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Environmentalist Celebrate Job Destruction

This dismantling of two cranes in Lewiston last week and the dismantling of jobs make a fine metaphor for the state of the economy in the Age of Obama.

Megaload opponents celebrated a victory last week, which is another of saying that the local economy lost. The last megaload heading up highway 95 passed through Moscow Tuesday. And environmentalist puritans were celebrating.

Not so long ago, the Lewiston/Clarkston valley was eagerly looking forward to handling hundreds of “megaloads,” that would be shipped up the Snake River, unloaded at the Port of Lewiston, and transported over Lolo Pass on Highway 12. Today they’re hoping for six.

Regardless of what route the megaloads take, the ultimate destination of all this oil extraction equipment will be the Canadian tar sands. But who needs oil?

At a time when twitchy Democrats fearing for their political careers are pleading for President Obama to open the Strategic Oil Reserves, the Canadian tars sands could supply the United States with 700,000 barrels of oil per day. Standing in the way of all that oil and all that progress are the Pestocrats.

This all could have worked out so well for the area. The fortunate coincidence of good luck and good geography made Lewiston the perfect place for the megaloads. The intersection of the most inland port in the western United States and the only road over the Rocky Mountains without overpasses made this possible. What made it impossible was an unfortunate coincidence of environmental puritans sharing this same geography.

Now the Port of Pasco is as far upriver as the megaloads will travel. There they will be broken down into smaller units that can make the trek over the mountains without being blocked by overpasses. It turned out that overpasses were less of an obstruction than Pestocrats.

It has been a very good week for environmentalist puritans. More jobs have been destroyed, gas prices will remain painfully high, and the United States remains the hostage of hostile oil producing dictatorships. What could be better than that?

Local environmentalist puritans, whom this paper ironically described as “ordinary citizens,” were celebrating that last megaload. These puritans found the idea of megaloads passing through the area as they slept intolerable.

A joke that gets opportunistically circulated defines a Puritan as someone who loses sleep every night because he’s worried that someone, somewhere might be enjoying himself. We might amend that to redefine environmentalists as a person who can’t sleep at night because he worries that someone, somewhere might be earning an honest living.

And in this area, that’s the literal truth. The megaloads only traveled during the very darkest hours of the night. The complainers had to set their alarms to be troubled by the megaloads, because the megaloads only traveled when ordinary citizens slept. The megaload transits were intentionally scheduled during those hours so that they would not trouble genuinely ordinary people. Ordinary citizens sleep at night so they can get up refreshed and go to work in the morning.

Considering that there were never more than a tiny handful of these noisy troublemakers who were sufficiently troubled by these nocturnal transits to alter their sleep habits, I would define ordinary citizens as those who elected not to make a stink. Were the people who owe their lost their jobs to environmentalist wackoism not ordinary citizens?

The ordinary citizen would like to make an honest living and appreciates it when jobs come into his area. Four dollar per gallon gasoline does violence to the household budgets of the ordinary citizen. And he understands that the price of commodities, such as crude oil, is determined by supply and demand. When demand strains supply, the price goes up. When supply increases, prices go down. He knows that the 700,000 barrels per day that the Canadian tars sands would provide will make his life better.

The Canadian tar sands have become a battleground for the environmental puritans. When Republicans tried to push an amendment through Congress forcing the construction of a pipeline that would bring Canadian oil into this country, Barack Obama personally lobbied for its defeat.

China has expressed its eagerness to burn any Canadian oil that the US doesn’t want. So, while China’s industrial engine is fueled by Canadian oil and you’re paying $5 per gallon or more, take time to thank the environmental puritans who just couldn’t sleep at night, worrying that megaloads might be passing nearby.

Fisker Fiasco Worse Than The Solyndra Scandal

Barack Obama's merdas touch.

1.     DOE, under Secretary Steven Chu, awarded Fisker a $529 million loan guarantee to produce a vehicle – the Karma – that retails for a $102,000 base price. If the average owner of the $41,000 Chevy Volt earns $170,000 per year, it’s logical to conclude this will subsidize the purchase of a luxury car for the very wealthy.

2.     Among Fisker’s highest profile backers is the Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers, which boasts Gore as a senior partner, and whose employees have donated $2.6 million to candidates and political action committees, favoring Democrats over Republicans by a very wide margin, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Fisker’s raisers of private capital are Keith Daubenspeck and Dwight Badger of Chicago-based Advanced Equities, Inc., who have been accused of “foisting junky startups on investors” and are now the subjects of a Securities and Exchange Commission investigation.

