Earmarks by a different name?
KADA Corruption and Destruction every where you turn.
Thursday, September 30, 2010
Rank and file Democratic congressman’s brother dependent on government grants for company’s success | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Rank and file Democratic congressman’s brother dependent on government grants for company’s success | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment
Earmarks by a different name?
KADA Corruption and Destruction every where you turn.
Earmarks by a different name?
KADA Corruption and Destruction every where you turn.
U.S. second-quarter growth slows to 1.7% Economic Report - MarketWatch
U.S. second-quarter growth slows to 1.7% Economic Report - MarketWatch
Details
In current dollars, the value of the nation’s goods and services is about $14.6 trillion.
For the second quarter, Commerce reported that final sales to domestic purchasers -- which include consumers, businesses and the government -- rose 4.3%.
Exports of goods and services rose 9.1%. However, imports rose 33.5%, the largest jump since 1984.
Personal consumption expenditures rose 2.2%, while gross private domestic investment gained 26.2%.
Government spending and investment rose 3.9%, with a 9.1% gain for the federal government, and 0.6% gain for state and local.
Corporate profits were up 37% compared with the year-ago quarter. After taxes, profits were up 26.5%.
The price index for personal consumption expenditures was up 1.9% from the year-ago quarter. Excluding volatile food and energy, prices were up 1.5%.
Elsewhere Thursday, the Labor Department reported that the number of initial jobless claims fell 16,000 to 453,000, according to the most recent weekly data. Read full story.
Ruth Mantell is a MarketWatch reporter based in Washington.
U.S. jobless claims drop 16,000 to 453,000 Economic Report - MarketWatch
U.S. jobless claims drop 16,000 to 453,000 Economic Report - MarketWatch
The real threat to America is Obama, Pelosi, Reid and most Democrats.
They are intentionally destroying America.
Are you still a Democrat?
Claims for the prior week were revised up by 4,000 to 469,000.Surprise Surprise
The real threat to America is Obama, Pelosi, Reid and most Democrats.
They are intentionally destroying America.
Are you still a Democrat?
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
FOXNews.com - Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston
FOXNews.com - Citizens' Group Helps Uncover Alleged Rampant Voter Fraud in Houston
Beware of next election impact.
The integrity of the voting rolls in Harris County, Texas, appears to be under an organized and systematic attack by the group operating under the name Houston Votes," the Harris voter registrar, Leo Vasquez, charged as he passed on the documentation to the district attorney. A spokesman for the DA's office declined to discuss the case. And a spokesman for Vasquez said that the DA has asked them to refrain from commenting on the case.The outcome of the efforts grew in importance the day after Vasquez made his announcement. On the morning of Aug. 27, a three-alarm fire destroyed almost all of Harris County’s voting machines, throwing the upcoming Nov. 2 election into turmoil. While the cause wasn’t determined, the $40 million blaze, according to press reports, means election officials will be focused on creating a whole new voting system in six weeks. Just how they do it will determine how vulnerable the process becomes.
Beware of next election impact.
Army judge tells officer: Shut up and be punished!
Army judge tells officer: Shut up and be punished!
In her decision, Lind, acting as judge in the case, censored the last remaining arguments Lakin planned to make in his defense: motive and duty. Lakin had intended to explain his motive for disobeying the order and contend that it was his duty as a good soldier to disobey orders that he believes to be illegal.Obama "Justice" is corrupt from the Top down. If it is in the military, how far does it go?The defense also planned to call as witnesses Ambassador Alan Keyes and retired Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney. Keyes was to explain the constitutional issues involved in the case, and McInerney was to talk about the training soldiers receive regarding when they should question and even disobey orders.
Lind was following up on her rulings from Sept. 2, when she rejected defense plans to introduce evidence concerning Obama's eligibility. The defense also requested for Lakin's defense documents referencing Obama's birth records on file in Hawaii, but Lind refused to allow that either, noting that providing the documents might prove "embarrassing" to Obama.
"Our arms were cut off last time," said Jensen. "Our legs are being cut off this time."
In rejecting Lakin's right to discovery of Obama birth documents, Lind joined a host of other judges – in civilian courts – who have refused to allow plaintiffs suing Obama to obtain his birth records. Jensen told WND he had hoped the court would permit Lakin to go to discovery, because Lakin is the defendant in a criminal case and has the right to mount a full defense.
