craig, Counsel to the Obama Transition Team issued the report on his internal investigation of Transition Team contacts with Illnois Governor Blagojevech, who is facing several felony charges arising out of his alleged attempt to sell an appointment to Obama’s vacated Senate Seat to the highest bidder.
The report states that Obama’s Chief of Staff, [...]
