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Dick Morris asks, “Does President Obama truly believe that he can castigate and condemn Wall Street on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays and then secure its cooperation on the other days of the week?”

Another Obama nominee has removed himself from the running .. Jon Cannon, nominee for Deputy U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator.

Wealth envy activists in Great Britain are sure doing a heck of a job articulating their position. Oh wait … never mind. They are too busy attacking the homes of bank CEOs.

Looks like disillusioned foreign leaders are no longer looking at Obama as “president of the world.”

Even Democrats in the media are becoming disillusioned with the man who was once their savior.

Hillary Clinton says that the United States is also to blame for drug-related violence in Mexico. She’s right.

People in Europe have also picked up their pitchforks and are outraged over executive pay issues. Wealth envy is growing.

Obama says that “we need not choose between a chaotic and unforgiving capitalism and an oppressive government-run economy.”

So is tax cheat Tim Geithner open to the idea of a global currency, or not?

Congress passed land and water conservation legislation that will set aside 2 million acres for new wilderness, thus making the areas off limits to oil and gas drilling.

Here’s some news that shouldn’t shock you .. the post office is running out of money.

What have unions done to the economy of California? I bet you can see where this one is going. This is just a taste of what this country will be like if the unions get their card check bill.

You want to see a tangible effect of this union card check bill? Check out the latest news from FedEx.

Barack Obama wants new forms of energy to become dominant in this country .. but how can that happen if we have Senators like Dianne Feinstein fighting to make sure that hundreds of thousands of acres in California are not used for solar or wind projects?

Dozens of Massachusetts cities and towns are taking steps to impose stiff new fines for smoking marijuana in public .. in order to “shield” the children.

Your tax dollars at work .. New York state paying for dental cleanings for toothless people.

The Tales of Totus, the President’s Teleprompter.

What are college students giving up for Lent these day? Facebook.

Okay, this is for you people that still don’t get it about the AIG bonuses. Read this letter by Jake DeSantis, an executive vice president of the American International Group’s financial products unit, to Edward M. Liddy, the chief executive of AIG Do you get it now? You will need to log in to read the article but it is worth it. If you don’t have an account, you can try using bugmenot.com.

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Here’s a concept .. you actually say something positive about the economy, and the stock market rebounds! Did anyone hear PrezBO say anything good about capitalism last night? No? I didn’t’ think so.

Big oops for Al Gore. Looks like Big Al was stretching the truth a bit about some global warming research. I just can’t hide my surprise here.

Hilda Solis is set to be our next Labor Secretary. The labor unions have tingles up their legs. So does Hilda.

Roland Burris is still a Senator. His fellow Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has apparently asked Burris to resign. Burris said no. The Black Congressional Caucus is, of course, screaming racism. Big surprise there.

The Obama administration is well on its way to putting the government in charge of your healthcare. Here are some down and dirty facts on how they can do this with little public fanfare.

Americans are not serfs in need of a czar .. so why does the Obama administration insists on a healthcare czar? I’ll tell you why .. because they want to make you more dependent on government. You haven’t picked up on that yet?

A California politician wants to increase tax revenue by taxing his state’s largest cash crop: marijuana. Good idea!

This is a great column about what is missing from Obama’s housing plan .. common sense.

The Democrats are one step closer to ensuring a full voting member of Congress for Washington DC. Is this even constitutional? Does that even matter?

The Supreme Court upheld a state law that has the unions all gunched up .. it is a state law banning local governments from letting workers use payroll deductions to fund political union activities.

An investigation found that United Nations management of environmental protection programs is “completely out of control and approaching chaos.” That’s about what I expect from the UN.

When the nation is in crisis, guess which city’s economy actually grows? You’ve got it .. Washington DC.

Apparently the New York Times believes that the Obama administration is separate from “the government.” Who knew?

The idea of a gun buy-back program is such a joke to me. But officials in New York City thought it would be a good idea.

A man gets hit by a truck while helping a woman cross the street. As if being in intensive care wasn’t bad enough, the guy was given a ticket for jaywalking.

Barack Obama and Joe Biden found time to sit down and chat with George Clooney this week in the White House. I’m sure Clooney had a lot to offer. Celebrity president being advised by celebrities. Just great.

