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The Supercommittee’s Failure: What Really Happened | Power Line

2011-11-23T22:30:00.000-08:00

The Supercommittee’s Failure: What Really Happened | Power Line: Finger-pointing is in full swing, but the reality is that the Supercommittee’s failure to come to an agreement on spending reductions is just one chapter in a very long story–the story of the Democratic Party’s absolute refusal to come to grips with the country’s fiscal crisis. Republicans on the Senate Budget Committee have produced this helpful time line, with links to supporting documentation. The story of the Democrats’ ongoing malfeasance needs to be better understood:

Service Employees International Union endorses Obama in 2012

2011-11-19T21:11:00.000-08:00

Service Employees International Union endorses Obama in 2012: The 2.1 million-member Service Employees International Union (SEIU) announced on Wednesday its unusually early endorsement of Barack Obama for re-election in 2012. Other than the timing, the statement by SEIU President Mary Kay Henry comes as no surprise, considering the longstanding alliance and increasing integration of the US trade unions into the big business Democratic Party.

Conn Carroll: Facts show Fannie, Freddie led mortgage market to the collapse | Conn Carroll | Columnists | Washington Examiner

2011-11-12T15:33:00.000-08:00

Conn Carroll: Facts show Fannie, Freddie led mortgage market to the collapse | Conn Carroll | Columnists | Washington Examiner: enior Editorial Writer
| Follow on Twitter @conncarroll

"We are delighted to participate in this historic event, and we are particularly proud that a substantial portion of the $8 billion commitment will directly benefit lower income Americans," Countrywide Financial President Angelo Mozilo said at a July 8, 1992, press conference.

'Mini Ponzi Scheme' Takes Down N.J. Democrat Corzine; Networks Forget They Used Him as 'Top' Economic Voice

2011-11-11T15:44:00.000-08:00

'Mini Ponzi Scheme' Takes Down N.J. Democrat Corzine; Networks Forget They Used Him as 'Top' Economic Voice: Flashbacks of 2008 were on the minds of many when MF Global, a Wall Street firm led the Democratic former N.J. Gov. Jon Corzine, filed for bankruptcy amid a huge scandal. Forbes said the firm owes $2.2 billion to JP Morgan and Deutsche Banks. But the broadcast networks had amnesia when it came to their previous coverage of Corzine, his role as adviser and fundraiser for Obama and their previous use of him as an economic expert.

99 vs. 1

2011-11-07T07:31:00.001-08:00

Soma For All

2011-10-30T14:23:00.000-07:00

'Red Army' Behind Occupy Wall Street? | Fox News

2011-10-26T08:54:00.000-07:00

'Red Army' Behind Occupy Wall Street? | Fox News: In the present instance, however, there's an undercurrent moving in the opposite direction, a careful manipulation of participants by a deeply non-democratic band. Behind the current Occupy Wall Street protests is a "red army" of radicals seeking no less than to provoke a new, definitive economic crisis, with their goal being the full collapse of the U.S. financial system, with the ensuing chaos to be rebuilt into a utopian socialist vision.

Comment from Hollywood Reporter

2011-10-25T22:20:00.000-07:00

PauvrePapillon3 hours ago

Note to Hollywood "influencers": You've hitched your wagons to a dead horse.

America has had her Marxist president - and her Marxist economics lesson - and she’s had enough.

It no longer matters what the Washington Post, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsweek, Time, MSNBC, CNN or even Clueless Comrade Barry himself has to say about anything.

The voters have seen how this president operates and they’ve seen enough.

They watched the Clueless One take over anything he could get his hands on, borrow as much money from the Chinese as they would lend him, pay off every deadbeat Democrat that would line up for a handout, suck up to every anti-American despot who would give him an audience, call everyone who disagreed with any portion of his agenda a racist, clown with every TV talk show host and pose for every frivolous magazine cover that would have him all the while throwing nightly dance parties at the White House as if a newly minted rap star had been anointed President-for-a-Day... all this, of course, when he wasn’t taking his entourage on yet another Air Force One-chauffeured vacation.

Americans have taken a good hard look at Comrade Barry and are now firmly convinced this Marxist miscreant has no business running anything they have a stake in much less holding court in the Oval Office.

Half a billion dollars for the failing solar panel maker Solyndra – after they had already lost more than a half billion dollars and were obviously well on their way to going out of business? Talk about throwing good money after bad.

Here is The Clueless One’s take:

"Companies like Solyndra are leading the way toward a brighter, more prosperous future. We can see the positive impacts [of my green jobs program] right here at Solyndra."

Here is the report issued two months earlier from PriceWaterhouseCoopers:

“Solyndra has suffered recurring losses from operations, negative cash flows since inception and has a net stockholders' deficit that, among other factors, raises substantial doubt about its ability to continue as a going concern."

Somebody here is walking around blind without a cane.

Can we at least agree that Marxist Democrats in general and Clueless Comrade Barry in particular have no business impersonating venture capitalists using the taxpayers’ money?

And then just to ensure that this Regime goes down in history as the most corrupt and inept in history, Comrade Barry’s “Federal Family” thugs raid the iconic American musical instrument manufacturer under the pretense of enforcing an obscure export regulation of the country of Madagascar – a government which the United States currently does not and has not recognized since 2009!

Oh, did we forget to mention that his ATF actually instructed private dealers (over their adamant objections) to sell over 1,000 illegal automatic weapons to the Mexican mafia? What were they trying to do? Fuel an already ongoing epidemic of automatic weapon violence in Mexico and then use claims that the Mexicans were getting their arms from the U.S. as an excuse to disarm Americans?

And now to top it all off, The Debt Man Walking puts up a web site called AttackWatch.com and asks his Useful Idiot followers to report anyone who speaks out against Der Fuhrer.

At least Nixon made up his own “enemies list” and kept it to himself. Dear Leader of Food Stamp Nation is now asking basement-dwelling, unemployed adult children to turn in their parents for failure to drink his brand of Marxist Kool-Aid.

No wonder this country is fed up with The Barackolypse.

“If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.” – Abraham Lincoln

The first post-American president has succeeded in one thing only… proving that you cannot redistribute your way to prosperity.

The Marxist Democrats are now losing Congressional seats in districts they have held since 1923. That’s 1923 as in but 12 years shy of a century.

