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2½ weeks ago President Quisling McGolfpants assured us our economy was doing better than ever.
Obama defended his economic policies, clearly in response to criticism from Republicans that the recovery has been too slow and that large threats remain.
"The United States of America, right now, has the strongest, most durable economy in the world," he said. Anyone who claims otherwise, he said, is "peddling fiction."
Who knew that his Department of Commerce was in the fiction business?
The U.S. economy's growth slowed sharply in the final three months of 2015 to a 0.7 percent annual rate. Consumers reduced spending, businesses cut back on investment and global problems trimmed exports.
The slowdown could renew doubts about the durability of the 6½-year-old economic expansion, though most economists expect growth to rebound in the current January-March quarter.
The government's estimate Friday of the economy's expansion in the October-December period was less than half the 2 percent annual growth rate in gross domestic product in the third quarter of 2015. It was the weakest showing since a severe winter reduced growth to a 0.6 percent annual rate in last year's first quarter.
Oops.
But don't worry, the Obamabots say prosperity is right around the corner. Honest! And you should believe them too, because they've been saying it for 6½ years now, and by golly sonner or later they just have to be right!
Or not. Because, you know, they don't feel the pinch like you and I do.
Out here in the Real World we don't need the government to tell us the economy sucks. We're living it.
The number of people not in the labor force is at an all-time high. And there are more than 45 million people on food stamps.
Speaking of food, it's more expensive than ever.
And escalating health care premiums continue to eat into our dwindling incomes.
The one bright spot is energy, especially gasoline prices. Of course Obama is doing everything he can to sabotage them, insisting on ever escalating mandates for "green" energy boondoggles and throwing roadblocks in front of domestic oil and gas production at every turn.
How do you spell "recession?" Because I spell it Obamanomics.
Hillary Clinton promises 4 more years of the same disastrous policies.
Bernie Sanders promises 4 years of socialism that'll make Obama's policies look like The Good Old Days.
Donald Trump promises, I'm not sure what exactly, but it'll be yuuuuge, or something.
And one of those 3 stooges is, barring a miracle, guaranteed to be our next president.
Buy ammo and canned good folks. We're in for a bumpy ride.
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When Donald Trump said he "could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters" he was joking. At least I think he was joking.
In a sane world it's the stuff he says when he's not joking that ought to send his supporters scurrying for the exits. Like yesterday, when he came out in defense of Planned Parenthood.
Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump defended Planned Parenthood during an interview Tuesday night, doubling down on his remarks that part of the group should be funded.
"They do good things," Trump said during an interview with Sean Hannity that aired on Fox News.
"There's two Planned Parenthoods, in a way. You have it as an abortion clinic. Now that's actually a fairly small part of what they do, but it's a brutal part and I'm totally against it," Trump said.
"They also, however, service women," Trump said, adding later, "We have to help women. A lot of women are helped. So we have to look at the positives for Planned Parenthood."
Ah yes, the "positives." Like how Mussolini made sure the trains ran on time.
Where some of those trains were going? That wasn't his concern. Or, apparently, Donald Trump's.
Planned Parenthood is evil. They hack tiny babies apart while still alive, and sell the parts for profit.
When a pregnant woman goes to Planned Parenthood for pre-natal care, she is sent elsewhere, because they only care about performing abortions.
When a woman goes to Planned Parenthood for a mammogram, she is sent elsewhere, because they only pay lip service to "women's health."
But Donald Trump wants to give them our tax dollars. And if that thought repels Christian voters, well Trump has an answer for them.
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump on Tuesday won the endorsement of evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. for the party's 2016 presidential nomination, the Trump campaign said.
There was a time when Christians, even evangelicals!, abjured murder.
Well maybe the Sixth Commandment is no longer taught at Liberty University. Or there's an asterisk, or something. I'm hesitant to ask, because I might not like the answer.
What's important though, is that a prominent Christian leader has blessed Donald Trump, and by extension, the public funding of abortion. That's yuuuuge, to coin a phrase. And deeply troubling.
I'm starting to believe this boorish buffoon could actually land the GOP nomination. And then what?
Well, then we get Mike "the nanny" Bloomberg throwing his hat into the ring too. Then we get ostensible "republicans" splitting their votes between two billionaires with more dollars than sense. Which of course propels Hillary Clinton, or God forbid Bernie Sanders, into the White House.
Shudder.
I'm gonna stock up on
ammo. And canned goods. You should too.
