Posts Tagged ‘barack obama’
Leahy: Obama Needs Congressional Approval to Put Troops in Libya
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) told CNSNews.com that President Barack Obama needs congressional approval to send U.S. troops into Libya. Following a press conference at the Capitol on Monday, CNSNews.com asked Leahy, “In your view, does the Constitution require the President to [...]
Time to (Officially) Start Worrying About the Next Election
By Alan Caruba It seems nuts even to a political junky like me, but I am already worrying about the November 2012 election now that Obama has made it official that he is running. I think Obama can be easily defeated for all manner of reasons that include the way he has begun to lose his liberal Democrat base thanks to the Libyan non-war [...]
Education Spending Has a Simple Solution
By Phyllis Schlafly As the new Republican House majority wrestles with ways to cut our unsustainable budget deficit, Barack Obama threw down the gauntlet. On March 14 he said: "We cannot cut education." But why not? If we are going to cut programs that are proven to have failed to achieve their goals, federal spending on education should be [...]
CBO: Obama to Push Public Debt above $20 Trillion by 2021
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) says that President Barack Obama’s 2012 budget will cause large and persistent yearly deficits that will push the public debt to $20.8 trillion by 2021. “Federal debt held by the public would double under the President’s budget, growing from $10.4 trillion (69 [...]
Top 10 Rejected Obama Mission Names
By Alan Caruba Apparently the White House tossed out a number of perfectly good names before arriving at “Operation Odyssey Dawn”: 10.Operation Nine Months In The Senate Didn’t Prepare Me For This 9. Operation Organizing for Libya 8. Operation Double Standard 7. Operation FINE! I’ll Do Something 6. Operation Enduring Narcissism 5. [...]
President Does Not Have Power Under Constitution to Unilaterally Authorize a Military Attack
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com As a presidential candidate, Sen. Barack Obama (D.-Ill.) emphatically stated that the Constitution does not give the president the authority to unilaterally authorize a military attack unless it is needed to stop an actual or imminent attack on the United States. Obama made the assertion in a Dec. [...]
Unemployment Actually 10.2 Percent, 1 in 5 Workers Can’t Find Full-Time Job
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com One out of five American workers who wants a full-time job cannot find one, according to a Gallup survey released today. This news comes 25 months after President Barack Obama signed a stimulus law designed to keep the U.S. unemployment rate under 8 percent. Gallup derives what it calls the [...]
Obama: ‘I Believe in the Second Amendment’
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com At a joint presss conference with Mexican President Felipe Calderon on Thusday, President Barack Obama responded to a Mexican reporter who asked him if he had the power to veto the right of Americans to keep and bear arms by saying he believed in the Second Amendment. "The Second Amendment of the United [...]
Lowering U.S. Corporate Tax Rate to 10 Percent Will Create Jobs
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com President Barack Obama discussed cutting the corporate tax rate in his State of the Union address, and a new Cato Institute study suggests that implementing such a cut, specifically down to a 10 percent rate, would spur economic growth and create real jobs. In his Jan. 25 speech before Congress, [...]
President Obama Was Against Individual Mandate While Campaigning
Liberty Alerts, Eric Scheiner, CNSNews.com While on the campaign trail, President Barack Obama consistently voiced that he was strongly opposed to forcing the uninsured to purchase health insurance. Currently, his administration is taking to federal court 27 states that are challenging the constitutionality of the federal government forcing [...]
Obama’s Vow to Veto Earmarks Draws Agreement From GOP Lawmakers
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com In keeping with his theme of improving the country’s fiscal footing and increasing transparency in government, President Barack Obama took a popular political stance in Tuesday’s State of the Union address by vowing to veto any earmarks. “And because the American people deserve to know that [...]
The Climate Mafia Gather in Cancun
By Alan Caruba On November 14, 1957, leaders of the American and other Mafia organizations gathered at the home of Joseph “Joe the Barber” Barbara in Apalachin, New York; approximately one hundred Mafiosi from around the United States, Canada, and Italy attended. Up to then, J. Edgar Hoover, the Director of the Federal Bureau of [...]
November 22, 1963: Changing History with a Bullet
By Alan Caruba On November 22, 1963 I was in the office of a human rights organization in downtown Miami, Florida, fresh from service in the U.S. Army. I was happy that President Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Krushchev had not gone to war in October 1962 over Soviet missiles in Cuba. My battalion, part of the Second Infantry Division, had [...]
Obama’s Claiming More Power Over Americans Than King George
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com Virginia Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli, who has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama last March, says Obama and the Congress that enacted that law--which mandates that individuals must buy government-approved health insurance plans--are [...]
Islamaphobia is Really Islam-Awareness
By Alan Caruba On November 5, a memorial to the twelve soldiers and one civilian killed by U.S. Army Major Nidal Hasan was unveiled at Fort Hood, Texas, one year to the day when they were murdered while Hasan in full combat uniform shouted ‘Allahu Akbar!”, Arabic for “God is great!” Hasan, an Army psychiatrist and American-born [...]
