Obama's all classGordon Brown has been given a collection of 25 classic American films on DVD as his official gift from Barack Obama ( Read more... )

I don't even have to break out the bullshit meter on Obama's speech, AP did it for me

Mark Sanford's thoughts on the stimulus bill on CNN.com

The most crucial piece:
" As for the jobs created in the short-term, what's the cost? The Heritage Foundation crunched the president's own numbers and came up with this startling figure: for every single job the bill creates, American taxpayers will spend $223,000 ( Read more... )

Is there really any legitimate reason for wanting control over the census other than redistricting power-plays? GOP threatens legal action over Obama's plan to oversee the 2010 census

US Senator Dianne Feinstein hopes to update President Barack Obama's $838bn economic stimulus package so that American ISPs can deter child pornography, copyright infringement, and other unlawful activity by way of "reasonable network management."

Charles Krauthammer on Obama's stimulus bill

Stimulus bill also gives the federal government control of your health care decisions


More on the same issue from cato-at-liberty.org

Rendition is bad when Bush does it, good when Obama does it?
www.latimes.com/news/la-na-rendition1-2009feb01,0,7548176,full.story

www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/republican-leaders-raise-concerns-acorn-stimulus-dollars/

Remember ACORN? The folks who like to register dead people and Mickey Mouse to vote (for Obama)? Pretty soon your tax money will be funding 'em.

Somebody's gotta pay for the socialism bill... err... stimulus bill...

www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18033.html

A tax cheat is now heading up the IRS:

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has confirmed New York Fed chief Timothy Geithner to be President Barack Obama's secretary of the treasury.

The 60-34 vote puts Geithner at the helm of Obama's plan to rescue the economy from the worst financial crisis in three generations. It also dislodges one of Obama's most ( Read more... )