Obama Anti Business

"Bloomberg News recently surveyed 873 of its subscribers and found that 77 percent of its U.S. customers considered Obama anti-business.
[. . .]
the November 23 New York Post, they identified Accenture, Covidien, Ingersoll-Rand, and Tyco International among eleven major companies that 'have all completed or taken steps to change their domicile of incorporation — with Switzerland and Ireland as the most popular relocation destinations.'”  

http://article.nationalreview.com/423218/blame-canada/deroy-murdock

January 29, 2010 12:00 A.M.

Blame Canada
Deroy Murdock 
National Review 

Holder and Incompitano, The Jokers

"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano must be relieved.
Over the last few weeks, Attorney General Eric Holder has passed and lapped her in the race to be the most flagrantly incompetent Obama administration official in the War on Terror."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/sheik_up_call_for_justice_joker_KmeEa652zJpZU735oZCQcP

A sheik-up call for O's Justice joker

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:42 AM, January 31, 2010

Posted: 12:18 AM, January 30, 2010

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano must be relieved.<p> </p><br> Over the last few weeks, Attorney General Eric Holder has passed and lapped her in the race to be the most flagrantly incompetent Obama administration official in the War on Terror.<p> </p><br> Last year, Holder had a brainstorm: He'd remove Khalid Sheik Mohammed from Gitmo to try him in lower Manhattan, in the former shadow of the World Trade Center. Holder was thrilled by the "symbolism" of trying KSM so close to the scene of the crime.<p> </p><br> But, eventually, New York officials and members of Congress were bound to notice the barking-mad senselessness of the entire scheme. Now that they have, plans for Holder's trial of the century have collapsed in an unsightly heap in a matter of 24 hours.<p> </p><br> After Mayor Bloomberg reversed himself and came out against the trial last week, the administration said it was considering other sites but still wanted a civilian trial.<p> </p><br> Yesterday came word that it also is considering keeping KSM in Gitmo for a military commission after all, in what would be a crushing admission that its rush to shutter Gitmo was disastrously misconceived.<p> </p><br> KSM is an enemy combatant captured on the battlefield who deserves none of the protections of the civilian court system.<p> </p><br> The Bush administration set up a military commission system, endorsed by Congress and blessed by the Supreme Court, tailored precisely for these cases. It gave unprecedented due-process protections to detainees while protecting national security information from disclosure.<p> </p><br> The trials would be safely held at Gitmo, a state-of-the-art facility designed for the purpose and a place where millions of innocent bystanders don't work and live.<p> </p><br> KSM told a military judge he was ready to confess and move on to the execution phase. Most people would consider that a neat conclusion to the matter, but not Eric Holder.<p> </p><br> He intervened to short-circuit that process and bring KSM and four other terrorists here for trials that would cost as much as $1 billion to secure and paint an even brighter target on the city.<p> </p><br> The Obama administration has an ideological reflex toward giving terrorists the legal rights of domestic criminal suspects and a political reflex toward rejecting all of George W. Bush's works.<p> </p><br> It couldn't bring itself to admit that Gitmo and the military commissions -- for all their flaws -- represent a reasonable response to the hellish problem of dealing with an unreasonable enemy.<p> </p><br> Instead, it marched straight into Holder's Folly and now is beating a pell-mell retreat.<p> </p><br>

  Rich Lowry

Obama Misleads on Court Decision

"In a demogogic bid to score populist points, Obama claimed that the decision striking down restrictions on corporate spending opened 'the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections.' In fact, the justices explicitly left untouched a statute that bans election spending by foreign corporations, even 'indirectly.'" 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/not_true_sums_it_up_lxolwWzSDRFX27zArOVu7J

'Not true' sums it up

Mis-statements of the Union

New York Post

Last Updated: 10:35 AM, January 29, 2010

Posted: 1:26 AM, January 29, 2010

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito let a pained expression cross his face and muttered, "Not true." He was reacting to President Obama's description of the high court's ruling in the Citizens United case, and he was entirely right. But the words aptly sum up the entire State of the Union Address.<p> </p><br> In a demogogic bid to score populist points, Obama claimed that the decision striking down restrictions on corporate spending opened "the floodgates for special interests -- including foreign corporations -- to spend without limit in our elections." In fact, the justices<p> </p><br>explicitlyleft untouched a statute that bans election spending by foreign corporations, even "indirectly."<p> </p><br> There isn't even a "loophole" for US subsidiaries of foreign firms, as the White House later claimed in a bid to defend the president's false charge.<p> </p><br> Ever since Scott Brown's win in Massachusetts, the left has thrown up a thick cloud of spin, rationalizations and delusion. Wednesday night, the president kept it up. He spoke for more than an hour, but the quick gloss might have been,<p> </p><br>It's not my fault, and please ig nore the evidence of your lying eyes.<p> </p><br> * Obama said that, thanks to the stimulus, "There are about 2 million Americans working right now who would otherwise be unemployed." The Web site Politifact points out that the White House Council of Economic Advisers estimates 1.5 to 2 million more jobs from the stimulus; Obama took the highest number and skipped over the fact that these numbers are elaborate guesstimates from an outfit that has every incentive to make the numbers look as cheery as possible.<p> </p><br> If he were being conscientious, he'd cite the wide range of estimates for jobs affected by the stimulus, with the caveat that we really can't know. In any case, the administration originally told us the stimulus would keep unemployment below 8 percent: By that standard, it's has been a rank failure.<p> </p><br> * On health care, it was more of the same.<p> </p><br> Obama said the bill would "preserve the right of Americans who have insurance to keep their doctor and their plan." He's been flogging this line throughout the long health-care debate -- even though it's utterly discredited. The Congressional Budget Office says millions will lose their current employer-provided coverage.<p> </p><br> He said it would reduce premiums "for millions." Maybe, but it would<p> </p><br>increasepremiums for millions more.<p> </p><br> He said the CBO estimates it will reduce the deficit by "as much as $1 trillion over the next two decades." Yet the CBO also made clear that the assumptions behind that estimate are dubious in the extreme.<p> </p><br> It isn't that people haven't been listening as Obama repeats these words again and again -- it's that they rightly don't believe them.<p> </p><br> * Obama offered a highly misleading account of the fiscal situation. He noted that we had a budget surplus of more than $200 billion in 2000, but a deficit of more than $1 trillion before he took office. Implicitly blaming President George W. Bush, he said most of the deficit came from "not paying for two wars, two tax cuts and an expensive prescription drug program."<p> </p><br> True, but incomplete. In 2007, the deficit was still only about $160 billion. It blew up with the recession and TARP. Those obviously pre-date President Obama -- but they would also naturally recede over time. Obama's historic spending spree and ever-growing entitlements are what create the current string of $1 trillion deficits as far as the eye can see.<p> </p><br> * Acknowledging the problem of the ever-spiraling debt, he committed to naming a bipartisan commission charged with providing "a specific set of solutions by a certain deadline." Fearsome-sounding, eh?<p> </p><br> But nothing's stopping Obama -- who<p> </p><br>ispresident, with large majorities in Congress -- from proposing a budget that puts us on a more sustainable path. Instead, he slaps a fresh coat of "bold and fresh" paint on the tired, old Washington expedient of a commission.<p> </p><br> * As a more immediate antidote, Obama proposes a three-year spending freeze on discretionary domestic spending. But that represents about 13 percent of the federal budget. Over the last two years, this portion of the budget -- about $450 billion -- has seen an almost 20 percent increase, notes the Heritage Foundation's Brian Riedl. And that's not even counting the $300 billion layered on top it in the stimulus bill.<p> </p><br> And the freeze is supposed to save $15 billion next year, but Obama called for a new "jobs bill" that, in the House, is costing another $150 billion. This does not add up to fiscal restraint.<p> </p><br> * He decried the "deficit of trust" in Washington without admitting his contributions to it. The kind of tougher restrictions on lobbyists he plugged for won't restore trust in Washington as long as the White House is cutting back-room deals with union bosses and the pharmaceutical industry.<p> </p><br> * Obama said we "can't wage a perpetual campaign where the only goal is to see who can get the most embarrassing headlines about the other side." Did someone tell David Plouffe? He's Obama's campaign manager from 2008, now taking a stepped-up role for the White House to try to wage the perpetual campaign more effectively.<p> </p><br> Obama now labors under a reality problem. He's crafted a fantasy universe where he and his friends can live unperturbed, comforted by their just-so stories. The rest of us can only, like Alito, crinkle our noses and mutter, "Not true."<p> </p><br> comments.lowry@ nationalreview.com<p> </p><br>