In objecting to the participation of Keyes and McInerney and the presentation of Lakin's planned arguments, the prosecution argued that all issues related to Obama's eligibility, Lakin's motives and the good soldier doctrine were "irrelevant."
"We have to have the opportunity to present some defense!" Jensen countered.
The Geography of Recession
Watch this video to see what the Libs have done to unemployment.
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Thanks Janice for the submission.
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Thanks Janice for the submission.
Monday, September 27, 2010
Friday, September 24, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
Organizations Funded by George Soros
Think he doesn't have some power.
Recognize the following:
Take a look at the list and watch for them on various Media interviews.
Recognize the following:
John Podesta headed BHO's transition team, just for starters.Center for American Progress: This leftist think tank is headed by former Clinton chief of staff John Podesta, works closely with Hillary Clinton, and employs numerous former Clinton administration staffers. It is committed to "developing a long-term vision of a progressive America" and "providing a forum to generate new progressive ideas and policy proposals."
Take a look at the list and watch for them on various Media interviews.
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Monday, September 20, 2010
Geert Wilders speaks out at '9/11' rally against ground zero mosque | Washington Times Communities
Geert Wilders speaks out at '9/11' rally against ground zero mosque | Washington Times Communities
"It’s about the symbolic meaning. We who have come to speak today, object to this mosque project because its promoter and his wealthy sponsors have never suggested building a center to promote tolerance and interfaith understanding where it is really needed: In Mecca – a town where non-Muslims are not even allowed to enter, let alone build churches, synagogues, temples or community centers.
"Ordinary Americans object to the mosque project because currently no fewer than ten major multi-million dollar mosque projects are being planned in the United States as well as dozens in Europe, while not a single church is allowed in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, while Jews are not even allowed to move their lips in prayer on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, while the oldest Christians in the world, the Copts, are not free to renovate their churches, let alone to build one in Egypt.
"My friends, that is why we are here today. What happens in New York must be seen in the perspective of the world.
"The events nine years ago made an enormous impact everywhere. Most people shared your pain, but, unfortunately, some did not.
"Nine years ago, when the news of the terrible atrocity in New York reached Europe, Muslim youths danced in the streets. In a poll, two thirds of the Muslim immigrants in the Netherlands expressed partial or full understanding for the 9/11 terrorists.
"If a mosque were built here on ground zero such people would feel triumphant. But we, we will not betray those who died on 9/11. For their sakes we cannot tolerate a mosque on or near ground zero. For their sakes loud and clear we say: No mosque here! For their sakes, we must draw the line. So that New York, rooted in Dutch tolerance, will never become New Mecca.
"But, let us also express our gratitude for the heroes of 9/11, those who went down in that Pennsylvania field, those who were standing freedom’s watch at the Pentagon, and those who were here in New York nine years ago to risk and lose their lives for the victims.
"Friends, in honor of these victims, these heroes and their families, I believe that the words of Ronald Reagan, spoken in Normandy on the 40th anniversary of D-Day, resonate with new purpose on this hallowed spot.
"President Reagan said: 'We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we may always be free.' And, we, too, will always remember the victims of 9/11 and their loved ones who were left behind; We, too, will always be proud of the heroes; We will always defend liberty, democracy and human dignity; In the name of freedom: No mosque here!"
Saturday, September 18, 2010
Essays on AmericanTownMeeting
Essays on AmericanTownMeeting
From 1992
Click on
From 1992
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"Well, I think you are going to be surprised when you get a black president very soon."
The consensus we expressed was that we didn't think there was anything innately barring that. The right person at the right time and sure, America would try to vote for the right person, be he or she black or not.
"What if I told you that you will have a black president very soon and he will be a Communist?"
Was Obama Born in Kenya
Was Obama Born in Kenya
WELCOME – WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
WAS OBAMA BORN IN KENYA(www.WasObamaBornInKenya.com)
Helpful website for posters, contacts, and information.
Helpful website for posters, contacts, and information.
Friday, September 17, 2010
C-SPAN Video Player - Leading conservative Voices join together in Washington
C-SPAN Video Player - Leading conservative Voices join together in Washington
Want to hear some good speeches? Listen to these.
Only have limited time? Go to 1:00 into the broadcast.