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The Republican party is now officially in total disarray.
Donors are fleeing from Jeb!, because the annointed successor failed to actually be annointed. His idealogical clones (Rubio, Kasich, Christie) have likewise been unable to obtain traction outside of the country club set. Upstart Ted Cruz is Public Enemy Number One at RNC Headquarters, because he's actually got a plan to shrink government, when the GOP establishment is, and always will be, content to go along to get along, so long as their personal perks and prestige are protected.
Which leaves us with Donald Trump.
I had hoped, rather naively it turns out, that the Republican party would co-opt Trump's message.
Nope. They've gone and been co-opted by Trump.
They're now in bed with the devil. Because the devil has whispered sweet nothings in their ear.
Donald Trump is as Big Government as Big Government gets.
In fact, as The Lonely Conservative so artfully put it, "Donald Trump embodies everything we have been against for the past 8 years, but he says what people want to hear on immigration and suddenly nothing else matters. Why doesn't anyone care that he helped to elect the people that have done so much damage? I just don't get it."
Donald Trump's political donation list reads like a Who's Who of ultraliberal progressive elites. Hillary and Bill Clinton. Harry Reid. Ted Kennedy. Nancy Pelosi. Chuck Schumer. Bill de Blasio. Hundreds of thousands of Trump dollars have funded liberals and their causes.
This is a Republican?. This is a Conservative?
Which brings us to the Bizarro World part. National Review, as of late the official house organ of establishment Republicans, suddenly woke up from their Rich Lowry / Jonah Goldberg induced stupor long enough to denounce Trump.
Leading to them being summarily excommunicated by the RNC.
Tonight National Review was disinvited from the February GOP debate after its very public rebuke of Donald Trump.
This is the very same debate from which the RNC banished NBC for the antics of their CNBC subsidiary at a prior debate, only to replace them with the Clinton News Network (CNN). Presumably because Wolf Blitzer and Anderson Cooper are more sympathetic to the conservative cause, and NPR said "no."
In other words, Reince Priebus has jumped the shark.
Oh, sure, I see what he's trying to do.
He's using Trump to take down Cruz, and then he'll try cutting Trump off at the knees so Jeb! can ride in on his white horse.
But if I can see through his paper-thin strategy, so can Donald Trump, because Trump has bested guys ten times smarter than the genius Priebus believes himself to be.
Not that it'll do the country any good mind you. In many ways, Donald Trump is worse for America than Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton combined. In that regard NR is right, even as their self-immolation becomes apparent.
Meanwhile, the Democrats are lining up behind their own demagogue as the Dowager Empress of Chappaqua seems destined to finally join the Orange Suit Club.
A Trump - Sanders face off would be entertaining to say the least. But regardless of who wins, We The People will lose, big time. And any hope for a restoration of our Republic would fade into oblivion, never to be seen again.
Epitaph for a great nation: The people have spoken. And now the people must
be punished.
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The Star-Ledger thinks they're heroes, and their coverage spins the vote as a "win" for The Good Guys, but face it, Cory Booker and Bob Menendez want to bring more rapists into America.
U.S. Senate Democrats — including New Jersey's Robert Menendez and Cory Booker — blocked action on legislation that would impose new restrictions on admitting Syrian refugees.
The vote to consider the legislation was 55-43 with 60 votes needed. Two Democrats joined 53 GOP lawmakers to support the bill, and 43 Democrats voted no. President Barack Obama has threatened to veto the measure.
Under the bill, which passed the House in November by a veto-proof 289-137 vote, refugees could only be admitted after the FBI director, Homeland Security secretary and the director of National Intelligence all concur. This would be in addition to the current 18-to-24 month background checks of refugees already conducted by the Homeland Security Department.
Because the vetting Obama's guys do is so thorough, and no terrorists can slip in through the cracks.
Oh, wait.
And the Tsnarnaev brothers were such fine, upstanding people, right?
Hey Bob and Cory I've got a really great idea. Pick some women you care about.
Tell them to bunk with your Syrian buddies. I'm sure everything will be
A-OK.
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The mere act of running for president makes Chris Christie more conservative. It won't last, but I'll take what I can get.
So, on the last day of the legislative session, he pocket-vetoed a bunch of Democrat-sponsored impositions on our liberty.
First to go down — "Smart" Guns.
Gov. Chris Christie on Tuesday quashed a Democrat-backed roll back of a personalized handgun law the sponsor hoped would shake loose investment in smart gun technology.
