Michelle Malkin writes:

Obama's State of the Union address defiantly pitched a new round of clean energy spending orgies to help the "middle class."

But how have the serial bankruptcies and near-bankruptcies of several federally subsidized solar companies -- all under Obama's watch -- helped anyone but an upper-crust elite of eco-crats and their lobbyists and consultants?

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BBC News reports:

Brazil has overtaken the UK as the world's sixth largest economy, an economic research group has said.

The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said its latest World Economic League Table showed Asian countries moving up and European countries falling back.

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Andrew Malcolm writes at Investors Business Daily:

The economy may be weak, unemployment strong and the first family soon to vacate the White House for another half-month of vacation in Hawaii.

But the Obamas have gone all out in decorating their house this year, including a nearly quarter-ton gingerbread White House.

They have also installed 37 different Christmas trees. Thirty of the trees are live, or were, including one nearly 19-feet tall from Wisconsin. Seven of the three dozen Christmas trees are artificial or homemade including, of course, one from recyclables.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 11:36 AM | Permalink

"Can't afford it," says the employer. Here's the news story, with video.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 06:50 AM | Permalink

Occupy the Rich! The class warfare of "economic justice" is a revolution that eats its children and is now nibbling at "Hollywood's Daryl Hannah, Alec Baldwin, Roseanne Barr."

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 09:20 AM | Permalink

Grant M. Dahl writes at CNSNews.com:

Talk show host Rush Limbaugh observed on his show yesterday that Mitt Romney’s views global warming mirror those of “the current regime,” so a Romney presidency could have a “huge” negative impact on the economy. 

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 07:00 AM | Permalink

Tonight's GOP presidential debate focused on economics, and that is good. However, the debate/discussion would have been much more lively, informative, and revealing if Charlie Rose and Co. had asked the following questions: 

1. Does man live by economics, or bread, alone? Why? Why not? And can you relate your answer to the founding ethos of the United States?

2. How does your economic philosophy differ from that of Barack Obama's?

3. As a constitutionalist (because when president you will have taken an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States), how would your economic policies, limited by constitutional governance so that freedom might grow and thrive, differ from those who reject the Constitution?

Prediction: If the Republican nominee articulates his or her vision for freedom, based on the Constitution and Declaration, over against the failed liberal vision of Barack Obama, the GOP will win with a huge mandate for freedom-oriented change in America. And we may even rediscover a basis for refounding the republic that liberals and secularists have been so busy trying to destroy since the 1960s.

If not, however, if the Republican nominee fails to articulate such a vision, Obama well win again. And there's no telling where that might end.

In this regard, the lessons of history offer little comfort. The human being does not live by bread alone.

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John Rossomando writes at Human Events:

Job creation has been all over President Obama’s lips in the past few weeks, but GOP opponents say his Environmental Protection Agency’s regulatory war on fossil fuels is costing the economy far more than the estimated $447 billion price tag of his jobs proposal.

“The President of the United States wants to destroy American energy,” said Oklahoma GOP Sen. James Inhofe, the ranking member of the Senate Energy and Public Works Committee. “His intention is to kill fossil fuels, which we rely on for 99% of the energy in America.

“All of this killing of our energy supply is not by accident. It’s on purpose.”

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 08:48 AM | Permalink

And at what income point -- with His being incomparably rich, transcendentally successful, and the very quintessence of excellence  -- should we begin hating Him? 

I mean, He does rake in a bit more than $200,000 per year. And it's all tax free.

But is it really only about money?

What about "fairness"? Is that not your real idol and ground of agony?

After all, Mr. Obama and all you true believers in class warfare (RINOs included), is there anything less "fair" than that He is the Creator and we are the creatures?

O, how the idol despises its maker.

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Emily Miller writes at the Washington Times:

Pesident Obama took to the Rose Garden podium on Monday to unveil the latest in his series of misleading and unpopular plans to fix the stalled economy.