Just what we need, more excuses for laziness … Working long hours ‘puts us at higher risk of dementia.’

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

No .. it can’t be? Newsweek put Obama on their cover how many times in the last year? Now they run a story that treats Obama as something other than a deity? Traitors! How dare them? This man cannot be allowed to fail!

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says, “I would not take off the idea of nationalizing the banks.”

Harrison Schmitt walked on the moon. No dummy. He says that this global warming scam is a tool to increase government control over our lives. Golly …seems I’ve heard that somewhere else. Wonder where?

Who got last minute gifts in the stimulus bill? Yeah, like it was going to pass without some extra pork thrown in there.

So .. you want to be an airline gate agent?

Back up to the government trough .. the auto industry, which has until tomorrow to submit plans to show how they repay billions in taxpayer loans. Do you think there will be plans? Yeah .. the plan is to ask for more money.

As of right now, it looks like GM is seriously considering Chapter 11 as an option.

Tom Daschle is out as health czar, so who does the Obama administration turn to fill his shoes? Rahm Emanuel’s brother. Yeah .. that makes perfect sense.

So you say that Obama won’t re-impose the Fairness Doctrine? His administration surely won’t answer the question nowadays.

Couldn’t news like this been pointed out before the stimulus vote? A multibillion-dollar construction project in the Northwest isn’t going to create a lot of jobs for many years.

The Obama administration is warning that Americans shouldn’t expect instant miracles from this government growth bill. You mean Obama isn’t going to give everyone a house?

The GOP wants an investigation of Illinois Senator Roland Burris on possible perjury charges, and they want him to resign immediately. Did Blago ask Burris for some cash for the seat?

Love the title of Mark Steyn’s column: The Obamateur Hour. He’s right. We thought it would be cool to put a rant amateur in the White House; someone with no measurable experience whatsoever. Good luck.

Even if governors don’t want the bailout money, the Democrats in Congress have made sure that the states will get it anyway.

Add another Democrat to the list of Fairness Doctrine supporters: New York Congressman Maurice Hinchey.

This from Oklahoma: A new ordinance unanimously approved by the Norman City Council will require residents to prove, in a court of law, they did not litter, rather than having the city attempt to prove they did.

Tax cheats in the Obama administration could make it more difficult for the IRS to enforce the law. Now that is change even I can believe in.

All things considered, Obama’s approval ratings are still above 60%. That’s because the average American doesn’t know any better.

Could the legalization of marijuana save the California economy?

Just what this country needs .. another octuplet mother on welfare.

A Yale professor thinks that “investigative journalism” around the world should be supported by national endowments.

Last week we got the story of the 13-year-old boy who became a father. Now it turns out that he might not be the dad, because the skank mother of the child (who is 15-years-old, by the way) was sleeping with as many as eight other boys at the time.

This should send your pucker factor up a bit. This L.A. Times columnist says that Al Qeada wants to target America’s economy and it wants to prove it can defeat us. I don’t know about you … but I sure feel good about Obama being in the White House right now … what with all that experience he has and all.

What would a Creation Science Fair be like? Here, this might give you an idea.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

The Republicans have elected a new National Chairman - former Maryland Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. One of his first statements was to point out that the GOP lost its way in the 1990s and expanded the size of government.

Congressman Jeff Flake brings up a very suspicious rule included in the economic stimulus bill that could prevent earmark challenges.

Iran says that Obama’s offer to talk shows that America’s policy of domination has failed and Western ideology has become passive.

A question floating around the Internet this weekend … Is Obama’s post-partisan politics dead on arrival?

Outrageous: Milwaukee Public Schools will get $88.6 million from this economic stimulus bill for new construction, “even though the district has 15 vacant school buildings, a large surplus of property and no plans for new construction.”

The other day we told you about Congressman David Obey’s son getting billions of dollars in stimulus for his national parks program .. check out how Obey’s office is handling the report.

This is not good news .. while the private workforce is losing jobs, the number of people working for the government is growing.

Obama is considering appointing a Republican senator to his cabinet .. but apparently this will not affect the delicate balance in the Senate as his replacement will be a Republican.

The White House is looking for ways to control the commercial use of Obama’s image.

A ranking member of the GOP wants to reconsider stimulus funding for the National Science Foundation after it was discovered that top staff members spent most of their days surfing the Internet for porn.

