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| Agence France-Presse-- February 8, 2010 Scam Watch!: U.S. plans new "climate service" agency US President Barack Obama's administration announced plans Monday for a new office handling climate change, aiming to help businesses chart future plans as the nation shifts to a greener economy [whatever that means]. -- The first practical effect was the creation of a website, www.climate.gov, which came online Monday... |
| Washington Times -- February 8, 2010 Poll: Special interests more influential under Obama Contrary to President Obama's promises, voters say special interests have more influence on the political process now than they did a year ago, according to a new poll. -- he poll, paid for by groups looking to curb the Supreme Court's recent campaign finance ruling, found that majorities of both Republicans and Democrats say special interests have increased their influence... |
| Paul Joseph Watson -- Infowars -- Austin, Texas -- February 8, 2010 Frightening taste of Internet censorship as major free speech Websites blocked .In a 2008 white paper, Obama's Regulation Czar Cass Sunstein called for the government to tax or even ban outright political opinions of which it disapproved. -- On page 14 of Sunstein's January 2008 white paper entitled "Conspiracy Theories," the man who is now Obama's head of information technology in the White House proposed... [See Free Speech Watch and Czar Watch] |
| Michelle Malkin -- February 8, 2010 Attention, NYC: White House still stuck on stupid The dream of Cirque du Jihad in the Big Apple lives. The White House won't rule out multiple Gitmo civilian trials in NYC, despite bipartisan opposition and massive public outrage over the costs, risks, and recklessness. -- Still stuck on stupid, via the NYDailyNews... [See AG Watch] |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- February 8, 2010 Obama Picks Another Loser... Missouri Governor Nixon President Obama has picked to advise him on military actions inside the U.S. the Missouri governor whose state "Information Analysis Center" last year linked conservative organizations to domestic terrorism and said law enforcement officers should watch for suspicious individuals who may have bumper stickers from Ron Paul or Chuck Baldwin... |
| Examiner Editorial -- February 8, 2010 Recession chugs on, except in government White House apologists were quick to point to the unemployment rate decline from 10 percent to 9.7 percent as evidence that the recovery is gathering momentum and that President Obama's policies -- especially his $787 billion economic stimulus bill Congress approved last February -- are "working." |
| Jack Cashill -- American Thinker -- Bellevue, Wash. -- February 7, 2010 Another look at Obama's origins The murky circumstances of Obama's birth invite attempts to make the known facts fit together. This article was prompted by two emails. The first asked me why I had never weighed in on the birth certificate controversy surrounding President Barack Obama... |
| Khephra Maley -- Blacklisted News -- February 7, 2010 Digging through Obama's closet Many Americans were shocked by Obama's meteoric rise to power. Although plenty of other 'relative unknowns' have made the jump from Congress or a governorship to the Oval Office, none of them were visible minorities or able to galvanize public sentiment nearly as well as Obama. Following 8 years of despotic rule by George Bush & Co... |
| Eric Margolis -- Toronto Sun -- February 7, 2010 Obama the peace president is fighting battles his country cannot afford U.S. President Barack Obama calls the $3.8-trillion US budget he just sent to Congress a major step in restoring America's economic health. -- In fact, it's another potent fix given to a sick patient deeply addicted to the dangerous drug -- debt... |
| Doris Meissner, Fmr. INS Head and Craven Traitor -- New America Media -- February 7, 2010 Prospects for immigration reform [amnesty] legislation Given the jockeying that goes on to get mentioned in a State of the Union speech, it is not surprising that insiders pushing the immigration reform agenda celebrated success. Their issue made it into the speech, reaffirming that the president's commitment remains alive and well... [See Amnesty Watch] |
| Michelle Malkin -- February 5, 2010 Paying tribute to the Navy Corpsman I guess I'm all gaffetastic-ked out this week. -- Instead, let's use the opportunity to spread the word about the great work the Navy Corpsmen do. -- Milblogger Herschel Smith at Captain's Journal pays tribute... |
| Michelle Malkin -- Family Security Matters -- February 5, 2010 The super-sized Census boondoggle If only the federal government were as responsible with our money as Pepsi is with theirs. The soda giant has been in the Super Bowl ad business for more than two decades. But this year, Pepsi determined it was economically unwise to pay $3 million for a 30-second spot... |