3.     KPCB spent $50,000 per quarter throughout 2009 and 2010 lobbying Congress on legislation that was heavy-laden with renewable energy government incentives, and Fisker lobbied Congress, the White House and the Departments of Energy and Defense – spending $190,000 in 2009, $480,000 overall – to seek funds through DOE’s loan program, among other things.

4.     The law firm that reviewed Fisker’s loan for DOE was Debevoise and Plimpton, whose employees gave nearly $200,000 for President Obama’s campaign in 2008. Debevoise was paid $1.8 million by DOE to negotiate loan terms and conduct due diligence on the Fisker loan and another to Ford Motor Company.

5.     Despite receiving $193 million from taxpayers to create U.S. “green” jobs, the Karma is assembled in Finland.

And so on, and so forth...

Tom Hanks Repeats Obama's $25 Billion Lie

His profession is make believe.

The Obama 2012 campaign has released a short film called “The Road We’ve Traveled,” detailing the challenges faced by President Barack Obama’s administration from day one through the start of the campaign.

But it’s not all roses for team Obama: Part of the film contains a gross inaccuracy. Specifically, it claims that General Motors has fully repaid its federal bailout loan. It has not — meaning the documentary contains a $25 billion error.

Of the nearly $50 billion given to GM, just under half has been repaid to the government.

The Man Who Said He Could Lower Sea Levels Is "Too Humble"

Well, Harvey Weinstein is accustomed to working with Hollywood primadonnas.

Top Hollywood producer and Obama bundler Harvey Weinstein attend the White House state dinner last night and had nothing but wonderful things to say about the president.

"I'm so thrilled he's running for reelection, he's done a fantastic job, and he's the most underestimated president I've seen," Weinstein said, according to the pool report. "He's too humble, and his accomplishments far outweigh his esteem, but people will learn that in time."

Obama Hosts His 108th Fundraiser

Campaigner in chief.

The trip will mark his 108th fundraiser since announcing for reelection, a record.

The full day of campaigning and fundraising, coupled with the first lady's Monday campaign trip to New York, is the clearest signal yet the that the reelection campaign is on. But Carney said that the president isn't ducking his day job.

"The president of the United States is the president of the United States 24 hours a day, including when he calls foreign leaders in the very early hours of the morning, and on weekends, and on any given day of the week," Carney told reporters en route to Chicago. "I can assure you that his day will be full of the execution of his responsibilities as president, even as he is engaging in these campaign events."

Of course he is. And shame on you for thinking otherwise.

You Don't Want To Be Throwin' Down With Rutherford B. Hayes

More here.

Axelrod: Maher And Limbaugh Remarks Different

For one thing, Maher gave Obama a million dollars. Plus, Maher aims his oafish act at conservatives.

In an interview to air on CNN's "Out Front with Erin Burnett" Thursday at 7 p.m. ET, David Axelrod – a senior adviser to President Barack Obama's campaign – argues that sexist comments made by radio host Rush Limbaugh and comedian Bill Maher are both distasteful but should be understood differently.

Oh, and there's one other difference. Limbaugh apologized. We're still waiting for Maher.

Bill Maher Explains Why He's Right And Rush Is Wrong

Bill Maher is funny. Rush isn't. According to Bill Maher.

I'm a comedian – not just a guy who says he is, like Rush, but someone who – well, you saw me do stand-up last year in D.C. There’s a big difference between just saying you’re a comedian and going out and getting thousands of people to laugh hard for 90 minutes....

I let the audience be the guide. The bit I did about Palin using the word c—, one of the biggest laughs in my act, I did it all over the country, not one person ever registered disapproval, and believe me, audiences are not afraid to let you know. Because it was a routine where that word came in at just the right moment....

[Limbaugh] went after a civilian about very specific behavior, that was a lie, speaking for a party that has systematically gone after women’s rights all year, on the public airwaves. I used a rude word about a public figure who gives as good as she gets, who's called people "terrorist" and “unAmerican.”

Actually, I think it's a difference in what liberals consider funny and what conservatives consider funny. I don't find it funny when any woman is called a dumb twat. I guess I just wouldn't fit into Maher's audience. I wouldn't fit into Wanda Sykes' audience either.

The NBC "Punk Faggot" Chronicles

The choice language of MSNBC's Reverend Al Sharpton.

Taken in by the likes of MSNBC's Phil Griffin, unaware of the association between NBC anchor Brian Williams and Comcast/NBC's Al "punk faggot" Sharpton, unaware of the Daily Caller series linking MSNBC to its Media Matters ally, Sleep Train, plain and simple, got skunked.

