Willful Ignorance or Willful Arrogance?

In Testimony before the House Judiciary Committee on Thursday, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted he has not read the Arizona immigration law that he has publicly condemned for two weeks.  On Meet the Press Holder said the new law “has the possibility of leading to racial profiling.”  His response to Representative Ted Poe’s questioning how [...]

Breathtaking Naivete

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 [...]

Commander In Chief Decision Watch: Day 51

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 [...]

Van Jones: A Study In Executive Incompetence

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 [...]

Rahm Emanuel, Subprime Mortgage Profiteer

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 [...]

Obama Budget Flimflam: “Irresponsible Policy Choices”

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 [...]

President Doom’s Stimulus Hoax

By Guest Contributor AAA Again aaa.again is the nom de plume of a frequent commenter who has agreed to be a contributing writer.  He writes from the perspective of decades of success in business, finance and entrepreneurial enterprise.   Learn more about him on the About Us page. Valentine’s Day is fast approaching, and we [...]

Obama’s Soaring Deficit

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 [...]

Speak of Consensus, Then Use Force

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 [...]

A Day of Landmark Symbolism

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 [...]

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