Category Archives: Current Affairs

Eric Holder’s DOJ: Executive Priviledge Not OK For Texas

More hypocrisy from the most transparent administration ever, which is blocking release of documents that are looking into a “botched” gunrunning operation that resulted in at least 1,400 missing weapons, at least 300 deaths of Mexican citizens, and at least two federal agents being killed (Breitbart) The Department of Justice is asserting that the governor […]

Nancy Pelosi Flounders Over Brian Terry’s Name During Holder Contempt Hearing

The question is, did she really not know his name well, or did she simply botch her reading of the speech? Via Newsbusters comes this video of Pelosi speaking during the Eric Holder contempt vote NANCY PELOSI: I think we all also agree, I think we all very, very much agree that we are very […]

Food Stamp President Wants Even More People On Food Stamps

What he wants is more people dependent on the Central Government, owing their allegiance to Obama and the Democrats, as opposed to finding ways to get the economy moving so that people have the money to purchase food on their own with government help (CNN Money) More than one in seven Americans are on food […]

Washington Post: Congress Has A Right To Investigate Fast And Furious

Well, this is a bit of a shocker. The Editorial Board comes out in favor of Congress Perhaps it’s true, as the White House has argued, that Mr. Issa’s investigation has degenerated into a partisan fishing expedition. And perhaps yielding to that would discourage candor in the councils of this and future administrations, as the […]

High Court’s Decision On ObamaCare Could Seriously Bum Out Progressives

Awwwwwww, what a shame (The Hill) A Supreme Court decision striking down President Obama’s healthcare law would be a blow not just to Obama, but to the decades-long push for universal healthcare. As most realize, that is what ObamaCare is about: a step towards putting the federal government in charge of the health care decisions […]

White House Grants DOJ “Executive Privilege” On Fast And Furious Documents

Most Transparent Administration Ever! (Fox News) Rep. Darrell Issa said Wednesday that he is pressing ahead with a committee vote to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress, despite an 11th-hour move by President Obama to exert executive privilege over the Fast and Furious documents at the heart of the dispute. The announcement […]

Good News: Yet More Leaks On Cyberwarfare

As Allahpundit, Israel Matzav, and Ace point out, this is meant to prop up Team Obama, since we already knew lots of details, but to throw some blame at Israel (Washington Post) The United States and Israel jointly developed a sophisticated computer virus nicknamed Flame that collected critical intelligence in preparation for cyber-sabotage attacks aimed […]

Politico: Please Stop Investigating Elizabeth Warren’s BS Past

Barbara Lee (different Barbara Lee than the Senator) has penned an op-ed for The Politico entitled Fighting dirty against women. What’s dirty? The debate swirling around Elizabeth Warren’s heritage is maddening. Not because it is a sideshow to pull focus from real issues in the Massachusetts Senate race and not because negative attacks are just […]

Silly Campaign Tricks: Will Those Who Blasted Romney Blast Obama?

I linked to Proof Positive earlier in the Patriotic Pinup post regarding this story from the LA Times Like buzzing flies drawn to the center of a room, two small planes with trailing banners circled in the blue sky above Mitt Romney as he kicked off a five-day tour of small-town America at a New […]

MSNBC Wonders If A White President Would Get Interrupted During Speech

As you’re probably aware by now, The Daily Callers Neil Munro “interrupted” Obama by daring to ask him a question at the end of Obama’s statement announcing his new de facto immunity program (I’m not calling it amnesty, because the illegals in question are not being given citizenship. Yet). It was an ill timed question […]

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