All posts tagged "Obama"
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What’s going on in the North Woods?
In August 2016, during the week celebrating the National Park Service’s 100th anniversary,...
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Overtime Rule Shot Down by Federal Judge
Yesterday, a U.S. district judge appointed by President Obama blocked the Department of...
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Massive Welfare Fraud Case Ignored by Maine Media
Today, LifeZette brought to light the story of a massive welfare and tax...
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No Cash to State Sponsors of Terror – PERIOD
The confirmed reports of the Obama Administration’s covert payment of cash ransoms in...
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LePage Joins Complaint Challenging Obama’s New Overtime Rules
Today, Governor Paul LePage joined a number of other states in filing a...
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Mainers Now Look to Washington to Find out What’s Happening in Their Own Back Yard
If you have been living under a rock, or you haven’t been following...
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House Republican Leaders Outraged Over Federal Overreach by Obama Administration
Wednesday, House Republican Leaders expressed their outrage over President Obama’s decision to create...
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Obama’s Gun Control Agenda Ignores the Root of True Evil
“This massacre is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for...
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New Overtime Rules Do More Harm Than Good
“Without question, these new regulations will hurt Maine workers more than help.” In...
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Two Years After the VA Scandal: Where Are We Now?
In April of 2014, reports and rumors of the mistreatment of veterans through...
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There’s Classified, and then There’s Classified
The Hillary Clinton email scandal has dominated the news cycle for months. Aside...
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Local Voices Must Be Heard On the National Monument Debate
This week, Maine’s State Legislature passed LD 1600, a bill that would require...
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Obama is Making Big Changes to Medicare
Beginning today, almost 800 hospitals across the country will be impacted by the...
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Holding the President Accountable to the Constitution
This month, the House has acted to challenge the President on his unlawful...
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Why Make a Monument out of Land with No Buttes?
I’m not generally excited about parks. I like nature, there is no mistaking...
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Posik: The biggest problem facing America is… definitely not climate change
While President Obama endlessly carries on in Paris about the global threat of...
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LePage Criticizes President Obama’s Decision to Accept Syrian Refugees
In a radio address on Monday, Governor LePage criticized the Obama administration’s decision...
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Obama to Mandate More Overtime Benefits
Last week, the Obama Administration announced a proposal that would make nearly 5 million...
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Obama Likely to Use Veto to Help Unions
On Thursday, Congress passed a resolution aimed at limiting so-called “ambush elections” for...
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Problems Continue to Plague Obamacare
On Friday, the Obama Administration admitted that approximately 800,000 Healthcare.gov customers have received...
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Forgetful Democrats Irrelevant in Budget Battle
Liberals in Maine and Washington, D.C. are suffering a new psychological condition, one...
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Michelle O comes to Maine
ORONO – First Lady Michelle Obama touted the health of the U.S. economy as...
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Eric Holder to resign Attorney General post
In a surprising move, Eric Holder Jr. will step down as Attorney General, the...
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Chicago abandons plan to name high school after Obama
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, President Obama’s former chief of staff, has abandoned plans...
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Maine Senator blasts Obama admin for obstructing public watchdogs
Maine Republican Sen. Susan Collins blasted President Barack Obama’s administration on Wednesday for...
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Lois Lerner’s emails DO exist
Emails from the federal bureaucrat at the heart of the IRS corruption scandal do...
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Federal debt surges by $7 trillion under Obama
Debt held by the American government has surged under President Barack Obama. CNSNews.com reports:...
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Michaud refuses to take responsibility for failed oversight in VA corruption scandal
AUGUSTA – U.S. Rep. Michael Michaud, the Ranking Democrat on Congress’ Veterans Affairs...
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Daily Catch: White House rules, Snowden, Potato Wars and the East-West Corridor…
Unilateral Climate Policy: President Obama is prepared to unveil a new regulation on...
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Breaking down the new Rasmussen poll: O’care underwater, strong for support limited government
The Maine Wire got a look at the cross-tabs behind the latest Rasmussen...
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The Regulator in Chief
The hidden cost of federal regulation is taking its toll on Americans’ wallets,...
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Obama vs O'Reilly: Obamacare, Benghazi, and IRS targeting
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs...
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Obama vs O’Reilly: Obamacare, Benghazi, and IRS targeting
WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama and Fox News host Bill O’Reilly traded barbs...
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Reactions to President Obama's SOTU Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union...
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Reactions to President Obama’s SOTU Address
WASHINGTON, D.C. – President Barack Obama delivered his fifth State of the Union...
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Collins blasts Obama State Department on Benghazi
WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released its bipartisan...
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Portland City Councilor: "If JFK was alive today he'd be a moderate Democrat, like Obama"
PORTLAND – A recently elected Portland City Councilor said Friday that if John...
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BOMBSHELL: Census Bureau "faked" 2012 jobs report to help re-elect the president
The U.S. Census Bureau may have produced fraudulent job statistics in order to...
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M.D. Harmon: National Park Service antics diminish president
“This is most closed, control-freak administration I’ve ever covered.” — David E. Sanger,...
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Maine candidate says President Obama wrong on Syria intervention
BELFAST – As U.S. military intervention in the Syrian civil war seems imminent,...
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M.D. Harmon: The post-Obama economic recovery
“I think every president in the intense media environment we have now, certainly...
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Breitbart: Obamaphone company launches ad campaign
Courtesy of Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle: Popular opposition to the “Lifeline” program, colloquially...
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M.D. Harmon: In Zimmerman trial, DOJ and media fan flames of controversy
How did the second-degree murder trial of so-called “white Hispanic” George Zimmerman for...