Want to hear some good speeches? Listen to these.
Only have limited time? Go to 1:00 into the broadcast.
“Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”
Greenspan in “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”: “In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value. If there were, the government would have to make its holding illegal, as was done in the case of gold. If everyone decided, for example, to convert all his bank deposits to silver or copper or any other good, and thereafter declined to accept checks as payment for goods, bank deposits would lose their purchasing power and government-created bank credit would be worthless as a claim on goods. The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.”
The article here: http://www.sagold.com/gildedopinion/greenspan.html
And, Greenspan yesterday: “Fiat money has no place to go but gold,” the former Fed chairman said at the Council… The American people, he asserted in his book, have for the most part “tolerated the inflation bias as an acceptable cost of the modern welfare state.”
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/greenspans-warning-on-gold/87080/
The key point is this: The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. That includes Gold.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/225579-congressmen-weiner-and-waxman-set-gold-hearing
Thanks to Brian for catching this scary Gold analysis.
This is the shabby secret of the welfare statists' tirades against gold. Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth. Gold stands in the way of this insidious process. It stands as a protector of property rights. If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists' antagonism toward the gold standard.”
The article here: http://www.sagold.com/gildedopinion/greenspan.html
And, Greenspan yesterday: “Fiat money has no place to go but gold,” the former Fed chairman said at the Council… The American people, he asserted in his book, have for the most part “tolerated the inflation bias as an acceptable cost of the modern welfare state.”
http://www.nysun.com/editorials/greenspans-warning-on-gold/87080/
The key point is this: The financial policy of the welfare state requires that there be no way for the owners of wealth to protect themselves. That includes Gold.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/225579-congressmen-weiner-and-waxman-set-gold-hearing
Thanks to Brian for catching this scary Gold analysis.
Obama Endorses Global Taxes on Eve of U.N. Summit
Obama Endorses Global Taxes on Eve of U.N. Summit
World Government on the Move.A draft “outcome document” produced in advance of the September 20-22 U.N. Summit on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) commits the nations of the world to supporting “innovative financing mechanisms” to supplement foreign aid spending.
The term “innovative financing mechanisms” is a U.N. euphemism for global taxes. But the document actually goes further, praising the “Task Force on International Financial Transactions for Development” for its work on the subject of mobilizing additional “resources” for countries to achieve the MDGs. This is a body tasked with proposing and implementing global tax schemes.
Thursday, September 16, 2010
9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | New plan gives government first dibs on foreclosures
9NEWS.com | Denver | Colorado's Online News Leader | New plan gives government first dibs on foreclosures
AURORA - A new program allows government agencies and their partners to have exclusive purchase rights on foreclosed homes before families, investors and the rest of the private market is allowed to bid.Government, Government, Government--Nobody but Government!
9Wants to Know has learned the initiative, called First Look, is touted as a tool to maximize an effort funded with federal taxpayer dollars to fix-and-flip homes in distressed neighborhoods.
Critics argue First Look is government intrusion into the real estate marketplace that will impact families looking to purchase and live in a foreclosed house.
Charles Roberts, a Realtor with Your Castle Real Estate in Denver, called the recently-announced government initiative "appalling."
"They're changing the rules. They're tilting it in their favor," Roberts said. "They actually get an opportunity to buy a house before a homeowner, which doesn't make any sense to me at all."
First Look will be utilized by grantees in the Department of Housing and Urban
Development's Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP).Since 2008, the NSP has used billions in federal tax money with the aim of shoring up troubled neighborhoods plagued by foreclosures and abandoned homes. The homes are resold to low-income and moderate-income families at or below the cost to the government or participating non-profit.
First Look offers NSP grantees including state and local governments and non-profit organizations an exclusive one to two day window to express interest in a property. Those governments and nonprofits will have five to 12 days to close the deal before the property is opened to the private market.
The initiative is a partnership between HUD, the Stabilization Trust and financial institutions holding an estimated 75 percent of the bank-owned properties in the U.S.
Guts to Stand Up to Chicago Like Mafia!
Is there one man with guts to stand up to this dirty Chicago mafia?
by Dr. Orly Taitz, Candidate for CA Secretary of State
Posted on | September 15, 2010 |
I am sick and tired of Obama operatives harassing and intimidating everyone, who dares to stand up to them.
