Koch Brothers
Steyer Takes Handoff From Washington Post More Evidence of Collaboration
To recap what by now is a familiar story: the Washington Post ran an article suggesting that Koch Industries would be the principal beneficiary of the Keystone Pipeline by virtue of its minor leasehold interest in Canadian tar sands-a complete fiction. I took the article apart here and here, pointing out, among many other things, that Keystone would actually be damaging to Koch s economic interests.
The Campaign
Hollywood doesn't do politics -- at least not politics as it is practiced in the real world. That muddled and muddy system of alternating compromise and confrontation, posturing and horse-trading, simply wouldn't show up on the silver screen -- and, even if it did, presumably nobody would care to watch it
New Jersey legislator urges political boycott of major NJ employer
Before Democrat class warfare commandos became obsessed with Bain Capital, they spent many enjoyable hours attacking Koch Industries. Far-left tinfoil hat types love to paint the Koch brothers as supervillains, whose influence on politics is somehow inherently nefarious - unlike, say, hard-left billionaire George Soros. Koch money figures prominently in liberal fairy tales about their electoral defeats
Have Our News Organizations Gone Crazy
I wrote here about MSNBC s campaign to tie the Koch brothers to George Zimmerman s shooting of Trayvon Martin. That effort was, it is fair to say, insane, but it apparently inspired one or more liberals to take MSNBC s theories a step farther. Someone wrote - I think it was on Facebook - that Koch Industries had paid for Zimmerman's legal defense and/or put up his bail money. Other liberals happily repeated the claim, to the point where Snopes deemed it a rumor worth addressing.
Organizations Funded Directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute
The upper portion of this page is devoted to organizations that are funded directly by George Soros and his Open Society Institute (OSI). The lower portion of the page focuses on organizations which do not receive direct funding from Soros and OSI, but which receive money from one or more groups that do get direct OSI funding.
Romney: I’m the Ideal Tea Party Candidate
"Mitt Romney said today he's "the ideal candidate" for the Tea Party movement because his stance on issues lines up "pretty darn well" with the movement he says will soon realize that GOP frontrunner Newt Gingrich isn t their best option for president." --- Romney was probably basing that on having recently received S.C. Governor Nikki Haley s endorsement, but the Tea Partiers I know are saying that s not proof that Romney has climbed aboard the Tea Party platform, but rather that Haley has stepped off it.
How tea party could drive GOP to disaster
A new CNN poll finds that about half of Republicans sympathize with the tea party movement. The other half either remain aloof or (5%) even express hostility. That second group of Republicans has received remarkably little media attention this cycle. Yet their man -- Mitt Romney -- has held steady in first or second place for the past three years.
George Soros’s Socialized Merry-Go-Round of a Solution to the Euro Crisis
Former Clinton Appointee: Calling Tea Party ‘Racist’ Is Just a Cynical Political Ploy
Tainting the tea party movement with the charge of racism is proving to be an effective strategy for Democrats. There is no evidence that tea party adherents are any more racist than other Republicans, and indeed many other Americans. But getting them to spend their time purging their ranks and having candidates distance themselves should help Democrats win in November [2010].
MSNBC Guest Karen Hunter: Associated Press Is Racist for “Dropping the Gs” in Obama Speech Quotes
Republicans have three credible candidates
After Texas Gov. Rick Perry s meltdown in last week s debate, conservatives were stunned and shaken. Stephen Hayes reported on disillusioned conservatives whose support Perry lost by "misstatements of fact, missed opportunities and general incoherence." His collapse continued with a loss to Hermann Cain by a huge margin of 37 to 15.43% percent in the Florida straw poll on Saturday.
Patience Paying Off For Governor Palin
Soros linked to LightSquared Controversy
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns
Questions Arise About Partisan Documents
During the 2008 election, former Representative Robert Wexler grandiously assured pro-Israel voters there was "no doubt" Obama and Netanyahu would "get along very well." After the exact opposite happened, culminating in the president's "past Israeli concessions don t matter any more" 1967 borders speech, Wexler took to the pages of the Wall Street Journal to insist Obama was being horribly misunderstood.
It’s Over for Barack Obama
It must really suck to be a Progressive right now. Obama has collapsed on the Bush tax cuts, the debt ceiling, expanded the war in Afghanistan, said 'never mind' to his promise to close Gitmo, went to war against Libya without congressional authorization or UN resolution, and retracted several key environmental regulations while signaling that he will approve the Keystone pipeline. Progressives are starting to notice.
