Obameter Scorecard Progress Five

By Politifact and GCC
June 30, 2009
Editor’s Note: We found a web site that is holding President Obama accountable for keeping the promises he made during the campaign. PolitiFact has compiled about 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter. We rate their status as No Action, [...]

Obama’s Tax Plan a Major Loser

By: Geoff Metcalf
June 30, 2009
 
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
- Ronald Reagan
In the perpetual battle of “us” vs. “them” and the left/right spitting match-rock fight, it often is too easy [...]

Obama Making Monkey Out of Darwin

by  Patrick J. Bucjanan
June 30, 2009
You have no notion of the intrigue that goes on in this blessed world of science,” wrote Thomas Huxley. “Science is, I fear, no purer than any other region of human activity; though it should be.”
As “Darwin’s bulldog,” Huxley would himself engage in intrigue, deceit and intellectual property theft to [...]

Does Michael Jackson’s Kids Stay with Grandparents?

by Jackie Albanese
June 30, 2009
As the world reacts to the King of Pop’s death, Michael Jackson’s kids stay with their grandma, Katherine. After Michael Jackson’s death at age 50 on June 25, many fans around the world asked: What will happen to his children now? Brian Oxman, a Jackson family attorney, told AccessHollywood.com that the [...]

What Is Installed for Iran?

By James Phillips
June 30, 2009
 
The opposition movement that spontaneously rose up against Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has lost momentum in the aftermath of the regime’s crackdown on popular protests over the disputed results of the presidential election. Faced with intensifying violence from the regime’s security forces, the opposition has been forced to abandon mass rallies [...]

U.S. In a Spending Train Wreck

By: Dan Weil
June 29, 2009
Former Federal Reserve Board governor Frederic Mishkin said the government’s loose fiscal policy could turn into a disaster.
The recent rise in bond yields is a case of good news and bad news, he told CNBC.
“The good news … is that the economy has been improving,” said Mishkin, a Columbia University economist.
“(Monday) we [...]

What We Learn from Madoff?

By INVESTOR’S BUSINESS DAILY
June 29, 2009
 
Crime: Yes, 150 years is a long sentence for a 71-year-old criminal. But few will shed tears for Bernie Madoff as he goes to jail. And yet, the man who financially ruined hundreds of people holds lessons for the rest of us.
Madoff’s trail is littered with bankruptcy, broken dreams and [...]

Pitchman Billy Mays Died of Heart Failure

By Stepshane Gaskell
DAILY NEWS
June 29, 2009
 
Beloved TV pitchman Billy Mays most likely died of heart failure, not from being hit on the head during a rough landing on a US Airways flight, the medical examiner in Tampa said.
The autopsy done this morning reveals no evidence of head trauma or drug abuse, said Medical Examiner Vern [...]

Port-a-potty named for Speaker Pelosi

 
By Chelsea Schilling
WorldNetDaily
June 29, 2009
Enthusiastic tea partiers in Virginia have decided to give “imperial leaders” in Washington a seat of power they believe they truly deserve – a portable toilet throne.
Tea party organizer Karen Miner Hurd told WND her group is expecting between 3,000 and 5,000 people at the June 26 protest at Chesapeake City [...]

National Debt – Bring Home The Politicians