The puffiest of puff pieces on Hillary Clinton
As a news wonk, I often come across articles on people and issues not everyone will see, generally because of the source. I often weave quotes from these sources in posts I am developing for my blog. This was too good not to share.… read more
“Their big idea has been to sue me,” mocked President Obama during a recent McLean, VA appearance, “That’s what they’re spending time on – a political stunt that wastes America’s time and taxpayer dollars.”
As expected, most of the media have been pooh poohing House Speaker John Boehner’s lawsuit. Many of them are the same insiders who ridiculed the case brought against the president over the recess appointments, which to their surprise, was unanimously upheld by the Supreme Court.… read more
What a difference a few days make.
“Well, I am definitely committed and I have a responsibility in this job to try to help the president live up to his commitment, to be the most transparent president in history,” said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest during his Sunday appearance on CNN’s Reliable Sources.… read more
… read moreThe purpose of this commentary is not to review the polls pointing to the fact that Americans believe our country is headed in the wrong direction and that the president gets poor grades for his handling of key issues. And it isn’t necessary to remind you that his honesty and trustworthiness have been questioned or that he was recently ranked the worst president since World War II.
Last month the IRS informed the House Ways and Means Committee that the files of Lois Lerner dated January 2009 to April 2011 were considered lost due to a supposed computer crash, casting doubt on the investigation’s success.
Then, just when we thought the case against Lerner would be stalled, a series of seemingly innocuous e-mails from her turned up in a recent weekend data dump.
In a recently released e-mail chain, Lois Lerner revealed her concern over e-mails that Congress might find in the case against her. (worldmag.com photo)
”I was cautioning folks about email and how we have had several occasions where Congress has asked for emails and there has been an electronic search for responsive emails – so we need to be cautious about what we say in emails,” wrote Lerner in an April 9, 2013 e-mail to Maria Hooke. “Someone asked if OCS* conversations were also searchable – I don’t know, but told them I would get back to them. Do you know?”
“OCS messages are not set to automatically save as the standard,” Hooke responded, “To date OCS conversations are not specifically identified as part of the Electronic Data Request for information …” Hooke then offered Lerner her general recommendation “to treat the conversation as if it could/is being saved somewhere, as it is possible for either party of the conversation to retain the information and have it turn up as part of an electronic search. Make sense?”
To which, Lerner simply responded, “Perfect.” Continue reading
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi’s statement, “Really, we should be afraid of this court … the five guys who start determining what contraceptives are legal,” was ruled “false” by PolitiFacts. (Win McNamee/Getty Images North America)
Regular readers of this blog and my op-eds will recall that I have often written about the bogus war on women Democrats claim Republican are waging.
A host of liberal women took to the microphones to assault the Supreme Court Justices who decided in favor of Hobby Lobby in its recent ruling. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, was so incensed she called a press conference, only to have it backfire.
If you didn’t see Megyn Kelly’s powerful response to Pelosi on the July 10, 2014 Kelly File, I invite you to click here. Again, Pelosi is caught commenting on something without any knowledge of the facts and with no compunction to lie.
“She misspoke,” Pelosi’s spokesman Drew Hammill acknowledged to PolitiFacts, “Obviously the impact of the court’s decision is not to make these four contraceptive methods illegal –i.e. no longer allowed to be sold,” he confessed.
PolitiFacts called Pelosi’s sweeping claim “false.” Isn’t it convenient how someone can go before the press and make a blatant untruthful statement only to have someone else say, ‘Oops, she misspoke.’ And, of course, the correction is rarely covered by the press. Continue reading
Under the headline, Break the Immigration Impasse, three gentlemen from the world of business took on the United States Congress in space graciously provided by The New York Times, a liberal publication always willing to bash Republicans.
Sheldon Adleson (biography.com)
Warren Buffett (telegraph.co.uk)
Bill Gates (Microsoft)
“The three of us vary in our politics and would differ also in our preferences about the details of an immigration reform bill,” wrote Sheldon G. Adelson, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, “But we could without a doubt come together to draft a bill acceptable to each of us.” Sure you could. Now bring in 532 other business colleagues and let’s take a look at that bill.
Keying on the defeat of Republican Majority Leader Eric Cantor as the reason immigration reform became hopeless, the trio criticized the 535 members of Congress for not coming together on immigration. They wrote, “Americans deserve better than this,” adding that “Most Americans believe that our country has clear and present interest in enacting immigration legislation …”
Really? If that were so, why did immigration rank so low when Americans were asked about the most important problems facing the country today in the Quinnipiac University poll conducted earlier this month? Immigration garnered just four percent. Continue reading
As a native of Michigan, I found it interesting to note the misinformation on Great Lakes ice-cover published by the government in the latest National Climate Assessment.
It further supports my view that billions of dollars are wasted by government climate change studies, touched on in my post, Climate change to cause civil and political unrest, July 6, 2014.… read more
I saw Dinesh D’Souza’s latest movie, America, Imagine the World Without Her, yesterday and highly recommend it to you. It’s in a theater near you, I’m sure. If you saw D’Souza’s first documentary, 2016, Obama’s America, you will be equally impressed with this film.
Invite a low-information friend to join you or take your kids, especially teenagers; those home from college.… read more
ASU to study if climate change will spur unrest, read the headline of an article hidden at the bottom of a single column on page A-17 among advertisements in the Arizona Republic, July 4, 2014.
Up front, I agree that the climate is changing, as it has as far back as records have been kept and beyond. … read more
