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Republicans Now Running On Platform Of Change

Igor Derysh — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:00:58 +0000

It wasn’t very long ago that President Barack Obama was Presidential candidate Barack Obama, a freshman Senator running on a platform of change after eight disastrous years of George Bush. Last night’s Republican win in Massachusetts by Scott Brown, who will now take over Ted Kennedy’s vacated seat, showed that Republicans are not only planning on running on a platform of change but winning because of it.

With the country restless and angry over the Democrats’ utter incompetence when it has come to pushing through their agenda despite a massive majority in both the House and the Senate, ...continue reading

PETA And Weatherproof Ads To Stay Up

Yelena Mandenberg — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 20:55:14 +0000

Both PETA and Weatherproof recently put out ads featuring the first couple without their permission, and even though the White House was upset… the ads will most likely stay up.

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk told Robin Givhan of the Washington Post:

“We got a call from the White House counsel’s office,” Newkirk says. “We said to them, we’re not selling a coat, only an idea that glamorous beautiful women who you look up to don’t wear fur. . . . We’re honoring her. Lawyers are lawyers, but PETA is honoring her fashion sense.” So there.

“PETA is an advocacy organization and can claim to ...continue reading

Economists Warn Of Tough Decade

Igor Derysh — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 23:30:22 +0000

The economists at the American Economic Association, or any economists for that matter, rarely come to a consensus on anything but had no problem doing just that as they concluded that the chances of the United States economy growing in 2010 aren’t good.

In fact, many of the economists who attended the group’s annual convention also believe that the next decade would not be particularly fruitful as the group suggested that the economy will grow less than two percent over the next 10 years.

Former chief of the National Bureau of Economic Research Martin Feldstein simply offered ...continue reading

Democrats Grow Worried As Election Year Kicks Off

Igor Derysh — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:00:07 +0000

It was a great day for the Democratic Party on November 4, 2008. A black, young Senator named Barack Obama had won his longshot bid for the presidency, the House of Representatives extended their large Democratic majority, and Senate Democrats were on the verge of sealing a “Super Majority.”

A little over a year later, with midterm elections nearly a year away, Democrats are becoming growingly concerned about how many of their party members, and even more so, party leaders, will stick around for another term.

In the past week, the Democrats saw one of their Congressmen switch party ...continue reading

What is in the Senate Healthcare Bill?

Igor Derysh — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 23:00:18 +0000

With the Senate passing their own version of healthcare “reform” by a vote of 60-39, let’s take a look at what exactly is in the bill and what is going to happen when the bill is merged with the House bill for the President to sign.

-The official Congressional Budget Office estimate of the cost of the bill is $871 billion. The official cost of the bill that the House of Representatives passed is around $1 trillion. The bill’s costs would be offset by the new taxes and fees as well as the money that the Medicare program would save.

-The bill requires ...continue reading

Obama’s Afghanistan Surge Consists of Mostly Contractors

Igor Derysh — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 14:00:25 +0000

One of the least discussed things about the two wars that the United States is waging in the Middle East is the fact that more than half of the military force in both Iraq and Afghanistan consists of private contractors which have allowed the United States to send much fewer soldiers than estimates say are necessary. Similar is the case with Obama’s surge in Afghanistan which will consist of as much as 56,000 contractors sent to Afghanistan on top of the troops that he is sending there.

When people mention that the Department of Defense sent less soldiers ...continue reading

Obama, Wen Head to Copenhagen

Igor Derysh — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:00:48 +0000

As the world begins to work on a replacement to the Kyoto Protocol, President Barack Obama and Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao are heading to Copenhagen to represent the two biggest world polluters.

Just a day after Barack Obama announced that he would be heading to Copenhagen to lobby for the passage of a treaty whose future has been in doubt, the Chinese State Council, their of a Presidential cabinet, announced plans to cut emission by 40% to 45% by 2020, a much more aggressive approach than the Chinese, or any other country, have taken in the past.

Majority of GOP Doesn’t Think Obama Really Won

Igor Derysh — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 22:56:22 +0000

All too often, partisanship in the United States grows to inexplicable proportions. A recent poll done by Public Policy Polling revealed that more than 50% of Republican voters believe that liberal non-profit group ACORN stole the election for Obama despite the fact that the President received more votes than any candidate in history and no voting irregularities involving ACORN registered voters have ever been reported.

While ACORN has been caught up in a scandal about what their group really does and employees registering fake voters because they are paid for every voter that they sign up, none of ...continue reading