Posts Tagged ‘obama administration’
Bad Effects of Internet Gambling
UNDERMINING CIVIC VIRTUE, PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY REPORT Since Barack Obama opened the door to internet gambling on Christmas Eve by having his Justice Department re-interpret the law to allow gambling online, we can expect the gambling industry to become an even bigger player in politics. It is already a major contributor to political candidates and [...]
Obama Administration Plans Turnover of Taliban Leaders
WAR ON TERROR, NEWSROOM AMERICA The Obama administration is taking "operational steps" to move five Taliban leaders from Guantanamo Bay as part of an effort to promote peace talks with the Afghan Taliban, Fox News reported, quoting an unnamed senior congressional official. The move comes ahead of a hearing Thursday where senior intelligence [...]
Jan Brewer’s Photo with Obama
BY PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY The now-famous picture of Arizona Governor Jan Brewer shaking her finger at President Barack Obama is both appropriate and deserved. In America, we don't have rulers entitled to the deference and obsequiousness other countries show to their kings; our elected officials are ordinary citizens whom we are free to [...]
Common Core Standards Aren’t Cheap
EDUCATION REPORTER, EAGLE FORUM Numerous states currently struggling in the midst of steep education budget cuts may have more fiscal problems than they realize. Though 45 states rushed to adopt Common Core standards in the past two years, many have not taken the time to evaluate what the adoption of these standards will cost them. States that [...]
White House Sides With TSA over Detainment of U.S. Senator Paul
U.S. NEWS, NEWSROOM AMERICA The White House on Monday said it was backing the Transportation Security Administration for detaining U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at the Nashville airport after the senator refused a pat down. "I think it is absolutely essential that we take necessary actions to ensure that air travel is safe," said White House [...]
Destroying America by Denying Access to Energy
By Alan Caruba It is the crime of the century that America, home to some of the world’s greatest reserves of coal, natural gas and oil, is being deliberately destroyed by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior as they do everything in their power to restrict access and drive energy producers out of [...]
Federal Court Supports Illegal Obama Multiple Sales Regs
SECOND AMENDMENT, GUNOWNERS.ORG First, the good news: Fox News is reporting that due to an amazing outpouring of opposition, the vote on the so-called anti-piracy legislation -- which could muzzle websites like GOA’s -- has been postponed. Thank you all for your activism … and please stay tuned to further updates on this issue. Now for [...]
So You Think You’re Free?
MIKE BROWNFIELD, HERITAGE FOUNDATION So you think you’re free? Thanks to big government spending and exploding debt, the United States — and indeed the world — is less economically free today than it was a year ago, according to the 18th annual Index of Economic Freedom, released yesterday by The Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street [...]
Mark Levin on ‘Ameritopia:’ ‘We Now Live in a Post-Constitutional Country’
TERRENCE P. JEFFREY, CNSNEWS.COM In an interview with CNSNews.com about his new book—“Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America”—Mark R. Levin said he believes America has already largely become “a post-constitutional country.” The book, released Monday, compares the Utopian and unworkable schemes laid out by political philosophers [...]
Chamber of Commerce to Obama: In-Sourcing? What About Keystone?
PENNY STARR, CNSNEWS.COM While President Barack Obama has been touting the importance of “insourcing” jobs into the United States (as opposed to outsourcing jobs overseas), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce reminded America on Thursday that Obama recently rejected one of the most prominent and beneficial insourced opportunities: the Keystone XL [...]
$1.8 Mil To Treat STDs In Guatemala
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES As the U.S. economy continues on a downward spiral, the Obama Administration keeps pouring money into questionable causes like this week’s $1.8 million allocation to treat and prevent sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala. While this may seem like a noble cause, the timing is less than ideal. [...]
NCLR’s Muñoz Promoted To White House Domestic Policy Director
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES President Obama has elevated the one-time vice president of the National Council of La Raza (NCLR) from White House Director of Intergovernmental Affairs to the more powerful and prestigious post of Domestic Policy Director. That means Cecilia Muñoz, a renowned open borders lobbyist in Washington D.C., [...]
