Facebook Round-Up 06-25

Stealing You Blind: How Government Fat Cats Are Getting Rich Off of You

Stealing You Blind: Plans for Future Theft

A Definition of Unsustainable: The Long-Term Budget Outlook

Condemning our children to live in ‘Greece’

One Generation of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Is Enough Simply disgusting and should be required reading.

The Continuing Wussification of America

Tea Party to GOP: No More Pledges

Despite our nation’s staggering $14.4 trillion debt, there are many in the Obama Administration and Congress who want to raise our nation’s debt limit without any spending cuts or reforms.

Underwater treasure

Welcome...and thanks for jumping on board the Cain Train!

Cain to Unveil "Economic Vision: Jobs for America" in Greenville, South Carolina

Free to Search and Seize

THIS spring was a rough season for the Fourth Amendment. The Obama administration petitioned the Supreme Court to allow GPS tracking of vehicles without judicial permission. The Supreme Court ruled that the police could break into a house without a search warrant if, after knocking and announcing themselves, they heard what sounded like evidence being destroyed. Then it refused to see a Fourth Amendment violation where a citizen was jailed for 16 days on the false pretext that he was being held as a material witness to a crime.

In addition, Congress renewed Patriot Act provisions on enhanced surveillance powers until 2015, and the F.B.I. expanded agents’ authority to comb databases, follow people and rummage through their trash even if they are not suspected of a crime.

The above is from the NYT and is a stunning critique of the Obama administration. Where's the hope and change now?



Mean and Unfair, but Funny

The Human Tragedy of Illegal Immigration: Greater Efforts Needed to Combat Smuggling and Violence

Jews Poison a Well

On The Hijacking of the American Meteorological Society (AMS)

The IMF: An Equal-Opportunity Purveyor of Bad Advice

Why The Recession Recovery Remains Anemic

Arguing about Class-Warfare Taxation with Robert Reich


Animals Being Dicks

The Continuing Puzzle of the Hyperinflation that Hasn’t Occurred

Senate Candidate Andrew Ian Dodge

The Golden State’s Iron Bars. How California prison guards became the country’s most powerful union

Realistic Anatomies of Cartoon Characters

Economic trouble puzzles Fed chief, too

Bummer, he's such a great man - Ken Blackwell won’t seek U.S. Senate seat in Ohio

Gary Johnson: ‘I didn’t create a single job’

Mark Steyn on Free Speech at the IPA from Institute of Public Affairs on Vimeo.

The Full Skinny: Marilyn Monroe Was Tiny...and So Were Rita Hayworth, Judy Garland, Grace Kelly, Barbra Streisand, and more

Time to Shut Down the Department of Agriculture

UKip overtakes Lib Dems in North

Public Unions Take On Boss to Win Big Pensions

A “Right” to Stolen Property? A Great Day for Human Rights

Why I Was Arrested Yesterday at a D.C. Taxi Commission Meeting

Daily Round-Up 06-24

Mexican troops cross into the United States at Bridge Two


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


Democrat Legislature Cuts Public Sector Union Benefits…in New Jersey!

Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights Controversial Reverend Attacks Election Day Photo ID Requirements as Racist Conspiracy

The Middle American revolt. As liberalism collapses, conservative populists are stepping forward

Tag Off. Graffiti won’t be coming to the Brooklyn Museum after all.



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


Hells NO! Soros and liberal groups seeking top election posts in battleground states

Oh goody - TIGTA: 100% of Tested IRS Databases Are Vulnerable to Hackers

DDOT Directors Driving Shiny New Hybrid SUVs

Google Suddenly Values Privacy – Their Own

Illegal immigrant youth 'come out' in reform push

Reason.tv: Why I Was Arrested Yesterday at a D.C. Taxi Commission Meeting





AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Mr. Kelly goes to Washington

Awesome: Rant of the Year?




BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

Obama’s Real Legacy



Operation Fast and Furious — How the Obama Administration Conned the Washington Post. Selling arms to Mexican drug cartels? Misleading the Washington Post? It's all in a day's work for Obama's heavily politicized ATF. Update: The ATF responds to Issa's warning...by firing a whistle-blower.

Is Obama's Oil Dump A Political Ploy?

From GayPatriot - Face it, gay Democrats, he’s just after you for your money AND Weak: Obama punts on gay marriage at NY LGBT fundraiser

Support the Tropes Why is the World's Greatest Orator such a dreadful rhetorician?

Obama is a master of ambivalence



Let The Primaries Rumble AND Re: Let the Primaries Rumble

DNC Chair Wasserman Shultz’s Desperate Attempt To Disenfranchise Republican Voters

STUPID - Geithner: Tax Small Business so Government Doesn't Shrink

Doobie’ Brothers Ron and Barney

Hillary to congressional Libya critics: Whose side are you on?

North Carolina governor vetoes voter photo ID bill

DDOT Directors Driving Shiny New Hybrid SUVs

Who’s the isolationist now?

CBO head: Government policies, debt may be slowing growth



IN ECONOMIC WOES


Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

Can This Economy Be Saved? Yes, but government has to reverse its destructive policies.

CBO head: Government policies, debt may be slowing growth

Just When You Thought Our Fiscal Nightmare Couldn't Get Any Worse



Of Wealth and Incomes Why Americans are so unhappy with this economic recovery.

Fall Of The Economic High Priests

STUPID - Geithner: Tax Small Business so Government Doesn't Shrink



Welcome to the world of jobless stagflation

Gas Prices May Be Falling, But Food Keeps Going Up

The Half-Life of the Welfare State



Another Bail-out for the Big Banks

Public Pays for Half-Million-Dollar L.A. Tourism Salary

Tales of a Failed State: More Problems with California’s ‘Amazon Tax’

Desperate Democrats jump the stimulus shark



America's vanishing science jobs



OBAMACARE


An Rx for Shortages






JUNK SCIENCE


Nuclear Agency Scientists Blast Bosses Over Yucca Decision

Al Gore Calls Opponents ‘Pseudoscientists’; OK, Prove It, Big Guy

Dead Space Coming corpse boom poses land use challenge – and opportunity


MEDIA BIAS


I wonder why they felt the need to do this... Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company

Vargas’s Sob Story Ten years after 9/11, the privacy of illegal aliens still trumps national security.

It Depends Whom You’re Lying to



BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


NJ Unions Dealt Crushing Defeat

Latest State to Consider Collective Bargaining Reforms: Illinois

Boeing vs. union threatens Dreamliner investment



Indoctrination Fridays: Curriculum Teaches Kindergartners to Unionize

The Biggest Schoolyard Bully: The ACLU

Audit Shows How Labor Bosses Can Force Policy Changes on Companies Via Shareholder Activism



PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Planned Parenthood Funding: James Madison vs. Obama and the Progressives

Defunding Planned Parenthood One State at a Time



FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Mr. Kelly goes to Washington

FreedomWorks to Host Grassroots Boot Camp

Tea Partiers Create Their Own TV Show and Production Company

My Review of ‘The Undefeated’: Game On.

Black Activists Criticize Jesse Jackson on Voting Rights Controversial Reverend Attacks Election Day Photo ID Requirements as Racist Conspiracy

Daily Round-Up 06-23

‘Gunwalker’ Requires Special Counsel Investigation. Only a special prosecutor can peer into the dark places of government to ferret out the truth.


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

Wilders Acquitted of Hate Speech Against Muslims

Liberal losses

From the Unintentional(?) Burn Department (Video at link)

CBO Director Doug Elmendorf is testifying before the House Budget Committee as we speak, and a little while ago issued one of the better burns in recent memory. When asked by Chairman Ryan whether CBO had tried to score Obama’s 12-year budget framework, Elmendor quickly replied, “We don’t estimate speeches.” Brutal.