| Patrick J. Buchanan -- VDare.com -- February 5, 2010 Will Obama play the war card? Republicans already counting the seats they will pick up this fall should keep in mind Obama has a big card yet to play. -- Should the president declare he has gone the last mile for a negotiated end to Iran's nuclear program and impose the "crippling" sanctions he promised in 2008, America would be on an escalator to confrontation that could lead straight to war... |
| UPI -- February 5, 2010 Obama's aunt gets immigration reprieve Boston, Mass. -- Kenyan national Zeituni Onyango, aunt of U.S. President Barack Obama, can stay in the United States -- for now, a Boston court said Thursday. -- Kenyan national Zeituni Onyango, aunt of U.S. President Barack Obama, can stay in the United States -- for now, a Boston court said Thursday... |
| J. Speer-Williams -- Rense.com -- February 4, 2010 Who's left? A few ultra-rich and the tapped-out masses About to lose your home? Have you lost your home? Can you make the interest payments on your credit cards? Can you afford to maintain your car, your family's incidental needs, your children's health, or even buy enough food, gasoline or heating fuel? |
| Michael J. Gaynor -- WEBCommentary -- February 4, 2010 When it comes to Obama don't assume ...Doug [Edelman] rightly provided reasons why "the birthers" are right not only to demand President Obama's birth certificate, but also, based on subsequent events in Obama's life, to seek confirmation that Obama remained a "natural-born" United States citizen even if he was born in Hawaii... |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- February 4, 2010 'Holds' a two-edged sword for Obama President Obama blasted Senate Republicans Wednesday for using "holds," a Senate tactic that delays consideration of nominees - even though as a senator he used the technique to block several of President George W. Bush's appointments... |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- February 4, 2010 Obama's prayer: 'Don't question my citizenship' President Obama today at the National Prayer Breakfast raised the issue of his own eligibility for office saying that people shouldn't be questioning his "citizenship." -- Talking about the issue of "civility," he said, "Now, I am the first to confess I am not always right..." |
| Alan Caruba -- Right Side News -- Kennesaw, Ga. -- February 4, 2010 Crazy Nancy, cunning Barack When President Obama announced he would commit the nation to reduce "greenhouse gas emissions" in accordance with the failed UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference goals, Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, issued yet another utterly crazed statement on January 29th... |
| Simon Tisdall -- London Guardian -- February 4, 2010 America is broke, and needs its old friends Barack Obama's $3.8tn budget is a vastly complex affair. But one fact stands out plainly: in layman's terms, America is broke. The federal government's outgoings will exceed income by about $1.6tn this year; over the next 10 years combined, the predicted gap is $8.5tn. Given the partisan impasse on Capitol Hill... |
| Jim Kouri, CPP -- Family Security Matters -- February 4, 2010 Cuts in border security in proposed budget While telling the American people that national security is a priority for the administration, the White House submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. -- The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cut in the amount of money allocated for the so-called "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border... |
| Raw Story -- February 3, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Hunger in America jumps 'unprecedented' 46 percent If there is any indicator of the toll that the Great Recession has taken on the public, it would be the statistics beginning to emerge about hunger in the US. -- According to a study from the nation's largest food bank operator, the number of Americans in need of food aid has jumped 46 percent in three years.... |
| Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- February 2, 2010 Another day, another bow President Obama who spent much of his first year in office traveling the world bowing and apologizing to foreign leaders, is now bowing-down to mayors. -- On Thursday, the commander-in-chief met Tampa Mayor Pam Iorio at MacDill Air Force Base, and spent some time staring at the Mayor’s shoes…a position with which he seems to be very comfortable... |
| Los Angeles Times -- February 2, 2010 Reconquista Gutierrez slams Obama for not delivering amnesty Many Latinos are furious at President Obama for failing to deliver on promises to push immigration reform legislation [read: amnesty] and may stay away from the polls during this year's midterm elections if they don't see concrete progress, including legalization of [illegal aliens.... criminals], a key Democratic legislator said Monday... [See Amnesty Watch] |
| Washington Times -- February 2, 2010 Largest-ever federal payroll to hit 2.15 million The era of big government has returned with a vengeance, in the form of the largest federal work force in modern history. -- The Obama administration says the government will grow to 2.15 million employees this year, topping 2 million for the first time since President Clinton declared that "the era of big government is over"... |
