From Politico.com White House Social Secretary Desiree Rogers is stepping down, a White House aide tells POLITICO. Rogers, a Chicago friend of the Obamas, drew fire for her handling of the state dinner party-crashers in November. I’m waiting to see if any of the security folks get canned.
From Nytimes.com: President Obama will try to recoup for taxpayers as much as $120 billion of the money spent to bail out the financial system, most likely through a tax on large banks, administration and Congressional officials said Monday. Mr. President the only way to keep money from the banks [...]
Makes sense to me. Hat Tip: State of the Union by Carl Moore
That’s what Pastor Manning calls the President. A nation ill from the vertigo of George Bush’s inarticulate fumblings elected the smooth, sickly sweet, smiling incrementalism of Barack Obama who has promised much but made good on very little. We now face an increase in an empire we cannot afford including [...]
From Washingtonpost.com: Obama administration looks to spin off from TARP a new program for small business, jobs growth Major initiative could give banks access to the government money without restrictions, such as limits on executive pay, as long as they use it to make loans to small businesses. And what [...]
For the last several months I have heard the term “Brand” used to describe qualities and attributes that people in the public eye want to project. This comes up in talk shows as the “Warren Buffett Brand” or “Brand Obama” and has to do with a different form of the [...]
Let me begin by saying I believe that the United States Constitution is the supreme law of the land…superior to all state constitutions and laws that it through the Bill of Rights does not give exception to. That means that I do not agree with these latter-day gargantuan stacks of [...]
In a not so unexpected move to keep the closure of Gitmo on track and appease some and anger others, the President has drafted an Executive order to allow indefinite detention of terror suspects. I think I am going to have to withdraw the support I gave. He’s a puppet. [...]
I once worked with someone who spent twenty minutes of every half hour trying to find an easier way of doing the work. His efforts were seldom successful. During those years it was remarked that he was the only person who could manage to break a sweat trying to get [...]
While I do not agree with every decision made and action taken by President Obama, as a black man, I am forced to come to his defense from time to time. I do not do so to defend the President as much as to defend my race. I defended the [...]