I’ll admit that we have been pre-occupied with this economic stimulus bill lately .. and for good reason. But something that is quietly slipping by is the slow implementation of government healthcare, thanks to the Democrats.

Canada and other nations are concerned about the “Buy American” requirement of the economic stimulus bill.

Czech President Vaclav Klaus is at it again .. saying that global warming is a hoax. Gotta love it.

Great Britain’s green advisor says that couples who have more than two children are being “irresponsible” because they are creating an “unbearable burden” on the environment.

How is California’s experiment with “green jobs” working out? Well .. judging by their current financial woes, I’d say not so well.

Government schools in Pittsburgh are delaying school for 2-hours this morning because of the Super Bowl last night.

Bruce Springsteen is upset that he made a deal with Wal-Mart to exclusively sell his album because Wal-Mart is “anti-union” and Bruce Springsteen is a bed-wetting liberal.

And now for the biggest story of the day .. Michael Phelps has been caught smoking marijuana.

Speaking of marijuana, Barack Obama’s half brother was arrested in Kenya for possession of marijuana.

Do you think someone in the newsroom got fired for this one? You gotta see it. It’s hilarious.

In case you care, YouTube has set up a channel where you can view and vote on Super Bowl ads.

Are you the cool parent that lets kids drink at your house? In Georgia, a woman has been charged for doing just that after a kid died after drinking at her house then driving. With mugshot. And here are Neal’s thoughts on the story from last week.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com

Al Gore won’t be testifying in front of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee this week … because there is going to be a snow storm. Al Gore and global warming are fast becoming a universally recognized joke.

The White House is backing away from Nancy Pelosi’s little plan to include contraceptives in the stimulus bill. Please don’t tell me you’re surprised. Margaret Sanger is spinning in her grave.

Republican Senator Mitch McConnell says that America is heading towards a looming entitlement crisis. Gee ya think? I wonder what his first clue was.

Is Obama really going to challenge Ted Kennedy in his opposition to the first offshore wind farm off of Cape Cod?

As Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has appointed a special envoy for climate change. Was it OwlGore?

Obama is going to allow states to set their own standards for tailpipe emissions. California is ecstatic. The next step .. tax the emissions!

And Senator Carl Levin has already spoken up against the plan, saying that it discriminates against U.S.-made vehicles of the same efficiency as the imports.

Carl Levin had a busy day yesterday … he also spoke out against the hypocrisy of CitiBank buying a new jet, while the automakers are being made to sell theirs.

Obama pledges to seek a worldwide ban on weapons in space. Pandering.

California is a mess. Schwarzenegger wants to tax golf courses, veterinarians, auto mechanics and amusement parks. What a miserable failure the Governator has been.

Tax rate reductions are more effective as an economic stimulus than rebates. This from the Heritage Foundation. Democrats don’t want you to read this.

Latest Rasmussen polls show that 59% of Americans are worried that Congress and President Obama are going to increase government spending too much in the next two years. Well duh! What did you expect when you voted these people into office? A bit late to worry about that, don’t you think?

New GAO estimates of state and local government deficits are not looking good at all.

Something good has come from state budget deficits .. lawmakers in Connecticut are considering a bill that would punish low-level marijuana users with a fine, instead of a criminal charge, because it costs the taxpayers too much money.

It’s about time … the state of New Jersey is considering requiring high school seniors to take Finance 101.

Hospitals in Great Britain are taking meat off their menus in order to decrease their carbon footprint and fight global warming. Let us know how that works out for ya.

Hillary Clinton is pledging that the Obama administration is going to do more to fight hunger. What hunger?

What’s the mature way to handle things when Bernard Madoff loses your entire trust fund? Toilet paper his mansion.

Nobody should be behind the wheel while talking on a cell phone. Especially teenagers. But children talking on cell phones while crossing the street is another hazard, according to studies.

When the economy is down .. reach for a Big Mac. That’s what a lot of Americans seem to be doing.

Government waste isn’t exclusive to the United States. Take China, for example, which used earthquake donation funds to buy luxury cars for government officials

Hey, look who is now in the comics business: The Truth About Evolution - Somebody’s Making A Monkey Out Of You.

All articles were obtained from boortz.com