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As Debt Ceiling Looms, Obama Admin Still Pushes Job Killing Regulations

July 26, 2011
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Note to President Obama: If you would stop all of your job killing policies revenues would increase. Scaring businesses and investors is not the way to improve the economy. But he doesn’t listen to me. He listens to his advisers who have never run a lemonade stand, let alone a real business. That’s why...

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What Could Go Wrong? Federal Government as ‘National Landlord’ and Fannie and Freddie Subsidizing McMansions

July 22, 2011
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The White House and the Congress simply cannot resist the urge to continue meddling in the housing market. Government meddling is what got us into the mess, yet they simply refuse to stop. Two items in The Wall Street Journal today caught my attention. The White House is looking to make the federal government...

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Taxpayers Out $1.3 Billion in Chrysler Bailout

July 21, 2011
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The bad news just keeps rolling in. United States taxpayers have lost about $1.3 billion on the Chrysler bailout. CNN reported that the Treasury calls this loss a “major accomplishment.” U.S. taxpayers likely lost $1.3 billion in the government bailout of Chrysler, the Treasury Department announced Thursday. The government recently sold its remaining 6%...

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James O’Keefe Strikes Again – Medicaid Workers Take the Bait

July 18, 2011
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James O’Keefe doesn’t give up. His latest operation was posing as a Russian drug smuggler applying for Medicaid. He was advised to classify his illegal drug business as “babysitting.” Via Don Surber, The Daily Caller has the details. I don’t know how these Medicaid workers could have been more helpful to this self-described drug...

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Subjects beware: Our Dictator-in-Waiting is not pleased

July 14, 2011
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It must be very difficult for someone suffering from delusions of grandeur, as Barack Obama obviously is, to reconcile his deranged desire for absolute control with the irritating fact that he and his minions are actually only one part of a three part system of governance.  Again with that irksome constitution. His frustration with this reality is becoming more...

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They Call This A Recovery?!?

July 14, 2011
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President Obama keeps talking about this “recovery” we’ve got going. You know, the one he made possible with his massive spending that sent us to the brink of disaster. Anyone with even a rudimentary understanding of economics understands that economies are cyclical. There are bubbles, bubbles burst causing recessions, and then economies naturally improve....

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No joke: the Fed still considering more “stimulus”

July 13, 2011
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With all evidence clearly pointing to the abysmal failure of the original “stimulus”, QE1, or QE2 to provide any impetus whatsoever for economic recovery, the braintrust over at the Federal Reserve is now considering an additional monetary influx to shore things up. From Bloomberg.com “A few members noted that, depending on how economic conditions evolve, the committee might...

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Breaking News: HHS Sec Sebelius now a Small Business Expert

July 12, 2011
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What a talented and knowledgeable woman HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is. She not only knows what is best for the American people in regards to their healthcare, apparently she also has expertise in the area of small business development.  Considering that she has neither a medical background nor any experience in the private sector, that is...

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Tampa ATF Office Walked Guns into Honduras? Operation Castaway?

July 10, 2011
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The scandal grows. Breaking News: Source claims ATF’s Tampa SAC walked guns to Honduras. Part of Operation Castaway? Exclusive Special Report by David Codrea and Mike Vanderboegh. “Virginia O’Brien, Special Agent in Charge at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives Tampa Field Division, ran a gun-running investigation that was walking guns to Honduras using...

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Obama’s SCOTUS pick, Elana Kagan, finds herself on the hot seat (and its about to get really hot)

July 7, 2011
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It looks as though “the most transparent administration in U.S. history” is about to be exposed (yet again) for its’ blatant lack of transparency. You see, current Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan was formerly the Obama administration’s chief legal advocate in federal court disputes regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) during her...

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Operation Fast and Furious – The Plot Thickens

July 6, 2011
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant. Unfortunately, the Department of Justice under Attorney General Eric Holder wants us all to be kept in the dark with regard to Operation Fast and Furious. The acting director of the ATF, Kenneth Melson, testified in secret before investigators from both houses of Congress with his own lawyer present, rather...

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New York City Rations Toilet Paper at Coney Island!

July 4, 2011
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If you’re planning a trip to Coney Island this summer you may want to think about bringing along some toilet paper. The New York Post reported that due to budget shortfalls, New York City is rationing toilet paper in women’s rooms at Coney Island. They actually have bathroom attendants handing out a few squares to...

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Q2E ends, but Fed plans to buy another $300 billion in government debt

June 27, 2011
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As Obama begins his, “I beat the recession” routine. Ben Bernanke seems to think that Q2E wasn’t enough. The Fed may buy an additional $300 billion over the next 12 months: While the $600-billion purchase program, known as QE2, winds down, the Fed said on June 22 that it will continue to buy Treasuries...

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Operation Fast and Furious Gunwalker Program Linked to Another Murder

June 25, 2011
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CBS News reported the other day that yet another murder has been linked the the ATF’s reckless “Operation Fast and Furious” program of allowing illegal firearms to be sold to criminals who brought them across the border into Mexico. CBS News has confirmed that ATF Fast and Furious “walked” guns have been linked to...

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