October 16, 2012 – 10:48 am
I wonder of Gov. Romney will bring this up tonight? (Bloomberg) A123 Systems Inc. (AONE), a maker of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries for electric cars, filed for bankruptcy after failing to make a debt payment that was due yesterday. The company listed assets of $459.8 million and debt of $376 million as of Aug. 31 in […]
October 16, 2012 – 8:30 am
The AP helpfully provides what to watch for 1. A REBOUND? After taking a drubbing in the first debate, Obama’s under big pressure to step up his game Tuesday night. He’ll try to show energy and passion. And look for him to challenge Romney’s claims more often. Obama’s comfortable taking audience questions at campaign events, […]
October 15, 2012 – 8:20 am
The Washington Post’s Jackson Diehl thinks so Mitt Romney and congressional Republicans are doing their best to portray the assault on the U.S. Consulate in Libya and its aftermath as a signal foreign policy disaster for Barack Obama. But my bet is that when historians look back on Obama’s mistakes in the last four years, […]
October 12, 2012 – 4:42 pm
The other day Obama yammered on about carbon pollution during a speech in Ohio, saying that was the reason he was running for president again. And then in Florida (CNS News) President Barack Obama warned his supporters about the threat of global warming and vowed that more money to subsidize green energy firms would prevent […]
October 11, 2012 – 1:58 pm
As Grist points out, this comes a mere 3 weeks before the election (Interior Department) As part of the Obama Administration’s all-of-the-above energy strategy to expand domestic energy production, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced approval of a ‘land-into-trust’ application from the Three Affiliated Tribes of the Fort Berthold Reservation. Today’s action is […]
October 10, 2012 – 12:14 pm
Jobs, right? Gotta be jobs. Er, um (via Tom Nelson) And my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet, because climate change is not a hoax. More draught and floods and wildfires are not a joke.  They’re a threat to your future.  And we’ve got to make sure that […]
October 10, 2012 – 8:33 am
Who would have seen this coming? Legislation has consequences out in the Real World (Washington Times) The owner of Olive Garden and Red Lobster restaurants is putting more workers on part-time status in a test aimed at limiting costs from President Obama’s health care law. Darden Restaurants Inc. declined to give details but said the […]
October 10, 2012 – 7:39 am
Obama has presided over what has been very few natural disasters. There have been few monster tornado outbreaks, a few big floods, and just one hurricane (barely) to make landfall on the continental United States. And how does he treat it? Well, hypocritically, of course (Daily Caller) President Barack Obama has refused to extend to […]
October 9, 2012 – 7:03 pm
So, after 5+ days of blabbering on about this being part of a “spontaneous protest” over some video critical of Mohammed that no one had seen or known about, followed by weeks of “whoops, our bad, it’s actually X”, we now learn (Foreign Policy) Prior to the attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi late […]
October 9, 2012 – 3:36 pm
The Obama administration loans for “green” energy have been such a disaster that we have to wonder if anyone will want to invest for decades. Here’s another example (Fox News) President Obama touted it in 2010 as evidence “manufacturing jobs are coming back to the United States,†but two years later, a Michigan hybrid battery […]
