Posts Tagged ‘obama administration’
Obama Creates Death Panels Rejected By Congress
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The Obama Administration has secretly crafted a new policy to implement the contentious death panels that Congress dropped under immense public pressure from legislation to take over the nation’s healthcare system. Under regulations that will take effect in January, the administration will offer [...]
Obama’s EPA Goes After Coal Fired Energy — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Do you remember Obama’s pledge back in 2008 when he was running for the Oval Office, a pledge to bankrupt the coal industry? At the time he threatened to make it too expensive to operate coal fired electrical plants via Cap & Trade legislation mandates in order to force Americans into “green” forms of energy [...]
Hands Off the First Amendment!
By Henry Lamb To listen, click here “Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…,” but the progressives on the Federal Communications Commission think their job is to do just that – regulate the speech of individuals, and of the press. Speaking to the Columbia School of Journalism, FCC Commissioner [...]
Stop the Presses – Music to my Ears — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The hills are alive with the sound of music, silence. Printing presses which have been diluting our money supply with an additional billion dollars in hundred dollar bills had to be shut down and at least a third of the hundred dollar bills printed will have to be destroyed because they printed improperly. That means our [...]
Government By Regulations Instead of Laws and Treaties
By Phyllis Schlafly Republicans are assuming that Cap-and-trade (a.k.a. Cap-and-tax) is dead because Senator Majority Leader Harry Reid lacks the votes to bring up the House-passed bill and because this issue proved a loser in the 2010 House races. Like the famous Mark Twain saying, its death may be exaggerated. The Senate's [...]
Oil Drilling Moratorium is an Act of Treason
By Alan Caruba If you had any doubt that Barack Obama’s agenda is to destroy the United States of America, but still want more proof, I offer you the announcement that his administration will not provide any offshore oil leases in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, Pacific, or Atlantic coasts...for at least seven years! In October, a study by the [...]
Dream Act – A Chance to Pass Amnesty — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The lame duck session fully intends to destroy America from within by passing the “Dream Act” ; taking advantage of an overwhelming majority of Democrats in the House and Senate with a guaranteed signature from the White House. Harry Reid is determined to ram amnesty down our throats before the balance of powers is restored in [...]
The Kindergarten Congress
By Alan Caruba The Founders in their genius created a Constitution that was intended to slow down the process of legislation precisely because they wanted the new nation to avoid being destroyed by the passions and trends of the day. So what do we have today, a month away from the largest transfer of power in Congress since 1946? We have a [...]
And the Next Step
Perspectives with Phil Brennan Informed Views from Outside the Beltway When a would-be dictator wants to rein in the rights of the citizenry one of the first steps he needs to take is restricting the public's right to travel. The ability to move around freely within your nation's borders is the ability to congregate with like-minded individuals [...]
Nearly $1 Trillion Net Tax Hike Proposed in ‘Tax Reform’ Plan
Liberty Alerts, CNSNews.com Over the next 10 years, Americans could see a net federal tax hike of $961 billion if the draft recommendations of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform are enacted. This proposed tax hike would include those earning below $250,000, the people that President Barack Obama has repeatedly pledged [...]
How the Presidency is Invading Your Home
Ben Lieberman, Mises.org The Obama administration isn't satisfied giving the American public vast things we don't want — from stimulus packages to bailouts to ObamaCare. Witness its attempt to redesign home appliances. In the pipeline are dumb regulations for almost everything that plugs in or fires up in your home. Just weeks after taking [...]
Five Month Cover Up? — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Imagine my surprise this morning while reading the latest AP story by Dina Cappiello, White House tweaked drilling report . What’s interesting about it; Fox ran this story ran back in June and it was referenced on at least one blog . It took the Associated Press five months to break this headline story. I think there’s an [...]
Throw the Bums Out! — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Have you seen the Geico Insurance commercial where Gunny R. Lee Ermey plays a psychiatrist listening to a whiney self absorbed loser? The reason it resonates is his no nonsense approach; tell it like it is and let the chips fall where they may. I’d like to see Gunny Ermey as America’s Diplomat to the United Nations; not that [...]
Political DNA Expanded — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Every now and then somebody drops a challenge into the comment section of an article which begs for more than a simple reply. One such entry was left at my blogsite after posting “Political DNA?” under the moniker “h8”. The article suggested recent “scientific” evidence has identified, ‘“the liberal gene,” DRD4 [...]
Joe Biden is No Laughing Matter
By Alan Caruba “The first two vice presidents were elected president outright, and twelve more veeps would end up, by hook or by crook, in the White House, running things. The vice presidency has supplied a third of our presidents. For that reason alone, it’s worth losing sleep over.” That’s what Jeremy Lott wrote in his entertaining [...]