The pocket veto, in which governors can allow legislation to die if it was passed at the end of the two-year session, was offered without commentary. The Legislature does not have an opportunity to override pocket vetoes.
Loretta Weinberg has The Sads. She desperately wants everyone, except her security detail of course, to use these inaptly named "smart guns." The technology is unproven, unreliable, and unavailable. But that doesn't stop her from demanding that the gun control fairies deliver one to every gun shop in New Jersey.
Not today Loretta.
Next he nixed mandatory recess for elementary school kids.
Most (almost all?) kids get recess already. For the few that don't, the decision should be made at the local level, not mandated by Trenton busybodies. If parents want their kids to have recess, the parents can exert pressure on the principal, or the school board.
And in his 3rd blow to the overarching Nanny State, Christie vetoed a bill that would have raised the smoking age from 19 to 21.
Amazingly, NJ Republicans sponsored this bill. Because you're old enough to vote, and old enough to die for their right to be wrong, but you're not old enough to buy beer or cigarettes. C'mon already; lower the drinking age and the smoking age back to 18. Treat adults like adults.
Finally, it's not a veto per se, but in a move that'll certainly help him impress my teenage daughter and her friends, Christie took a swipe at Michelle Obama's meddlesome school lunch requirements.
Siding with a boy who bemoaned the absence of "square pizza" and other favorite lunch foods since Michelle Obama became first lady, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said at an Iowa pancake house Monday that if he becomes president, students will eat "whatevever you want."
"The first lady has no business being involved in this," Christie said during a town-hall meeting at the Village Inn in Council Bluffs. "This intervention into our school system is just another example of how the Obamas believe they have a better answer for everything than you do."
Parents should decide what their children eat, Christie said. "I want people to eat more healthy - I've been trying to eat more healthy - but in the end it's your choice," he said.
Christie was responding to a boy who asked what he was "going to do about the lunches," declaring that "now that Mrs. Obama's the first lady, they've gone down." Michelle Obama had backed new nutrition standards for the federal school lunch program.
"I don't care what you're eating for lunch every day, I really don't," Christie said. "If I'm president, back to whatever you want to eat, OK?"
Because, really, it isn't the government's job to micromanage your life.
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One day after making himself the biggest financier of state-sponsored terrorism in the history of the universe, Barack Obama backpeddled ever so slightly.
The US has imposed fresh sanctions on Iranian companies and individuals over a recent ballistic missile test.
The new sanctions prevent 11 entities and individuals linked to the missile programme from using the US banking system.
The move came after international nuclear sanctions on Iran were lifted as part of a deal hailed by President Barack Obama on Sunday as "smart".
Ooh, I'll bet the Mullahs are quaking in their sandals now, eh?
But it's all right, we got 5 hostages back. Except we had to give Iran 7 terrorists in exchange.
And that's not all.
The EU is lifting restrictions on trade, shipping and insurance in full.
The US is suspending, not terminating, its nuclear-related sanctions; crucially, Iran can now reconnect to the global banking system.
Well, except for those 11 naughty boys he re-sanctioned today. But everybody else in Iran? Party on Mahmoud!
The UN is lifting sanctions related to defence and nuclear technology sales, as well as an asset freeze on key individuals and companies.
Nearly $100bn of Iranian assets are being unlocked.
Iran is expected to increase its daily export of 1.1m barrels of crude oil by 500,000 shortly, and a further 500,000 thereafter.
One hundred billion dollars for the Axis of Evil.
That sure does buy a lot of terrorism. Hezbollah just won the jihadi lottery. And Hamas is smiling with anticipation.
There's Obama's legacy: Terrorism. More terrorism than ever. Up to and including the Grand Prize, a smoking crater where Tel Aviv used to be, thanks to Obama's funding of Iran's nuclear ambitions.
If that's "smart" diplomacy, I'd hate to see what dumb diplomacy
looks like.
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Leave it to Genghis John Kerry to grovel before our enemies.
Secretary of State John Kerry thanked leaders in Iran on Wednesday for what he called a "quick and appropriate response" to return 10 American sailors back to the United States.
"These are always situations which … have an ability, if not properly guided, to get out of control," Kerry said in a speech on Wednesday morning at the National Defense University.
Here's a picture of our men, under "control," frame-grabbed from Iranian state TV. Looks "appropriate" to me; how about to you?
"Properly guided" indeed, for maximum propaganda value.
