By Terence Jeffrey
“Today, the United States has reached the statutory debt limit,” Treasury Department Spokeswoman Colleen Murray said in a May 16 statement.
Did it really? Or is the legal debt limit merely a sleight-of-hand tactic in the most high stakes shell game every played?
Take a look at what the Treasury Department has reported on its Daily Treasury Statements since May 16, when Treasury said it had “reached the statutory debt limit.”
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By David Limbaugh
If I’d heard the following words, instead of reading them, I might have assumed they were being delivered by a President Obama impressionist on “Saturday Night Live.”
But the words were from Obama himself in his latest weekly radio address. “I wish I could tell you there was a quick fix to our economic problems,” he said. “But the truth is we didn’t get into this mess overnight, and we won’t get out of it overnight. It’s going to take time.”
Obama has repeated this line ad nauseam ever since it became impossible to deny that reality had shattered his arrogant guarantee, more than two years ago, that he would keep unemployment below 8 percent if we would just pass his $800 billion “stimulus” package.
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By Jack Kelly
Emails from Sarah Palin’s time as Alaska governor “show a double-fisted Blackberry user fully comfortable with handling nearly every aspect of state government,” wrote the McClatchy Newspapers.
The emails paint “a picture of her as an idealistic, conscientious, humorous and humane woman slightly bemused by the world of politics,” said Toby Harnden of the London Telegraph.
“She comes across as practical and not doctrinaire,” wrote Molly Ball in Politico. “She was hands-on and adverse to partisan politics.”
This was not what some journalists expected to write. “If critics were hoping to see Palin revealed as a hypocrite, they’re out of luck,” said Ms. Ball. “Her private statements are in line with her public ones.”
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By Mark Steyn
Last week was a great week for lesbians coming out of the closet – coming out, that is, as middle-aged heterosexual men. On Sunday, Amina Arraf, the young vivacious Syrian lesbian activist whose inspiring blog “A Gay Girl In Damascus” had captured hearts around the world, was revealed to be, in humdrum reality, one Tom MacMaster, a 40-year-old college student from Georgia. The following day, Paula Brooks, the lesbian activist and founder of the website LezGetReal, was revealed to be one Bill Graber, a 58-year-old construction worker from Ohio. In their capacity as leading lesbians in the Sapphic blogosphere, “Miss Brooks” and “Miss Arraf” were colleagues. “Amina” had posted at LezGetReal before starting “A Gay Girl In Damascus.” As one lesbian to another, they got along swimmingly.
You can learn a lot from the deceptions a society chooses to swallow. “Amina Arraf” was a fiction who fit the liberal worldview. That’s because the liberal worldview is a fiction.
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By Cal Thomas
I bet you didn’t know that federal law enforcement officers representing the Department of Education (DOE) can break down your front door if you are suspected of violating the law.
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By Dennis Prager
Conservative Americans, on the other hand, actually believe there is no difference between black and non-black abilities, and therefore see only harm in depicting a substantial percentage of the black population as essentially incapable of obtaining a photo ID.
Which group has more respect for black Americans? The answer is obvious. And one day, most black Americans will know the real answer to that question. That will be the beginning of the final stage of black liberation, as well as the end of the Democratic Party as we now know it.
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The Bunny Brand
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(G)Rex Carpenter King of Bo(D)logna
Sold (G)meat you could actually (C)eat
But food (G)regulations so (D)phony
Put everyone out on the (G)street
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(G)Food laws have outlawed the (D)wholesome
But (G)outbreaks increase by the (C)score
Food (G)cops have outlawed real (D)cider
And raided the Mom and Pop (G)store
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(G)There’s no corned beef made in (D)America
(G)So Irish you need (C)not apply
It (G)all comes from some foreign (D)country
And now don’t you all wonder just (G)why
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(G)The farmers they all bought his (D)Bunny Brand
He (G)bought our young bulls and old (C)cow
The (G)pinkos have killed off the (D)little man
Everything’s big business (G)now
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(G)Now milk is a hazardous (D)toxin
Po(G)lluting all over the (C)land
If(G) you sell your own milk to your (D)neighbor
You’ll come under the laws heavy (G)hand
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By Arnold Ahlert
After two-thirds of a century, one might be inclined to think that more than a few black Americans might be inclined to ask the question, “what have you done for me lately,” as in how come our children keep getting the short end of the educational stick after more than three generations of party loyalty?
Yet in order to ask that question, one must know history and have learned to think for oneself. Knowledge of history and an ability to think independently require a decent education.
Democrats around the nation are making sure that doesn’t happen. In short, union campaign funds are more important than the education of black children, and anyone who thinks otherwise needs to explain how a status quo that ought be considered criminal could survive every challenge that’s been thrown at it.
In New York, black American parents and their children have been sold out by their own Democrat politicians. And now the NAACP is adding insult to injury. Ironically, Rod Paige, United States Secretary of Education from 2001-2005, characterized the racial disparity in education as “the greatest civil rights issue of our time.”
Someone should tell the NAACP.
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Ayn Rand
“A society that robs an individual of the product of his effort, or enslaves him, or attempts to limit the freedom of his mind, or compels him to act against his own rational judgment … is not, strictly speaking, a society, but a mob held together by institutionalized gang-rule.”
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By Jack Kelly
The dimwit ditz has struck again. The anchors on the cable news shows could barely contain their glee as they reported on Sarah Palin’s latest gaffe.
As the former Alaska governor emerged with her family from a visit to the Old North Church in Boston, reporters asked her if she knew who Paul Revere was.
“He who warned the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms,” Ms. Palin responded.
“Of course, Revere was in fact trying to warning Samuel Adams and John Hancock about the approaching British army,” said Sheila Marikar of ABC News. “Had he warned the people with whom America was at war, Palin’s bus tour through the Northeast might have chugged through the Northeast on the left side of the road.”
If you’re a Palin basher, you’ve just had a good laugh. Don’t read the rest of Mr. Kelly’s article and ruin your day.
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