Arizona Massacre Prompts Political 'Cheap Shots'

When Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords collapsed outside the Safeway in Tucson Saturday morning, felled by a hail of bullets that killed six and wounded another 13 innocent people that had come to see her, some were quick to claim that the carnage was the product not merely of the tortured mind and trigger-happy fingers of the alleged shooter, 22-year-old Jared Lee Loughner.

Rather, many on the American Left said the horror could be traced to the malign influence of American conservatives; members of the Tea Party; right-wing pundits Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck; former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin; and Fox News.

That was the narrative of culpability spun in the immediate aftermath of the shootings by some leading liberal commentators and Democratic politicians -- despite warnings from religious leaders, lawyers, academics, ethicists, reporters and historians that such a rush to judgment only further deepens the partisan divide in America, and further poisons its discourse.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/01/10/arizona-massacre-prompts-political-cheap-shots/

House GOP Preparing Major Investigations of Obama Administration

President Barack Obama and the Democrats will face a newly invigorated House Republican leadership this week with sweeping plans for congressional investigations into a wide range of issues.

Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., who will become chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee when the 112th Congress is sworn in Wednesday, told The Washington Post he plans to lead six major investigations in the first three months of the year. That will call for a grueling schedule, since congressional investigations often take months to bear fruit.

On Issa’s list:

• WikiLeaks' release of classified diplomatic cables
• Recalls at the Food and Drug Administration
• The role of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in the foreclosure crisis
• The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission's failure to identify the origins of the meltdown
• Alleged corruption in Afghanistan 

Read more: Issa, House GOP Preparing Major Investigations of Obama Administration
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http://townhall.com/cartoons/2011/1/4/77073

What the .......?

How come unemployment is still up?

 It don't take a rocket scientist to figure that one out! Millions of U.S. manufacturing jobs have moved overseas. Why you ask? Well one reason could be the fact that in China and other countries the manufacturing industry is not choked down with government anti- pollution  and tree hugging  regulations. To much of a good thing will kill anything!
If a U.S. company can make a bigger profit by paying less taxes and having less restrictions placed on them, why blame them for outsourcing? So you should thank our government politicians (Gore) for one of the reasons you can't found a job.

Arizona Racing Agency Ignoring Immigration Violations

A state ombudsman's report says the Arizona Department of Racing is licensing improperly documented aliens to work at horse- and dog-racing tracks in violation of the law.

The report from Patrick Shannahan, Arizona ombudsman and citizens aide, says Racing Department stewards and administrators do not uphold immigration statutes or consistently enforce visa requirements for foreign workers.

"ADOR did not uniformly take action to suspend licenses when documentation had expired or was otherwise deficient, inconsistently handled immigration documentation, misinterpreted immigration laws . . . and failed to comply with public records law," the report says.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/news/election/azelections/articles/2010/12/31/20101231arizona-racing-industry-immigration-law-violations.html#ixzz19hEJkWVO

http://www.azcentral.com/

http://townhall.com/cartoons/2010/12/29/76893

Obama's Czars: The Hidden Government

They enjoy wide-ranging bureaucratic authority beyond the purview of Congress, earn six-figure salaries, and exhibit political views that reflect a distinct tilt to the left.

They're called President Obama's "czars," special advisers with sweeping powers, and Obama has gone far beyond his predecessors in naming nearly 40 of them to high-level positions.

From health reform czar, border czar, counterterrorism czar, urban czar, and global-warming czar to faith-based czar, domestic violence czar, stimulus accountability czar, Eurasian energy czar, Great Lakes czar, and safe-schools czar, they almost all have several things in common: They were never elected, they were never confirmed by the Senate, and the have immense power over our government and our lives.

When green jobs czar Van Jones resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, Newsmax opened a special investigation to find out who are Obama's czars and what their real agenda is.

Newsmax magazine's special report "Obama's Czars" takes an in-depth look at Obama's army of advisers, who seem to some critics part of an audacious end-run around congressional authority.

Do these appointed czars threaten our democracy? http://w3.newsmax.com/a/dec09/?s=al&promo_code=B623-1