Daily Reminder: February 18, 2012

“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and we, I believe, continue to be in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards.” – Eric Holder, the nation’s first black Attorney General, appointed by the nation’s first black president of the United [...]

Daily Reminder: February 17, 2012

On February 17, 2009 the president signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, saying that day that it was “put together without earmarks or unnecessary spending.” Of course, an $8 billion Mag-Lev train running from Disneyland in Anaheim, CA to Las Vegas in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Nevada sure isn’t a “pet [...]

Daily Reminder: February 16, 2012

Three years ago this week, the president traveled to foreclosure-ravaged Phoenix, AZ to unveil a brand new $75 billion initiative billed as a “homeowner rescue” plan and intended to help five million homeowners refinance their current loans and assist another four million homeowners already facing foreclosure. The idea was that lenders would be offered taxpayer [...]

Daily Reminder: February 15, 2012

Two years ago today, America learned a little more about Amy Bishop, a neurobiology professor who on February 12, 2010 had burst into a faculty meeting and shot three professors dead and wounded three others. As with other mass shooters, Bishop was originally characterized by the mainstream press as a right-wing extremist; but as with [...]

Daily Reminder: February 14, 2012

Two years ago today, Phil Jones, the scientist at the center of the ongoing farce that is global warming, admitted that the world isn’t warming after all, that warming periods have occurred before and without the help of man, and that much of his raw data is missing. The data acknowledged as “missing” by Jones [...]

Daily Reminder: February 13, 2012

With zero Republicans in support and seven Democrats voting against, the House of Representatives passed the then $787 billion (now $862 billion) American Recovery and Reinvestment Act three years ago today. That day, North Carolina Congressman Walter Jones told America’s Right that “it’s fitting that this bloated bill was passed on Friday the 13th, because [...]

Daily Reminder: February 12, 2012

At the start of President Obama’s presidency, NH Republican Sen. Judd Gregg was to be the token GOP’er in Obama’s cabinet. Three years ago today, however, Gregg withdrew as nominee for Commerce Secretary, citing differences over the “stimulus” bill and the census as “irresolvable conflicts.” Gregg was part of the unified GOP opposition to the [...]

Daily Reminder: February 11, 2012

Despite promises in black and white in the “Ethics” section of Barack Obama’s Change.gov Web site to “end the practice of writing legislation behind closed doors,” House and Senate Republicans reported three years ago today that official Republican conferees were being shut out of the House-Senate negotiations designed to hammer out a final version of [...]

Daily Reminder: February 10, 2012

Three years ago today, the U.S. Senate passed the first version of the “stimulus” bill by a 61-37 vote. Democrats and the president were aided by three turncoat Republicans: Susan Collins and Olympia Snowe of Maine, and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the latter of which would within the next few months formally switch parties after [...]

Daily Reminder: February 9, 2012

About two years ago this week, federal Judge Nina Gershon held that community organization group and voter fraud specialists ACORN was permitted to make an end run around a congressional ban on federal funding—instituted after citizen journalists armed with a hidden camera caught ACORN employees in several cities ready to assist in the hypothetical sexual [...]

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