Why would smart people know who Rachel Maddow is?

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Big Daddy Soros cashes in with Obama and natural gas

Anyone wonder for whom our president really works?

via Hot Air: President’s natural gas proposal would benefit billionaire investor George Soros

I bet Obama won’t need to fill out an application or go through E-Verify when he leaves office to go to work for Soros.

How big government liberals buy the votes of the entitlement classes

Obama forgets his first two years in State of the Union address

If you came away from President Obamas State of the Union address thinking nothing worth mentioning happened during his first two years in office, then you got precisely the message he intended….

Those years got short shrift in Tuesday evening’s address. Why no mention of Obama’s signature economic legislation, the $814 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, aka the stimulus bill? His biggest domestic accomplishment, the $1.2 trillion Obamacare plan was noted, but only twice and almost in passing.

There is a good reason why Obama said virtually nothing about his two biggest domestic policy accomplishments — they’re both failures. Instead of keeping unemployment below 8 percent, as he promised, unemployment rose above 10 percent shortly after his economic stimulus became law and has since come down a little here and a little there, always at an agonizingly slow pace. At 8.5 percent this month, it is still a point higher than when Obama was inaugurated, and there are 1.1 million more unemployed Americans.

There are also 46 million Americans on food stamps today, up 6.4 million from three years ago. There are 6.4 million more Americans in poverty today than when Obama took office. And despite Obamacare, national health spending is up 13 percent, while the average worker’s health insurance costs are up 23 percent. Obama had promised both those numbers would go down if the Democrats running Congress approved his agenda, which they did. These “achievements” added $4.6 trillion more in federal debt.

And when Obama wasn’t obscuring his record by omission, he was doing it by outright deception.

Read the whole thing at via the Washington Examiner

Obama: The rich made me do it

Michael Ramirez Cartoon

More BS from the Master

FACT CHECK: 10 Dubious Statements from Obamas State of the Union.

The rhetoric of failure

Spot the Idiot: Roderick Willis stopped by grandma

Daytona woman, 64, holds suspect in yard at gunpoint

A 22-year-old car theft suspect tried to elude police Tuesday morning, but was stopped in his tracks when he was confronted by a gun-toting 64-year-old woman.

“I was not going to let him go,” said Karen Granville, who lives on Redwood Street. “I just held my gun in my right hand until the police arrested him.”

Granville helped authorities nab Roderick Willis after he led them on a short chase. He was suspected of driving a stolen vehicle, authorities said.

Daytona Beach police were looking for a stolen vehicle about 3 a.m. Tuesday when a Volusia County sheriff’s deputy spotted an orange Dodge Charger traveling west on Sixth Street. The deputy tried to stop the vehicle, but a chase quickly ensued, according to a report from the Volusia County Sheriff’s Office.

A sheriff’s helicopter tracked the suspect to Redwood Street, where deputies say Willis ditched the vehicle in the driveway in front of Granville’s home.

Granville said she was up late because her cat had rousted her. She was watching the Bravo channel when she heard a sheriff’s helicopter hovering above her house.

Moments later, she said she saw Willis run into her backyard and try to scale her fence. Granville grabbed her .38 Special revolver and followed him.

“My adrenaline was just flowing at 100 mph,” she said. “I just said, ‘Stop right there (expletive), or you’re going to be dead where you stand.”

Granville held the man at gunpoint until police arrived.

Willis was charged with fleeing and eluding law enforcement, driving with a suspended license, use of a vehicle to commit a felony, possession of marijuana, possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute. He was booked into the Volusia County Branch Jail on Tuesday and released after posting $7,500 bail.

He posted bail? Whatch you talkin’ ’bout?

You’re in good hand America!

via DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

What really happened in the Gingrich ethics case? Exoneration? Yep.

Is Romney getting desparate?

Romney aides often mention the ethics case as part of their larger argument that Gingrich would be unelectable in a race against President Obama.

Given all the attention to the ethics matter, its worth asking what actually happened back in 1995, 1996, and 1997.  The Gingrich case was extraordinarily complex, intensely partisan, and driven in no small way by a personal vendetta on the part of one of Gingrichs former political opponents. It received saturation coverage in the press; a database search of major media outlets revealed more than 10,000 references to Gingrichs ethics problems during the six months leading to his reprimand.  It ended with a special counsel hired by the House Ethics Committee holding Gingrich to an astonishingly strict standard of behavior, after which Gingrich in essence pled guilty to two minor offenses.  Afterwards, the case was referred to the Internal Revenue Service, which conducted an exhaustive investigation into the matter.  And then, after it was all over and Gingrich was out of office, the IRS concluded that Gingrich did nothing wrong.  After all the struggle, Gingrich was exonerated.

Quote of the Day

“I don’t think that ever in modern American history, have we ever seen a national leader so blatantly try to divide Americans against each other. Stand up before the country and basically say that the only way that some of us can be better off is to make other people worse off,” Sen. Marco Rubio R-FL

via RealClearPolitics

Video: It’s been three years, Mr. President

Via Hot Air.

Quote of the Day

Increasing numbers of people seem to think that it is “name-calling” if you refer to someone as a liberal. There are no inherently negative connotations to the word “liberal.” If it has acquired negative overtones, that is because of what liberals have done and the consequences that have followed. – Thomas Sowell

via Quotes.

No surprise, the conservative gives more to charity

via DRUDGE REPORT 2012®

WHO’S GREEDY? Obama Gave 1% to Charity, Romney Gave 15%

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife Michelle gave $10,772 of the $1.2 million they earned from 2000 through 2004 to charities, or less than 1 percent, according to tax returns for those years released today by his campaign.

The Obamas increased the amount they gave to charity when their income rose in 2005 and 2006 after the Illinois senator published a bestselling book. The $137,622 they gave over those two years amounted to more than 5 percent of their $2.6 million income.

Romney charitable contributions

Tax year Taxable income Charitable donations Donations as % of income
2010 $21.7 million $2.98 million 13.73%
2011 (est) $20.9 million $4 million 19.14%

The Obamas only believe in income redistribution when it’s someone else’s income it appears.

New Barack Obama Campaign Ad Filled With Lies

Via The Jawa Report:

Every point is misleading or an outright lie. FactCheck.org challenges every claim:

The spot uses outdated quotes from groups that said his record on ethics is “unprecedented” and that he “kept a promise to toughen ethics rules.” One of those same groups said later that he “has let down millions of Americans who accepted his word,” and another rated his promise as “broken.”

The 30-second TV spot also trumpets a claim of “2.7 million jobs” in “America’s clean-energy industry.” That mostly counts jobs put in place long before Obama took office.

Finally, it boasts that U.S. dependence on foreign oil has declined to below 50 percent, as a net share of total demand, for the first time in more than a decade. That’s true, and increasing U.S. oil production is a factor (despite Republican criticisms that Obama is anti-drilling). But economists say the chief factor is reduced oil consumption, brought on by the recent economic recession.

See the ad read more about the lies in it….