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First Look at the Obama-Osama Movie Poster!
21 Aug 2011 4:22 pm

Our enterprising Cub Reporter Biff Spackle lands another world-exclusive!
The timing of the movie’s release is indeed “curious.”

Related: The 8 Most Terrifying Holes on Earth.

An Economic Illiterate in the White House
18 Aug 2011 7:49 am

Following up on his assertion that ATMs cause unemployment, the President today claimed that the Internet is behind the nation’s rampant unemployment.
One of the challenges in terms of rebuilding our economy is – businesses have gotten so efficient, that, uh, when was the last time somebody went to a bank teller? Instead of using an ATM. Or, used a travel agent instead of going online. A lot of jobs out that that used to require people now have become automated.
Apparently you have to be an economic illiterate to be a …

Oh, My: Obama Ag Secretary Vilsack Says Food-stamps Put People Back to Work
17 Aug 2011 7:45 am

One in seven Americans (another Obama record!) is now on food stamps. Asked how the federal government might alleviate those high numbers, Obama Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack proclaimed that food stamps are “putting people to work“.
No s***. He really said that.
Well, obviously, it’s putting people to work. Which is why we’re going to have some interesting things in the course of the forum this morning. Later this morning, we’re going have a press conference with Secretary Mavis and Secretary Chu to announce something that’s never happened in this …

Media Unearths Rick Perry’s College Transcripts In Nothing Flat, But Still Unable to Find Any Trace of Barack Obama’s Existence
14 Aug 2011 4:25 pm

You may have missed the Left’s preemptive attack on Rick Perry. The GOP candidate’s transcripts were “mysteriously released” a few days ago, which smacks of another odd disclosure.
In 2004, Barack Obama’s GOP opponent for Senate — Jack Ryan — “mysteriously” had his sealed divorce records un-sealed.
But I’m sure that’s just coincidental.
You know, I find the media quite honest and diligent. It mocks and vilifies Rick Perry’s college transcripts, yet somehow forgot about checking Barack Obama’s:
1. Occidental College records and transcripts — Not released
2. Columbia University records and transcripts …

How Barack Obama is destroying the American economy in two nauseating charts
28 Jul 2011 8:26 pm

You don’t need to be a math major to understand these devastating charts (slightly modified from the originals to depict the beginning of the “one-time, emergency Stimulus”):
…next time Obama or his allies in the press go back to the well and recite the well-worn verse that spending is all the other guy’s fault, take a look at the facts…
President Obama has steered a fiscal course that will lead to more spending and deeper deficits and ultimately to vastly higher taxes…
…If you want to know the real cause of our deficits …

Look to the Future, Comrades!
10 Jul 2011 10:12 pm

The Statist can never look at history, or at human experience, or their own record of failure. Thus, the Statist must paint a Utopian vision of the future.
Delivered on March 1, 1920 at the First All-Russia Congress of Workers, Vladimir Lenin concluded his keynote speech with the following promise.
We have now concentrated all our forces on the restoration of industry and are steadfastly waging this new war, in which we shall be as victorious as we have been hitherto. We have instructed a commission of scientists and engineers to …

“Millionaires and Billionaires”
9 Jul 2011 8:09 pm

The committee calls Thomas Edison to testify. Please swear him in.
Mr. Edison, describe for the committee the nature of your “light bulb” invention.
Distinguished representatives and guests, while the idea of electric lighting is not a new one, neither had it been a practical matter until we produced our new incandescent light bulb.
It uses a lower current of electricity and is both safe and economical.
So this electric light bulb that your firm invented: do you agree that demand for affordable lighting will skyrocket and that more and more electricity will …

On the Road to Totalitarianism With the Sixth Circuit
4 Jul 2011 10:13 am

Last week’s decision on the constitutionality of Obamacare, which was handed down by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, is troubling on many fronts.
Two of the three judges asserted that Congress has the authority under the Commerce Clause to compel individuals’ behavior by dint of their mere existence. A requirement that citizens purchase a product — in this case, health care insurance — whether they wish to or not, has never before occurred in all of American history.
Virtually everyone will need health care services at some point, including, in …

ICE agents warn Americans “to brace themselves for what’s coming” as catch-and-release of illegals — caught committing other crimes — begins
26 Jun 2011 11:27 am

You may have read that President Obama is now quietly offering a quasi-amnesty for illegal immigrants in a cynical attempt to rebuild his voting base.
Under his direction, new prosecution rules* put ICE agents in a bureaucratic box if they choose to prosecute illegals, with dozens of new, subjective guidelines. In essence, Obama is forcing ICE agents to release illegals even if they are caught committing crimes.
Just yesterday in Pennsylvania, ICE advised police to release three illegals who had been charged with speeding, driving without a license, without insurance, without …

Just two weeks before QE2 ends, Russia becomes third major country to announce it will dump U.S. Treasury holdings
19 Jun 2011 8:22 am

Tyler Durden asks, “Are we and Bill Gross (and certainly not Morgan Stanley) the only ones to see a problem with this“?
Just in time for the end of QE2, when the US needs every possible foreign buyer of US debt to step up to the plate, we get confirmation that yet another major foreign central bank has decided to not only not add to its US debt holdings, but to actively sell US Treasurys… The WSJ reports that “Russia will likely continue lowering its U.S. debt holdings as Washington …

GOP Beltway Insiders Charles Krauthammer and George Will Describe the Substantive Reasons Sarah Palin Can’t Win
5 Jun 2011 8:40 am

