Team Obama denies knowing story of man in its TV ad, call. When President Obama’s aides said they weren’t familiar with former Missouri steelworker Joe Soptic’s life story, all they had to do was check their own campaign archives.
Geithner Sacrificed Pensions Of Non-Union Delphi Retirees. The 3 Charts That 'Prove' Obama Will Be Crushed in the Election - Derek Thompson. How bad will Obama lose in November?
Real bad. And people've got charts to prove it. There's this one, from Jim Pethokoukis, predicting a blood bath for incumbents based on a formula that incorporates both economic growth and military fatalities: ... and this one, via Chris Cillizza, comparing jobs gained by presidential term since Harry Truman: ... and, finally, this one, also from AEI Ideas, benchmarking Obama's performance against some statistics that correlate with reelection:
Barack Obama-isms: The Biggest Obama Gaffes. Defining Moments. Aspen Ideas Festival - US Business News — A Big Idea From Aspen: Ending Universal Suffrage. I'm sorry to report that I did not catch his name.
Ten Rules for 5G Warfare - Umair Haque. Magazine - Goodbye to All That: Why Obama Matters. Is Iraq Vietnam?
Who really won in 2000? Which side are you on in the culture wars? These questions have divided the Baby Boomers and distorted our politics. One candidate could transcend them. The logic behind the candidacy of Barack Obama is not, in the end, about Barack Obama. Obama, moreover, is no saint. The Law of Group Polarization by Cass Sunstein. Harvard Law SchoolDecember 1999 University of Chicago Law School, John M.
Barack Obama Fails the Young. Give the Obama Youth credit for this: At least they didn’t vote their self-interest. The cadres of college students and recent graduates who swooned and fainted for Barack Obama four years ago will long be remembered for one of the most ill-considered fliers in the annals of self-defeating enthusiasms. In the cold light of day, the youthful idealists, believers and activists of 2008 look like the lamentable saps, patsies and suckers of 2012. Rarely has a politician owed so much to a constituency he has served so poorly. The president promised young voters the moon, and all they got was their old childhood bedroom back in their parents’ house. He fired them with an inspirational vision that didn’t include struggling to find a job to begin to pay off their onerous student loans. Uncle Sam's Unlimited Plan: How the Government's Cell Phone Giveaway Is Costing You Billions.
I've heard from many Arkansans about one wasteful Washington program that's riddled with instances of abuse.
It's a government-run, taxpayer-funded program that's running wild and costing more and more. The evidence is stacking up: dead people are receiving free cell phones in the mail, eligible and ineligible individuals are obtaining more than one, and electronic kiosks have been stationed in convenience stores to spread the word about this "free" opportunity. The truth is, though, that taxpayers are footing the bill. Exposing the food stamp stimulus fallacy.
Here’s some amazing, Keynesian-style voodoo economics from the U.S.
Department of Agriculture claiming that every additional $1 of food stamp spending magically creates almost $2 in new economic activity: Why does increasing participation in SNAP (the federal food stamp program, now known at the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program) make sense for your community? SNAP Generates Economic Activity SNAP brings Federal dollars into communities in the form of benefits which are redeemed by SNAP participants at local stores.
These benefits ripple throughout the economies of the community, State, and Nation. Every $5 in new SNAP benefits generates a total of $9.20 in community spending.Every additional dollar’s worth of SNAP benefits generates 17 to 47 cents of new spending on food.On average, $1 billion of retail food demand by SNAP recipients generates 3,300 farm jobs. In fiscal year 2009, the average monthly SNAP benefit per household was approximately $272. Why Obama Flipped.
Abdulrahman al-Awlaki Death - Tom Junod on the Lethal Presidency of Barack Obama. In the August issue, Tom Junod examines an entirely new application of power on the part of the president — the targeted killing of individuals deemed to be threats to the country.
So far, thousands have been killed, most prominent among them Osama bin Laden and Anwar al-Awlaki. The decisions to target are made and the lethal missions are carried out without any public accountability, even when those targeted are Americans and even when, on one occasion, one of those Americans was a teenager. President Obama's troubling mantra: In debt, we trust. It is no surprise that President Obama supports unprecedented spending and borrowing in the federal budget since he has never suffered any consequences from the excessive spending and borrowing in his private life.
And I'm not just talking about the First Lady's $540 sneakers. A close examination of their finances shows that the Obamas were living off lines of credit along with other income for several years until 2005, when Obama's book royalties came through and Michelle received her 260% pay raise at the University of Chicago. This was also the year Obama started serving in the U.S. Senate. During the presidential primary campaign, Michelle Obama complained how tough it was to make ends meet. Let's examine how tough things were for this couple using various public records. In April 1999, they purchased a Chicago condo and obtained a mortgage for $159,250. Tax returns for 2004 reveal $14,395 in mortgage deductions. The Obamas' adjusted gross income averaged $257,000 from 2000 to 2004. Why Obama’s Senior Strategists Think He’ll Beat Mitt Romney. Illustration by Zohar Lazar David Plouffe sits in his White House office, just a few steps from the Oval, staring at an oversize map of these United States.
It’s late afternoon on May 9, two hours after Barack Obama’s declaration that his evolution on gay marriage has reached its terminus. The president is down the hall and on the phone, discussing his decision’s theological implications with several prominent African-American pastors—while Plouffe is being queried about its political dimensions by a querulous Caucasian reporter.