The late Apple CEO Steve Jobs evidently supported Barack Obama's rise to the presidency but soured on him when he saw what Obama did during his first couple of years when the new president had a majority in both houses of Congress and a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate—meaning when Obama was as Obama-y as an Obama can be:
By Mike Gray When you’re cutting your own throat, any knife will do. . . . . we elected Barack Obama. The question Americans must ask of him before next time (heaven forefend) is whether he even wants low gas prices. Judging by his actions, his rhetoric, his Third-World, anti-imperialist, Frantz-Fanon-imbued vision of Diminished America, my hunch is no. To this president’s way of thinking, high gas prices are a solution, not a problem. Cheap energy is the launch pad of a soaring economy, one beyond government (his) control. And this president wants control: over what we eat (less), drive (smaller) and live (lower thermostats). As Palin reminds us, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu actually pines for gasoline prices as high as Europe’s ($9-plus) as a tool of social regimentation “to coax consumers into buying more-efficient cars,” as the Wall Street Journal reported, “and living in neighborhoods closer to work.” Chu told the paper, “Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels in Europe.” Oh, and by the way: Not one senator whose salary we pay bothered to query Chu during his confirmation hearing about how regular Americans with hour-long commutes (as
By Mike Gray On Townhall Daily, Duggan Flanakin notes the closure of the “climate conference” in Mexico, which he characterizes as a “clever political con job” organized and suborned by “power-hungry elitists labored behind the scenes” to implement its real purpose: “redistributing the world’s wealth and natural resources.” A co-chair of the conference admitted as much and even used those very words. But socialists and anarchists alone don’t benefit from the climate con: When billionaires Ted Turner and Richard Branson tried to discuss ways to profit from global warming hype, “renewable” energy and CO2 emissions trading, a team of CFACT college students exposed their hypocrisy and anti-people climate profiteering. Wind, solar and biofuel companies are “producing products people don’t want and can’t afford,” the students pointed out. Even more immorally, they are conspiring to keep poor families impoverished and afflicted by malaria, lung infections, dysentery and other diseases of poverty. Meanwhile, champions of “climate ethics” and “environmental justice” in dozens of rich countries are all too happy to provide what Lord Monckton called “bailout bucks for bedwetting big businesses,” to ensure their continued cooperation with the wealth redistribution scheme. He also slammed the notion of giving kleptocratic governments $100
by Mike Gray —probably not. Why should he alienate an important, affluent, and influential segment of his political base? In 2008, CMI‘s Lita Cosner reviewed then-Presidential candidate Barack Obama’s views on the matter: What does Barack Hussein Obama, who is now set to become the Democrat nomination for Presidential Candidate of the United States, have in common with so called ‘bioethicists’ such as Peter Singer and Joseph Fletcher? They all advocate that parents have a ‘right’ to kill their baby, not just before birth, but even immediately after the child is born. Cosner describes Singer this way: Peter Singer (1946–) is probably the most well-known bioethicist who, though he is too humane to eat a hamburger and advocates giving rights to great apes, has no qualms about infanticide. To him, an unborn child only acquires ‘moral significance’ at around 20 weeks’ gestation, when the baby is able to feel pain. But ‘ven when the fetus does develop a capacity to feel pain—probably in the last third of the pregnancy—it still does not have the self-awareness of a chimpanzee, or even a dog’, and so he gives greater ‘moral significance’ to the chimpanzee and dog than to the unborn child. If
by Mike Gray Well, that’s what he said, that’s what the man said. WorldNetDaily’s Joseph Farah comments: MSNBC’s fast-talking Chris Matthews went off the deep end last week over those who question the constitutional eligibility of the one who sends thrills up his leg. …. Of course, if Chris Matthews really wanted answers to those questions, there are any number of people he could have invited on the air – about 174 million of them, if the CNN poll is right. But he didn’t want a dialogue. He doesn’t want to know what these people really think. He wanted only to make a caricature of what now represents the majority opinion in the U.S. Meanwhile, one elected official opines: “I think the president is enjoying this .” Congresscritter Brian Bilbray displayed his belief system not long ago: Personally, Bilbray said he believes Obama was born in Hawaii, “but I don’t know what his status is. He’s a U.S. citizen until proven otherwise.” The legal issue is far from settled. One on-line source has noted … that several of the attorneys who have been fighting the Obama eligibility cases, Mario Apuzzo and Leo Donofio, have done extensive research on the meanings,
A New Earth, An Old Deception: Awakening to the Dangers of Eckhart Tolle and His #1 Bestseller - by Richard Abanes - Bethany House - ISBN: 978-0-7642-0664-1 - 2008 - 190 pages - Trade paperback: $4.80 on Amazon.com “Well, I am a Christian who believes that there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity.” — Oprah Winfrey, webcast, 2008 So saith a popular icon and would-be arbiter of the culture who enjoys a bully pulpit on national television. Winfrey occasionally uses her cachet to promote dreck such as Eckhart Tolle’s mashup of “Christian” religion and New Age sophistry, A New Earth. Richard Abanes’ book about Tolle and his thinking completely dismantles every major argument Tolle proffers; in eighty detailed responses, he shows how far from true, Biblical Christianity Tolle has strayed. The sad thing is, Tolle’s sincerity in wanting to help people, which is probably genuine, has led him away from Biblical truth, resulting in self-deception (of himself) and engendering deception of others. Note a possibly relevant Biblical prophecy: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils…. But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse,
On January 22, 2010 President Obama continued stumping for government transparency, declaring, “I won’t stop fighting to open up government.” He continued the claims that he was establishing the toughest transparency rules “of any administration in history.” Tell that to Washington DC press corps. Here’s Pres. Obama declaring his commitment to “openness,’ “transparency,” and making sure all of us know who’s visiting the White House: That was then. This is now: Recently White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs met with a group from the White House press corps, ostensibly, as White House Correspondent’s Association president Ed Chen stated, “to clear the air . . . among members over White House practices and attitude toward the press.” It seems the air emanating from the White House is still rather fouled. Maybe that’s why the DC police closed Lafayette Park and forced the media and the public away from the White House. Aside: One of the reporters being shooed away from the White House by the DC police shows incredible arrogance and chutzpah when he states, at the 2:53 mark in the video above, “It’s one thing to push the public back, but to not let the media film is just ridiculous.” In
By Jim Lakely The Czar of the Teleprompter: that might come to be known as a revealing nickname for Barack Obama, and I think I like it the best—especially since I thought of it. After all, being called The Czar of the Telestrator has sure given NBA televison analyst Mike Fratello some panache. Anyway, as this story in Politico notes, the smartest and most eloquent man ever to roam the halls of the West Wing goes nowhere—and is nothing—without his teleprompter.
A former associate editor of National Review magazine says Christopher Buckley’s departure from his back-page column was not a firing, and the magazine embraces diverse viewpoints within conservatism. But that’s the real problem with the contemporary right: it lacks a set of coherent principles.
Conservative columnist Roger Kimball explains just how "transformative" Barack Obama really is.
Finally suggesting that there are some boundaries to acceptable hatred of white people by black Americans, Sen. Barack Obama has cut his ties with his controversial former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
U.S. Sen. Barack Obama’s praise for former President Ronald Reagan is an interesting development, as it is the first time a major Democrat candidate for president has praised Reagan, a Republican whose policies and political success both made him utter anathema to the Democrat Party. Predictably, his opponents for the Democratic nomination for president are attacking Obama as a heretic, illustrating the seriousness of the ideological implications for Democrats. On Monday Obama told the editorial board of the Reno Gazette-Journal that Reagan made a far greater difference in American society than a couple of other recent two-termers:
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