Happy Fourth of July 2011

Daily Round-Up 07-02

THE GOOD NEWS IS...


New Poll: Majority of Millenials Embrace American Exceptionalism, Unlike Obama

Senate GOP mocks president with video of Obama on golf course

State to fight ruling against ban on race in college admissions

Jobs, Income Data Show Right-To-Work States Working

Michele Bachmann says a miscarriage helped define her anti-abortion stance

Marriage Wins Again in the Court of Public Opinion

Celebrate Freedom. . .By Sharing the Legacy and Ideas of Dr. Milton Friedman

Alaska Pushes Drilling Plan for Offshore, Area Near ANWR

Most residents think Jamaica ‘better off as a British colony,’ poll suggests



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


49 House members demand probe of Kagan involvement in ObamaCare



Debt Increased More Under Geithner Than Under Any Treasury Secretary in U.S. History

As We Celebrate Our Liberty, An Iranian Pastor Faces Death



The War on Lemonade Stands! Nanny of the Month (June 2011)


RightHaven Lawyer Says Browser Ate His Homework

The New McCarthyism, Deep-Dish Chicago Style. “Let’s see if we can make the connection here: slavery, segregation, black codes, Jim Crow, what do they all have in common? Anybody getting scared?"




AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Gary Sinise: True American Patriot

It would be nice to see how they are deciding to spend our money - Top Senate Republicans call for more transparency in debt limit negotiations

Michele Bachmann says a miscarriage helped define her anti-abortion stance

Secession from SF He's not wrong.

Reason.tv: Q&A with Farmageddon's director Kristin Canty


Cain raises $2.4 million, Iowa staff resigns


BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

More evidence that Obama’s fundraising numbers are lagging (Updates)



At Least One American Family Will Be Taking A Nice Vacation This Summer

Despite Congressional Ban, Obama’s HUD Is Still Funneling Tax Dollars To ACORN

Obama Gives New Grant to ACORN; Did He Violate Federal Law?

Obama Raffle Video Not Legal, Election Law Experts Say

Obama Re-Visits Community Organizer Roots

Palin, the Flotilla, and the L.A. Times Khalidi/Obama Tape



Obama's labor union problem

Nothing funny about government limits on political speech

Barack Obama Continues To Vote “Present” On Same-Sex Marriage

Rep. Cummings’ Gunwalker Report Neglects To Mention … Gunwalker. Despicable: The report doesn't mention the estimated 150 dead in Mexico, plus two U.S. agents. Just gun control. And long-debunked statistics.

Corporate Jets and Tax Breaks



Obama Official Denies Calling Hezbollah a “Liberation Movement” — Says It Is a Terrorist Organization

The truth that hurts

Boehner Should Cave to Obama, Make More Tax Revenues Part of Debt Deal. By yielding to the president’s stated goal, Republicans can put their principles into practice to produce prosperity once again.

Repeal the War Power Usurpation

Obama's Carefully Burnished Economic Ignorance

Obama & Wall Street: Is the Love Affair Really Over?

Debt Increased More Under Geithner Than Under Any Treasury Secretary in U.S. History



How Much Would It Cost To Buy Congress Back From Special Interests?

PJMedia Sues Department of Defense for Climate Conference Info. What happened to the transparency that candidate Obama promised?



IN ECONOMIC WOES


Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

The Jobless Summer Why only one in four teens is employed.

Construction falls in May, down 6.3% year-to-date

Older interns signal gloomy labor market

10 Disappearing Middle-Class Jobs

Yes, Obama still owns the tax break for corporate jets



Moving Beyond the Unwisdom Of "Too Big To Fail"

Romney on Obama's 'worse' economy

Fed's Massive Stimulus Had Little Impact: Greenspan

Did the Fed’s QE2 work?

Cut, Cap and Balance: A path to fiscal responsibility



Jobs, Income Data Show Right-To-Work States Working

Obama Released the SPR, and All He Got Was…Nothing

How Many Presidents Does it Take to Screw in a Light Bulb?

