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Statesman's Report
President Obama delivered his state of the union address where he rehashed the same old garbage he's been slinging since his days in Chicago. Except he's no longer inspiring and hopeful. He's spiteful and defensive and highly charged for re-election among the wreckage of his first term. 1/25/2012 Cruise Nightmare Over the weekend a luxury cruise ship ran aground and cap-sized off the coast of Italy. The latest reports indicate that 29 people are still missing with six confirmed dead. The captain of the ship is alleged to have taken the ship off course which led to the disaster. From bbc.co.uk 1/16/2012 Sudden Death Today it was reported that an Iranian chemist involved in the country's nuclear program was murdered in Tehran. Eye witness accounts describe a man on a motorcycle attaching a device to the scientist's vehicle in traffic. Soon after an explosion killed the man. Iran has blamed the Zionists - Israelis and Americans - for the attack. This comes amid Iranian reports of further uranium enrichment advances, and the conviction of an American-Iranian on spying charges. From online.wsj.com 1/11/2012 First Contest The Iowan presidential caucus was held yesterday, and the results were mostly unsurprising. Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum delivered on his late surge and finished just seven votes shy of former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Rommey for second place. Both Romney and Santorum finished with 25% of the vote, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul finished a disappointing third at 22%. Each of the top three candidates have momentum to continue to New Hampshire and beyond. Former Speaker Newt Gingrich finished a distant fourth, Texas Governor Rick Perry fifth, and Michele Bachmann received only slightly more votes than non-competing Jon Huntsman. Bachmann was the only one to stop end campaign. Jon Hunstman has all his eggs in New Hampshire, and Rick Perry is hoping for a resurgence in South Carolina. Newt Gingrich, bitter about Mitt Romney's vicious attack ads, is aiming to be the Romney-spoiler by joining forces with his former co-worker Rick Santorum. From politico.com, washingtonpost.com, and washingtonexaminer.com 1/4/2012 War Drums Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to more confrontational rhetoric from the west. The straight is a strategic waterway for oil shipping. They have even begun a 10-day period of war games simulating such an act. On Saturday they plan on test-fire missiles. From breitbart.com 12/30/2011 Iran Connection Last week a federal court released details of a connection between Iranian operatives and financiers and the Al Qaeada terrorist network. The ruling released by US District Court Judge George Daniels, resulting from a suit brought by 9/11 victims families, shows a connection between Iranian officials along with members of their Lebanese terrorist proxy Hizballah and al Qaeada operatives. This news comes as the confrontational rhetoric toward Iran grow louder. From bigpeace.com 12/23/2011 Iowa Upon Us There is just over two weeks until the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses. This will officially begin the nomination process to select the Republican candidate to challenge Barack Obama in 2012. Most of the state polls in Iowa show a three-man race between Ron Paul, Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney; while Newt continues to retain a slight lead in most national polls. Over the weekend Mitt Romney recieved an endorsement from the Des Moines Register, Ron Paul raised over $3,000,000, and Newt Gingrich said he'd unilaterally ignore Supreme Court decisions that he deemed activist. From desmoinesregister.com and dailypaul.com and latimes.com 12/18/2011 Drone Down Earlier this week Iranian state-run media revealed evidence of the US drone aircraft that was lost deep within Iran. The RQ-170 Sentinel spy drone looks like something out of a this world. The recovery of this craft by the Iranians will yeild a great windfall from the likes of China and Russia. From skynews.com 12/10/2011 Fessing Up Friday evening is the time of the week when the government releases information deemed embarrassing. Tonight the Depart of Justice, led by Attorney General Eric Holder, released new documents, and retracted others, regarding the Fast and Furious gun-walking scandal. The DoJ has been caught lying about what it knew and when regarding the infamous operation. The pressure on the Attorney General to resign or be fired is intensifying. From yahoo.com 12/2/2011 Stock Sag The major stock indices including Dow Industrials and S&P 500 had their worst Thanksgiving week since the Great Depression. There are tremendous headwinds facing the global economy nearly all of which are caused by outsized governments and their sometimes nefariously and always ill-conceived market intervention. Meanwhile, Chriss W. Street at BigGovernment.com offers some particularly bleak analysis of our economic outlook. From cnbc.com and biggovernment.com 11/26/2011 Sob Story Chris Matthews, MSNBC host made famous by his pathetic infatuation with candidate Obama during the 2008 election campaign, displays his great deflation in a recent interview. Apparently the thrill is gone. From MRCTV via brietbart.tv 11/19/2011 Golden Gingrich 2012 GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is enjoying a surge in the polls. He is the current beneficiary of the search for someone other than Mitt Romney. His surge comes after impressive debate performances and several gaffes from the other candidates previously leading the polls. Newt's greatest asset and liability is his insider experience. His understanding of the issues is vast and deep, yet he's sometimes taken the wrong track. There's also reports of his consulting contracts with the GSE mortgage lender Freddie Mac. Freddie Mac was part of the government mortgage machine that eventually led to the financial crisis of 2008. From rasmussenreports.com 11/17/2011 Italy's Turn Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi has resigned from his position today. This comes after failing to garner his parties support. Italy is the current problem child of Europe. Italian sovereign debt interest rates recently passed 7% indicating severe doubt about it's ability to service it's debt. This comes after Greece's debt trouble and the recent resignation of it's prime minister George Papandreou. From foxnews.com 11/12/2011 ____________________________ The Chief Kory M. Leavitt 
