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Toledo, OH - In another strong sign that the lengthy Republican caused recession is coming to an end, my friend, a former bank vice president, got a job with Martinez Landscaping where his primary duty will be mowing lawns, Underneath Politics has learned. "I'm so excited," my friend Todd Dellinger said while retrieving a few plaid shirts he hadn't worn in quite a while.

For years, conservatives have longed for our own Michael Moore — a politically aware documentary filmmaker with brains, talent and a sense of humor — but without Moore’s habit of comparing Islamist terrorists to the Minutemen, fibbing about his stock holdings to maintain his “everyman” image, and larding his “non-fiction” films with lies and half-truths. Younger, friendlier (and far more telegenic) than his loony left counterpart, Steven Crowder may finally be our “great right hope.”

About 200 women marched through the Nepali capital Monday to denounce a government scheme to pay cash incentives to men for marrying widows, witnesses said. Nepal's center-left coalition announced a plan last month to pay men the equivalent of $650 for marrying widows, angering the widows. Monday, women shouting slogans such as "You can't sell your mother," and "We don't want government dowries," marched toward a government complex that houses the prime minister's office. (snip) But Neupane said it would only add to their woes as men would marry widows for money and later abandon them. Widows, she said, should...

As of this writing, the Obama administration hasn’t issued a statement to address the $1.44 million dollar door repair. I wonder how much money it would cost to replace. I also wonder, given the location of the door repair is listed as Dyess Air Force Base, why such a project doesn’t fall under the Defense Budget. Oh, yeah. Here’s something else I noticed in the Recovery.gov listing. The order for the door repair was signed April 28, 2009. The expected completion date? January 26, 2010. Nine months to repair a door. No wonder it costs $1.44 million dollars! The government...

We have recently read discussion in the mainstream media revolving around possibly creating a second stimulus package because, it seems, the first stimulus package — which has currently only expended around 20 billion dollars of its 787 billion dollar appropriation — either isn’t “comprehensive enough” or isn’t working, the opinion of which depends upon the political affiliation of the media person doing the analyzing of this new second stimulus idea. Such talk of yet another allocation of dollars the United States does not have nor has a hope of raising — without offering sky-high interest rates on its bonds and...

In spite of the Pro-Obama media’s 24/7 propaganda blitz, all positive Obama all of the time, there is developing a disconnect with the image that Obama image machine is trying to project and what the public is actually seeing in reality concerning the Obama federal budget, the weaken Obama economy and the Obama Democrat $787billion dollar stimulus bill passed by Democrats and Obama. It would appear that Obama is now being judged on his actual words and deeds. rather than his lofty promises and utopian socialist goals.(see story)

No wonder liberals, progressive Democrats, and sundry socialists throughout S.C. and the nation hate and fear him. They can't control, intimidate or silence him, and he's not in their political pecking order. Governor Mark Sanford just can't be turned from his mission; he's like the Eveready Bunny - tirelessly banging on his drum for the entire world to hear. Sanford personifies the greatest fears of progressive Democrats and accentuates the qualities of character most lacking in themselves. Since his early days as a fledgling member of the U.S. House of Representatives, Sanford has held fast to his core conservative, Christian...

Barack Obama sure likes his symbolism. Who can ever forget the hopeful rising sun coming up over a horizon of stripes, suggesting a new day of change coming? Or the Obama for President seal, complete with a spread-eagled eagle, heart filled with the hope of Obama's first seal? And certainly not the self-adulatory hubris of the Office of the President Elect. Today President Obama unleashed the latest creation of his egomaniacal mind, a stamp that will forever glorify (and transform, I'm sure) all the wasteful projects stemming from his porkulus spending bill, ARRA. President Obama announced today that his administration...

An interesting scenario is setting up under the stimulus package. In Alaska, the Governor has line-item veto on budget matters. In the federal stimulus law, there is a provision that allows for the state legislature to by-pass the executive branch. H/T to conservatives4palin on the topic of the legislator's comments on the matter. The language of the stimulus bill: ADDITIONAL FUNDING DISTRIBUTION AND ASSURANCE OF APPROPRIATE USE OF FUNDS SEC. 1607. (a) CERTIFICATION BY GOVERNOR. Not later than 45 days after the date of enactment of this Act, for funds provided to any State or agency thereof, the Governor of...

