While we have been teaching good government to others, our own government has become rotten. While we have spent money on others, we are running out of money. While we have taken in the huddled masses of the world yearning to take us for all we’ve got, our own lives and families are in danger.
Archive for February, 2012
Iran ‘to accept payment in gold for oil’
Crude oil is predominantly traded in US dollars, but Iran already accepts payment in other currencies. – BBC
It’s the Economy, Stupid!
[A]fter three years of Obamanomics, the nation has seen the longest period of high unemployment since the Great Depression in the 1930s. Trust a Democrat President to repeat all the errors of Franklin Delano Roosevelt who prolonged the Depression for ten years while he held office.
15 States Sue EPA Over False Greenhouse Gas Claims
[The] states charge that the EPA violated its own rules by using data from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), rather than internal research, in order to make the initial greenhouse gas endangerment findings. The states also charge that the EPA violated the law by failing to reopen hearings in light of new data. – The Daily Caller
Holder continues stonewalling on gun smuggling scandal
Rep. Darrell Issa discusses a second American murder victim from Operation Fast and Furious. “You don’t have the right to get two hundred Mexicans and at least two Americans murdered in the name of quote following the guns loosely to the scene of the crime. … Each time we get a little additional information we begin to realize this problem goes much higher with much greater approvals than the Attorney General would have us believe.”
Sen. Cornyn: Obama’s Policies Drive up Gas Prices
Obama’s Energy Secretary Steven Chu is on the record as having said we need higher gas prices like those in Europe. A new congressional report has determined that the Obama administration is intentionally causing high gas prices. Obama seems to be doing everything he can to increase gas prices, inhibit domestic oil drilling and ruin the coal industry. His green energy policies cause consumers to pay as much as 38% more for electricity.
Romney wins both – turns to Obama in victory speech
Romney reminds his crowd that Obama had majorities in both houses but did not fix the economy, didn’t help the housing crisis, didn’t create jobs but put us on a path of debt and decline.
Obama contributor resigns after ties to White House exposed in FCC approval
More big buck corruption in White House favoring deals with companies headed by big campaign contributors. Chicago politics gone national masked as hope and change. Let’s hope for a change this November. – Details at The Daily Caller
9th Obama green boondoggle – battery company in trouble
“Despite $390 MILLION in taxpayer subsidies” – Are we INSANE? Billions are being flushed down Obama’s “green” scheme toilet. How many billions will we let Obama give to these green schemes. $16 Billion of the $20 billion in “green” company loans has gone to companies with ties to Obama or his campaign supporters. Its a big green slush fund for campaign cash. Time to run this bunch of Marxist corruptocrats out of Washington and back to Chicago where they like this king of political corruption.
New Catholic Cardinal signs interfaith letter against Obamacare mandate
Cardinal Dolan, joined more than 500 leading scholars, university presidents and other academic administrators, activists, and religious leaders from a multitude of faiths, in a statement rejecting the governmental Health and Human Services mandate requiring employers to provide, directly or indirectly, insurance coverage for abortion-inducing drugs, sterilizations, and contraceptives, and also rejecting President Obama’s so-called “accommodation” of religious liberty as a mere “accounting trick” that changes nothing of moral substance.