And now, Dale Carlsen and his company are paying the price for this.

Conservatives, as the late Andrew Breitbart memorably noted in his last CPAC speech, are a different breed than they were in the day when Ronald Reagan's General Electric Theater was forced off the air by the Left in 1962 -- because then-actor Reagan had been critical of the Kennedy administration.

Said Breitbart: "Conservatives used to take it and we're not taking it anymore."

Indeed they don't. They understand exactly what Phil Griffin, Brian Williams (who, as I recall, was an intern in the Carter White House), Al Sharpton, and all their progressive buddies are up to. And they know that Brian Roberts sits at the top of the pyramid as the head of Comcast.

In this space? We believe in free speech. To borrow the phrase, we report, YOU decide.

Will you hear about this story by listening to Phil Griffin's MSNBC or The NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams?

What do you think?

Obama Claims Credit For Slowing Medical Cost Increases

Which is a bit like taking credit for sunrises. But claims are far from the truth.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently released their annual report on health care spending in America. And surprise, surprise - spending continues to grow. It amounted to 17.9 percent of the nation's gross domestic product in 2010, or $2.6 trillion. But the annual rate of growth was lower than it had been most of the past 50 years - just 3.9 percent.

Naturally, the Obama administration took credit for this sliver of good news. "Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, we're keeping costs down and making health care more affordable," wrote Nancy-Ann DeParle, deputy chief of staff for policy, on the official White House Blog.

But an in-depth look at that report reveals that Obamacare has done little thus far to slow the growth of American health spending. In fact, the federal health care reform effort is already increasing the share of spending shouldered by taxpayers. Worse yet, the implementation of Obamacare has barely begun.

As the law's various provisions begin to take effect, the pace of spending will only accelerate. The report was clear about what's restraining health care spending - and it's not Obamacare. As the report put it, the "impact of the recent recession continued to affect the purchasers, providers and sponsors of health care." The agency's researchers went on to cite "[p]ersistently high unemployment, continued loss of private health insurance coverage, and increased cost sharing" as reasons that "led some people to forgo care or seek less costly alternatives." In other words, it's the economy, stupid.

This is a pattern. Does anybody else remember when Obama claimed credit for reducing the United States' carbon dioxide emissions, which was also a result of his recession.

Dianne Feinstein And The Cover Up

When did she know and when did she know it? She knew it all a long time ago.

“I listed a series of corrupt acts, gross mismanagement and abuse of employees, etc. Through her aide, she sent a strongly worded inquiry,” he elaborated. “There was no follow up until I called and emailed a dozen times. Finally ATF responded nine months later, basically stating they have done no wrong, and thanks for inquiry.

“I then provided the now fairly public open letter to the Director* outlining dozens of abuses and ATF’s misrepresentations in their response. Nothing. I then pounded on her main aide in the DC office after Anderson Cooper verified a lot of what we alleged as well as Fox and other media,” Cefalu claimed.

“Her aide’s response was ‘We are looking into it.' The ultimate outcome was something to the effect that ‘although these are serious matters the EEOC or the OIG may be better suited to pursue these matters,’” he related.

“She had been provided tons of information regarding not only my disputes and the perjury, waste, fraud and abuse, etc., but I also included Jay’s [Dobyns] evidence, which was directly related to Phoenix integrity and ethical issues, and which later allowed the out-of-control leadership to fester and advance their self-serving agendas unfettered. Enter F and F. NO big surprise to those of us watching,” Cefalu concluded.

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Obama Shows His First Inkling Of Understanding

Not even his centrally planned economy can control gasoline prices.

Top-down technocrats fail to understand how an undirected system can work so well. That’s because they don’t understand freedom. How can hundreds of millions of people, all pursuing their self-interest, create more wealth than hundreds of millions of people all directed toward a single end? How can fairness by achieved by seeming randomness rather than by hierarchical control of the right-minded?

The answer is deceptively simple: all those people pursuing self interest are pursuing the same end. That end is a better standard of living. If you work hard and bargain for the lowest price, you will enjoy a better standard of living. If everyone around you does it, they will too. If, however, you have a massive government standing over you, telling you who should win and who should lose, the system of incentives stops working. You no longer have to work hard to make a living if the government provides you one by taking from a third party and giving you a handout; you no longer have to bargain for lower prices if the government sets a ceiling or a floor on prices. Now, instead of everyone working for the same personal goal, everyone relies on the government to tell them what is fair. And when government decides what is fair, nothing ever is.

