Year After Obama Lifted Drilling Ban, Pace of Permitting Is Worse

The Obama administration is approving only 37 percent of the deepwater drilling plans submitted this year — a figure that falls below even last year’s low approval rate. It’s also taking federal bureaucrats an average of 115 days to approve the plans, nearly double the historical average.

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ObamaCare stands in the way of jobs

By Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.)

For healthcare reform to work, it must give consumers control over their costs and over their coverage. Unfortunately, ObamaCare does just the opposite. It takes away patient choice and drives up the cost of healthcare. A new report from Kaiser says a typical employer-based health insurance premium has increased by 9 percent in just the past year, with that cost projected to double over the next decade. The government’s own actuary for Medicare and Medicaid says that in 2014, premiums will rise by 10 percent more than they would have without ObamaCare.

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Obama’s Mythical Political Skills Won’t Save Him

Last year, President Barack Obama issued a warning to Republicans. They had been “politicking” instead of “governing,” he said. “Well, we can politick for three months,” he said. “They forgot I’m pretty good at politicking.”

That was in August 2010. At the end of those three months, Republicans controlled the most seats in the U.S. House since the 1940s. Republicans did well for a lot of reasons. One of them was that the president is wrong: He isn’t all that good at politics.

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Thug Administration: White House Wants Jason Mattera Investigated for Biden Question

“Don’t screw around with me!” barked flustered Vice President Joe Biden during his now-famous encounter with HUMAN EVENTS editor Jason Mattera. It looks like the White House wants to put some muscle behind that threat. The Dear Leaders do not like impertinent questions.

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Gov’t Regulations at Top of Small-Business Owners’ Problem List

Small-business owners in the United States are most likely to say complying with government regulations (22%) is the most important problem facing them today, followed by consumer confidence in the economy (15%) and lack of consumer demand (12%).

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President Barack Obama creates “green jobs” in Finland

Romney campaign,

First, the good news: President Barack Obama has finally created some “green jobs.” Now for the bad news: They are not in the United States, but in Finland.

The creation of environmentally friendly jobs has been at the top of Barack Obama’s policy agenda since coming into office. With the first of his now many jobs plans, the President set out to fulfill his campaign promise of spending $150 billion to create ten million green jobs. Alas, things didn’t quite worked out as planned.

Key general: Iraq pullout plan a ‘disaster’

Others echo call for strength against Iran

President Obama’s decision to pull all U.S. forces out of Iraq by Dec. 31 is an “absolute disaster” that puts the burgeoning Arab democracy at risk of an Iranian “strangling,” said an architect of the 2007 troop surge that turned around a losing war.

Retired ArmyGen. John M. Keane was at the forefront of persuading President George W. Bush to scuttle a static counterinsurgency strategy and replace it with 30,000 reinforcements and a more activist, street-by-street counterterrorism tactic.

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Biden’s absurd claims about rising rape and murder rates

In the battle over the administration’s jobs bill, Vice President Biden this week has been making the startling case that more people will be murdered or raped if the legislation is not passed.

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Occupy Wall Street Protests Continue But Tea Partier Forced to Break Down Flag Pole!

Steve Jobs Biography Reveals He Told Obama, ‘You’re Headed For A One-Term Presidency’

“You’re headed for a one-term presidency,” he [Steve Jobs] told Obama at the start of their meeting, insisting that the administration needed to be more business-friendly. As an example, Jobs described the ease with which companies can build factories in China compared to the United States, where “regulations and unnecessary costs” make it difficult for them.

Jobs also criticized America’s education system, saying it was “crippled by union work rules,” noted Isaacson. “Until the teachers’ unions were broken, there was almost no hope for education reform.” Jobs proposed allowing principals to hire and fire teachers based on merit, that schools stay open until 6 p.m. and that they be open 11 months a year.

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Biden’s Whopper in Flint, Mich.

