Obama Accused of Trying to Distract from Real Issues »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) To welcome the president to Nevada, this morning Congressman Mark Amodei, who currently represents most of the rural part of the state, and Lt. Gov. Brian Krolicki conducted a brief press conference phone call. During the call they basically accused Obama of trying to distract voters from the real issue of the economy with his touting of a mortgage refinancing program that will do little for a few at a huge cost. [...]
Leftovers: Obama Administration Still Cooking the Books on Joblessness Data »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) By Jove, they’ve done it again, Magoo. While stumbling around blind the Labor Department has found a way to report that new jobless claims fell by 1,000. Today’s press release reports initial claims this past week were 367,000, a decrease of 1,000 from the previous week’s “revised” figure of 368,000. Last week the agency told us new claims were 365,000. So during the past week they revised that number up 3,000 to [...]
Penciling Out ‘Green’ Energy: Politicians Still Can’t Figure Out the Math »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Out of the mouths of rubes. Nobody ever does the math when it comes to stories about “green” energy projects. I remember all the glowing stories about the huge array of solar panels at Nellis Air Force Base and how they would save the Air Force $1 million a year in power bills. President Obama and Sen. Harry Reid toured the facility and sang its praises. All the stories mentioned the savings [...]
Marbury v. Madison, Mr. President. Study The Case. Again. »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Once upon a time, back in 1972 at Bradley University, I took Constitutional Law 101. I cannot remember the name of the professor, but I certainly remember the specifics of a case named Marbury v. Madison. The actual case itself was a relatively petty dispute about a prospective justice of the peace, William Marbury, who had been appointed by President John Adams near the end of his term. Well, it [...]
Obama Warms Up Campaign Speech Against ‘Unelected’ Court »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) It seems our former constitutional law professor of a president has again leveled a bit of criticism toward the robed ladies and gentlemen of the highest court in the land. In a press conference Monday, Obama made pointed reference to an “unelected group of people,” meaning the court. While couching his comments as an expression of confidence that the court would uphold his signature health care law, he managed to criticize. [...]
Obama’s Grasp Of Reality Thin And Slipping »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – I’m not like Rush Limbaugh. No matter how much I disagree with a sitting President, I would never wish for his failure in public. In fact, I said on January 20, 2009 and still believe that anybody who watched the inauguration and didn’t have just a little bit of a lump in their throat just doesn’t understand that America truly is the land of unlimited opportunity. But I’m not going [...]
They All Laughed at »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) in·vest·ment (in-vest-muhnt) noun: the investing of money or capital in order to gain profitable returns, as interest, income, or appreciation in value. In announcing the president’s travels this week, the White House said: “On Wednesday, the President will begin the tour in Boulder City, Nevada where he will visit the Copper Mountain Solar 1 Facility, the largest photovoltaic plant operating in the country with nearly one million solar panels powering 17,000 homes. [...]
Obama Plans to Lower Fuel Prices by Raising Cost of Oil? »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) Snake oil salesmen seldom lied outright, but they never really told the whole truth. In today’s radio address Obama told us with a straight face, “Under my administration, we’re producing more oil here at home than at any time in the last eight years, that’s a fact.” Yes, that’s a fact. What he did not bother to mention is that all that production is taking place on private land. As the Washington [...]
Reno Windmills Barely Create a Stir in the Cash Drawer »
(Thomas Mitchell/4TH ST8) After spending a million dollars from Obama’s green energy stash to erect six electricity generating windmills, the city of Reno over the past two years has saved a whopping $2,785 off its power bill, according to the Reno Gazette-Journal today. The newspaper calculated the savings by using the city’s new “open government” website, which tracks the power each windmill generates. The paper quotes Jason Geddes, Reno’s environmental services administrator, as [...]
Who Will Speak Up When They Come For You? »
(Fred Weinberg/The Penny Press) – Barack Hussein Obama, at least insofar as religious freedom goes, may well be the Manchurian Candidate. I simply do not know how else you can explain his personal assault on the Catholic Church last week. Whether social conservatives like it or not, Roe vs. Wade is settled, albeit bad, law. But where is it written anywhere in our Constitution that the Federal Government can force a whole religion to do [...]
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