ATM fees hit record high, free checking accounts declineSo predictable. Next prediction: More regulations to address the unintended consequences of the first set of regulations.
No wonder government is a growth industry. A note to Progressives, this is NOT a good thing.
Ex-Dem Talker Fed up with Obama, Will Vote for Romney
Some of my fellow members of the above groups may be displeased with my endorsement, but so be that, too. This is not a close choice if you are actually paying attention. An objective person should be enormously disappointed in President Obama and his administration. The economy remains bad. The debt bomb keeps growing. Iran is on the verge of having nukes. The power of the Muslim Brotherhood and Islamism is expanding rapidly. Our Justice Department is full of politics and political correctness. Fast and Furious is a disgrace. Attorney General Eric Holder needs to go.
I want leadership in the White House. I want a government with a budget that makes sense. I do not want problems perpetually kicked down the road. I want major legislation to be debated in the public, and not rammed down our throats without even being read by anyone other than the special interests who wrote it.
I want a leader to stand up against sharia law and jihad – and to articulate to the world how antithetical these concepts are to the American way. I thought Obama was ideally situated to speak some necessary truths to the Islamic world. But this President has not, and he will not in a second term.
Welcome Craig.
To pay down the debt requires a surplus. Under the President’s 10-year budget, there is never a surplus. The single lowest annual deficit is $543 billion. The annual deficit in the 10th year grows to $652 billion. Despite $1.8 trillion in new taxes, his budget increases our spending and debt every year, adding $11 trillion to the debt overall. Just the interest alone on our debt would exceed defense spending in seven years. These are not my numbers; they come from the tables in the President’s own budget document that he printed and sent to Congress.
Read the whole thing courtesy of Powerline’s John Hinderaker.
“…Electricity Rates Would Necessarily Skyrocket” Here’s the source article from The Daily Caller that Blue Crab is commenting on and his conclusion…
I shudder to think of what this is going to do to grid reliability as well. A lot of those coal plants help support the grid during disruptions. They regularly provide both energy and MVARs (Mega Volt-Ampere Reactive) that keep the grid from collapsing when large loads are added or lost. (That’s about as simple as I can make it and still be understood.) Losing these stabilizers will make it very hard to hold the grid. I pity the load dispatchers.
Trust me, people, this is a very big, very bad thing that is happening as a direct result of Barack Obama’s war on coal.
Great news for the green energy movement until it turns us into a 3rd world county.
Having the Comanche coal plant in Colorado may turn out to be a very good thing.
Putting Comanche aside, for the country general, coming in the immediate future are higher energy prices and monetary inflation induced by QE3. You can’t make this stuff up.
Commenting on the State Department sponsored apology video airing on Pakistani TV.
If our government is going to run an ad to educate Pakistanis (or whoever) about American attitudes, wouldn’t it make sense to include an explanation as to why America’s leaders cannot and will not enforce the mob’s standards of blasphemy? To an American, what’s objectionable about this ad isn’t so much the apology for the video’s offense as the abject failure to defend basic American principles of freedom. That same failure makes the ad less than worthless as an educational tool.
… and have been for years.
Federal judge throws out bid to block printing of Boulder County ballots with bar codes
Inquiring minds want to know why I should trust Hillary Hall more than the Boulder County Commissioners. If I can’t, then I deserve a right to a secret ballot.
That would be The Chicago-based Traffic Safety Coalition. I vote to make them feel very unwelcome. They should go back to Chicago and vote early and often.
Why you may ask, although just on general principles this would be standard operating procedure for Harry Reid. That said, it was at least a slightly special occassion…
Senate Democrats Plan to Adjourn Without Passing Budget for Third Consecutive Year
Three years in a row. Just imagine if it was a Republican Administration.
Son of QE2, This Time It’s Deadly
But wait, there’s more. Insofar as an economy and a monetary system is not just a way to ease transactions between people but a contract with the future – you invest, borrow and such from people twenty or more years ahead by having something that will keep its value into the future – we’re breaking our contract in a spectacular way. Whether the economy or civilization itself can survive this remains to be seen.
But wait, there’s more.
… and there is. Read it.
Hey Ollie, eyes up here! ‘Savages’ director Oliver Stone can’t keep eyes, hands off star Salma Hayek’s chest Whoops!
Obama regs cost 20-times estimate
“While OMB officially reports amounts of only up to $88.6 billion in 2010 dollars,” said Crews, “the non-tax cost of government intervention in the economy, without performing a sweeping survey, appears to total up to $1.806 trillion annually.” But, he added, “according to back of the envelope surveys and roundups, with gaps big enough to fit the beltway through, that up to $1.806 trillion annually and in many categories perhaps even considerably more, is a defensible assessment of the annual impact on the economy.”
Imagine that. Of course, no burden is too big for our Progressive friends who believe that profits are evil, should be regulated or constrained or perhaps eliminated altogether. But of course it’s well worth it…
The wave of Obama regulations has become a huge sore point in the business world with groups as large as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce down to the International Franchise Association crying for fewer rules. The administration, however, argues that the rules and regulations pushed out under the president have made products and workplaces safer.
Actress Jessica Alba asks voters to pledge allegiance to Obama
Well, so far so good.
Portrait of a Modern Feminist: Helen Smith
Far from being discriminated against, women already consume about 75 percent of health care in the United States, Smith says. Men, on the other hand, are frequently encouraged not to go to the doctor for routine tests, including the life-saving PSA test to detect cancer. “I absolutely think there’s a war on men. I laugh and cringe every time I see something on the ‘war on women,’” says Smith. Smith, who is also an authority on violent children, is half of a blogging couple—she is married to Glenn Harlan Reynolds, the University of Tennessee law professor known as Instapundit. They live in Knoxville, Tennessee, where she continues to see patients once a week, though she has shifted her focus to writing.
Read the whole thing.
I’m a bit behind the eight ball on this one…
Performance…
CNN Interview….
People are treating her differently now. Can’t say I’m too surprised.