Feds Create Jobs For “Low-Income, Disconnected Youth”
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Keeping with the big government mentality, various federal agencies are creating thousands of positions to meet the goals set by a new Obama initiative to find jobs for “low-income and disconnected youth.” Announced by the president this week, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Summer Jobs 2012 is [...]
Feds Create Jobs For “Low-Income, Disconnected Youth”
LIBERTY ALERTS, CORRUPTION CHRONICLES Keeping with the big government mentality, various federal agencies are creating thousands of positions to meet the goals set by a new Obama initiative to find jobs for “low-income and disconnected youth.” Announced by the president this week, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Summer Jobs 2012 is [...]
Debt Burden Threatens American Families
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Last week, as most Americans were celebrating the holidays with family and friends, the Obama Administration announced plans to seek yet another debt ceiling increase in the New Year. While some fiscal conservatives will try to block this increase, their efforts are designed to fail thanks to the procedure [...]
The Welfare State’s War on Religious Liberty
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice The case for limited government is becoming increasingly inseparable from the case for religious liberty. Yesterday, the New York Times published a lengthy article on the battle between the Catholic Church and various arms of the leviathan welfare state. The church is battling Obama [...]
Obama Spending Millions to ‘Better Connect’ People
SUSAN JONES, CNSNEWS.COM The Obama administration is giving $20 million in taxpayer money to the State of Missouri for improvements to I-70 that will "better connect" people in St. Louis with the parkland around the base of the St. Louis Gateway Arch. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, and Sen. Claire [...]
Senate Republicans: No More Recess Appointments For NLRB
LIBERTY ALERTS, HATCH.SENATE.GOV WASHINGTON – In a letter sent Monday, all 47 Senate Republicans called on President Obama to not recess appointment Sharon Block and Richard Griffin to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). Last week, it was announced that President Obama withdrew the nomination of NLRB Member Craig Becker, who was recess [...]
White House: ‘What Does $40 Mean to You?’
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com Trying to stoke outrage against Republicans who voted against a two-month extension of the payroll tax cut, the Obama White House is urging "working" people to "tell us what your family will give up if your taxes increase." "Too many just don't understand the perspective of a working family," David [...]
Obama Administration Aligns With Islamic Bloc’s Interests
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodneough, CNSNews.com The head of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has acknowledged that a U.N. religious tolerance resolution heavily promoted by the Obama administration has the same aims as the Islamic bloc’s annual “religious defamation” resolutions, which Western democracies have consistently [...]
U.S. Cuts Funding For Life-Saving Chimp Research
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration has followed through with its promise to ban funding for life-saving biomedical research on chimpanzees amid demands from leftist animal rights groups that claim the primates are being exploited. The story first came to light about a month ago when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife [...]
New Federal Board To Help “Underserved”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s never-ending expansion of government, yet another new federal advisory committee has been empaneled to help “underserved” low-income populations succeed. The new agency was actually created under the more popular theme of conservation, specifically of the nation’s [...]
Govt Issues Guidelines To Curtail Racial Isolation In School
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles To “reduce racial isolation among students,” the Obama Administration has issued official guidelines to promote diversity in the nation’s public education system by, among other things, blending the rich with the poor. A district with two elementary schools—one with a large enrollment of students [...]
Obama Admin Skews Deportation Figures
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration drastically inflated statistics to show that it has deported a record-high number of illegal immigrants with criminal records, according to federal data obtained by a nonprofit university group dedicated to researching the government. The new documents reveal the figure is [...]
U.S. Program Protects Illegal Immigrants From Scams
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In the Obama Administration’s latest effort to help illegal aliens, the federal agency created by Congress nearly a century ago to protect American consumers is cracking down on “immigrant service scams” that traditionally target individuals living in the U.S. illegally. The first-of-its-kind [...]