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M.D. Harmon: Unintended consequences of Obama's new CAFE standards could be deadly
Can the Obama administration rewrite the laws of physics? Of course it can’t,...
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M.D. Harmon: Obama's Syria intervention is poor policy
“I am not opposed to all wars. I am opposed to dumb wars.”...
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Sen. Collins: IRS's abuses part of pattern in Obama administration
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) may be the most powerful, and feared, federal...
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M.D. Harmon: The Denier-in-Chief
“That the power to tax involves the power to destroy (is) not to...
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VIDEO: Texas Senator Says Obama Pushing Citizenship Because He Wants Immigration Reform to Fail
“President Obama does not want an immigration bill to pass,” said Sen. Ted...
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Angus King: "Pretty disappointing" Obama's gun control bill died
WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Sen. Angus S. King, Jr., an un-enrolled Democrat, said...
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M.D. Harmon: Conservative Schisms May Spawn Democratic Hegemony
Is the U.S. conservative movement (or, more precisely, the Republican Party, which is...
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"Obama Phones" Pushed in Maine
During the 2012 election, much ado was made over Cleveland resident Michelle Dowery’s...
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M.D. Harmon: New Generation of GOP All-Stars Show Worthy Alternatives to Romney and Obama
Before the 2012 presidential campaign got going in earnest, there was a boomlet...
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Senator Rand Paul's Epic 13-Hour Filibuster Over Obama's Drones
Sen. Rand Paul’s 13-hour old-fashion filibuster of President Barack Obama’s CIA director nomination...
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M.D. Harmon: Surprise! Sequestration happened and world did not end
News reports told us of an odd and tragic circumstance recently when a...
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M.D. Harmon: Time to fight the ideological battle over Obama's ideas
President Obama has made his leftist goals explicit in a pair of major...
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M.D. Harmon: For progress on immigration, first secure the border
There’s one thing about our immigration policy that is an absolute necessity for...
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M.D. Harmon: Scary times, Obama's debt and America's "horrific bender"
Conan O’Brien said last week that the mayor of Washington, D.C., had asked...
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Polls: Obama's job rating, gun control and across-the-board spending cuts
By Rasmussen Reports Last week began with a “fiscal cliff” deal that surprised no...
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M.D. Harmon: The war on coal, media traps, firearm sales and circus animals
When the going gets tough, the tough take their fun where they can...
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Tax Hikes to Start the New Year
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation While you were sleeping—or ringing in 2013—the Senate...
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" ’Twas the Night Before Cliff-mas"
By Rob Bluey The Heritage Foundation Christmas arrives this year at a time...
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M.D. Harmon: "Tax cuts for the rich" is a flip-flop lie from the left
We’re all familiar with the way many high school and college football teams...
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6 Fixes to America’s Fiscal Crisis
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation President Obama made his first offer to congressional...
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Twinkies, Walmart, airports: unions are causing chaos
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Taking down the Twinkie. Clogging Wal-Mart parking lots...
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232 Business Leaders Urge Obama, Congress to Reform Entitlements
By Bronson Stocking The Heritage Foundation A letter from 232 multi-industry organizations, in conjunction with the...
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Sequester better than no cuts at all
By Bill Wilson Americans for Limited Government “he only thing that’s worse than...
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Five ways the mainstream media tipped the scales in favor of Obama
By Rich Noyes Research director for the Media Research Center Fox News and...
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Rasmussen: Obama and Mitt Romney tied nationally with 48% each
This was posted on Rasmussen Reports on Saturday, Nov. 3 Too close to call:...
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Obama gave Young Americans the Shaft on Jobs
By Michael Moroney The second presidential debate started off with a question from Jeremy,...
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Heritage Foundation experts analyze final Presidential debate
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation Last night’s debate between President Obama and Governor...
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Welfare Spending Shattering All-Time Highs
By Robert Rector and Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation It’s been a pretty big year for...
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Rasmussen: Presidential race to remain close until Election Day
This is from “What They Told Us: Reviewing Last Week’s Key Polls”, posted...
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Maine company tied to Chinese fundraising scandal with Obama.com
Obama.com owned by bundler in Shanghai with business ties to Chinese government A...
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M.D. Harmon: Media bias is "very real and very dangerous"
Sometimes, you hear a grand and glorious rant delivered by someone who’s had...
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Obama and Congress are Choosing to Cause a Recession
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation President Obama recently said, “The most important lesson...
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M.D. Harmon: Romney needs to go for the jugular—now
The problem a lot of conservatives have with Mitt Romney’s campaign to date—as...
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Obama Doesn’t Just Gut Welfare Reform, He Turns It Upside Down
By Amy Payne The Heritage Foundation The controversy over the Obama Administration’s gutting of...
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M.D. Harmon: How corrupt is our federal government under Barack Obama?
How corrupt is our federal government under Barack Obama? You can get a...
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M.D. Harmon: Obama usurps legislative, judicial authority with welfare memorandum
I guess, if I had to stand in a crowd listening to President...
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National Federation of Independent Business says Obama "ignoring warning of fiscal cliff"
In a letter from President Dan Danner, the National Federation of Independent Business...
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M.D. Harmon: Liberal "fairness" puts us on the road to ruin
As I read the news this week, I’m starting to get nostalgic for...
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Leader of Ron Paul convention takeover says Obama would be better than Romney
Ron Paul may have ceased spending money on the remaining Presidential primaries, but...
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M.D. Harmon: Obama's Whispers and Whims Leave America Wanting
“I had a dream last night, About the comin’ fight. Somebody yelled ‘Attack!’...