President Obama, maybe you could talk to your general while you are in Europe

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  October 1st at 10:43 AM  | 

Tonight, President Barack Obama goes to Copenhagen to lobby for Chicago to get the Olympics. And incidentally, if he succeeds, Chicago real estate developers, like many of his donors, will get zillions in development contracts from the city. The Chicago Tribune’s John Kass noted that  Obama is “asking the IOC to make Mayor Richard Daley the king of Chicago for life.” It turns out that | Read More »

Another Obama budget lie: Iraq and Afghanistan

By: Soren Dayton (Diary)  |  April 11th at 05:29 AM  | 

When Barack Obama released, his budget, he claimed that it didn’t contain “gimmicks” and that he cost of the budget was so high because he fully funded Iraq and Afghanistan in the budget and didn’t use gimmicks. Jackie Calmes of the New York Times swallowed the line so completely that she called her story “Obama bans gimmicks, deficits will rise”. (Never mind that the ever | Read More »