It’s Obamageddon for the Marxist Democrats.

You can put a fork in him. Clueless Comrade Barry is done.

Even James Carville now feels the weight of pending doom - his best advice for Clueless Comrade Barry? One word: “PANIC!”

“This is not going well,” Carville says. Gee, ya think?

Even Jeffrey Miron, director of undergraduate studies in the department of economics at that bastion of Eastern liberalism, Harvard University, gets it,

"The anti-business atmosphere in the United States - the dislike of capitalism, the soak the rich attitude that a lot of Democrats seem to be embracing these days; that is the major impediment to businesses wanting to do more investment, do more hiring."

http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs...

That's right. This economy is going nowhere until Clueless Comrade Barry, President Zero, Doctor Downgrade, Dear Leader of Food Stamp Nation, The Barackalypse, The Obamageddon, The Debt Man Walking, The Redistributor-in-Chief, The Living Embodiment of the Peter Principle in (Affirmative) Action is relegated to the ash heap of history.

Better hedge your bets Hollywood. Clueless Comrade Barry is headed for cancellation.

Philanthropy Daily : Donors, not puppet-masters

2011-10-25T20:17:00.000-07:00

Philanthropy Daily� � Donors, not puppet-masters: Giving is not the same thing as buying. Donors can’t buy their way into puppet-master status — whether they’re cutting checks to nonprofits or to politicians. Those who claim otherwise tempt donors to become narcissists, and encourage critics to become hysterics.

Illinois pension system: 2 teachers union lobbyists used loophole for fat pensions - chicagotribune.com

2011-10-24T09:05:00.000-07:00

Illinois pension system: 2 teachers union lobbyists used loophole for fat pensions - chicagotribune.com: Two lobbyists with no prior teaching experience were allowed to count their years as union employees toward a state teacher pension once they served a single day of subbing in 2007, a Tribune/WGN-TV investigation has found.

� Stephen Lerner, SEIU Neo-Communist Union Boss, #teaparty

2011-10-20T20:54:00.000-07:00

� Stephen Lerner, SEIU Neo-Communist Union Boss, Uses #OWS to Spread Fear, Economic Mayhem - Big Government: One of the boldest labor thugs in America today is Stephen Lerner, a crafty economic terrorist who manages to sound like a folksy self-improvement seminar leader while he explicitly calls for the overthrow of capitalism.

2011-10-19T21:06:00.000-07:00

Liberals Aren't Funny, They're a Riot- #teaparty

2011-08-24T22:54:00.000-07:00

Liberals Aren't Funny, They're A Riot! - Page 2 - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative: Liberals love mobs because rioting and anarchy is their path to power.

� California Admits to Almost $1 Trillion in Unfunded Pension Obligations - Big Government

2011-08-23T22:35:00.000-07:00

� California Admits to Almost $1 Trillion in Unfunded Pension Obligations - Big Government: The three largest California public retiree plans (CalPERS, CalSTRS, and UCRS) that administer pensions of approximately 2.6 million State and Local public current and retired employees have been under tremendous scrutiny since last year’s release of the Stanford University Institute for Public Policy report: “Going For Broke”. The study concluded that California retirement plans liability was under-funded by over $500 billion.

� General Motors Again Ripping Off Americans: # teaparty

2011-08-22T07:15:00.000-07:00

� General Motors Again Ripping Off Americans: Warranties Edition - Big Government: The transformation of General Motors (GM) to Government Motors (GM) has cost a lot of Americans a lot of money.
Many, many of them under questionable and in fact illegal circumstances.

The Environmental Fifth Column

2011-08-21T13:57:00.000-07:00

The Environmental Fifth Column: Consider the recent actions of the EPA and its related bureaucracies, who ostensibly act with the consent of the American people to protect the environment:

� Agenda 21: US and UN Share a Global Vision - #teaparty

2011-08-13T21:40:00.000-07:00

� Agenda 21: US and UN Share a Global Vision - Big Government: "In other words, the goal of the United Nations is social and economic justice through a redistribution of wealth scheme using the threat of anthropogenic (man-made) global warming or climate change to implement the market based solution of carbon emissions trading. The International Monetary Fund has proposed a plan for a Green Fund to achieve this goal."

UK riots 2011: Liberal dogma has spawned a generation of brutalised youths | Mail Online

2011-08-10T10:44:00.000-07:00

UK riots 2011: Liberal dogma has spawned a generation of brutalised youths | Mail Online: "If you live a normal life of absolute futility, which we can assume most of this week’s rioters do, excitement of any kind is welcome. The people who wrecked swathes of property, burned vehicles and terrorised communities have no moral compass to make them susceptible to guilt or shame."

California Wages War On Single-Family Homes #teaparty

2011-07-27T22:33:00.000-07:00

California Wages War On Single-Family Homes | Newgeography.com: "In California, the assault on the house has gained official sanction. Once the heartland of the American dream, the Golden State has begun implementing new planning laws designed to combat global warming. These draconian measures could lead to a ban on the construction of private residences, particularly on the suburban fringe. The new legislation’s goal is to cram future generations of Californians into multi-family apartment buildings, turning them from car-driving suburbanites into strap-hanging urbanistas."

Debt Wall The Debt Wall #teaparty

2011-06-28T10:07:00.000-07:00

Debt Wall The Debt Wall: "The world has less than 18 months until we hit the Debt Wall, that moment when the world runs out of enough liquid capital in the entire world to fund the deficits being run up by governments."

Obama Enacts "Dream Act" by Memorandum #teaparty

2011-06-22T17:41:00.000-07:00

Read it and weep, Totalitarian Obama passes "Dream Act" after it was defeated in Congress.

http://www.ice.gov/doclib/secure-communities/pdf/prosecutorial-discretion-memo.pdf

Free Speech Denied By Liberals (totalitarians) ... #teaparty

2011-06-22T11:32:00.001-07:00

The Great Mark Steyn:

Mark Steyn on Free Speech at the IPA from Institute of Public Affairs on Vimeo.

� General Motors Rapidly Becoming a Taxpayer-Funded, Disingenuous Leftist Entity - #teaparty

2011-06-21T11:45:00.000-07:00

� General Motors Rapidly Becoming a Taxpayer-Funded, Disingenuous Leftist Entity - Big Government: "General Motors (GM) continues apace its government-backed conversion from a company existing to manufacture automobiles for money – into a fully-formed, Leftist ideological entity working as another wing of the Barack Obama Administration’s fundamental transformation of America."

