Obama Administration

bfwebster on February 23rd, 2011

Despite occasional efforts by progressives to assure us that the deficit doesn’t matter, or doesn’t matter that much, it does. Our country is bankrupt. It’s not bankrupt in 30 years or five years. It’s bankrupt today. Want proof? Look at President Barack Obama’s 2010 budget. It showed a massive fiscal gap over the next 75 [...]

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bfwebster on February 2nd, 2011

Earlier today, a good friend of mine cited the Federal budget surpluses at the end of the Clinton Administration as an argument for higher taxes. I pointed out that if we had the same Federal budget as Clinton did, we’ve have a surplus, too. Then I put together this chart from a spreadsheet downloaded directly [...]

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bfwebster on January 27th, 2011

Yes, Dennis Kusinich is suing the House of Representatives Cafeteria for $150,000 because he bit into an unpitted olive: The Cleveland Democratic congressman’s lawsuit seeks $150,000 in damages from companies that operate the Longworth House Office Building’s cafeteria. It says he bought the suspicious sandwich wrap “on or about April 17, 2008,” and eating it caused ”permanent [...]

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bfwebster on January 26th, 2011

Yeah, I’m back blogging, a bit at a time. The San Diego City Council, having passed one of those lame anti-Walmart superstore ordinances, is now having to backtrack after Walmart managed to get over 50,000 petition signatures in less that three weeks to put the ordinance to an actual public vote: The ordinance approved in [...]

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bfwebster on November 24th, 2010

As I’ve posted here before, I grew up with the Space Age and worked at NASA just on the Space Shuttle flight simulators just prior to the first Shuttle launch. I desperately want to see humans back into space — beyond LEO (low Earth orbit) — on a permanent basis. But I also agree with [...]

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bfwebster on November 17th, 2010

Courtesy of the Huffington Post: WASHINGTON — At a private meeting on Tuesday afternoon, George Soros, a longtime supporter of progressive causes, voiced blunt criticism of the Obama administration, going so far as to suggest that Democratic donors direct their support somewhere other than the president. The Hungarian-American financier was speaking to a small side [...]

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

For those wondering, here’s some information on the singer’s reference to “2257″. Hat tip to Paul Chesser over at the American Spectator blog.

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bfwebster on November 16th, 2010

Robert Samuelson is, in my opinion, one of the most level-headed and independent business/economics journalists around. I don’t always agree with him — but when I don’t, I strongly consider that I may be wrong. His latest piece can probably be read as another shot across the bow of the stimulus efforts coming from the Fed [...]

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bfwebster on September 28th, 2010

Five weeks and counting until election day. Look for more posts here.  ..bruce..

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bfwebster on September 4th, 2010

Hat tip to Gerard Van der Leun at American Digest. ..bruce w..

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