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  • Teens Employment Lowest Since WWII – Obama Not Helping

    This article was published yesterday about the same time that Obama was in the Rose Garden making the situation worse: Fewer than 3 in 10 American teenagers now hold jobs such as running cash registers, mowing lawns or busing restaurant tables from June to August. The decline has been particularly sharp since 2000, with employment…

  • Obama’s Hand Forced on Illegal Immigration Issue

    Yesterday, a/k/a Thursday: U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the agency charged with guarding the U.S. borders, has written a secret draft policy that would let its agents catch and release low-priority illegal immigrants rather than bring them in for processing and prosecution. The policy, which has not been signed off on, would be the latest…

  • The Media’s Unholy Relationship with Obama

    On the evening of Tuesday, June 30, 2009—just five months into his administration—Barack Obama invited a small group of presidential historians to dine with him in the Family Quarters of the White House. His chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, personally delivered the invitations with a word of caution: the meeting was to remain private and…

  • Stripping Chicago Spending, Bare Down

    “What do a Chicago strip club and the President’s campaign fund have in common?” ANSWER:  BOTH were paid- with public funds- as “VENDORS” to the City of Chicago. _______________________________________ Yesterday, OpenTheBooks.com upgraded it’s transparency portal to include the City of Chicago checkbook from 2002-2011. It contains $74 billion in vendor payments. Last year 69,800 entities received checks. Here’s what I found while scanning…

  • Obama Has More Fundraisers Than Previous Five Presidents Combined

    I offer this by way of observation only; make up your own mind as to what it means. More from the Brits: Barack Obama has already held more re-election fundraising events than every elected president since Richard Nixon combined, according to figures to be published in a new book. Obama is also the only president…

  • We’re Dying — Another 5.4 Million Get SS Disability

    Yesterday I re-wrote about Tytler: A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves largesse from the public treasury. The post when on to cite recent news about how we’re nearing this point.  We have a record number of folks on…

  • Prescient or Racism?

    Again, a UK paper carries a story no U.S. media outlet would touch. In his three years as U.S. president, Barack Obama has been dogged by claims he is not patriotic enough.  … Now it emerges that similar fears were expressed about his father, who was categorised with others as ‘anti-American and anti-white’ when he…

  • How to Make More ‘Makers’

    Joey Hudy, a young “maker” from Phoenix went to the White House this week to show off his project, the “Extreme Marshmallow Cannon.” When President Obama saw it, he told Joey: “Let’s try it.” Joey set up the air cannon, which uses a bicycle pump to build up air pressure, and put a marshmallow down…

  • Countries Move to Isolate the U.S.

    Are other countries planning for a U.S. demise? “I was in Australia earlier this month and there, as elsewhere on my recent travels, the consensus among the politicians I met (at least in private) was that Washington lacked the will for meaningful course correction, and that, therefore, the trick was to ensure that, when the…

  • Labor Unions and Politics

    On March 10 there was this story in the LA Times I meant to write about: Labor unions rethinking their role in politics As top union leaders gather in Florida on Tuesday to determine labor’s political strategy this year, the influential AFL-CIO appears poised to endorse President Obama’s reelection — despite some lingering dissatisfaction with…