Yesterday a leading Constitutional Scholar in the country Professor Ron Rotunda has e-mailed me. He signed up as my friend on my new facebook page and a number of his friends, distinquished attorneys and scholars followed him and signed up as my friends on Facebook as well. A number of them e-mailed me and stated they admired me.
Professor Rotunda is a chair of the Connstitutional Law Department at Chapman university. On his own accord he has written to me and stated that he knew about my run for CA Secretary of State and that he voted for me and he recommended a number of attorneys who can help me. I didn’t pressure him to write to me. What a person rights on his own accord is really of value and represents his true opinion.
Now, after these facts became public, a number of Obama operatives started harassing professor Rotunda and intimidating him and pressuring him to write to me, asking me to take down this information from my site. This is part of a 2 year campaign of them doing the same thing to a number of my supporters, attorneys, law enforcement officials and judges.
Sorry, I am sick and tired of Obama regime harassment of my supporters. I did not escape the tyranny of the Communist Soviet Union to let these despicable Chicago thugs intimidate and harass everyone into silence. There is a pattern of harassment and intimidation. I hope everyone, reading this page, writes a criminal complaint to Glenn Fine, Inspector General of the Department of Justice, and to Public Integrity unit of the department of Justice and demand a criminal investigation of this unrelenting campaign of intimidation and harassment of me and my supporters, as dissidents against illegitimate Obama regime.
Just recently Congressman Deal wrote to Obama, demanding proof of eligibility, he signed up as my friend on facebook, only to get harassing calls and intimidation.
Judge David O. Carter stated on the record that my case is valid and needs to be heard on the merits, the whole country needs to hear it, the military needs to hear it. He stated that there is jurisdiction in his court. After that, Obama regime planted one of Perkins Coie Attorneys, Obama’s defense attorneys as a law clerk for judge Carter, this clerk or his boss White House Counsel Robert Bauer concocted a horrible opinion for judge Carter, stating that Carter no longer has Jurisdiction and attacking me.
What Judge Land did, was just inexcusable and incomprehensible.
Enough is enough. I am sick of this Chicago mafia harassing everyone. I hope each and every one of you is equally sick. Please, call, write, e-mail, tweet to Glenn Fine, Inspector general’s office, to director of FBI Robert Mueller, director of Secret Service Mark Sullivan. These people need to do their job, appoint a special prosecutor and start criminal investigation, get the names of all these thugs hiding behind the assumed names, intimidating citizens, writing fraudulent affidavits, engaging in psy-op. (I preserved their IP addresses and other information). These officials need to start doing their jobs or they need to be thrown out of office together with Obama.
Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Forbes.com - Magazine Article
Forbes.com - Magazine Article
09.27.10, 12:00 AM ETThis article describes the real Barack Hussein Obama.Barack Obama is the most antibusiness president in a generation, perhaps in American history. Thanks to him the era of big government is back. Obama runs up taxpayer debt not in the billions but in the trillions. He has expanded the federal government's control over home mortgages, investment banking, health care, autos and energy. The Weekly Standard summarizes Obama's approach as omnipotence at home, impotence abroad.
Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say - Washington Times
Shariah a danger to U.S., security pros say - Washington Times
HE says he's a christian, but he's also a pathological lier.
A panel of national security experts who worked under Republican and Democratic presidents is urging the Obama administration to abandon its stance that Islam is not linked to terrorism, arguing that radical Muslims are using Islamic law to subvert the United States.If the current policy of not linking Islam to terrorism isn't changed, then Resident Obama may be the leader of the radical Muslims to subvert the United States with Islamic law.
HE says he's a christian, but he's also a pathological lier.
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
How Obama Gets Our First Principles Wrong - Article - National Review Online
How Obama Gets Our First Principles Wrong - Article - National Review Online
What betrays American tradition is the federal government’s establishment of a state religion. What violates our principles is the federal government’s interference with the free exercise of one’s religious beliefs.It was a good deal more un-American for our federal thought police to browbeat the pastor than for the pastor to threaten a Koran barbeque. Don’t think so? Ask yourself what the New York Times would say if the FBI had instead been dispatched to discourage a university professor from burning the American flag.
