From Boston.com: A top House Republican today blasted a ruling by the Justice Department that allows the Obama administration to pay ACORN for services provided under contracts signed before Congress passed a law banning the community advocacy group from receiving taxpayers money....Republicans have been on the warpath against ACORN since its voter registration efforts came under scrutiny during the 2008 presidential campaign. After conservative activists, who posed as a prostitute and pimp, ... Read Full Story
From the New York Times: The Justice Department has concluded that the Obama administration can lawfully pay the community group Acorn for services provided under contracts signed before Congress banned the government from providing money to the group....The department’s conclusion, laid out in a recently disclosed five-page memorandum from David Barron, the acting assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel, adds a new wrinkle to a sharp political debate over the antipoverty g... Read Full Story
From the LA Times: On Thanksgiving eve, Obama issues special Hajj message to world's Muslims: Statement by the President on Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha, as provided by the White House...Michelle and I would like to send our best wishes to all those performing Hajj this year, and to Muslims in America and around the world who are celebrating Eid-ul-Adha. The rituals of Hajj and Eid-ul-Adha both serve as reminders of the shared Abrahamic roots of three of the world’s major religions.......During Hajj,... Read Full Story
Thanks Michael McPaddenFed Audit still in Jeopardy? More info (Thanks to Michael McPadden)Share Today at 6:59pmFed Audit in Jeopardy http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/notes/shaun-griffin/fed-audit-still-in-jeopardy-more-info-thanks-to-michael-mcpadden/181152522682Below I have listed an entry from Mish's blog about the "Audit the Fed" bill in Congress. I have always said that if the Federal Reserve gets a fair and thorough audit they would not last another three years, after the American peop... Read Full Story
The book that started it all for me and many conservative/Libertarians Ayn Rand's classic novel "Atlas Shrugged" is becoming more fact than fiction. From the Wall Street Journal's Stephen Moore: Some years ago when I worked at the libertarian Cato Institute, we used to label any new hire who had not yet read "Atlas Shrugged" a "virgin." Being conversant in Ayn Rand's classic novel about the economic carnage caused by big government run amok was practically a job requirement. If only "Atlas" w... Read Full Story
From Real Clear Politics: It’s become something of an article of faith within the lay punditry that high unemployment and a weak recovery will seriously weigh down the Democrats’ performance in the 2010 midterm elections. People vote with their pocketbooks, the adage goes, and their pocketbooks are likely to be awfully thin in November of 2010...On the other hand, pundits technical backgrounds have noted that predictive modeling shows a weak correlation at best between almost every measure of... Read Full Story
From Real Clear Politics: When you knowingly pay someone to lie to you, we call the deceiver an illusionist or a magician. When you unwittingly pay someone to do the same thing, I call him a politician....President Obama insists that health care "reform" not "add a dime" to the budget deficit, which daily grows to ever more frightening levels. So the House-passed bill and the one the Senate now deliberates both claim to cost less than $900 billion. Somehow "$900 billion over 10 years" has bee... Read Full Story
