A Romney super PAC led the negative charge against Newt in Iowa, and Gingrich was none too shy in complaining about it. “Governor, I wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the PAC,” Gingrich demanded, of the pro-Romney PAC. “It is your millionaire friends giving to the PAC. And you know some of the ads aren’t true. Just say | Read More »
Surpringly, some of the reliably left-wing news agencies are actually doing their job. Today the AP has a story about Karen Kraushaar that contains a number of interesting tidbits, especially when you read between the lines. She settled a complaint with NRA in 1999 and then filed another complaint about treatment at her next job about 3 years later through the same lawyer. She was | Read More »
We thought we’d stop hearing about Greece for a while after last week’s machinations stiffed the current holders of Greek debt (such as all the clients of the previous NJ governor) while dumping even more money down the Greek toilet. Not so fast there Batman…. Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou announced this morning that he was calling a referendum and a vote of confidence. All | Read More »
This would too ludicrous to make it as a novel. That it actually happened is a crying shame. The same US Attorney’s office in west Texas that sent Agents Ramos and Campean to the slammer after a border-crossing drug smuggler got shot has struck again. Agent Jesus Diaz Jr has been sentenced to two years in the slammer for arresting a 15yo who was part | Read More »
Occupy Oakland was in the news early Wednesday morning because Oakland PD forcibly removed “protesters” from a city park after they refused orders to disburse. Sadly, a peacenik Iraq War vet was injured in the process. It’s hilarious to read more about these morons. In response to Wednesday’s ouster, they of course are doubling down and want to shut down the entire city. The knee-slapping | Read More »
Four of them were arrested this morning when they refused to move off the sidewalk for regularly scheduled street cleaning. I put together what their (apparent) spokesman said in the video here. I guess they chose him because he’s the most well-spoken of the bunch…. “… to wear down uh the people here who are the organizers that are here, some of us 24 hours | Read More »
The guy on the left is Troy Davis who, after pleading guilty to carrying a concealed weapon (with altered serial numbers) at age 19, killed a cop at age 20. He was convicted and sentenced to death more than 20 years ago and is still breathing. Enough about him. The guy on the right, who must have looked much like Davis did when Davis pulled | Read More »
A few days ago, after throwing out all sorts of innuendos in her attack on Perry, Michele Bachmann was still saying things like “she can’t say what was in his heart” about his Gardasil move. It seems that she has developed an x-ray machine and can now read his heart, enabling her to pronounce that the only reason he did it is because he was | Read More »
This is according to the Corner. He starts off about how terrible Obama is, then begins his Romney endorsement with this… Alone among the contenders, he possesses the unique qualifications to confront and master our severe economic predicament. His abiding faith in our country’s exceptional historical position as a beacon of freedom will make him the most important leader in a world that depends upon | Read More »
The Palestinian strategy is clear – they are going to get some sort of UN recognition and will keep plugging until they get everything they want. If the UN bid for Palestinian statehood should fail this month, Palestinian leadership would work first to gain membership to every UN organization and then resubmit their bid to the Security Council, senior Fatah official Nabil Shaath told the | Read More »
Through a combination of consumer shifts away from using snail mail and engrained unions/pensions, the USPS is bleeding about $1B/month. They are on the verge of defaulting on an upcoming pension payment. The NY Times takes a peek at the situation, but the second paragraph may send chills up your spine. “Our situation is extremely serious,” the postmaster general, Patrick R. Donahoe, said in an | Read More »
As seems to be the case almost every week, new claims for unemployment benefits were not just higher than last week – they were unexpectedly higher. And in what is also common, the previous week’s higher than expected numbers were nudged even further upwards. Look, if this was normal statistical guesses from whoever these “experts” are, they would guess too high just as often as | Read More »
