“There aren’t a lot of functioning democracies around the world that work this way where you can basically have millionaires and billionaires bankrolling whoever they want, however they want, in some cases undisclosed. What it means is ordinary Americans are shut out of the process.” Barack Obama, White House press conference, Oct 2013.

Breitbart London, James Delingpole reporting:
“Yes, indeed. But the millionaires and billionaires doing the damage are Obama’s allies on the liberal-left, not his enemies on the right. So says a devastating report published today by the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works.
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I have run into several comments/posts/videos this past week that reminded me of this opinion piece that I originally posted in July of 2012. It still applies. Envy is used politically by the left to create an atmosphere of resentment and hate. It is VERY IMPORTANT that we do not fall into the trap.

“The rich should pay their fair share.” 
…”when you spread the wealth around it’s good for everybody.”
“Nobody’s ideas or effort are really that much more innately valuable than that of their peers. You can, however, use your abilities to steal that much money.”
”The central lie here being getting rich through hard, honest work. I don’t think anyone has ever gotten rich without the determination of screwing other people out of their money.”
“Romney never created any jobs. He only created wealth for his partners. There is a big difference.”

Does America Need Another Great Challenge?
 

I saw this on Facebook today, and thought it would make a fun game today.  What song title do YOU think describes Obama?

crossthread42 just asked an interesting question (one that may also have occurred to you):

One other thing that bothers Me… How does One, or a Family, AQUIRE the MONIES to make the trip, MUCH less pay a “smuggler”, or Coyote, to get them across the Final push across the border? 3000. to (reports of) 20.000.00 Each? If it’s a FAMILY, just on average, were talking close to 50K for ONE FAMILY to Get here?? WHERE do they get this Money? If they are in POVERTY?

This may be a clue.  This is outrageous.  There is no better word to describe it, and the IRS is doing nothing to stop it.

In spite of the EPA and the rest of the greenie weenies in Washington DC, the great American private industry dynamo has triumphed once again. The American entrepreneurs, the progeny of the pioneers that founded this great nation, demonstrate once again that our people say “Yes We Can”, and then they DO it!

From Bloomberg News:

U.S. production of crude oil, along with liquids separated from natural gas, surpassed all other countries this year with daily output exceeding 11 million barrels in the first quarter, the bank said in a report today. The country became the world’s largest natural gas producer in 2010. The International Energy Agency said in June that the U.S. was the biggest producer of oil and natural gas liquids.
“The U.S. increase in supply is a very meaningful chunk of oil,” Francisco Blanch, the bank’s head of commodities research, said by phone from New York. “The shale boom is playing a key role in the U.S. recovery. If the U.S. didn’t have this energy supply, prices at the pump would be completely unaffordable.”
Oil extraction is soaring at shale formations in Texas and North Dakota as companies split rocks using high-pressure liquid, a process known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The surge in supply combined with restrictions on exporting crude is curbing the price of West Texas Intermediate, America’s oil benchmark. The U.S., the world’s largest oil consumer, still imported an average of 7.5 million barrels a day of crude in April, according to the Department of Energy’s statistical arm.

To all of our friends in the business, a big THANKS!

Dennis Michael Lynch (DML) On The Blaze.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUYwnV413ag