Power Line - Ask Comrade Kathy #teaparty

2011-05-29T14:28:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Ask Comrade Kathy: "Today, The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a final regulation to ensure that large health insurance premium increases will be thoroughly reviewed, and consumers will have access to clear information about those increases. Combined with other important protections from the Affordable Care Act, these new rules will help lower insurance costs by moderating premium hikes and provide consumers with greater value for their premium dollar. In 2011, this will mean rate increases of 10-percent or more must be reviewed by state or federal officials."

Unions Prevent Manufacturing In U.S.

2011-05-23T08:13:00.000-07:00

Check out Fords's Manufacturing plant in Brazil. The problems in the U.S. manufacturing sector are due to Taxation, Regulation, Litigation and Union greed.

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Prison guards, union contract: #teaparty

2011-05-22T20:55:00.000-07:00

Prison guards, union contract: Prison guards' video links new contract to campaign donations - latimes.com: "Last week, I found myself cruising the website of the California prison guards union. I was curious about whether the $7 million the California Correctional Peace Officers Assn. spent on last year's elections — including $2 million on Jerry Brown's governor's race alone — might have had something to do with the contract the union just scored."

Gas Pains and Infinite Liberal Stupidity #teaparty

2011-04-26T21:37:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Gas Pains and Infinite Liberal Stupidity: "The Obama Administration is clearly the most anti-energy administration ever. Will Collier has a noteworthy item up today over at PajamasMedia on soaring gasoline prices"

Welcome to Totalitarianism..... #teaparty

2011-04-25T19:27:00.000-07:00

Federal labor board seeks to ground Boeing | Examiner Editorial | Opinion | Washington Examiner: "Can federal bureaucrats tell a private company where to build a factory?
Members of President Obama's National Labor Relations Board think they can. In a decision that even the New York Times is describing as 'highly unusual for the federal government,"

Power Line - Gangster Government #teaparty

2011-04-24T10:54:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Gangster Government, part MCCLVII: "Last week Hans von Spakovsky reported at PJM that the Obama administration is circulating the draft of an executive order for comments from several government agencies. Titled 'Disclosure of Political Spending By Government Contractors,' it represents the Obama administration's attempt to implement by executive fiat portions of the DISCLOSE Act as to federal contractors."

State agencies lent employees millions without being repaid, #teaparty

2011-04-20T23:30:00.000-07:00

State agencies lent employees millions without being repaid, officials say - latimes.com: "State agencies have handed out millions of dollars in interest-free salary and travel advances to state employees without collecting repayment, according to audits from the state controller's office."

Jamie Gump For FBI Director? #teaparty

2011-03-24T22:48:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Jamie Gump For FBI Director?: "Is President Obama really thinking of nominating Jamie Gorelick to head the FBI? It seems almost inconceivable that anyone would consider appointing her to run anything. The Examiner reprises her career, which has led some to call her the Mistress of Disaster:"

Could Obama be Impeached over Libya? Let's ask Biden #teaparty

2011-03-23T20:49:00.000-07:00

Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science - Page 1 - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative

2011-03-23T18:39:00.000-07:00

Liberals: They Blinded Us With Science - Page 1 - Ann Coulter - Townhall Conservative: "In response to my column last week about hormesis -- the theory that some radiation can be beneficial to humans -- liberals reacted with their usual open-minded examination of the facts."

Power Line - Anatomy of a Smear #teaparty

2011-03-22T23:46:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Anatomy of a Smear: "The Center for American Progress is generally regarded as a front for the Obama administration. Its President and CEO is John Podesta, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff and the chairman of Barack Obama's transition team. CAP is lavishly funded by George Soros and several other left-wing billionaires. It runs, among other things, a web site called Think Progress, which cranks out a steady stream of slimy hit pieces for the benefit of the Obama administration and the far left."

Why this is life and death for the unions #teaparty

2011-02-20T15:30:00.000-08:00

Chicago Boyz � Blog Archive � Why this is life and death for the unions: "Would someone please note that Unions make the great lion’s share of their $ from negotiating “benefits”, not salaries… or collection of dues."

Relo Expert: Top 10 Reasons Businesses Flee California

2011-02-14T11:48:00.000-08:00

Relo Expert: Top 10 Reasons Businesses Flee California: "Vranich lists a variety of reasons owners have had enough with California, from which I created a 'top 10'."

� Agenda 21 Part II: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Invading a Town near You–With Your Permission - #teaparty

2011-01-23T16:57:00.000-08:00

� Agenda 21 Part II: Globalist Totalitarian Dictatorship Invading a Town near You–With Your Permission - Big Government: "Part I traced the sustainable development movement to longstanding U.N. environmental and population initiatives with unmistakably Marxist goals. They talk about saving the environment, but most of the fine print refers to “equity,” “social justice,” “fair distribution” and other Marxist terms. “Global warming” is the latest scare tactic, but population control never left the scene. The U.N.’s answer: free condoms."

Agenda 21 Part I: A Global Economic Disaster in the Making # teaparty

2011-01-18T20:42:00.000-08:00

Agenda 21 Part I: A Global Economic Disaster in the Making - Big Government: "It is worth mentioning here that Carol Browner, President Obama’s Energy and Environment Czar, also served on the Socialist International’s Commission for a Sustainable World Society, although her name was stripped from the masthead the minute she got that appointment. Hmm."

The Brundtland Commission included Maurice Strong (Canada’s version of George Soros), William Ruckelshaus (first head of the EPA – the only American) and luminaries from such enlightened states as Zimbabwe, Communist China, Russia, Algeria, Saudi Arabia and Cote D’Ivoire.
“Sustainable Development” is a distinctly and entirely socialist idea, and it varies from typical socialist rhetoric only in the metaphors used.
It demands redistribution of land, resources and private property into government hands. One particularly odious quote:
Land, because of its unique nature and the crucial role it plays in human settlements, cannot be treated as an ordinary asset, controlled by individuals and subject to the pressures and inefficiencies of the market. Private land ownership is also a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice; if unchecked, it may become a major obstacle in the planning and implementation of development schemes. Social justice, urban renewal and development, the provision of decent dwellings-and healthy conditions for the people can only be achieved if land is used in the interests of society as a whole.