Joe Biden falsely claimed on multiple occasions that the number of reported rapes in Flint, Mich., has skyrocketed since 2008 — providing different accounts at different events that do not square with FBI data. He started at a 152 percent increase, and since then has said rapes in Flint have tripled and even “quadrupled.” But FBI data show the number of rapes in Flint has gone down 11 percent, from 103 in 2008 to 92 in 2010.

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Obama’s risky embrace of Occupy Wall Street

President Obama’s awkward, unreturned embrace of Occupy Wall Street is among the strangest developments of the 2012 campaign.

The tie-dyed T-shirt doesn’t fit. Obama has been the unrivaled leader in fundraising from the financial sector in recent years. Senior staffers with Wall Street connections have occupied the White House for some time now. Banks and financial-service firms have been some of the main direct beneficiaries of Obama’s economic policies.

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White House backs Biden’s rape, murder remarks

Charge over jobs bill dispute infuriates GOP

The White House on Thursday defended Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr.’s rhetoric that more Americans will be raped and murdered if Republican lawmakers reject part of President Obama’s jobs bill that would pay for more cops on the street.

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Lawmakers blast Justice Department’s ‘Fast and Furious’ probe

Two senior Republican lawmakers lambasted the Justice Department on Thursday for its “false denials” in the “Fast and Furious” gunrunning operation, demanding that the FBI turn over documents in its ongoing probe into the shooting death by Mexican bandits of a U.S. Border Patrol agent.

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Fired NPR host sees “McCarthyism”

OWS supporter Lisa Simeone says she was dismissed after right-wing blog posts

Lisa Simeone, host of two cultural programs on National Public Radio, was fired from one of her positions last night for her leading role in the Freedom Plaza occupation in Washington, D.C. The proximate cause was a series of blogs posts in the Daily Caller asserting that she had violated NPR’s code of ethics, which Simeone denies.

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Biden’s Scare Tactics

ABC’S JAKE TAPPER ASKS OBAMA ABOUT FAST & FURIOUS IN UNAIRED PORTION OF INTERVIEW

Conservative critics are blasting the ABC network for omitting a portion of Jake Tapper’s Tuesday interview with President Barack Obama, in which Tapper asked the president about the Fast and Furious gun scandal.

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GOP Lawmakers Challenge White House on ‘Scientific Misconduct’

Several Republican lawmakers are challenging the Obama administration’s science czar over what they claim are repeat incidents of “scientific misconduct” among agencies, questioning whether officials who deal with everything from endangered species to nuclear waste are using “sound science.”

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Energy Department Altered Loan-Related Releases

Someone affiliated with the Department of Energy has been going back to make changes to press releases posted on the Internet weeks and months ago, CNBC has found.

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Full coverage: ATF’s Fast and Furious scandal

A federal operation dubbed Fast and Furious allowed weapons from the U.S. to pass into the hands of suspected gun smugglers so the arms could be traced to the higher echelons of Mexican drug cartels. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which ran the operation, has lost track of hundreds of firearms, many of which have been linked to crimes, including the fatal shooting of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in December 2010.

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Biden: ‘Don’t screw around with me’

Vice President Joe Biden told a reporter on Wednesday “don’t screw around with me” after he was asked about his comments saying if Republicans fail to pass the jobs plan, the country would see an increase in rapes.

 

 

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Poll: Majority blame Obama for economy

For the first time, a majority of Americans blame President Barack Obama for the nation’s economic problems, according to a new poll Thursday.

A majority – 53 percent – said Obama deserved “a great deal” or a “moderate amount” of the blame for the economic problems that the United States currently faces, the USA Today/Gallup poll shows. This figure has jumped from 32 percent in July 2009, after Obama had only been in office for six months.

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Occupy Wall Street is no tea party

The media chorus is singing a new song this week in its anti-tea party echo chamber. It goes something like this: The law-breaking anarchists who want to tear America down are somehow just like law-abiding tea partiers — who are working tirelessly to build America back up.

