On first glance, it could be the ultimate Valentine’s Day card — a gigantic billboard that towers over New York’s Times Square, featuring a happy couple with the text: “You are my soulmate forever, Charles & YaVaughnie.”
But as every scorned lover knows, looks can be deceiving. This billboard — which also has gone up in Atlanta and San Francisco — is the ultimate act of revenge — a very public retaliation by a dumped mistress aimed at a very wealthy, and married, businessman who is an adviser to President Obama.
YaVaughnie Wilkins posted the signs after she learned that her lover, Charles E. Phillips — president and director of the tech conglomerate Oracle Corporation and a member of Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board — had reconciled with his wife, the New York Post reported.
The billboards — there are three in New York and one apiece in Atlanta and San Francisco, where Phillips lives — may have cost Wilkins up to $250,000, at an estimated $50,000 each.
After the billboards surfaced, Phillips fessed up to his longtime affair through a spokesman on Thursday.
“I had an 8-and-a-half-year serious relationship with YaVaughnie Wilkins. The relationship with Ms. Wilkins has since ended, and we both wish each other well,” he said.
The billboards also feature a URL of the Web site www.charlesphillipsandyavaughniewilkins.com, which features photos of Phillips’ and Wilkins’ lengthy relationship.
In an Oracle newsletter from 2006, Phillips was described as an ex-marine and “family man” who has a wife and 10-year-old son, Chas, the New York Times reported.
But as every scorned lover knows, looks can be deceiving. This billboard — which also has gone up in Atlanta and San Francisco — is the ultimate act of revenge — a very public retaliation by a dumped mistress aimed at a very wealthy, and married, businessman who is an adviser to President Obama.
The main question here is: why is former Senator Kirk still voting on these legislative pieces?
According to Senate rules and precedent, Kirk’s term expired last Tuesday upon the election of Scott Brown. Furthermore, Massachusetts law can be interpreted, according to GOP lawyers, as:
Based on Massachusetts law, Senate precedent, and the U.S. Constitution, Republican attorneys said Kirk will no longer be a senator after election day, period. Brown meets the age, citizenship, and residency requirements in the Constitution to qualify for the Senate. “Qualification” does not require state “certification,” the lawyers said.
Additionally, as reported in the Weekly Standard and investigated and confirmed by GOP lawyers:
Appointed Senator Paul Kirk will lose his vote in the Senate after Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts of a new senator and cannot be the 60th vote for Democratic health care legislation, according to Republican attorneys.
SUMMARY: On Hardball, discussing Sen. Barack Obama’s bowling performance at a campaign stop, Chris Matthews said to MSNBC political analyst Michelle Bernard, “You know, Michelle — and this gets very ethnic, but the fact that he’s good at basketball doesn’t surprise anybody, but the fact that he’s that terrible at bowling does make you wonder.” While showing the video of Obama’s bowling, Matthews asserted, “[I]t isn’t the most macho form there.”
The Debt Limit has been raised by Congress to $14.3 trillion dollars. The Senate voted to raise it $1.9 Trillion on a strictly partisan basis, 60-40 (no wonder they delayed the swearing in of Scott Brown). The amount that they are raising it is unprecedented in our nation’s history. Some perspective:
The total of debt ceiling increases passed during the first year of the Obama administration now nearly equal to the increases passed in the first six years of Bush’s presidency.
Or, to look at it another way:
Total debt ceiling increases under Bush and Republican Congress (6 years): $3.4 trillion
Total debt ceiling increases under Bush and Democrat Congress (2 years): $2.35 trillion
Total debt celiling increases under Obama and Democrat Congress (1 year): $3. trillion
The Democrats in the last 3 years (under both Bush and Obama) have increased the rate of spending faster than any Congress in history, raising the debt limit by $5.35 trillion (or an average of $1.78 trillion per year) Continue reading New Debt Limit – $14.3 Trillion
The show stopping moment of SOTU: Head-shake from Supreme Court Justice Alito as he mouths “That’s NOT true”. Well here’s to the State of our Union kids.
Chris Matthews has put his foot in his mouth before on live television, and following the State of the Union, he did it again.
“I forgot he was black tonight for an hour,” Matthews said of President Barack Obama’s speech before a joint session of Congress and to millions of Americans.
