Browsing Month October, 2011
ELECTION 2012:: Experts begin to doubt Obama’s re-electability – DC
By MB Snow at October 29, 2011 | 12:10 am
Where’s the evidence President Obama can win the 2012 election? Where’s the evidence that swing voters even want to listen to him? Barack Obama polls below 50 percent in every state that matters. The economy has stalled, unemployment is much higher than the official number of 9 percent, and Hispanics and African Americans are disappointed. The president’s ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Polls
ELECTION 2012::RICK PERRY courts conservative media – POLITICO
By MB Snow at October 29, 2011 | 12:07 am
Rick Perry is aiming a new charm offensive at the conservative media, hoping to persuade opinion-makers - who would then help convince voters - that he’s the true conservative in the presidential contest. The new outreach to everyone from conservative bloggers to radio talkers and Fox News reflects the campaign’s failure to define Perry in a way his staff thought ... Go To Article
Election 2012 , General , News , Politics , Rick Perry
SHARIA::Afghan Ambassador on Freedom for Christians: ‘Nothing Will Be Contradictory to Sharia Law’ | CNSnews
By MB Snow at October 29, 2011 | 12:05 am
(CNSNews.com) – When asked by CNSNews.com whether Afghanistan should repeal its laws that make it a crime for a Muslim to convert to Christianity, Afghan Ambassador to the United States Eklil Hakimi did not answer directly but said that while his country's constitution provides for “freedom of religion” it also says that "nothing will be contradictory ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , General , Islam , Middle East , News , Politics , Religion
CORRUPTION::Public Employees Busted in Retirement Scheme – NRO
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:06 pm
Employees of the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) have defrauded that organization of over $1 billion over the last seven years. In as many as 500 cases, LIRR employees falsely claimed disability benefits to supplement their pensions, employing a sophisticated scheme involving special “facilitators” and doctors operating “disability mills.” Eleven defendants have been ... Go To Article
General , Health Care , News , Politics , Unions
WEEKEND INTERVIEW With Barry Silbert:So Who Needs Wall Street? – WSJ
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:05 pm
'No entrepreneurs I know aspire to be a public-company CEO anymore." If that seems like a startling claim, it's all the more so coming from a bright-faced 35-year-old sitting a stone's throw from Merrill Lynch's famous charging bull. But Barry Silbert can back up his words because he's making money on them. He's the founder and CEO of SecondMarket, an online trading ... Go To Article
Commentary , Economy , Featured , General , Politics
ELECTION 2012::The Real Issue in the Upcoming Election – Weekly Standard
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:04 pm
While some of the Republican presidential candidates consistently suggest that the economy is the only first-tier issue in the upcoming election, the party is missing a tremendous opportunity to run against the Obama administration’s unprecedented amassing of power and money at the expense of Americans’ liberty — best exemplified, of course, by Obamacare. Moreover, ... Go To Article
Barack Obama , Commentary , Election 2012 , Featured , General , Politics
WALTER WILLIAMS: Profits are for people- WashEx
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:02 pm
Occupy Wall Street demonstrators are demanding "people before profits" -- as if profit motivation were the source of mankind's troubles -- when it's often the absence of profit motivation that's the true villain. First, let's get both the definition and magnitude of profits out of the way. Profits represent the residual claim earned by entrepreneurs. They're what are ... Go To Article
MICHELLE MALKIN: Shredding Kathleen Sebelius – Townhall
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:01 pm
If a private health insurer had engaged in the kind of criminal obstruction that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius has been tied to in her home state of Kansas, it would be a federal case. Instead, it's a non-story in the Washington press. Nothing to see here. Move along. via Shredding Kathleen Sebelius - Michelle Malkin - Townhall ... Go To Article
ROBERT COSTA: Blowing Smoke – NRO
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 10:00 pm
With a politically incorrect puff, Mark Block lights up the presidential race. As I strolled up First Street, I spotted him immediately. Mark Block, as he likes to say, was “being Block.” He was smoking. To be exact, he was puffing a Marlboro Light. And like most in Washington, he was doing it outside on a Wednesday afternoon, banished from the ... Go To Article
CALIFORNIA POLITICS:: Don’t blame Prop. 13 for everything – MontereyHerald
By MB Snow at October 28, 2011 | 6:18 pm
It's an article of faith — indeed, blind faith — among those on California's political left that the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978 began the state's downward spiral. Before voters limited property taxes, they say, California was a paradise of well-financed public services, but since then has evolved into something like Mississippi, in which a tiny, selfish ... Go To Article
Commentary , Economy , Election 2012 , General , Politics