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October 13, 2011
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Obama autumn
Michael Oberndorf

October 13, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — The "Occupy Wall Street" protesters think the source of their angst is the "greedy" heart of New York's financial district. If these malcontents truly believed in economic justice, their hordes would mass at the gates of the White House. That's where policies have been set in motion that assure Americans a future of deprivation... (more)


October 13, 2011
ANN COULTER — So far, the only major accomplishment of the "Occupy Wall Street" protesters is that it has finally put an end to their previous initiative, "Occupy Our Mothers' Basements." Oddly enough for such a respectable-looking group -- a mixture of adolescents looking for a cause, public sector union members, drug dealers, criminals, teenage runaways... (more)


October 12, 2011
PAJAMAS MEDIA — Citizen journalist Ringo captured this speaker at the Occupy Los Angeles camp a few days ago letting the cat out of the bag: After dismissing nonviolence as a dead end, he admits that for the Occupiers to achieve their goals, violence and bloodshed will be necessary... (more)


October 12, 2011
MICHELLE MALKIN — President Obama blames Republicans for the collapse of his latest government jobs bill. But in the end, he has only his tall tale-telling tongue to blame. After hyping the TARP, Obamacare, Stimulus I and EduJobs spending behemoths as economic saviors, Obama just couldn't help overselling his half-trillion-dollar American Jobs Act... (more)


October 12, 2011
NATIONAL JOURNAL — President Obama threatened on Wednesday to veto any bill that would restrict insurers from paying for abortions, saying it goes too far. "Longstanding federal policy prohibits federal funds from being used for abortions, except in cases of rape or incest, or when the life of the woman would be endangered," the White House said in a statement... (more)


October 12, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — The Obama administration has been obsessed with Muslim outreach and recently tried to mend fences with the Jewish community. Given the state of the world, however, the White House ought to be focused on helping the world's oppressed Christians... (more)


October 12, 2011
NEWSMAX — The conservative Republican base is "not happy" with presidential hopeful Mitt Romney and does not want the former Massachusetts governor to be the GOP candidate, Rush Limbaugh said on his radio show Wednesday. Limbaugh said he found polling data that indicated 70 percent of Republicans are unsupportive of Romney right now... (more)


October 12, 2011
FOX NEWS — Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a subpoena Wednesday to Attorney General Eric Holder as part of his investigation into the gun trafficking operation known as "Fast and Furious"... (more)


October 12, 2011
INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY — Leadership: Leaked cables show Japan nixed a presidential apology to Hiroshima and Nagasaki for using nukes to end the overseas contingency operation known as World War II. Will the next president apologize for the current one? The obsessive need of this president to apologize for American exceptionalism and our defense of freedom continued recently when Barack Obama's State Department (run by Hillary Clinton) contacted the family of al-Qaida propagandist and recruiter Samir Khan to "express its condolences" to his family... (more)


October 12, 2011
LAURA INGRAHAM — MSNBC reports: Newly obtained White House records provide fresh details on how senior Obama administration officials used Mitt Romney's landmark health-care law in Massachusetts as a model for the new federal law, including recruiting some of Romney's own health care advisers and experts to help craft the act now derided by Republicans as "Obamacare"... (more)


October 11, 2011
AUDREY HUDSON — Federal funding of health care plans that also cover abortion, including ObamaCare, would be banned under legislation the House will vote on this week, prompting one top Obama administration official to describe the action as a "war" on women... (more)


October 11, 2011
NEWSMAX — Joe Wurzelbacher, better known as Joe the Plumber, plans to run for Congress in 2012. Wurzelbcher became a household name as well as a controversial figure during the 2008 presidential campaign after he was videotaped challenging a plan by candidate Barack Obama to raise taxes on small businesses... (more)


October 11, 2011
ROBERT SPENCER — Last Tuesday on the House floor, Rep. Frank Wolf (R.-Va.) showed more courage than most of the members of his party have ever managed to summon: He called out influential Republican power broker and anti-tax crusader Grover Norquist​ for, among other things, his close ties to jihad terrorists and Islamic supremacists... (more)


October 11, 2011
WASHINGTON TIMES — Washington is doing everything it can to prevent residents from exercising their right to keep and bear arms. On Oct. 4, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld the city's ban on high-capacity magazines and firearms that happen to have a scary appearance... (more)


October 11, 2011
CHRISTIAN POST — California Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday that his state will become the fifth state to prohibit the open carry of handguns in a public venue, even if they are unloaded. The recently signed bill, AB144, was introduced by California Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D) and will make it a misdemeanor to carry a handgun in public or in a vehicle... (more)


October 11, 2011
THOMAS SOWELL — Among those who have been disappointed by President Barack Obama, none is likely to end up so painfully disappointed as those who saw his election as being, in itself and in its consequences, a movement toward a "post-racial society." Like so many other expectations that so many people projected onto this little-known man who suddenly burst onto the political scene, the expectation of movement toward a post-racial society had no speck of hard evidence behind it... (more)


October 10, 2011
WES VERNON, RA ANALYST — Cancel elections! "Take out" the "sons of bitches!" Send capitalists to "re-education [read concentration] camps!" Chop their heads off! Kill the bankers! Kill the rich! Kill your parents! Kill! Kill! Kill! "Occupy Wall Street" rioting is not a self-starter with bored white kids on a lark to rush the calendar for Spring Break (though some such "useful idiots" are in the mix)... (more)


October 10, 2011
BRYAN FISCHER — When, as a social conservative, you go to the most prominent conference of social conservatives on the election calendar, you don't expect to get publicly attacked by somebody who wants social conservatives to vote for him... (more)


October 10, 2011
WASHINGTON EXAMINER — In the days before the Values Voter Summit in Washington, aides to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney grew concerned about a speaker scheduled to appear shortly after Romney's speech on Saturday morning... (more)

 
 
 
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