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Republicans Accuse Dem Leaders of Silence in Face of ‘Anti-Semitic’ Tone Occupying Protest Movement

The Republican National Committee is accusing Democratic leaders who have touted the Occupy Wall Street movement of staying “silent” in the face of an emerging “anti-Semitic” element on the streets.

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Hate at Occupy Wall Street

Squatting on Wall Street

Occupy Wall Street in Zuccotti Park recalls the uncivilized New York of the 1980s.

There is a must-see YouTube of an Occupy Wall Street event in Atlanta, where a facilitator with a bullhorn leads “protesters” through a weird “consensus” vote to bar civil-rights icon Rep. John Lewis from speaking. A writer at FoxNews.com summed up the scene and I’d say the entire OWS movement: “Imagine some combination of Model U.N., Lord of the Flies and a Phish concert.”

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Solyndra beats back federal takeover, but not Justice concerns

Solar-panel maker Solyndra LLC defeated a proposed government takeover bid on Monday, but the attempt underscored the depth of concerns in recent weeks at the Justice Department about the roles played by the bankrupt company’s top financial officer and its board of directors.

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ALLEN: Listen to Virginians, Mr. President

Obama ought to learn our priorities on his tax payer-funded campaign swing

By George Allen-The Washington Times

President Obama just witnessed the defeat of his flawed stimulus bill that called for tax hikes to pay for more of the same failed policies that we have seen come out Washington. Even some Senate Democrats expressed the same concerns I have heard from Virginians – the bill is “terrible,” “invested far too little in actual job creation” and they can’t “support raising taxes so Washington can spend more.”

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All Huffy, Joe Biden Stands By Rape Reference to GOP

Vice President Joe Biden now says he didn’t make a reference to rape, and got testy with HUMAN EVENTS when we asked if he would like to retract his comments that the number of sexual assaults would increase if Republicans don’t sign on to Barack Obama’s latest “jobs” proposal.

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Obama has more cash from financial sector than GOP hopefuls combined, data show

Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data.

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Host of NPR Show Also Serves as Spokeswoman for ‘Occupy D.C.’

A radio host used to talking about operas by Puccini and Wagner now finds herself starring in her own drama.

Lisa Simeone, who hosts the show “World of Opera” on National Public Radio, has emerged as spokeswoman for the “Occupy D.C.” movement, which has set up shop in Freedom Plaza, The Daily Caller reported.

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The pillars of Obamacare are crumbling

Recently, the Obama administration tried to sweep under the rug the news that a major program in its health care takeover has failed. The Community Living Assistance Services and Support (CLASS) Act, a long-term care program that was touted for its billions in savings, was shelved indefinitely by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius last week. In a letter to Congress, Sebelius said, “I do not see a viable path forward for CLASS implementation at this time.” I am happy to welcome Ms. Sebelius to the party. However, she is late, as usual.

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Obama still flush with cash from financial sector despite frosty relations

Despite frosty relations with the titans of Wall Street, President Obama has still managed to raise far more money this year from the financial and banking sector than Mitt Romney or any other Republican presidential candidate, according to new fundraising data.

Obama’s key advantage over the GOP field is the ability to collect bigger checks because he raises money for both his own campaign committee and for the Democratic National Committee, which will aid in his reelection effort.

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Obama’s problem with Democrats

President Obama has staked his reelection on running against a Republican Congress. There are lots of problems with that, including the acknowledgement implicit in that gambit that he can’t effectively work on a bipartisan basis. But his biggest obstacle is his own party. Politico reports:

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CLASS Act dismissed

Long-term care insurance scheme was doomed from day one

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius on Friday called a halt to the implementation of the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports (CLASS) longer-term insurance program, saying there is no “viable path forward … at this time.” That means a key component of Obamacare is dead. True to form, however, the White House is doubling down, insisting that the CLASS program must be preserved. Congress needs to make sure that never happens so this scheme remains buried.

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Who are the Occupy Wall Street protesters?