Walmart wins one — a big one — in court

The good news here? Another useless goverment department is being called out (others include Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the EPA - Yes, I can go on...) The Department of Food Subsidies The Department of Agriculture has no mandate of any kind.



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


N.C. Forced Sterilization Victims Voice Grief, Pain

*Sigh* there just are no words

Education Action Group Sues Open Government Hypocrite Dane Co. (WI) DA Ismael Ozanne

Farrakhan: The White Man Made Obama Bomb Libya




AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Gunwalker: Issa Defends ATF Whistleblowers From Retaliation. Rep. Darrell Issa sends a letter to the ATF forewarning against reprisals towards the four Gunrunner whistleblowers, who have expressed fear of such from this agency with a reputation for it.

Sen. Paul Calls TSA Official ‘Clueless’

A Washington Power Breaker


BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

CNN Poll: Obama a failure so far, plurality says

Did Obama slash non-union worker benefits at GM?

Obama’s America in Black & White Black political segregation, nurtured by the policies of the 1960s, has only hardened in the Obama years

Private emails detail Obama admin involvement in cutting non-union worker pensions post-GM bailout

Drunkblogging the President’s Afghanistan Speech Oh that Steve Green, he's so dreamy (and drunk).

Under Obama, U.S. Casualty Rate in Afghanistan Increased 5-Fold

The good news here? Another useless goverment department is being called out (others include Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the EPA - Yes, I can go on...) The Department of Food Subsidies The Department of Agriculture has no mandate of any kind.

‘Gunwalker’ Goes Pravda: White House Unleashes MSM

Feds Crack Down on Campus Flirting and Sex Jokes The Office of Civil Rights wants to set up kangaroo courts on campus.

Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

Tell the Marble Mafia It's Over

Oil as Seed Corn

Ex-APS official: Hall ordered destruction of documents tied to cheating

Personal financial woes on file for Cook County recorder. Moore faces foreclosure, tax liens, diminished clout

A constitutional convention is a dangerous idea

Gloria Molina, L.A. County Supervisor, Said She'd Like to 'Cut the Testicles Off' Agency Executive Under Her Authority

N.C. Forced Sterilization Victims Voice Grief, Pain

Stuck on Spend: Amidst Ghastly Debt Projections, Democrats Propose New Stimulus



IN ECONOMIC WOES


Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

Jobs Picture Grows Worse as Weekly Claims Post Jump

Jobless Benefit Requests Rise Again

U.S. initial jobless claims rise unexpectedly

"Unexpectedly" Compilation

CBO: Stimulus almost doubled U.S. debt

Stimulus and Other Euphemisms

Derivatives Cloud the Possible Fallout From a Greek Default

The good news here? Another useless goverment department is being called out (others include Department of Education, Department of Commerce, and the EPA - Yes, I can go on...) The Department of Food Subsidies The Department of Agriculture has no mandate of any kind.

Resolving our fiscal disaster

Fed lowers outlook for economic growth

What Is a Tax Increase?

A government debt is a government claim against personal income and private property – an unpaid tax bill

Lawmakers: Post office cost-cuts insufficient




OBAMACARE


A bad idea from the stupid party - National medical malpractice reform could boost Obamacare

A Washington Power Breaker

Pelosi Prediction Backfires? Glitches Arise in Health Law

Challenging the Constitutionality of Obamacare’s Medicaid Expansion

Obamacare Continues Its Gradual Destruction of Healthcare Choice



JUNK SCIENCE


Live by Hype, Die by Hype

Thank You, Green Angel, For Exposing the Error of Our Ways

2010 Dietary Guidelines Committee Member Joanne Slavin: ‘There Is No Scientific Basis For The U.S. Dietary Guidelines’

HHS and FDA Want to 'Focus' on Unhealthy Food

Seeing the Light

Oil as Seed Corn

Lawsuit Seeks Ethics Filings of NASA’s Global Warming Activist, James Hansen



MEDIA BIAS


Voyage of the Damned, Part XVIII

"Unexpectedly" Compilation

Big Media Suicide Compact

Pledging Allegiance

Washington Post Wrong On Issa Knowledge Of Project Gunrunner

Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

It's news — in the NYT — that a lot of black people these days think they'll be better off in the South