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: Biggest Asian Hero of the Vietnam War Dies in Exile

2011-01-08T09:42:00.000-08:00

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: Biggest Asian Hero of the Vietnam War Dies in Exile:

"WE WON THE VIETNAM WAR ON THE BATTLEFIELD.

IT WAS LOST IN CONGRESS.

FACTS:

THE LAST US GROUND TROOP LEFT VIETNAM 3/73.
SAIGON DIDN'T FALL UNTIL 4/75 - AFTER THE DEMOCRATS PULLED THE PLUG ON CONTINUED FUNDING OF THE SVG.
THAT'S WHAT LED THE NORTH TO VIOLATE THE TERMS OF THE PEACE TREATY AND ILLEGALLY INVADE THE SOUTH - LEADING TO MILLIONS OF EXILES, HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS DEAD OR IN 'RE-EDUCATION' CAMPS"

Obamacare: A Uniquely Vicious Form of Corruption # teaparty

2011-01-07T18:25:00.000-08:00

Power Line - Obamacare: A Uniquely Vicious Form of Corruption: "The AARP provided a big chunk of the $121 million spent on ads supporting the bill's passage, as well as $21 million on lobbying in 2009, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. HHS's proposed regulations on Dec. 21 exempted the AARP's lucrative 'Medigap' plans from the rate review and other mandates and requirements. ..."

Obamacare's unbridled bullying power must end | #teaparty

2010-12-21T10:05:00.000-08:00

Obamacare's unbridled bullying power must end | Washington Examiner: "In his recent decision in Virginia v. Sebelius declaring the linchpin of Obamacare -- the individual mandate -- unconstitutional, Judge Henry Hudson wrote, 'The unchecked expansion of congressional power to the limits suggested by [the individual mandate provision] would invite unbridled exercise of federal police powers.'"

Power Line - A Phase in the Crowd #teaparty

2010-12-05T18:01:00.000-08:00

Power Line - A Phase in the Crowd: "The Obama administration thus brings us a nightmare slightly beyond even the heated imagination of Budd Schulberg. Obama brings us the cornpone demagogy of Lonesome Rhodes yoked to the power of the executive branch of the United States government."

Say, About That Old 'Bush Lied' Trope, Looks Like Wikileaks Proved Obama Repeatedly Lied About Middle East Policy

2010-12-02T07:10:00.000-08:00

Say, About That Old 'Bush Lied' Trope, Looks Like Wikileaks Proved Obama Repeatedly Lied About Middle East Policy: "But -- as the Wikileaks disclosures make clear -- Israeli concessions have (and had) nothing at all to do with stopping Iran. Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries wanted Iran crushed -- as King Abdullah put it, 'cut off the head of the snake' -- period.

Let me repeat: Obama knew all along that Israeli concessions had nothing to do with stopping Iran's march to nuclear weapons. Yet he persisted in linking the two, even though it raised the risk of an atomic conflagration that could engulf the world."

The Iranian Bomb, Yawn . . . - By Jay Nordlinger - The Corner - National Review Online

2010-11-07T22:03:00.000-08:00

The Iranian Bomb, Yawn . . . - By Jay Nordlinger - The Corner - National Review Online: "The Iranian Bomb, Yawn . . .
November 7, 2010 4:10 P.M.
By�Jay Nordlinger��
Over at Power Line, that bright, knowledgeable blog, Scott Johnson has an item about a conversation we had last night. Early last year, I interviewed John Negroponte, the longtime American diplomat who was director of national intelligence in the previous administration. (He held other posts in that administration too.) I asked him about Iran and nuclear weapons. Here’s what he said: “I think that’s what they want, I think that’s what they’re headed towards, I think that’s what they’re going to get.”"

American Thinker: The Keynesians Get Their Wish # teaparty

2010-11-07T05:08:00.000-08:00

American Thinker: The Keynesians Get Their Wish: "The Keynesians finally got their wish. The Federal Reserve plans to inject $600 billion of the most caustic debt imaginable into the economy. This is the Agent Orange of monetary policies that has the potential to wreak financial havoc."

� November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet - Big Government

2010-11-03T17:59:00.000-07:00

� November 30th Could Be the Day the Government Seizes Control of the Internet - Big Government: "November 30th, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) could potentially engage in one of the largest federal power grabs we have ever seen."

Green Global Dictatorship: Regional Governance, UN Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, and the Wildlands Project >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com

2010-11-03T17:52:00.000-07:00

Green Global Dictatorship: Regional Governance, UN Agenda 21, Sustainable Development, and the Wildlands Project >> Four Winds 10 - fourwinds10.com: "At first blush, Agenda 21 sounds good to many well-meaning people.� However, Spingola ('U.S. Military Targets Southeast Colorado (Part 3 of 3) (http://www.renewamerica.us/columns/spingola/080525) notes:� “Agenda 21 is a very well-organized plan to reinvent and regionalize government beginning with the 'rural cleansing' of America and those referred to by the elite ruling class as resource-draining, expendable, “useless eaters.”� Because Agenda 21 provides guidelines for local, regional, national, as well as global governance, it is radically transforming the entire world."

Treasury hiring FOIA officers #teaparty

2010-10-27T22:32:00.000-07:00

Treasury hiring FOIA officers 'to withhold information from release to public' | Washington Examiner: "Officials at the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability contracted with a small consulting firm that has given nearly $25,000 to Democratic candidates since 2005 (and no money to Republicans) to hire “Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Analysts to support the Disclosure Services, Privacy and Treasury Records.” The firm is currently advertising a job opening for a FOIA analyst with experience in the “Use of FOIA/PA exemptions to withhold information from release to the public” (emphasis mine, and if that link goes down, The Examiner has kept a copy for its records)."

Treasury Shields Citigroup #teaparty

2010-10-27T18:25:00.000-07:00

Treasury Shields Citigroup as Deletions Undercut Disclosure - Bloomberg: "The late Bloomberg News reporter Mark Pittman asked the U.S. Treasury in January 2009 to identify $301 billion of securities owned by Citigroup Inc. that the government had agreed to guarantee. He made the request on the grounds that taxpayers ought to know how their money was being used."