Apparently yesterday’s distant third place finish was enough to tell T-Paw that it wasn’t happening, and is set to announce an end to his bid this morning. It seemed like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He had a decent record and seemed like he’d make a good president, but there are so many irons in the fire it’s hard to | Read More »
The latest consumer confidence numbers are out – they are not just bad, they are absolutely terrible! The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior month. The gauge was projected to decline to 62, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News survey. This is the lowest figure since May 1980, the last time we | Read More »
In case you hadn’t noticed, the US Postal Service was in the news last week. According to the latest reports, they are now losing more than $1B per month. Yes, you read that correctly – they are losing over $1 billion per month. They can whine all they want about the bad economy and more electronic communication costing them business and so on, but please | Read More »
Stocks plunged again today until a late rally thanks to a rumor that’s been making the rounds for a few weeks and seems to be gathering steam. U.S. stocks climbed, erasing earlier losses and preventing the longest Dow Jones Industrial Average slump since 1978, as investors speculated the Federal Reserve will start another stimulus program. As usual, Obama and his core of geniuses aren’t willing | Read More »
Promoted from diaries. – Moe Lane GDP numbers are out, and they couldn’t be much worse. To sum it up, that supposedly sharp pace in 4Q10 was overstated by 35%, 1Q11′s figure was overstated by a mere 475% (!), and the already low expectations for 2Q11 were 38% higher than reality. The U.S. economy grew less than expected in the second quarter as consumer spending | Read More »
Since the idea of Obamacare is to get us closer to the great medical care in places like Cuba and Britain, it’s comforting to know what’s coming when we look at the latest examples of rationing across the pond. Hip and knee replacements only being allowed where patients are in severe pain. Overweight patients will be made to lose weight before being considered for an | Read More »
Reuters reported yesterday that Obama and the Democrats may try to push for a budget deal that would kick the can to next spring. President Barack Obama and Senate Democrats are weighing a scaled-back U.S. budget deal that would avert a looming default but force Congress to tackle the politically toxic issue again before the 2012 elections, a Senate Democratic aide told Reuters on Thursday. | Read More »
Certainly a sanctuary city like Houston needs to be able to protect poor hard-working Hispanics who are just here doing jobs Americans won’t do. Here’s a recent example: Here illegally – Check Deported multiple times – Check Allegedly a member of MS-13 – Check Driving drunk (.238) – Check Cocaine in the car – Check Crashing through a barricade at 80 mph and killing a | Read More »
And so it begins. The Obama administration will begin to tap federal retiree programs to help fund operations after the government loses its ability Monday to borrow more money from the public, adding urgency to efforts in Washington to fashion a compromise over the debt. Rather than find somewhere to cut spending, Obama and Geithner will start raiding pension funds of federal retirees. No doubt | Read More »
Just like when we have bad housing data or jobs numbers over here and it’s always called ‘worse than expected’, we have the same situation with the PIGS – well at least the PIG – across the pond, according to Forbes. The European Union says the debt loads of Greece, Ireland and Portugal will be much bigger than previously forecast, adding to fears that international | Read More »
The NY Times is reporting that the IRS is firing a warning shot across the bow of donors to 501(c)(4) groups engaging in political advocacy by sending letters to five unnamed donors saying that their donations might be subject to gift taxes. In addition to reading between the lines as to how Obama and the IRS could manipulate this to Democratic advantage, it’s also interesting | Read More »
From the diaries by Erick As so often seem to be the case, the GOP doesn’t follow the Democratic playbook when it comes to obstruction. They caved when it came to a vote last week on the nomination of Jack McConnell as a US District Court Judge. He’s only 52 or 53, so we can look forward to decades of his rulings. Among the items | Read More »
I guess it all depends on your point of view. United Steelworkers Union “Sun Council” president Jerry Dugan stood outside the Sunoco shareholders’ meeting … to tell reporters that … Sunoco CEO Lynn Elsenhans seems to want to sell or close the Philadelphia and Marcus Hook refineries — a move that would put 1,600 employees out of work. “She just wants to be a marketer, | Read More »
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