NY Times: Fraught Nexus of Lies, Stupidity, and Bigotry

The Gospel of Jon Stewart



BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


N.C. Forced Sterilization Victims Voice Grief, Pain

NLRB should back off plan to shorten union-vote time. Proposed federal rules, which are unfair to employers, slash the length of time workers have before being asked to unionize.

Enough Is Enough: Congress Must Step In

Terrorist-Linked ACORN Shill Brad Friedman Lies, Lies, and Lies Some More

Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

Home Daycare Providers Organize Against Statewide Unionization Campaign




PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Guttmacher’s Research on Unintended Pregnancies

New Hampshire lawmakers pass abortion parental notification bill over veto




FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Let there be (incandescent) light!

Home Daycare Providers Organize Against Statewide Unionization Campaign

Voter ID is No Jim Crow — I Know

A Washington Power Breaker

Daily Round-Up 06-22 Updated

The 'Jim Crow' Lie How could asking for ID be discriminatory only when it comes to voting?


AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Ten GOP sens. vow no debt-ceiling hike without balanced-budget amendment

Bachmann surges to primary lead

Gov. Rick Perry Fires Up Missouri Republicans at Peter Kinder Fundraiser

Hannity Can’t Believe Breitbart Continues to Confront Leftist Mobs

UPDATE My husband really likes this guy OOPs, my husband doesn't like Huntsman, he likes Gary Johnson whom I heard talking on Fox News this morning and have decided I don't like him because he refered to himself in the third person. - Huntsman joins WH race, promising jobs, civility Of course, that the media likes him is a black mark in my book and Michelle Malkin's - He's the liberal media's favorite conservative. As other commentators have pointed out, if Huntsman gets the nomination, that same media will turn on him as fast as they did their previous "republican" favorite, McCain.


PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


In Indiania Planned Parenthood stops seeing Medicaid patients

The War Against Girls Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons

Minn. pro-life club no longer aborted from campus life

Opposition mounts against Baltimore ordinance that targets pregnancy care centers

Al Gore Calls for Women to Have Fewer Children (eugenics in green clothing?)

Prague: Parliament puts ‘Czech’ on cheap abortions for foreigners

The Good News Is 06-22

Soldier Dad Throws First Pitch At Son's All-Star Game

Revenge of the 'fat cats' Wall St. finally breaks with Bam

Righthaven Loss: Judge Rules Reposting Entire Article Is Fair Use

Another New Jersey Victory: Unions to Pay More For Benefits

Controversial Safe Schools 'Czar' Calls It Quits

Aka the benefits of deregulation - Fewer Laws Make Better Beer in Japan

Poll Finds a Shift Toward More Libertarian Views

Supreme Court Rejects Climate Torts, Doubles Down on EPA Power Grab

A king, a speech, and a new constitution for Morocco

What the Wal-Mart Case Means for Women in Business

North Carolina FreedomWorks Applauds the Expansion of Charter Schools

10 Ways Conservatives Should Give Liberals Exactly What They Say They Want

A tale of two political conferences This weekend in Minnesota, the Tea Party shined at the RightOnline conference. Nearby, Netroots Nation unraveled

JPMorgan to pay $153.6M to settle fraud charges. JPMorgan to pay $153.6M to settle civil fraud charges over complex mortgage investments

How to Improve Education: Impact of Education Spending

General Bad Behavior 06-22

Signs of a global food crisis. Throughout the world, countries are grappling with higher food and commodity prices as demand continues to grow.

The War Against Girls Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons

America's New Racists

Reverend Wright brings his anti-American crusade to Baltimore. Obama's former pastor urges blacks to disavow their country

The 'Jim Crow' Lie How could asking for ID be discriminatory only when it comes to voting?

