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Countrywide Cronyism.
By Tad DeHaven
http://townhall.com/columnists/taddehaven/2012/07/08/countrywide_cronyism/page/full/
Excerpt: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee chairman Darrell Issa
(R-CA) released a report today on failed mortgage company Countrywide’s use of
a VIP loan program to curry favor with Beltway decision-makers. Members of
Congress, congressional staffers, and cabinet officials received preferential
treatment – including rate discounts and fee waivers – from Countrywide.
Countrywide was a major beneficiary of the federal government’s overzealous
subsidization of housing, which contributed to the housing bubble and bust that
fueled the recent economic downturn.
Bumper flops: The
idiocy of liberal slogans. By Mark Goldblatt
Excerpt: Modern American liberalism is no longer a system of
beliefs about the role of government, the conduct of international relations or
the nature of personal responsibility. Rather, it has become a series of bumper
stickers. But if you peel them away, one by one, from the forehead of liberals,
there’s nothing underneath.
A Landmark Ruling on
Health Care. By Senator Mike Johanns of Nebraska
Excerpt: The Supreme Court last week issued its decision on
the constitutionality of the health care law: its 5-4 ruling means the
2,700-page piece of legislation is officially the law of the land. Until and
unless it is repealed, it's the law we have to live with. Yet it's important to
keep the Justices' ruling in perspective. They said this law was
constitutional. They did not say it was good policy. Their ruling doesn't
change the fact we are left with a law projected to cost $2.6 trillion;
increase premiums for family plans by more than $2,000; result in 800,000 fewer
jobs due to new mandates; and cut $500 billion from Medicare. That's clearly
bad policy and why I believe we should redouble our efforts to repeal it. ((Detailed
comment from a US
Senator, who is in a position to know what he's talking about. Yep, we had to
pass it to find out what's in it. Now we find out more every day of what's in
it. And what's in it is absolutely terrible. --Del )
DOT Construction Signs
Hacked To Read 'Impeach Obama'
Excerpt: Several electronic road construction signs around Anchorage were hacked
late Wednesday night or early Thursday morning, according to the state
Department of Transportation. Signs that normally display closure and detour
information, like the one on Minnesota
Drive near 100th Avenue , were changed to read
“Impeach Obama.” That particular sign wasn’t fixed until sometime between 6
a.m. and 8 a.m. Thursday. (Funny, but probably counter-productive. ~Bob.)
Father of six faces
60 days behind bars for hosting Bible study in his OWN home against city
rules
Excerpt: A Phoenix
man has been sentenced to two months in jail, three years’ probation and more
than $12,000 in fines for using his private home to host weekly Bible studies
in violation of the city’s building codes.
Watchdog groups
defend Florida
Excerpt: A top Inside-the-Beltway
public-interest, watchdog group announced this week that it filed a Intervention
with its client True the Vote to
defend the State of Florida ’s
efforts to clean up voter registration lists against an Obama administration
lawsuit. (This is good news. Adams, who was in the DOJ, wrote a book on
how Holder's department twisted justice to favor minorities who had committed
crimes. --Don Hank.)
http://finance.townhall.com/columnists/ann-mariemurrell/2012/07/08/desperation_smell_like_o_team_spirit
Every now and then I try to check out what the Other Side is
doing so today I visited the BarackObama.com campaign
website. Wait--what’s that smell? I recognize it but can’t quite figure it
out…oh yeah. It’s desperation.
Sharia in action:
"It is the order of Allah that she be executed" -- Taliban murders
"adulteress" near Kabul
Excerpt: Doubtless Imam Rauf is jetting over to Kabul at this very moment
to explain to the Taliban that they are getting benign and humanitarian Sharia all
wrong, wrong, wrong.
Suicide bomber kills
7 of his own family in Iraq
Didn't get the "Islam is a Religion of Peace"
memo. ~Bob. Excerpt: A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged belt at a
gathering of his own family in western Iraq , killing his pro-government
cousin and six other relatives, officials said Saturday. The blast targeting a
leader in the Sahwa militias in the city of Ramadi is
a reminder of how extremism still divides Iraq 's Sunni Muslim minority,
with some working with al-Qaida-linked insurgents against others who support
the Shiite-led government.
