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Text of President Obama's grandstanding in front of Congress. It's another pedestrian speech from Obama. He's really lost his mojo. All our presidents have been statists. Government even grew under Reagan (though domestic spending shrunk). But Obama is the most statist president I know of. He's absolutely the anti-change president. He's the more of the same, but even worse president. I don't like these state of union style speeches when presidents grandstand in front of Congress like kings. I'm with Jefferson. Just send a written copy to Congress and the press.

Tax free savings accounts for all Americans? That sounds like a wonderful thing, but you know there's a destructive catch somewhere.

As usual, Obama's speech tanks the stock markets. The Dow is down 120 so far. Thinking people see right through this guy. Too bad so many voters didn't do the work to see through him before the election. Oddly enough, the stock market is back to even. I wonder what happened during the day to make it rebound from Obama's damage. This is it. Regulators release info on bank stress tests. Government is making our economy bounce like ping pong ball. Apparently Obama started talking again after stocks rebounded, and he sent them tumbling down 80 points again. Obama has the anti-Midas touch. Everything he touches turns to crap.

Frustration is beginning to show through in this Reason analysis of Obama's speech in which Obama contradicted himself every other paragraph. Reason calls him two-faced, but what we're watching is a true master of Orwellian double-speak. Most of us read 1984 and determined never to be sucked into that kind world. Clearly Obama read 1984 and used it as blueprint to gain power and misinform the people. We're watching Orwell's predictions in 1984 being taken to a new level by Obama. And liberals are eating it up like candy.

Geithner unveils the new bank bailout program specifically designed to force banks to take the same risky behavior that caused this problem. That's the purpose of propping up these banks. They're already loaning to people and companies with good credit. Our bank is aggressively advertizing mortgage loans. I talked to them about it, and they're happy to loan money to anybody who meets the traditional credit check. This bailout is designed to get them to loan to people and companies with bad credit - the irresponsible policy that created this mess. Obama is like a psychopath who stabs his victim 38 times in less than a minute then sits over corpse and admires his handiwork. He just keeps stabbing us, and he won't be happy until every American financially bleeds to death in front of his eyes.

Boortz has it wrong. The mainstream of America does not want more government. Liberals want more government, not mainstream Americans. I'm sure this speech will give Obama a minor bounce, but the people are rapidly lining up to oppose Obama's every move, and more power to them. Obama is earning a spot as one of the most reviled presidents in history at record pace.

Discovered Elizabethan ship wreck shows that the English had developed new, standardized, high velocity shot cannon to help defeat the Spanish Armada. How could that information have been lost from history? Maybe is was a secret weapon, but it still had to be documented for the people making the cannon.

Misguided adherence to radical environmentalism leads to devastating forest fires.

Kudos to Boortz for attacking Republicans for their role is debacle. You sure don't hear any other conservative pundits taking on Republicans directly. At most you get a momentary aside. But I was not conned by Republicans any more than I was conned by Democrats.

Now we know why Laura Ingraham's show on Fox didn't work. Wow.

Democrats on an escalator. Too funny.

Science organization calls on Al Gore to quit using their data for propaganda since it doesn't prove what All Gore says it proves. Gore removes slide. Too bad the creators of the rest of the data Gore misrepresents don't have that much integrity.

Cato explains how Obama and Democrats are stealthily having government take over our health care system.

Excellent article explains that Obama's mortgage plan is just more of the predatory lending that Democrats forced on mortgage companies to begin with. Thanks to liberals, these Democrats have one hell of a racket going. First, they force mortgage companies to make subprime loans, then they get every government agency involved in housing to promote those subprime loans until the entire financial market is poisoned with them. Then when the system collapses because of their policies, they call the lenders predators and blame them for making subprime loans. Then they get into power, and they create a mortgage plan that institutionalizes the subprime loan policies that created the crisis in the first place. This is the direct result of the insanity of liberals - being unable to recognize or acknowledge the damaging consequences of their policies and therefore empowering Democrats to repeat the same mistakes but on a grander scale. Let's start a poll on when the housing market crashes again. 1 year? 2 years?

Democrats continue to push for a House of Representatives vote for Washington D.C. despite the Constitution. The aristocrats of both parties are just playing a game of chess and the Constitution and us are just pawns. If D.C. was a solid Republican vote, Republicans would be pushing to give it a vote in the House.

The UN's eco-programs are in chaos. This is the one institution in the world more unaccountable, dysfunctional and damaging than our imperial government.

Thanks to big government, Washington D.C.'s economy is thriving during the recession. That's money taken from us by force working for others.

Obama and Biden chat with George Clooney. Now we know where these bogus policies are coming from. Apparently Clooney is more important than our economy or freedom.

Reason discusses Eric Holder's attack on Americans.