Now, this isn’t to say that Obama will recognize the folly of his Marxist philosophy. He won’t. He’ll ignore the internal contradiction here. He’ll maintain that while nobody can decide the fair price of gas at the pump, he can certainly decide the fair profit margin for gas companies. He’ll determine that certain executives take less pay for the good of the whole, while determining that certain teachers, police officers, firefighters, and union members make more money and are therefore able to buy more gasoline at whatever the pump price.

I believe that this is the first incidence of Obama learning anything from experience.

Democrats Still The Home Of The KKK

The Democrats' tar baby.

State Democratic party leaders are denouncing Carrol Crawford, candidate for Rowan County commissioner, for views he advocated as a Ku Klux Klan leader.

Crawford resigned in 1987 after two years as North Carolina grand dragon of the Christian Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He estimated at the time that he had led more than 200 street walks in communities all over the Carolinas.

Earlier that year, Crawford was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $500 for burning a cross at a Charlotte Klan rally.

North Carolina Democratic Party officials also are condemning the comments of Bivins Hollar, a candidate for the state Senate from Catawba County.

Both Hollar and Crawford filed as Democrats.

Well, somehow Robert Byrd managed to prosper within the Democratic Party fold for all those years.

When Is A Bad Loan Not A Bad Loan

When Barack Hussein Obama is handing out the money to his pals.

The Fiscal Times' Edward Morrissey writes about the new Government Accountability Office report on the performance of DOE's loan-guarantee program which gave way to Solyndra and other debacles. Suffice it to say, GAO wasn't grading on a curve set by the performance of Obama's cabinet. Snippets:

The GAO looked at the handling of $30 billion outstanding in loan guarantees and future commitments and discovered that the DOE rarely follows its own written procedures for vetting and auditing applications. In fact, in many cases, the Loan Guarantee Program (LGP) couldn’t even find the data managers needed to administer the loans properly...

In almost every case study investigated by the GAO, important steps got skipped in the reviews that determined whether loan applications would be granted. In other cases, the documentation was so poor that the GAO couldn’t figure out what the LGP did...

The process had at least an 85 percent failure rate on its process check. Most people would not associate that level of process accuracy with a grade of A-minus....

With $30 billion in taxpayer money at risk, the DOE under Steven Chu didn’t bother to conduct the reviews it claimed it would on applications for loan guarantees, didn’t keep records of what reviews they did accomplish, and signed off on loans with incomplete documentation and inadequate oversight of the risk. The result -- perhaps $6.5 billion immediately at risk, according to CBS, and possibly most of the $30 billion.

Morrissey drives home the point that when it comes to lending standards and the vilification of private financial institutions processing mortgages that were either backed or bought up by government-sponsored enterprises, the Obama admin is firmly in the "do as we say, not as we do" camp:

More Proof: Obama Is All For Higher Gas Prices

You can't say we weren't warned - by Obama himself.

Another Hide The Decline Moment For Climate Science

No, the oceans were not twenty meters deeper during the last warming cycle.

About 400,000 years ago, Earth went through a warm interglacial period similar to today's. The geological record shows traces of beaches and marine fossils in areas of Bermuda and the Bahamas far from the coast, suggesting that sea level was 20 metres higher than now.

Global sea level could have been that high only if the East Antarctic ice sheet melted at the time, according to climate models. And that is odd: this ice sheet doesn't seem to have melted at any other point in its long history.

Others have looked for more exotic explanations - for instance, that a mega tsunami hit Bermuda and the Bahamas and formed the confounding shoreline.

Maureen Raymo of Columbia University in Palisades, New York, thinks there is a simpler explanation. Ice sheets are heavy and weigh down the crust, while the ice-free areas just beyond the sheet bulge upwards as a consequence. When the ice melts, the crust beneath the former sheet rebounds, but the crust in the peripheral bulge subsides, making the land there dip and sea-level rise appear more extreme.

Bermuda and the Bahamas lie where the peripheral bulge of the North American ice sheet would have been 400,000 years ago. When Raymo and colleagues corrected the climate model to include Earth's elastic response to losing a heavy ice sheet, it added the missing metres to the lower sea level calculated for the Caribbean at the time. It means that the apparently extreme sea-level rise was only a local phenomenon

Liberal Women Announce A Sex Strike

Here's what you won't be getting any of.

Or this.

No, you won't be getting any of this.

Interesting, isn't it, that when it comes down to it, liberal women are going to be holding aspirin tablets between their knees.