If you are worried about the principles of the Founding, you are right to be. The First Amendment is about thwarting an authoritarian government, not policing how we argue with each other. Where was this grave concern about what this country stands for when the State Department wrote new constitutions for Iraq and Afghanistan that establish Islam as the state religion and impose sharia — a creed that, in Muslim countries, stifles freedom of conscience and the freedom to exercise religions other than Islam?
There is a government that makes it official policy to “burn the sacred tests of someone else’s religion.” It is Saudi Arabia, which regularly torches Bibles and other non-Muslim religious texts. President Obama is not hectoring Saudi sheikhs; he is about to provide them with $60 billion worth of advanced military arms, the better to protect their sharia state.
Egypt is a repressive regime in good standing among the repressive regimes of the Organization of the Islamic Conference. Last October, it jointly sponsored a resolution in the United Nations Human Rights Council, an international sharia redoubt. It would require all countries to “take effective measures” that prohibit “any advocacy of . . . religious hatred” that could incite “hostility” — which is to say, it demands that countries enact and enforce laws that bar criticism of Islam. Who was the Mubarak regime’s co-sponsor? The Obama administration.
Somehow, on that one, our smooth-talking president seems to have lost his voice on the matter of “what this country stands for.”
— Andrew C. McCarthy, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, is the author, most recently, of The Grand Jihad: How Islam and the Left Sabotage America.
Andrew C. McCarthy for President.
Big Sis To Get Expanded Role In Policing Internet
Big Sis To Get Expanded Role In Policing Internet
This isn't incompetence, it's corruption.“DHS will get expanded authorities. I think that’s clear,” said James Lewis, a cybersecurity expert with think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies, who has studied the new bill.
An expanded role for Homeland Security would be somewhat ironic given the fact that the DHS itself recently failed an extensive cyber-security audit conducted by the agency’s own Inspector General.
“The DHS US-CERT office is currently plagued by at least 600 vulnerabilities that could compromise sensitive data, including 202 which have been classified as high-risk,” reported TG Daily.
Homeland Security’s failure to adequately secure its own internal network will lead to questions about why the agency should be given vast new authority to secure America’s cyber assets and the public Internet.
Monday, September 13, 2010
Hijacking Justice: How Judicial Elections Are Replaced by Liberal Special Interests | The Heritage Foundation
Hijacking Justice: How Judicial Elections Are Replaced by Liberal Special Interests | The Heritage Foundation
A groundbreaking study released by the American Justice Partnership, Justice Hijacked: Your Right to Vote Is at Stake, reveals that Soros’s Open Society Institute has invested at least $45.4 million in earmarked funds in its campaign to reshape the judiciary....Soros Money against America again.
Merit SelectionThis multi-million-dollar campaign to reshape America’s courts encompasses efforts to revise state constitutions, rewrite judicial recusal rules, abolish democratic judicial elections, and impose a judicial selection system known by its proponents as “merit selection.”
Under “merit selection,” the power to select judges is transferred from the people to a small, unelected, unaccountable commission comprised primarily of legal elites, typically including representatives of powerful special interest groups, such as state trial lawyers associations—whose politics, not surprisingly, are more liberal than the general public.
Promoted as a method to keep “politics” out of the judicial selection process, the merit committees in many states are extremely politicized and have fueled several high-profile political controversies in the past few years. Such confrontations have prompted scholars to question whether the merit selection system serves any of its stated purposes....
Backroom Political Deals
Ironically, the same opponents of judicial elections who loudly protest about contributions negatively affecting the independence of the judiciary—a claim for which they have yet to provide any concrete evidence—are receiving and spending tens of millions of dollars to not merely influence judicial elections but eliminate them and turn judicial selection over to special interests and backroom political deals. This does not remove politics from the process but rather moves politics outside of public view.
The well-funded proponents of so-called merit selection engage in a kind of political self-dealing, promoting selection by interest groups who are more closely aligned to their liberal agenda. Those who are concerned about the influence of money in judicial elections should pay more attention to the money spent by those seeking to use “merit” selection not to eliminate politics but to embed interest group politics formally into the selection process, thereby tilting judicial selection in their political favor.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grants < 2010 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees
OSHA Susan Harwood Training Grants: 2010 Susan Harwood Grant Awardees
Or Better Called Illegal Alien Grant Awardees Support Program
Unbelievable!
Or Better Called Illegal Alien Grant Awardees Support Program
Unbelievable!
