Obama Seeks 12 Percent Budget Increase for SEC

AP

President Barack Obama is seeking a 12 percent budget increase for the Securities and Exchange Commission,including $419 million for more than 100 new enforcement staff to work on the agency’s burgeoning caseload targeting fraud and market manipulation.

The request to Congress Monday for nearly $1.3 [...]

Picture of the Day

Obama bows to Tampa Bay Mayor Pam Iorio for more on Obama’s bowing there’s this picture of him bowing to the emperor and this one of him bowing to the King of Saud.

Obama Sends Congress $3.8 Trillion Budget,Soaring Deficits Projected

FOXNews

 Obama is proposing a massive federal budget

President Obama sent Congress a $3.8 trillion budget Monday for fiscal year 2011,pushing a plan that includes new jobs-creation programs but is projected to add nearly $1.3 trillion in deficit spending on top of the current year’s projected $1.6 trillion deficit.

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Obama Impresses “Educated Class”But Not Terrorists

by Michael Barone,Townhall

 Check out how intellectual we look!

Just whom are we trying to impress?

That’s a question that occurred to me when,on his second full day in the presidency,Barack Obama announced we would close the Guantanamo detainee facility within one year.

It’s [...]

Obama Promises to address record deficit woes

AP

 Obama’s solution to the deficit:more borrowing

President Barack Obama unveiled a multitrillion-dollar spending plan Monday,pledging an intensified effort to combat high unemployment and asking Congress to quickly approve new job-creation efforts that would boost the deficit to a record-breaking $1.56 trillion.

Speaking from the White House [...]

Roubini Sees ‘Dismal’ Growth as Summers Rues ‘Human Recession’

By Simon Kennedy and Erik Schatzker,Bloomberg

 The economic outlook is still “Very Dismal”

Nouriel Roubini,the New York University professor who anticipated the financial crisis,said the U.S. growth outlook remains “very dismal” and White House economic adviser Lawrence Summers said the economy is still mired in a “human recession.” [...]

Obama is Asleep at The Wheel

By William Tate,American Thinker

 Obama is too busy ramming socialism down our throats to pay attention to terrorists

A Senate hearing last week confirmed the public’s worst concern about Barack Obama:that when it comes to national security,Obama hasn’t just been asleep at the switch —he hasn’t even bothered [...]