Obama To Catholics: Drop Dead

No, Barack Hussein Obama is not interested in a negotiated agreement on his abortion diktat.

White House spokesman Jay Carney on Thursday dismissed calls for a reconsideration of President Barack Obama’s controversial regulation of the health care policies offered by religious organizations, one day after Catholic leaders repeated their offer to hash out an agreement.

“The solution that was reached here … has been reached, and we firmly believe that it achieves the goals that the president set,” Carney said at Thursday’s White House press conference.

On Feb. 10 Obama announced a new regulation that forces religious groups to financially support activities they abhor, but that the government supports. In particular, the president directed religious organizations to provide insurance policies that offer free contraceptives.

But “government has no place defining religion and religious ministry,” said the Mar. 14 statement by the top-level administrative committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

“If this [regulatory] definition is allowed to stand, it will spread throughout federal law, weakening its healthy tradition of generous respect for religious freedom and diversity … [and] is unprecedented in federal law, which has long been generous in protecting the rights of individuals not to act against their religious beliefs or moral convictions,” said the statement.

Obamacare To Kick Up To 20 Million Off Employer Coverage

Remember this from Barack Hussein Obama, circa 2009: "Here is a guarantee that I've made. If you have insurance that you like, then you will be able to keep that insurance. If you've got a doctor that you like, you will be able to keep your doctor. Nobody is trying to change what works in the system. We are trying to change what doesn't work in the system.

Well that was bullshit. This is reality.

As many as 20 million Americans could lose their employer-provided coverage because of President Obama's healthcare reform law, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said in a new report Thursday.

The figure represents the worst-case scenario, CBO says, and the law could just as well increase the number of people with employer-based coverage by 3 million in 2019.

The best estimate, subject to a "tremendous amount of uncertainty," is that about 3 million to 5 million fewer people will obtain coverage through their employer each year from 2019 through 2022.

This is working out just as well as that prediction that Obamacare would actually cut health care costs.

The gross costs of the Obamacare law that Democrats rammed through Congress will cost $1.76 trillion over a decade — about twice the amount originally projected, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released today.

Critics had said that the true 10-year cost of President Barack Obama’s signature legislation would wind up being much more than originally advertised at $940 billion. Democrats pushed the legislation through using untraditional accounting methodology, such as delaying full implementation of the law until 2014, The Washington Examiner reported.

United Nations To Investigate US Voter ID Laws

Because the UN isn't enough of a joke I suppose.

The United Nations Human Rights Council is investigating the issue of American election laws at its gathering on minority rights in Geneva, Switzerland.. This, despite the fact that some members of the council have only in the past several years allowed women to vote, and one member, Saudi Arabia, still bars women from the voting booth completely.

Officials from the NAACP are presenting their case against U.S. voter ID laws, arguing to the international diplomats that the requirements disenfranchise voters and suppress the minority vote.

Eight states have passed voter ID laws in the past year, voter ID proposals are pending in 32 states and the Obama administration has recently moved to block South Carolina and Texas from enacting their voter ID measures.

“This really is a tactic that undercuts the growth of your democracy,” said Hillary Shelton, the NAACP’s senior vice president for advocacy, about voter photo ID requirements.

So according to the NAACP, voter fraud is an essential element of a healthy democracy? Well, in the NAACP's defense, this is the opinion of our current Department of Justice.

Thou Shalt Not Make Eye Contact With The One

Prior to World War II, it was death to make eye contact with the Japanese emperor. A Yahoo sports writer seems to think those same rules should apply to Barack Hussein Obama.

Even though all Mississippi Valley State guard Kevin Burwell did after making a three-point shot was look over at President Obama and (according to the broadcasters, not Watson) make eye contact for what could hardly have been more than a half-second, Watson turned it into a "taunt," and even seemed to pin the blame for MVSU's loss on Burwell:

Mississippi Valley State guard Kevin Burwell learned a hard lesson Tuesday night that taunting the leader of the free world brings nothing but trouble.
Early in the second half of the Devils' "first four" game against Western Kentucky, Burwell dribbled to the corner where President Barack Obama and his guest, British Prime Minister David Cameron, were taking in the game and jacked up a 3-pointer. When the shot found the bottom of the net, Burwell turned to the president and taunted him.

Not a smart move with Secret Service hovering, but Burwell was responding to Obama's halftime comment that both teams were "shooting terribly." To Obama's credit, the two teams had combined to shoot 24 percent for the first half.

So how does Watson know for certain that Burwell even knew what the President said during the half? Is watching TV a newly-incorporated part of the halftime strategy and pep talk routine in college basketball?