| Jim Kouri, CPP -- The Examiner -- February 2, 2010 President cuts border security budget While telling the American people that national security is a priority in his administration, President Barack Obama submitted a 2011 budget proposal that includes cuts to U.S. border security. -- The proposed budget cuts include a reduction in Border Patrol agents and a cut in the amount of money allocated for the so-called "virtual fence" on the U.S.-Mexico border... |
| American Patrol Report Feature -- February 2, 2010 If We Can't Go to the Moon... How can we pay for illegal immigration? The successful 1969 landing has been hailed as a standard of achievement. The question: "If we can go to the moon, why can't we [fill in the appropriate task]?" is familiar to all of us. Now Barack Obama says we can't afford to go back the moon. This raises the next logical question: If we can't afford to go back to the moon, how can we afford to pay for illegal immigration? |
| Denver Post -- February 1, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Colorado Springs cuts into services considered basic This tax-averse city is about to learn what it looks and feels like when budget cuts slash services most Americans consider part of the urban fabric. -- More than a third of the streetlights in Colorado Springs will go dark Monday. The police helicopters are for sale on the Internet... |
| Wall Street Journal -- February 1, 2010 Summers: 'Statistical recovery and human recession' Key Obama economic adviser Larry Summers coined a telling way to look at the current American economic state of play. He said the U.S. is experiencing a "statistical recovery and a human recession." -- It is a phrase that should resonate through much of the industrial world, where high and long-standing unemployment is increasingly becoming a huge domestic political issue... |
| The American Cause -- February 1, 2010 Immigration reform leaders attack Obama's call for amnesty Three of the most high profile leaders of the immigration reform movement - former US Treasurer Bay Buchanan as well as former Congressmen Virgil Goode and Tom Tancredo - release op-eds this week calling for a time out on legal immigration and a halt to illegal immigration... |
| Reuters -- February 1, 2010 White House to paint grim fiscal picture: source The White House will predict a record budget deficit in the current fiscal year and more big shortfalls for the next decade in its upcoming budget proposal, a congressional source told Reuters on Sunday. -- In its budget proposal to be released on Monday, the White House predicts a record $1.6 trillion budget deficit... |
| Dallas Morning News -- January 30, 2010 Mysterious Bush-Bush-Obama meeting at the Oval Office this morning President Barack Obama hosted a pair of Bushes this morning in the Oval Office: former President George H.W. Bush and his son, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush. -- Two weeks ago, Jeb's brother, former President George W. Bush, was at the White House talking about Haiti relief with Obama and ex-President Bill Clinton... |
| YouTube -- January 29, 2010 Savage: Obama a "clear and present danger to the survival of this republic..." Michael Savage Blasts Obama's State of the Union Speech - "He owes the justices an apology!" |
| CNS News -- January 29, 2010 Narcissist in Chief was wrong and Alito was right President Barack Obama was wrong and Justice Samuel Alito was right. -- During his first State of the Union speech on Wednesday, President Barack Obama incorrectly stated that foreign nationals and foreign entities can now contribute unlimited amounts of money to U.S. political campaigns... |
| Washington Times -- January 29, 2010 Obama's barbs fuel partisan bickering -- Hill GOP skeptical of outreach Republican lawmakers searched Thursday for ways to support President Obama, but said his calls for bipartisanship fell flat amidst his lecturing tone and the repeated barbs he aimed at them during his State of the Union address Wednesday night... |
| Julie Mason -- The Examiner -- January 29, 2010 Is Obama in the "Cone of Silence" when it comes to national priorities? While critics from both parties called his State of the Union address a missed opportunity, President Obama was back in campaign mode, declaring job creation his new top priority. -- On a swing through Tampa, Fla., with Vice President Biden, Obama reiterated economic themes of his address, including a call to create jobs... |
| U.S. Rep Luis Gutierrez, Pro-Amnesty Fanatic -- Huffington Post -- January 28, 2010 Amnesty timeline in Congress' hands Last night, President Obama spoke for seventy minutes on the State of our Union. About two of those minutes focused on one of the greatest challenges facing it. -- The President talked of health care and jobs and our economy. That was the right thing to do. But the President must acknowledge that fixing our economy, providing health care... [See Amnesty Watch] |