VDH - Reflections on the Redistributive State

Is John McCain right about illegal aliens or smugglers starting Arizona wildfires?

Al Gore Calls for Women to Have Fewer Children (eugenics in green clothing?)

FBI seizes DigitalOne servers in Virginia raid

Georgetown U. Received $325,000 Funneled Through Terror Front Group. Internal emails and faxes document the university’s collusion with the 56-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference to promote criminalizing “Islamophobia.”

Homeowners’ Associations Becoming Unavoidable and Quasi-Governmental

Arrest of woman taping police sparks controversy

California District Mothballs Newly Built $105 Million School

Mrs. Obama rewrites her resume for the Hope’n'Change era

Liberal Wisconsin Judge Tipped Off Anti-Walker Suit Was Coming

Bad Politician Bad 06-22

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

Obama Gets 30% of Americans Certain to Support Re-Election in Economy Poll

"How Do You Get Cool Back Into This?"

White House donor order becomes flashpoint in Congress

President Obama's war dilemma

The Summer of PUMA Discontent

Kinda painted themselves into a corner with that, didn't they? - President Obama, the human Rorschach test, faces his biggest challenge to date

Did Obama Really Prevent A Second Great Depression?



Obama's Debt Limit Scare Tactics

Obama’s foolish legal approach to Libya

House to vote on authorizing or ending Libya mission

How's that "smart diplomacy" workin' out for ya? Obama versus Osama: guess who the Egyptians prefer?

Jacob Zuma snubs Michelle Obama during First Lady's South Africa visit

Obama’s Illiberal Foreign Policy In Obama’s progressive calculus, disdain for the United States is a mark of authenticity.

Laughing AT Him, Not WITH Him: Disappearing Laughter at the White House

Union-owned and operated

DNC Fundraises from Inside the White House?

The Missing Money

Good! Dianne Feinstein's support dives in Field Poll

Dems Gone Wild: Rep. Alcee Hastings Investigated for Sexual Harassment



House arrest keeps Tierney’s wife from rep’s fund-raiser FYI the Boston Herald chose not to report that Tierney is a democrat.

Liberal Wisconsin Judge Tipped Off Anti-Walker Suit Was Coming

What did Rep. Clyburn know about the corruption at the university center that bears his name?

Controversial Safe Schools 'Czar' Calls It Quits

The 'Jim Crow' Lie How could asking for ID be discriminatory only when it comes to voting?

Obama Didn't Save Union Jobs, He Saved Union Pay

Geithner: We Need ‘Revenue Increases;' Cutting Deficit by Spending Cuts Alone 'Irresponsible'

Government Spending For Lavish Trips for Bureaucrats

In Economic Woes 06-22

Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

Ayn Rand Was Right: Wealthy Are on Strike Against Obama

Boosting unions & killing jobs

The Real U.S. Fiscal Crisis Is Joblessness

New Report Offers Grim or Grimmer Picture of Nation's Long-Term Debt

Why the Jobs Situation Is Worse Than It Looks. We now have more idle men and women than at any time since the Great Depression

44% of Americans Worse Off Under Obama

Are you better off than you were four years ago? As Obama talks war, Americans see economic gloom: 66% wrong track and only 23% sense any recovery

Poll Shows More Americans Say They Are Worse Off Than 2 Years Ago

We now have more idle men and women than at any time since the Great Depression

Why 2011 is much worse than 2008 Leaders want time; bankers want capital; investors want out

QE2 Proves No Silver Bullet

Who really benefited from QE2 anyway?

CBO: Yeah, America is drowning in debt

CBO: Government faces fiscal crisis over borrowing

Home sales fall to 2011 low; few 1st-time buyers

Laughing AT Him, Not WITH Him: Disappearing Laughter at the White House

More than they've got - How Much Money Do States Need to Make Unions Happy?

Obama vs. ATMs: Why Technology Doesn't Destroy Jobs Doing more with less is what economic growth is all about.

