Obamaitis: Spend more, raise taxes

May 19, 2010

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., recently announced that Congress will not pass a budget resolution this year. That hasn’t happened since Congress adopted the landmark Budget Control and Impoundment Act of 1974, which among much else was supposed to streamline and rationalize the federal

Will the PIGS Blow Up Europe?

By Patrick J. Buchanan
05/18/2010

Among the mega-forces moving the tectonic plates and imperiling the nation-states of the world from above and below are these:

First, ethno-nationalism, which threatens nations with secession and break-up. We see it in the Uighurs of China, the Naga of India, the Baluch of Iran and Pakistan, the Kurds of Iran, Syria, Iraq and Turkey, the Chechens of the Russian Caucasus and the Walloons of Belgium.

Napolitano’s Inept Homeland Security Department

By Rowan Scarborough
05/18/2010

In New York’s Time Square, it was a hot dog vendor who spotted a bomb-laden Nissan SUV. The man who parked it there, Faisal Shahzad, was able to board a Persian Gulf-bound jet many hours after Janet Napolitano’s Department of Homeland Security, which is in charge of airport screening, knew his identity.

Fears Intensify That Euro Crisis Could Snowball

On Monday May 17, 2010

After a brief respite following the announcement last week of a nearly $1 trillion bailout plan for Europe, fear in the financial markets is building again, this time over worries that the Continent’s biggest banks face strains that will hobble European economies.

Calif. agents use award ruse to reel in fugitives

California has the nerve to boycott Arizona for profiling.

Something here looks like a little profiling to ME! [“Things got pretty loud,” said Chaus, and a dozen or more parolees escaped. Officers rushed in and arrested the remaining parolees without incident.
Chaus said other parolees slipped away earlier Saturday and were allowed to leave for fear of revealing the sting prematurely.]

US drug war has met none of its goals

By MARTHA MENDOZA, Associated Press Writer
Thur. May 13

MEXICO CITY – After 40 years, the United States’ war on drugs has cost $1 trillion and hundreds of thousands of lives, and for what? Drug use is rampant and violence even more brutal and widespread.

Even U.S. drug czar Gil Kerlikowske concedes the strategy hasn’t worked.

Our Busted Deportation System Strikes Again

By Michelle Malkin
05/14/2010

Wouldn’t it be grand if the Obama administration cared more about policing our borders than about policing our refrigerators? How about fixing our deportation system instead of fixing our junk-food diets?

First Lady Michelle Obama argued this week that obesity is a “national security” issue. But her husband allows

Food-Stamp Tally Nears 40 Million, Sets Record

By Bob L.
Wed. May 12

This is an amassing story, but the problem is that the Government is spending more money to put on this joke then they are in handing out food stamps. On an average you could say that in a lot of cases you get $10.00 or $20.00 a month to live on, so what can you buy to last you a month to live on and stay alive.

Kagan Argued to Ban Political Pamphlets

By: Dan Weil
Tuesday, 11 May 2010

Some free speech advocates are going to be very unhappy with President Obama’s choice for the Supreme Court vacancy, Solicitor General Elena Kagan.

That’s because, as CNSNews.com reports, she argued to the court in September that Congress has the constitutional

Spike in disability claims clogs overloaded system

I can’t say to much about other states but I will say OHIO will try to take away your disability when you get it, and if you want health coverage they will take your money and leave you with nothing.
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By STEPHEN OHLEMACHER, Associated Press Writer
Mon May 10

WASHINGTON – Nearly 2 million people are waiting to find out if they qualify for Social Security disability benefits. It will be a long wait for most, even if they eventually win their cases.