Who Is the Real Sarah Palin? Is she “unqualified” or “unprepared”?
What is her actual record? The media demanded and got unprecedented access to the emails she wrote as governor. No other national or state politician has been more open and transparent. We can know this woman if we just take the time to investigate. I did, and I discovered a record of relentless reform and fiscal leadership that goes beyond “drill, baby, drill” and is more complex than selling an expensive state jet. Today everyone likes to call himself a deficit hawk, but it’s easy to be a budget cutter when you’re broke. In the days of credit downgrades in states across the country and for the country as a whole, Alaska has seen its credit upgraded twice since 2006 due to Palin’s reform of the state employee pensions and Alaska’s oil valuation tax.
Though she is unabashedly a woman of faith, Palin’s message and governing style garnered her approval ratings as high as 93% in the second least religious state in the country. Budgeting and Spending Jobs. Pajamas Media » We Know About Soros — But Who Is Maurice Strong? Intercontinental Exchange has agreed to purchase the parent company of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the preeminent market for trading carbon credits.
This is a market that exists solely to capitalize on possible federal legislation that would mandate reduced greenhouse gas emissions or the purchase of “pollution credits.” Politicians created this market out of thin air by fiat, and not surprisingly, cronies of these politicians will be the beneficiaries. These climate change profiteers include Maurice Strong.
We know of the usual suspects who have invested, either directly or indirectly, in the Climate Exchange: Goldman Sachs, Al Gore, and Chicago’s Joyce Foundation (which made an investment when Barack Obama sat on its board), among others. Franklin Raines, while he headed Fannie Mae, purchased and patented the mechanism used for trading under the cap-and-trade system — an investment that could fare far better than the trillion dollars worth of bad mortgages he saddled Fannie Mae with. General Andrew Breitbart's New Media War - Politics - CBN News - WASHINGTON -- Conservative media pioneers Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity used radio to reach their audience.
Now, a new generation is making their presence felt across the Internet. You've probably heard of Matt Drudge and his influential "Drudge Report. " Now, there's a new Internet force and he's taking on the left with a vengeance. His Political 'A' Game At his home in Los Angeles, Andrew Breitbart occasionally takes to the basketball court to practice his outside shot.
That style was clearly on display in a nearly one-hour interview with CBN News. Breitbart's arsenal against the left starts with a growing number of influential websites with names like Breitbart.com, Breitbart TV, Big Government.com, Big Journalism.com and Big Hollywood.com. The man who started behind the scenes at the powerhouse Drudge Report has now moved in front of the curtain. "I am loving it because I get to be me.
Breitbart was driving the conversation. Disrupting the 'Media Storyline' A Mouse, Modem, and Megaphone. American Thinker Blog: Sir Paul McCartney's Churlish White House. It was one of those nice events at the White House that was supposed to make everyone feel good.
President Obama presided as Beatles great Paul McCartney was given the Library of Congress' Gershwin Award. Certainly, McCartney merited the award for the influence that his music has had in America. And his singing the tuneful "Michelle, Ma Belle" to our lovely First Lady, Michelle Obama, was a memorable moment. But it was all marred by an extraordinary bit of churlishness.
Knights -- he is Sir Paul, after all -- are supposed leave churlishness to the churls. Do these people have any idea how to behave? What can we expect after what Bill and Hillary did there? Not that Bill Clinton didn't sometimes try to come up to standard. It's a part of left-wing conceit that they are the only learned ones, the only one who read.
Twice in as many weeks, President Barack Obama has stood by passively while foreigners ripped up Americans. Will President Obama defend us? » Dear Paul, You’re Not Half The Man You Used To Be - Big Journa. » ‘Go For Journalism — You’ll Never Regret It’ - Big Journalism.