Tom Fitton: Government Motors is filling campaign coffers | #teaparty

2010-09-24T08:26:00.000-07:00

Tom Fitton: Government Motors is filling campaign coffers | Washington Examiner: "Now it should go without saying that a company that is owned and operated by the government has no business making campaign contributions to members of Congress, no matter how the company tries to spin it. But this is exactly the kind of suspicious, shady and corrupt arrangement we can expect now that the government has decided to meddle so obtrusively into the private sector."

Knowledge Is Power #teaparty

2010-09-23T20:09:00.000-07:00

Knowledge Is Power: "President Barack Obama is asking religious leaders to help him sell the public on health care reform....
~ * ~

The debate in Washington is over, the Affordable Care Act is now law. ...I think all of you can be really important validators and trusted resources for friends and neighbors, to help explain what’s now available to them.”
~

“Get the word out there, get information out there. Make use of the resources described on this call: the website, door hangers, one pagers and so forth. We’ve got work to do.”…"

The Claremont Institute - Paul Ryan's Roadmap #teaparty

2010-09-16T08:52:00.000-07:00

The Claremont Institute - Paul Ryan's Roadmap

Townhall - Bonfire of the Insanities #teaparty

2010-09-08T19:52:00.000-07:00

Townhall - Bonfire of the Insanities: "The reason not to burn Qurans is that it's unkind -- not to jihadists, but to Muslims who mean us no harm. The same goes for building a mosque at ground zero -- in both cases, it's not a question of anyone's 'rights,' it's just a nasty thing to do."

� Who is Dismantling America? #teaparty

2010-09-02T19:20:00.000-07:00

� Who is Dismantling America? Dr. Thomas Sowell Takes the Pulse - Big Government: "Always a popular guest, Dr. Thomas Sowell returns to the show to discuss his latest book, Dismantling America.� The book’s focus is wide ranging, as is the discussion.� To take one example, Dr. Sowell questions whether most people understand what is meant by President Obama’s background as a “community organizer.”� A community organizer isn’t a friendly local expert doling out advice on better living, but is rather someone who mobilizes resentment at the behest of third party interests to put the public into battle on their behalf."

� Public Sector Pensions: The Real Bailout Bomb is Still Midflight - #teaparty

2010-08-27T15:40:00.000-07:00

� Public Sector Pensions: The Real Bailout Bomb is Still Midflight - Big Government: "“The proposal ultimately makes the taxpayers liable for paying the benefits of the partitioned plan.� Currently, no other benefit obligations assumed by the PBGC are subject to the full faith and credit of the U.S. government.”"

VENABLE: Texas fights global-warming power grab- #teaparty

2010-08-27T07:32:00.000-07:00

VENABLE: Texas fights global-warming power grab - Washington Times: "The EPA, determined to move forward anyway, is attempting to rewrite the Clean Air Act administratively via a 'tailoring rule,' which would reduce the number of regulated sources. The problem with that approach? It's illegal. The EPA has no authority to rewrite the law. To pull it off, the EPA needs every state with a State Implementation Plan to rewrite all of its statutory thresholds as well."

Power Line - Target of the Left # teaparty

2010-08-20T22:31:00.000-07:00

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Power Line - Target of the Left: "Ironically, Mark Dayton's family owned the predecessor to Target Corporation. He is immensely rich. His increased taxes on 'the rich'--that is, you and me--won't touch his vast trust funds. Other than himself, his principal financial supporter is his ex-wife, the former Alida Rockefeller. There is a very real possibility that Dayton, a mentally troubled person at best who has never earned an honest day's wage in his life, may succeed in buying the election."

Obama's GM rescue helped only his friends- #teaparty

2010-08-13T22:01:00.001-07:00

Obama's GM rescue helped only his friends--Mark Modica - NYPOST.com: "Bondholders -- investors ranging from large institutions to retirees just scraping by, who loaned GM a total of $27 billion -- received just 10 percent of the company. By contrast, the government's $50 billion gave it about 61 percent.

And the union -- in return for the $20 billion that GM owed its health trust -- got a remarkable 17.5 percent of the stock plus $2.5 billion in cash plus $6.5 billion in preferred stock carrying a dividend of about 9 percent.

In other words, the UAW got three to four times as much as the bondholders for a smaller claim on GM's assets. The union even boasted to its members in May 2009 that it had made no concessions on pay, health care or pensions in the restructuring."

Obama's GM rescue helped only his friends- #teaparty

2010-08-13T22:01:00.000-07:00

Justice: Sanctuary cities safe from law - #teaparty

2010-07-15T21:15:00.000-07:00

Justice: Sanctuary cities safe from law - Washington Times: "A week after suing Arizona and arguing that the state's immigration law creates a patchwork of rules, the Obama administration said it will not go after so-called sanctuary cities that refuse to cooperate with the federal government on immigration enforcement, on the grounds that they are not as bad as a state that 'actively interferes.'"

Watchdog: Feds Were Asleep at the Switch When Minnesota Felons Went to the Polls #teaparty

2010-07-14T12:48:00.000-07:00

FOXNews.com - Watchdog: Feds Were Asleep at the Switch When Minnesota Felons Went to the Polls: "The federal government is required under the Civil Rights Act and the Help America Vote Act to make sure that states purge their voter rolls of ineligible voters — the dead, those who have moved, felons, undocumented immigrants, etc. — and to ensure that elections are administered and conducted fairly, said Dan McGrath, executive director of Minnesota Majority.�"

Power Line - Government debt in human terms #teaparty

2010-07-13T22:10:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Government debt in human terms
Ken posits a family of four living in Richmond and making $125,000, which he says is the median income for an American two-income professional couple. This hypothetical (I assume) family owns a home worth $450,000 on which it owes $266,000. It also owes $34,000 in loans on two cars. The cars and its other personal property are worth $45,00. Finally, the couple has savings and investments that add up to $76,000.

The young couple believes its net worth to be about $270,000, the amount by which its assets exceeds its liabilities -- the debt on the house and the cars. But this calculation fails to consider the household's portion of federal, local, and state debt and unfunded government financial commitments.

That amount, according to Ken, is $1,069,100. If it's considered a liability, the family is suddenly almost $800,000 in the hole.

