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Ronald Reagan used to say, “the most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the government and I’m here to help.” Neil Barofsky, the Inspector General of TARP programs, released a report that documents the ruinous effects Obama has had on the economy. The report identifies President Obama as being responsible for the destruction of “tens of thousands” of jobs in the auto industry alone. From the New York Times:

The report by Neil M. Barofsky, the special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program of the Treasury Department, said both carmakers needed to shut down some underperforming dealerships. But it questioned whether the cuts should have been made so quickly, particularly during a recession. The report, released on Sunday, estimated that tens of thousands of jobs were lost as a result.

“It is not at all clear that the greatly accelerated pace of the dealership closings during one of the most severe economic downturns in our nation’s history was either necessary for the sake of the companies’ economic survival or prudent for the sake of the nation’s economic recovery,”

The report also detailes how the forcible shutdowns seemed almost entirely arbitrary

President Obama appointed two men, with precisely zero experience in the automotive industry, to oversee the auto bailouts. As such, decisions  on which dealerships to close and which to leave open appear to have been made with about as sound reasoning as an Earl Warren ruling. The result – “tens of thousands” of Americans needlessly lost their jobs. In many cases long-running family businesses were shutdown in a matter of weeks because some amorphous government bureaucrat, with no knowledge of the industry, decided the dealership no longer made sense.

This is what happens when the government intervenes in the private sector. No president should use the government to run any private businesses. In this case, the Obama administration is uniquely unqualified to handle any private sector business, as O’s team has the least private sector experience of any administration in over a century. The government is incapable of running the auto industry, healthcare , the financial sector, energy companies, or any other private sector businesses. In addition, the private sector is expressly  out of the purview of the federal government. When the government interferes in private business the state continues to metastasize, the Constitution is trampled upon and the net effect on individuals is uniformly calamitous. When it comes to the auto industry, Obama’s reckless and unfounded policies are destroying the United States economy, “tens of thousands” of jobs at a time.

Tags: Barack Obama, Chrysler, GM, TARP

And what better day to celebrate such a wondrous occasion than September 12th.

I saw this story on Fox & Friends this morning and couldn’t believe it.

So, it’s the middle of the summer, and your family and kids need something to do. You decide to take them to an amusement park. Best to avoid Six Flags . . . unless you’re Muslim. If you are, the red carpet is rolled out on the most interesting of dates, September 12th. I’m sure that this is the day after 9/11 is just coincidence, right?

The always fun Six Flags amusement park has included in their calendar of events for the summer and fall a day for Muslim families to have their run of the park. While I don’t quite see the point, if the company feels it would be good for business, then that’s fine. However, I can’t help but question the motive behind choosing the day after 9/11 to hold this momentous occasion. My theory is that the conversation could have gone one of three ways:

“Hey Bob, we don’t have anything going on on September 12th. Do you want to just have the Muslim Family Day then?”
“Isn’t that close to 9/11?”
“Oh no one cares/will notice.”

OR

“Hey Bob, I just realized that Muslim Family Day was scheduled on September 11th.”
“Crap.”
“Don’t worry, I moved it back a day. No one will notice now.”

OR

“Hey Akhmed, I have this totally awesome idea for Muslim Family Day.”
“What’s that Mohammad?”
“Well, let’s hold it on September 12th. It’s not 9/11…but it’s close enough that we can still stick it to the infidels, right?”
“Allahu Akbar.”

Just a theory.

In any case, I’m not denying that Six Flags has a right to hold whatever events they want on whatever days they want. However, just as building a mosque within steps of the site of Ground Zero is a slap in the face to the victims of the horrific terror attacks, having a day that celebrates family-friendly Islam (apparently Joe’s Honor Killin’ Shack is staying open an hour late!) seems to be a deliberate attempt to show that the Qur’anic mission of conquering the world and replacing it with testaments to Islam is slowly materializing.

On a side note, check out this Muslim babe sporting this season’s latest swimwear fashions:

She was later beheaded

Tags: 9/11, Debbie Schlussel, Islam, Six Flags

On this Strictly Right, Andrew and Ari chat about political correctness in the healthcare system, Obama’s ‘big lie’ when it comes to healthcare, and whether or not Obama is Carter 2.0. All this and a great interview with Senator Pamela Gorman!

You can listen to this episode online here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Tags: Arizona, Barack Obama, Healthcare, Immigration, Jimmy Carter, Obamacare, Pamela Gorman, Political Correctness

If he were Muslim, this would be a hate crime.

Russia reacted with horror today over the heartbreaking story of a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family who was sent back to Moscow alone – because his U.S. mother didn’t want him any more.

Little Artem Saveliev was last year taken from a grim orphanage and given a new life in Tennessee last year.

But his adoptive mother Torry-Ann Hansen, a 34-year-old nurse, yesterday put him on a ten-hour flight as an unaccompanied minor with a note ‘to whom it may concern’ saying: ‘I no longer wish to parent this child’.

In his rucksack, she had placed sweets, biscuits and colouring pens for the journey.

Russia reacted with horror today over the heartbreaking story of a seven-year-old Siberian boy adopted by an American family who was sent back to Moscow alone – because his U.S. mother didn’t want him any more.

Little Artem Saveliev was last year taken from a grim orphanage and given a new life in Tennessee last year.

But his adoptive mother Torry-Ann Hansen, a 34-year-old nurse, yesterday put him on a ten-hour flight as an unaccompanied minor with a note ‘to whom it may concern’ saying: ‘I no longer wish to parent this child’.