Gingrich Blasts Obama Administration Over Immigration Litigation
Liberty Alerts, Fred Lucas, CNSNews.com GOP presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich, campaigning in the early primary state of South Carolina, criticized the Obama administration for challenging state laws that combat illegal immigration. “After years of failure on the part of the federal government to achieve border security, it is an [...]
Most Fed Agencies Violate Records Laws
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In what may seem like a joke, federal agencies that have long failed to meet statutory requirements for maintaining records will help the Obama Administration craft a long-awaited, government-wide system to store and manage electronic files. The White House has ordered agencies to submit recommendations [...]
Obama Leaves Mexico Border Unfenced
Liberty Alerts, Edwin Mora, CNSNews.com The Obama administration has slashed spending on border fencing, infrastructure and technology, cutting it by more than half since it peaked under President George W. Bush in fiscal 2008, according to a Government Accountability Office report. In 2008, according to GAO, the federal govenrment spent more [...]
U.S. Seals Court Records Of Border Patrol’s Murder
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration has abruptly sealed court records containing alarming details of how Mexican drug smugglers murdered a U.S. Border patrol agent with a gun connected to a failed federal experiment that allowed firearms to be smuggled into Mexico. This means information will now be kept from the [...]
Obama’s Green Energy Fail
By Alan Caruba Watching Secretary of Energy Steven Chu face nearly five hours of grilling by a congressional committee seeking answers to the multi-billion dollar loss taxpayers have taken after the department dispensed their money in pursuit of its Green energy program was a reminder that ideology is not a substitute for reality. Dr. Chu [...]
Obama Gives Poor Free Internet After U.N. Says It’s A Basic Human Right
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Following a laughable United Nations declaration that high-speed internet access is a basic human right, the Obama Administration is investing north of $400 million to expand broadband into poor, rural areas of the U.S. The president has long asserted that broadband access is essential for communities to [...]
Gun Rights Paradigm — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Our constitution provides limits on government in order to protect every individual’s God given inalienable rights. The right to defend your life, those around you and your property existed long before the establishment of government and is often referred to as a “natural right”; perhaps to assuage the small [...]
Green Fiascoes and Boondoggles
Mark W. Hendrickson, The Center for Vision and Values A barrage of news headlines on the Solyndra (1) scandal continue to remind us that President Obama made green jobs one of his administration’s priorities. Those headlines also reveal this initiative to have been a costly mistake. The bankruptcy of Solyndra, the solar-panel manufacturer [...]
Iran’s Nuclear Armageddon
By Alan Caruba During the long years of the Cold War from 1945 to 1991, the U.S. and the former Soviet Union faced off against each other, both having an arsenal of nuclear weapons. Only once, during the Cuban missile crisis in October 1962, did the prospect of a real threat to the homeland arise. After a U.S. naval blockade was imposed, the [...]
U.S. May Ban Chimp Research
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Although millions of human lives are at stake, the Obama Administration is on the verge of caving into the demands of leftist animal rights groups by putting chimpanzees on the U.S. government’s endangered species list. This would ban the sort of biomedical research that has helped produce life-saving [...]
Bragging About Cherry Picking
American Gumbo with Diane Alden I get a kick out of the business punditry and most politicians who defend and tout the new trade agreements with various nations including Columbia. What made me spew coffee through my nose was when one apologist bragged about the increase of cherry production in the U.S. and the selling of our cherries to [...]
New Obama Regs Direct Agencies to Lie to the Public
-- And more Representatives join call for Holder’s resignation Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America The Obama Administration has issued a regulation under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) directing government agencies to lie to the public. We in the gun community have faced an analogous situation when Attorney General Eric Holder [...]
NCLB Waivers Come with Strings Attached
School Days, Education Reporter On September 22 the Obama Administration released a plan that will allow qualifying states to receive waivers exempting them from compliance with key components of the federal No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). As it stands, NCLB requires all state schools to reach 100% proficiency in math and reading/language [...]
