• Search
• 
  

• Recent Comments

• Savings Options for You

  

   

  • ↑ CATEGORIES
    • Kindle Coupons
    • Mobile Coupons
    • Travel Coupons
    • Movie Coupons
    • Grocery Coupons
    • Web Hosting Coupons
    • Flight Coupons
    • View All Deals
  • ↑ RETAILERS
    • Amazon Promotional Code
    • Barnes and Noble Coupon Code
    • Lenovo Coupon Codes
    • Buy.com Promo Code
    • Best Buy Coupon
    • Office Max Promo Codes
    • Newegg Coupon
    • View All Coupons

   

• Categories

  • Congress
  • Contests
  • Debates
  • Domestic Policy
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Fundraising
  • General
  • Healthcare
  • Humor
  • Latest News
    • Obama News
    • Palin News
    • Romney News
    • Whitehouse News
  • Media Clips and Issues
  • Michael Steele
  • Military
  • Open Thread
  • Outside the Track
  • PD Composite Poll
    • PD Composite Poll: Florida
    • PD Composite Poll: Iowa
    • PD Composite Poll: New Hampshire
    • PD Composite Poll: South Carolina
  • PD Housekeeping
  • PD in the News
  • Photo of the Day
  • Policy
  • Polls
  • POTUS
  • Power Rankings Only 2008
  • Power Rankings Only 2012
  • Predictions
  • Race for White House 2008
  • Race for White House 2012
  • Races 2008
  • Races 2010
  • Races 2012
  • Races Off-Year
  • Rate that Ad
  • Scandals
  • SCOTUS
  • Shameless Marketing
  • Tea Party
  • TSA

• Archives

  • February 2012
  • January 2012
  • December 2011
  • November 2011
  • October 2011
  • September 2011
  • August 2011
  • July 2011
  • June 2011
  • May 2011
  • April 2011
  • March 2011
  • February 2011
  • January 2011
  • December 2010
  • November 2010
  • October 2010
  • September 2010
  • August 2010
  • July 2010
  • June 2010
  • May 2010
  • April 2010
  • March 2010
  • February 2010
  • January 2010
  • December 2009
  • November 2009
  • October 2009
  • September 2009
  • August 2009
  • July 2009
  • June 2009
  • May 2009
  • April 2009
  • March 2009
  • February 2009
  • January 2009
  • December 2008
  • November 2008
  • October 2008
  • September 2008
  • August 2008
  • July 2008
  • June 2008
  • May 2008
  • April 2008
  • March 2008
  • February 2008
  • January 2008
  • December 2007
  • November 2007
  • October 2007
  • September 2007
  • August 2007
  • July 2007
  • June 2007
  • May 2007
  • April 2007
  • March 2007
  • February 2007
  • January 2007
  • December 2006
  • November 2006
  • October 2006
  • September 2006

Air Force One sparkled beneath the brilliant Arizona sun as President Obama and Governor Jan Brewer met one fine day on the tarmac. Then, for no reason, Brewer spat on Obama’s foot. Oh, she didn’t? Then she asked him for a shoeshine. No? Did her dog mark Air Force One’s tires? Wrong again? So what was the big deal? 

While both parties appeared terse during their recent meeting, they didn’t seem on the verge of blows. Obama was apparently displeased with how Brewer’s new book portrayed him while Brewer didn’t appreciate Obama’s condescending attitude. Fine, there was a mild rift. The situation ended with Brewer inviting Obama to a formal meeting, which a White House spokesman indicated was accepted, and Obama referring to the incident as “overblown” and “not a big deal at all.” 
Read more

The headline above is the headline of an Obama Administration press release distributed only a few minutes.

I do not care what the issue is, the attitude and actions of legislating by executive order rather than by the process established by the Constitution is wrong. The President of the United States dictating laws from his desk are the actions of just that–a dictator.

While reports are surfacing that Herman Cain has hired the Smoking Man as his national spokesman, FOX News is reporting the the organization ACORN evolved into is a driving force behind the Occupy Wall Street movement.

The former New York office for ACORN, the disbanded community activist group, is playing a key role in the self-proclaimed “leaderless” Occupy Wall Street movement, organizing “guerrilla” protest events and hiring door-to-door canvassers to collect money under the banner of various causes while spending it on protest-related activities….