Rich Lowry

Civilian Courts Vulnerable to Exploitation

"Siddiqui's defense team, funded in part by the Pakistani government, asserts that Lady al Qaeda is so mentally ga-ga that she should not have been allowed to take the witness stand.
The Crazy Jihadi tactic is in perfect sync with the al Qaeda training manual advising its operatives to claim victimhood status if on trial."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/lady_qaeda_case_chilling_view_of_VfdsrhfLZs4OZcuLG7mJrJ

Lady Qaeda case chilling view of circus to come
New York Post
Michelle Malkin
Last Updated: 10:35 AM, January 29, 2010 Posted: 3:06 AM, January 29, 2010

Imagine this nightmare courtroom scenario: Un hinged Jew-bashing, open mockery of American soldiers, juror intimidation and coldly calculated exploitation of US constitutional protections by a suspected al Qaeda defendant. Well, there's no need to wait for the Gitmo terror trial circuses. New York City is already getting a glimpse of the future. Jihadi scientist Aafia Siddiqui is on trial right now in a Manhattan federal court for the attempted murder and assault of US military personnel in Afghanistan's Ghazni province two years ago. She's an accomplished Karachi, Pakistan-born scientist who studied microbiology at MIT and did graduate work in neurology at Brandeis University before disappearing in the wake of the 9/11 attacks. Counterterrorism investigators connected Siddiqui and her estranged husband, anesthesiologist Dr. Mohammed Amjad Khan, to Saudi terror funders. Siddiqui was identified as an al Qaeda operative, financier and fixer by no less than 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed during US interrogations. Mohammed reportedly enlisted Siddiqui in a Baltimore-based plot to bomb gas stations, fuel tanks and bridges, and to poison water reservoirs in the greater Washington area. Siddiqui was taken into custody in Ghazni in July 2008 after attempting to shoot US military interrogators and FBI agents. Now, the savvy "terror mom" of three is pulling out all the stops to win a mistrial. Among her Cirque du Jihad antics:

* Demanding that jurors be genetically tested for a "Zionist or Israeli background" to ensure a fair and impartial jury of her Jew-hating peers.
* Ranting about 9/11 Israel conspiracies during voir dire.
* Screaming out loud during the testimony of US Army Capt. Robert Snyder, who was in the room in Ghazni when Siddiqui allegedly grabbed an M-4 rifle and proclaimed, "I hate Americans! Death to America!" Siddiqui's defense team, funded in part by the Pakistani government, asserts that Lady al Qaeda is so mentally ga-ga that she should not have been allowed to take the witness stand. The Crazy Jihadi tactic is in perfect sync with the al Qaeda training manual advising its operatives to claim victimhood status if on trial. To make matters worse, the New York Post reported this week that an "unidentified man in a white headdress" mouthed an obscenity at the Siddiqui trial and cocked his finger like a gun at two jurors. The jurors were let go; it remains unclear whether the thug in white headdress will be charged and what relation, if any, he has to Siddiqui. Would you answer a jury summons knowing you could end up sitting in front of a jihadi sympathizer on the loose who is mentally painting a target on your forehead? And would you trust the White House ringmasters and Justice Department terror-coddlers to protect you from harm? These suspects belong in controlled military tribunals, not federal courtrooms that are being turned into al Qaeda p.r. platforms. The O.J. Simpson spectacle of a smirking murder suspect, preening defense attorneys, a showboating judge and the judicial process run amok on cable TV 24/7 was bad enough. The 1993 World Trade Center bombing trial, which gave Osama bin Laden's network a multimillion-dollar legal team, free translation services, race-baiting defense witnesses and access to information that was allegedly used by jihadists to evade surveillance, was even worse. The specter of 10, 15, 20 Siddiqui-style courtroom carnivals -- at a cost of at least $1 billion to taxpayers -- threatens to throw our civilian court system into complete chaos. America can't afford to clown around with national security.

malkinblog (at) gmail.com

Michelle Malkin

What is the US Constitution for?

http://www.lvrj.com/opinion/a-few-reminders-for-the-constitutionally-challenged-83191882.html

Jan. 31, 2010
Copyright © Las Vegas Review-Journal

THOMAS MITCHELL: A few reminders for the constitutionally challenged

THOMAS MITCHELL

Are Women Slower on the Uptake?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247483/Women-slower-men-understanding-jokes--enjoy-do.html

Women are 'slower than men at understanding jokes - but enjoy them more when they do'

By Fiona Macrae
Daily Mail (UK)
Last updated at 3:59 PM on 31st January 2010

Either Obama is Lying, or Sen. Harkin is Lying

"This cannot be right.