Peter Pan’s Green Cake was Poisoned — T.F. Stern
By T. F. Stern, I remember watching the movie Peter Pan as a young boy and feeling physically ill at the thought of Peter eating the poisoned green cake which had been placed where the Lost Boys would find it. The shape of the green cake has changed over the years; now it’s disguised as green energy. The poison introduced in [...]
Feminists Target High School Sports
School Days, Education Reporter The Obama administration and its feminist allies are on a crusade to subject high school athletic programs to the same gender quotas that colleges face. So far, hundreds of schools in Idaho, Oregon and Washington State have been named in Title IX complaints submitted to the Education Department's Office for Civil [...]
Obama Falling Short on Israel
Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is taking his people’s bid for statehood to the United Nations this week with a speech set for Friday, followed by a formal application for membership to the U.N. shortly thereafter. If Palestine succeeds in its unilateral efforts, it would be detrimental to U.S. [...]
Turkey, Trying to Isolate Israel, Gets Cordial Treatment
Liberty Alerts, Patrick Goodenough, CNSNews.com As Turkey’s leaders intensify efforts to isolate Israel internationally, the cordial treatment they are receiving from the Obama administration this week will add to concerns some Americans have about the strength of its support for Israel. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton described as [...]
This Way to the Poorhouse
By Alan Caruba On Tuesday, September 13, Reuters news service reported “Number of poor hit record 46 million in 2010.” Another new record set by the Obama administration and a President who has been out campaigning to “Pass this jobs bill now.” “The number of poor Americans in 2010,” Reuters reported, “was the largest in the [...]
College May Be Dangerous for Men
By Phyllis Schlafly College is a dangerous place for men. They are not only a minority but they are victimized by discriminatory and unconstitutional anti-male rules. In another striking proof that the Obama Administration is totally manipulated by feminists, the Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights sent out a 19-page "DCL" [...]
Chicago Style Politics — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Corruption seems to work its way into the conversation when the Obama administration gets involved; after all, it’s the Chicago way of doing things. Fast and Furious is a bomb waiting to explode on the White House lawn depending on how far knowledge of the illegal operation went up the chain of command. There are [...]
American Jobs Act and Raccoons — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, President Obama’s jobs speech wasn’t much different than rhetoric used to bilk American tax payers on stimulus packages before. Obama said, “Let’s pass this jobs bill right away”, even though it hasn’t been written or presented to Congress as yet. This morning I recognized the similarities to something [...]
“Grand Theft Auto” – How Auto Dealers Fought Back and Won
By Alan Caruba We are all aware that one of the bail-outs that occurred on Obama’s watch was the takeover of two of the three major auto manufacturers, General Motors and Chrysler companies. As both faced bankruptcy, the Obama administration stepped in to become the owner of these companies. Among the first to discover the arrogance and [...]
Administration Refuses to Call Our Enemy in This War By Its Proper Name’
Liberty Alerts, Matt Cover, CNSNews.com Senate Homeland Security Chairman Joe Lieberman (I.-Conn.) said today that the Obama administration is refusing to call America's enemy in the war on terror by its proper name: "violent Islamist extremism.” Speaking at a University of Maryland-sponsored event on counter-terrorism on Thursday, [...]
Robert Gibbs the Perfect Reverse Barometer — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, There’s a short AP article which has advice from Robert Gibbs, one of Obama’s re-election campaign strategists (“strategerists” for Rush listeners). Immediately the thought occurred, General Custer supposedly asked an Indian scout which way to go at the battle of Little Big Horn. In the movie, Little Big Man , [...]
A Litany Of Obama Administration Failures
By Christopher G. Adamo By now everybody who regularly receives e-mail “forwards” has seen the one showing Barack Obama ostensibly standing in front of a devastated landscape that clearly is meant to represent the United States under his stewardship. The caption reads, “My work here is done.” Accusations of partisanship and racism [...]
