U.S. slips out of top 10 most prosperous countries, while Canada keeps No. 6 ranking
The U.S. fell to 12th position from 10th in the Legatum Institute’s annual prosperity index amid increased doubts about the health of its economy and ability of politicians. Norway, Denmark and Sweden were declared the most prosperous in the index, published in London Monday.
As Andrew said, “You are the media!”
– GOP inspectors reportedly kicked out of multiple Philadelphia polling places Can’t hide the tricks anymore, Dems. Update: Judge orders GOP inspectors back in.
– In Detroit, violence in the poll.
– N.C. man busted for voting twice. Registered D.
– Lots of reports of the machines failing, surprising absolutely no one.
– Lots of reports of people being told they already voted.
See below the fold for more. Much more.
Sarah Palin was ahead of the curve with the labels.
Yep. Good reporters occasionally are impolite, especially to people in power who refuse to answer legitimate questions about their own policies. We don’t hire for table manners. We hire for persistence and toughness and the ability to spot a story among the fluff. We’re traditional that way. It’s the legacy media that have changed.
I grew up with Lloyd Robertson. Believed what he said, thought it was pertinent. Then I found out about one thing so amazingly biased from CTV that the disappointment was profound. I never believed a word he said after.
Paul Wells, today on Twitter, said, “I will just say that as a journalist, a Romney presidency would ensure more fun stories than an Obama re-election.”
My reply, “I’ll just ask, as a media consumer, why is that?”
Everyone knows why. I, as a blogger (and thus ‘media’) know why. It’s a hell of a lot easier to fill content when you’re ‘against’ something.
Good riddance, indeed.
Former Virginia Governor Douglas Wilder, a Democrat who supported Barack Obama in 2008, has essentially abandoned him in 2012 by failing to endorse him this time around.
h/t: @mcouros
You tell them over and over again that costs get passed on or the employees get cut back, but no, The wing-nuts just don’t believe you.
Last week we found out that, beginning in January, any employee who is not full-time at that point, will be limited to 28 hours per week and all new hires will be subject to the same policy.
I swear, if a conservative said the sky was blue the liberals would search for proof that it was red.
Anyone who has watched US election coverage analysis with Michael Barone will know that he’s someone to take seriously. Let us hope so.
At this point, NAACP members were instructed to turn their clothing inside out, which they refused to do and said they weren’t going to stop their actions inside the polling place.
Oh, sorry, did I say Argentina? I meant Houston, TX. Apparently there is a need for UN observers in Texas.
h/t: Gateway Pundit
Threatening to riot and come a get you because,
they know where you live.
If only the guy in charge could set an example.
Course, I guess we know what preaching for tolerance gets you.
It’s a good thing that the uniter-in-chief was Pres the last four years. It’s good that there’s no red state or blue state, only the United States. Otherwise I might be worrying if I lived near a city. I might be buying ammunition. I might be reading up on self-defense laws in my state.
At some point, you have to take the threats seriously.
Reading through this Million Muppet March article, one is naturally inclined to check whether they’re on The Onion website. But alas, no, it’s real.
With a staggering amount of per capita debt, with endless entitlement programs, with promised public sector benefits that can never be paid, and with trillions in debt over all, some Americans are going to spend a day in Washington, DC protesting cuts to puppets on TV?!
Mitt Romney specifically chose fiscal hawk Paul Ryan as his running mate because he believes that the majority of Americans are finally ready to get their fiscal house in order and restore their nation to its once proud status as “The Shining City on the Hill“. Tuesday’s election will determine if Romney’s assumption was correct or if the dangerous tipping point of 51% has been reached – that being the percentage of people who feel entitled to free stuff from others.
The Presidential Election of 2012 will indeed serve as a litmus test of “seriousness”. In his latest column, Mark Steyn, author of After America, doesn’t sound so sure that America will pass this test.
Ezra has called it for Romney. Not good. That’s like Schultzie calling for a Riders win….never a good sign. So is Barone. Dick Morris is back-pedaling a touch.
The creepy pro-Obama ad featuring the child singers chastising adults has suddenly been removed by its creators from both YouTube and Vimeo. Even the host website – www.futurechildrenproject.com – has disappeared.
But the Internet never forgets, and the video can still be found, even though Obama et al no longer wish you to see it.
Perhaps future historians will be able to figure out how a political advertisement so missed the mark. That’ll be the first step in determining how a 4-year presidency turned out to be the absolute worst in modern history.
“If Obama was white, there would be no question on who was going to win.”
If Obama was white, he’d still be a state senator. If that.
ADP “cancels” 365K private sector jobs.
… according to the revised methodology, the US has generated only 1.172MM jobs in 2012 through September, or in other words, a statistical “fix” magically eliminated over 30% of what the market had previously expected were job gains, a number which the incumbent president has certain taken advantage of on more than one occasions while campaigning.
Richard Cohen is a devout Leftist. He’s also a columnist for the Washington Post. And he’s not happy with Barack Obama.
Cohen’s latest piece is well worth a read because it vividly demonstrates how profoundly Leftists across America invested in their New Messiah and how they projected so many of their Hopes & Dreams onto a man they barely knew.
To be clear, Obama relished this attention, this devotion, this love, this adoration of him as a God-like figure thought to float above the great unwashed masses. But much like the Wizard of Oz, he turned out to be a rather puny fellow when the curtain was pulled away. If his track record is any indication, Barack Hussein Obama is a below average politician, in terms of intellect, wisdom, ideas, and even work ethic. He has very good teleprompter reading skills and is a slick salesman who could probably sell sand to a rube in the desert, but other than that, what discernible skills does he have to give anyone confidence that he should be President of the United States of America?
Richard Cohen no longer has that confidence:
… somewhere between the campaign and the White House itself, Obama got lost. It turned out he had no cause at all. Expanding health insurance was Hillary Clinton’s longtime goal, and even after Obama adopted it, he never argued for it with any fervor. In an unfairly mocked campaign speech, he promised to slow the rise of the oceans and begin to heal the planet. But when he took office, climate change was abandoned — too much trouble, too much opposition. His eloquence, it turned out, was reserved for campaigning.
Obama never espoused a cause bigger than his own political survival. This is the gravamen of the indictment from the left, particularly certain African Americans. They are right. Young black men fill the jails and the morgues, yet Obama says nothing. Bobby Kennedy showed his anger, his impatience, his stunned incredulity at the state of black America. Obama shows nothing.
These Democrats have lost their faith too.
Using a Pakistani Internet Protocol and proxy server, a disposable credit card and a fake address, “Osama bin Laden” has successfully donated twice to Barack Obama’s presidential re-election campaign.
The “Bin Laden” donations, actually made by WND staff, included a listed occupation of “deceased terror chief” and a stated employer of “al-Qaida.”
h/t foobert
No dictator will ever need to declare martial law in America. All he’ll need to do is issue a “severe weather advisory” and everyone will stay indoors until they’re told it’s safe to come out.