If Harkin is telling the truth, then that would mean President Obama is lying because at the GOP retreat, Obama stated that there were some “stray cats and dogs” in the legislation."

http://biggovernment.com/2010/01/31/sen-harkin-contradicts-obama-says-final-healthcare-deal-done-before-the-ma-election/#more-67486

Sen. Harkin Contradicts Obama, Says Final Healthcare Deal Done BEFORE the MA Election

by SusanAnne Hiller  
BigGovernment.com 
January 31, 2010

James O'Keefe Exposes Media Negligence

O'Keefe who exposed ACORN misconduct says journalists got it wrong. Link to his full statement included in this story.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2010/01/29/james-okeefe-accuses-media-journalistic-malpractice

James O'Keefe Accuses Media of 'Journalistic Malpractice'

By Noel Sheppard (Bio | Archive)

Newsbusters
Fri, 01/29/2010 - 11:38 ET

Obama Missed That Class

"As much as Barack Obama professes his admiration for our 16th POTUS, Abraham Lincoln, B.O. still seems determined to disprove one of Honest Abe's most famous bromides:

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
(Abraham Lincoln )" 


January 30, 2010

Americans finally starting to see through the president's prevarications

Ralph Alter
American Thinker

Obama's Health Care Plan

Crime Boss Ruled from Jail on FaceBook

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article7009743.ece

From The Sunday (London) Times

January 31, 2010

Godfather Colin Gunn used Facebook to run empire from jail

Daniel Foggo and Carl Fellstrom

Dutch Wilders Prosecution Like Italy and Fallaci

Geert de Wilders

The notion of responsible speech appears regularly on college campuses and even in city public meetings in Cambridge MA on police abuses. If you can't talk about a problem how can you solve it? This is liberals censoring factual speech that they find inconvenient.


Oriana Fallaci

[From article]

"As the trial of Dutch MP Geert Wilders for offending Muslims unfolds in Amsterdam, I am reminded of Oriana Fallaci’s post-9/11 writings on how she saw Europe wasted from within by the alien cultural force of Islam.
Fallaci was a fearless journalist and author. And though critics faulted her for intemperate language, especially when it came to writing about Islam, Wilders’ trial might well confirm her fears about Europe and the West were not misplaced."

[. . .]
The demand by Europe’s officialdom — Canada’s officialdom is on the same page — that “free speech” must also meet the requirements of “responsible speech” when the subject is Islam is tantamount to repudiating Europe’s history that made her the cradle of the modern world of science and democracy."

http://www.torontosun.com/comment/columnists/salim_mansur/2010/01/29/12670321.html

Dutch MP's trial reminiscent of reporter's post-9/11 writings
By SALIM MANSUR, QMI Agency
Toronto Sun
29th January 2010, 6:27pm

Edwards' Money Lady

“When he sat down in a chair, Bunny told him, ‘That was one of President Kennedy’s favorite chairs to sit in!’ I know he had to have been smitten with that fact, too.” Huffman adds with a chuckle, “The very next week, the Edwards people called and they asked her for a million dollars.” 

[. . .]

she came to despise Young, who persisted in shaking her down, even after she told him the well was dry because she was having “liquidity issues.” According to the confidante, Young cheekily suggested that she take out a mortgage or perhaps sell some of her priceless paintings, to meet the "need." It was at this point that Bunny Mellon had enough."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-01-29/john-edwards-sugar-mama/

John Edwards' Sugar Mama

Daily Beast
by Lloyd Grove
January 29, 2010

Tim Geithner Talks Till He Walks

"Not a single member of either political party cut [Stammering Hank Paulson and Tim "Dead Man Talking" Geithner] any slack. As we used to say in Brooklyn, Paulson and Geithner got their asses kicked.
Isn't it amazing how a little fear of losing an election can snap even the laziest politicians into action?
[. . .]
I'd be shocked if Tim Geithner, lasts much longer as Treasury Secretary.
His mouth keeps moving, but Geithner continues to say incredibly stupid things -- like, insisting again yesterday that he in herited today's financial problems when in fact he was head of the New York Fed when this mess started."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/what_congress_missed_at_aig_geithner_H1rhDxyH4vrcOMONwmkjxO

What Congress missed at AIG-Geithner hearing

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:14 AM, January 28, 2010

Posted: 1:39 AM, January 28, 2010

Stammering<p> </p><br>Hank Paulsonand<p> </p><br>Tim"Dead Man Talking"<p> </p><br>Geithnercouldn't wait to get out of the witness chair yesterday when they appeared before the House Oversight Committee.<p> </p><br> The former and current Treasury secretaries were grilled separately, in one of the few bipartisan events since<p> </p><br>President Obamatook office.<p> </p><br> Not a single member of either political party cut these two guys any slack. As we used to say in Brooklyn, Paulson and Geithner got their asses kicked.<p> </p><br> Isn't it amazing how a little fear of losing an election can snap even the laziest politicians into action?<p> </p><br> As a matter of course, one congressman yesterday brought up Geithner's past tax troubles. And everyone mentioned the apparent conflict of interest that occurred when AIG was bailed out by taxpayers and Goldman Sachs -- Paulson's old firm -- just happened to score enormous benefits.<p> </p><br> At one point, Paulson was asked to stay for an additional eight minutes of questioning. When the clock hit 10 minutes, Paulson asked to be excused like he suddenly had a bathroom emergency.<p> </p><br> But Paulson and Geithner were very lucky that their interrogators really didn't know what they were doing, so they took their inquisition down a dead end.<p> </p><br> What do I mean? The main line of questioning is about AIG, the insurance company that invested in risky stuff and needed taxpayers to save its behind.<p> </p><br> Not only did companies like Goldman, which invested on the other side of AIG trades, get all of their money back, but it turns out the New York Fed decided to keep details of the deals secret.<p> </p><br> That's all very interesting stuff. The problem is, Paulson and Geithner have an easy explanation that they invoked over and over.<p> </p><br> At various times the two either proclaimed that they weren't the ones who negotiated the AIG deal or -- and this is the real winner -- the whole freakin' financial world would have fallen apart if the AIG bailout hadn't occurred.<p> </p><br> In other words, Paulson and Geithner were saying: Why are you people bothering us? You should be giving us a ticker-tape parade.<p> </p><br> "If, if, if, if AIG had failed, with the system as fragile as it was, I believe it would have taken down the whole financial system and the economy," Paulson said at one point. And in case that didn't frighten you enough, Paulson was nice enough to provide threatening numbers -- 25 percent unemployment instead of the current 10 percent and housing prices "much lower" than they are today.<p> </p><br> "This would have been an economic nightmare," Paulson said.<p> </p><br> The best anyone could say about Geithner's performance is that he didn't start crying when one member of the committee accused him of being a politician and another cut him short by repeating, "you've answered the question, you've answered the question."<p> </p><br> AIG is a dead end. The culprits can argue that they were under a lot of pressure and even if mistakes were made, they were honest ones.<p> </p><br> But there's nothing honest about Paulson's habit of phoning up friends on Wall Street when he got the itch. There is nothing Paulson and someone like<p> </p><br>Lloyd Blankfein, his successor at Goldman, could have spoken about -- six times, for instance, on Sept. 18, 2008 -- that would not have been inside information.<p> </p><br> If others are prosecuted for having information that the public doesn't, why is it that Goldman had a hot line to the Treasury?<p> </p><br> Was this very profitable financial institution suddenly invested with certain quasi-government powers?<p> </p><br> If you look through Paulson's phone logs, there are dozens upon dozens of calls made between Blankfein and Paulson during the latter's tenure as Treasury secretary.<p> </p><br> And those calls don't even include ones likely made on cell phones. One congressman said during yesterday's hearing that Geithner also made hundreds of calls to Goldman Sachs during the AIG timeframe. Or, as he put it, 103 calls to Goldman and 100 calls to Fed Chairman<p> </p><br>Ben Bernanke.<p> </p><br> I'd be shocked if Tim Geithner, lasts much longer as Treasury Secretary.<p> </p><br> His mouth keeps moving, but Geithner continues to say incredibly stupid things -- like, insisting again yesterday that he in herited today's financial problems when in fact he was head of the New York Fed when this mess started.<p> </p><br>john.crudele@nypost.com <p> </p><br>

