Month: September 2011

…Chu, a Nobel laureate and physicist who came to the administration from academia, arrived in Washington with a mandate to push billions of dollars in stimulus funds into clean-energy companies and projects…

Chu takes responsibility for a loan deal that put more taxpayer money at risk in Solyndra – The Washington Post.

In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.

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This week Oregon officials bragged that the USDA has given the state $5 million in “performance bonuses” for ensuring that people eligible for food benefits receive them and for its “swift processing of applications.” The money comes on the heels of a separate $1.5 million award from the feds for making “accurate payments of food stamp benefits to clients.” So welfare recipients are clients?

State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up | Judicial Watch.

Beck Vindicated: After Months of Mocking Beck for Attacking Sweet Old Frances Fox Piven Top Leaders of the Left Freely Admit Glenn Was Totally Right About Piven’s Influence | Video | TheBlaze.com.

Obamacare Has Arrived in the Supreme Court.

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“We pay a price when our political system cannot come together and agree on the difficult but necessary steps to rein in entitlement spending or reform our tax system,” he added.

He mocked Obama as “a bystander in the Oval Office” who was preparing to divide the nation along economic lines to win another four years in Washington, apparently alluding to the president’s jobs bill that proposed wealthy Americans and big corporations to pay more.

Obama is “telling those who are scared and struggling that the only way their lives can get better is to diminish the success of others,” Christie said. He’s “insisting that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieved the American Dream.”

Yahoo! News.

“Obama’s entourage for a 2010 visit to Massachusetts caused $676,048 in damage to Marlborough Airport — and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has refused to compensate the company that runs the field, a suit filed Tuesday in U.S. District Court alleges.

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Lawsuit: Obama visit caused $676K in airport damage – Boston Business Journal.

The Jackson & Coker survey joins a large stack of research with similar findings. In February, the National Physicians Survey discovered that more than three times as many doctors believed that the quality of American health care would “deteriorate” rather than “improve” under ObamaCare. Nine of ten physicians think ObamaCare will have a negative impact on their profession.

Doctors And AMA Split Over Contentious Issue Of ObamaCare – Forbes.

Barack Obama’s Solyndra scandal smells like it came from Chicago’s City Hall – chicagotribune.com.

Cleaver: If Obama wasnt president, we would be ‘marching on the White House’ – The Hills Blog Briefing Room.

AARP Pride Information and Resources for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender People, Families and Allies – AARP.