Read more

Imperfections notwithstanding, humans are a rather forgiving bunch. We’ve been known to forgive people who’ve stolen from us, damaged our property, or attacked us outright. We’ve forgiven con artists, robbers, and swindlers of all stripes. The more magnanimous among us can even forgive their rapist, or their loved one’s murderer. A big heart is essential to granting absolution in lieu of vengeance. Therefore, when such forgiveness is accorded, the gracious party rightly earns public respect.

To revere a forgiving victim is one thing. But what would we think of someone who encouraged their assailant? What would we think of a woman who cheered her attacker during a sexual assault? How about someone who applauds while their neighbor is being murdered, or roots for the thief who’s burglarizing their home, or praises the thug who’s vandalizing their property? We’d think them foolish, if not tetched. Read more

The Obama campaign played the birther conspiracy theorists like Jenny Oaks Baker plays a tune, smooth, in control and beautifully.

Now they mock them again. I must say, it is actually kind of funny.

Note: Click to enlarge.

This is where jealousy gets you, the attitude of “he has more stuff than me, so I should have some of his stuff”. These “protestors” are like a giant band of five year old children that think everything in life should be fair, despite any effort–or lack thereof–they might make in life. If these “protesters” would simply get off their hind quarters and provide something of value to these millionaires and billionaires they hate so much, the rich folks will pay them for the value provided, and not be (in their words) “hoarding” their wealth.

From CNN:

Occupy Wall Street is on the move … uptown.

Why uptown? Because that’s where the rich folks live!

Organizers are planning a march on Tuesday that will visit the homes of JP Morgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) CEO Jamie Dimon, billionaire David Koch, hedge fund honcho John Paulson, Howard Milstein, and News Corp (NWSA, Fortune 500) CEO Rupert Murdoch.

The millionaires and billionaires are being targeted for what event organizers called a “willingness to hoard wealth at the expense of the 99%.”

When the curtain went up on Obama Theatre’s latest presentation, staged at a town hall meeting sponsored by LinkedIn.com, the performance was the same as it has always been. A theatre critic would describe Obama’s act as tired, tedious, and repetitive. The President delivered the same stale routines and predictable themes upon which he’s long relied. There was nothing new, nothing creative. His message was inescapably vacant and laughably sophomoric. 

Yet one scene stood out, wherein an obvious cast member sheepishly asked Obama, “Will you raise my taxes?” Read more

For the record, reports of my demise have been slightly exaggerated. I have been up till recently suffering from a combined attack of employment, academia, and travel which has left me time sufficient only to pound the steering wheel or throw pillows at the television screen when I have been assaulted by The One’s endless speechifying. I’m beginning to think presidential addresses should come with a warning screen prior to the actual event.

Yesterday was Monday and thus the scene of yet another TelePrompTer show at the White House Rose Garden. Has anybody checked to see whether TOTUS now has a permanent pole mounted amongst the roses? I’m just curious.

But I digress. Where was I? Oh, yes. Roses.

There is a well used section of the liberal playbook entitled “Class Warfare”. This involves convincing the public that all of their problems can be traced back to some rotund Wall Street hedge fund manager who owns six houses, three stretch HUMMERS, and a fleet of private jets. This demographic, dear reader, doesn’t pay its “fair share” of taxes and that’s why the American economy is stuck clinging to the edges of the drain.
Read more

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you have probably heard about the Solyndra scandal.  It’s being touted as Obama’s first scandal, well at least the first one that has known ties to the White House.  How will this impact 2012?  Or will it just blow over by then?

Thousands, if not millions of Americans read Paul Krugman’s repulsive article on the New York Times site yesterday. When I first read it, I was angry, very angry. It is clearly a politically-driven hack job from a frustrated economist who has been unsuccessful in his desire to be considered this generations’ great economist, whose Keyensian ideals based on a single data point prove over and over again not to work.

But people can see from what he wrote what a little man Krugman really is, so I will leave it at that.

What we should remember today is what happened after the atrocious attacks of 9/11/01.
Americans found God again. Churches and synagogues left previously half-empty were packed again, like they were during our parents’ generation and more so in the generation before theirs. Neighbors helped neighbors in true Godly service. We believed in each other and remembered a higher power again.

It is an interesting dichotomy how a tragedy can bring us closer together, closer to each other and our God. But it does. It is also easy to forget those feelings. Today, I hope we can all remember the spring that rose of the winter that was 9/11, the outpouring of good from the tragedy, the brighter side of a bitter evil brought by those who thought they could bring us to our knees.

