Bear found downtown near Santa Fe River
Martinez Plans Economic Summit
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| Susana Martinez at RNC Last Week |
Economic Development Secretary Jon Barela said policy recommendations may be incorporated into legislative proposals and the agency's long-term strategic plan for expanding the economy. Barela said the summit needs to consider New Mexico's tax system, infrastructure, economic development incentives and educational programs for preparing a competitive workforce. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Gingrich: Media Replete with "Racially Fixated Minds"
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| Newt Gingrich |
I doubt these attacks will work with voters, since no reasonable person watching the convention could possibly have seen what these media personalities claimed to perceive.
But the charges were all the more outrageous when you looked at the figures appearing on stage.
Now, the media commentators could be forgiven for having missed former Representative and former Democrat Artur Davis--the African American Congressman who submitted Barack Obama's name in nomination four years ago--since MSNBC didn't even air his amazing speech (undoubtedly afraid it would embarrass their commentators and their candidate).
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| Artur Davis - Nominated Barack Obama in 2008 |
But these highly nuanced and racially-fixated minds surely must have noticed that, beside Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan, the faces of the party they were accusing of race-baiting were Marco Rubio, Condoleezza Rice, Ted Cruz, Susana Martinez, and Luis Fortuño.
These people are the stars of the Republican Party. And they're stars not because of their race or their gender, but because they're some of the best, most intelligent, most innovative, most persuasive leaders anywhere in the country.
It must drive the elite media nuts, since they're intent on fabricating racial excuses for the nation's disappointment in its president.
In some cases, it literally did drive them nuts.
When I appeared on MSNBC's Hardball with Chris Matthews earlier in the week, he was eager to discuss a litany of conjured-up charges of racism.
Each was more absurd than the last.
I was race-baiting because I've pointed out that more Americans have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than under any president in American history.
Mitt Romney was race-baiting because he denounced the President's gutting of the welfare work requirement.
Ronald Reagan was race-baiting because he spoke
Chris was not exactly feeling a thrill with my response.
pointed out to him his own prejudiced thinking: the vast majority of people on food stamps and welfare are white. To assume that anyone talking about those services is speaking in racial code is to hold a racial stereotype of those groups yourself, not the other way around.
Housing Bubble Blood Soiled Obama's Litigation Hands
As few as 19 of those 186 clients still own homes with clean credit ratings, following a decade in which Obama and other progressives pushed banks to provide mortgages to poor African Americans.
The startling failure rate among Obama’s private sector clients was discovered during The Daily Caller’s review of previously unpublished court information from the lawsuit that a young Obama helmed as the lead plaintiff’s attorney. [RELATED: Learn about the 186 class action plaintiffs]
Since the mortgage bubble burst, some of his former clients are calling for a policy reversal.
“If you see some people don’t make enough money to afford the mortgage, why would you give them a loan?” asked Obama client John Buchanan. “There should be some type of regulation against giving people loans they can’t afford.”
Banks “were too eager to lend to many who didn’t qualify,” said Don Byas, another client who saw banks lurch from caution to bubble-inflating recklessness. [RELATED: Obama's Citibank plaintiffs hit hard when housing bubble burst] “I don’t care what race you are. … You need to keep financial wisdom [separate] from trying to help your people,” said Byas, an autoworker. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Muslim Brotherhood Government in Egypt To Get Debt Foregiveness From Obama Administration
The administration’s efforts, delayed by Egypt’s political turmoil and by wariness in Washington about new leaders emerging from its first free elections, gained new urgency in recent weeks, even as the United States risks losing influence and investment opportunities to countries like China. President Mohamed Morsi chose China for his first official visit outside of the Middle East. Read full story here: News New Mexico
Noon: How Is It Healthier to be Unemployed?
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| Marita Noon |
This week, at the Democratic National Convention the word “jobs” is sure to, once again, be a popular topic.
As Vice President Biden famously said, referencing the number one issue facing the middle class, “it happens to be, as Barack says, a three-letter word: jobs. J-O-B-S.”
That “three-letter word” may be the only thing the two parties agree on—and how each would get there is totally different.
In Tampa, Romney said: “What is needed in our country today is not complicated or profound. It doesn't take a special government commission to tell us what America needs. What America needs is jobs. Lots of jobs. … I am running for president to help create a better future. A future where everyone who wants a job can find one. Where no senior fears for the security of their retirement. An America where every parent knows that their child will get an education that leads them to a good job and a bright horizon. And unlike the President, I have a plan to create 12 million new jobs. It has 5 steps. First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables.” (Italics added.) The Romney plan starts with another word we are hearing, and will continue to hear, a lot of: “energy.” Read full column here: News New Mexico
Hmmmm - Photo ID Required at DNC Convention
Low and behold we found a very troubling page on the Democratic National Convention website. It requires all people to register for the convention. OK that is fair enough. But get this......the page reveals an interesting policy: “All pickup persons must have a state-issued ID that matches the name submitted.”
Finally we have a complete understanding of the principle of requiring photo identification. When Democrats require photo identification it is perfectly normal. The reason is simple. All citizens are required to provide photo ID’s for various reasons during the normal course of day-to-day activities. However, when Republicans support rules requiring voters to provide photo ID's to protect legitimate voters from having their votes cancelled out by fraudulently cast votes, it.....well......it is because of …………..um ........... "racism."
Red Dots of Reality
Below is a chart the Obama Administration produced to sell the massive government stimulus plan to the American public. The dark blue line depicts the administration's projection of the unemployment rate with the passage of its stimulus package. The light blue line shows the admnistration's projections without the stimulus.
The red dotted line shows the ACTUAL unemployment rate after the Obama stimulus package was passed by super majorities in both the House and the Senate and the federal government borrowed $800 billion.
Ooops! Upon Further Reflection O'Malley Retracts "NO" Response to "Are You Better Off?"
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| Martin O'Malley |
One day later — and presumably, one Cory Booker-esque call from Team Obama — suddenly the world looks a lot rosier to Governor O’Malley: A day after saying, no, the country was not better off than it was four years ago, Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley reversed course on Monday and said, yes, indeed it was.
“We are clearly better of as a country because we’re now creating jobs rathare than losing them,” O’Malley, a Democrat, said on CNN’s Starting Point. “But we have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That’s why we need to continue to move forward.”
He then motioned to a panel that included Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, among others. “Is there anyone on this panel that thinks we’ve recovered all we lost in the Bush recession? Clearly we’re moving forward, we’re creating jobs, unemployment is down, job creation is up. And that job creation would not happen without the president’s leadership.” Read full story here: News New Mexico
Democratic Governor Martin O'Malley Admits We Are NOT Better Off After Four Years of Obama
Appearing on CBS's Face the Nation, host Bob Schieffer asked O'Malley: “Can you honestly say that people are better off today than they were four years ago?”
O’Malley's reply was as follows: “No, but that's not the question of this election. The question, without a doubt, we are not as well off as we were before George Bush brought us the Bush job losses, the Bush recession, the Bush deficits, the series of desert wars -- charged for the first time to credit cards, the national credit card.” Apparently even Democratic sympathizer Schieffer was not impressed. Rather than immediately ask another question he told O'Malley, “George Bush is not on the ballots.”
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