Bloomberg spends $245,000 employing THREE cooks at Gracie Mansion | Mail Online

Again I ask...ARE YOU AS TIRED OF THIS AS I AM?

When Mayor Bloomberg came into office there was just one executive cook at Gracie Mansion to make the VIP feasts.

Today there are three - costing taxpayers a whopping $245,000 this year.

And despite the big spending cuts the mayor has ordered across every city agency, too many cooks won't be spoiling the broth at the city-owned mansion."

RealClearPolitics - Reagan's True Legacy

It's been more than six years since our nation bid farewell to Ronald Reagan, born 100 years ago this month. Yet it seems at times as though he never left.

Consider how Reagan's name surfaced repeatedly after the most recent State of the Union address, as pundits both liberal and conservative weighed the speech's effectiveness. His photo-shopped image is on the cover of TIME, his arm draped around President Obama."

Memo to Frank Rich – Voters Do Care About the Deficit and Oppose ObamaCare - WSJ.com

In last Sunday's New York Times, Frank Rich claimed that 'voters are not as inflamed about either the deficit or 'Obamacare' as the right keeps claiming,' and took a shot at my Wall Street Journal columns. He wrote that I have been 'reduced to citing polls from either Fox or a Brand X called Resurgent Republic' in my attempt 'to argue Americans share [these] obsessions.'"

Rove: The Politics of Saving 'Granny' - WSJ.com

ObamaCare has recently been dealt three body blows. Speaker John Boehner pushed a bill to repeal it through the House. GOP leader Mitch McConnell will get to put Senate Democrats on record with a vote on repeal as well. And this week, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson declared the law unconstitutional."

Obama issues global warming rules in January, gives GE an exemption in February | Timothy P. Carney | Beltway Confidential | Washington Examiner

We are slowly (!?) becoming The United States of GE!

Last month, the Obama EPA began enforcing new rules regulating the greenhouse gas emissions from any new or expanded power plants.

This week, the EPA issued its first exemption, Environment & Energy News reports:"

Obamacare Meets Its Death Panel - HUMAN EVENTS

I am not, with this post, going to attempt a detailed exposition on Judge Vinson’s ruling that declared the individual mandate unconstitutional and, due to the lack of a severability clause, struck the whole law as unconstitutional. But I will give you a brief overview and direct you to other good sources.

Here are the basics you will need to start your day."

New York City Teachers Union Is Largest Recipient of Obamacare Waiver; Parent AFT Union Spent $1.9 Million on Obama Election | CNSnews.com

Anyone see a trend here?

(CNSNews.com) – The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the union representing New York City’s public school teachers, is the largest beneficiary of a waiver from one of the provisions in the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama last year."

SEIU Gets Three More Obamacare Waivers; Union's PAC Spent $27 Million Backing Obama's Election | CNSnews.com

(CNSNews.com) – Three additional locals of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)--an organization whose political action committee spent $27 million in independent expenditures promoting Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign--received one-year waivers exempting them from complying with a provision in the new health care law."

As Egypt goes offline US gets internet 'kill switch' bill ready

If you watched Egypt...you know how dangerous this is.....

As Egypt's government attempts to crackdown on street protests by shutting down internet and mobile phone services, the US is preparing to reintroduce a bill that could be used to shut down the internet.

The legislation, which would grant US President Barack Obama powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet, would soon be reintroduced to a senate committee, Wired.com reported."

Judge rules healthcare reform unconstitutional | Reuters

U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, ruled that the reform law's so-called 'individual mandate' went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty."

Judge Strikes Down Health Care Law : Roll Call

YIPPEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law has been ruled unconstitutional in its entirety in a legal decision handed down Monday by a federal district judge in Florida."

Scott Brown Has $7M in Bank to Fight Challenge From Right : Roll Call

He doesn't always make me happy either - but who ya gonna call - Ghostbusters? There isn't anyone in the wings and Scott can grab the lunatic middle ground in this State!

He may be an original tea party hero, but Sen. Scott Brown (R) is among a small group of Senate Republicans up for re-election in 2012 likely to face an attack from the right. Among those select few, however, no one has a more impressive bank account than Brown, a former state Senator who famously captured the Massachusetts Senate seat held by the late Sen. Edward Kennedy (D) in early 2010."

O’Reilly: ‘Boehner has to get his emotions under control’; Boehner: ‘I am who I am’ | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Fox host Bill O’Reilly says that Speaker of the House John Boehner needs to sort out his public crying habit, but Boehner said Sunday that he has no plans to change or explain his teary-eyed ways.

“I am who I am,” Boehner said in an interview with Fox’s Chris Wallace that aired Sunday, describing himself as “one of the most transparent people” in Washington.

Further addressing his crying tendency, Boehner said, “I’m not going to apologize for being emotionally attached…to the things I feel strongest about.”"

Bush: I’m done with politics | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Sheer class......

“I don’t want to go out and campaign for candidates. I don’t want to be viewed as a perpetual money-raiser. I don’t want to be on talk shows giving my opinion or second-guessing the current president,” Bush told C-SPAN’s Brian Lamb on Sunday. “I think it’s bad for the country, frankly, to have a former president criticize his successor. Look, it’s tough enough to be president as it is, without a former president undermining [you]. Plus, I don’t want to do that!”"

The Manchurian Candidate - Newsweek

The Huntsmans’ new home in the posh D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama is the prototype of pricey Washington real estate: a tall, boxy structure defined by red brick and right angles. Last spring, Bravo used the space to film its reality show Top Chef: Washington, D.C., but on a Sunday morning in mid-December, the spacious rooms on the first floor were largely unfurnished. “We’ve been living out of boxes for the last two years,” says Jon Huntsman Jr., who resigned the Utah governorship in 2009 to become U.S. ambassador to China. “We’re just now unpacking things we didn’t even remember we had. It’s like Christmas.”"

Report: Huntsman leaving post to prepare for White House run | The Daily Caller - Breaking News, Opinion, Research, and Entertainment

Officials in the Obama administration say they expect former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, a Republican currently serving as the US Ambassador to China, will soon step down to prepare for a possible presidential bid, reports ABC News’ Jake Tapper."

Forced indoors by snowstorms, some Americans recall worst-ever winter of 1789 - Telegraph

Forced to hunker down at home by the worst snowfall in decades, history-minded East Coast residents have been contemplating America's worst winter – the deep freeze of 1789, which was a decisive moment in America's war for independence."

Obama will go down in history as the president who lost Egypt - Haaretz Daily Newspaper | Israel News

Jimmy Carter will go down in American history as 'the president who lost Iran,' which during his term went from being a major strategic ally of the United States to being the revolutionary Islamic Republic. Barack Obama will be remembered as the president who 'lost' Turkey, Lebanon and Egypt, and during whose tenure America's alliances in the Middle East crumbled."