From their endorsers, their mounds of trash and their signage, it wasn’t too hard to figure out that the Occupy Wall Street crowd is not composed of regular folks. The more we learn, the more it becomes just how fringy this rag-tag mob is.

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Occupy Wall Street: Does anyone care about the anti-Semitism?

In the millions of pixels devoted to the radical Occupy Wall Streeters, virtually nothing has been said about its anti-Semitic elements. The conservative Emergency Committee for Israel is out with an eye-popping ad:

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‘Fast & Furious’: How botched operation spawned fatal results

The central characters in the failed “Fast and Furious” firearms investigation were 19 men and one woman, all legal residents of the U.S., accused of laying down hundreds of thousands of dollars in illicit cash at Phoenix-area gun shops to buy an arsenal of high-powered weapons for Mexican drug smugglers.

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Issa: Holder hiding Fast and Furious facts

Republican Rep. Darrell Issa, chairman of the Oversight & Government Reform Committee, suggested Sunday that Attorney General Eric Holder has been withholding facts regarding the so-called “Fast & Furious” gunwalking scandal, and indicated that law enforcement could be concealing possibly illuminating evidence.

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Former Energy Dept. adviser who pushed Solyndra loan raises $500,000 for Obama re-election

A former Energy Department adviser who pushed for a California solar company to receive a half-billion federal loan has raised more than $500,000 for President Barack Obama’s reelection campaign.

New campaign finance records show that Steve Spinner, a former sport fitness executive who helped monitor a clean energy loan guarantee program, raised more than $500,000 for Obama as of Sept. 30.

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Solyndra ties show in Obama 3Q haul

Two Obama fundraisers involved in the controversy surrounding embattled energy company Solyndra ramped up their efforts on behalf of the president’s campaign in late summer, according to the campaign’s voluntary disclosure of its bundler list, released late Friday.

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White House won’t turn over Obama’s BlackBerry messages on Solyndra

President Barack Obama won’t be sharing his BlackBerry messages with House investigators seeking communications about Solyndra, the White House told Hill Republicans on Friday.

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Obama fundraiser took interest in Solyndra loan despite wife’s involvement with company

An Energy Department adviser and former fundraiser for President Barack Obama pushed for a California solar company to receive a half-billion federal loan, despite pledging to recuse himself because his wife’s law firm represented the company, newly released emails show.

The emails show that Steve Spinner, a former Obama fundraiser who helped monitor a clean energy loan guarantee program, was more actively involved in a loan for Solyndra LLC than administration officials have acknowledged.

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Memo: Holder told of ‘Fast and Furious’ as early as July 2010

Newly obtained Justice Department memos show that Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was told about the controversial “Fast and Furious” weapons investigation as early as July 2010, apparently contradicting testimony he gave before a House committee in May saying he learned of the operation just weeks earlier.

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Emails show top Justice Department officials knew of ATF gun program

Memos from 2010 show some in senior positions were aware of tactics used in a surveillance operation in which firearms were allowed into Mexico in a failed effort to catch drug cartel leaders.

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Conservative Reporter Threatened by Rahm Supporters over Solyndra (VIDEO)

In his tome, Chicago: City on the Make, Nelson Algren describes a city with a history chock full of hustlers and corrupt politicians. It is considered the definitive “prose portrait” of the City by the Lake.

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Solyndra gave bright forecasts as it ran out of cash

Just before solar panel maker Solyndra scrambled in August to get more cash from private investors and better loan terms from federal bureaucrats, top company officials went on a political road show.

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Solyndra Execs Stonewall Congress

The two top executives of the bankrupt solar power company Solyndra sat stone-faced before a Congressional committee today and invoked their Fifth Amendment rights, rather than explain how they blew through $535 million in taxpayer money.

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Firearms from ATF sting linked to 11 more violent crimes

Guns from Operation Fast and Furious were found at scenes in Arizona and Texas, the Justice Department acknowledges, widening the scope of the danger posed by the program.

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