In his rucksack, she had placed sweets, biscuits and colouring pens for the journey.

But hey, at least she gave him sweets for the road!

Tags: Adoption, Children, Daily Mail, Idiots, Russia

Back when President George W. Bush was in office I sent a letter requesting he pardon Black. Apparently it got lost in the mail. Either way, I was quite pleased to see that media magnate Conrad Black (formerly known as Lord Black of Crossharbour) has been released from Florida’s Coleman Federal Correctional Complex on bail pending his appeal hearings. Now, Black was given a 10-year prison sentence for doing some questionable accounting with his companies. Was it wrong? Yeah. Was it worth 10 years in jail? I would say not. Especially when pedophile movie directors are exempt from punishment because they popped out a good movie 20 years ago (see: Roman Polanski.)

Whether or not Black will win his appeal is unknown at this time. But he gets to enjoy Florida in the summertime regardless!

Tags: Conrad Black, Crime, Law & Order

I don’t normally get too involved in local races at the state or provincial level. However, a candidate running for Michigan’s state house has caught my eye as a result of the national media attention he’s received. in 2008, Dennis Lennox (R-Topinabee) was elected to become Cheboygan County’s drain commissioner in Northern Michigan. The most amusing part of his position? Cheboygan County doesn’t have any drains that need commissioning. Running on a platform of abolishing the position, Lennox quickly became a rising star in politics, getting national media coverage for being one of the few politicians truly committed to cutting down wasteful spending, even if it would mean them losing their jobs!

Lennox was considering a run against turncoat Congressman Bart Stupak, but decided he could better serve his community, his state, and his country by replacing outgoing State House Minority Leader, Rep. Kevin Elsenheimer (R-MI105.) Not only has Lennox signed a pledge to never raise taxes, but he’s been endorsed by local pro-life groups, and has established himself as a true conservative, even representing the Republican Party abroad through the International Democratic Union.

You can learn more about Dennis Lennox at his website. Whether or not you live in Michigan, this is the type of candidate worth throwing your financial support behind.

Here’s a television ad that was released this week:

Tags: Cheboygan County, Conservatism, Dennis Lennox, Elections2010, International Democratic Union, Michigan

Best. Product. Ever. And yes, by the way, it’s real.

Tags: Barack Obama, Capitalism, Joe Biden

On this Strictly Right, Andrew and Ari look at Twilight’s biggest fans at Gitmo, Vodka-filled Russians drowning, the truth behind the Bush tax cuts and the deficit, Obama’s nosediving poll numbers and much more.

You can listen to this episode online here or subscribe to the podcast in iTunes.

Tags: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Bay, Russia, Twilight, Vodka

I wish.

A Conservative MP today declared he would refuse to meet Muslim women wearing full Islamic dress at his constituency surgery unless they lifted their face veil.

Phillip Hollobone made the comments after launching a Private Member’s Bill to ban women in the UK wearing the burka or niqab in public places.

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Mr Hollobone told the Independent: ‘I would ask her to remove her veil. If she said: “No”, I would take the view that she could see my face, I could not see hers, I am not able to satisfy myself she is who she says she is. I would invite her to communicate with me in a different way, probably in the form of a letter.’

He added that the majority of Muslim women wore dress allowing people to see their face and claimed wearing the burka or niqab was not a religious requirement.

‘It is not a necessity,‘ he said.

‘I just take what I regard as a common sense view. If you want to engage in normal, daily, interactive dialogue with your fellow human beings, you can only really do this properly by seeing each other’s face.

The Burka discussion has been one that’s been going on around the world for quite some time, but there seems to be an influx in recent months of governments actually having the balls to do something about it. French President Nicolas Sarkozy was the first Western leader to actively campaign for a full-out ban on the walking prisons. In the Canadian province of Quebec, a rule was implemented that in order to receive any sort of government services (including a public school education,) you could not wear a Burka or Niqab.

The Left constantly chants about the necessity of religious freedom as guaranteed in nearly every Western country. However, all freedoms have their limits. And religious freedoms only apply until they violate one’s right to life, liberty, and security. I find it quite amusing that the radical feminazis who see sexism in a bowl of alphabet soup have no issue with the Islamic objectification of women who risk having their hands chopped off it a finger slips out of their containment unit. Perhaps there’s an alternate agenda for these female freedom fighters?

Either way, this brave member of parliament will risk the standard accusations of being a racist, Islamophobic hatemonger. Depending on his district, he may even risk his electoral fate because of this decision. But it’s this sort of bravery and refusal to conform to political correctness that makes him a breath of fresh air in any government.

Tags: Burqa, Feminism, France, Islam, Nicolas Sarkozy, Phillip Hollobone, Political Correctness, Quebec, United Kingdom

As Lorne Gunter says, “OMG! Say it isn’t so!”

A new study shows that immigrants are more than four times more likely to be unable to swim than people born in Canada. As a result, they are at a greater risk for drowning, according to the Ipsos Reid Public Affairs study commissioned by the Lifesaving Society.The findings released on Thursday confirm what drowning-prevention experts have suspected for nearly a decade, Lifesaving Society public education director Barbara Byers said.

“For the first time, we have scientific, evidence-based data to support what our hypothesis was: that new Canadians have a higher drowning rate,” she said.

This goes right into the “issues I don’t care about” stack, in case anyone was wondering.

Speaking of drowning foreigners…

Tags: Canada, Immigration, Lifesaving Society, Lorne Gunter, National Post, Russia