July 7, 2013 – 8:47 am
What could possibly go wrong? (Washington Post) The Obama administration announced Friday that it would significantly scale back the health law’s requirements that new insurance marketplaces verify consumers’ income and health insurance status. Instead, the federal government will rely more heavily on consumers’ self-reported information until 2015, when it plans to have stronger verification systems […]
July 6, 2013 – 8:58 am
During a Republican presidential administration, this would be big news. Heck, it would have been big news from the get-go, with angry opinion pieces and editorials demanding massive Congressional inquiries. At least two American federal agents were killed by the 2,400 guns that were “walked.” At least 200 Mexican civilians, including children, have been killed […]
July 6, 2013 – 8:42 am
One has to read between the lines Egypt Crisis Finds Washington Largely Ambivalent and Aloof In polo shirt, shorts and sandals, President Obama headed to the golf course Friday morning with a couple of old friends, then flew to Camp David for a long weekend. Secretary of State John Kerry was relaxing at his vacation […]
July 4, 2013 – 5:11 pm
Mr. “Hi Everybody” trots out his weekly address Hi everybody. I hope you all had a safe and happy Fourth of July, filled with parades, cookouts, fireworks and family reunions. We celebrated at the White House with a few hundred members of the military and their families. And we took a moment amid the festivities […]
July 3, 2013 – 3:52 pm
Like you, I’ve had time today to listen to the talking heads and read the blog posts on Obama delaying the rollout of the employer mandate (read Gabriel Malor’s discussion of what the mandate is). Erika Johnson has a good breakdown as to the massive job losses that will now be put off till after […]
July 3, 2013 – 8:22 am
First Democrats wrote Obamacare to make sure that the painful parts would start after the 2012 election, now Team Obama looks to make sure that the employer mandate kicks in after the midterms. Kudos to The Hill for pointing this out in their headline. The ObamaCare employer mandate requiring businesses to provide their workers with […]
July 2, 2013 – 8:26 am
As I tweeted yesterday George W Bush had his faults, but standing up for liberty, freedom, and democracy wasn't one of them #egypt — WilliamTeach (@WilliamTeach) July 1, 2013 (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama toasted the founding dictator of post-colonial Tanzania on Monday, who collectivized the nation’s low-tech agricultural sector, established a one-party state and […]
July 2, 2013 – 7:55 am
1st World Warmists simply hate that people in the 3rd world want the same things 1st worlders have (via JGlanton) (CNS News) President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy “the planet will boil over” if people in Africa […]
July 1, 2013 – 12:14 pm
Nice Deb asks the question At what point is this country going to have had enough of this  shameless,  inveterate liar? He had to lie continually in 2008 in order to get elected, and he’s been a non stop geyser gushing lies, ever since. Geoffrey L. Hunter of the American Thinker, wrote, “Lying has many […]
June 30, 2013 – 1:35 pm
More US taxpayer money flushed down the toilet to appease, well, I bet he has lots of campaign donors who’d like to get their hands involved with the schemes (CNN) U.S. President Barack Obama pledged $7 billion Sunday to help combat frequent power blackouts in sub-Saharan Africa. Funds from the initiative, dubbed Power Africa, will […]