Charles Krauthammer‘s substantive reasons that Sarah Palin can’t win in 2012:
I think it would make no sense for her to run. I think her chances of winning the nomination are small. The chances of winning the general election are probably nil. I think, for the same reasons you articulated, 60 percent negatives. That’s almost impossible to overcome. And it isn’t as if that is forever. Hillary Clinton had very high negatives at many points in her career. But over time, they tend to soften.
…The problem with her, I think, is …

Party of the rich: Democrats in Congress score ‘abnormal’ stock profits
26 May 2011 8:53 pm

Corporate executives are banned from trading stocks based on inside knowledge, but apparently Democrats in Congress operate under no such restriction.
An extensive study released Wednesday in the journal Business and Politics found that the investments of members of the House of Representatives outperformed those of the average investor by 55 basis points per month, or 6 percent annually, suggesting that lawmakers are taking advantage of inside information to fatten their stock portfolios.
…Despite the GOP’s reputation as the party of the rich, House Republicans fared worse than their Democratic colleagues when …

What Democrats Believe
14 May 2011 5:55 pm

Democrats believe that you are legally permitted to break into an empty home if you need a place to stay.
Democrats believe that stealing furniture from someone’s home — if it’s in the best interest of your family — is a legally acceptable practice.
Democrats believe that you are within your rights to crash a rich man’s party if you’re hungry, because he’s got plenty of extra food.
Democrats believe that any person, should they require access to clean facilities like showers, toilets, and towels, must be legally permitted to break into a …

Is There Really a ‘Gold Bubble’? Maybe Not.
4 May 2011 10:02 pm

Brett Arends, writing at MarketWatch, refutes the notion that gold is in a speculative “bubble”. He does so by comparing the current spike in gold prices with other speculative run-ups in recent history.
Gold is in a bubble. Anyone will tell you that. They’ve been saying it since gold was about, oh, $500 an ounce.
But it’s a funny kind of a bubble. It’s the only one I’ve encountered where so few people seem to own the asset in question… During the dot-com bubble, you met lots of people with tech …

Profiles in Ineptitude: a Timeline of the Boehner Debacle
17 Apr 2011 6:35 pm

Can someone send a copy of Negotiating for Dummies to Speaker Boehner? Please consider the Speaker’s feckless statements and actions over the last several months — after being handed his position by a huge groundswell of conservative support known as the Tea Party movement.
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• 1/7/2011: Boehner Doubles Down On Promise To Cut $100 Billion: “Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) yesterday doubled down on $100 billion in cuts. ‘No ifs, ands or …

Crony Capitalism Today: Ma Bell 2.0 Invested $15.5M to Lobby Federal Government Just Prior to Its Planned Takeover of T-Mobile
2 Apr 2011 8:49 pm

AT&T’s recent announcement that it will buy wireless provider T-Mobile is yet another potentially crippling blow to the free market. In the exploding world of wireless, crony capitalism is helping to destroy competition.
And it’s all been facilitated by horrific policies set down by the FCC and Congress, who have benefited mightily over the decades by thoroughly abusing their power to regulate.
AT&T is rallying its already massive lobbying efforts in Washington D.C., to get regulatory approval of its plan to buy Bellevue-based T-Mobile USA for $39 billion.
The WSJ reports that …

Didn’t FDR execute a few people for doing what this ex-SEIU official is caught on tape espousing?
22 Mar 2011 9:31 pm

Runner-up headline: Caught on Tape: Ex-SEIU Hack Openly Plots to Collapse America’s Free Market System and Overthrow the United States Government
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. You can’t be a progressive and honestly take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States. The progressive agenda is completely, utterly at odds with America’s highest law.
And no one makes this more clear than ex-SEIU official Steve Lerner, who patiently explained a few days ago how the Democrats, the unions and the Soros globalists …

Could Someone Ask The New York Times to Tone Down Its Violent Rhetoric?
8 Mar 2011 6:33 am

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One would think that the self-proclaimed “newspaper of record” could do better than resorting to the hysterical, shrill and uncivil hyperbole laced throughout its op-ed “Holding Firm on the Budget.”
After all, weren’t these the very same kooks that lectured the Right about “civility” and “tone” after the horrific Tucson attacks?
After letting a highly destructive budget fight fester far too long, the White House finally stepped in late last week to negotiate with the House, which wants to eviscerate nondefense spending. Senate leaders still seem …

Wisconsin’s largest teachers’ union is an extremely profitable insurance business that just happens to support education on the side
27 Feb 2011 9:55 am

Like me, you may be a little confused about the nature of the fight between the public sector unions and Wisconsin Republicans. After all, the unions are just upset about having to pay for some of their benefits, right?
Wrong.
…the Wisconsin Education Association Council, the largest teachers union in the state, has grossly abused [collective bargaining] for decades, resulting in the unnecessary siphoning of millions of dollars from Wisconsin public schools. Under current Wisconsin law, the [choice] of the insurance company that provides health coverage to school employees is a …

Mark Levin puzzled by Ann Coulter’s bizarre endorsement of Chris Christie, who supports gun control, amnesty, Obamacare and climate legislation
20 Feb 2011 9:17 pm

Cub Reporter Biff Spackle was kind enough to transcribe the following soliloquy by radio host Mark Levin last Monday night.
I want to politely address my dear friend — and she is my dear friend — Ann Coulter. We’ve had some email exchanges.
What is your great love of Chris Christie based on? The man supports gun control. The man appoints a radical Islamist to a judgeship. The man is for amnesty [for illegal aliens]. The man is, to some extent, part of the “green” …

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