Now he wants another $1.5 trillion in government coffers from higher taxes, and he’s waging class warfare to get it.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 07:53 AM | Permalink

Columnist Mona Charen writes:

President Obama and the Democrats are finally happy. Liberated from thoughts of compromise with Republicans, they can fully indulge their most lascivious pleasure -- trashing rich people.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 07:43 AM | Permalink

No only is fly-over country in America swarming with terroristic families and terroristic individuals who insist on balancing their own budgets, and would like to see various levels of government do the same, but also "Tea Party terrorists in charge of both France and Italy are pushing balanced budgets there."

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"Presidential candidate Michele Bachmann says the GOP House should not have agreed to raise the debt ceiling, but instead should have prioritized spending so that the government would stop allocating money it doesn’t have," reports Newsmax.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 08:33 AM | Permalink

With unemployment rising to 9.2%, let me be clear: Obama's ATM (Automatic Tax Machine) is the enemy of job creation and economic growth.

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WND reports:

The United States ranks last among all nations in the world when it comes to its current account balance, astronomically lower than every other economy, the CIA reports.

According to the most recent figures in the CIA World Factbook, America sits at the bottom of 191 nations, with a listed account balance of an astonishing negative $561 billion.

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Caroline May writes at The Daily Caller:

In his mid-April speech on the budget deficit, President Obama echoed conventional wisdom when he cited the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer as a reason to raise taxes on the wealthy in order to reduce the national debt.

Research, published at The Journal of Policy Analysis and Management, from Cornell economist Richard Burkhauser, Joint Committee on Taxation economist Jeff Larrimore, and Indiana University economist Kosali Simon, however, suggests that the president’s piece of conventional wisdom isn’t entirely accurate.

According to the findings, while the rich have indeed been getting richer, for the last 30 years so too have the poor and middle class.

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"The conservative movement and the Republicans are more to blame than the left for the state of the nation due to their past and current passivity, pessimism, and obsession with civility," writes Steve McCann at American Thinker.

Or put it like this: When a stranger enters your home at night and threatens wife, children, life, and limb, the loving thing to do (and the truly civil thing to do) is to kick him out with such force that he never tries that stupidity and immorality ever again -- whether against you, your family, or anyone else. Overcoming evil with good is true civility. 

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 06:30 AM | Permalink

"Regulations Leaves Coastal Economy Dead in the Water" -- "Radical greens are using the devastating earthquake and tsunami in Japan as an excuse to peddle their wacko, pet theories and push for more stringent environmental regulation. Such efforts literally ship U.S. jobs overseas," states an editorial in the Washington Times.

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"If U.S. consumers are in the midst of a green revolution," writes Peter Whoriskey at the Washington Post, "the news hasn't reached car buyers."

Hat tip: FoxNation

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"There was no 'official' announcement" to let Americans know what Barack Obama is doing to Big Oil, says Jane Jamison at American Thinker. "Not in so many words." 

But "connect the dots of what has occurred in just the past two weeks to deep-water oil drilling, shallow-water drilling and oil refining," and the "effect is the same. Barack Obama is shutting down Big Oil."

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 07:34 AM | Permalink

. . . "Don't become 'addicted to borrowing'," headlines Der Spiegel.

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. . . New Zealand. "The brand has spread from the American south to having more than 600 stores around the world," which brings back memories of late nights on Walton Way in Augusta, Ga.

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"Australian public opinion has made history," writes Peter Hartcher at the Sydney Morning Herald. "We have the distinction of becoming the first people in the world to name China as the world's leading economic power -- even before the Chinese themselves."

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And "Spanish newspapers have finally called out the U.S. President for choosing a failed model for a 'Green Economy'," writes David Freddoso at Beltway Confidential.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 09:44 AM | Permalink

This is just one of three sobering economic predictions regarding Obamacare that "financial guru Jim Cramer" made yesterday on "Morning Joe." Here's more from Mark Finkelstein at Newsbusters.

