Archive | September, 2011
Good News: Obama Administration to Start Buying in Bulk
What? How was this not happening before? What, were they making runs to Starbucks and Office Max? I guess you really don’t care how much you’re spending when you’re spending other people’s money. Hoping to trim $600 million in the next four years, several federal agencies and departments will start pooling their purchases of office [...]
Despite Sentencing Christian to Death, Pakistan Passes Obama’s Religious Freedom Test
18. September 2011
Apparently criminalizing blasphemy against Mohammed, and prescribing a sentence of death, doesn’t make one a “country of particular concern”. When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton released the U.S. government’s Annual Report on International Religious Freedom this week, Pakistan was not listed among the so-called “Countries of Particular Concern” “Secretary Clinton designated eight countries as CPCs: [...]
Huh? Perry Leads With Those Over 50
16. September 2011
Do note: He doesn’t lead the Republican field with those over 50. He leads Barack Obama. In the general election. Could it be that Social Security isn’t actually hurting him? Perry trails Obama by 15 percentage points among women and barely leads among men. Perry trails among voters under 40, runs even among 40-somethings and [...]
Obama’s Approval Hits New Low in New York Times Poll
16. September 2011
Not only his approval rating but his favorable rating, too. Which is significant because, while his job approval rating has been sliding for some time, this is the first time more people dislike him personally than like him. Not only are people turned off by his job performance but by his personality, too. Yikes. For [...]
Bachmann Took Money from GlaxoSmithKline — Manufacturer of HPV Vaccine
16. September 2011
Good times, good times. Meanwhile, Bachman has taken somewhere north of $140,000 from pharmaceutical companies. Those donors include Abbott Labs, Pfizer, GlaxoSmithKline, AstraZeneca, Novartis, Eli Lilly and Bayer. Yet, not a dollar of all that pharma money, from such a wide range of the world’s largest drugmakers, came from Merck. Might Bachmann be going after [...]
Palestine to Request Full Membership at the UN
16. September 2011
What could go wrong? RAMALLAH, West Bank, Sept 16 (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Friday he would demand full membership of the United Nations when he goes to the U.N. General Assembly next week, setting up a diplomatic clash with Israel and the United States. “We are going to the United Nations [...]
Senate Democrat: Obama’s Jobs Bill Won’t Work
16. September 2011
Apparently he doesn’t like the whole thing being in one piece of legislation — a demand of the Obama Administration, which has insisted it’s all or none. It’s Senator Bob Casey (D-PA), by the way. Obama’s approval rating is down significantly in Casey’s home state of Pennsylvania. “I’m afraid if we tried to pass one [...]
Social Security a Ponzi Scheme by SEC’s Definition
16. September 2011
Yep. A Ponzi scheme is an investment fraud that involves the payment of purported returns to existing investors from funds contributed by new investors. Ponzi scheme organizers often solicit new investors by promising to invest funds in opportunities claimed to generate high returns with little or no risk. In many Ponzi schemes, the fraudsters focus [...]
AP: White House Ignored Watchdog Reports on Department of Energy’s Loan Controls
16. September 2011
The Obama Administration ignored three separate warnings from internal watchdog agencies regarding the loan control process of the Department of Energy, the Associated Press reports. A 2009 report by the Energy Department’s inspector general warned that the DOE lacked the necessary quality control for the loan guarantee program, which was created in 2005 to support [...]
Study: RomneyCare Cost Massachusetts More Than 18,000 Jobs
15. September 2011
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney’s signature health care reform initiative, which later became a model for ObamaCare, cost the Bay State more than 18,000 jobs, according to a new study. The Bay State’s controversial 2006 universal health-care plan — also known as “Romneycare” — has cost Massachusetts more than 18,000 jobs, according to an exclusive [...]
19. September 2011
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