Thursday, September 9, 2010
This Is Where We Begin to Say No - Article - National Review Online
This Is Where We Begin to Say No - Article - National Review Online
by Andrew C. McCarthy
by Andrew C. McCarthy
This is a must read article.It should never have gotten this far. Sponsors of the Ground Zero mosque neither own the property in question nor possess the means to build and operate the palatial Islamic center they envision. The more light that shines on their record of murky real-estate dealings and the dubious circumstances of their limited stake in the Ground Zero property, the more questions arise. In a more sensible world, those questions would get answered before we plunged into a rancorous public debate. That hasn’t happened, though. In spite of the implacable determination of the mayor (and the attorney general who would be governor) to look the other way, the issue has galvanized the public. What has long bubbled beneath the surface did not need much more heat to boil over.
For the better part of two decades, Americans have been murdered by Islamists and then lectured that they are to blame for what has befallen them. We have been instructed in the need for special sensitivity to the unceasing demands of Islamic culture and falsely accused of intolerance by the people who wrote the book on intolerance. Americans have sacrificed blood and bottomless treasure for Islamic peoples who despise Americans — and despise us even more as our sacrifices and gestures of self-loathing intensify. Americans have watched as apologists for terrorists and sharia were made the face of an American Muslim community that we were simultaneously assured was the very picture of pro-American moderation.
Americans have had our fill. We are willing to live many lies. This one, though, strikes too close to home, arousing our heretofore dormant sense of decency. Americans have now heard Barack Obama’s shtick enough times to know that when he talks about “our values,” he’s really talking about his values, which most of us don’t share. And after ten years of CAIR’s tired tirades, we’re immune to Feisal Rauf, too.
Burning Questions - Article - National Review Online
Burning Questions - Article - National Review Online
by Andrew C. McCarthy
by Andrew C. McCarthy
For instance, I’m wondering whether President Obama, after his always clarifying “Let me be clear,” has yet been heard to say,The real jackass is Obama for not standing up for America.I believe that Christian ministers have the same right to free expression as everyone else in this country. And that includes the right to torch a Koran on private property in Florida, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to free expression must be unshakeable. The writ of the Founders must endure.
The president can always come back the next day and explain that he wasn’t talking about the wisdom of burning Korans, only the irrelevant fact that a jackass has a right to be a jackass.
Jobless Claims in U.S. Decreased 27,000 to 451,000 Last Week - Bloomberg
Jobless Claims in U.S. Decreased 27,000 to 451,000 Last Week - Bloomberg
Initial jobless claims dropped by 27,000 to 451,000 in the week ended Sept. 4, Labor Department figures showed today in Washington. The total number of people receiving unemployment insurance was little changed, while those getting extended payments rose....For the latest reporting week, nine states didn’t file claims data to the Labor Department in Washington because of the federal holiday earlier this week, a Labor Department official told reporters. As a result, California and Virginia estimated their figures and the U.S. government estimated the other seven, the official said.
The four-week moving average, a less volatile measure than the weekly figures, declined to 477,750 last week from 487,000, today’s report showed.
The number of people continuing to receive jobless benefits fell by 2,000 in the week ended Aug. 28 to 4.48 million. They were forecast to drop to 4.45 million.
The continuing claims figure does not include the number of Americans receiving extended benefits under federal programs.
Those who’ve used up their traditional benefits and are now collecting emergency and extended payments increased by about 29,300 to 5.47 million in the week ended Aug. 21.
Another good week for the Obama Socializing America plan. Wonder if they will improve when the nine states, including California and Virginia, are included.
Wednesday, September 8, 2010
DEMINT: Washington doesn't deserve a raise - Washington Times
DEMINT: Washington doesn't deserve a raise - Washington Times
Specifically, I offered an amendment on June 23 to extend the current tax rate on capital gains and dividends. The Democrats voted it down 57-40, opting to raise taxes on seniors and investors who pay those taxes. On July 21, I offered an amendment to repeal the death tax. The Democrats voted it down 59-39, choosing to let the government confiscate up to 55 percent of a person's assets upon death. On Aug. 5, I offered two amendments. The first would have stopped all of the January tax increases on personal income. The Democrats voted it down 58-42. My second amendment would have blocked tax increases on small businesses that file as individuals. Again, the Democrats voted it down, 58-42.Don't say they are both the same.