| Jonah Goldberg -- New York Post -- January 28, 2010 Obama's answer for America: more of me There's a story of an ex hausted tenor at La Scala who, facing repeated cries of "Encore," responded that he couldn't go on. A man rose in the audience to say, "You'll keep singing until you get it right." -- That seems to be the defining principle of the Obama administration -- whose response to every problem, every setback, every hiccup and challenge has been, simply, "more Obama." |
| Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 28, 2010 Obama's proposed 1.4 percent military pay raise is insulting On Tuesday, the White House announced they would be asking for a 1.4 percent increase in pay for our military, which would take effect in 2011. If approved, it would represent the smallest pay raise to U.S. armed forces since the introduction of a volunteer military in 1973... |
| Dr. Laurie Roth, Ph. D. -- January 28, 2010 State of the Union: Smoke and mirrors/self worship... again It is coming soon now, the 'new and improved Obama.' Aren't you overwhelmed with relief? He now magically understands that the obsessive and draconian push on Health care reform is vividly unpopular, along with his pariah, cap and trade. However, does that mean with the 'new and improved Obama' we are to see that this obsession with health care... |
| Jed Babbin -- Human Events -- January 28, 2010 Obama's 2010 State of the Union Anyone who expected that President Obama would triangulate -- to move to the center as Bill Clinton did, capturing Republican ideas and making them his own -- was proven wrong last night. In a very long speech reminiscent of his first quasi-State of the Union speech a year ago, Obama reaffirmed his commitment to health care "reform," the "cap and trade" energy tax... |
| Niall O'Dowd -- Irish Central -- January 28, 2010 sc Obama says 'yes we can' to immigration reform [aka amnesty] Barack Obama came out fighting last night in his State of the Union and made it clear that issues such as immigration reform are still very much on his agenda. -- It was great to see the Commander in Chief recapture some of the fire and fury that brought him to the White House in the first place... [Related item] [See Amnesty Watch] |
| Tim Wilson -- Family Security Matters -- January 28, 2010 Results not rhetoric ...I believe anyone who takes comfort from this speech [Obama's State of the Union] is doomed to disappointment. As with his pre-election promises on transparency, the economy, jobs, security, lobbying, earmarks and security President Obama shows no signs of results on any of his "change" except in increasing government interference in every aspect of our lives. |
| Niall O'Dowd -- Irish Central -- January 28, 2010 Obama says 'yes we can' to immigration reform [aka amnesty] Barack Obama came out fighting last night in his State of the Union and made it clear that issues such as immigration reform are still very much on his agenda. -- It was great to see the Commander in Chief recapture some of the fire and fury that brought him to the White House in the first place... [Related item] [See Amnesty Watch] |
| NBC News -- January 27, 2010 Poll: American public fed up with Washington As President Barack Obama prepares to deliver his first State of the Union address Wednesday night, he will be speaking to an American public that's fed up with Congress, the country's two main political parties, and the federal government, according to a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll... |
| Agence France-Presse -- January 27, 2010 Indonesia mulls tearing down Obama statue Jakarta -- Indonesian authorities said Monday they are considering a petition to tear down a statue of US President Barack Obama as a boy, only a month after the bronze was unveiled in Jakarta. -- The statue of "Little Barry" --- as Obama was known when he lived in the capital in the late 1960s --- stands in central Jakarta's Menteng Park... |
| Washington Times -- January 27, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Stimulus price tag soars as jobless rate rises The economic stimulus bill's price tag has risen to $862 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday a $75 billion jump that's a result in part to the fact that, despite the spending, joblessness has risen and the government is paying out more than expected on unemployment benefits... |
| San Francisco Chronicle -- January 26, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Home Depot to lay off 1,000 Home Depot Inc., the largest U.S. home-improvement retailer, said Tuesday it is laying off 1,000 staffers as it cuts three pilot programs and cuts some support positions. -- An internal memo sent to staffers by CEO Frank Blake said about 900 of the cuts stem from consolidating some support functions in its human resources, finance and other divisions... |
| Mediaite -- January 26, 2010 Liberal Rachel Maddow slams spending freeze If President Obama's goal this week was to alienate and anger just about everyone then it would seem he has succeeded. Last night's late-breaking news that the president would announce a three year spending freeze on most domestic programs during tomorrow's State of the Union has met with angry responses on the left Obama is the new Hoover! |
