Burtraw: California’s Cap and Trade Program is an Excellent Up-to-Date Design. Yes it is! Providing your idea of “excellent” is raising the cost of everything and watching more businesses and citizens who actually work for a living leave the state. At this rate Jerry Brown will soon be pushing to tax OWS’ers, unemployed and welfare recipients because there won’t be anyone left to tax!

The Next ‘Next Solyndra’. Yes, the hits just keep on coming. This is what happens when the government thinks it can pick winners instead of letting the market decide. Another $249 million down the tubes. Shocking!

Sweden’s secret recipe – Advice from the successful, tax-cutting finance minister of Sweden! Three years ago, Sweden cut taxes and reduced gov’t spending while other Eurozone countries opted for borrowing and stimulus. Today, it’s obvious those that went the Keynesian route got nothing for their trouble but huge debt while Sweden had the fastest growth in Europe last year. And the sky didn’t fall. Obama is wrong again.

Corzine steals billions sans charges, errant whale watcher faces prison. Whale watching ship captain Nancy Black faces 20 years in prison because she has been charged with lying to Justice Department prosecutors investing allegations that some of her crew members whistled at a whale to keep it hanging around their boats. Too bad her ship wasn’t taking guns to Mexico instead of whistling at whales.

Obama adviser David Axelrod makes case for Mitt Romney for President. David Axelrod — please tell us, in 30 seconds or less, why America should vote for Mitt Romney… Do you wanna continue on the “road we’re on”, being driven over a cliff by a clown in a presidential golf cart? Us neither.

Dem Patrick Kennedy: Obama is running a ‘Quid Pro Quo’ White House. “…Obama is running a pay-for-play White House despite his promises to keep lobbyists out and clean things up. ‘Drain the swamp’ is how Nancy Pelosi phrased it. But all the Democrats have really done is make sure the swamp is under their management.” Change they can believe in. Only fools expected otherwise.

Last time Axlerod got spanked this good he had to first get a reference from Elliot Spitzer.

Sebelius: Thanks to Obamacare, Law Student Can ‘Devote Her Career’ to Social Justice. Try as we might we can’t see the ‘social justice’ in a system that requires the tax slaves to keep churning out the very fascist vampires that devote their ‘careers’ to adding ever more links to our chains.

Obama in Colombia: ‘Part of My Job Is to Scout Out Where I May Want to Bring Michelle Back Later for Vacation’. Looks like President Greed sure has a big set of balls. Although this public display of them was completely unnecessary. We were perfectly content with taking Reggie Love’s word for it.

North Korea’s Kim Says His Regime Can’t Be Blackmailed. In Lil’ Kim’s case the old saying is certainly true. The feminine hygiene product in chief didn’t fall far from the douche-bag tree.

Spanish Company Will “Count” American Votes Overseas In November. It isn’t often that we quote Stalin, but in this instance please consider the following to be a chilling warning from one of the past’s most heinous despots: ‘It’s Not the People Who Vote that Count; It’s the People Who Count the Votes’

“The thing is, he’s not buffoonish in any way. He’s not a comical figure.” -Mike Barry, joke writer for David Letterman. A web site for making pictoral fun of the most unfunny president ever.

1,800-word article on John Edwards trial doesn’t mention the word “Democrat”, but manages to mention “Republican” 5 times. Just one more example of the MSM’s ongoing “War on news reporting.”

It’s (the) bush’s fault: gov’t spent $205,075 to “translocate” one $16 shrub from path of Stimulus project. One of those “shovel-ready” jobs the Fertilizer-Head-In-Chief was always blathering about. In this instance, Obama can say it’s bush’s fault, and for once he’d be right.

Secret Service dismissals “biggest scandal” for agency. “A source in the Secret Service told CBS News that one or more of the officers was involved with prostitutes and that there was a dispute over payment. One prostitute went to the police, who notified the State Department.” More about this here. Giving a new meaning to “going undercover.”

The greatest obituary of all time. “Weary of reading obituaries noting someone’s courageous battle with death, Mike wanted it known that he died as a result of being stubborn, refusing to follow doctors’ orders and raising hell for more than six decades.” Well, the greatest obituary of all time would be if and when Obamacare dies, but this is a close second.

President Obama’s tax rate was 20.5%, lower than his secretary’s.
As President Obama mounts an aggressive campaign on what he calls tax fairness, his own tax burden has fallen to the lowest of his time in the White House, lower than many who make far less — including his secretary.

President Obama earned $789,674 in 2011, the White House announced on Friday. However, with this income, he does not even qualify for the so-called Buffett Rule that he has promoted relentlessly and the Senate will take up on Monday. With his income he doesn’t qualify for all of the millions that have been spent on his luxuries, vacations and entertainment either. But -like we’ve said before- Obama’s greed runs a world in need.

GSA official to take the Fifth. Fair enough. Just so long as we can take the Tenth.

Nazis Get Their Own Lobbyist. Uggh, wate hate Nazis. Especially the variety from Illinois.

“It’s 99% certain there is life on Mars”: Shock finding as scientists re-analyse soil samples from Seventies Viking lander. Not intelligent life, mind you, but then again, there’s none of that in DC either.

Blago’s brother heads to D.C. to talk about Senate seat controversy. Rob Blagojevich has said two different people in 2008 — including a fund-raiser for Jackson — told him that Jackson would help fuel Rod Blagojevich’s campaign fund if the former governor appointed Jackson to the U.S. Senate. So many investigations, so little time. Forget it, Rob, it’s Chicagotown.

Obama hammered for “jetting around,” taking vacations while Americans suffer. The local media does not treat the king with the same deference as the national media clowns do, and it shows – he really isn’t very good at handling tough questions. Waitress, can we get some more waffles for the President, please? Never mind, he’s making some now.

Book claims Napolitano perjured herself to Congress in Fast & Furious testimony. “When she [Napolitano] says that she and Attorney General Eric Holder have not discussed it, that is a lie.” “There are five emails linking her to Holder. They go back two days after it happened—the first email was two days after [ATF Agent] Brian [Terry] was killed.” The book, Fast and Furious, is due out April 16. We shall see if this is a bombshell or a dud.

Former GE CEO Jack Welch on Obama: “He’s got an enemies list that would make Richard Nixon proud.” The one-time CEO of one of Barry’s favorite crony capitalist concerns notes “there can be no denying that the country is more polarized than when Obama took office.” A divider not a uniter? Oh, why don’t you just admit it Jack, you don’t like him ’cause he’s got a funny name.