Insurers Pin Rate Hikes on Health Law - WSJ.com
Insurers Pin Rate Hikes on Health Law - WSJ.com
By JANET ADAMY
Health insurers say they plan to raise premiums for some Americans as a direct result of the health overhaul in coming weeks, complicating Democrats' efforts to trumpet their signature achievement before the midterm elections.
Tuesday, September 7, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Battle-scarred judge says Lakin decision ignores Constitution
Battle-scarred judge says Lakin decision ignores Constitution
Who defends The Constitution anymore, if not Resident Obama, if not the Courts, not the Military, if not Congress, and if not even the Supreme Court?In addressing the court, Jensen said, "If the president is ineligible, you need to know that, Lt. Col. Lakin needs to know that, and the army needs to know that."
He also argued that obtaining birth and education records was routine and would do the court no harm. He said it was possible to even admit the evidence during this phase of the trial and later determine whether it could be used during the actual court-martial.
Instead, Lind said:
- That all parties are, entitled to discovery or evidence under USMJ article 46. That President Obama is the commander in chief but that Congress also has significant and equal role in military matters under title 10 of the USC (Uniform Service Code.)
- That Congress has the authority to raise an army, fund it and over the years created a proper chain of command including the secretary of the army.
- That the issue of eligibility is a constitutional issue and a political question, not matter for a military court to decide.
- That a court-martial has no jurisdiction in any potential impeachment, and it could be embarrassing, although Lind did not specify whether she meant embarrassing for the president or for the court.
Lind also refused to accept Lakin’s claim that his refusal to obey orders was a matter of conscience.
Another pre-trial hearing is scheduled for Sept 21.
Lind's decision came just days after a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant general who commanded forces armed with nuclear weapons said the disclosure of Obama's documentation is not just critical to Lakin's defense, but to the preservation of the nation itself.
The vehement statements came in an affidavit from retired Lt. Gen. Thomas G. McInerney, a Fox News military analyst, that was disclosed by an organization generating support for Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin.
McInerney, who retired in 1994 after serving as vice commander in chief of USAF forces in Europe, commander of the 3rd Tactical Fighter Wing and assistant vice chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, among other positions, said the chain of command issue is critical, since officers are obligated both to follow orders and to disobey illegal orders.
"Officers in the United States military service are – and must be – trained that they owe their highest allegiance to the United States Constitution," he said in the affidavit.
"There can be no question that it is absolutely essential to good order and discipline in the military that there be no break in the unified chain of command, from the lowliest E-1 up to and including the commander in chief who is under the Constitution, the president of the United States. As military officers, we owe our ultimate loyalty not to superior officers or even to the president, but rather, to the Constitution."
He explained "good order and discipline requires not blind obedience to all orders but instead requires officers to judge – sometimes under great adversity – whether an order is illegal.
"The president of the United States, as the commander in chief, is the source of all military authority," he said. "The Constitution requires the president to be a natural born citizen in order to be eligible to hold office. If he is ineligible under the Constitution to serve in that office that creates a break in the chain of command of such magnitude that its significance can scarcely be imagined."
Lakin is being supported by the American Patriot Foundation, which said the affidavit is for use in Lakin's trial, scheduled Oct. 13-15.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Sheriff Joe's Response to the DOJ Lawsuit Against Him - Patriotic Resistance
Sheriff Joe's Response to the DOJ Lawsuit Against Him - Patriotic Resistance
Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
100 West Washington, Suite 1900
Phoenix, AZ 85003
Joe Arpaio
Sheriff
Ph: 602-876-1801
Fax: 602-251-3877
Switchboard: 602-876-1000
www.mcso.org
The following is an official statement by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio regarding today's lawsuit filed against his office by the U.S. Justice Department in Washington, D.C. for alleged refusal to turn over documents. It is followed by another statement from his Washington, D.C. attorney, Bob Driscoll.
"The Obama administration has filed three lawsuits against Arizona in the last few
weeks ... one against a college district, one against the state of Arizona and now one
against my office. Each lawsuit centers on something to do with alleged racial
discrimination.
These actions make it abundantly clear that Arizona, including this Sheriff, IS
Washington's new whipping boy. Now it's time to take the gloves off.