Obama's ShoreBank: #teaparty

2010-06-27T19:52:00.000-07:00

Obama's ShoreBank: Jeremiah Wright's $10 Million Cash Machine: "Scum is too kind a word to use to describe the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright. Here is a man who lives in the lap of luxury, surrounded by the very white people he claims to despise. A man who hypocritically uses a lily-white firm to shelter and protect his own millions, though he preaches a poisonous form of Marxism and wealth redistribution for others."

The Reason Why Dems Amnesty Want for Illegals #teaparty

2010-06-25T13:48:00.000-07:00

Loosened fed policy to help Iraqi refugees | #teaparty

2010-06-25T08:42:00.000-07:00

Loosened fed policy to help Iraqi refugees | detnews.com | The Detroit News: "Refugees from Iraq can again settle in southeastern Michigan, provided they have relatives or at least friends in the area.
A federal policy change, effective immediately, loosens two-year-old guidelines limiting refugees from moving here except in 'family reunion' cases where they have close relatives in the region.
'This placement restriction is modified to allow the placement of any refugees in the Detroit metro region who have ties there,' Terry Rusch, director of the Office of Admissions Bureau of Population, Refugees and Migration, wrote in a memo to local state department agencies."

Even His Supporters Are Noticing: Obama Never Fails To Disappoint - #teaparty

2010-06-19T15:47:00.000-07:00

Even His Supporters Are Noticing: Obama Never Fails To Disappoint - IBD - Investors.com: "Back then, this administration was supposed to be the new technocracy — cool, calm and credentialed chaps who would sit down, use their mighty intellects to provide a rigorous, post-partisan, forensic analysis of the problem, and then break for their Vanity Fair photo shoot."

Power Line - A Reader Does the Math

2010-06-17T21:44:00.000-07:00

Power Line - A Reader Does the Math: "Modern politics consists largely of promoting the interests of those who are aware they are getting money, in opposition to those who don't realize they are paying it. Here, I am not sure how the 40% was calculated, but it is likely that most of those who have a stake in BP don't even know it, because it is part of a mutual fund or pension fund. So the administration can take credit for 'creating' the $20 billion fund without worrying about which Americans contributed to it." #teaparty

U.S. pays $400M in bonuses to federal employees in 2009 | dailyrecord.com | Daily Record

2010-06-14T23:35:00.000-07:00

U.S. pays $400M in bonuses to federal employees in 2009 | dailyrecord.com | Daily Record: "The Obama Administration handed out more than $400 million in awards to federal employees last year, up by more than $80 million from the prior year, according to new government data." #teaparty

FOXNews.com - Pelosi's New District Office Costs $18,736 a Month

2010-06-14T19:27:00.000-07:00

FOXNews.com - Pelosi's New District Office Costs $18,736 a Month: "The House Speaker's district office in the new federal building in San Francisco costs a whopping $18,736 a month -- the highest rental paid by any member of the House -- or, more precisely, the highest rental paid by taxpayers on behalf of a member of the House. The rental price was reported by Roll Call on Monday."

Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Alien in the White House - WSJ.com

2010-06-11T18:35:00.000-07:00

Dorothy Rabinowitz: The Alien in the White House - WSJ.com: "A great part of America now understands that this president's sense of identification lies elsewhere, and is in profound ways unlike theirs. He is hard put to sound convincingly like the leader of the nation, because he is, at heart and by instinct, the voice mainly of his ideological class. He is the alien in the White House, a matter having nothing to do with delusions about his birthplace cherished by the demented fringe."

Welcome to Venezuela: FTC Proposes Federalizing Newspapers, and Killing off Blogs

2010-05-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

Welcome to Venezuela: FTC Proposes Federalizing Newspapers, and Killing off Blogs: "Writing at Business Insider, Jeff Jarvis describes the next stage of the administration's systematic obliteration of the Constitution: federalizing newspapers and killing blogs. The Federal Trade Commission has posted its 'potential policy recommendations to support the reinvention of journalism', which is not only an unprecedented federal overreach, but truly a repudiation of the First Amendment itself."

Power Line - The Asher doctrine applied

2010-05-29T12:03:00.000-07:00

Power Line - The Asher doctrine applied: "1. 'Guam is sinking.' Rep. Hank Johnson (D., Ga.) said it, that's good enough for me.

2. 'Aliens visit earth, stalk Denis Kucinich.' After all, Rep. Denis Kucinich (D., Ohio) says it's true.

3. 'Robert Mugabe is blameless in Zimbabwe's collapse.' Nothing to see here: Forget the famine, forget the thuggery, forget the hyperinflation. Mugabe was just righting wrongs. After all, Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D., Ga.) said so.

4. 'Television broadcasts began years earlier than we realized.' After all, Joe Biden said Franklin D. Roosevelt got on TV to explain the stock market crash in 1929, even though commercial broadcasts only began the next decade."

� President Obama Deeply Connected To Organizers Of Recent Angry Street Mob Actions - Big Government

2010-05-24T18:07:00.000-07:00

� President Obama Deeply Connected To Organizers Of Recent Angry Street Mob Actions - Big Government: "President Obama has long standing and deep relationships with these people, who organize law breaking mob actions on the streets of America.
More than one of these groups and their organizers have visited the Obama White House more than once, begging the question regarding these protest “actions”- what did the President know and when did he know it?
If the President of the United States is using the powers of the Executive Branch of government to help coordinate/facilitate mob actions against American citizens, would that be an impeachable offense? Would it at least warrant a couple of questions from the alleged White House Press Corps?"

� Financial Regulatory Reform: Missing an Obvious Target - Big Government

2010-05-24T17:49:00.000-07:00

� Financial Regulatory Reform: Missing an Obvious Target - Big Government: "Of all of the bailouts handed over to private banks, investment firms, automobile companies and insurance companies, none have been more outrageous than the bailouts provided to Fannie Mae and it’s first cousin, Freddie Mac.� Although the government very belatedly seized these GSEs, taxpayer money continues to be provided to these hybrid public‑private creations right under our collective noses each and every day.� The Congressional pontificators have focused attention on every miscreant except the one they (or their predecessors) created and which they continue to feed."

