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President Obama's One Hundred and Eighty-Fourth Week in Office8/2/2012Queen MichelleA fired up Michelle Obama chants 'Forward!' at campaign rallySolyndra-GateSolyndra email: 'POTUS involvement was Rahm’s idea'Obama’s 'Bank of Washington' applauded by Solyndra CEO in email Probe faults 'pressure' to promote stimulus in $535M Solyndra loan approvalOMB warned WH to cut losses on SolyndraGunrunner-GateATF official resigns after Issa, Grassley nail him in congressional Fast and Furious report White House Fingerprints In the Issa-Grassley Report. "Newell had conducted similar operations 'all the time in Colombia.'" "Trust me, I'm with Government."Reporter Eban may also have been provided information from John Dodson's personal ATF jacket -- a...

The Ohio Democrat Party joined the 'party' and along with the Obama for America Campaign and the Democratic National Committee (DNC) - the 3 filed suit to reduce the three extra days the members of our military have to vote...because, you know they might be busy and might need those extra days. According to the sue-happy administration and Democrats, the Military has "no discernible rational basis" for needing extra time. That's a good argument considering Military absentee votes are seldom counted - but you have to think if you show up to vote in your own district, three days, or two...

(snip) The math is simple. In 2008, black turnout was way up. Hispanic turnout was up. Young voters flooded the polls. Barack Obama won a substantial majority (53.4%) of the vote, the largest majority for a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson’s landslide in 1964. The white vote, as a percentage of the total vote, was down. Obama captured 43% of the white vote, the highest percentage of white votes garnered by a Democratic presidential candidate since Lyndon Johnson (President Clinton also received 43% of the white vote in his 1996 re-election campaign). Fast forward to 2012. Black turnout indicators...

President Barack Obama’s changes to the nation’s immigration enforcement policy has morale “in the toilet right now” among Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, the head of a national organization that represents such personnel says. “Morale is in the toilet right now,” Chris Crane, president of the National ICE Council, told Fox News on Thursday. The group represents about 7,600 officers, agents and other ICE employees. “Most of the guys out in the field are just in an uproar.” The White House announced in June that the federal government would use “prosecutorial discretion” in allowing younger illegal aliens to stay in...

Mitt Romney presents one enormous problem for Barack Obama's campaign: No divorce records. That's why the media are so hot to get their hands on Romney's tax records for the past 25 years. They need something to "pick through, distort and lie about" -- as the Republican candidate says. Obama's usual campaign method, used in 100 percent of his races, has been to pry into the private records of his opponents.

The July jobs report has just been released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The U6 Underemployment Rate rose from 14.9% to 15.0%. Non-farm payrolls (NFP) rose 163,000. But with over 12 million unemployed, that is still a small number compared to what is needed. It did beat expectations, however. Now for the bad news (other than unemployment rates rising). In July, the number of part-time jobs added was 31,000 while the number of full-time jobs fell 228,000. So, let me get this straight. The headline will be NFP rose 163k, while full-time jobs fell more (-228k). Obamacare seems to...

Normally I give these polls with ridiculous samples the ol' college try, but I'm not even going to bother with this. You're welcome to it if you want to put in the time. The sample:No need to boot up your computer's calculator. That's 43.5D/24.5R/32I, or D+19. The 2008 presidential exit poll, in a big blue year, was D+7. And yet, even here, we find this:Nate Silver notes that Pew has been polling high for Obama all year and that registered voters tend to skew Democratic vis-a-vis likely voters. If you adjust for those effects, he thinks Obama's actual lead here...

As anyone on FreeRepublic will tell you, I am NOT a conspiracy theorist, and usually find common sense explanations for why things happen. Usually, history shows these are right. However, some things have happened recently that have me looking outside “common sense.” 1) Polling, except for Rasmussen and occasionally Gallup, has been wildly and utterly in the tank for Obama. Quinnipiac, one of the worst, came out today with a 9-point Obama lead (he’s at 50) using a +19 (!!!!) Dem sample. In an accurate sample, Romney wins by 1-2. This comes after the CBS poll last week with a...

It is really shocking how 3 years after the official end of a recession we have made almost zero progress in reducing unemployment.  Already people are calling this the worst recovery in history and it seems they are right.  Take a look at this updated chart which tracks the number of unemployed and adds back those that have dropped out of the labor force: Looking at this chart, it's pretty clear that none of Obama's policies worked.  Not the $862 billion stimulus, not the massive transfer of "Obama money" to the undeserving.  We still have 18 million people out of...