The sight of members of the American military, disarmed and under Iranian control, is of enormous propaganda value in Iran's ongoing war against the United States. To its allies in the Middle East, the photo demonstrates Iran's strength — how many jihadist countries have had this many American servicemembers under their power? — and it demonstrates American weakness.
Nations that take illegal propaganda photos, crow about their seizure of American boats, confiscate part of their equipment, and then point to our allegedly admitted faults aren't "easing tensions," they're flexing their muscles. I'm glad our sailors and boats are back in American hands — minus, apparently, their GPS equipment — but once again Iran has thumbed its nose at the U.S., demonstrating that it does what it wants — whether it's testing missiles, launching rockets near U.S. warships, or taking, questioning, and photographing American sailors who (allegedly) stray into Iranian waters.
Our country is in the very best of hands.
You could say this president hates the military. You'd be wrong. Barack Obama hates America. The military is just part of it.
American weakness is Barack Obama's goal. He welcomes it.
The Obama administration told us it was just two friendly countries helping each other with a broken boat. The Obama administration told us there was no "hostile intent." The Obama administration told us no apology was demanded.
None of it was true. Our military personnel were captured, forced to surrender on their knees, blindfolded, and photographed. Their images were then broadcast to the world on Wednesday morning by the Iranian regime, a clear violation of the Geneva Conventions. The American woman who was captured was forced to submit to Islamic law and don a hijab. State-run Iranian media announced that the whole affair was meant to be a "lesson" to "troublemakers" in the U.S. Congress.
And the presidential administration of Barack Obama went right along with the whole charade.
Anything to preserve his sham nuclear "deal" with the mullahs. By the time they get The Bomb he'll be retired and playing more golf than anyone thought humanly possible. The fallout will be somebody else's problem, and his palace guard media will make sure he's never blamed.
Iran just humiliated the United States for all the world to see. And Barack Obama went along with it, willingly, and without any concern for what it might portend for the future.
The only possible explanation for that is simple; it's what he wants.
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Last month Obama's weaponized IRS sent a chill down the spine of every American with a proposal to force charitable organizations into reporting the Social Security Numbers of their donors.
Reaction was swift, and unpleasant. People cried foul, loudly, and for once the IRS backed down.
A wave of complaints forced the IRS on Thursday to withdraw its controversial plan to have nonprofit charities report the Social Security numbers of donors who give just $250 in any given year.
Under the proposed rule, the IRS would have created a voluntary system for nonprofits to collect and send the IRS personal donor information in their yearly report. The idea was to simplify the process for nonprofits — ranging from traditional charities to churches — and donors alike.
But lawmakers and nonprofits cried foul, and warned even a voluntary program could scare off donors who don't want to give out their Social Security numbers. Plus there were concerns that nonprofits would need to beef up data security to protect the information from hackers.
A new IRS notice to be published in the Federal Register says that, in the wake of these complaints, the proposal is being pulled.
"The Treasury Department and the IRS received a substantial number of public comments in response to the notice of proposed rulemaking," the notice said. "Many of these public comments questioned the need for donee reporting, and many comments expressed significant concerns about donee organizations collecting and maintaining taxpayer identification numbers. E Accordingly, the notice of proposed rulemaking is being withdrawn."
Score one for the Good Guys!
Take that all you Lois Lerner wannabes! This time the people were on to you jerks, and we shut you down.
And don't you dare try to sneak it back in next year, because we'll be watching.
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I touched on this massive regulatory overreach yesterday, but it deserves to be noted in big bold letters, because it forever changes the relationship between you and your doctor.
In his zeal to trample on the Constitution, Obama delegated to your doctor, actually to any doctor, the power to take away your right to own a gun.
No due process.
No ability to appeal.
One phone call, and you're banned from owning firearms. For life.
While President Barack Obama's planned executive action aimed at decreasing gun violence does include a plan for easier access to mental health care, it also calls for doctors to report mentally ill patients to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
According to details of the plan released by the White House, the rule allows for the Department of Health and Human Services to remove any barriers that could prevent health care providers from reporting patients with mental illnesses in order to disqualify those individuals from obtaining a firearm.
It's a page right out of Stalin's playbook.
Label your opponents "mentally ill."
Take away their guns.
Lock them up.
Then, when no one is looking, exterminate them.
It's not like his palace guard media is gonna complain, right?
