Daily Reminder: January 30, 2012

At about this time back in January 2010, who was it that said the following about President Barack Obama after the State of the Union Address was finished? “You know … I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.” Could it have been Ted Nugent? Certainly, Uncle Ted is always good for a few [...]

Daily Reminder: January 29, 2012

Despite campaign guarantees of unprecedented transparency should he reach the White House and, more specifically, promises made that the American public would have five days to read any bill passed by Congress before he signed it into law, on January 29, 2009 President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act into law only [...]

Daily Reminder: January 28, 2012

Included in the $819 billion “stimulus” bill passed by the House (without a single GOP vote) three years ago today: $7.7 billion for upgrades and renovations of federal buildings $5.2 billion for ACORN and other ‘neighborhood stabilization’ groups $2.4 billion for carbon capture projects $650 million for digital television converter box coupons $400 million for [...]

Daily Reminder: January 27, 2012

During the State of the Union Address on January 27, 2010, President Obama took the unprecedented step of overtly criticizing the Supreme Court for its recent decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, in which the Court upheld political speech protections in the First Amendment by rendering invalid a prior prohibition on independent expenditures [...]

Daily Reminder: January 26, 2012

Two years ago this week, NY Democrat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand told the NY Daily News on January 28, 2010 that she was “stunned” by the Obama White House’s lack of support for a bill which would allocate $11 billion over a 30-year span for the care of those sickened by their service at the Ground [...]

Dear Nancy

Dear Nancy, Perhaps you remember me, Madam Spea–  oh no, wait … you’re not Speaker of the House anymore. My bad, as the kids are fond of saying these days. In any event, you may remember me from a birthday wish that I penned to you almost two years ago, an article that caught quite [...]

More Unintended Consequences

CBSLosAngeles: Woman Claims Neighbor’s Energy-Efficient Windows Are Melting Her Toyota Prius I love that headline. Energy-efficient windows melting a Prius — it just doesn’t get any better than that. In the past, I’ve written about how compact fluorescent light bulbs present more of a danger to the very environment they are intended to protect due [...]

Daily Reminder: January 25, 2012

In 2010, January 25 fell on a Monday. The day before, White House advisers appears on three different Sunday morning talk shows – and offered three different estimates with regard to just how many jobs could be credited to the $862 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Valerie Jarrett said that “the Recovery Act saved [...]

Daily Reminder: January 24, 2012

While former President George W. Bush often catches flak for reading “My Pet Goat” to a classroom of students on the morning of September 11, 2001, with most critics insinuating that the former president’s reading skills are limited to children’s work, jokers on the left somehow skip punchlines having to do with President Obama’s own [...]

Daily Reminder: January 23, 2012

During a meeting with congressional leaders on January 23, 2009 regarding his stimulus package, President Obama was confronted with concerns by Republican leadership about the spending in the bill, and about the merits cutting the two lowest tax rates from 15 and ten percent to ten and five percent—the GOP’s proposal—versus the president’s proposed refundable [...]

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