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April 2010

I said it: Oh, please. Obama's multi-trillion dollar spending spree is a lobbyist's wet dream. More money will be made by more lobbyists divvying up this pork than in the collective history of the United States.And they dreamed it: I can't believe I put "wet...

The Justice Department has commenced a criminal investigation of Goldman Sachs:Federal prosecutors have opened an investigation into trading at Goldman Sachs, raising the possibility of criminal charges against the Wall Street giant, according to people familiar with the matter.While the investigation is still in a...

... if you want to be able to continue using terms like Nazi, Communist and Apartheid to describe the new Arizona immigration law. Or if, like President Obama, you want to claim that the law would allow people to be questioned merely for going out...

This whole boycott thing is getting really confusing.California is boycotting Arizona because of the Arizona immigration law.But weren't we already supposed to be boycotting California because of Prop. 8?Or if not the entire State of California, then at least the counties which voted for Prop....

There is a fundamental disconnect in the arguments being mounted against the Arizona immigration law. What many of the critics want to say, but do not, is that they view all immigration laws as inherently racist because most illegal immigrants are non-white.There are some legitimate...

Gordon Brown is a man of the people. When the people are around.When alone with aides, he dismissed as bigoted a woman who expressed concerns about how immigration from Eastern Europe would affect the economy. But moments earlier, in public, he praised the woman.As reported...

Remember when Democrats fell all over themselves trying to prove that Obamacare would not cover illegal aliens? When Joe Wilson shouted "you lie" about coverage for illegal aliens, Obama and Democratic leaders assured the nation that illegal aliens would be excluded.Under the final Senate health...

Dave Weigel now blogs at The Washington Post covering "the conservative movement and Republican Party."I'll leave an assessment of Weigel's prior blogging aside for the moment.At least now he knows what it is like to experience Palin Derangement Syndrome first hand (emphasis mine): Last night...

I previously posted about a recent report by the Office of Medicare Actuary which found that Obamacare would increase costs, and that the final health care bill made numerous unrealistic cost assumptions.I also made the follow observation as to why the report came out so...

It is over-the-top and out-of-control when it comes to the Arizona immigration bill recently signed. Not the law itself, but the reaction.Linda Greenhouse's opinion piece in The NY Times epitomizes the absurd rhetoric (emphasis mine):I’m glad I’ve already seen the Grand Canyon.Because I’m not going...

Politico has figured out that "Obama the uniter" never existed.Obama created momentum by identifying enemies against whom to campaign, and has continued that practice in office. The only change is that in an earlier incarnation, the enemies were groups, whereas now the enemies are individuals.As...

There are many voices of hate, but the voices most ignored by the mainstream media come not from Tea Parties or maligned conservative groups, but from the intolerant left. After someone who did commercial voice-overs for Geico was fired for leaving threatening messages at FreedomWorks (which...

Your stimulus dollars in action, buying high-efficiency refrigerators, low-flush toilets and a windmill for the Shalom Apartments (run by the Jewish Seniors Agency of Rhode Island) in Warwick, RI.As reported in The Providence Journal: Shaun Donovan, U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, is in...

Retired General James Jones, who is a senior national security advisor to the Obama administration, told a joke at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, regarding a Jew in the desert of Afghanistan who outwitted a member of the Taliban. The joke plays upon...

President Obama's outreach to Russia constitutes a "strategic reset," according to Spencer Ackerman.The proof? The recent Joint Statement issued by the U.S. and Russia commemorating the meeting of U.S. and Soviet troops at the Elbe River during WWII (emphasis mine): Now this is something you...

Nothing in the civil suit filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission alleges that Goldman Sachs caused the housing bubble or burst it.The transaction at issue in that case was between highly sophisticated investment firms, and had no more to do with the housing market...

Puerto Rico is approaching a plebiscite on statehood, pursuant to congressional legislation which is under consideration. Pat at And So It Goes In Shreveport has a good post summing up the current politics of statehood for Puerto Rico.One person to keep an eye on is...