Politics

May 11, 2010

• Ronald Reagan’s RNC Presidential Nomination Acceptance Speech Updated For 2010

  Never before in our history have Americans been called upon to face three grave threats to our very existence, any one of which could destroy us. We face a disintegrating economy, a weakened defense and an energy policy based on the sharing of scarcity. The Democrats tell us that the United States has had its [...]

April 20, 2010

• Fannie Mae Owns Patent On Residential 'Cap And Trade' Exchange

  The Washington Examiner reports: When he wasn’t busy helping create a $127 billion mess for taxpayers to clean up, former Fannie Mae Chief Executive Officer Franklin Raines, two of his top underlings and select individuals in the “green” movement were inventing a patented system to trade residential carbon credits. Patent No. 6904336 was approved by [...]

• Rahm Emanuel Says He Wants To Replace Daley As Mayor Of Chicago

  The Chicago Sun-Times reports: White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel has acknowledged that he would like to be mayor of Chicago at some time in the future. In an interview with PBS host Charlie Rose to be run late Monday night, Emanuel said he hopes Mayor Richard M. Daley seeks re-election and said he [...]

April 16, 2010

• New House Ratings: 44 Seats Moved Toward GOP

  From the Rothenberg Political Report: We are still seven months until the midterm elections, so there is at least some possibility that the landscape could shift or that Democratic attacks on the GOP could keep Republican gains down to a minimum. Substantial Republican gains are inevitable, with net Democratic losses now looking to be at [...]

• GM's Pension: A Ticking Time Bomb for Taxpayers?

  From Time: General Motors Corp. may no longer be the world’s biggest automaker, but it still operates the country’s largest pension fund. The threat to its pension plans has always been an issue, butit took on a new urgency when GM disclosed April 7 that its plans were underfunded by more than $27 billion, with [...]

April 14, 2010

• Barak Obama – The Great Reneger

  Sadly this video reflects reality: ” The Great Reneger” was written, produced and sung by Michael Fischer. The lyrics are down below. Please go to our website for more information on the song. If you enjoyed the song please pass it on to your friends. You can purchase the MP3 download at www.TheFischers.net.

April 12, 2010

• AP: Foes Of Tea Party Movement To Infiltrate Rallies

  Opponents of the tea party movement say they plan to infiltrate and dismantle the political group by trying to make its members appear to be racist, homophobic and moronic. Jason Levin, creator of http://www.crashtheteaparty.org/, said Monday the group has 65 leaders in major cities across the country who are trying to recruit members to infiltrate [...]

• Ted Kennedy's Family Gets A Say On His FBI File

  WONDER IF WE WOULD GET THE SAME PRIVILEGE –  Edward M. Kennedy’s family will be given a rare opportunity to raise objections before the public disclosure of thousands of pages of the late Massachusetts senator’s exhaustive and secret FBI file, according to bureau officials and advisers to the family. The accommodation, though uncommon, will help [...]

• Congress May Skip The Budget Process this Year

  Congress is poised to miss its April 15 deadline for finishing next year’s budget without even considering a draft in either chamber.  Indeed, some Democratic insiders suspect that leaders will skip the budget process altogether this year — a way to avoid the political unpleasantness of voting on spending, deficits and taxes in an election [...]

April 6, 2010

• Obama Nominee to 9th Circuit Fails To Disclose Controversial Background Material

  The Obama Administration continues its pattern of appointing radicals. According to FOX News: Senate Republicans on Tuesday slammed one of the Obama administration’s most controversial judicial nominees for failing to initially disclose more than 100 of his speeches, publications and other background materials — an omission the Republicans called unprecedented and a possible attempt to [...]

• Another Anti Tea Party Narrative Is Shot Down

  IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman pushed back Monday against assertions that working for the IRS has become more dangerous as a result of growing anti-government sentiment and the recent passage of President Obama’s health care plan.  “No, the risk has not increased,” IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman said. “There has been a lot of stuff in the [...]

March 16, 2010

• Pushing for More High-Growth Startups

  As the American economy continues to send out mixed signals about recovery, job creation has emerged as the country’s most pressing economic issue. Not only important for employment itself, job growth also drives recovery in other sectors, including housing. But, while hope for spurring the U.S. economy toward recovery focuses squarely on job creation, policy [...]

February 15, 2010

• Don't These Kind Of Things Only Happen In Third World Countries?

  MORE GANGSTER GOVERNMENT – Crony capitalism is now the order of the day in the United States. The government and the United Auto Workers own General Motors and Chrysler, which aren’t likely to pay back their billions in TARP money any time soon, if ever. Meanwhile the government tells Americans to stop driving Toyotas.  The [...]

• Public Employee Unions – An Anchor As We Sink

  NO WONDER WE’RE IN TROUBLE – While the rest of the economy is reeling, government just keeps expanding. Why? A major factor is the power of public-sector unions. New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that, for the first time in history, a majority of American union members — 52 percent — now work [...]

• The Democrats Are Running Scared

  MORE GOOD NEWS – How the mighty have fallen! Only seven or eight months ago, President Obama and congressional Democrats were on their way to remaking America along liberal lines and positioning themselves for decades of political dominance. Their lopsided majorities in the House and Senate, plus the White House, gave them unassailable command of [...]

• Dick Cheney – America's Most Influential Conservative?

  THIS GUY GETS IT – Former Vice President Dick Cheney stormed the beachheads of the liberal US media again today with a fiery performance on ABC’s This Week. He offered a stinging rebuke to current VP Joe Biden’s ludicrous claim that Iraq may end up as one of Barack Obama’s “great achievements”, as well as [...]

• ACORN Ban Just For Show

  THEY ALWAYS PROTECT THEIR OWN – Didn’t Acorn, the corrupt community organizer, get its federal funding yanked after its last scandal? Actually, no. Through municipal middlemen, it’s poised to rake in another $4 billion. Where is the outrage? You’d think a group implicated in dozens of electoral fraud cases, theft of funds and, most recently, [...]

February 12, 2010

• Family Fight: Nancy Pelosi At Odds With Obama

  THIS SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD THING – House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what they see as cavalier treatment from a wounded White House. For months, the California lawmaker has been pushing Obama hard in private while [...]

February 11, 2010

• I Guess He Only Wants To Be President For One Term

  Read my lips, no new taxes… It seems he wants to repeat George H.W. Bush’s experience!

• Dems Are Going To Try And Ram Healthcare Through

  Roll Call reports:   House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is pinning the blame on Republicans for a lack of bipartisanship in Congress and plans to bypass them if they continue to oppose efforts to enact near-universal health care. This is the clearest indication yet that Democrats are gearing up to jam the Senate version of [...]