| Washington Times -- January 26, 2010 Tab from stimulus program jumps, CBO says The cost of President Obama's stimulus plan has jumped another $75 billion, the Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday, and part of the reason is more people are getting unemployment benefits because they've lost jobs the bill was supposed to preserve... |
| Hannity's America via Family Security Matters -- January 26, 2010 How many jobs were saved by President's recovery plan? Remember Baghdad Bob, Sadam's propaganda minister? It looks as if Barack Hussein Obama has an entire battalion of BB clones working for him... [Other blog items] |
| David Hedges -- Nation Books -- January 25, 2010 The Obama Brand: Feel good while overlords loot the Treasury... Barack Obama is a brand. And the Obama brand is designed to make us feel good about our government while corporate overlords loot the Treasury, armies of corporate lobbyists grease the palms of our elected officials, our corporate media diverts us with gossip and trivia, and our imperial wars expand in the Middle East. Brand Obama is about being happy consumers... |
| Associated Press -- January 25, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Housing sales plunge 16.7% Sales of previously occupied homes took the largest monthly drop in more than 40 years last month, sinking more dramatically than expected after lawmakers gave buyers additional time to use a tax credit. -- The report reflects a sharp drop in demand after buyers stopped scrambling to qualify for a tax credit of up to $8,000 for first-time homeowners... |
| Nashville Tennessean -- January 25, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Poverty rate hits 17.5% in Nashville Marilyn Musser cleaned house for a psychiatrist until a few weeks ago, when the psychiatrist lost her own job and couldn't afford Musser anymore. -- So, Musser showed up Friday at St. Luke's Community House in Nashville, where emergency free food boxes are delivered to local residents. "There are no jobs," she said... |
| Associated Press -- January 25, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Walmart to lay off 11,200 workers at Sam's Club Walmart Stores Inc. said Sunday that it is cutting about 11,200 jobs at its Sam's Club warehouse division as it outsources its product-sampling department to marketing company Shopper Events in an effort to win more customers and boost lagging sales... |
| San Diego Union-Tribune -- January 23, 2010 State's jobless rate stuck near record California's unemployment rate remained at a near-record 12.4 percent in December as tens of thousands of workers dropped out of the labor force, unable to find full-time jobs. -- The jobless rate was unchanged between November and December even as employers shed 38,800 workers from their payrolls... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Sacramento Bee -- January 23, 2010 Here's Your "Change": 38,800 California jobs erased Layoffs returned in earnest to California last month, and a depressingly lonely holiday season for retailers and restaurants was a key reason why. California lost 38,800 jobs in December, a month that saw precious little hiring by shopkeepers and layoffs by restaurants... [See Cal Meltdown Watch] |
| Associated Press -- January 22, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Unemployment rose in 43 states last month Unemployment rates rose in 43 states last month, the government said Friday, painting a bleak picture of the job market that illustrated nationwide data released two weeks ago. -- The rise in joblessness was a sharp change from November, when 36 states said their unemployment rates fell... |
| Bill Lawrence Online -- January 22, 2010 Here's Your 'Change": Pennsylvania unemployment fund $2 billion in red Pennsylvania's Unemployment Fund has a balance of $125 million and a debt of $2.05 billion, which was borrowed from the federal government. -- To try and pay it off the state's employers will pay $48 more per employee in unemployment taxes in 2010 which will be $432 per worker... |
| David Limbaugh -- GOPUSA.com -- January 22, 2010 Obama's 180° out of phase with the people Reading excerpts of President Barack Obama's interview with ABC's George Stephanopoulos underscores how tone-deaf and self-absorbed Obama is -- and that his tone-deafness is a function of his self-absorption and rigid ideology. -- Obama said: "One thing that I regret this year is that we were so busy just getting stuff done and dealing with the immediate crises..." |
| Spiegel -- Berlin -- January 21, 2010 The world bids farewell to Obama US President Barack Obama suffered a painful defeat in Massachusetts on Tuesday. With mid-term elections looming, it means that Obama will have to fundamentally re-think his political course. German commentators say it is the end of hope... |
| ProPublica.org -- January 21, 2010 Here's Your "Change": Unemployment insurance system in meltdown mode The unemployment insurance system is in crisis. A record 20 million Americans collected unemployment benefits last year, and so far twenty-five states have run out of funds and been forced to borrow from federal government, raise taxes, or cut benefits. In many other states the situation is deteriorating fast... |