John Crudele

Obama Bashes then Dines with Moguls

"Present at the lunch were Lazarus; Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase; James Hackett, chief of Anadarko Petroleum; Rex Tillerson, head of Exxon Mobil and Chief Executive Edward Rust Jr. of State Farm Insurance. [. . .]The meal, which a source said was "much friendlier toned" but far from a "love fest," came a week after Obama took direct aim at the banks by proposing a set of rules that limit growth and force them out of hedge funds, private equity and proprietary trading."

Also in attendance at the lunch were presidential adviser Valerie Jarrett, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/business/prez_power_lunch_Bcg99jNnwfoP5YDdQKhW5L

Prez's power lunch

Schmoozes biz bigs

By MARK DeCAMBRE

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:30 AM, January 30, 2010

Posted: 1:29 AM, January 28, 2010

Obama Wastes Taxpayer Funds

"Head Start, the most sacrosanct federal education program, doesn't work. 

[. . .]

Forty-five years and $166 billion later, it has been proven a failure.
[. . .]
the president already raised spending on the program from $6.8 billion to $9.2 billion last year." 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/opedcolumnists/head_start_tragic_waste_of_money_L7V5dJC333RDC8QT8UEWaO

Head Start: A tragic waste of money

By ANDREW J. COULSON

New York Post

Last Updated: 4:29 AM, January 28, 2010

Posted: 1:03 AM, January 28, 2010

Elite Refuse to Recognize Excellence

"The Enquirer did more than scoop the planet. It shielded the populace from a blow-dried cretin and his enabling, cancer-stricken wife. The journalistic establishment now has a chance to reward the Enquirer with its loftiest prize. It won't."

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/robs_from_not_poor_rich_and_gives_3VbdC55x2MqceXv3ZhkadI/1