The CBO’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb



Manufacturing Jobs

The ‘Tax Expenditure’ Con Job

Taxing Clouds

'Temporary' 0.2% Federal Unemployment Surtax Expires Today After 35 Years

Hammertime: The Real ATM



OBAMACARE


49 House members demand probe of Kagan involvement in ObamaCare

Insurance Is Not Access

Personally, I consider this good news. Most States Won't Have Exchanges By Deadline Afterall, most states have some fairly severe economic woes, why invest in an exchange that may (should) be ruled unConstitutional in the next year?



JUNK SCIENCE


Alaska Pushes Drilling Plan for Offshore, Area Near ANWR



Exposing the Demonizers of Shale Gas

The UN's Climate of Desperation

'Green' Industry Eating Up Additional $4.5 Billion Tax Dollars


The Failure of Al Gore Part Three: Singing the Climate Blues

PJMedia Sues Department of Defense for Climate Conference Info. What happened to the transparency that candidate Obama promised?




MEDIA BIAS


Palin, the Flotilla, and the L.A. Times Khalidi/Obama Tape

Google gets hammered by monsters it created. Search neutrality: Solving a problem that doesn’t exist

Ken Blackwell hits Chris hard! Chris Matthews: Blacks Need Same-Sex Marriage

Halperin’s MSNBC suspension latest example of White House press tampering

MSNBC feeling the pressure of not being sufficiently pro-Obama, or something

It’s the media who are crazy—Michele Bachmann is a real player.

The Liberal Media Gears Up to Attack Bachmann's Religion



BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


Big pensions put California police and firemen on the wrong side of public opinion.

Union: Increase mileage reimbursement for government employees

Teachers Balk at Concessions, Want Businesses to Donate $94m to Save Jobs

Union curbs rescue a Wisconsin school district

Obama's labor union problem

Despite Congressional Ban, Obama’s HUD Is Still Funneling Tax Dollars To ACORN

Wisconsin Firefighters Union Reportedly Blocks Ex-Member's 9/11 Tribute Float




PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


Kansas Shutting Down All Abortion Clinics

Ohio House Bans Abortion… in a heartbeat!

Michele Bachmann says a miscarriage helped define her anti-abortion stance




FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Obama Travels to Philly… Tea Party Breaks Out (Video)

State to fight ruling against ban on race in college admissions

Takin' A Quick Ride on The Cain Train.

Herman Cain throws a hunk of red meat to the tea party in Web ad And it's a yummy hunk of meat indeed. Take a look.



Overall, I'd say it is a little rough but the message is dead on.

No News Is Good News, Right?

So I'm nosing around looking for news to do a round-up and it just all seems to be the same-old, same-old.

Obama is corrupt.
Congress is corrupt.
A few hardy and decent souls are fighting back.
The economy is in the tank.
Liberals are blaming Bush for their own actions.

Blah, blah, blah.

Maybe it's the heat. Maybe it's the upcoming holidays but I just don't feel like it.

All of it. What ever it is, I don't feel like it.

Skipping A Day

I may actually post something this afternoon but right now I am too worried about a hospitalized family member to blog today.

Daily Round-Up 06-27

THE GOOD NEWS IS...


Netherlands abandoning multiculturalism If "multiculturalism" has lost the Netherlands, then it's lost.



GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


Mexifornia, Quite Literally!

China’s “Conflict Handbags”

Hold Those Christmas Cards to Our Troops!

As the Freedom Flotilla Readies to Set Sail this Week…

"I Think You're Clueless" Sen. Rand Paul About TSA He was talking about their invasive search of a 6-year-old girl. At about 2:17 time mark. Awesome.


This doesn't help the TSA either - TSA Obergropinfuhrer of the Day

Fast and Furious Fiasco: Time to Abolish the ATF

NY Times Columnist: Kansas, Missouri ‘Middle Places’ Land of ‘Low Sloping Foreheads’ That's a great way to win readers, doofus.



AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Florida's Scott Unfazed by the Critics

With Michele Bachmann’s surge comes fresh scrutiny



BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

Lapdog Obama heels when unions whistle

‘Gunwalker’ Scandal and the Case for Impeaching Holder While Holder didn’t pull any triggers, the Department of Justice was involved in Gunwalker from the beginning.