Bill Maher Embraces The Double Standard

Rules that apply to Rush, don't apply to liberals.

I’m a comedian – not just a guy who says he is, like Rush, but someone who – well, you saw me do stand-up last year in D.C. There’s a big difference between just saying you’re a comedian and going out and getting thousands of people to laugh hard for 90 minutes. And the one I’m compared to most is Carlin, who also had these kind of problems. Edgy is my brand – everyone wants that, but they say, “but never go over the line.” It’s like telling Tom Brady, ‘Throw into coverage 40 times a game every game but never throw an interception.’”

United States Awash In Oil Reserves

Barack Hussein Obama keeps repeated the tired old lie that America has only 2% of the world's oil reserves. We actually have 60 times as much oil as he claims.

When you include oil shale, the U.S. has 1.4 trillion barrels of technically recoverable oil, according to the Institute for Energy Research, enough to meet all U.S. oil needs for about the next 200 years, without any imports.

And even this number could be low, since such estimates tend to go up over time.

Back in 1995, for example, the USGS figured there were 151 million barrels of oil in North Dakota's Bakken formation. In 2008, it upped that estimate to 3 billion barrels to 4.3 billion barrels — a 25-fold increase. Now, some oil analysts say there could be as much as 20 billion barrels there.

And USGS in 2002 quadrupled its oil estimate in Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve.

Of course, surplus oil would make us less dependent upon government. And without government dependency, there would be no such thing as Democrats.

Broke, Horny Law Student Frolics In Pompeii And Spain

She couldn't scrape up $9/month to pay for her own birth control pills, but she has plenty of money to party.

Poor Sandra Fluke, the 30 year-old far left activist who wants you to pay for her $9 a month birth control, is dating a rich socialist.

They recently traveled to Spain and Italy together.

It was a lovely getaway for the women’s rights activist and her rich socialist boyfriend.

As Elizabeth Warren's Campaign Unravels

She still has this video on her campaign website. She really doesn't get it that this is why she's failing.

How Much Would You Pay To Tell The World How Wonderful You Are?

Obama paid $20,000 per minute.

Records filed by Obama for America with the Federal Election Commission indicate that the president’s re-election campaign shelled out at least $345,353 to commission “The Road We’ve Traveled,” a 17-minute campaign documentary by Academy Award-winning director Davis Guggenheim, set for release Thursday. The price comes out to more than $20,300 per minute.

Two separate payments were made to “Guggenheim Short Film” in Washington, D.C. — one for $162,834 and another for approximately $182,159 – according to FEC documents.

Katie Hogan, deputy press secretary for the Obama campaign, refused to provide any additional information about the documentary’s funding stream or whether a public relations firm was authorized to speak about the film project.

As I recall, Bill Clinton had a movie made about himself too.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/14/fec-records-obama-campaign-paid-345000-for-guggenheim-film-biopic/#ixzz1pC1733f1

Another Obamanomics Greenshoot

Online pawn shops.

In a sputtering economy, cash-strapped consumers are flocking to a new way of getting quick, short-term loans: online pawn stores.

It's yet another instance of online retailers pouncing on the turf of a brick-and-mortar industry.

For consumers, it means that instead of plopping a castoff wedding ring, camera or china platter onto the counter of a local pawnshop, you do the entire transaction online and by mail.

The appeal: Online pawning is relatively quick, completely private and there's no stigma of walking into a public place with your personal possessions to hock. And if you default on your loan, nothing gets reported to a credit bureau.

Chinamen, Crackers And Homos!

The rantings of the Reverend Al Sharpton. No wonder MSNBC hired him.

To provide a stark contrast to the relatively tame remarks Rush Limbaugh made on the air that have been widely condemned by organizations such as Media Matters and the leftist media, Breitbart.com has compiled the insults and characterizations Al Sharpton -- the man who NBC News' President Phil Griffin called an "elder statesmen" -- has made in his career.

Obama Pays Of Another Deep Pocketed Constituency

Trial lawyers.

The DOJ has been issuing a growing wave of such guidelines over the years, reaching an ever larger portion of business activities. In September 2010, the DOJ issued guidelines for “recreational facilities,” including a new rule that all public access swimming pools must provide a lift capable of moving disabled patrons from their wheelchairs into the water.
Compliance with the rule requires pool owners to have a lift for each “water element” in their facility. So if your local community pool also has a spa, both the spa and the pool must be “accessible.” But if you have two spas, don’t worry, only one lift is required.