No more police escorts for union thugs | Washington Examiner

2010-05-24T11:24:00.000-07:00

No more police escorts for union thugs | Washington Examiner: "As the noise levels rise and demonstrators start banging on your front door, you begin to fear that something very bad is about to happen. Then you spot the police cars, and relief floods over you. 'At least the cops will keep things under control,' you tell yourself. But your relief is shattered when you realize the cops you thought were there to protect you are actually from another jurisdiction and they are there because they escorted the mob to your address."

Teachers Seek $23b- Lifeline or Bailout? � Liveshots

2010-05-24T11:16:00.000-07:00

Teachers Seek $23b- Lifeline or Bailout? � Liveshots: "The Keep Our Educators Working Act has garnered support from some predictable quarters – and opposition from some surprising ones.� Interviewed in Minneapolis during a nationwide tour of beleaguered local school districts, many of which are already laying off teachers and closing down vital programs, Randi Weingarten, herself a former teacher and now president of the 1.4 million-member American Federation of Teachers, told Fox News the $23 billion is urgently needed to avert further “draconian” measures."

Chicago Boyz #teaparty The trend to cash medical practice

2010-05-21T21:55:00.000-07:00

Chicago Boyz � Blog Archive � The trend to cash medical practice: "The reason why I believe this trend is growing rapidly is that some states, like Massachusetts, plan to pass laws requiring doctors to accept Medicare as a condition of licensure. If they were not worried, why write a law about it ? Medicare has a provision that they determine the price and there are no extra charges allowed."

Crony Capitalism -- Statistical Evidence that the Government and the Investment Banks Have Rigged the Stock Market

2010-05-13T21:52:00.000-07:00

Crony Capitalism -- Statistical Evidence that the Government and the Investment Banks Have Rigged the Stock Market: "Earlier this week, financial news junkies heard that investment banking giants Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan achieved improbable proprietary trading performances this past quarter. Each had a record number of profitable, prop-trading days: all of them."

Fannie Lost $13.1 Billion In 1Q, Needs Another $8.4 Billion Infusion - FOXBusiness.com

2010-05-10T10:41:00.000-07:00

Fannie Lost $13.1 Billion In 1Q, Needs Another $8.4 Billion Infusion - FOXBusiness.com: "Mortgage giant Fannie Mae (FNM: 1.06, 0.04, 3.92%) bled another $13.1 billion during the first quarter, prompting the U.S.-owned company to request another $8.4 billion cash infusion from the Treasury Department."

U.S. taxpayers are helping finance Greek bailout | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

2010-05-06T07:19:00.000-07:00

U.S. taxpayers are helping finance Greek bailout | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment: "Congress didn’t learn their lesson after the $700 billion failed bank bailout and let world leaders shake down U.S taxpayers for international bailout money at the G-20 conference in April 2009. G-20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors asked the United States, the IMF’s largest contributor, for a whopping $108 billion to rescue bankers around the world and the Obama Administration quickly obliged."

Google Reader (1000 )

2010-05-04T23:07:00.000-07:00

Google Reader (1000 ):#teaparty "It seems Big Labor’s glory days have passed them by and that’s fueling their effort to pass state laws, such as in Wisconsin, ordering the teaching of “the history of organized labor in America and the collective bargaining process,” according to the bill recently signed by Gov. Jim Doyle."

Hedge funds donate big to Democrats - The Hill's On The Money

2010-05-04T23:01:00.000-07:00

Hedge funds donate big to Democrats - The Hill's On The Money: "The top 10 highest-paid hedge fund managers in 2009 have dished out campaign contributions almost only to Democrats.

Over their lifetimes, those managers have given almost $33 million in campaign contributions to Democrats, according to research by the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and that is based on data maintained by the nonpartisan CQMoneyline."

You Can Feed the Crocodile... - Mark Steyn - #teaparty

2010-05-02T14:49:00.000-07:00

You Can Feed the Crocodile... - Mark Steyn - The Corner on National Review Online: "The dark green Nissan Pathfinder with tinted windows was parked near the junction of 45th Street and Broadway.

The location is also adjacent to the Viacom building, fuelling speculation that it might be linked to the company's controversial South Park cartoon which recently depicted Prophet Muhammad in a bear suit."

Fair Game - At G.M., Repaying Taxpayers With Their Own Cash - NYTimes.com

2010-05-02T13:29:00.000-07:00

Fair Game - At G.M., Repaying Taxpayers With Their Own Cash - NYTimes.com: "Truth seekers the nation over, therefore, are indebted to Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, who in recent days uncovered what he called a government-enabled “TARP money shuffle.” It relates to General Motors, which on April 21 paid the balance of its $6.7 billion loan under the Troubled Asset Relief Program.

G.M. trumpeted its escape from the program as evidence that it had turned the corner in its operations. “G.M. is able to repay the taxpayers in full, with interest, ahead of schedule, because more customers are buying vehicles like the Chevrolet Malibu and Buick LaCrosse,” boasted Edward E. Whitacre Jr., its chief executive."

Power Line - Investigate this

2010-05-02T13:00:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Investigate this: "GM's fraudulent public relations blitz took place with the support of the Obama administration, up to and including Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner. Geithner's participation makes his tax cheating and related testimony pale in comparison.

In retrospect, it is obvious that GM undertook the blitz at the behest of the Obama administration. It is symptomatic of the era of national socialism in which we find ourselves, and for which GM is a leading indicator."

Grateful for ObamaCare, drug lobby goes to bat for Harry Reid | Washington Examiner

2010-05-01T13:56:00.000-07:00

Grateful for ObamaCare, drug lobby goes to bat for Harry Reid | Washington Examiner: "You catch that part at the end, where the ad for Harry Reid, facing the toughest reelection of his life, was paid for by PhRMA — the drug lobby. And check these numbers from 2009, showing that PhRMA spent more than any single-industry lobby — or the numbers from 2010’s first quarter showing the same thing."

� Dodd Talks Transparency, Dwells in Secrecy - Big Government

2010-04-29T21:40:00.000-07:00

� Dodd Talks Transparency, Dwells in Secrecy - Big Government: "That lucrative 2002 transaction came the year after Dodd wangled a full presidential pardon from Bill Clinton on his last day in office for Dodd’s friend and Kessinger’s business partner, New York boulevardier and convicted inside trader Edward Downe.� Downe had introduced Dodd and Kessinger, and served as a witness on the deed conveying Kessinger’s 2/3 interest to Dodd for far less than its value. In the 1980s, Downe subsidized and c0-owned a Washington condominium with Dodd until the investigation of Downe’s insider trading began to get hot."