Reagan’s Growth Lesson for Obama
The difference in the Obama and Reagan policy approaches stems from diametrically opposed economic philosophies, which in turn stem from different life experiences: Mr. Reagan spent 34 years in the private sector, including time as the head of a labor union, prior to becoming governor of California in 1966. But Mr. Obama spent only his first year out of college in the private sector -- during which he wrote his mother that he felt as though he had "joined the enemy" -- before heading into non-profit "community organizing," a vacuous descriptor of an undefined profession involving political activism in which the main pursuit consists of procuring redistributive transfer payments from government.
Kidnapping Dr. King
Martin Luther King, Jr., a man whom entire generations have come to revere for his selflessness and his bold vision that helped overcome centuries of unjustified discrimination, had his noble life turned into a ten-minute commercial for massive political unionization and class war against the successful. And emceeing a portion of this travesty was none other than his son and namesake, Martin Luther King III.
Meet Mark Ames, the ‘eXile’ Who Created the (False) Koch Brothers Conspiracy Theory UPDATE: Ames Responds
He has written about having sex with an underage girl, and claims he once threatened to kill a pregnant girlfriend unless she had an abortion. He claims to hate marijuana, but recommends heroin as the cure for suburban boredom. He mocks "Tea Baggers" and scorns "hippies." His Russian newspaper was shuttered after a government crackdown, and he's a regular on The Dylan Ratigan Show on MSNBC.
Islamic Infitration of Obama’s White House
WND, ConservativeByte, and other online sources have reported that a former FBI special agent, John Guandolo, (who was a 1989 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, a former active duty Infantry/Reconnaissance Officer in the United States Marine Corps, and former Special Agent for the FBI in Washington, D.C. for over 12 years), says that Obama's ties to agents for the Muslim Brotherhood and other radical Islamics is even worse than originally thought
How Nixon Created Obama
As Matt Patterson pointed out in these pages, Obama is the Affirmative Action President. He was elected to make up for America's never-ending guilt about black folks. That obsessional guilt trip works so well that it's landed us in racial socialism, also called affirmative action. Marxism whips up resentments of the poor against the rich -- but in fact it empowers only the left. Well, racial socialism does the same thing. It whips up "people of color" against evil palefaces in order to empower the left. It's the Ku Klux Klan in new sheets.
Why Obama Can’t Lead
President Obama's inability to be decisive and inept leadership stem not from his lack of executive experience, but from his grounding in a specific political culture, the one he sought out in Chicago. His entry and indoctrination into the political culture of black leadership there have not prepared him for a positive role as chief executive officer.
Walter Russell Mead: Sarah Palin: America’s Foreign Policy Messiah?
Governor Palin and the Difference between Responsive Leadership and Reactionary Politics
Vice President Biden condoned the horrific policies of the China government that allow only one child per family which has subsequently resulted in forced abortions, including sex-selective abortions, human rights violations, fines, and loss of jobs. These comments have engendered responses from the declared Presidential candidates. Governor Romney called China's policy "gruesome and barbaric" while asserting that Biden acquiesced. Governor Perry criticized Biden for "moral indifference".
MILLER: The Palin factor
Charles Koch Responds to Warren Buffett
In response to Warren Buffett s op-ed urging higher taxes on the rich, fellow rich person Charles Koch makes a simple but vital point: "Much of what the government spends money on does more harm than good; this is particularly true over the past several years with the massive uncontrolled increase in government spending. I believe my business and non-profit investments are much more beneficial to societal well-being than sending more money to Washington."
Burying Obama
Let me hasten to make it clear before the Secret Service kicks the door in: we're not speaking of the three-dimensional, physical Obama, but the image of Obama created by the DNC, the media, and assorted political mercenaries to sell him and his agenda to an unsuspecting nation. We need to rid ourselves of Obama as an influence, as an example, as a lens through which to view the world, as a figure to look up to, admire, or emulate in any sense.
Why the Left Elites Are Criticizing Obama
I usually find that Eleanor Clift's columns are either predictably boring or infuriatingly ignorant. Her latest Why No Democrat Will Challenge Obama was actually fairly interesting, although perhaps not in a way the writer intended. First came the admission that although Obama is in deep political trouble he isn't likely to be challenged.
