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Komen Funding Flap Exposes Planned Parenthood's Lie 2.3.12
by Investor's Business Daily
3 Feb 2012 at 11:02pm
Charity: On the surface, the Komen Foundation's reversal of its Planned Parenthood grant cut-off shows the left's power to enforce conformity. What it really reveals is that Planned Parenthood doesn't need taxpayer support. When the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation announced it was planning to stop giving money to Planned Parenthood a short five years after it started, you'd have thought from the reaction that it had committed a capital crime. Liberals brutally denounced the charity. More than two dozen Democratic senators called on Komen to reconsider. One of them, California's Barbara Boxer, said the funding cutoff reminded her o...
As Obama Crows, Real Story Is 10.5 Mil Jobs Deficit 2.3.12
by Investor's Business Daily
3 Feb 2012 at 11:01pm
Jobs: Of course it's good news that 243,000 new jobs were created in January, shaving the unemployment rate to 8.3%. But thanks to massive policy errors by the White House, we're still way below where we should be. President Obama, speaking in Arlington, Va., immediately took credit for the bullish report, crowing that "altogether, we've added 3.7 million new jobs over the last 23 months." The president went on to say: "We can't go back to the policies that led to the recession. And we can't let Washington stand in the way of our recovery." "Our" recovery? And "We can't go back to the policies that led to the recession"? The cause of th...
Obama?s Rhetoric Vs. Reality On Capital Gains 2.3.12
by Investor's Business Daily
3 Feb 2012 at 11:00pm
Taxes: President Obama's campaign to soak rich investors is already getting complicated. His small-business breaks would benefit those he says are paying less than a fair share. The State of the Union speech is fast fading into history, but one of its themes ? raising taxes on the rich ? has legs in politics if not in policy. This is an election year, and the idea of making people like Warren Buffett (or Mitt Romney) pay a higher share of the income to the government polls well. One of Obama's allies in Congress, Rep. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., has introduced a bill that would impose a minimum effective tax rate of 30% on people earning...
White House More Worried About Israel Than Nuclear Iran 2.3.12
by Investor's Business Daily
3 Feb 2012 at 10:59pm
Nuclear Terror: The administration claims economic sanctions are working in preventing Iran from making a nuclear weapon. Why, then, is Tehran apparently assembling a missile that can reach the U.S.? To carry TNT? President Obama has described the waves of economic sanctions imposed on Islamofascist Iran as "the sort of pressure that will have a direct impact on the Iranian government." Secretary of State Hillary Clinton last month claimed that "sanctions have been working," making it "much more difficult for Iran to pursue its nuclear ambitions." Foundation for Defense of Democracies President Cliff May concedes that sanctions have don...
Food Gestapo Seek A Bureau Of Alcohol, Tobacco, Sugar 2.3.12
by Investor's Business Daily
3 Feb 2012 at 10:59pm
Nanny State: The food police who've targeted everything from salt to Happy Meals now set their sights on regulating sugar as a controlled substance to fight obesity. The fat we should fear most, though, is overweight government. The pursuit of happiness, one of those unalienable rights endowed to us by our Creator, is under assault once again by those who spend every waking moment worrying that somebody somewhere is actually enjoying his or her life without government supervision. In an article titled "The Toxic Truth About Sugar," published in the journal Nature, researchers from the University of California, San Francisco (where else?)...
Groundhog Day: Holder Repeats Fast And Furious Lies 2.2.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 10:31pm
Scandal: In a shameful performance, the attorney general Thursday reprised his tap-dancing routine before a panel investigating the Fast and Furious gunrunning operation that got U.S. agents and Mexicans killed. 'It's Groundhog Day, and Brian Terry's family and taxpayers are still waiting for Fast and Furious answers from the Justice Department," Chairman Darrell Issa said before the hearings. "We will not wait until the next Groundhog Day to get answers for the American people." Rep. Issa, R-Calif., has threatened Attorney General Eric Holder with a contempt of Congress citation if he doesn't get answers to questions on Fast and Furious...
Obama's Green Energy Investments Continue to Fail 2.2.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 10:30pm
Industrial Policy: In recent days we learned sales of the Volt and Leaf cratered, President Obama's failed green jobs program is under investigation, and another "clean energy" company's in trouble. Green is the new red. Each week, it seems, brings fresh evidence that the Obama administration's obsession with so-called clean energy is an increasingly costly failure. January car sales data out this week provided additional proof that consumers are turning their backs on electric cars, making President Obama's pledge to get a million of them on the road in three years look even more ridiculous. by OutloudOpinion.com For more Podcasts visi...