Power Line - Investigate this

2010-04-28T08:54:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Investigate this: "Whitacre omitted two facts that rendered his column highly misleading. They are the kind of omissions that constitute securities fraud when made by a company in connection with the purchase or sale of a security or when a company reports its financial results"

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Press Release :: Documents Show Companies See Incentive in Dropping Health Coverage

2010-04-28T08:52:00.000-07:00

House Energy and Commerce Committee Republicans Press Release :: Documents Show Companies See Incentive in Dropping Health Coverage: "“Turns out ObamaCare means if you like your health plan you can lose it. The president didn’t have to actually strong-arm companies into dumping their employee health insurance because his bill carried financial incentives to virtually guarantee that result,” Barton said. “But something’s very wrong when, like AT&T found out, paying $600 million in penalties will allow you to stop paying $2.4 billion for insurance, leaving both workers and taxpayers stuck. I suppose we can’t know for some years how many thousands, hundreds of thousands or even millions of workers will lose their company insurance because of health care reform, but I know that it will be a breach of faith for most of them and a tragedy for some.”"

Power Line - Demonizing Goldman Sachs

2010-04-27T22:52:00.000-07:00

Power Line - Demonizing Goldman Sachs: "I'm not a particular fan of either Goldman Sachs or Congress, but today's hearing confirms that, given a choice, I'd rather have Goldman Sachs regulating Congress than Congress regulating Goldman Sachs. Goldman's employees are much smarter, considerably more honest, and far more likely to have my interests at heart."

EDITORIAL: Government Motors repayment fraud - Washington Times

2010-04-26T07:43:00.000-07:00

EDITORIAL: Government Motors repayment fraud - Washington Times: "General Motors lost $3.4 billion in the fourth quarter of 2009 and is still struggling to reorganize so the company can try to eke out a profit. This grim reality didn't stop GM from making hay last week for supposedly paying back a $6.7 billion government loan five years ahead of schedule. What was left unsaid was that the automaker used another kitty of taxpayer cash to pay off the earlier government loan. This is an accounting shell game, not progress."

Power Line - What's Polarizing

2010-04-25T21:51:00.000-07:00

Power Line - What's Polarizing

Counter Revolution

2010-04-24T16:21:00.000-07:00

Counter Revolution: "No federal government has damaged the American free market more than this one. No federal government has stolen more employment, more freedom, more private property -- from this and future generations -- than this one. No government has created more regulations, more unconstitutional dictates, more -- dare I say it -- slavery than this one."

What the Goldman, Sachs scandal is about � Spengler | A First Things Blog

2010-04-22T21:03:00.000-07:00

What the Goldman, Sachs scandal is about � Spengler | A First Things Blog: "Now, let me see–do I have enough fingers and toes to work this one out?–the governments are issuing gigantic amounts of debt to bail out the banks. The banks are making money levering up this debt, so it looks like there’s no more problem in the financial system. So to reduce the debt of governments, we should tax the banks’ balance sheet, which have ballooned as the banks bought government debt with zero-interest financing from the government, and made lots of profits…"

Earth Day Philly Style - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives

2010-04-22T09:15:00.000-07:00

Earth Day Philly Style - The Philadelphia Bulletin Archives: "Ira Einhorn was arrested for murder March 28, 1979, the day the Three Mile Island nuclear plant accident occurred. Ira Einhorn, environmentalist, was charged with murder during the same period as one of the greatest environmental accidents in United States history.

But the real irony is that more people died in the apartment of Ira Einhorn, co-founder of Earth Day than at Three Mile Island. The environmentalist killed more people than the so-called environmental disaster.

Happy Earth Day."

American Power: Obama's Socialism in America: UPDATED!!

2010-04-18T22:37:00.000-07:00

American Power: Obama's Socialism in America: UPDATED!!: "If the left understands anything, it is that in order for their ideology and its promised utopia to be born, they must thoroughly destroy America and undermine everything America stands for in the world. Once that has been accomplished, then their way is clear. Of course, they truly believe they will be able to control the Islamist genie they have encouraged, appeased and enabled along the way. That's why they are so nonchalant about terrorism and the threat of Islamic jihad. First, they see themselves on the same side politically; and second, they believe they won't have any trouble stopping the Jihad once they are in power. What's the big deal? They also intend to roll back the rising seas, stop global warming, and heal the planet, after all."

Another screw-up heard from: DemCare Bill forgot to include a religious exemption clause

2010-04-18T22:10:00.000-07:00

Another screw-up heard from: DemCare Bill forgot to include a religious exemption clause: "The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as DemCare, has all sorts of hidden secrets. The immense and hastily drafted law, passed through the Senate on Christmas Eve with bribes aplenty, has hundreds of new mandates and some accidental omissions."

YouTube - President Obama's Pledge Never to Raise Taxes on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year

2010-04-15T23:08:00.000-07:00

YouTube - President Obama's Pledge Never to Raise Taxes on Anyone Making Less Than $250,000 a Year: ""

SEIU invested tens of millions on Obama and DemCare in order to replenish its woefully underfunded pensions -- on your dime

2010-04-12T20:57:00.000-07:00

SEIU invested tens of millions on Obama and DemCare in order to replenish its woefully underfunded pensions -- on your dime: "The SEIU spent $85 million on Barack Obama's campaign and millions more on pushing for DemCare. Among its biggest rewards will be millions of medical civil servants -- and millions of new, dues-paying members. The Wall Street Journal's September 10, 2009 op-ed ('Read the Union Health-Care Label -- Get ready for Detroit-style labor relations in our hospitals'), describes state-run health care as opening 'the door to implement forced unionization schemes' by reclassifying in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as union members."

Federal Eye - GAO: Postal Service business 'not viable'

2010-04-12T11:17:00.000-07:00

Federal Eye - GAO: Postal Service business 'not viable': "Potter and his colleagues estimate the Postal Service will lose a record $7 billion in the fiscal year that ends in September and could lose at least $238 billion in the next decade if Congress fails to act."