Perry’s Problematic Pals
Texas Governor Rick Perry announced Saturday that he is going to seek the Republican nomination for President, and in his speech declaring his candidacy, he sounded great: "we reject this President's unbridled fixation on taking more money out of the wallets and pocketbooks of American families and employers and giving it to a central government," Perry said. "'Spreading the wealth' punishes success while setting America on course to greater dependency on government. Washington's insatiable desire to spend our children's inheritance on failed 'stimulus' plans and other misguided economic theories have given us record debt and left us with far too many unemployed."
Palestinian Statehood Conquest disguised as Liberation
First they invaded; five Arab armies, from Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Iraq all descended. Israel was a state newly formed of a small core of native Sabras from the first five Aliyas along with the battered survivors of the Holocaust and a small cadre of American and British WWII veteran volunteers. After two years of desperate fighting and a cumulative loss to Israel of over one and a half percent of its population, the conflicted ended in a stalemate, with Israel holding a swath of land measuring 9 miles in width at its narrowest, and 71 miles at its broadest, extending 263 miles from the Lebanon border in the north through the Negev Desert in the south.
Why a Wisconsin Union Victory Would Spell Trouble for Obama
Somehow, the prospect of a double-dip recession has only caused the left to double-down on its delusion. In their minds, Standard & Poor s downgrade is unrelated to the years of runaway federal spending and fiscal impropriety - it's merely a statement about the heated politics of the moment, driven largely by Tea Party divisiveness/obstructionism/extremism.
Watch Wisconsin: Recall Day
Academic Freedom: Not if You’re a Conservative – or a Koch
Florida State University (FSU) President Barron recently sent a letter to the Faculty Senate Committee asking the body to review the Koch Foundation agreement with the university and its implementation. The final report, which was released last week, went beyond the scope of Barron s request and examined other donors agreements and decisions made by the economics department at FSU. The results of that analysis have been repeatedly confused with the details of the memorandum of understanding with the Koch Foundation as proven by an article published by Inside Higher Ed. This post serves to clarify some of the mistakes being reported by various outlets.
Voters Prefer Republicans on Debt Crisis
Obama’s Slippery “Shifts” in the Budget Debate
Mitt Romney: A Liberal’s Liberal Republican
Obama’s Economic Brutality
In a 2001 radio interview, then-Illinois State Senator Barack Obama lamented that our Constitution described a bunch of negative rights -- things government cannot do, as opposed to things government can do. That the Constitution says what the federal government can't do to you, but doesn't say what the federal government or state government must do on your behalf.
Herman Cain Got It Right on the Right to Ban Mosques
A common assumption is that a national right of freedom of religion is afforded by the U.S. Constitution. Regarding the Ground Zero mosque, how many times have we heard that though the imam has the right to build it, maybe that wouldn't be the wisest decision? Speaking at the 2010 White House iftar dinner, Barack Obama commented not on the wisdom, but on the supposed right:
Spend It Like Bush
Obama Redefining ‘Poverty’
What does it mean to be poor in America today? For typical "poor" households -- as defined by the government -- it means cable television, two color television sets, and two or more cars. As for housing, it means living in air-conditioned comfort -- in decent accommodations with even more space than "average" Europeans have. (Not poor Europeans, to be sure, but "average" Europeans.) Moreover, most "poor" Americans get the medical care they need, and they eat enough -- in fact, they eat too much.
Can Increased Demand Save the Economy?
Progressive economists have been bewailing the slowdown in demand since soon after the onset of the recession. According to these economists, low demand is what ails the American economy, and the only cure is for the federal government to spend trillions of borrowed or newly printed dollars to spur demand, which will boost employment and turn the economy around.
When the Government Raises Costs on Businesses, Businesses Raise Costs for Consumers
As you may have noticed, the sun rose again today. The Huge Government crowd always demands ever more regulations of and more taxes on those who do the hiring in the United States - the "evil corporations" who don't care about anything but "obscene profits." The Huge Government crowd is, of course, woefully ignorant [...]