That single line quickly bounced around Twitter and the blogosphere, along with widespread criticism of Matthews on the left, right and in between.
“The tingle appears to be back for Chris Matthews,” wrote Noel Sheppard on NewsBusters. And the headline on Wonkette: “Chris Matthews Has An Apology On The Way.”
The Matthews’ comment was met immediately on Twitter with both confusion and contempt.
The New Republic’s Michael Crowley wrote “Huh?,” with the the Huffington Post’s Jason Linkins asking, “W to the F?”
Meanwhile, The American Prospect’s Adam Serwer offered a terse response to the Matthews line: “F–. You. The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman wrote that the MSNBC host should “get off the air.” And from the The Joshua Blog: “He needs to be gone from @MSNBC for good. Enough already.”
Matthews’ line about Obama’s skin color was part of a longer comment about the presidency and race, that’s below. (MSNBC had no immediate comment).
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Chris Matthews: “he is post-racial, by all appearances. I forgot he was black tonight for an hour. You know, he’s gone a long way to become a leader of this country, and past so much history, in just a year or two. I mean, it’s something we don’t even think about. I was watching, I said, wait a minute, he’s an African American guy in front of a bunch of other white people. And here he is president of the United States and we’ve completely forgotten that tonight — completely forgotten it. I think it was in the scope of his discussion. It was so broad-ranging, so in tune with so many problems, of aspects, and aspects of American life that you don’t think in terms of the old tribalism, the old ethnicity. It was astounding in that regard. A very subtle fact. It’s so hard to talk about. Maybe I shouldn’t talk about it, but I am. I thought it was profound that way.”
Speaking with fellow MSNBCers Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann, Matthews gushed, “You know, I was trying to think about who he was tonight, and it’s interesting: He is post-racial by all appearances.”
He then amazingly added, “You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour”
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President Obama promised to make the Health care debate open and transparent. Stop your secret health care shenanigans and let C-SPAN cover the meetings. No more secret sessions. No more sweetheart deals. The American people have a right to know. If you don’t have anything to hide, you would welcome the light. Let the cameras in.
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President Obama and Congressional Democrats are ramming health care reform through Congress. In March 2008, President Obama promised the health care debate would be open and transparent saying: “I am going to do it all on C-SPAN so that the American People will know what’s going on.” (Town hall meeting, Lancaster, PA, 3/31/08)
Now the Democrats are holding secret meetings to negotiate the health care reform bill – and keeping the cameras out. Sign the petition today and demand transparency and an end to the secret meetings and back room deals. Let the cameras in!
Highly informed sources on Capitol Hill have revealed to me details of the Democratic plan to sneak Obamacare through Congress, despite collapsing public approval for healthcare “reform” and disintegrating congressional support in the wake of Republican Scott Brown’s victory in Massachusetts.
President Obama, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid all have agreed to the basic framework of the plan.
Their plan is clever but can be stopped if opponents of radical healthcare reform act quickly and focus on a core group of 23 Democratic Congressman. If just a few of these 23 Democrats are “flipped” and decide to oppose the bill, the whole Obama-Pelosi-Reid stratagem falls apart.
Here’s what I learned top Democrats are planning to implement.
Senate Democrats will go to the House with a two-part deal.
First, the House will pass the Senate’s Obamacare bill that passed the Senate in December. The House leadership will vote on the Senate bill, and Pelosi will allow no amendments or modifications to the Senate bill. Continue reading Pelosi and Reid Plot Plan For Obamacare
Investigating Senate Republicans along with Obama; Call your GOP Senators and let them know their cover is blown.
The Republican U.S. Senators have it in their power to use legitimate parliamentarian means of preventing the Soros-Obama-Pelosi-Reid healthcare takeover bill. That is the astute and well reasoned revelation of Erick Erickson, of the political blog, RedState.com.
The Senate, unlike the House of Representatives, has parliamentary rules and procedures that give the minority the ability to stall legislation. In fact, unlike the House, the minority have the ability to virtually paralyze the Senate. Doing so is not something we would want or expect for every bad bill that comes through Congress, but the proposed healthcare legislation is probably the worst piece of legislation ever considered by the United States Congress. It is the most intrusive, most damaging, most costly, most dangerous bill to the economic and personal freedom and liberty of individual Americans that Congress has ever considered. If there is any bill that deserves being stopped by shutting down the Senate, it is this one.
