Obama lied. Again.

While running for President.

And the Lame Stream Media didn't bother vetting him.  Time to stop trusting them.  Or at least keep a large salt shaker close at hand.

Economic news "unexpectedly" not good

Factory orders drop in April across the board

Want to know why the economy has seen jobs eroding over the last two months?  Today’s report from the Commerce Department on factory orders gives an unpleasant explanation.  Orders fell by 0.6%, the third decline in this area in four months and a demonstration that falling demand is becoming a serious issue:

New orders for manufactured goods in April, down three of the last four months, decreased $2.9 billion or 0.6 percent to $466.0 billion, the U.S. Census Bureau reported today. This followed a 2.1 percent March decrease. Excluding transportation, new orders decreased 1.1 percent. Shipments, down following four consecutive monthly increases, decreased $1.5 billion or 0.3 percent to $473.2 billion. This followed a 0.1 percent March increase. Unfilled orders, down following twenty-seven consecutive monthly increases, decreased $0.8 billion or 0.1 percent to $985.4 billion. This followed a slight March increase. The unfilled orders-to-shipments ratio was 6.33, up from 6.29 in March. Inventories, up twenty-two of the last twenty-three months, increased $0.1 billion to $607.2 billion. This was at the highest level since the series was first published on a NAICS basis in 1992 and followed a 0.1 percent March increase. The inventories-to-shipments ratio was 1.28, unchanged from March.

 More details from Hot Air.  This is hardly the economic recovery Obama promised.

Agenda 21 update, from Lord Monckton

Lord Monckton, an out-spoken critic of Agenda 21 and so-called "climate change" (read "massive financial global scam"), discusses Rio 21.  He's a great speaker, and well worth the time to hear.  But it is long -- about an hour:

 

Thanks to Donna for the link!

Is Obama losing his halo?

 Obama's 2008 Donors Don't Give In 2012

 In 2008, more than 550,000 gave more than $200 to Barack Obama, entering their names in the longest list of individual donors ever seen in American politics.

That list was a snapshot of the hope Obama inspired in a cross sections of liberals, young professionals, African-Americans, and Democrats who saw in him a generational and historic moment. But now, as Obama struggles to keep pace with his 2008 fundraising clip, that list offers a cross-section of Democratic disappointment and alienation. According to a BuzzFeed analysis of campaign finance data, 88% of the people who gave $200 or more in 2008 — 537,806 people — have not yet given that sum this year. And this drop-off isn’t simply an artifact of timing. A full 87% of the people who gave $200 — the sum that triggers an itemized report to the Federal Elections Commission — through April of 2008, 182,078 people, had not contributed by the end of last month.

Interviews with dozens of those drop-off donors reveal the stories of Democrats who still plan to pull the lever for the president, but whose support has gone from fervent to lukewarm, or whose economic circumstances have left them without money to spare. The interviews and the data are the substance of an “enthusiasm gap” spurred by the distance between the promise of the campaign and the reality of governing, one that has begun to deepen Democratic gloom about this November’s election.

 The rest (including a map showing the geographic distribution) is here.

This is possibly indicative of disillusionment in Obama.  Possibly indicative.  Because the economy is bad, and other pundits suspect that Obama supports are giving less because they have less to give.

Which means it either demonstrates growing disenchantment in Obama, or that the economy is worse than the Obama Administration will admit.

This is not necessarily good news, economically, but it is interesting from the political perspective.  Who knows?  Maybe Obama will go in November.

"Fast and Furious", redux

Mexico upset by Fast and Furious as revelation surfaces that Obama accepts killing as part of presidency

Mexico’s ambassador to the United States detailed last week how the administration of President Barack Obama left his government in the dark while arming violent drug cartel criminals through Operation Fast and Furious.

Last Thursday, Mexican ambassador to the U.S. Arturo Sarukhan told a forum on Capitol Hill that the Obama administration’s handling of the operation demonstrated an “outstanding lack of understanding of how criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders.”

The operation led to the killing of hundreds of Sarukhan’s fellow citizens and two American law enforcement agents: Border Patrol agent Brian Terry and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent Jaime Zapata. The identities of the countless Mexican victims are unknown.

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“Regardless of whether this was or was not the intent or the design of Fast and Furious, the thinking that you can let guns walk across the border and maintain operational control of those weapons is really an outstanding lack of understanding of how these criminal organizations are operating on both sides of our common borders,” Sarukhan said, adding that he thinks the Obama administration had significantly damaged its popularity in Mexico.

The revelation that Mexico was kept in the dark as the Obama administration pumped thousands of weapons into the hands of criminals in its country – criminals who then used the weapons to kill people – comes after news broke that President Barack Obama thinks it’s part of his job as president to kill people, as detailed in a soon-to-be-released book by Newsweek investigative reporter Daniel Klaidman.

The rest of the article is here, but it boggles the mind in so many ways, that it's hard to describe.  So, two points:

First, Obama seems to be blase about killing people.  While the possibility of taking a life should always be kept in mind, especially for the Commander-In-Chief, one should not treat that possibility lightly.  Obama appears to do so.

Second, Mexico seems to have implied that the Obama administration is guilty of war crimes.  I'm no lawyer, but complicity (at the least!) in mass murders across international boundaries appears to be a war crime.  Certainly George Bush was accused of that, on far shakier evident.  Yet, not one word of this speech has hit the main stream media. 