Pawlenty Skewers Bachmann: Accomplishment in Congress NonExistent
Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty (R) is leaving tracks, and beginning to try to take a few prisoners. Yesterday he said Republican Congresswoman Michelle Bachmann, also from Minnesota, has accomplished little in her years in Congress. He is wrong about that. Take a look at her record below. While each candidate must set themselves apart from other Republicans, this isn t the way to do it
Americans Need Jobs, Not Tax Hikes
"Where are the jobs?" asks Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) in the Weekly Republican Address. Small business job creators are being held back by the 'stimulus' spending binge, excessive government regulations, and the threat of tax hikes. But America needs more jobs - not tax hikes - and Republicans are listening
Obama Administration Wants to Sell Egypt 125 A1M1 Abrams Tanks
While everyone in Washington was concentrating on the debt crisis this week, the Obama administration attempted to slip through a questionable arms deal that requires serious scrutiny. Though it got little attention, the Defense Department officially notified Congress on Friday that it was authorizing the sale of 125 M1A1 tanks to Egypt as well as other weapons, equipment, parts, training and logistical support.
U.S. Must Borrow Another $5,240 Per Household Just to Fund Gov’t at Current Level Through Sept. 30
President Barack Obama and congressional leaders seeking to negotiate a deal to increase the legal limit on the federal government s debt, would need to agree to increase that debt by $615.865 billion between now and Sept. 30, just to keep the government going at current spending levels, according to the CBO s latest estimate of the fiscal 2011 deficit and the Treasury Department s latest accounting of the federal debt.
Why No Jobs: Capitalists are on Strike.
Assaulted with absurdity from all angles the health care takeover, destructive regulations, red tape, environmental roadblocks, rising energy costs, out of control inflation, a weak dollar, insane trade policies, interference through forced unionization, tax increases on the state and federal level, and a hostile attitude towards free enterprise - the people who hire workers and invest money have simply said "no mas."
Netroots Nation 2011 Journal
Obama Wants Engineering Students and ‘Diversity’
Why America Needs Governor Perry as its President
Reports have it that America's current longest-serving Governor, Texas Republican Rick Perry, may enter the 2012 Republican presidential primary race. While Tim Pawlenty is my favorite within the group who already have declared that they are seeking the Republican nomination, I hope that Perry gets into the race. If he does, Republican voters and Americans in general should want to see the Governor of America's second-largest state and the current Chairman of the Republican Governor's Association to go and win the Republican Primary and then the White House too.
ObamaCare Has No Place in a Limited Government
Refuting Obama’s Attack on Small Business
Are the Mainstream Media Enameling Sarah Palin With Teflon
The media feeding frenzy over 24,000 emails pertaining to Sarah Palin's governorship in Alaska is already redounding to her benefit, while further eroding the vestiges of credibility once enjoyed by the shrunken giants of American journalism, including but not limited to the New York Times, Washington Post, and CBS News.
What Does Peace Mean Anyway
Peace is said to be a high priority, no matter whom you talk to. People crave it and pray for it, and rightly so. This is a much more important issue, I think, than most of us realize, especially in these days when people use terms like 'The Long War' and 'the peace process' .Yet few of us, especially in the West actually stop to think of what we really mean by peace, and what you can't define clearly is frequently illusory.
Barack Obama, George Soros and the Religious Left
Periodically, the professional left and their comrades in the traditional news media highlight religious leaders cheering for President Obama's compassionate statism or denouncing Republicans as sons of the devil. I'm sure we can expect this pattern to become more frequent and more frantic as we approach the 2012 elections
Washington Post Enlists Holocaust Against Israel
Israel’s 1967 Borders: What’s The Big Fuss?
In 1947, Great Britain relinquished to the UN the power to make decisions relating to the status of the Land of Israel. The General Assembly appointed a special committee that collected evidence and decided unanimously that Israel should be granted independence. Most of the committee members favored partitioning the land into two states, a Jewish state and an Arab state, with Jerusalem under international supervision. On November 29, 1947, the UN General Assembly accepted the partition resolution, 33 to 13.
Anti-Palin Books Proving to Be Commercial Flops
The Truth about Islam and Book-Burning
The burning of books is an uncivil and distasteful act no matter where and under what circumstances. The senseless destruction of Egypt's precious ancient archives and historic texts in the Alexandria Library was one of these barbaric acts. Arab-Muslims committed this atrocity in and around the year 685 A.D., immediately after their invasion of Egypt. Many centuries' worth of pre-Islamic Egyptian and Coptic information was eradicated, leaving great gaps in history and causing many unanswered questions concerning Coptic links to Egypt's past.
Where are the Democrat Grown-ups
The United States faces momentous problems, potentially the most devastating issues in its 222 year history. Yet there is a political party, the Democrats, and their titular leader Barack Obama, who act as of this entire chapter in American history is a video game of gotcha with their political opponents who are at least seriously trying to solve some of the long term dilemmas the country faces.
