While Robert Gibbs routinely chides members of the press for obsessing about the day-to-day temperamental swings of the American public, behind the scenes the White House has poured plenty of money into conducting its own public opinion polls. Through June 9, 2010, the administration, via the Democratic National Committee, has spent at least $4.45 million on the services of seven different pollsters, according to records compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.
On July 29, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
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THE US government secretly advised Scottish ministers it would be “far preferable” to free the Lockerbie bomber than jail him in Libya.
Correspondence obtained by The Sunday Times reveals the Obama administration considered compassionate release more palatable than locking up Abdel Baset al-Megrahi in a Libyan prison.
The intervention, which has angered US relatives of those who died in the attack, was made by Richard LeBaron, deputy head of the US embassy in London, a week before Megrahi was freed in August last year on grounds that he had terminal cancer.
The document, acquired by a well-placed US source, threatens to undermine US President Barack Obama’s claim last week that all Americans were “surprised, disappointed and angry” to learn of Megrahi’s release.
On July 17, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
Administration officials say the tax argument is a linchpin of their legal case in defense of the health care overhaul and its individual mandate, now being challenged in court by more than 20 states and several private organizations.
On July 12, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
On July 12, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
The arrests on Thursday of three men in Norway and Germany accused of orchestrating a terrorist bomb plot seemed like another routine raid by a Western government in the continuing campaign against groups linked to Al Qaeda. But one detail stuck out: Norwegian officials said one of the men was a Chinese Uighur, and all three supposedly belonged to a group that advocates separatism in western China.
On July 11, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Some of Obama’s biggest promises won’t go into effect until long after his first term — and in some cases, well past a second. In fact, buried deep within some of the Democrats’ most significant reform bills are dozens of policy time bombs set to blow at more politically convenient times.
The Democratic reform triumvirate — health care, Wall Street and energy — is filled with provisions designed to front-load policy benefits and delay political pain.
On July 11, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 50% of voters now view President Obama’s handling of the economy as poor. This is the president’s highest negative rating in this area since he took office in January 2009.
On July 8, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
President Obama promised lobbyists wouldn’t run his White House. They’re just doing it from across the street — at a Shariah-compliant coffee chain tied to a radical jihadist group.
That’s right: According to the New York Times, prominent K Street lobbyists are buttonholing Obama officials at a Caribou Coffee shop on Pennsylvania Avenue, raising far more than just ethics questions. What the Times story neglects to mention is that Caribou Coffee is a Shariah-compliant firm owned by an Islamic bank based in Bahrain. One of its founders and a current adviser are leaders in the radical Muslim Brotherhood.
According to the FBI, the Egypt-based, Saudi-funded Brotherhood has a plan to infiltrate, “sabotage” and “destroy” the U.S. “from within.” And it’s using American agents and front groups to carry out that espionage.
The off-site White House meetings at Caribou also raise national security concerns. Because they’re not taking place at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., they’re not subject to disclosure on White House visitors logs. And there’s no Secret Service present — at a shop owned and controlled by a foreign entity hostile to U.S. interests.
On July 6, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
NASA’s chief says his mission is not to return us to space but to help the Muslim world feel good about its scientific contributions. The moon we should be landing on should not be crescent-shaped.
At a time when the only missile programs in the Arab world, namely in Syria and Iran, are aimed at hitting Israel with chemical, biological and nuclear weapons, NASA administrator Charles Bolden goes on Al Jazeera to tell the Muslim world his “foremost” goal was to make them feel good about their achievements in math, science and engineering.
Citing the International Space Station as an example, Bolden described space travel as an international collaboration of which Muslim nations must be a part.
As much as we are excited about the prospect of U.S. tax dollars going to encourage young Jordanians and Egyptians to become astronauts, we’d much rather not see Americans abandoning the final frontier to the Chinese while we hitch rides with the Russians.
Bolden’s one small step for Islam comes after presiding over the demise of the space shuttle program and the cancellation of the Constellation program, which was to put America back on the moon and restore America’s space dominance.
This administration does not believe in American exceptionalism and has said at conferences such as the G-20 that we would just like to be one of the 20. We no longer seek to lead, but we yearn to apologize. Hey, fellas, forget that American flag on the moon. Sorry about that. It won’t happen again. Welcome aboard the starship Kumbaya.
“When I became the NASA administrator — or before I became the NASA administrator — he (Obama) charged me with three things,” Bolden said in an interview. “One was he wanted me to help re-inspire children to want to get into science and math, he (Obama) wanted me to expand our international relationships, and third, and perhaps foremost, he wanted me to find a way to reach out to the Muslim world and engage much more with dominantly Muslim nations to help them feel good about their historic contribution to science … and math and engineering.”
On July 6, 2010, In Uncategorized, By admin
Berwick has condemned the free market’s involvement in medical practice and declared the United States should be more like Britain, where some people die waiting in line for medical treatment.
Berwick also lambasted consumers in the United States for being able to get the care they want as opposed to need in the United States. He wants to fix this “problem” declaring, “That is for leaders to do.”
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