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Obama Talks Job Growth While Killing Good Jobs

November 19th, 2009 · No Comments

During an interview that aired yesterday on Fox News Channel, President Barack Obama told Fox’s Major Garrett that his focus remains on job growth.  If he’s honest about wanting to keep Americans working, he should take note of the testimony of Mike Carey, president of the Ohio Coal Association, delivered before the Senate Environment and [...]

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Flashback: 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama

November 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Today, I offer a flashback to a post I published one year ago today which offered 10 Reasons Not to Elect Barack Obama president of the United States.  Was I right? 1. Obama said he wants to establish a civilian national security force and, in doing so, further enlarge the federal government. 2.  Obama said [...]

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Obama ‘Cap and Trade’ Energy Tax Plan Costly

March 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments

President Barack Obama’s “cap and trade” energy tax plan is drawing a lot of negative attention this week — and for several good reasons! Yesterday, officials at the American Petroleum Institute issued the following statement that is critical of the plan: “The White House’s unofficial new estimate for the cost of capping the nation’s greenhouse [...]

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‘Electricity Costs Would Skyrocket’ Under Obama

November 3rd, 2008 · 5 Comments

In response to my inquiry about whether St. Louis-based Peabody Energy (NYSE: BTU), the world’s largest private-sector coal company, had any reaction to the content of the San Francisco Chronicle audio which ends with Barack Obama saying he would take steps to effectively “bankrupt the coal industry,” I received the following statement from company spokesperson [...]

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Answers Reveal Much About McCain, Obama

September 26th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Partnership for a Secure America, a group that recently gave the U.S. Government a “C” grade for its efforts to prevent a nuclear, chemical or biological terror attack on America, used a news release this morning to raise five questions (below) for Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain to answer.  Those questions appear below, [...]

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Joe ‘Gaffe-Machine’ Biden Earns Headlines

September 24th, 2008 · 2 Comments

Vice presidential nominee Joe “Gaffe-Machine” Biden had “bad days” in the headlines this week and stands at risk of being thrown under the bus by the man atop the Democratic Party ticket, Barack Obama.  A sampling of headlines from the nation’s newspapers appears below: New York Post: Joe Gets Taken To The Woodshed” (Geoff Earle, [...]

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