Enquiring minds are cheated out of Pulitzer

Robs from not-so-rich and gives to not-so-poor

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:14 AM, January 28, 2010

Posted: 3:06 AM, January 28, 2010

Paying New York's extortionate rent -- a preoccupation bordering on obsession for millions of city dwellers -- just got crazier.<p> </p><br> And for that, you can thank a loony lefty activist in a black robe. Let's give a big hand to meddling Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Emily Jane Goodman (right). She's a lady who's bent on ensuring that the savviest and best-connected New Yorkers continue to enjoy insanely cheap rents, while you and I get screwed.<p> </p><br> Rent regulation has long chipped away at the city's quality of life. It has ensured that millionaire Rep. Charles Rangel enjoyed four -- yes, four -- reduced-price luxury apartments that are the envy of Harlem. That is, until he was forced to give up just one.<p> </p><br> To explain the turmoil inflicted by Justice Goodman, I need only look back at my first rental in this city, an exercise in acute urban frustration. Then, I paid $900 a month for a two-bedroom apartment. My upstairs neighbor paid $300.<p> </p><br> "Rent control!" my landlord muttered. With those two words, he told me that my rent was destined to climb at a dizzying pace, while my neighbor, a lawyer with a grown daughter who couldn't be removed from her mother's place without a crowbar, would pay the monthly equivalent of dinner for four.<p> </p><br> On Monday, Justice Goodman tried to make sure that these maddening inequities continue well into the future. She declared that some 300,000 New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized apartments were paying too much.<p> </p><br> She ordered rent reductions. And hundreds of millions in rebates for these lucky folks.<p> </p><br> How did this happen?<p> </p><br> It's no surprise that the ruling was made by Justice Goodman. What's surprising is how -- or why -- she keeps her job.<p> </p><br> Back in 1999, the judge changed from a jurist to a crusader for the downtrodden. She awarded tens of thousands of dollars to homeless AIDS sufferers. Why? Because the city was unprepared to meet their housing needs for a single night.<p> </p><br> But in 2008, she sent a bizarre missive to The New York Times:<p> </p><br> "After a career in public service, I regretfully say, I would not do it again," wrote the judge.<p> </p><br> "Philosophy and point of view led me to doing good instead of doing well, so I never expected to become rich. But now that I'm in my 10th year of a frozen judicial salary -- less than summer students are being paid at law firms -- I have concluded that whatever I may have accomplished for the public, I have wasted 25 years of my life by serving on the bench."<p> </p><br> She's still there.<p> </p><br> Her disastrous rent ruling concerns a 2008 decision by the Rent Guidelines Board. It said the majority of rent-stabilized tenants would see rent hikes of 4.5 percent. But those who paid less than $1,000 a month and have lived in those spaces at least six years were asked to pay $45 more. These rents were so low, $45 represented more than a 4.5 percent increase, if you can believe it.<p> </p><br> Goodman hit the roof.<p> </p><br> But the rent hikes were merely an attempt "to have some catch up. Lower-paying tenants were asked to pay a more proportionate share of maintenance of their building," the city argued. Sounds fair.<p> </p><br> Legal Aid lawyers sued. Which is what they do.<p> </p><br> In the end, Justice Goodman ruled that the increase on low-paying tenants must be rolled back.<p> </p><br> "She ruled the way the plaintiffs asked her to," said Gabriel Taussig, a lawyer with the city's Corporation Counsel. "We are very disappointed with the decision." The city plans to appeal.<p> </p><br> Rent regulation artificially drives up costs for those who can't maneuver their way into cheap apartments. They ensure that landlords can't meet spiraling expenses.<p> </p><br> But this judge has brought mass confusion and losses for landlords just trying to make a living.<p> </p><br> She's also seen to it that this city will remain a place where the haves thumb their noses at the have-nots.<p> </p><br> I'd suggest a career change for this Woman of the People.<p> </p><br> Enquiring minds are cheated out of Pulitzer<p> </p><br><p> </p><br> Old Joseph Pulitzer is doing flip-flops in his grave. The National Enquirer, which practices provocative journalism -- just like old Joe did -- is about to be mugged.<p> </p><br> Investigative reporters toiling for the supermarket tabloid have pulled off a coup of epic proportions, saving this nation from the scoundrel who is John Edwards, and spurring an investigation that could land him in jail. But will the Enquirer win the Pulitzer Prize it so richly deserves?<p> </p><br> Not in my lifetime.<p> </p><br> During the last election, as reporters from The New York Times and Washington Post were busy patting their own rounded posteriors, the Enquirer proved beyond doubt that John Edwards fathered a love baby.<p> </p><br> The bombshell should have won praise, prizes and the best possible restaurant tables for Enquirer types. Instead, the story was met with utter silence from the "mainstream" media. Until last week, when Edwards 'fessed up.<p> </p><br> The Enquirer did more than scoop the planet. It shielded the populace from a blow-dried cretin and his enabling, cancer-stricken wife. The journalistic establishment now has a chance to reward the Enquirer with its loftiest prize. It won't.<p> </p><br> The administrator of the Pulitzer board has already nuked the idea -- on a technicality. He pointed out that, on its Web site, the Enquirer is called "the original celebrity entertainment magazine." Magazines, you see, aren't eligible for Pulitzers.<p> </p><br> This is a lame excuse, wrapped in jealousy.<p> </p><br> The National Enquirer deserves accolades, not scorn. The tabloid of record has been breaking major stories since the OJ Simpson trial.<p> </p><br> It deserves a seat next to the snobs.<p> </p><br> Look who's squawking<p> </p><br> Chirp, chirp.<p> </p><br> Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand is mighty ticked at maybe-rival Harold Ford Jr. for calling her a "parakeet" who mimics the words of her master, Sen. Chuck Schumer.<p> </p><br> Gillibrand, who's also regularly called Schumer's "sock puppet," must be a glutton for pecking. It seemed to elude her that issuing "tweets" on "Twitter" complaining about Ford's "parakeet" comment was proof positive that she's a regular birdbrain.<p> </p><br> I can't wait for the egg-throwing to begin.<p> </p><br> Never too old for some frisky business<p> </p><br> <p> </p><br>The Tiger Woods sex-addiction fiasco has men of a certain age wondering: How do I get to be like Tiger?<p> </p><br> "What is a person supposed to do if he's in his 80s and he's still active sexually, and, of course, he doesn't have the finances to hire people to do something for him?" a reader asks. "How do you explain it if he has a God-given libido?"<p> </p><br> Consider yourself the luckiest, and busiest, man in the retirement home. Go get 'em, Tiger<p> </p><br>

Andrea Peyser

Are all Criminals Mental Patients? Or Vice Versa?

After the otherwise unemployable court psychiatrists get done accusing all criminals of mental illness there won't be any criminals left -- only mental patients. Do the courts work for the drug companies too?

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/queens/psycho_queens_man_cuffed_for_brutal_ayg5KjXEWuj86yMKqzC0NL

Queens psycho ripped neighbor's lungs & heart out

New York Post

By KIRSTEN FLEMING

Last Updated: 6:00 PM, January 29, 2010

Posted: 3:49 PM, January 27, 2010

Voters Ignore Obama's Arrogance, Indifference

Republicans will tell you that Obama's casual indifference to the concerns of voters is startling. His arrogance has become grating.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/they_still_like_him_go_figure_hu9hYnb0dVsOpmYfc6LeSP

They still like Obama? Go figure

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:30 AM, January 30, 2010

Posted: 2:51 AM, January 28, 2010

STERLING, Va. -- The state of the union here in Strip Mall America remains bleak, which could spell doom for Democrats in congressional elections later this year.<p> </p><br> But here at Glory Days Grill, President Obama, while getting a little bruised by voters watching last night's State of the Union Address, could still revel in his past glory of high oratory and soaring promises of hope and change.<p> </p><br> Glory Days is a sports bar where the bartender, Tyler Orpin, really does know everybody's name.<p> </p><br> It's also the sort of place where folks watching images on TV of the president and Michelle Obama out on the town at 9 p.m. blurt out with a slight hint of disgust: "Who's watching the kids?"<p> </p><br> And this is no ordinary spot. This is a precinct in a congressional district that normally votes Republican but swung for Obama in 2008.<p> </p><br> It is here, where the endless suburbs of Washington begin to meet the first rolling fields of rural Virginia, that Obama's political future hangs in the balance.<p> </p><br> Republicans will tell you that Obama's casual indifference to the concerns of voters is startling. His arrogance has become grating.<p> </p><br> "God, I don't want to listen to this," Orpin said when Obama first began speaking.<p> </p><br> "Everything he said he would do, he has not done," said Orpin, 23, a Republican.<p> </p><br> "He drives me crazy," she said. "I literally can't stand to hear him speak."<p> </p><br> When Obama was making new promises about creating new jobs, Chris Houser, 27, interjected: "Isn't this what he said last year?"<p> </p><br> A year after Obama took office, unemployment remains stubbornly high around here.<p> </p><br> The cost of health insurance continues to go up. Entire tracts of newly built neighborhoods sit unsold.<p> </p><br> But while independent voters who make this area so important to Obama's future have nothing nice to say about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid or House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, they still have a reservoir of patience for Obama.<p> </p><br> "I still like him," said Dan Ryan, 49, a Navy captain who has voted for Democrats and Republicans alike over the years.<p> </p><br> "He works hard," he said, looking up at Obama on the TV. "He's trying his best. And he admits his mistakes. He's good."<p> </p><br> Also watching at the bar was Josh Lanier, 29, who replaces doors and windows for a living.<p> </p><br> A Democrat, Lanier voted for Obama and has seen his business jump with the federal government's tax incentives encouraging people to make their homes more energy efficient.<p> </p><br> Lanier marveled at the president's stirring speech: "If this guy was a football coach, man, he would have a team that would run through a brick wall for him. The man can talk."<p> </p><br> churt@nypost.com <p> </p><br>