And people say my blog never covers good news... ~Bob. Excerpt:
Minutes after a dispute emerged between Taliban commanders over the
distribution of funds they had recently obtained by taxing local residents,
Taliban militants turned their guns on each other. When the smoke cleared, four
Taliban members, including two commanders, lay dead,
while at least three others were wounded. The clash, which occurred in Loka
Sang village in the unstable Obe district in Herat , resulted in the death of Maulvi Abdul
Karim, the shadow district governor, and Mullah Imatullah, the military
commander for Obe, according to a village elder who spoke to Pajhwok Afghan News.
Excerpt: General Motors recorded its best monthly sales
numbers since September 2008 last month, largely due
to government intervention. While The New York Daily News reports that General Motors’ sales are up 16 percent from
this time last year, the National Legal and PolicyCenter pointed out that government purchases of GM
automobiles rose 79 percent in June. The Detroit Free Press reports that retail sales of GM vehicles rose less
than eight percent, while sales to fleet customers rose 36 percent. (Oh, is my
thumb on the scale? Just look at the number. --Barb.)
UN Pushes Carbon Tax For ‘Global Development.’ By AWR Hawkins
Excerpt: The U.N. seems to be working overtime to take
advantage of President Obama’s soft spot for taxes, progressive schemes, and
gun control. Already this week I’ve written about the
Arms Trade Treaty, a treaty aimed at stopping guns from crossing borders, and
which will ultimately require gun registration to keep track of whose guns are
going where. Now we can add to that a proposed billionaire’s tax, a carbon tax, and a currency
exchange tax.
On this week’s “Girl on Guy” podcast with Aisha Tyler from Vibe
magazine, comedian and television sitcom personality Wayne Brady said “I would
gladly slap the shit out of Bill Maher in the middle of the street.” In 2010,
Bill Maher said he wished President Barack Obama was less like Brady
and more like Death Row Records co-founder Suge Knight.
The Final Week of Judicial Activism Lost in the glare of
the ObamaCare decision: last week, the Supreme Court overturned 32 of 33
statutes. By Rick Richman
Last week, while upholding ObamaCare, the Supreme Court
issued rulings in four other cases, overturning a total of 32 state and federal
statutes. The significance of the other cases may
have been lost in the glare of the ObamaCare decision. The other cases portray
a Court quite ready to — in President Obama’s famous words — “somehow overturn a duly constituted and
passed law.” Taken together, the four cases are a study in judicial activism.
Congressman Jesse
Jackson, Jr.’s Ailments ‘More Serious’ Than First Believed
Rep, Jesse Jackson, Jr., son of the civil rights leader Rev.
Jesse Jackson, is more seriously ill than first believed, according to his
communications director. ... Is it simply a coincidence that Nayak’s indictment
came so close to the announcement of Jackson ’s
leave of absence? What might be the connection, if any, between the two events.
Excerpt: Over at the Washington
Free Beacon, Matt Continetti has a fine piece up on “The Obama
Derecho.” He’s referring to the nasty storm that crippled
the Washington , D.C.
Roll-your-own
cigarette operations to be snuffed out
Excerpt: A tiny amendment buried in the federal
transportation bill to be signed today by President Barack Obama will put
operators of roll-your-own cigarette operations in Las Vegas and nationwide out of business at
midnight.
IPAB is a mini government within the federal bureaucracy.
Not only does it create rather than merely implement Medicare
cost-cutting policy, but it has greater power within its realm than elected
officials — including the president of the United States . Indeed, its “advice”
is really a mandate that literally can become law over a presidential veto
Putin’s July 4th
Message: Russian Nuclear-Capable Bombers Intercepted Near West Coast In Second
U.S. Air Defense Zone Intrusion In Two Weeks
Excerpt: Two Russian strategic nuclear bombers entered the U.S. air defense zone near the Pacific coast on
Wednesday and were met by U.S.
interceptor jets, defense officials told the Free Beacon. It was the
second time Moscow dispatched nuclear-capable
bombers into the 200-mile zone surrounding U.S. territory in the past two
weeks.
