Why Democrats Love Unions

 Crystal Coast Tea Party "Just in case anyone wonders why Obama and his cronies are so hot to support labor unions particularly government employee unions check out the contributions."                                                                                
 Source: Center for Responsive Politics, Washington, D.C.
Hat tip to John Uhrig, Plano, TX

Foreign journalists used as human shields outside Gadhafi compound?

Yahoo News  "But reports out of the North African nation now indicate that Libyan officials may actually be using foreign journalists to that end. The regime brought reporters to Gadhafi's compound in Tripoli Sunday night "to effectively use them as human shields," Fox News Channel correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports."

Democrats for Progress reports: FOX Lies (again): CNN crews used as human shields in Libya :
"I just saw Wolf Blitzer ask Nic Robertson if he felt he was being used as a "human shield" and he throughly dispelled that notion as rubbish ."

Jennifer Griffin sticking by report on journalists being used as human shields in Libya  "“They felt that the civilians and journalists had effectively been used as human shields and that was frustrating to them,” said Griffin tonight. “It was a very close call. In fact one official told me that there was a Reuters crew literally on a spot where they were going to drop a missile.”"

Florida Pastor Terry Jones Finally Burns that Koran

Verum Serum  "There are already 2-3 copies of this clip on You Tube with a description in Arabic. This is going to get around the Muslim world very quickly.
"I don’t think this accomplishes anything except to make people angry. Moderates who see this may be less sympathetic to us. Radicals who view it will only have their view of America confirmed."
This guy and Julian Assange should hug each other.

Palin Condemns Quran Burning, Likens to "Ground Zero Mosque"  ""Book burning is antithetical to American ideals," Palin wrote in a Facebook note. "People have a constitutional right to burn a Koran if they want to, but doing so is insensitive and an unnecessary provocation - much like building a mosque at Ground Zero.""

MARVEL COMICS INSULTS 9-11 FAMILIES AND THEIR SUPPORTERS

Astute Blogger  "And who wrote the X-Factor story here? Peter David, I'm afraid. The man who once wrote a story in the same named series back in the early 90s where they and the Hulk took down a Saddam Hussein-ish dictator now does 360, and explains why I don't think I'll want to read his writings anymore. Once, I thought he was smart enough to avoid this kind of propaganda, and he did once signal he respects Israel. Guess I was wrong. Now, he's plumbing new depths and suggesting he condones imposing sharia on America."

Now they want your children's minds.

The Democrat Recycling Program

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Happy Birthday, ObamaCare

VIDEO: IHOP Owner Fears Obamacare’s Impact on Jobs and Economy  "Under the year-old law, Womack must provide health insurance to all full-time employees beginning in 2014. Right now, he employs nearly 1,000 full- and part-time workers and already offers insurance to his management staff. He simply does not know how he’ll generate the revenue to do more.

"Womack estimates the cost of the law to his company will be 50 percent greater than his company’s earnings — in other words, beyond his ability to pay."

Happy Birthday, Obamacare? What It Really Means for American Businesses  "...Obamacare also creates penalties for firms with more than 50 workers that do not provide employees with a level of health coverage deemed adequate by Washington. This discourages small businesses from expanding. As Heritage analyst Brian Blase writes, “The economic effects of the employer mandate will likely be lower profits for many businesses, lower wages for millions of workers, increased unemployment, and higher prices for many goods and services.” Since employers will be required to increase the amount they compensate workers in the form of benefits, they will reduce the amount of compensation they provide as wages, since, after all, “Productivity gains, not acts of Congress, are required to increase worker compensation over time.”"

Government Treats the Taxpayers Like a Piggy Bank

Big Government  "My 401K is down 40%, my employer just cut the match; and it looks like I may have work until I’m 70 years old. I also pay for pensions to public employees who retired in their 50s.
"I don’t have enough money to go on vacation this year, but I paid my share of the federal government’s $2.6 million grant to teach Chinese prostitutes to drink responsibly. I pay for bridges to nowhere."

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
No Country Leans on Upper-Income Households as Much as U.S.: Some comments take issue with this claim.

Videos: US fighter crashes, crew rescued by US, rebel forces

Hot Air  "One of the jet’s airmen landed in a field of sheep after ejecting from the plane, then raised his hands and called out “OK, OK” to a crowd who had gathered, the Telegraph cited witness Younis Amruni, 27, as saying.
"“I hugged him and said: ‘Don’t be scared, we are your friends,’” Amruni told the newspaper, adding that people then lined up to shake the airman’s hand.
"“We are so grateful to these men who are protecting the skies,” he said. “We gave him juice and then the revolutionary military people took him away.”"

Eight years after Iraq, the Bush doctrine lives on..

JAMES TARANTO  "Obama's eventual decision to strike Libya is more consistent with the Bush doctrine--that promoting democracy in the Muslim world, sometimes by military means, is in America's national interests--than with Obama's own inclinations. It has drawn harsh if predictable criticism from both the isolationist right and the anti-American left. Providing some comic relief, Politico reports that Rep. Dennis Kucinich is even making noises about impeachment."


Mixed signals from Obama and the Middle East

 Richard Cohen   "The change that Obama promised has settled on us all like an irritating drizzle. His ideas were untested by either age or experience. It is one thing to decry American unilateralism and quite another to await international action when time is of the essence. It is not necessary for America always to lead, but it is sometimes necessary for it to do so — and always necessary for the president to know when that moment has arrived. Obama seems not to know. He often solves problems by ignoring them."



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AP: Obama Playing 'Grand Tourist' in Rio 'Sure to Endear Him Even More' to Brazilian People

Media Research Center "CBS's Sunday edition of the Evening News seemed to pick up on the tone of the AP article, as White House correspondent Chip Reid declared: "It's being called the split-screen presidency – on one side the military operation in Libya; on the other President Obama in Brazil, visiting a Rio de Janeiro shanty town known as the City Of God. And refusing to allow the turmoil in Libya to distract him from what he insists is vitally important business here."

More from Media Research on this subject here.   All this makes the difference in the way media treated Bush even more stark.

Pump prices may put Obama in peril

Washington Times  "Consumers' pain at the gas pump will likely be shared by President Obama at the polls in 2012 and could cost him a second term unless energy prices take a drastic turn for the better in the next 18 months.
""Energy prices should be the Achilles' heel for Obama," said Scott Wheeler, executive director of a conservative political action committee."  Via Heritage.

NY Times  "Volvo, the Swedish automaker, is the most reliant of the European car companies on Japanese parts — seven of its suppliers are based in the region ravaged by the earthquake and tsunami, including one on the cusp of the radiation zone. Volvo managers are trying to determine how many parts already were loaded on ships."

 The Double Whammy Of Libya And Japan Bullish For Oil Prices  "What’s more: crude oil demand in the US rose 4.4% last month, further indication of a recovering economy.
"Add in the very real blow to nuclear power prospects by the the existence of iodine and cesia in the Tokyo tap water and the uncertainty of getting the reactors in northern Japan completely under control and in repair."