Charles Hurt

Fox News Tops in Cable, Beats ABC

"The Democratic defeat was a huge setback for President Obama and the fortunes of his controversial health-care reform effort in Congress.
Interest in the [election in Massachusetts that saw Republican Scott Brown take the Senate seat held by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy] ran so high that Fox News drew nearly 7 million viewers at 9 p.m., when the polls closed."

http://www.nypost.com/p/entertainment/tv/fox_news_top_in_cable_tv_Ogca48Cgy4ePuoMKlG8OOJ

Fox News top in cable TV

Mass. election bumped ratings

By MICHAEL SHAIN

New York Post

Last Updated: 9:59 AM, January 29, 2010

Posted: 2:54 AM, January 27, 2010

Holder Hires Terror Lawyers

Whose side is the Justice Department on: America's -- or the terrorists'?
It's just insane that a lawyer who defended Osama bin Laden's driver and bodyguard -- and who sought constitutional rights for terrorists -- could be one of the Obama administration's top legal officials.

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion/editorials/come_clean_mr_holder_qakritP0PaijqDmUny929I

Come clean, Mr. Holder

Editorial

New York Post

Last Updated: 8:02 AM, January 27, 2010

Posted: January 27, 2010

I Am Schocked! Lawyers Lie?

Meet dumb and dumber
Now you know why we first have to kill the lawyers. It's to keep them from saying stupid things. Roger Corbin, a former Long Island legislator, admitted filing false tax returns and lying about $229,000 he deposited. Prosecutors showed the money came from a developer who got more than $15 million in contracts in Corbin's district. But his lawyer says Corbin's the victim -- of low government salaries. "It was the financial sacrifices which he made in being an elected official that caused these problems," said Thomas Liotti. Arrrrgghhhhhh!


http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/khalid_ny_trial_stop_the_insanity_O2t9OZLpqskmROoYCgtZvO/1

Khalid's NY trial: Stop the insanity!

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:01 PM, January 27, 2010

Posted: 4:18 AM, January 27, 2010

First, the news. Some of it is good.<p> </p><br> The best is that Harold Ford Jr. told me yester day he wants the 9/11 trial moved out of New York. That puts the spunky Democrat at odds on another major issue with the White House and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the rubber stamp he is almost certain to challenge this year.<p> </p><br> The most shocking news is that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told me neither he nor Mayor Bloomberg were asked for their opinions before Washington decided to hold the trial in lower Manhattan.<p> </p><br> The two developments should add punch to the movement aimed at getting the looming disaster out of the city. If ever there was a cause worthy of uniting all New Yorkers, this is it.<p> </p><br> My hunch is that the shifting political climate makes this the perfect time to stop the insanity. Some insiders believe a wounded President Obama would be relieved, because he now realizes there is no upside to the trial and lots of downside, including heightened threats of another attack on New York.<p> </p><br> There never was a good reason to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (above right) and his crew here, and each day brings more proof of what a truly bonehead decision it was. From the bumbled handling of the Christmas Day bomb case in Detroit to a record number of reported plots in the last year, the case against the case is stronger than ever.<p> </p><br> Ford, the former Tennessee congressman, believes the trial is a mistake because of the enormous cost and because a military tribunal "is the way to go."<p> </p><br> Seizing on Bloomberg's estimated price of $216 million a year, Ford said in a phone interview that even if Washington pays, "it makes no sense to sock taxpayers with that burden in the middle of a recession. The money could go to tax cuts or job training, which would be better for New York."<p> </p><br> His stance matches sentiment among downtown residents and businesses. Many at first seemed prepared to go along, but the sense of danger and realization their neighborhood would be locked down is causing a definite shift.<p> </p><br> "We're facing a multiyear trial, and somebody's got to stand up and say, 'This is crazy,' " said community board Chair Julie Menin. "It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to have it here."<p> </p><br> That the decision came as a surprise to Kelly and Bloomberg illustrates how ill-conceived it was.<p> </p><br> On the morning of last Nov. 13 -- Friday the 13th -- the mayor and the top cop got nearly simultaneous phone calls telling them Mohammed and four others would be tried in Manhattan federal court.<p> </p><br> "We were informed it would happen and an announcement would be made that day," Kelly said yesterday. "There was no consultation and no checks to see what our thoughts were."<p> </p><br> Among other things, Kelly would have asked intelligence agencies about the impact on security. Unfortunately, he can guess. "Common sense says it raises the threat level against us," he said.<p> </p><br> "The terrorists always want to come here and kill as many people as possible."<p> </p><br> Common sense is clearly not so common in the White House or in Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department. They have their priorities upside down.<p> </p><br> Instead of putting national security first, they satisfied their ideological fixation for giving mass murderers full constitutional rights, including the presumption of innocence.<p> </p><br> If that meant subjecting millions of people in New York to increased risk of a terror attack, well, so be it.<p> </p><br> And if it meant turning a courtroom just blocks from Ground Zero into a circus tent for Islamic fanatics to threaten jurors, witnesses, the judge, and gloat over their 9/11 slaughter, well, so be it.<p> </p><br> A preview of coming attractions is happening at the trial of the maniac dubbed Lady al Qaeda, the MIT-trained Pakistani arrested in Afghanistan carrying bomb info and a list of city landmarks, including Lady Liberty. We have our Lady, they have theirs. Theirs opened fire on American and Afghan officers before she was wounded.<p> </p><br> Taking place in the same Foley Square courtroom where the KSM trial likely would be held, her antics are a warm-up act for the 9/11 madmen.<p> </p><br> She's repeatedly been ejected for disruptions. On Monday, she talked over the testimony of one of the men she fired at, a Special Forces officer who was later severely wounded by a bomb. He was crying while she was jabbering nonsense.<p> </p><br> Two jurors were dismissed, reportedly because a man in the audience pointed a finger at them as if it were a gun. And squeezed his finger like a trigger.<p> </p><br> Enough. Protect the city. Stop the 9/11 trial.<p> </p><br> Words no substitute for action<p> </p><br> "Watch what we do, not what we say." That was the advice -- or warning -- John Mitchell gave at the start of the Nixon administration. It was perfect for judging Nixon, and it's even better for Obama.<p> </p><br> No modern president has used speeches as the main tool of the Oval Office nearly as much as this one. That's what got him the job.<p> </p><br> But with the novelty wearing thin and reality biting the country, the public is tuning out. It's tired of the TelePrompTer and of speeches that either mislead or lead to nothing.<p> </p><br> Often, you get the feeling Obama confuses words with deeds. That was certainly the case with the high-value detainee-interrogation unit he approved last August.<p> </p><br> It was part of a plan to take power away from the CIA and show again how Obama is not George W. Bush.<p> </p><br> The unit was designed for terrorists like the Nigerian who tried to blow up the airliner on Christmas Day. Top security officials agree it should have been called in to pump him for vital intelligence.<p> </p><br> One problem: The unit doesn't exist. Except on paper.<p> </p><br> So excuse my yawn as the White House tries to stoke fever about tonight's State of the Union Address. Whatever Obama says, wake me when he actually does it.<p> </p><br> Meet dumb and dumber<p> </p><br> Now you know why we first have to kill the lawyers. It's to keep them from saying stupid things. Roger Corbin, a former Long Island legislator, admitted filing false tax returns and lying about $229,000 he deposited. Prosecutors showed the money came from a developer who got more than $15 million in contracts in Corbin's district. But his lawyer says Corbin's the victim -- of low government salaries. "It was the financial sacrifices which he made in being an elected official that caused these problems," said Thomas Liotti. Arrrrgghhhhhh!<p> </p><br> <p> </p><br>NBA NITWIT'S FREE 'SHOT'<p> </p><br> Apparently, Haiti hasn't suffered enough. It's also getting punished with the "help" of a pampered jerk from the NBA.<p> </p><br> Washington Wizard Javaris Crittenton, one of two players who drew guns during a locker-room dispute, is getting off with probation, a $1,250 fine and community service, which he'll do with the league's Haiti project.<p> </p><br> Heroic volunteers and 19,000 US military members in the godforsaken land must be delighted. The community service they perform out of love and duty is the same one Crittenton is required to do to avoid jail. Something's not right.<p> </p><br>