In fact, most people in the swimming pool industry thought that one portable lift would be enough. Pool owners claim they were led to believe that, as long as they had one device that could be wheeled out whenever someone needed help getting into or out of a pool or spa, there would be no need intrusive permanent fixtures.

But then industry leaders began hearing rumors last year that Obama’s DOJ would require permanently fixed lifts for each pool and spa. They began to write letters to DOJ asking for clarification on the issue.

On Jan. 31 of this year, DOJ granted the industry’s call for a clarification: But it was not the answer they wanted. All 300,000 public pools in the United States must install a permanent fixed lift. The deadline for compliance is tomorrow, March 15. Call it “Poolmageddon.”

There is no way all 300,000 pools can install permanent lifts by Thursday. There simply are not enough lifts in existence or enough people who know how to install them, according to industry spokesmen. Plus, each lift costs between $3,000 and $10,000 and installation can add $5,000 to $10,000 to the total.

Well, there is a trial lawyer bubble right now. Too many lawyers. Too few clients. This should help.

Obama Plumbs New Depths Of Stupidity

On the other hand, there's a reliable market for this gibberish on the left side. High gas prices couldn't possible be a natural consequence of Obama obstructing energy development during a period of growing demand.

"In the meantime, cuz I know people are hurting right now and it feels like a tax out of their paychecks, what we’re doing is looking at every single area that can affect gas prices, from bottlenecks that are out there, we’ve set up a task force to look into speculation to make sure people are taking advantage of the situation on the global oil markets."

Yeah, yeah. The Democrats will always find some way to blame the Jews.

Harry Reid Making T. Boone Pickens Even Richer

In return for Pickens keeping his money out of Republican coffers.

Pickens remains influential on Capitol Hill even though he has largely shied away from making contributions to either political party since 2008.

In 2010, Roll Call wrote that Pickens said he had made a pledge to stay out of the elections game. "Once a prominent Republican donor, Pickens told reporters last week that he has pledged not to make federal campaign contributions and to work with Members of both parties. Pickens also said Reid will be able to move an alternative fuels subsidy bill during the lame-duck session, in part because of the promise. Pickens declined through a spokeswoman to be interviewed for this article," Roll Call reported.

A similar story emerged out of a fundraiser last month for a Republican Senate candidate from Nebraska. According to a GOP source who was in attendance, the candidate told some of those gathered that Pickens told him he couldn't financially back his bid. The reason given was that the majority leader was backing the natural gas bill, and Pickens had promised he would not target races that might cost Reid the Senate majority.

If this seems at all far-fetched, just remember that Democrats threatens lobbyists with higher tax bills if they dared give to Republican campaigns.

Obama Approval Plummets

Not surprising really. People have long seen him as inept, but likeable. But lately, he has managed to forfeit whatever likeability he enjoyed.

President Obama's approval rating has hit the lowest level ever in CBS News polling, according to the latest CBS News/New York Times survey. The drop may be partially attributable to rising gas prices.

Just 41 percent of Americans approve of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, according to the poll, conducted from March 7 to 11. Another 47 percent disapprove of his performance, up from 41 percent last month.

Mr. Obama's approval rating was 50 percent last month.

Barack Obama Running Against Sarah Palin?

Let's see now. That contraception distraction thing didn't work. So now Obama wants to go back and rerun the 2008 election? Well, considering his prospects in 2012, it's not surprising that he'd want to relive the good old days. Better than talking about what people actually care about - the economy and high gasoline prices.

Soledad O'Brien Enlists A Liar To Defend Her

"If Derrick Bell would be so happy that people are talking about his theories, why are Soledad and all these other lefties trying to stop us from talking about his theories?"

Birth Control Mandates Costs Obama With Women Voter

There's a price for underestimating the intelligence of a key demographic.

How's the great contraception mandate battle of 2012 playing out? If you read the Washington Post's news coverage, the issue is supposedly killing Republicans among female voters. But the newest Washington Post/ABC poll tells a different story.

During the first few days of February, about a week before Obama declared a so-called "accommodation" to the contraception/abortifacient mandate, a Washington Post/ABC poll showed Obama's approval rating at 50 percent, with 46 percent of Americans disapproving.

Then, from March 7 to 10--a week into the national media firestorm surrounding Rush Limbaugh's degrading remarks about Georgetown Law student and liberal activist Sandra Fluke--Washington Post/ABC conducted another poll. It found Obama's approval rating at 46 percent, down four points from February, and his disapproval rating at 50 percent, up four points from February.

