Obama And That Other Ponzi Scheme – December 31, 2008

President-elect’s name may emerge in Norman Hsu fraud trial
DECEMBER 31–As if being linked to one high-profile criminal case weren’t enough, President-elect Barack Obama’s name may soon pop up in another federal prosecution, this one involving a massive Ponzi scheme no, the other massive Ponzi scheme. In addition to the Rod Blagojevich pay-for-play probe, Obama could [...]

Cartoons of the Week (12/31/08)

Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns

Thanks to Hamas’ stupid, provocative, and self-defeating rocket assault on, well, nothing, in Israel, the Middle East that Barack Obama will inherit from George W. Bush just got a lot more complicated. And, sadly, Obama seems content to fiddle while Gaza burns.
via Obama Fiddles While Gaza Burns.

Barack Obama Will Ration Your Health Care – WSJ.com

By SALLY C. PIPES
People are policy. And now that President-elect Barack Obama has fielded his team of Tom Daschle as secretary of Health and Human Services and Melody Barnes as director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, we can predict both the strategy and substance of the new administration’s health-care reform.
The prognosis is not [...]

IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — Memo To Obama: Cut Taxes For All

Economy: President-elect Obama is letting his outline for economic recovery dribble out into the media ever so slowly. But from what we’ve seen, the plan seems less like stimulus and more like redistribution.
via IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — Memo To Obama: Cut Taxes For All.

Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times from Campaign 2008

The theme from 2008: The hopeful Obama vs. the fallen “maverick” McCain.
via Top 10 Lowlights of the New York Times from Campaign 2008.

Floyd and Mary Beth Brown : What Did Barack Obama Know and When Did He Know it? – Townhall.com

On December 23, when all of us were busy wrapping gifts and preparing for Christmas, the Obama team issued a report exonerating everyone on his team of any wrongdoing in the scandal to sell Obama’s Senate seat to the highest bidder.
However, the report written by Greg Craig, famous for fighting the Clinton impeachment, raises more [...]

Op-Ed Columnist – You’re Likable Enough, Gay People – NYTimes.com

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As we saw during primary season, our president-elect is not free of his own brand of hubris and arrogance, and sometimes it comes before a fall: “You’re likable enough, Hillary” was the prelude to his defeat in New Hampshire. He has hit this same note again by assigning the invocation at his inauguration to the [...]

Obama bristles as the bubble closes in on him – Carol E. Lee – Politico.com

HONOLULU – The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.
Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands [...]

American Thinker: The Unitarian Church and Obama’s Religious Upbringing

With the media carefully pretending not to notice, Barack Obama’s choice to hold a memorial service December 23 for his late grandmother Madelyn “Toot” Dunham at Honolulu’s First Unitarian Church underlines one part of the story of Barack Obama’s leftist religious upbringing.
via American Thinker: The Unitarian Church and Obama’s Religious Upbringing.