Category Archives: Current Affairs

Anti-Semitism On Display At Occupy LA

From Zombie, we get While there have been intense arguments in the media recently about hints of anti-Semitism which have erupted at New York’s Occupy Wall Street protest, very little attention has been paid to similar problems cropping up at other “Occupy” events around the country. Below you will find some photographs and a video […]

Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize Decides To Fight Another War In Uganda

Well, not just Uganda, but other African nations, because the target of POTUS’ operation operates in other countries, such as Congo, South Sudan, and the C.A.R. He was nice enough to notify Congress, this time in a letter to Speaker Boehner Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) For more than two decades, the Lord’s Resistance Army […]

Obama Knew About Fast And Furious Before Holder?

You know things are bad when even CNN wonders if Holder lied. But, we don’t want Holder to resign: we want him in front of Congress testifying. (Via Jammie Wearing Fool)

3.2 Million Arrested/Washed: #OWS Protesters Arrested After Clashing With Police

Hey, I’m just using Obama math, since @amandacarpenter was wondering if anyone could put together a count of the arrests (MSNBC) New York City police clashed with Occupy Wall Street protesters and arrested at least four of them after owners of the park being occupied ditched cleanup plans that demonstrators claimed were a pretext to […]

Obama Calls Boehner On Trade Bills, Gets Dressed Down

Perhaps Obama shouldn’t have been running his mouth earlier in the day while being campaigner in chief (Politico) President Barack Obama called House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) Thursday to congratulate him for passing three trade agreements — but ended up getting an earful on the jobs debate. According to an unusually detailed account released by […]

Breaking: Subpoena Sent To DOJ And Eric Holder Over Gunwalking

No print stories out yet, will link when they are up. An interesting point is that if Holder claims “executive privilege,” that means that he discussed the issue with the President. Meaning he lied to Congress, and that Obama knows about the whole program. Here we go: Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the House Oversight […]

LA Times Attempts To Explain That #OWS Folks Aren’t Hippies Without A Plan

Funny, I don’t remember them ever attempting to explain the TEA Party point of view (LA Times) How do you know when a protest movement is starting to scare the pants off the establishment? One clue is when the protesters are casually dismissed as hippies or rabble, or their principles redefined as class envy or […]

Senate Dems Go With Plan B On Obama’s “Jobs” Bill: Treat It Like Castor Oil

As Obama runs around the country pretending to be a parrot …. “pass my bill, pass my bill, Obama wants a campaign donation” …. Senate Dems have a different plan (The Politico) Democrats may not vote on President Barack Obama’s jobs bill just once. They could hold several votes on it, even though they know […]

Occupy Wall Street Morons Pushing For Boycott Against Banks

And, when I call them morons, I’m not simply using typical language that us folks in political blogging use against our opponents (unlike those on the left, I do not consider them enemies, like the left thinks about the right): in this case, they are morons. Here’s a CNBC story from Friday which jumped into […]

Do Solyndra Emails Show Potential Illegality?

Yesterday, the Washington Post published a story about the push for Solyndra loan coming from the top at the White House. That story came out around 4pm Friday. I, like many others covered it. That story has been heavily re-written by the authors late Friday night (at least the link goes to the story, and […]

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