Class war is not just inevitable but justifiable writes Rick Bookstaber, who serves on the Obama administraiton’s Financial Stability Oversight Council. I wonder if he thinks those Occupy Wall Street protesters breaking out the glass of banks is “justifiable.” Rick Bookstaber, who currently serves on the Financial Stability Oversight Council, the federal body established under […]
A frustrated Jake Tapper, clearly weary of the president’s ‘evolving’ position on gay marriage, tackled the question again at the White House press briefing.
Chief Executive’s eighth annual survey of best states to do business shows Another Triumph for Texas In Chief Executive’s eighth annual survey of CEO opinion of Best and Worst States in which to do business, Texas easily clinched the No. 1 rank, the eighth successive time it has done so. California earns the dubious honor […]
At the FBI’s explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, U.S. officials said. The unexploded bomb represents an intelligence prize, the result of a covert CIA operation in Yemen that thwarted a […]
Highlights of House GOP legislation cutting spending by more than $300 billion over the coming decade. Food Stamps — Cuts $35.8 billion by eliminating benefit increases in President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus and tightening eligibility requirements. Cuts spending by 4 percent over coming decade. Health Care — Cuts the president’s overhaul law in several ways, […]
For three years Barack Hussein Obama and his handlers have labored to create a functioning dictatorship in the midst of a constitutional republic. It was shamefully easy at first. With unassailable majorities in House and Senate, even a Republican leadership unafraid to contest the excesses of the first black president would have been powerless to […]
Speaking To The Washington Post’s Peter Wallsten, AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka Said He Has Conversations With President Obama And His Staff About His Potential Second Term Agenda. WALLSTEN: “Have you had specific conversations with President Obama about what his agenda in a second term might be?” TRUMKA: “We have, I have had conversations with the […]
Mitt Romney has been going on about how we should be creating 500,000 jobs a month, so earlier we published a look at the number of jobs created per month in the good old days–the Bush Adminstration. The bottom line? On average, there were 20,000 jobs per month created in the 8 years of the […]
When he was asked about his “fears” of being seen as the new Jimmy Carter if the kill bin Laden operation failed the way Carter’s Operation Eagle Claw had, Barack Obama didn’t hesitate in his answer. “I thought about it,” he “admitted” as he acknowledged there would be “political ramifications” that could ruin his […]
French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s defeat could be a bad omen for President Barack Obama. Sarkozy on Sunday joined a growing list of leaders swept aside by Europe’s economic crisis or by austerity measures hated by voters. Some 11 have now fallen, including Italy’s Silvio Berlusconi and Spain’s Jose Louis Rodriguez Zapatero. Sure, many European economies […]