In the aftermath of President Obama’s now-obvious-to-all sequester overreach-in which he first predicted the end of the world as we know it, then backed away from those claims once the cuts went into effect, then attempted to inflict maximum pain on the American people, and is now blaming the Secret Service for the stupid and unnecessary decision to shut down White House tours-something is changing.
But Glenn Beck Is The Crazy One
In a 1990 dissertation while she was at Oxford;
U.N. Ambassador Susan Rice praised the 1979-1980 British peacekeeping operation that led to the rule of Zimbabwean dictator, Robert Mugabe, as “a model and a masterpiece in the evolution of international peacekeeping”…
Say It Isn’t So, Joe!
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America’s top military officer in charge of monitoring hostile actions by North Korea, escalating tensions between China and Japan, and a spike in computer attacks traced to China provides an unexpected answer when asked what is the biggest long-term security threat in the Pacific region…
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The decision to honor Ibrahim reflects poorly on the State Department, which is either incapable of doing the minimum amount of research required to find out who she is, or does not care that the secretary of state and First Lady are about to honor an anti-Semite who longs for violence against Americans. It’s understandable that now with Islamists having come to the fore after all the hope that the Egyptian uprising inspired, American policymakers are looking for the good guys, real liberal activists that deserve U.S. support. Samira Ibrahim is not one of them.
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Just don’t ask for a photo ID: Drone strikes against Americans on U.S. soil are legal
h/t RFB
The World Is Being Run By Crazy People
Because it’s worked everywhere it’s been tried;
“We are spending money we don’t have,” Mr. Bloomberg explained. “It’s not like your household. In your household, people are saying, ‘Oh, you can’t spend money you don’t have.’ That is true for your household because nobody is going to lend you an infinite amount of money. When it comes to the United States federal government, people do seem willing to lend us an infinite amount of money. … Our debt is so big and so many people own it that it’s preposterous to think that they would stop selling us more. It’s the old story: If you owe the bank $50,000, you got a problem. If you owe the bank $50 million, they got a problem. And that’s a problem for the lenders. They can’t stop lending us more money.”
The Obama Effect
October 13th, 2012 – “We refuse to let Detroit go bankrupt…”
h/t TimR
4 Year Recovery Watch Remains On High Alert
Consumer spending in the U.S. rose in January even as incomes dropped by the most in 20 years, showing households were weathering the payroll-tax increase by socking away less money in the bank.
Household purchases, which account for about 70 percent of the economy, climbed 0.2 percent…
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Maxine Waters is top Democrat on the House Financial Service Committee.
h/t betacamsp
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
Say what you want about Nixon – at least he was man enough to do his own dirty work.
More here: Yeah, I Got the Abusive Treatment From the WH and the Same ‘You Will Regret This’ Threat
“When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal”
“Very senior person” at White House emailed Bob Woodward “you’re going to regret doing this,” says Woodward live now on @cnn.
— Steve Krakauer (@SteveKrak) February 27, 2013
Is There Nothing That Obama Can’t Do?
Heh.
“That’s a kind of madness that I haven’t seen in a long time”
The famous investigative journalists are always the last to notice.
Blue State
“The Illinois Lottery bounced dozens of checks written to winners, many for scratch-off tickets worth $1,000.”
Bin Laden is Dead And Ambassador Stephens Is Dead
US military report showing drop in Taliban attacks found to be incorrect
h/t Maz2
“It’s just paperwork, it doesn’t matter”
“A person with a gun and a government badge asked me to swear in writing that a lie was true today. And when I didn’t do what she wanted she simply took my boat and asked me to leave.”
Must Have Meant “Kenyan”
Nigerian president ‘spent $1million of aid money meant for poverty-stricken country on star-studded festival …’
(h/t Patsplace)
What We Really Need Is Democracy
With a jihadist thugocracy to vote for;
Obama’s New Libya Update: American and Three Others Arrested in Benghazi for Preaching Christianity
They face the death penalty.
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Another day, another “crisis”;
To recap, the sequester was originally supposed to total $109 billion – but lawmakers delayed its onset by two months during the fiscal cliff negotiations. Now U.S. President Barack Obama – who first proposed the sequester as part of the 2011 debt ceiling deal – wants to delay it again.
According to Obama, the sequester would represent “a huge blow to middle-class families and our economy as a whole.” Obama’s White House has also referred to the sequester as “devastating,” saying its cuts would “imperil our economy, our national security (and) vital programs that middle class families depend on.”
Sounds frightening – but is it true? Of course not.