| Daniel Greenfield -- Canada Free Press - Toronto -- January 21, 2010 The great dictator For all his faults, and he certainly had many of them, Bill Clinton understood people. His politics were dirty, but they were a common sort of dirt. For all his egotism, venality and corruption; Bill Clinton understood what Obama does not, that power comes from the people. It was this more than anything else that gave him his teflon coating, that let him dodge scandal after scandal... |
| Dave Gibson -- The Examiner -- January 21, 2010 Re-negotiating NAFTA?... Just another of Obama's lies During 2008, then-candidate Obama repeatedly criticized the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and promised voters that he would re-negotiate the deal which has been so harmful to U.S. factory workers. Of course, he has not done so, and American jobs continue to migrate south of the border... |
| Washington Times -- January 20, 2010 Tough reviews for Obama's first year A year ago, Medea Benjamin, co-founder of anti-war protest group Code Pink, was seated on the Capitol's West Front, 100 feet from the inauguration stage, watching Barack Obama be sworn in as president. -- On Wednesday, she and other progressive leaders will rally outside the White House to decry the record of that first year... |
| Associated Press -- January 20, 2010 Obama hack Southers withdraws President Barack Obama's choice to lead the Transportation Security Administration withdrew his name Wednesday, a blow to an administration trying to explain how a man could attempt to blow up a commercial airliner on Christmas Day. -- Erroll Southers said he was pulling out because his nomination had become a lightning rod... |
| Mort Zuckerman -- The Daily Beast -- January 20, 2010 He's done everything wrong! Obama punted on the economy and reversed the fortunes of the Democrats in 365 days. -- He's misjudged the character of the country in his whole approach. There's the saying, "It's the economy, stupid." He didn't get it. He was determined somehow or other to adopt a whole new agenda. He didn't address the main issue... |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- January 19, 2010 3 dozen lawmakers want proof of Obama eligibility Lawmakers in Arizona have proposed a law that would require state officials to begin independently verifying the accuracy of newly required documents affirming the constitutional eligibility of any candidate for the U.S. presidency. -- "Certainly, there has been controversy over President Obama and his birth certificate, where he was born, etc.," state Sen. Sylvia Allen... |
| Prison Planet -- Austin, Texas -- January 19, 2010 Ron Paul on Wall Street Bailout Fraud: Use Geithner to impeach Obama Watch and learn that the biggest bailout in history was a fraud, perpetrated by the government. Keep Geithner as long as you can Obama. This might be a path for the impeachment of that puppet-president, a Trojan Horse sold to cool-aid drinkers by the financial crime cartel... |
| Jerome R. Corsi, Ph. D. -- WorldNetDaily.com -- January 19, 2010 Forecast: Debt to dwarf GDP (How's that for 'change?') A blue-ribbon panel that includes three former heads of the Congressional Budget Office is telling President Obama and the Democrat-controlled Congress that the federal deficit must be cut now or the national debt within about two generations will be 600 percent of the gross domestic product... |
| Numbers USA -- January 18, 2010 Amnesty? With unemployment rates like these? The Americans represented in the [statistics shown] are actively searching for a job and cannot find even a part-time job. -- Those unemployed Americans in that table above primarily are looking for jobs in the same non-agricultural occupations where illegal foreign workers are currently employed... [See Amnesty Watch] |
| WorldNetDaily.com -- January 18, 2010 'Hope and Change?': 1 million Americans give up on job searches Nearly 1 million unemployed American workers, frustrated with a lack of available jobs, are dropping out of the labor force, Jerome Corsi's Red Alert reports. -- Likewise, the number of individuals unemployed for more than 27 weeks dramatically worsened in the first year of the Obama administration... |
| Fortune via CNN Money -- January 17, 2010 Here's Your 'Change': More and more states on budget brink California is hurtling into the budgetary abyss -- and it's not alone. -- Across the nation, state tax collections in the first three quarters of 2009 posted their steepest decline in at least 46 years, according to a report this month from the public policy research arm of the State University of New York... |
| Irish Times -- New York -- January 17, 2010 Kennedy death may cost Obama the White House How ironic that Ted Kennedy, the man who played a huge role in delivering Barack Obama to the White House, may be about to take a possible second term away from him. -- There is no doubt that if Democrats lose the Kennedy seat in Massachusetts in the special election on Tuesday, that Barack Obama's road to re-election suddenly looks like Hamburger Hill... |