Excerpt: Scientists in Geneva
announced this week that they had found a new subatomic particle that they were
99.999999 percent sure was the elusive Higgs boson, nicknamed the “God
particle.” Even though we had no earthly idea what that meant, we were
definitely excited.
Will Congress
Continue to Push Inefficient and Uneconomic Biofuels?
Excerpt: The biofuels provisions in the Farm Bill have
nothing to do with promoting good energy or environmental policy and everything
to do with continuing the handouts for big agribusiness. Ethanol itself
has become the poster child for everything that is wrong with government subsidy
programs, and rightly so. It’s time for Congress to wean the biofuels industry
off the decades of subsidies that have supported it, and let the market decide
if they truly deserve a place in our energy future. (Here is another nice
summary of green billion$ burning a hole in our economy. - Chris)
Sanctuary Insanity:
California Senate Passes “Anti-Arizona” Bill to Protect Illegal Aliens.
Excerpt: It’s no contest. It’s not even close. California is America ’s
undisputed “Sanctuary
State Arizona ’s
S.B. 1070 – that requires police officers to check the immigration status
of people they stop – California
legislators are setting new lows in contempt for the rule of law.
Look Who's Embracing
Privatization—Big City Democrats
Excerpt: We often hear that America 's infrastructure is
crumbling, but did you know that tens and possibly hundreds of billions of
dollars in private infrastructure funds are waiting to be spent? It's money
that Chicago Mayor—and Democratic Party powerhouse—Rahm Emanuel has spotted,
rightly calling it "a tool here that takes some of the pressure off taxpayers."
Previously Convicted
DUI Illegal Alien Kills American Female Teen, 16 When He Lost Control Of Car In
St. Paul
Excerpt: The Star Tribune headlines this story without
telling the whole truth:
Obama’s Goose Is Cooked. By Larry Kudlow
Excerpt:
In a campaign stop in Ohio
on Friday, Obama actually said we’re still “heading in the right direction.” Is
he kidding? As a stagnant GDP drops below 2 percent, employment falters, retail
sales decline, and the ISM index for manufacturing drops below 50 (signaling
contraction)? No objective observer can deny that the economy is headed in the wrong direction.
Jobs report: More
people went on disability than got jobs in June
Excerpt: Here’s a
fun tidbit that I missed from the June jobs report. Most months, the number of
people transferring out of the workforce on disability claims are easily
dwarfed by the people who find jobs. In June? Hope and change, baby: (Or as Obama would say... it's a step
in the right direction. --Steve.)
Rep. Brady: Obama
Recovery ‘Dead Last’
Excerpt: With a report showing
lower-than-expected number of new jobs added to
the U.S. economy last month, President Obama has
come to preside over a recovery that is “dead last in the modern era,” Texas Congressman Kevin Brady
said Friday on CNBC.
Worth Reading : Corrupt,
Inefficient Big Government Drags Down America
Excerpt: But no advanced society has ever attempted Big
Government for a third of a billion people -- for the simple reason that it
cannot be done without creating a nation with the black-hole finances of
Stockton, Calif., and the Black-Hole-of-Calcutta fetid, airless, sweatbox
utility services of Rockville, Md. Thanks to ObamaCare, in matters of health
provision, whether you're in favor of socialized medicine or truly private
health care, Swedes and Italians are now freer than Americans: They have a state
system and a private system, and both are relatively simple. What's simple in
micro-regulated America ?
Do We Need and Should
We Start a Second American Revolution?
http://godfatherpolitics.com/6047/do-we-need-and-should-we-start-a-second-american-revolution/
Excerpt: Earlier this week I attempted to ignite a debate (not a revolt) about the State of America now compared to 236 years ago when we abolished the authority of the British government over our affairs.
http://godfatherpolitics.com/6047/do-we-need-and-should-we-start-a-second-american-revolution/
Excerpt: Earlier this week I attempted to ignite a debate (not a revolt) about the State of America now compared to 236 years ago when we abolished the authority of the British government over our affairs.