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High Stakes
The South Carolina Republican presidential primary is set for tomorrow. The latest polling shows New Gingrich leading Mitt Romney by a small margin. During the debate last night an audience member asked the candidates how likely they perceived the chance of repealing Obamacare. Among the last men standing, Ron Paul was the only one that did not commit to repeal this hideous Obama legacy. Ron Paul instead has grander visions for government fiscal reform mostly connected to severe overseas military spending reductions and wholesale eliminations of government bureacracies. He promises to cut $1,000,000,000,000.00 from the budget his first year. Ron Paul is the only one offering serious substantial reforms. And whether or not you agree with his head-in-the-sand foreign policy, he is the only candidate with a truly ambitious spending reduction plan. But is it achievable? Two pieces of low-hanging fruit are the major legislative legacies of Barack Obama: Obamacare healthcare reform and Dodd/Frank financial reform. The social, economic, and fiscal threat posed by these two gargantuan pieces of legislation is only beginning to materialize. President Obama used super-Constitutional maneauvers to install Richard Cordray to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. This is small but significant part of the Dodd/Frank financial reform that has serious implications due to the scope and unaccountability of the new all-encompassing agency. Repeal of these two pieces of legislation and all their intended and unintended consequences are the most probable and most substantial changes that can be had by electing nearly any Republican as president in 2012. One thing is guaranteed if Obama is re-elected: the full wrath of these two monstrosities will be felt far and wide. Ron Paul fans ought consider the sage advice of the Rolling Stones. From petermark1960 via youtube.com 1/20/2012 Cross Contamination Third-world Carribean island nation Haiti is still recovering from it's devastating earth quake two years ago. New reports indicate that UN soldiers on a peace-keeping mission after the quake transmitted a particularly virulent strain of cholera into the Western Hemisphere for the first time. Beyond Haitia cases of the super bug has been reported from central America to the east coast of the US.  From yahoo.com and abcnews.com 1/14/2012 Emperor's Clothes This week President Barack Obama made another super-Constitutional decision with the appoint of Richard Cordray to head the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau created by the Dodd-Frank financial reform bill. The original plan was to nominate Elizabeth Warren, the contemptuous anti-capitalist darling of progressives. Republicans meanwhile were attempting to block the nomination of any individual to the new CFPB bureaucracy with the intent of forcing changes to make the new agency more accountable. As it stands the agency will be funded directly through the Federal Reserve without Congressional appropriations or over-sight. So President Obama went ahead and installed Richard Cordray as the bureau's chief under legally dubious maneuvers. From cnn.com 1/8/2012 New Year In Dubai This is perhaps the most amazing fireworks display ever executed. Courtesy of the tallest building in the world - the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. From jeyhun999 via youtube.com 1/2/2012 The Iowa Stretch The Iowa caucuses are less then a week away, and all the Republican candidates are settling into position. Mitt Romney has enjoyed a strengthening of poll numbers as the preordained front-runner. RINO-turned-Libertarian-turned-RINO Ron Paul is within a point or two of Romney in most polls. Rick Santorum is experiencing a mini-surge as the evangelicals gravitate toward his socially conservative credentials. Newt Gingrich, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Perry are the laggards wandering throught the political wilderness of Iowa.  From breitbart.tv, ca.news.yahoo.com, drudgereport.com, and cbsnews.com 12/30/2011 Christmas 2011 Christmas lights have been revolutionized by the advent of LED lighting. Behold The Cadger Dubstep Christmas House. From yz85zak via youtube.com 12/25/2011 Il Is Dead North Korean communist dictator Kim Jong-Il has died of apparent natural causes. The state-run media claimed he died of excessive physical and mental stress from his heavy work load. It is believed that he was 69 years-old. Reportedly his 27 year-old son Kim Jong-Eun will take over. Meanwhile, video has been released of mourners overcome by grief and sadness. From KCNA via youtube.com 12/21/2011 Egypt In Crisis The protesters that started it all in 2011 have returned for a Christmas special. No. Not the occupiers of Wall Street, or any other street, city or town in America. It's the Tahrir Square protesters of Egypt. The first new elections have reportedly been a wide success for the Islamist-aligned parties. Apparently their successful ouster of US and Israeli-aligned autocrat Mubarak did not satisfy their demands for real revolution. The Egyptian security forces are now violently confronting them again. Meanwhile, financial donations to the useful idiots and malevolent malcontents of Occupy Wall Street have plummeted. From dailymail.co.uk and salon.com 12/18/2011 Forever Foes "Has the war with Iran already begun?" asks National Journal writer Michael Hirsh. Conflicting reports over the weekend show Iran claiming to have taken down a US spy drone. The US intially denied the reports from Iranian state-run media, but has since confirmed that a spy drone is missing. This comes on top of other mysterious incidents including explosions, assassinations, cyber warfare, and other forms of covert activities. Iran appears to be pushing back evidence by the coordinated protest and occupation of the British Embassy in Tehran. It is not a question of whether or not we are at war with Iran. It is a question of if we have the will and the strategy to win. Islamic totalitarianism is another reincarnation of the scourge of tyranny replete throughout human history, and must be confronted and defeated resolutely in the interests of individual freedom the world over.  