Remember when I accused Google of censoring search hints? Some of the reactions were just hysterical. So many technically inclined people on the right have a reflexive desire to defend Google and make the kindest assumptions about the company. The company itself claimed that it was all coincidence.
Enter The Jawa Report. Their emailer noticed that hey, now suddenly Google comes up with the a whole list of negative description of Islam just like it does for Christianity, where before there was nothing. Is anyone going to claim that such a sudden, dramatic change is just the random fluctuation of an algorithm? I hope not.
Between Google standing up to China and Islam, I have to wonder if public scrutiny is making the company realize that they must actually be neutral if they want to expect others to be (net) neutral. That would be a benefit to us all given the firm’s market power. Time will tell.
Government is putting an authoritarian gun to your head, to rob you, to make you pay for someone else’s healthcare. At the same time, it is poised to begin dictating what healthcare you and others will be allowed to receive. It is sapping away your own ability to provide for yourself and your family. What are you doing about it?
Have you called your senators again, this week? Or, Email? Or, Monday? Does anyone know if the Republicans get it, that they are being held accountable to use every parliamentary procedure necessary to prevent this bill from passing? — or else.
I don’t see from here, that they have truly gotten the message yet.
And for those like me, with “Democratic” senators, I humbly suggest a message less complicated, below.
Here is a number to call: 1-800-828-0498. (It is free number used by the Soros-backed anti-Americans, but go ahead and spend their money; never mind their message, just wait for the forward to the U.S. Capitol switchboard.) If you can not get through, phone numbers are listed in the U.S. Senate directory, here.
To make matters more complicated, the Senate stumbled into health care gridlock after a Republican senator forced the clerk to read aloud a 767-page amendment.
GOPSen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma had sought approval to require that any amendment considered by the Senate must be offered 72 hours in advance and with a full cost report.
When he was rebuffed by Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana, Coburn invoked his right to require that an amendment by another Democrat be read aloud. That sent the Senate into limbo, since the amendment by Vermont Independent Bernie Sanders is 767 pages long. It calls for guaranteeing coverage to all through a public program similar to Medicare.
The following article is Lord Christopher Monckton’s own, republished from yesterday’s addition to The SPPI Blog, which he co-authors. It is featured in my Investigating Obama blog, since Barack Obama is, by his pitched efforts, a co-conspirator in the Man-Made Global Marxofascism shakedown, along with Maurice Strong, Edmund de Rothschild, George Soros, Al Gore, Jeffrey Immelt – General Electric’s robber baron, etc.
“Marxofascism?” Yes, it is an archetypal combination of Marxist redistribution of wealth, plus profiteering by kleptocratic finance, or, “gaming the system,” as the man behind the curtain of America’s Democratic Party, mega-criminal financier György Schwartz (a.k.a., Soros, by his literally “making a name for himself”) tends to say.
Monckton is the former science advisor to Margaret Thatcher, who is taking the lead in exposing this global ploy, a scheme of the kind that might have come from the minds of Ian Fleming and Cubby Broccoli. His DVD, “Apocalypse? No!” conveys his presentation at Cambridge University on the subject. This has been covered previously by I.O. (see label, “Lord Monckton”) and on “The Awakening,” thanks in part, to the diligent citizen journalism of Walter Hudson.
From The Viscount Monckton of Brenchley in Copenhagen
Today the gloves came off and the true purpose of the “global warming” scare became nakedly visible. Ugo Chavez, the Socialist president of Venezuela, blamed “global warming” on capitalism – and received a standing ovation from very nearly all of the delegates, lamentably including those from those of the capitalist nations of the West that are on the far Left – and that means too many of them.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
Interesting post. However, while I have no problem with each state adopting a right of recall, there is no doubt in my mind that it would not apply to federally elected office holders. The same logic that applied to term limits would apply. Maybe we need a federal recall amendment.
The Heartland Institute will have a live blog of the State of the Union address, which interestingly enough you'll be able to embed into your own site, if you are interested. Very cool.
This post from Ed Fuelner at the Heritage Foundation is extremely well done. By the way, if you missed it, the U.S. dropped significantly on the Heritage Freedom index this past year.
