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Obama, moments ago, responding to unemployment hitting the highest it's been in 26 years: "It took us years to get into this mess, and it will take more than a few months to get us out." This ignores the fact that after the stimulus passed, the economy has not merely not "gotten out out of the mess," but the mess has gotten worse.

Earlier this week I noted that I had changed my mind on the Community Reinvestment Act. Contrary to my initial conclusion, the evidence is overwhelming that the CRA played a significant role in creating lax lending standards that fueled the housing bubble. Once I realized this, I had to abandon my suspicion that the anti-CRA case was a figment of the rhetoric of Republicans attempting to distract attention from their own role in the mortgage mess. So I laid out the facts and arguments that had convinced me to switch sides in the CRA debate. It was a long series...

The fans killed their idol. They always do (original title0 Those who professed to love Michael Jackson were vampires, feeders and jackals – their adulation hastened his end Outside UCLA hospital they gather with their candles and their teddies, spooky lookalikes in full Thriller garb, wan teenagers wearing a single lace glove. They sway and sing I’ll Be There with sad faces to disguise the serotonin buzz from their frenzied collective mourn-in. Fans cry now for Michael Jackson, but they killed him. They always do. I met Pete Doherty’s mother a few years back when he was at his most...

McCain Faults Obama for Cautious Response to Disputed Outcome of Iran's Election John McCain says he's disappointed in President for Obama for asserting that it was "not productive, given the history of U.S.-Iranian relations, to be seen as meddling." John McCain told FOX News that he didn't think President Obama was doing enough to show his support for fair elections in Iran and civil rights for Iranians after a presidential election there that "everybody knows" was corrupt. Sen. McCain, Obama's Republican challenger in the 2008 election, suggested Wednesday in an interview with FOX News that Obama wasn't standing up for...

This video uses for propaganda an earlier anti-American ABC documentary on the CIA's role in Iran.

Not only is this the most blatant case of media bias. THEY WERE WRONG!In the wake of the shooting by a lone gunman at the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, the usual suspects in the "news" media have been doing their best to place responsibility for this tragic episode on conservatives. Targeting right wing talkers like Rush Limbaugh and politicians like Sarah Palin, the left wing media try to suggest that conservatives somehow inspired James W. von Brunn, an 88-year-old white supremacist to do what he did. Rush gave examples on his show Thursday: This is a montage...

Rush made them do it! In one of the more absurd, if creative, defenses of the MSM yet, Mike Barnicle has blamed the media’s liberal bias on its reaction to “talk radio.” Morning Joe actually got off to a refreshing start today, with Mika Brzezinski frankly acknowledging that the MSM leans heavily left, that she herself tends to vote Dem, and that the liberal media needs to diversify politically, bringing in more conservatives. Mika even implied that the only politically diverse news network is . . . Fox! It was Joe Scarborough’s recent personal brush with liberal media bias that...

On Sunday morning, regrettably, a kind of crude frontier justice caught up with late abortionist George Tiller. He was shot and killed in the foyer of his Wichita church. For the left, Scott Roeder, the accused killer, had alchemized the unholy dross of a corrupt late term abortionist into martyr’s gold. In the entirely apt words of Dan McLaughlin, "Even before anything was known about Roeder, the left side of the blogosphere reacted to Dr. Tiller's murder as if it was Christmas morning and they just got a pony.” If so, then Santa Claus was none other than Secretary of...

Once again, a widely publicized tragedy is being blamed on man-caused global warming. Warming alarmists have often bemoaned air travel saying it increases the threat of global warming, but this time they’re blaming the phenomenon for the tragedy surrounding Air France Flight 447. That flight is believed to have crashed in the Atlantic Ocean and have claimed up to 228 lives. Alexei Kokorin, a climatologist for the left-wing World Wildlife Fund’s Russia Climate Program, blamed global warming for the crash. He told Russia Today (RT) on June 4 global warming is to blame for making the weather conditions some think...

[snip] The Bush Administration gave a Band-Aid to GM and Chrysler in the form of a bridge loan to get them through to the early days of the Obama Administration. Industry observers widely assumed that that Obama, a Democrat from Chicago, understood the manufacturing base of the Midwest and would help it. The fact that the UAW had helped deliver five states in the Midwest to Obama deepened that assumption. Obama turned to other members of his political alliance for answers. From New York, he brought in investment banker Steve Rattner, a major fundraiser, to head the government's automotive task...