WWII aviation museum
in Glenview, IL
At a function Saturday, I met Carl Lau. He's 80, flew
Corsairs off the Lexington
for the Okinawa campaign. Mostly ground
support, he says, which he hated as he always thought he was bombing civilians
a lot of the time. He was shot down by AA, which blew his wing man to pieces
and the debris took Carl out. He's still working, recently was asked to create
a diorama of the Battle of Midway for museum in Hawaii , which he did. He's created "On Final Approach" Gallery and
Events.
How Romney Can Win
Excerpt: According to a survey conducted as part of
the Financial
Trust Index, which I codirect, only 19 percent of Americans reject
the free-market system. But 51 percent are suspicious of the excessive power of
big business. In other words, they are pro-market, but not necessarily
pro-business, especially when business is large and politically powerful.
Why Try To Take Baby
From EDL Mother But Not From ‘Terrorists’?
Excerpt: He said: “It raises a curious question as to why
Abu Qatada is allowed to radicalise his children but the state won’t take the
chance of allowing Toni McLeod to look after her baby in case she says
something social workers won’t like. ... Social workers have told her husband
Martyn he would be unable to care for his child because he is a full-time
soldier just back from Afghanistan .
Unemployment Rate
Dropped In Every State That Elected A GOP Gov. in 2010
http://nation.foxnews.com/unemployment-rate/2012/07/08/unemployment-rate-dropped-every-state-elected-gop-gov-2010
http://nation.foxnews.com/unemployment-rate/2012/07/08/unemployment-rate-dropped-every-state-elected-gop-gov-2010
Excerpt: In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus
on fiscal issues, 17 states elected Republican governors. And, according to an
Examiner.com analysis, every one of those states saw a drop in their
unemployment rates since January of 2011. Furthermore, the average drop in the
unemployment rate in these states was 1.35%, compared to the national decline
of .9%, which means, according to the analysis, that the job market in these
Republican states is improving 50% faster than the national rate.
Reverend Wright
knocks Obama in Sunday sermon
Excerpt: Speaking at the 100th anniversary of a Washington , D.C. church, the
Reverend Jeremiah Wright knocked President Barack Obama and accused America ’s elite
academic institutions of instilling racism. (Probably helps Obama, though as he
often said, he didn't listen to Wright even when he went to his church.. ~Bob.)
Excerpt: Section 1. Policy. The Federal Government
must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances
to carry out its most critical and time sensitive missions. Survivable,
resilient, enduring, and effective communications, both domestic and
international, are essential to enable the executive branch to communicate
within itself and with: the legislative and judicial branches; State, local,
territorial, and tribal governments; private sector entities; and the public,
allies, and other nations.
GE CEO Jeffrey
Immelt, The Head Of Obama’s Jobs Council, Is Moving Jobs And Economic
Infrastructure To China
Excerpt: Jeffrey Immelt, the head of Barack Obama's highly
touted "Jobs Council", is moving even more GE infrastructure to China .
GE makes more medical-imaging machines than anyone else in the world, and now
GE has announced that it "is moving the
headquarters of its 115-year-old X-ray business to Beijing". Apparently,
this is all part of a "plan to invest about $2 billion across China "
over the next few years. But moving core pieces of its business overseas is
nothing new for GE.
Economy Stalls As Obama Targets Businesses
Excerpt:
What isn’t so widely known, however, is the increased frequency with which
individual businesses are being confronted and threatened by governmental
agencies other than the I.R.S. For example, U.S. Congressman David Schweikert
(R-Arizona) tells a horrifying story about a small business owner and his
government- and it’s a story that helps explain why the economy isn’t growing.
A
Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy
Excerpt: Perhaps the most misunderstood aspect of energy transitions is their speed. Substituting one
form of energy for another takes along time. U.S. Edison ’s successful
incandescent bulb hit the market. Electricity had a brief, intense, and
successful war with gas lighting that was completely won before the First World
War began. In the 1930s, the USA
Mob of Black Teens
Attack Whites in Columbus
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/editorials/2012/07/07/fireworks-show-lacked-safety-plan.html
Excerpt: During the 2012 Red, White & Boom celebration,
there were dozens of police officers at the fireworks. Most of these officers
were clumped in bunches near the Scioto
River
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