Reasonable Identification — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, If you want to open a can of worms all you need to do is bring up the subject of reasonable identification. If you’re at the polling place, your Wal-Mart card might be just fine depending on the color of your skin; asking for government issued identification might be considered racism. If you pull over a car load of Hispanic [...]
Dark Reasons – Cause for Concern — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, The Communications Assistance to Law Enforcement Act signed into law in 1994 does not apply to communication service providers like Research in Motion (RIM), maker of BlackBerry devices. According to an article on the Fox website the U.S. wants broader Internet wiretap authority because, “National security officials and federal [...]
HUD IG Exposes More ACORN Fraud
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles As public funds continue pouring into ACORN coffers, a federal investigation reveals that the crime-infested community organization embezzled millions of dollars for “housing counseling” in the last year and destroyed documents to hide the fraud. The scope of ACORN’s (Association of Community [...]
The President’s record speaks for itself — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Dan Pfeiffer, White House Communications Director, posted an article on the White House Blog entitled, America has spoken, will the GOP listen? listing what he believed to be shining moments in the Obama administration. Most of what I read were lame attacks on the Republican Party which had voted against the road to socialism and [...]
The Law of Gravity — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Police officers are charged with enforcing the law without favor, the law of gravity being no exception. A story on FoxNews courtesy of the Whittier Daily News explained how officers were searching for a burglary suspect in Pico Rivera, California. “A man fell through the ceiling of a Pico Rivera shop on Saturday, landing in [...]
UN World Governance Goals — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, If you want to spend a few hours reading nonsense then I highly recommend the “UN Position Papers” , a set of documents intended to prepare the nations of the Earth for world wide governance with equal security of energy, food, quality of life for every human on the planet with a heavy emphasis on man made global warming [...]
Stimulus Money Is A Waste
By Phyllis Schlafly On this Labor Day, which is a national holiday to honor American workers, millions of Americans will be worrying about getting or holding a job to support their families. President Obama apparently thinks he can create new jobs by taking our country deeper into debt that will hang over the shoulders of our children and [...]
Successful Economic Policies? For Whom?
Texas Straight Talk with Ron Paul Last week, in the wake of another uptick in the official unemployment rate, the administration continued to claim that their economic policies were working, just not fast enough. This administration inherited an unemployment rate of 7.7% and promised a peak of no higher than 8% if their policies were [...]
Obama Calls for Moratorium on Trash Pick Up — T.F. Stern
"By T.F. Stern, A dangerous fire broke out at New York City’s sanitation pier lifting smoke and other contaminates into the city’s atmosphere. Three fire fighters were injured and the cause of the incident is under investigation. “The Manhattan pier and trash-filled trailers began burning Saturday afternoon. The Fire Department of New York [...]
Obama Administration Distrusts Armed Americans — T.F. Stern
By T.F. Stern, Americans can’t be trusted with guns; at least that’s what many are reading into Obama’s cancellation of a deal in which Korea wanted to sell 87,310 M1 Garands and 770,160 M1 Carbines as collector’s items to individual American citizens. Korea could sell the weapons without any issue were it not for the fact that our [...]
More Unaccountable Obama Czars
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama has appointed another Czar from Chicago: the new Food Czar Sam Kass. Officially, he is labeled Senior Policy Adviser for Healthy Food Initiatives. He's joining the list of more than 35 Czars given broad and unaccountable power over our lives, habits and spending. Everybody laughed when Senator Tom Coburn [...]
U.S. Helps Radical Muslim Groups Get Taxpayer Dollars
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In its fervent crusade to befriend Muslims, the White House will host special workshops this week to provide members of radical Islamic groups with direct access to U.S. government funding, assistance and resources. While this may sound surreal, it’s reality in the Obama Administration, which has [...]
DOJ Sues Public Colleges Over Immigration Rule
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In its mission to prevent states from enforcing immigration laws the Obama Administration has filed another lawsuit against Arizona, this time accusing a public college system of discrimination for requiring job applicants to furnish proof of legal residency before getting hired. The complaint comes less [...]
Obama Shields Govt. Contractors From Disclosure Law
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles The “most transparent administration in history” is shielding companies that annually get billions of dollars in government contracts from disclosing how they’ve cheated U.S. taxpayers by impeding a new law that requires the information to be publicly available. Passed by Congress earlier this year, [...]
Biden Touts Corrupt Welfare Program As Stimulus Triumph
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles In a desperate publicity stunt that made him look like a crackpot, Vice President Joe Biden touted a fraud-infested welfare program to make low-income houses energy efficient as an example of success in stimulus spending. Flashing his trademark capped teeth during a press conference in New Hampshire, [...]
