GUESTS AVAILABLE TODAY (scroll down for the complete articles):
1. John LeBoutillier: Obama’s Obsession
2. James Hirsen: Iraq War Veteran Sues ‘Hurt Locker’ Filmmakers
3. Tim Connolly: Dallas Fed Chief Calls for Breakup of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks
4. Joy Tiz: Obama Disses the Brits Again
Obama’s Obsession
Yesterday’s announcement from President Obama that he is making the final push for his signature health care bill has enormous political, economic and medical ramifications:
1) It means that Obama will indeed use the Nuclear Option – a Senate Rules change that will be seen by the American people as “changing the rules in the middle of the game.” (Predicted here on November 11, 2009)
2) This will drive down Obama’s poll ratings because he will be seen as even more manipulative and shifty than the politicians he ran against in 2008. Change? Yeah, the change is that Obama is actually even a dirtier dealer than Bush, Cheney and Karl Rove were perceived to be. [more…]
Iraq War Veteran Sues ‘Hurt Locker’ Filmmakers
By James Hirsen
Master Sgt. Jeffrey S. Sarver claims that the plot of the film, “The Hurt Locker” that focuses on an Army bomb squad was based on the story of his own life. Life story rights are routinely obtained by movie studios to avoid such suits brought by people who claim to be damaged by depictions in a film or television show. That’s why audiences will often see the language displayed at the end of a film, ” …any resemblance to actual persons living or dead is purely coincidental.” Sarver alleges that the main character of “Hurt Locker,” “Will James” is actually him. The veteran claims that the film falsely claims that the characters portrayed in the movie are fictional. [more…]
Dallas Fed Chief Calls for Breakup of ‘Too Big to Fail’ Banks
By Tim Connolly
Dallas Federal Reserve Bank President Richard Fisher is calling for the breakup of banks too big to fail; and at Winning Strategies, we believe this is an idea whose time has come.
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas President Richard Fisher traveled to New York to trumpet a message he’s told Texas audiences before: Banks that are too big to fail are too big to exist in the first place. Speaking Wednesday at the Council on Foreign Relations, Fisher said big, systemically important banks should be dismantled before regulators have to deal with another crisis like the one that nearly brought down Wall Street and the rest of the U.S. financial system in late 2008. “The dangers posed by too-big-to-fail banks are too great,” he said. Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and others have said Congress should pass a law giving regulators “resolution authority” to close down failing financial companies. But Fisher, acknowledging that his views might be “slightly radical,” called for an international agreement to break giant banks into more manageable pieces. [more…]
Obama Disses the Brits Again
By Joy Tiz
The Telegraph’s Nile Gardiner lambastes Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of the Falklands and correctly characterizes it as an “appalling display of appeasement towards a corrupt and authoritarian anti-American regime.” Gardiner also chides Obama’s Secretary of State for her “strikingly poor judgment” and the administration’s ongoing efforts to alienate our most loyal and valuable ally. The ever-astute Gardiner has chastised Obama in the past for his lousy treatment of the British. The president’s antipathy toward the UK is rooted in his own past. [more…]