...There’s plenty of blame to go around these days. But the prime villains behind the mess we’re in were Reagan and his circle of advisers — men who forgot the lessons of America’s last great financial crisis, and condemned the rest of us to repeat it... -------------- ...But there was also a longer-term effect. Reagan-era legislative changes essentially ended New Deal restrictions on mortgage lending — restrictions that, in particular, limited the ability of families to buy homes without putting a significant amount of money down. These restrictions were put in place in the 1930s by political leaders who had...

Pro-Abortion Groups Falsely Blame Pro-Life Movement for George Tiller's Death by Steven Ertelt LifeNews.com Editor May 31, 2009 Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- Just hours after the shooting death of late-term abortion practitioner George Tiller and without a potential suspect, leading pro-abortion organizations immediately blamed pro-life advocates for George Tiller's death. The statements by the pro-abortion leaders appeared to use Tiller's death for political gain by painting the pro-life community with a broad brush and accusing them of fostering a climate leading to Tiller's death. Vicki Saporta, the president of the National Abortion Federation, a trade group for abortion businesses, claimed...

I’m gonna blame Bush foreversung by King Hussein to the tune of Forever and Ever, Amen with apologies to Randy Travis You may think that I’m acting foolish You’ve heard that I’m new & I’m green You may wonder how I can promise you now We’ll spend a trillion dollars while we still owe three And it’s not my blood that is spilling When I give up memos of the CIA It’s not my money that I will be spending On every left-wing program that enters my brain I’m gonna blame Bush forever, forever & ever amen As long as...

Obama Blames 7 Straw Men for Being 'out of money' Lee Cary Unable to blame Bush directly for current and pending budget deficits, President Obama has taken to blaming Straw Men. On Saturday, May 23, during a C-SPAN interview with Steve Scully, the President had this exchange according to DRUDGE: SCULLY: You know the numbers, $1.7 trillion debt, a national deficit of $11 trillion. At what point do we run out of money? OBAMA: Well, we are out of money now. We are operating in deep deficits, not caused by any decisions we've made on health care so far. This...

Video at the site House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) says he has no "basis" to blame the C.I.A. for lying to Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the House of Representatives about the type of interrogations they were using at the time, including waterboarding. "I don't draw that conclusion," Rep. Hoyer said on the House floor. Full transcript below:

Cybill Shepherd Blames the Mormons & Catholics for the Passing of Proposition 8 Tennessee-born beauty Cybill Shepherd definitely isn’t one to waste words -- and had she no qualms in speaking out about who she thought was to blame for the passing of Proposition 8 in California's last election, which led to gay and lesbian marriage rights being overturned. "The Mormons and Catholics," she told Tarts at the recent L.A Gay & Lesbian Center’s "An Evening With Women" celebration in Beverly Hills. "Most of the money came from Utah, it’s very unfortunate." However Shepherd does feel that President Obama is...

(IsraelNN.com) A survey conducted by the Boston Review in its May/June issue shows that nearly 25% of American non-Jews blame “the Jews” a moderate amount or more for the financial crisis. Furthermore, a total of 38.4% of the non-Jews in the U.S. attribute at least some level of blame to the group. Possibly most significant of all were the subconscious anti-Semitic tendencies revealed based on the way the questions were phrased to different groups.

This is just a despicable statement on the part of a politically expedient Congressional relic. If only the Republicans had spent more money on research, Jack Kemp would be alive. Set aside the fact that he offers absolutely no evidence more government money would have led to a cure of Jack Kemp’s cancer, what he seems to be suggesting is that had Congress listened to “Ole Arlen” and if he remains in office … there will be a cure for all cancer. To even suggest this 24 hours after Mr Kemp’s death is despicable. Very reminiscent of John Edwards “elect...

President Obama said his prime-time press conference on Day 100 of his presidency was intended as a "look forward to ... all of the hundreds of days to follow," but it turned into more of a look back in anger, complete with finger-pointing. Throughout his hourlong session in the White House East Room on Wednesday, the candidate who vowed a new post-partisan Washington, free from the rancorous bickering that often grinds the city to gridlock, ripped Republicans as the members of a do-nothing party of no. He began at the top, calling his predecessor, the former head of the Republican...

Sen. Chuck Schumer echoed the mayor's sentiments in a separate news conference Monday afternoon, saying the Federal Aviation Administration should have notified the public to avoid panic.