At the least, "Fast and Furious" is certainly bringing out the worse in the Obama Administration, and the main stream media.  At the worst, innocent people are dying, and we are losing our freedoms. 

Romney selects Transistion Leader and House liaison

One of the biggest threats to our liberty is Obamacare.  Romney knows that this is a major concern of Americans.  Yet.....

Romney's Transition Leader Favors Implementing Obamacare

One of the few Republicans in the country who's been tirelessly pushing for the implementation of Obamacare at the state level has been tapped to head Mitt Romney's transition team, should he become president.

Former HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt, and his consulting group Leavitt Partners, are the primary advocates within Republican circles for implementation of Obamacare's exchanges. It just so happens that his consultancy is one of the major beneficiaries of the taxpayer funded gold mine of hundreds of millions of dollars in exchange implementation grants. But that's a coincidence, of course.

Leavitt has said some relatively positive things about certain elements of Obama’s health reform law, suggesting earlier this year that “Obamacare” empowers the HHS secretary “to do certain things that are clearly aimed at trying to move us in the right direction.”

McKeown, who still works with Leavitt at his Utah-based health care consultancy, acknowledged that the former governor does not want to undo one key part of the controversial legislation.
“We believe that the exchanges are the solution to small business insurance market and that’s gotten us sideways with some conservatives,” he said.

The exchanges are not only a matter of principle for Leavitt — they’re also a cash cow.
The size of his firm, Leavitt Partners, doubled in the year after the bill was signed as they won contracts to help states set up the exchanges funded by the legislation.

The rest of the story is here.

For better or for worse, Romney appears to be the GOP candidate opposing Obama.  If he is, then we need to make sure Romney understands that Obamacare needs to go.  And in an oddly related twist of fate, the residents of Eastern Washington may have a path to Romney on this and other subjects: his go-between with the House of Representatives (more below the fold).

Big Government gone wild

Again. 

A man sends a simple, non-threatening e-mail to the EPA, and gets a visit from armed Federal and local law enforcement officers.  According to the article, the Feds drove for 4 hours to make this visit.  So it wasn't a casual event.

Forward this to your friends.

The Tea Party, past, present, and future

A look at the future of the Tea Party, based on our successes, by Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit.  And not the wishful thinking of people who don't like what we stand for.  

A Tea Party I-told-you-so

Back when the Tea Party was new, I wrote in these pages that it was going to be big -- very big. When it was a year old, I wrote that the Tea Party movement was going to have an unglamorous, but effective future. After the 2010 congressional elections, when the Tea Party put an end to the Obama Democrats' congressional dominance, a lot of people seemed to think the Tea Party was pretty important.

But then, last year, the pundits forgot about the Tea Party movement and started rhapsodizing the Occupy Wall Street movement. The Tea Party was old news -- now it was the Occupiers who were going to change American politics.

That ended once journalists and pundits realized that the scruffy, anarchic -- and often criminal -- Occupy protesters were alienating voters and not accomplishing much. And I wrote here that Occupy Wall Street Gets The Ink, Tea Party Gets The Voters. And that's pretty much how it's turned out.

Do read it all -- it's well the time (and the advertising pop ups, so be warned).

The Department of What?

Once again, the Department of Justice fails to live up to its name.

Feds to Florida: halt non-citizen voter purge

The Justice Department told Florida election officials that they must stop their non-citizen voters purge. Florida argues it is not violating any law.

The Justice Department ordered Florida’s elections division to halt a systematic effort to find and purge the state’s voter rolls of noncitizen voters.

Florida’s effort appears to violate both the 1965 Voting Rights Act, which protects minorities, and the 1993 National Voter Registration Act – which governs voter purges – T. Christian Herren Jr., the Justice Department’s lead civil rights lawyer, wrote in a detailed two-page letter sent late Thursday night.

State officials said they were reviewing the letter. But they indicated they might fight DOJ over its interpretation of federal law and expressed frustration that President Barack Obama’s administration has stonewalled the state’s noncitizen voter hunt for nine months.

“We are firmly committed to doing the right thing and preventing ineligible voters from being able to cast a ballot,” said Chris Cate, spokesman for Secretary of State Ken Detzner, who was ordered by Gov. Rick Scott to conduct the search for potentially ineligible voters.

Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/05/31/2826708/feds-demand-florida-cease-its.html#storylink=cpy

The rest is here.  There's a legitimate concern about a flawed approach by the state, but the DoJ's general lack of support for preventing illegal voting makes this move suspect.

Good Morning, America

 From Roger Simon, writing for PJ Media.  As he says, liberalism is not only dead, it's decomposing, and we need to bury it this November.

America Gets a Wake-Up Call

Reading the unemployment numbers for May (can you imagine what the real ones would be?), your lefty-liberal friends should be ashamed of themselves — at least those that aren’t committed, Cloward-Piven style, to the fall of the U.S. You know, those who wish to bankrupt our country so that it can be rebuilt as a glorious socialism… like, say, Czechoslovakia circa 1962.

But what we have may be worse than Cloward–Piven. It’s accidental Cloward-Piven. Cloward-Piven out of ineptitude.

I don’t need to see Obama’s hidden college grades. I know he’s a failure.

The rest is here.  Pass it on to your friends.