Michael Goodwin 

Obama and Holder Lack Common Sense

"Common sense is clearly not so common in the White House or in Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department. They have their priorities upside down. "

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/khalid_ny_trial_stop_the_insanity_O2t9OZLpqskmROoYCgtZvO

Khalid's NY trial: Stop the insanity!

New York Post

Last Updated: 7:01 PM, January 27, 2010

Posted: 4:18 AM, January 27, 2010

First, the news. Some of it is good.<p> </p><br> The best is that Harold Ford Jr. told me yester day he wants the 9/11 trial moved out of New York. That puts the spunky Democrat at odds on another major issue with the White House and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, the rubber stamp he is almost certain to challenge this year.<p> </p><br> The most shocking news is that Police Commissioner Ray Kelly told me neither he nor Mayor Bloomberg were asked for their opinions before Washington decided to hold the trial in lower Manhattan.<p> </p><br> The two developments should add punch to the movement aimed at getting the looming disaster out of the city. If ever there was a cause worthy of uniting all New Yorkers, this is it.<p> </p><br> My hunch is that the shifting political climate makes this the perfect time to stop the insanity. Some insiders believe a wounded President Obama would be relieved, because he now realizes there is no upside to the trial and lots of downside, including heightened threats of another attack on New York.<p> </p><br> There never was a good reason to bring 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed (above right) and his crew here, and each day brings more proof of what a truly bonehead decision it was. From the bumbled handling of the Christmas Day bomb case in Detroit to a record number of reported plots in the last year, the case against the case is stronger than ever.<p> </p><br> Ford, the former Tennessee congressman, believes the trial is a mistake because of the enormous cost and because a military tribunal "is the way to go."<p> </p><br> Seizing on Bloomberg's estimated price of $216 million a year, Ford said in a phone interview that even if Washington pays, "it makes no sense to sock taxpayers with that burden in the middle of a recession. The money could go to tax cuts or job training, which would be better for New York."<p> </p><br> His stance matches sentiment among downtown residents and businesses. Many at first seemed prepared to go along, but the sense of danger and realization their neighborhood would be locked down is causing a definite shift.<p> </p><br> "We're facing a multiyear trial, and somebody's got to stand up and say, 'This is crazy,' " said community board Chair Julie Menin. "It just doesn't make any sense whatsoever to have it here."<p> </p><br> That the decision came as a surprise to Kelly and Bloomberg illustrates how ill-conceived it was.<p> </p><br> On the morning of last Nov. 13 -- Friday the 13th -- the mayor and the top cop got nearly simultaneous phone calls telling them Mohammed and four others would be tried in Manhattan federal court.<p> </p><br> "We were informed it would happen and an announcement would be made that day," Kelly said yesterday. "There was no consultation and no checks to see what our thoughts were."<p> </p><br> Among other things, Kelly would have asked intelligence agencies about the impact on security. Unfortunately, he can guess. "Common sense says it raises the threat level against us," he said.<p> </p><br> "The terrorists always want to come here and kill as many people as possible."<p> </p><br> Common sense is clearly not so common in the White House or in Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department. They have their priorities upside down.<p> </p><br> Instead of putting national security first, they satisfied their ideological fixation for giving mass murderers full constitutional rights, including the presumption of innocence.<p> </p><br> If that meant subjecting millions of people in New York to increased risk of a terror attack, well, so be it.<p> </p><br> And if it meant turning a courtroom just blocks from Ground Zero into a circus tent for Islamic fanatics to threaten jurors, witnesses, the judge, and gloat over their 9/11 slaughter, well, so be it.<p> </p><br> A preview of coming attractions is happening at the trial of the maniac dubbed Lady al Qaeda, the MIT-trained Pakistani arrested in Afghanistan carrying bomb info and a list of city landmarks, including Lady Liberty. We have our Lady, they have theirs. Theirs opened fire on American and Afghan officers before she was wounded.<p> </p><br> Taking place in the same Foley Square courtroom where the KSM trial likely would be held, her antics are a warm-up act for the 9/11 madmen.<p> </p><br> She's repeatedly been ejected for disruptions. On Monday, she talked over the testimony of one of the men she fired at, a Special Forces officer who was later severely wounded by a bomb. He was crying while she was jabbering nonsense.<p> </p><br> Two jurors were dismissed, reportedly because a man in the audience pointed a finger at them as if it were a gun. And squeezed his finger like a trigger.<p> </p><br> Enough. Protect the city. Stop the 9/11 trial.<p> </p><br> Words no substitute for action<p> </p><br> "Watch what we do, not what we say." That was the advice -- or warning -- John Mitchell gave at the start of the Nixon administration. It was perfect for judging Nixon, and it's even better for Obama.<p> </p><br> No modern president has used speeches as the main tool of the Oval Office nearly as much as this one. That's what got him the job.<p> </p><br> But with the novelty wearing thin and reality biting the country, the public is tuning out. It's tired of the TelePrompTer and of speeches that either mislead or lead to nothing.<p> </p><br> Often, you get the feeling Obama confuses words with deeds. That was certainly the case with the high-value detainee-interrogation unit he approved last August.<p> </p><br> It was part of a plan to take power away from the CIA and show again how Obama is not George W. Bush.<p> </p><br> The unit was designed for terrorists like the Nigerian who tried to blow up the airliner on Christmas Day. Top security officials agree it should have been called in to pump him for vital intelligence.<p> </p><br> One problem: The unit doesn't exist. Except on paper.<p> </p><br> So excuse my yawn as the White House tries to stoke fever about tonight's State of the Union Address. Whatever Obama says, wake me when he actually does it.<p> </p><br> Meet dumb and dumber<p> </p><br> Now you know why we first have to kill the lawyers. It's to keep them from saying stupid things. Roger Corbin, a former Long Island legislator, admitted filing false tax returns and lying about $229,000 he deposited. Prosecutors showed the money came from a developer who got more than $15 million in contracts in Corbin's district. But his lawyer says Corbin's the victim -- of low government salaries. "It was the financial sacrifices which he made in being an elected official that caused these problems," said Thomas Liotti. Arrrrgghhhhhh!<p> </p><br> <p> </p><br>NBA NITWIT'S FREE 'SHOT'<p> </p><br> Apparently, Haiti hasn't suffered enough. It's also getting punished with the "help" of a pampered jerk from the NBA.<p> </p><br> Washington Wizard Javaris Crittenton, one of two players who drew guns during a locker-room dispute, is getting off with probation, a $1,250 fine and community service, which he'll do with the league's Haiti project.<p> </p><br> Heroic volunteers and 19,000 US military members in the godforsaken land must be delighted. The community service they perform out of love and duty is the same one Crittenton is required to do to avoid jail. Something's not right.<p> </p><br>