Gospels Contradict Obama's Idea Of A Socialist Jesus 2.2.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 10:06pm
Church And State: President Obama has taken a very powerful name in vain in defense of his class warfare economic policies. In fact, Obama encourages a sin Jesus Christ repeatedly admonished: envy. Attending the National Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, President Obama declared that raising tax rates on higher incomes "coincides with Jesus' teaching that 'for unto whom much is given, much shall be required.'" It is disgraceful enough for a president to use a religious event to push an economic agenda that has already insured his place in history as the food stamp president. by OutloudOpinion.com For more Podcasts visit www.outloudopinion.com
Has U.S. Come Full Circle In Afghanistan? 2.2.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 10:05pm
War on Terror: The Taliban is poised to retake Afghanistan under the administration's cut-and-run policies. Instead of burying this dangerous enemy, it's repeating the mistakes that led up to 9/11. In fact, Washington is steadily retreating full circle back to the defensive posture it took toward Afghanistan in 1996. Then, the Clinton administration coddled the thuggish regime and let it seize power. In no time it hosted al-Qaida's leaders, who were able to open major terror camps around the country, where they eventually trained the 9/11 hijackers. by OutloudOpinion.com For more Podcasts visit www.outloudopinion.com
Catholic Bishops Reject Obama?s Surrender Terms 2.1.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 6:28am
1st Amendment: Catholic bishops on Sunday issued a response to ObamaCare's mandates on providing contraception in violation of conscience and religious freedom. The message was simple: We will not comply. It was hardly a profile in courage when the Obama administration, hoping to kick the issue down the road past the November election, announced last Friday that Catholic hospitals and other religious institutions will have an extra year to comply with a new requirement that most health plans provide contraceptive benefits at no cost to their members. On Sunday, America's Catholic bishops in an open letter to their parishioners and their ...
Obama Complicates Mortgage Process 2.1.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 6:28am
Rules: In a "Twilight Zone" moment, the president suggests Republicans oppose his financial overhaul because they detest simplicity. Nothing's more complex than Dodd-Frank. In a speech proposing his so-called Homeowners Bill of Rights, Obama held up a simplified mortgage form as an example of the great work his new bank watchdog agency is doing. "This, by the way, is what some of the folks in Congress are trying to roll back and prevent from happening," he said. "I guess they like complicated things that confuse consumers and allow them to be cheated. I prefer actions that are taken to make things simpler." Apparently he didn't read the...
Unions Use Intimidation Tactics To Get Members 2.1.12
by Investor's Business Daily
2 Feb 2012 at 6:27am
Intimidation: Union membership in the private sector has been in a long decline. Big Labor bosses are naturally desperate. What standards of decency will they violate next to reverse the slide? Representing the union bosses within the federal government is the National Labor Relations Board. Its chairman is Mark Pearce, who wants the board to propose several new rules, including one that would require union-targeted companies to provide organized labor with a list of employee names, home addresses, phone numbers and email addresses. The union chiefs, who take in more than $8 billion a year in dues and have almost $9 billion in assets, sa...
Obamanomics Has Gov't Workers Happy, Others Miserable 1.31.12
by Investor's Business Daily
31 Jan 2012 at 9:37pm
Economy: The media's "improving economy" this election year exists only in Democrats' talking points. A new congressional report shows that joblessness is underestimated, while debt skyrockets. Thirty-six pages into the Congressional Budget Office's "Budget and Economic Outlook: Fiscal Years 2012 to 2022," released Tuesday, is the news that "the unemployment rate in the fourth quarter of 2011 would have been about 1 1/4 percentage points higher than the actual rate of 8.7%" once the "unusually large decline over so short a time" in labor force participation is factored out. This means that, contrary to the claims of a media rooting for O...
Congress Warns Holder Over Acorn Payola 1.31.12
by Investor's Business Daily
31 Jan 2012 at 9:32pm
Oversight: Thanks to IBD, Congress is finally probing the administration's shakedown of banks over alleged "lending discrimination." At issue is backdoor funding of Acorn clones. Last week, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith fired off a three-page letter to Attorney General Eric Holder warning that his recent punishment of Bank of America's mortgage unit seemed political. In fact, he may have abused his power. As IBD first reported Jan. 4, 'BofA Must Pay Excess Settlement Funds To Acorn Clones," the $335 million lending-bias deal requires BofA to fork over a chunk of the payout to leftist groups not connected to the suit. by...
Mother Of All Stimuluses 1.31.12
by Investor's Business Daily
31 Jan 2012 at 9:21pm
Housing Policy: The listless recovery has forced the president to go back to the drawing board on his mortgage program. His latest tonic is a massively risky stimulus financed on the backs of banks. In a major program expansion, President Obama in his State of the Union proposed authorizing FHA to provide all "responsible" homeowners the chance to refinance their mortgages at today's record-low interest rates. "I'm sending this Congress a plan that gives every responsible homeowner the chance to save about $3,000 a year on their mortgage, by refinancing at historically low interest rates," he said. "No more red tape. No more runaround fro...