The Dangerous Effort to Delegitimate Supreme Court Justices

"Can 'fake' Democrats really pull an upset" in the Wisconsin recall primaries? As Ms. Althouse points out, it would be good fun if the recall primaries ended up with republicans running against republicans. A win-win for Wisconsonites upset at this whole ridiculous recall effort.

Our Untransparent President Again, a lot of Bush-Did-It-First finger-pointing in this article and yet, and yet Obama is continuing these hated policies instead of hopey-changing them. Therein lies the disillusion.

Yes - When Politicians Make Lots of Money in Financial Markets, Should We Assume Corruption?

Time for Carville's Razor?



IN ECONOMIC WOES


Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

The Unseen Effects of the Stimulus. Did the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act destroy jobs or create them?

Out: We’re losing jobs to ATMs. In: We’re creating jobs via robotics

Raise the Debt Limit, but Only with Conditions

A desperation move. Why West's oil 'fix' is bad news

Oh goody, we can all relax now. Debt deal now up to the leaders

The Payroll Tax Needs a Vacation

Why China’s Heading for a Hard Landing, Part 1

The Local Government Pension Squeeze Annual retiree costs in Providence, R.I., now amount to an astounding 50% of city tax collections.

No Should American Taxpayers Finance another Big Fat Greek Bailout?




OBAMACARE


Universal Health Care With No Mandates

U.S. Plans Stealth Survey on Access to Doctors

Block-Granting Medicaid Is a Long-Overdue Way of Restoring Federalism and Promoting Good Fiscal Policy

For Dems, health law is chronic pain

The Individual Mandate Bullies Americans



JUNK SCIENCE


The Incandescent Rapture

Al Gore’s Reproductive Footprint

Europe Stifles Drivers in Favor of Alternatives



MEDIA BIAS


Bachmann: Despite Apology, Wallace’s ‘Flake’ Question Still ‘Insulting’

Cut First!

The Right’s Blogger Provocateur. The most interesting bit of this NYT article on the great Andrew Breitbart is how they try to seem "neutral" about him while using disparaging adjectives like "notorious" and spending column inches quoting his hate mail. Lame. And then there is this #rsrh NYT uses Blumenthal crony to attack Breitbart.

NY Times Columnist: Kansas, Missouri ‘Middle Places’ Land of ‘Low Sloping Foreheads’ That's a great way to win readers, doofus.



BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


NLRB and Boeing: A Long Summer Ahead

Labor bill battle reborn with NLRB's new union election rules proposal

Lapdog Obama heels when unions whistle

How Liberals Lost the Heart of America

The Local Government Pension Squeeze Annual retiree costs in Providence, R.I., now amount to an astounding 50% of city tax collections.


PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


160 Million and Counting

Planned Parenthood Takes on the States. A majority of Americans tell pollsters they do not want taxpayer dollars to subsidize abortions



FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Can John Kasich and Tea Party activists save Ohio?

Daily Round-Up 06-26

Conrad Black: justice denied (again)


THE GOOD NEWS IS...


Women’s driving protest may signal changes in Saudi Arabia

There Are No Socialists At least not once rubber hits the road.

Six-figure pensions soar for California school administrators

Class-action sanity Wal-Mart wins — and workers do, too


GENERAL BAD BEHAVIOR


In allegation of Supreme Court scuffle, Wisconsin politics hits new low

An alternate account of the Prosser-Bradley confrontation surfaces: Did she "charge him with fists raised"? This could end up being a win-win for Gov. Walker according to Ann Althouse

Elderly woman asked to remove adult diaper during TSA search

The Impact of Redistricting in 2012

The Sexual Assault of Bristol Palin?

The Reincarceration of Conrad Black

Chicago Police Superintendent Goes on Racial Rant, Slams NRA and Palin at Radical Church

Blaska's Blog rules who is partisan in the Supreme Court's Sumi smackdown

Van Jones Is Creating the Milli Vanilli of Tea Parties





AND THE GOOD GUYS ARE...