From nationaljournal.com and telegraph.co.uk 12/5/2011 Kyoto No Canada is considering exiting the Kyoto Protocol it signed in 1998 along with 191 other nations. This was an international treaty to reduce carbon emmissions. The United States was lambasted internationally for not submitting it's economic sovereignty to an international order. Canada was one of the first signatories, and would be the first to abandon the global cooling scheme. Canada is seeking to avoid paying nearly $6.7 billion in carbon offsets after the economic windfall of domestic carbon energy production of recent years.  From bloomberg.com 11/28/2011 The Archives |
Newt's Return
Former speaker Newt Gingrich handily won the South Carolina primary yesterday. He garnered 40% of the vote with Mitt Romney over ten points behind. Santorum and Paul finished a distant third and fourth respectively. This marks a comeback for Newt despite last minute attempts to smear him with a bitter ex-wife interview. This also presents a challenge to the heir apparent Mitt Romney. Once thought of as inevitable, it now appears the race for the Republican nominee is far from over. From guardian.co.uk 1/22/2012 ____________________________  Willard's Win Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney won the New Hampshire primary by a large margin. Yesterday in the open primary he took almost 40% of the vote from broad cross-section of the electorate. Ron Paul came in second at 23% and Jon Huntsman took third at 17%. Both Rick and Newt got just over 9%. All have committed to continue on to South Carolina. From washingtonpost.com 1/11/2012 Egypt Elects Islamists continue to dominate Egyptian elections. This comes as no surprise, but also a harbinger of conflict. Until former autocrat Mubarak was removed fr30 office, the United States and Israel enjoyed a peaceful relationship with the land of the pharoahs. The relationship with an Islamist Egypt remains uncertain at best. This week the military raided pro-democracy Non-Governmnental Organizations. This drew a call from Defense Secretary Leon Panetta expressing deep concern. From http://ca.news.yahoo.com 12/30/2011 Russia Rumbles Former leader of the former USSR Mikhail Gorbachev has called for Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to resign amid mounting protests. The former communist leader claimed that three terms were enough. Putin was president of Russia for two terms beginning in 2000 until 2008, and created the position of prime minister after his second term to remain in power. Putin is now attempting to return to the presidency. From telegraph.co.uk 12/25/2011 Fiat Flows The European Central Bank has injected €489,000,000,000.00 ($639,000,000,000.00) into their banking system. The money moved swiftly as banks were eager recepients of the cheap loans. From yahoo.com 12/21/2011 Belgium Blues Moody's Investors Service downgraded Belgium's credit rating by two notches late on Friday. Their credit rating now stands at Aa3. The threat over more downgrades looms large for most of the profligate Euro nations. From online.wsj.com 12/18/2011 Russian Winter Russian recently held elections widely claimed to be rigged, and despite that, Vladimir Putin's United Russia party sufferred heavy losses. Next year former President Vladimir Putin will attempt to assume the Presidency after Dimitri Medvedev was a place-holder after his first constitutionally-limited two terms. Amid developing protests the government has ordered students to school on Saturday, and warned 17 year-olds that they may be consripted into the army if caught protesting. From dailymail.co.uk 12/10/2011 Donald Dissed Donald Trump, erstwhile presidential candidate, real estate mogul, reality show host, and political pundit is planning to moderate a Republican debate sponsored by Newsmax. Only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum have agreed to attend. Ron Paul, Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Jon Huntsman, and Michelle Bachmann have declined the invitation. From newsmax.com 12/8/2011 Cain Crash 2012 Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is on the verge of ending his campaign. New reports of unusual extramarital relationships have arose after an onslaught of vague and anonymous accussations of sexual harassment. Mr. Cain has admited to an extended relationship with Ginger White, and has even admitted providing financial support to her. His wife was apparently unaware of this arrangement. At the very least this is suspect. On top of the coordinated character assassination it is simply too much to bear for a viable presidential campaign. From thehill.com 12/2/2011 Pakistan Problem NATO forces attacked Pakistani military installations resulting in the death of nearly 30 troops. Pakistan has responded by closing down US military supply routes to Afghanistan. The US has relied on a bitter-sweet relationship with Pakistan since the beginning of war in Afghanistan. From reuters.com 11/26/2011 ____________________________ Original GOP 
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