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Of course, this won't happen, but it should be on the record for posterity at least... First, I want to introduce this quote from a Wall Street Journal article last fall. Is a housing bailout the solution for clogged-up credit markets and a faltering economy? What the Fed has been doing and did again yesterday hasn't really worked, notwithstanding the pops it produces in the stock market every time it shovels liquidity into the system. The Fed's latest move provides financial institutions another $200 billion in direct short-term lending against their unsaleable housing collateral. The Dow Jones jumped 416 points....

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He isn’t there yet, but the conservative who came close to denying Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) renomination in 2004 appears headed toward a rematch in 2010with the 79-year-old who was one of three Republicans who enabled the Obama trillion-dollar “stimulus” to pass the Senate. “I’m giving it very serious consideration,” former three-term Rep. Pat Toomey told me yesterday (March 3), “and I expect to make a decision soon.” Conservative stalwart Toomey, who drew nearly 49 per cent of the vote against four-termer Specter in the ’04 GOP primary, had long signaled to reporters and backers that he would make a...

Using a massive $410 billion spending bill as a cloak, Democrat leaders in Congress have been caught attempting to create almost limitless new federal powers to regulate climate change without any public notice, public comment, or public debate. The provision slipped into this bill would allow the Department of Interior to regulate all greenhouse gas emissions across the entire country based on the listing of the polar bear as “threatened” under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Democrats are distorting the intention of the ESA to give the federal government vast new climate change powers, and are trying to do it...

President Obama sent a secret letter to his Russian counterpart last month suggesting that he could halt the deployment of a US missile shield in Eastern Europe if Moscow persuaded Iran to abandon its nuclear weapon ambitions, it emerged yesterday. The overture to President Medvedev is part of a diplomatic effort by the Obama Administration to improve American-Russian relations on a range of issues including Iran, Afghanistan and the reduction of nuclear stockpiles. Part of Mr Obama’s diplomatic initiative on cutting nuclear weapons, which was first reported by The Times last month, involves the possibility of shelving the $4 billion...

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Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Matthew 6:25 (KJV)

Here is video of Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on The Today Show this morning, where he talked with Matt Lauer about the controversy with Rush Limbaugh. In the interview, Steele refused to say he agreed with Rush Limbaugh that he wants President Barack Obama to "fail." Lauer even tossed Steele something of a softball by asking him if he as a conservative wanted the policies of Barack Obama to fail. Again, Steele refused to say he does, instead using the line that it is his job to listen to all the different opinions on the issues and craft...

Last week, HUMAN EVENTS reported that eleven states, Washington, New Hampshire, Arizona, Montana, Michigan, Missouri, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Georgia, South Carolina, and Texas, had all “all introduced bills and resolutions” declaring their sovereignty over Obama’s actions in light of the 10th Amendment. These actions are in response to the Obama administration’s faux-“stimulus” legislation which directly assaults the rights of states to reject the money coming from the federal government. So far, several Republican governors -- among them South Carolina’s Mark Sanford and Louisiana’s Bobby Jindal -- have said they would refuse all or part of the stimulus money because of the...

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

Asked by Bob Hope what it felt like to be president, Ronald Reagan replied, "it's not a lot different than being an actor, except I get to write the script." The leading man in that script was similar to many of the screen roles Reagan played during his Hollywood career - decent, optimistic, a bit of a square, a believer in God, family and country. As a recent book of the diaries Reagan kept as president shows, he was ever mindful of the Production Code, avoiding swear words, and writing "hell" as "h__l" and "damn" as "d___". Born in 1911...

Has anyone followed up with Kanjorski about his remarks regarding the September 2008 run on US banks? It is absolutelty amazing that there is NO coverage of this.

As 2009 opened, three weeks before Barack Obama took office, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed at 9034 on January 2, its highest level since the autumn panic. Yesterday the Dow fell another 4.24% to 6763, for an overall decline of 25% in two months and to its lowest level since 1997. The dismaying message here is that President Obama's policies have become part of the economy's problem. Americans have welcomed the Obama era in the same spirit of hope the President campaigned on. But after five weeks in office, it's become clear that Mr. Obama's policies are slowing, if...

It's fun to speculate about what kind of dog the Obamas will get and to picture Malia and Sasha romping with their new pet on the White House lawn. But the Obamas should take this decision seriously. Millions of Americans will copy the first family, so they ought to choose a breed that could live happily in most American homes. The latest word is that they are leaning toward a Portugese water dog. [A moment of stunned silence, please.] A Portugese water dog? What can they be thinking? Is someone in the family a full-time fisherman who needs a diving...

Today I had a five hour meeting with New Jersey attorney, Mario Apuzzo. The meeting was entirely focused on the issue of Quo Warranto. Bottom line: we’ve identified a subset of plaintiffs who have a much more viable path to standing to institute an action in Quo Warranto than active military. This subset of plaintiffs would not be exposed to possible court martial since they are not military plaintiffs. And there is no prevailing need to place this burden on the backs of our military. Our military can retreat in peace on this issue. There is a new hope with...

In his speech to Congress last week, President Obama promised to "go line by line through the federal budget in order to eliminate wasteful and ineffective programs." Although the process was not completed yet, he said, "we have already identified $2 trillion in savings over the next decade." But it turns out that tax increases account for half of those "savings." From Obama's perspective, it seems, letting people keep their own money qualifies as a "wasteful and ineffective program." That makes sense if you believe all resources are the government's to distribute as it sees fit, which is the premise...

Madoff celebrated New Year's Eve lounging aboard the yacht of his dear friend even as he was ripping off real-estate baron Norman Levy and his family's foundations for $100's of millions. April 2009 Vanity Fair reveals Madoff played the kindly uncle - as he swindled $50B......Possibly helping Madoff sock away ill-gotten gains was Ruth, his wife of 50 years.....she withdrew $15.5M million day before his Dec. 11 arrest, and is now trying to protect $69M in her name from being attached. "Where does Mrs. Madoff get millions? She was not known as the genius of Wall Street independently," a lawyer...

Petition Sponsor: LibertyAction.org Total signers: 8,407 Liberty Counsel Home Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius -- President Obama’s pick for Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) -- is totally unfit for this position. Sebelius is an abortion zealot who has close ties with infamous late-term abortionist George Tiller as well as Planned Parenthood. Read more about Sebelius’ radical abortion ties here. Sebelius has even opposed reasonable legislation designed to regulate the health and safety of abortion clinics, including those operated by George Tiller. As a result, deficient and unsanitary abortion mills continued to operated under her watch. Sign the Petition Opposing...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is catching flak for saying during Black History Month that on matters of race, the United States is "essentially a nation of cowards" in too many ways. Holder, the first black to head the Justice Department, is absolutely right. Based on responses to his remarks, most people assume that the "cowards" Holder refers to are white Americans. Most blacks are cheering the attorney general for his forthrightness, and many whites, especially conservatives, are angry and resentful. Still others are just plain surprised by the audacity of the observation after millions of white people voted to...

BP has trimmed its production forecast as well as capital spending on the expectation that low oil prices and reduced demand amid the global recession will last through this year and possibly into 2010. Chief Executive Tony Hayward said during BP’s annual strategy presentation to analysts in London that in the short term, oil prices will reflect a balance of production cuts by the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and reduced demand in the recession. “We therefore do not expect a quick recovery, and it would be wise to prepare for continued volatility,” Hayward said. OPEC has announced cuts...