In February, Obama was leading Mitt Romney, 51 percent to 45 percent among registered voters. In March, Obama was trailing Mitt Romney, 47 percent to 49 percent among registered voters. The Post/ABC pollster finds that Obama "did better among men and women alike last month, and has lost ground slightly among both sexes this month."

Beneficiary Of Green Subsidies Derides Global Warming Skeptics

No conflict of interest here. Move along. Move along.

General Electric has brushed aside the doubts leading Republican presidential contenders have raised about climate science.

The US industrial and financial conglomerate said it had long seen climate change as a valid concern after an internal evaluation of the scientific case in 2005.

“We found enough data there to have a company like GE respond and we have responded,” said Mark Vachon, head of the “ecomagination” sustainable business initiative GE launched in that year. He said revenues generated by operations in his portfolio now totalled $100bn and were growing at more than twice the rate of those in the rest of the company.

Yes, Obama's Anti-Oil Agenda IS To Blame For High Gasoline Prices

At the bottom of the recession, worldwide oil demand dropped by two million barrels per day and the price was less than half what it its today. Obama has choked off almost two million barrels of North American production. If a drop of two million barrels in demand halves prices, then an increase of two million per day in supply should help, right?

The news wires are reporting that President Obama actively lobbied Senate Democrats to defeat the Keystone pipeline yesterday. The effect of blocking the Keystone XL Pipeline is to defer 700,000 barrels of oil per day. And as I reported at The Weekly Standard recently, the president’s policy of choking off oil production under federal leases will prevent another 1 million barrels of oil per day this year, and even more next year.

Obama will soon be personally responsible for preventing some 2 million barrels per day of possible North American crude oil production from reaching the American economy. The U.S. currently produces only about 6 million barrels of domestic crude oil, so that would be more than a 30 percent increase in domestic production.

Eye - Opening Voter Fraud Trial In New York

And a clear look at how Democrats conduct business.

"Voter fraud is an accepted way of winning elections, and faking absentee ballots was commonplace."

Is it any wonder that Democrats oppose voter ID laws?

Obama Subordinate World Security

To his presidential campaign.

According to the report, Obama has taken Israel's warnings about a possible strike in Iran very seriously. The Washington source added that the president “might visit in the summer to reassure the Israelis that the US commitment to defend Israel is unshakable and thus thwart a possible autumn attack.”

Obama insisted that any attack on Iran should be postponed until after the US presidential elections in November, possibly even until next spring. The source revealed that Netanyahu consented to delaying a strike, but wished to know until when. “The question is how much time,” he reportedly said.

Romney Bringing Upper Crust Whites Home?

Highly educated and high income whites voting for Romney. It seems strange that this demographic would vote for the donks anyway. The donks profess to hate them, even though most donk politicians are white and rich.

The cold gray numbers tell us that Mitt Romney has an affirmative appeal to this constituency. He has run 4 to 12 points ahead of his statewide average among over-$100,000 voters in every exit poll.

He carried affluent Oakland County northwest of Detroit, where he grew up, by 31,565 votes. He carried the rest of Michigan by 413. In Ohio he carried the mostly affluent vote in the counties containing Cleveland and Cincinnati by 31,682 votes -- three times his statewide margin.

I sense that affluent voters find Romney a kindred spirit -- articulate but politically awkward, self-disciplined and successful, able to make a sharp argument but polite. He's conservative on cultural issues, but in a way that reminds me of the 18th century Englishwoman's gravestone noting approvingly that "she was religious without enthusiasm."

Barack Obama's appeal to high-education and young voters in the Virginia, North Carolina, and Indiana primaries carried over into the general election. He carried all three in November, though none was a target state in 2000 or 2004.

Will Romney's appeal to high-education and high-income voters carry over to the general election too? That's not clear.

But the Pew poll tells us that Republican party identification has risen 9 points from 2008 among Jewish voters -- a small but important part of this constituency. And exit polls show that Catholics, another important part, have gone for Romney in all but two Southern states.

The cold gray numbers don't tell us for sure. But they suggest that affluent voters may be up for grabs this year.

The Rudeness And Crudeness Of Barack Hussein Obama

Divide And Conquer

The who promised to bring us all together has chosen the standard Democrat tactic of setting one demographic against another.

President Obama’s re-election campaign is beginning an intensified effort this week to build support among women, using the debate over the new health care law to amplify an appeal that already appears to be benefiting from partisan clashes over birth control and abortion.

Remind me again. Who are the only people talking about birth control? And, don't women like jobs and reasonable gasoline prices too?