As for today's lawsuit against my office: These people in Washington met with my
attorneys only a few days ago. And in that meeting, Washington got our
cooperation; they admitted they already have thousands of pages of the requested
documents; and they were given access to interview my staff and get into my jails.
They smiled in our faces and then stabbed us in the back with this lawsuit. The
Obama administration intended to sue us all along, no matter what we did to try to
avert it.
Washington isn't playing fair and it's time Americans everywhere wake up and see
this administration for what it really is. Calculating, underhanded at times and
certainly not looking out for the best interests of the legal citizens residing in this
country. "
MORE
STATEMENT OF ROBERT N. DRISCOLL,
COUNSEL TO SHERIFF JOSEPH ARPAIO AND THE MARICOPA
COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
"Today's lawsuit by the Department of Justice is part of a deliberate media
strategy to "get tough" on Sheriff Arpaio and the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office
and undermine immigration enforcement by a local Sheriff who is trying
desperately to make up for this Administration's own indifference to the topic.
The DOJ suit speaks loudly by what it does not say. It does not allege that Sheriff
Arpaio or the MCSO have discriminated against anyone because the DOJ, after 18
months of soliciting allegations against Sheriff Arpaio, has come up empty. Even
the purported basis for the suit, which alleges a lack of "cooperation," is a sham.
In fact, after meeting with the DOJ last week, just last Friday, on behalf of MCSO,
I informed the DOJ that MCSO would cooperate with all reasonable document
requests and would schedule tours of MCSO facilities and interviews with senior
MCSO command staff. We were awaiting a response from DOJ, and this lawsuit
is apparently it. Clearly DOJ is more interested filing its third lawsuit in as many
weeks against Arizona defendants than in looking into the allegations that
purportedly gave rise to its investigation. This lawsuit is nothing more than an
attempt to obscure the fact that DOJ still has no case. Today's suit over documents
does not change that."
CONTACT: ROBERT N. DRISCOLL (202) 239-3470
http://www.mcso.org/include/pr_pdf/Obama%20Lawsuit.pdf
Judge to Lakin: Find another defense
Judge to Lakin: Find another defense
Maybe now, Congress will act. Not as long as the Current Ruling Regime is in power.
Is it too late?
If Military Courts are corrupt too, who is left to defend The Constitution? With this Supreme Court, it's a toss up, for now.Army Col. Denise R. Lind today ruled in a hearing regarding the evidence to be allowed in the scheduled October court-martial of Lakin that he will be denied access to any of Obama's records as well as any testimony from those who may have access to the records.
With her decision, Lind mirrored a number of federal judges who have ruled on civil lawsuits over Obama's eligibility. They have without exception denied the plaintiffs' access to any requested documentation regarding the president's eligibility.
Lind ruled that it was "not relevant" for the military to be considering such claims, that the laws allegedly violated by Lakin were legitimate on their face and that the chain of command led up to the Pentagon, and that should have been sufficient for Lakin.
Paul Rolf Jensen, Lakin's civilian attorney, said the case would continue. But he said the courts now have denied his client the opportunity to present his defense.
Maybe now, Congress will act. Not as long as the Current Ruling Regime is in power.
Is it too late?
Thursday, September 2, 2010
Obama Apologetics Group "Catholics" in Alliance for the Common Good Folds
Obama Apologetics Group "Catholics" in Alliance for the Common Good Folds
Catholic's beware of the Devils."After spending millions of George Soros’ money in promoting pro-abortion health care (including sponsoring a phone call starring President Obama who called FRC “deceivers” on the call”) and in trying to diminish abortion as an issue for American Catholics it appears the false Catholic group has closed up shop," he said.
If that is the case, McClusky says it confirms what pro-life advocates said about CACG, "confirming to many that it was a George Soros vehicle meant to confuse and divide the Catholic vote in favor to benefit pro-abortion President Obama."
The pro-life advocate says two of the founders of the organization include Alexia Kelley, who now runs the faith based office at Health and Human Services, and Tom Perriello, the congressman from Virginia.
McClusky says Perriello "is in the race for his life because of his numerous bad votes that seem to favor George Soros’ agenda as opposed to the people in his district, including votes for the pro-abortion Obamacare."
Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good released a pre-election voter guide that incorrectly suggested support for pro-abortion politicians can be justified.
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