Michele Bachmann and Mitt Romney lead in first Iowa GOP poll

Virginia AG to sue FCC over ‘net neutrality’

Ruth Ginsburg:Global Warming Sceptic

Bachmann Hits Romney, Defends Herself Against ‘Flake’ Charges




BAD POLITICIAN BAD

President Obama Job Approval

Latest Election Polls

2012 Republican Presidential Nomination

DREAM Act Implemented Through Executive ICE Memo

What’s Up With All the Presidential Gaffes, Anyway?

President Obama Apologizes to Family of Fallen Soldier

Speechworld vs. Realworld The widening gulf between Obama’s rhetoric and reality

Who takes us to war?

Guilt by Association: The New Normal for Federal Agency Enforcement Standards?

Squawk treatment: Progressives voice their anger at Obama

America’s Labor Party Is there anything Obama won’t do for unions?

Obama’s focus on visiting clean-tech companies raises questions

Christie: Obama Must Take Lead on Debt Talks

Like Chauncey Gardiner, Obama is profoundly aloof

Six-figure pensions soar for California school administrators

New Docs Show Intervention by Controversial Federal Agency in Foreclosure Crisis Negotiation

The Great Corn Con

Ethanol's wasteful tax credit. The battle over the subsidy, which goes to deep-pocketed oil firms rather than farmers, shows how rigid party orthodoxy continues to trump common sense in Congress

How Much Credibility Does the GOP Have on Taxes?

Good Nancy Pelosi Feels Left Out on Debt Talks

W.H. releases DNC meet names




IN ECONOMIC WOES


Never Did Get A Job From A Poor Man

Welcome to the world of jobless stagflation

How Big Gov't Strangles Job Creators

How free trade deals create U.S. jobs

$120 trillion: The shocking true size of our nation's debt

The Great Corn Con

Ethanol's wasteful tax credit. The battle over the subsidy, which goes to deep-pocketed oil firms rather than farmers, shows how rigid party orthodoxy continues to trump common sense in Congress

Forecasts for Growth Drop, Some Sharply

The return of stagflation. Obama’s Carter-era policies bring back Carter-era problems

The Bubbles, Busts, and Bailouts are Doomed to Repeat

New consumer bureau will be a bust - guaranteed

Six-figure pensions soar for California school administrators

Bummer of a Recovery. On economic growth, real GDP has risen 0.8% over the 13 quarters since the recession began, compared to an average increase of 9.9% in past recoveries.

Did the IEA Just Deliver a QE3 Quick Fix?

America’s Labor Party Is there anything Obama won’t do for unions?



OBAMACARE


Good intent, bad health policy

Ban the circumcision ban If cities such as San Francisco were allowed to determine which medical procedures were acceptable and which ones weren't, we'd be left with a ridiculous patchwork of rules. Like Obamacare, this is another example government hands on your body.



JUNK SCIENCE


The Failure of Al Gore: Part One AND Gore, Gored

The Great Corn Con

Ethanol's wasteful tax credit. The battle over the subsidy, which goes to deep-pocketed oil firms rather than farmers, shows how rigid party orthodoxy continues to trump common sense in Congress

Liberal Republicans Push 100% Hike in Fuel Efficiency Standardsby

The Facts About Fracking The real risks of the shale gas revolution, and how to manage them.

Government: The Great Dietitian

Missouri Man ‘Not Happy’ with Revised USDA Offer



MEDIA BIAS




On NYTimes.com, Now You See It, Now You Don’t



BIG UNION/LEFTIE GROUPS


Wow. Really Vile PETA - PETA Outdoes Itself

NLRB tilts field

Six-figure pensions soar for California school administrators

America’s Labor Party Is there anything Obama won’t do for unions?

A ‘Bono’-fide Double Standard

Soros and liberal groups seeking top election posts in battleground states




PLANNED PARENTHOOD/ABORTION SCANDAL


The Sex Test, Abortion, and the War Against Girls

Ind. move to cut Planned Parenthood funds blocked





FIGHTING CORRUPTION/TEA PARTY NEWS


Conservative arguments for gay equality