The passage of the $787 billion stimulus bill has so far failed to stimulate anything but greater market pessimism. This suggests to us that the strategy behind the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act is wrong -- and worse, that the weapons it is using to fight the recession are obsolete.

I wish I could take credit for the revelation, but I can't. You see, the other day my wife (Julie) and I were driving along I-55 between Chicago and the Illinois state capitol in Springfield. With a chuckle during our discussion over Barack Obama's latest trillion dollar spending spree, my wife summed up the new President's economic and social(ism) plan for our country. We had just heard the average American would receive a whopping $13 tax break from Obama's stimulus package. Now mind you, this bit of shocking information came after we learned there was money allocated in the stimulus...

In a Fox News poll released today, a slim majority of Americans – 51% - support Barack Obama’s $787 billion pig meat bonanza, signed into law on Tuesday (four days after it had to be passed by Congress, lest the nation disintegrate into oblivion). The poll also says that 40% of Americans oppose it.But here’s the kicker.

Odds of a terrorist attack on American soil during the Obama presidency: 12 to 1. ….and getting more even every day. Mixing dangerous policy cocktails such as reasserting American resolve in Afghanistan with the possible soft handling and release of known terrorists with the closure of Gitmo could make Obama appear – and act – weak on the War on Terror.

It pays when someone else pays.I initially thought President Obama was going to turn a blind eye and neglect the housing crisis in his porktabulous $787 billion spending bill in favor of doorknobs, STD awareness, hybrid cars and abandoned mine sites. It looks like I couldn't be more wrong ... and it took an article I read at the Indy Mind blog to bring it to my attention. (Thanks a million, Arkady).Nothing apparently gets by President Obama - that is, except the truth, American values and the need to keep terrorists caged. Housing, as it turns out, is a huge...

In a major victory for President Obama, Democrats strong-armed a $787 billion, 1,071 page, 8-inch-thick stimulus package through congress late Friday night (in record speed and without understanding) that has left many scratching their heads and asking WHAT?

I cannot even imagine the magnitude of the cacophonous outcry all of us would be hearing right now from every seedy nook and cranny of the main-stream media had Republicans been in control of both the White House and Congress while an unread, unscrutinized, unvetted, who-did-it-and-ran spending bill passed both houses before anyone could as much as inhale.Democrats orchestrated a legislative drive-by shooting for the ages, with the fleetness of a goose suffering from dysentery, sending to the President's desk a hunk of burning pig-meat over a thousand pages long that no one outside of speed readers and time travelers...

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom. There are those who have never ceased to say very earnestly, "Something is going to happen to the American form of government if we don't watch out." These were the innocent disarmers. Their trust was in words. They had forgotten their Aristotle. More than 2,000 years ago he wrote of what can happen within...

Okay, I'll try not to make a habit of lumping vast sums of moonbats together, but this deserves it. Both the House and the Senate have managed to pass their own versions of a stimulus package, and trying to determine which is better would be like the Underwriters Laboratories detonating various nuclear devices to gauge how consumer-safe they are. Or Consumer Reports rating poisons by taste, consistency and overall value. You get the point...

SNIPPET: "(CNSNews.com) - Two provisions in President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan could give the federal government the authority to oversee the medical decisions made between doctors and patients, critics warn, which could result in the rationing of health care. The plan to make all health records electronic and establish an effectiveness board to review health care costs was part of the $838 billion economic stimulus bill that passed the Senate Tuesday." SNIPPET: "Further, the legislation also spends $1.1 billion to establish a Federal Coordinating Council for Comparative Effectiveness Research, which would serve as an umbrella group for all federal...

It’s good to be left out sometimes. A couple of weeks ago, Republicans unanimously pulled themselves out of the fun of passing Obama’s stimulus bill in the House. Yesterday, save for three legislative wastes of space, Republicans said “no” to the Senate version. Now, comes the word that Republicans are being left out of the House-Senate negotiations on finalizing the bill by the all-inclusive, unity-happy, postpartisan Democrats.Politically, I say “good.” Let them have it. All of the credit for a bill that everyone with at least a few working synapses knew would pass know matter what Republicans did can stay...