Obama’s Israel Speech Fools Few
D" should no longer stand for "Democratic" but rather the "disastrous" Israeli policy of the Obama Administration. Those who support a secure Israel have to make an important choice. This is one of those defining moments when they need to step up to the plate and strongly support Israel's security and existence above everything else. Some current and former policy makers did just that in statements to American Thinker.
Barack Obama: Yet Another Roadblock to Zionism
Israelis and Americans alike were aghast this week when Barack Obama announced his policy on Israel's borders and settlements. He suggests that a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict could result if Israel withdraws her borders to the boundaries that existed prior to the Six Day War, where, in 1967, a clearly defensive Israel repelled attacks from its hostile Arab neighbors.
The Budget How We Got Here
The Political Basis for the FairTax
As the current debate over fiscal reform suggests, very few proposals for fundamental changes in tax policy have the potential to command support across the ideological spectrum. The "FairTax" is the great exception. Correctly understood, the Fair Tax Act (HR 25, S13 with 67 cosponsors), which would replace almost all federal taxes with a direct tax on consumption, should appeal to conservatives, progressives, and libertarians alike.
The Unraveling of a Ponzi Scheme
Six myths about deniers
They've been compared to "flat earthers" and even "Holocaust deniers". And, as the recent "Climategate" email scandal reveals, they have been blacklisted in certain professional circles. Scientists who disagree with the current consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW) are dismissed by some colleagues and politicians as ignorant and irrelevant.
Why Don’t We Hear About Soros’ Ties to Over 30 Major News Organizations
When liberal investor George Soros gave $1.8 million to National Public Radio , it became part of the firestorm of controversy that jeopardized NPR s federal funding. But that gift only hints at the widespread influence the controversial billionaire has on the mainstream media. Soros, who spent $27 million trying to defeat President Bush in 2004, has ties to more than 30 mainstream news outlets - including The New York Times, Washington Post, the Associated Press, NBC and ABC.
GOP? What GOP?
With the 2012 presidential election fast-approaching, one has to wonder if the Grand Old Party will again manage to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. The Obama regime has certainly greased the skids for a GOP win but will the Republican National Committee (RNC) engineer another defeat as it did with candidacies of McCain and Dole?
Bachmann: Tea Party ‘Terrifies the Big Government Left’
White House Uses IRS to Punish Conservatives
The Internal Revenue Service appears to have begun to enforce a tax on gifts to the non-profit organizations that were a key vehicle for anonymous politics in the last five years and had promised to play a large role in the presidential cycle, a move which could reshape the place of money in politics in 2012.
Education Reformers Fight Back Against National Curriculum
The U.S. Department of Education has been gobbling up more turf over the last several years, issuing mandates and pushing a one-size-fits-all set of standards. Now the most disturbing move is to implement a national K-12 education curriculum. What s wrong with that? To those who advocate for efficiency in education, this may seem like a good [...]
Slouching toward tyranny
For quite some time now the nation has witnessed the gradual erosion of freedom in this 'land of the free and hope of the brave.' During the era of the Progressives during the late 1800s and early 1900s we saw the first vestiges of this gradual erosion, and citizens began 'slouching toward tyranny' at first almost imperceptibly but later morphing into the fast-track we see today, particularly within the last 3 years.
Cheney Calls Obama’s And Holder’s Ongoing Persecution Of CIA Interrogators ‘An Outrage’ at Pat Dollard
Obama Planning $1 Billion Bailout For GM Wall Street Fannie Mae Freddie Mac EgyptÂ…
Defending America – Obama’s NLRB v. Boeing
Senate Seeks to Create Caesar
While all of America is distracted and focused on the death of Osama bin Laden, our President and his minions have been fast at work laying the groundwork for S. 679: Presidential Appointment Efficiency and Streamlining Act of 2011 to speed through the Senate and then make its way into the House and then to the President to sign. Yes, the other hand is quickly forming into a dictatorial fist that is about to smash our Constitution.
The Sacrificial Presidency of George W. Bush
Crimes, Corruption and Lies in Lake County, Illinois School District
Activists in the Lake County Tea Party have received over 300 pages of email correspondence between school officials via FOIA. The emails uncover appalling actions by these officials. The following from Paul Mitchell at the Lake County Tea Party exposes information about this past school board election, and the consequences that the President of the teacher’s union, [...]