What is Wrong with Obama?
By Alan Caruba “Why are they all so afraid to say it: There’s something seriously wrong with Barack Obama. And until the day he’s no longer in the White House, there will be something seriously wrong with America.” -- Judi McLoed, Editor of CanadaFreePress.com. Like a broken record, Obama is still talking about Washington’s lobbyists [...]
Not Just No, But Heck No!
By Alan Caruba The midterm elections of 2010 will be recalled as a time when the majority of voters said, not just No, but Hell No! Zogby Interactive released the results of a survey taken between October 29 and November 1. “One-half of likely voters say they do not plan to vote for President Barack Obama in 2012, compared to 40% who say [...]
CBO Says ObamaCare Will Drive People From the Workforce
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Elmendorf said the most significant economic effect of President Barack Obama’s health care reform package will be to drive people out of the job market. “For the economy outside the health sector, the most significant impact of the legislation will be [...]
The Party is Over
By Alan Caruba Gray skies are gonna clear up, Put on a happy face; Brush off the clouds and cheer up, Put on a happy face. Take off the gloomy mask of tragedy, It's not your style; You'll look so good that you'll be glad Ya' decide to smile! What, may I ask, is there to smile about in an America whose economy is in decline along with many other [...]
Take Action — Oppose Kagan Now!
Liberty Alerts, Eagle Forum The Senate Judiciary Committee has begun holding hearings on President Obama's second Supreme Court nominee, former Harvard Law School Dean and current Solicitor General (SG) Elena Kagan, so it's important that you call and email your Senators and encourage them to take a stand and to ask tough questions of this [...]
June 17, 2009: A World Afloat on an Ocean of Oil
By Alan Caruba Considering how much untapped oil is known to exist, not just in the United States, but worldwide, one would think that its current price was some kind of anomaly and it is. It is more the result of speculation than anything else. The most fundamental fact about oil worldwide is that there is lots of it. Though frequently [...]
Shut Up Barack! — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Does anyone recall the first weeks of Barack Obama’s presidency? He was everywhere on the media all the time. His constant use of TelePrompters became an instant joke, suggesting he could not say anything unless it was scripted. Indeed, listening to him try to speak without them is a painful process of a very slow selection [...]
Being a Politician While Black — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba Privately I have been telling friends that Barack Obama has made it nearly impossible for any black American politician to become president for at least the next two generations, maybe more. He has sealed their fate. Then I read Walter E. Williams’ column, “Can Black Americans Afford Obama?” He wrote, “I am all too [...]
Bobby Jindal Versus Barack Obama: The Rematch — Chris Adamo
By Christopher G. Adamo On February 24, 2009 Barack Obama delivered his first State of the Union speech to the resounding accolades of the liberal press. Barely a month after his inauguration, he still basked in the glow of the standard “honeymoon,” bolstered by an absurd level of media fawning based on his race and, much more significantly, [...]
America Becomes a Two-Class Society — Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly The tremendous spending programs demanded by Barack Obama and voted into law by an obedient Democratic Congress have divided America into two classes: those who pay for the services provided by government and the freeloaders. Half of Americans, 47%, pay no federal income tax at all. That isn't the worst of it. Most of [...]
Obama Missed A Great Chance — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly President Obama had a golden Memorial Day opportunity to show the country that (contrary to his left flank) he is not anti-military and not anti-Christian, by telling Attorney General Eric Holder to order the Park Service to permit volunteer veterans to replace the Mojave Cross that was stolen on May 9. But he let the atheists [...]
Just What Did You Expect? — Phil Brennan
By Phil Brennan Like a weed caught in a swirling eddy and drawn into the vortex of a powerful whirlpool, Barack Obama is being sucked into the depths of political inconsequence, joining such other notable presidents as James Earl Carter. The messiah capable of causing tingling sensations in the lower limbs of such worshipful acolytes as [...]
We Don’t Need Another Constitution — Phyllis Schlafly
by Phyllis Schlafly George Washington, James Madison and Ben Franklin did a magnificent job of producing our United States Constitution. Washington and Madison both called it a "miracle." It has lasted over 220 years, protecting our liberty while accommodating our geographic, economic, and population expansion. Now some politicians (from [...]
Conservative’s Wishful Thinking — Alan Caruba
By Alan Caruba One of the themes running through conservative forums and blogs these days is the question of just when Barack Obama will resign from the presidency. Secondarily, the concern is that he would do this before or after the November midterm elections, thus leaving the nation in the hands of Joe Biden, a longtime Washington [...]
Obama’s New World Order — Henry Lamb
By Henry Lamb It should come as no surprise. During the campaign, Barack Obama told us he was a “citizen of the world.” Last week, he told the cadets at West Point, and the rest of the world, just what his vision of a new world order is. Obama wants a new international order that can “resolve the challenges of our times.” That’s [...]