It's unlikely that President Barack Obama will be naming any tax proposals after George B. Kaiser. An investment by the Tulsa billionaire's family foundation in Solyndra, whose bankruptcy may leave taxpayers on the hook for $535 million in federal loans, has raised speculation that the administration acted in part to aid a financial supporter. But the impact on taxpayers of Kaiser's career goes far beyond the $535 million loss. Kaiser has built his fortune in part through shrewdly playing the Internal Revenue Code. In one six year period, during which he increased his net worth enough to land him on...

When the Democratic Party announced that Bill Clinton would deliver a prime-time speech at their convention in early September, convention head Antonio Villaraigosa left no doubt as to why. "President Clinton oversaw the longest economic expansion in U.S. history," he said, "pursuing many of the same policies that President Obama is proposing and implementing today." [snip] But a review of the record shows that Obama's policies — enacted or proposed — bear little resemblance to those adopted by Clinton during his eight years in office.

General Motors, the auto company that vice president Joe Biden likes to claim Obama saved singled-handedly during the virgin birth after which the One was swaddled in a manger, is facing a class action lawsuit for making “materially false and misleading” claims in the prospectus for the new issue of stock it offered as it moved out of bankruptcy in late fall 2010. A statement issued by the law firm representing the class “alleges that the defendants misrepresented and/or failed to disclose that: (1) GM was predicting revenue based on production rather than actual sales; (2) the Company falsely assured...

A new book by Richard Miniter contends that it was Valerie Jarrett, Obama's top adviser, who repeatedly urged President Obama not to take out Osama bin Laden, prompting Obama to cancel the mission three times. Kudos to Miniter for this revelation. A year ago, I had written a feature article for American Spectator on Valerie Jarrett. One piece of information I had, but couldn't confirm, was precisely this. Good work by Richard Miniter. ........As readers of this site are aware, I've just published a book on Barack Obama's mentor, Frank Marshall Davis. No president in the long history of this...

Conservative 6-Year Old Gives"10 Reasons Not To Vote For Obama" By Maurice Garland A gun toting tot might be the nation's youngest political pundit Does someone need to call Child Protective Services? Check out this clip of a "conservative" 6-year old doing his best Howdy Doody impression while giving us, the American public at large, 10 reasons why people shouldn't vote to re-elect President Barack Obama. Rather than dismiss the talkative tyke, we decided to take a look at his reasons, and see how they stand up to reality. Shall we? 10.) "He wants to take money from people...

From a November 2008 Google news search for Obama & "His Top Priority"... If you see any that were missed, please add them so that Obama can get his priorities straight... Transition Plan -Uniting the country around hope -Get Congress to work and solve problems Economic Policy -The economy -Creating jobs -Economic recovery -Fiscal responsibility -Stem the loss of jobs -Stabilizing the economy -Create millions of new jobs -Balancing the federal budget -Keeping the budget balanced -Reviving the American economy -Getting the economy back on track -Restoring opportunity on Main Street -Restore oversight of our financial markets -Getting the country...

The Chick-fil-A incident should finish off Obamacare. With Chick-fil-A the beatific mask of the Left slipped and we saw behind it the hideous reality. What is the Left really about? Control. Control. Control Leftist mayors had no problem stepping on the First Amendment, not to mention the American tradition of fair play. Mayors and other government officials proudly broadcast that they were going to corrupt their own licensing processes for their political agendas. They were going to interfere with procedures that are there to protect public health and safety and the integrity of neighborhoods through zoning. Beyond the illegal interference...

Both in his re-election campaign and as the core principle of his presidency, Barack Obama asks America to cast off many of its traditions in favor of the European model of governance and society. This he does, astonishingly, at the very moment of that model's long-predictable crisis, collapse, bankruptcy, and devolution. With his trademark absolute certainty, he proposes—indeed, at times commands—that we follow him over the Niagara to which his back is turned. Henry James, whose understanding was somewhat deeper, cautioned that, "It's a complex fate, being an American, & one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a...

THE ONE OR TWO HONEST POLLING OUTFITS - LIKE RASMUSSEN - SHOW THAT OBAMA IS LOSING TO ROMNEY BY ABOUT 5%. BUT PEW AND QUINNIPIAC SHOW OBAMA AHEAD IN POLLS SO SLANTED THEY'RE LAUGHABLE. MEANWHILE, SENATE MAJORITY LEADER REID IS SMEARING ROMNEY FROM THE FLOOR OF THE SENATE WITH RIDICULOUS HEARSAY CHARGES SO AWFUL EVEN JON STEWART THINKS REID IS DISGUSTING. WHY THE FULL COURT PRESS? SIMPLE: THEY'RE TRYING TO MINIMIZE OBAMA'S IMPENDING DEFEAT IN ORDER TO HOLD ON TO THE SENATE. THEY KNOW THAT IF A MAJORITY OF VOTERS KNEW HOW TRULY BADLY OBAMA IS DOING NOW - 99...