Same-sex ‘marriage’: A welfare program, not a right

Despite all the Sturm und Drang about equal rights, ending prejudice, and transcending the final frontier of the civil rights movement, the homosexual “marriage” movement is essentially just a pitch for another welfare program. Yes, insecure LGBT activists want the government to formally legitimize their sexual behavior as “equal” to the nuclear family norm. But when one pierces through … [Read more...]

Conservative Powerhouse: If Obama Raises Taxes, GOP Will Impeach Him

The move to impeach Barack Obama is moving forward -- either in this term or, Heaven forfend, in the next. This week, one of the most influential conservative heavyweights raised the prospect of ignobly kicking the president out of office between elections. Grover Norquist of Americans for Tax Reform is the author of the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise signed by hundreds of office-seekers … [Read more...]

The State of Illusion Address, 2012

Barack Obama's State of the Union Address joined his other public remarks as an exercise in virtual reality. In addition to its jaundiced view of the free market and overly rosy view of the present economic crisis, his speech contained a number of factual errors, misleading statements, and outright lies. 1. “The Taliban’s momentum has been broken, and some troops in Afghanistan have begun … [Read more...]

Obama’s World: Federal Bureaucrats’ Pay Rises Higher Than Private Workers

For anyone who doubts that Barack Obama favors federal bureaucrats over the ever-dwindling number of employed taxpayers, USA Today released a potent article the day after Christmas. The paper’s independent analysis confirms, while the massive pay hikes of the last 10 years have slowed, “federal employees still did slightly better than workers in the private sector or at state and local … [Read more...]

Obama’s Policies Could Cause A Second U.S. Credit Downgrade

Barack Obama became the first president to preside over a downgrade of the U.S. credit rating. Now, he may cause a second. Fitch Ratings has warned the United States it may downgrade the U.S. credit rating in 2013 if the nation does not take steps to balance its exploding national deficit. Without a “credible plan” to cut the deficit, the ratings agency warned in a statement, “the … [Read more...]

Obama “Not My Fault” Redux, Blames Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, ATMs, Bosses, Health Care, Etc.

He’s doing it again. Obama is making a desperate effort to blame the economy on everybody else — this time on the last president to pull the economy “out of the ditch” of the Democrats’ digging: Ronald Wilson Reagan. An interviewer for WVEC-TV asked the president, “How have we become a country where so many members of the middle class go to bed at night wondering if they’re going … [Read more...]

Census: Half Of America Is Poor In Obama’s “New Normal”

If your family is struggling with poverty, cannot put food on its table, or sees its income slowly shrinking away, you’re running about average in Barack Obama’s America. According to a new story from the Associated Press, census data show almost half of Americans are poor or low-income. The data show that 49.1 million Americans are below the poverty line. Adding those whose income falls … [Read more...]

Video: Obama, Fixing the Economy is “Probably Going to Take More than One President”

On 60 MinutesSunday, Barack Obama told Steve Kroft fixing America’s economy was going to take more than one term, more than his second term if he is re-elected — in fact, it is “probably going to take more than one president.” In essence, the president of hope and change told the American people their country is wrecked until at least 2017. Giving his latest excuse about why the … [Read more...]

A Subpoena for Solyndra

Tired of the Obama administration's "slow-walking" documents related to the Solyndra scandal, Republicans on a House panel voted today to subpoena all documents related to Solyndra. The motion to hold the Obama administration accountable passed the House Energy and Commerce Committee on a 14-9, party-line vote. The measure authorizes committee chairman Rep. Fred Upton, R-MI, to issue a subpoena … [Read more...]

It’s Official: Voters Say Obama Owns Economic Disaster

Two Gallup polls may hold the answer to whether Barack Obama will be re-elected in 2012. A poll Gallup released on September 21 shows that, in most Americans' eyes, President Obama owns this economy, and a second poll shows what a poor investment that is. Late last month, Gallup announced, "A slight majority of Americans for the first time blame President Obama either a great deal (24%) or a … [Read more...]