And I'll bet you thought his electronic medical records decree was all about making things easier and more efficient for health care providers. Nope. It's all about making it trivially easy for his government to mine that data, and use it against us.
Now that he's opened the door, expect all manner of bureaucratic snooping into our medical history to become the new normal. He'll go after "fat" people, "heavy" drinkers, smokers, and anyone else who doesn't fit his definition of healthy. Coercion to conform will progressively ramp up, ending, of course, in denial of medical care for non-compliance with government diktats.
That's why this invasion of our privacy is such a Big Deal. And that's why it's vitally important to elect a president who'll guarantee to undo everything this megalomaniac has promulgated.
Ted Cruz for president. Because, freedom.
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Did I say "car?" I meant gun. For Dear Leader hath decreed, every person who sells a gun, even if it's you listing your great-grandfather's 1913 Springfield rifle on Craigslist, is now reguired to register with the ATF and obtain a Federal Firearms License.
The Obama administration announced during a conference call with reporters Monday evening that the president's upcoming executive order may require somebody selling even a single firearm to obtain a Federal Firearms License.
During the call White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest, White House Senior Adviser Valerie Jarrett, and Attorney General Loretta Lynch explained the details of the order, which will be announced publicly by President Obama Tuesday at 11:40 a.m. The action, officials explained, would include guidance on how the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives will now determine who is "engaged in the business" of selling firearms under federal law and, therefore, who is required to obtain a license to sell firearms.
"Numbers are relevant. The ATF and DOJ did not identify a magic number of weapons that makes you engaged in the business because that would limit their ability to bring prosecution."
Jarret then said that selling as few as "two firearms" could require somebody to obtain a federal firearms license. However, later in the call, Attorney General Lynch revised that number down further. "It can be as few as one or two depending upon the circumstances under which the person sells the gun," Lynch said.
The federal firearms license application process takes several months to complete and costs a significant amount of money, according to the ATF website.
Death by paperwork. Tyranny by bureaucracy. Can you imagine the Founding Fathers asking the British for permission to purchase their muskets? You can? Then go learn the words to "God Save The Queen" because you aren't a Real American.
The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Oh, but infringe is the name of Obama's game. So get this. Even if you jump through all his hoops and get his royal permission to exercise your Second Amendment rights, you'll also have to grovel for one more signoff, from your doctor.
Delivering on its promise to deliver "common sense" gun control, the Obama administration on Monday finalized a rule that enables health care providers to report the names of mentally ill patients to an FBI firearms background check system.
Did you ever take an anti-depressant? Tell your doctor you were "angry," "depressed," or "suicidal?" Congratulations, you're "mentally ill" by the standards of the Obama administration. No guns for you!
Doctors will report everyone "just in case," because they can now be sued if they "negligently" fail to report someone who later commits a crime. Who'd risk his livelihood on that chance? So mass reporting to the FBI will be the new norm. Just like in every other totalitarian state that ever existed.
Because the first step to total control of the population is disarming the population. And if this country is stupid enough to elect Hillary Clinton as president she'll stack the Supreme Court with so many left-wing nutjobs that the Second Amendment will cease to exist.
And then she'll load us into boxcars.
There is only one candidate who has pledged, repeatedly, to undo this
unconstitutional power grab. Ted Cruz. It is imperative that
Ted Cruz is elected the 45th president of the United States. Our freedom
hangs in the balance.
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Talk about lowering expectations. The greatest gun salesman in the history of the universe has now admitted that his upcoming "New and Improved" executive orders on gun control aren't really going to do anything to stop bad guys from doing bad things.
"This is not going to solve every violent crime in this country," Obama said, setting expectations for what he can do on his own. "It's not going to prevent every mass shooting; it's not going to keep every gun out of the hands of a criminal."
But other than that, it's gonna be spectacular!
In other words, he's (a) pandering to give Hillary wiggle room by letting her say the Democrats are "doing something," (b) just spitefully going after innocent Americans exercising their constitutional rights merely because he can, or (c) lying, because he intends to push for gun confiscation.
I suspect it's some combination of all 3.
Confiscation is their ultimate goal. Never forget that. Every time they come up with another "common sense" restriction on our Second Amendment rights, they're tightening the screws around our ability to constrain their quest for absolute power. The right to keep and bear arms ensures that We The People remain the stewards of our destiny. Without it, we are merely subjects of an imperial, tyrannical government.
Molon Labe, Mr. Obama.
Or as my Tea Party buddies would say, Wolverines!
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