09/8/10

The Forgotten Man – Jon McNaughton

Video: The Forgotten Man

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Against the background of a darkening sky, all of the past Presidents of the United States gather before the White House, as if to commemorate some great event. In the left hand corner of the painting sits a man. That man, with his head bowed appears distraught and hopeless as he contemplates his future. Some of the past Presidents try to console him while looking in the direction of the modern Presidents as if to say, “What have you done?” Many of these modern Presidents, seemingly oblivious to anything other than themselves, appear to be congratulating each other on their great accomplishments. In front of the man, paper trash is blowing in the wind. Crumpled dollar bills, legislative documents, and, like a whisper—the U.S. Constitution beneath the foot of Barack Obama.

The Forgotten Man – Jon McNaughton

09/8/10

Financial News Update – 09/08/10

Finally, People Are Calling For A REAL Housing-Market Fix: Letting Prices Fall

Ireland Is Failing To Rebuke Claims That It’s Completely Insolvent

Bonds Spreads In Greece And Ireland Blowing Out Amid Raft Of Bad Headlines

Rosenberg: Here Are 13 Signs That We’re Actually In A Depression Right Now

CHART OF THE DAY: Check Out The Sheer Panic Surrounding Anglo Irish Bank Today

The Flypaper Economy Strikes Again

Despite Last Week’s Rally, The Market Is Still Tracking Japan

Departed Obama Aide Now Says Ending Bush Tax Cuts Will Make Unemployment WORSE

Home Equity Lines Of Credit: The Next Looming Disaster?

Despite Austerity, Romania, Serbia, And Hungary All Have Failed Bond Auctions

DOE giving $575 million in carbon capture grants (Hat Tip: Nancy Jacques)

Harry Reid: “I had nothing to do with” bad economy (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

U.S. Government Loaned Mexican Government More Than $1 Billion to Drill Oil in Gulf of Mexico Last Year; Has $1 Billion More Planned For This Year (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama Administration Begins the “Grab” for Private Retirement Accounts (Hat Tip: The Radio Patriot)

EU Fizzling

Big Science Goes Broke?

Here We Go Again

Big Business Breeds Failure in New Jersey

Union Boss on Obamacare: ‘We Drove It Down the Republicans’ Throats’ (Hat Tip: Brian B.)

Why the economy won’t fly (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Wheat prices push food costs to 13-month high (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

TIPS on Expected Inflation: A Unique Dividends Buying Opportunity (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Uncertain Business Climate Is Hobbling Employment, Conservative Governor Says (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

Obama’s latest job-bolstering proposal fails to dazzle (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

The Muni Bond Crisis Is Officially Here: Harrisburg Drops $3.3 Million in Muni Payments (Hat Tip: Jean Stoner)

One quarter of Lockheed executives take buyout offer

Health Insurers Plan Hikes

Obama to unveil more stimulus, tax breaks for business

White House Aide Contradicts Obama on Stimulus II

11 Signs That “Recovery Summer” Will Be Obama’s “Mission Accomplished”

Manpower: Sorry, There Won’t Be A Hiring Surge In The Fourth Quarter

Chinese Government Predicts Plummeting Exports Ahead

Chinese Government Orders Mandatory Blackouts

Clueless Capitol: Dem Whip Says Top 10 Lawmakers Had No Idea Financial Crisis Was Coming

Obama Heads to Ohio Pitching New Economic Plan

Taxpayers Still Paying for Demolished Stadiums

Former Obama Budget Advisor Blasts Plan to Let Bush Tax Cuts Expire

Unions May Push ‘Card Check’ During Lame Duck Session

Gibbs: The Poor Economy Doesn’t Hurt Rich People

John Boehner Proposes Trillion Dollar Spending Cut; Cut Dem Spending Back to 2008 Levels (Video)

Democrats Force Last US Light Bulb Plant to Close Shop

A Reminder of What Union Leaders Feel About Our Political System

Robert Gibbs: Obama’s Latest $50 Billion Stimulus Is Not a $50 Billion Stimulus

The Mother of All Big Dig Boondoggles

Go ahead, Henry Waxman: Launch another Obamacare witch hunt

The Barack Obama Experience — Taxes: Bold as Love

George Soros showers $100 million on Human Rights Watch

Al Sharpton: Race charlatan, financial charlatan

Obama sinkhole recipe: Hey, let’s create a new, government-run infrastructure bank!