Michael Goodwin

Cambridge Professor Opposes First Amendment

The retired Toronto Professor in exile in Cambridge MA objects to bringing down barriers to free speech (below). George Will is more eloquent than I will ever be. His answer is here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/27/AR2010012703909.html?sub=AR

Campaign finance: a 'reform' wisely struck down

By George F. Will

Washington Post

Thursday, January 28, 2010

 

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/news/opinions/x1658506774/Guest-commentary-Stare-decisis-The-Supreme-Court-versus-the-Administration

Guest commentary: Stare decisis: The Supreme Court versus the Administration

By Martin G. Evans

Cambridge Chronicle

Posted Jan 29, 2010 @ 02:13 PM

 

Elder Hate Speech

"Martin Amis [suggested] old people should commit suicide to prevent the "silver tsunami" that is coming."

 http://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/suicide_stink_lYMQpr1s0c4azu1kSUR5wJ

Suicide stink

Last Updated: 4:32 AM, January 26, 2010

New York Post

Page Six

Posted: 1:08 AM, January 26, 2010

2010 State of The Union Address

State of The Union Address
January 28, 2010
Complete 1 Hour 9 Minutes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj4Q--xpg04

Pelosi Spends $100,000 on food, booze

"that single receipt makes up just part of the more than $101,000 taxpayers paid for "in-flight services" – including food and liquor, for House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trips on Air Force jets over the last two years. That's almost $1,000 per week." 

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=123472

OBAMA WATCH CENTRAL

Taxpayers pay $101,000 for Pelosi's in-flight 'food, booze'

Speaker's trips 'are more about partying than anything else'

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Posted: January 29, 2010
12:20 am Eastern
By Bob Unruh
© 2010 WorldNetDaily

TN False Rape Claim

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2010/0128101cigs1.html

False Rape Claim Over Bad Sex

Cops: Tennessee women solicited cigarettes in exchange for liaison 

January 28, 2010

SmokingGun.com

City Review Panel Meeting

http://www.wickedlocal.com/cambridge/features/x690800417/Public-hears-from-Gates-arrest-review-panel-for-first-time

Public hears from Gates arrest review panel for first time

By Jillian Fennimore

Cambridge Chronicle

Posted Jan 28, 2010 @ 05:09 PM

Last update Jan 28, 2010 @ 05:47 PM

How Incompetent is Obama?

"American blacks today are more bitter and more racially enraged than ever before, after forty years of affirmative action. Affirmative action hasn't helped women, who now have to work two jobs, one at home and one for income, especially because so many men have walked away from their families under liberal cultural values. Reverse-racism has actively hurt generations of children, who have grown up in broken homes as a direct result of pernicious social policies which Obama has actually tried to make worse. One of the first things he did was to reverse Clinton's welfare reform so that social pathology in the black community can spread its poison even wider and deeper. Obama isn't good for black people -- but then, blacks consistently vote for those who do them the most harm."


http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_lesson_of_an_affirmative_a.html


January 28, 2010

The Lesson of an Affirmative Action President

By James Lewis
American Thinker

Howard Zinn, Historian, Died

Howard Zinn was a wonderful decent human being. He served his country unlike many blowhards who type trash on the internet, and many elected blowhards. He shared his education with everyone unlike most academics. He participated in current events unlike most academics. He expressed his opinion unlike most people. The introduction to his book You Can't be Neutral on a Moving Train, made me cry. He was a friendly likable accessible human, unlike many academics and politicians.

http://bostonherald.com/entertainment/books/view.bg?articleid=1228735

‘People’s History’ author Howard Zinn dies at 87

By Associated Press
Thursday, January 28, 2010 - Updated 2h ago

 

Howard Zinn, an author, teacher and political activist whose leftist "A People’s History of the United States" became a million-selling alternative to mainstream texts. He was 87.
Zinn died of a heart attack in Santa Monica, California, daughter Myla Kabat-Zinn said. The historian was a resident of Auburndale, Massachusetts.