Rather, today, we as Americans stand taller, stronger, and resolved to overcome with our genuine goodness.

God bless the USA.

At least she was running. 13.1 miles, in an Iowan half marathon. She didn’t win the race, but competed well:

she’s a veteran runner and kept a speedy pace, finishing the 13.1-mile course around the lake in 1 hour 46 minutes and 10 seconds.

Read the rest.

If we were actually serious about eliminating the national debt, we need to stop adding to the deficit.

John Stossel, Chris Edwards from the Cato Institute, and Stuart Butler from the Heritage Foundation have put together a list of cuts that would balance the budget today and partially address social security and medicare for the future, which are the most significant long-term budget and deficit issues.

Read more

Mitt Romney’s candidacy boasts several strengths. He is a successful businessman, an accomplished politician, and an articulate speaker. Romney is also perceived as economically conservative. In addition to those qualities he is photogenic, which is more essential to contemporary office seekers than a coherent platform. But Romney has drawbacks as well.  Read more

Less than 18 months before a general election a sitting president arrives in Iowa and we’re supposed to believe he’s on an economic mission? Pardon me, but I’ve seen more believable posturing. President Obama’s trip to the Hawkeye State had nothing do with economics and everything to do with receiving mail at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue until January 2017. However, Obama’s Iowa appearance should have an opposite effect. He provided America several reasons to grant him a change of address. Read more

A clip from Sarah Palin’s new documentary previewed on Fox News’ “Hannity.” Did you see it? Will you check it out in the theater? It will play at select locations. But, I’m guessing there won’t be a White House screening.

After the initial reaction dies down, does the death of Osama Bin Laden at the hands of United States commandos help the flagging Obama administration?

Could this be the foreign policy victory he needs to jump start his reelection campaign?

What say you people out there in PD land?

This nation has become great because it was a nation founded on laws, not on men, a nation where all were considered equal. However, in today’s society we seem to think “all [people] are equal, but some [people] are more equal than others“.

Today in our country only 53% percent of all workers pay 100% of the federal income tax bill. Therefore 47% of workers pay no taxes. Additionally 40% of workers actually receive additional funds when filing their taxes redistributed from the group that pays all the taxes. I’ll even point you to that evil conservative news source NPR for this data (though it is widely available).

Further, in research released yesterday, “government social benefits . . . were equal to 35% of all private and public wages and salaries in the 12 months ended January, up from 10% in 1960 and 21% in 2000.”

Read more

Two years can be to politics what two minutes is to a football game – an eternity. Two years ago Team Obama rode into DC on the Hope & Change Express full of promises to fundamentally reconstruct America into something more (meaning less) than what she had become. Virtually everyone and every organization would stop at nothing to have The One come and impart his wisdom upon them. Such was the afterglow of the 2008 election cycle.

Obamamania was not limited to the DC Beltway. According to the infallible Wikipedia, no fewer than seven states have schools or other institutions named in honor of The One. Bear in mind that most of these namings were enshrined before or shortly after The One sat in the Big Chair for the first time. Normally Americans wait to name buildings after someone until said someone has actually accomplished something.

But I digress.

Last year at this time, request for presidential speeches – specifically commencement addresses – were pouring into the White House. Nearly 1,000 schools were clamoring for The One to impart wisdom to the graduating masses before they went on either to get more education or do something novel like getting a job.
Read more

Well, numbers fans, today was the day the Government Printing Office stocked up on toner and put the lasers into overdrive as The One put forth his much awaited 2012 Budget. It’s a light read – coming in at just over 2,400 pages (to include the required appendices). Sometimes I think budget writers go to the Walt Whitman Writing School and come out somehow believing they get paid by the word.

Like most Americans, all I want to know about The One’s budget is just how much it’s going to cost me and the other five remaining taxpaying Americans to fund all the hope and change in 2012. The answer to that trillion dollar question is $3.73 trillion. Yes, my fellow taxpayer. The Federal Government simply must spend $3.73 trillion in 2012. Any less would constitute cuts of a Gingrichian Draconian scale.

But, never fear, Citizen! The One has declared that over the next decade, his budgetary guidelines (which subsequent administrations are under no obligation to uphold) will cut $1.6 trillion off the total.
Read more

I caught this bit over at RealClearPolitics. Evidently Mitt has subtly unsheathed his 2012 campaign slogan. Its three words, very simple:

Believe in America

What think ye?