Fed Banks: `Widespread Signs of a Deceleration’ in Economy

Paulson’s Biggest Hedge Fund Said to Lose 11 Percent This Year

NYT: Obama Will Not Extend Bush-Era Tax Cuts to Wealthy

Boehner Calls for 2-Year Freeze on All Tax Rates

In Bid to Sell Economic Plan, Obama Gets Personal

SurvivalBlog:

Germans, and a Wave of Swiss Bank Accounts, are Piling into Gold as if it’s a New Crisis

US Fed Gains Power, Loses Credibility?

More than 400 US Banks Will Fail: Roubini

TIME: Rising Unemployment Rate Is Good News

Seven Steps to Becoming a One-Income Family

Despite Hiring, US Unemployment Rate Seems Frozen

Stocks Extend September Rally After Jobs Report

Heavy in Dollars, China Warns of Depreciation

Lehman Brothers Rescue Would Have Been Unlawful, Says Bernanke

Gold & Investment in Failure

Housing Troubles Resurfacing

Matterhorn Asset Management Sets Three Gold Price Targets: $6,000, $7,000 and $10,000

DC Faces Possible Armageddon Unlike Anything Since the Civil War

Ambrose Evans-Pritchard: Dangerous Defeatism Taking Hold of Among America’s Economic Elites

UN calls special meeting to address food shortages amid predictions of riots; Poor harvests and demand from developing countries could push cost of weekly shop up by 10%

Could Tiny Somaliland Become the First Cashless Society?

Inflation Watch

09/8/10

Red Maxine Waters

By: Trevor Loudon
New Zeal

Maxine Waters is a far left Democratic member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 35th district of California.

In the news recently over allegations of corruption concerning Maxine Waters, if the media was doing its job, she should be equally well known for her socialist connections.

Waters has consistently attempted to present herself as a mainstream politician. However, the facts tell a different story.

In May 1992, Waters put her name to a supplement in the Communist Party‘s newspaper, the People’s Weekly World which called for readers to “support our continuing struggle for justice and dignity.” Virtually all other signatories were known Communist Party members or supporters.

In October, later that year, she was the keynote speaker at a Coalition of Black Trade Unionists meeting in St. Louis, Missouri. The Coalition began as a Communist Party front.

In June 1996, the Communist Party’s People’s Weekly World held a tribute event for Southern California labor unionists Jerry Acosta and Gil Cedillo. Presentations to the honorees were made on behalf of Maxine Waters and (now U.S. Secretary of labor), Hilda Solis, by their staffers who were present at the event.

In 1997, Waters put her name to a “Jobs Bill” which had been originally introduced to Congress at the request of over 50 prominent labor leaders – many of whom were known members or supporters of the Communist Party.

Waters has been a member of the Democratic Socialists of America-linked Congressional Progressive Caucus from as early as 1998, up until present day. Her mid-1990s press secretary and speech-writer, Patrick Lacefield, was a former National Director of the D.S.A.

Waters also serves on the Advisory Board for Progressive Democrats of America, an activist network within the Democratic Party, which is led by several D.S.A. connected activists, including National Director Tim Carpenter.

In May 2008, Waters made an embarrassing tongue-slip during her televised questioning of a Shell Oil Executive. She queried, “…And guess what this liberal will be all about? This liberal will be all about socializing, uh, umm – will be about, basically, taking over, and the Government running all of your companies.” The video of this incident can be viewed here.

If Maxine Waters is found guilty of ethics violations, it will be one more example of the corruption/socialism connection, now so common in the U.S. Congress.

09/8/10

America At Risk: The War With No Name

Hat Tip: Gateway Pundit

Radical Indonesian Muslims Threaten Global Jihad if Koran Is Burned in Florida

America At Risk: The War With No Name (Official Video Trailer)

Muslim Congressman Keith Ellison: GZ Mosque Opponents Are “Proponents Of Religious Bigotry”

White House: Victory Mosque at Ground Zero Is Pro-American… Burning Koran Is Un-American

Hartford City Council meetings to begin with Muslim prayers