By the way, as Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli of Virginia writes today at American Spectator, something in addition to money is at stake. A little thing call liberty. 

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A human being with unalienable rights endowed by our Creator is a terrible thing to waste.

Or disrespect.

Or treat as fodder for political manipulation based on skin color.

To be put in its place should it get uppity.

But that doesn't stop the Washington steamroller from trying, usually with great success.

But not always, as in the recent case of Sen. Barbara Boxer vs. Mr. Harry Alford, president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.

Ms. Boxer "was given a stern face-to-face reprimand . . . for trying to pit one black group against another instead of addressing issues on their merits.  It’s about time," writes Joseph Klein at Newsreal.

The rarity of a Mr. Alford's backbone in Washington indicates that America is long overdue for a huge dose of uppityness: "Red and yellow, black and white, they're all are precious in His site."

The Steamroller, of course, despises the fact of the preciousness of the individual in the eyes of our Creator.

The Streamroller religiously, yea, cultishly, demands that it decides who and what is precious, who and what has rights, and who and what benefits from "spreading the wealth around." 

You say you want a "human right"?

Show me the money.

Show me the power.

Show me the votes.

And maybe next week my friends and I and the powers-that-be can create a human right for your group. Welcome to the club of god. 

But the Creator's way, and the Founders' way, is a bit different from the current secular status quo.

So precious are human beings created in the image of God that British tyranny was shown the door ca. 1776. And tyrannical American slave-owners had to be undergo a significant attitude adjustment back in the 1860s.

One wonders how patriots of humanity and freedom and dignity under God from yesterday might respond to the challenges of today.

My understanding is that this is just the sort of thing making the rounds at those Tea Parties.   

Related
Black Chamber of Congress CEO vs. Sen. Barbara Boxer -- 2 Videos
How to Have a Race War
The Evil Religious Presidents Do

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"Without a vote from shareholders, one of America's largest corporations has decided to grant its transgender employees special protected status," reports OneNewsNow.

Related:
No McDonald's Today
Perez Hilton: Foul Face of "Gay" Activism
Rosie O'Donnell's Oppressive Coat

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 09:41 AM | Permalink

Moving its European HQ to Switzerland, over "tax concerns."

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 07:22 PM | Permalink

For millions of Americans who understand that freedom precedes profit, Wal-Mart's decision to support a "centerpiece" of Obamacare may mean "Good-Bye Wal-Mart, Hello Target." News and comment provided by Scott Miller at The Conservative Post.

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"It seems America is catching on" to the "Bush and Obama administrations' incipient Fascist corporatism," concludes Matthew Vadum, referencing a Tea Party report by Cody Willard of Fox News.

See also:
How to Argue Like a Fascist
Fascism Is Back

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 08:07 AM | Permalink

From Eric Zimmerman at The Hill's Briefing Room.

People are beginning to take notice of Congresswoman Bachmann's defense of constitutional liberty against the rising socialist tyranny of the Obama era.

Here's a video of her questioning Treasury Secretary Geithner and Fed Chairman Bernanke on matters constitutional. 

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Save the planet, right? Perhaps not, according to this report from CNSNews.com:  

Vaclav Klaus, president of the Czech Republic, told the International Conference on Climate Change that the true aim of environmentalists is to stop global development, not save the planet.
 
Klaus, an economist by trade and a skeptic of the theory of man-made global warming, delivered the keynote speech to an audience of more than 600, including 75 scientists, economists, and environmental policy experts, as the conference got underway in New York City on Sunday.
 
“Their true plans and ambitions: to stop economic development and return mankind centuries back,” he declared. “It is evident that the environmentalists don’t want to change the climate. They want to change our behavior. Their ambition is to control and manipulate us.”

Here's the rest of the story from CNSNews.com.

Posted by Rick Pearcey at 06:02 PM | Permalink

Speaking of Churchill: When Obama Talks, the Market Drops.

Hat Tip: NetRightNation.

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