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Obama on Afghanistan: My apology for the Koran-burning calmed things down
“We’re not out of the woods yet.” Skip to 3:30 for the key bit. I actually like this answer, even though the “calmed things down” bit is nonsense in the same way that the infamous “jobs created or...
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Video: Taxpayers subsidize wind-farm generation … and non-generation
Snow job. Taxpayers have put out billions in subsidies over the last three years for Barack Obama’s green-energy stimulus program, which has produced such success stories as Solyndra, Beacon Power,...
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WaPo: Obama bundlers score big in government sinecures
Patronage as usual? Remember when Barack Obama was going to clean up Washington by eliminating the cycle of donors getting special access and jobs in the federal government? Hope and Change Good...
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Fisker: Dog bites Karma
That’s one fine looking car on that flatbed. The last time we checked in on our friends at Fisker, the news was less than sunny. The rising star in green technology, after receiving significant...
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Video: A case study of the stimulus
The one valuable lesson. Why did the 2009 stimulus plan fail to keep unemployment below 8%? Barack Obama claims that the economic collapse was more severe than his advisers first knew, but that’s a...
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GAO shows grade inflation at the Department of Energy
85% failure rate = A-minus? Remember this moment from two weeks ago? Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) challenged Energy Secretary Steven Chu to assign himself a grade specifically on his stewardship of...
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House conservatives to unveil alternate budget
So will liberal Democrats. When House Budget chair Rep. Paul Ryan rolled out his budget plan for FY2013 and beyond, a few conservatives expressed disappointment in the result. Ryan didn’t cut...
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Taxpayers on the hook for anti-soda lobbying campaigns
Lawmakers press HHS secretary for answers Members of Congress are turning up the heat on the Obama administration for doling out millions of dollars in grant money that was used to attack soda and, in...
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GSA shaken up after details of 2010 Vegas conference spending revealed
Serious coinage Remember when President Obama told the recipients of “stimulus” money to not hold conferences in Las Vegas? It seems he forgot to tell the General Services Administration about that,...
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Green energy firm secured millions in taxpayer funding, now faces SEC...
Obama, Chu praised company Green energy firm Ecotality won plaudits from President Obama and Energy Secretary Steven Chu. It was supposed to build 15,000 electric-vehicle charging stations in 18...
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Video: First-term metaphor of the day
Brick. A palate-cleansing reminder via Politico that when The One famously said, “I’m LeBron, baby,” he was speaking purely metaphorically. First comes the stimulus, then ObamaCare, then he puts...
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Video: Green-tech bust Solyndra busted for abandoning toxic waste
How green was my valley? Not much. So much for the “green” in green-tech stimulus. When Solyndra went bankrupt and flushed over a half-billion dollars in taxpayer money down the drain, it didn’t...
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Biggest DoE solar-power loan guarantee went to firm that hired former Biden...
Sunshine and the culture of corruption. How does one go about getting a federally-guaranteed loan for solar-power technology in the era of Hope and Change? Well, you have to show that your company...
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Can more government “heal the economy”?
Faith-based initiatives. So says E. J. Dionne of the Washington Post, who wonders why more Democrats aren’t saying the same thing that Barack Obama did last Friday: Why don’t Democrats just say it?...
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Paul Krugman keeps pretending that spending has gone down
Spin. In his June 08 column, New York Times columnist Paul Krugman says a major part of the reason the recession under Reagan recovered more quickly than the current recession is because of government...
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Hey, who’s up for another massive stimulus package?
Hairofthedogonomics. I guess we can call this Hairofthedogonomics. Europe and the US got drunk on debt and ended up over their heads. Everyone tried borrowing more money to stimulate economic...
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Oh, goody: More DOE green-energy “investments” on the way
Recipients include already-bailed-out General Motors. Tuesday, the Department of Energy announced that it is instituting yet another round of clean-energy “investments” that they believe will help to...
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Another green-tech stimulus recipient going under?
“Substantial doubt” about solvency. It won’t be the first, if so … and probably not the last, either. Battery maker A123 got more than $250 million in taxpayer subsidies from Barack Obama’s...
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Please, by all means, let’s keep pushing for $10 million-a-pop green jobs
Do you think maybe he calls them “green” jobs because they cost so much money? Few of President Obama’s speeches are complete without some mention of the need for further government “investment” in...
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Video: Green-tech stimulus recipient went broke … a second time
Genesis of failure. This isn’t a recent case, nor the worst we’ve seen from the Obama administration’s green-tech stimulus bubble. However, it may be one of the most instructive about how governments...
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Obama still evolving on executive power?
Or just no longer needs to keep up the pretense? Ross Douthat marveled yesterday on Barack Obama’s apparent evolution on executive power — and that of the Left as well. When Obama ran for the...
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GAO report: At least $1.4 billion of Obama’s stimulus went to tax cheats
The costs of federal beneficence. I wish I could summon the energy it takes to be outraged, but at this point I’m so jaded by the endemic inefficiency, ineptitude, and downright corruption of the...
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Obama: The jobs report is a “step in the right direction”
Wait, are we looking at the same jobs report? Hey, remember a few years ago, back in 2009, when President Obama magnanimously promised us that — if we passed his stimulus — we would now at this very...
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Video: Romney surrogate John Sununu laughs in Andrea Mitchell’s face
“You’re struggling, Andrea. You’re struggling.” Via Business Insider, your feelgood video of the day. Think of it as a companion piece to Gallup’s new poll showing the steep decline in respect for the...
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Speaking of outsourcing …
Backfire. Now that Team Obama has opened up a debate on outsourcing — when they really mean offshoring — they may live to regret it. They’ve been attacking Mitt Romney for having offshore bank...
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Pelosi made up to $5 million by … offshoring?
Boom. I could have added this Matt Lewis find to my earlier post, but this deserves its own thread for a couple of reasons. One, it’s much more on point than comparisons to Debbie Wasserman Schultz...
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WH to Krauthammer: Hey, sorry for calling you a liar about that Churchill...
“I clearly overshot the runway in my post.” Surprising, but when you pick a fight this dumb and meaningless, it’s probably best just to cut your losses and move on. Next up: An apology for the...
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OMB warned WH to cut losses on Solyndra
Rewarding failure. Congressional investigators probing the Obama administration’s actions in the collapse of Solyndra have discovered that the White House’s own budget office warned against the second...
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