Another 'Jobs bill' sinks after Senate vote

Nope. Did Obama Really Prevent A Second Great Depression?

Debt crisis? What crisis?

CBO Report: U.S. Budget Outlook ‘Daunting’



General Motors Rapidly Becoming a Taxpayer-Funded, Disingenuous Leftist Entity

Rick Perry vs. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Aka the benefits of deregulation - Fewer Laws Make Better Beer in Japan

Tax Writers Caution That Raising Revenue Now Could Hurt Tax Overhaul Later

Cash buyers are kings in weak home-sales market

The Fed - Wrong in the 70s and Wrong Today

That's One Big Tax Bill, Chicago

Washington Post editorial board condemns Obama’s NLRB, favors Boeing

Liberate ATMs and Credit Unions to Jumpstart Jobs

Obama Agencies Announce Massive Attack on American Job Creators

Forget economics, politics rules today’s markets

Obamacare 06-22

Oh, oh. I know. By existing. How did Obamacare get so screwed up?

Will Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Survive Obamacare?

The State of ObamaCare Liberty still suffers from a degenerative disorder.

Middle Class Medicaid

A twist in Obama's health care law As I said in an earlier post, I suspect this is a feature and not a bug.

Policizing Premiums Does Not Control Health Costs

Junk Science 06-22

The Light Bulb Resistance Movement

Let's see those other "green" ones top this - World's Oldest Light Bulb Has Been On for 110 Years

Signs of a global food crisis. Throughout the world, countries are grappling with higher food and commodity prices as demand continues to grow.

Watermelons: The Green Movement's True Colors

NASA Scientist Accused of Using Celeb Status Among Environmental Groups to Enrich Himself

NASA Must Release Records For Tax Funded Global Warming Activist



California electric vehicle rebate program runs out of cash

Ann hits NYT on it's hypocrisy

Al Gore Calls for Women to Have Fewer Children (eugenics in green clothing?)

Poll: 57% of American Would Never Buy An EV

Al Gore Blames Climate Change Rather Than Greenies For Fires in AZ

As Incandescent Bulb Ban Looms, Opposition Grows

“Let There Be Light” (Updated)

Don’t lift the federal ban on incandescent light bulbs!

Obama's Food Police in Staggering Crackdown on Market to Kids

Supreme Court Rejects Climate Torts, Doubles Down on EPA Power Grab

Does Islam Stand Against Science? It didn't used to.



Why Ethanol and Natural Gas Don’t Deserve Subsidies

Next Wave Ethanol Falls Short As EPA Sets 2012 Fuel Standard

Al Gore comes up with devious plan to destroy the gaming industry

New Report Shows America Has Largest Energy Resources

Cigarettes will carry grisly new warning labels

Al Gore voices left's climate grumbling

Media Bias 06-22

Email dumps - Palin & U.Va.

Palin Movie vs. Media Mythology

Palin Derangement Syndrome Strikes The New York Times... Again

Jon Stewart, Bully

CNN’s Ed Henry jumps ship to Fox News Channel AND Media Matters Instantly Declares War on Ed Henry

Is Newspaper Coverage of Economic Events Politically Biased?

Media Recast The Crisis Villains

Happy Donor's Day! The New York Times celebrates fatherhood by cruelly invading a 3-year-old's privacy.

Taxpayers’ subsidization of war on Fox News

Van Jones Mouthpiece Threatens Fox News Over Post-9/11 Rally Video Cheering Terror Attacks


Sooner or later it had to happen… The MSM is going all out to save the administration from itself in the “Gunwalker” scandal

Does NBC Stand for "No Believers (Especially) Christians"?

Another Day, Another Shameless Smear of Breitbart. Attendees of the leftist Netroots Nation conference try to link an allegedly drunk man yelling epithets with Breitbart and the right in general. Lies and unethical journalism abound.

Some Factual Errors in the Latest Slate Attack on Libertarianism