President Obama has broken many of his promises aimed at the general public and jobless Americans, but he has kept promises to his left-wing base that involved divisive wedge issues.  He promised to create 7 million new jobs on seven different occasions in 2008. But these jobs have not materialized: “just 16 states have seen job growth since President Obama took office,” overwhelmingly conservative states like Texas that have rejected liberal economic policies.

Don’t believe the line from leftist activists and the Obama campaign that the voter fraud problem is just the result of an overactive imagination on the part of Republicans. All you have to do is read the headlines.  For example, there was this news story by J. Christian Adams, who is working with us on our 2012 Election Integrity Project, published by·BigGovernment.com:

JW Obtains Obama Administration Records Detailing Meetings with bin Laden Movie Filmmakers  

On Tuesday, Judicial Watch caused a firestorm when we released records from the Obama Department of Defense (DOD) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) regarding meetings and communications between government agencies and Kathryn Bigelow, Academy Award-winning director of The Hurt Locker, and her screenwriter Mark Boal.

In 1959, during an interview with the late Mike Wallace, Ayn Rand, the author of “Atlas Shrugged”, said “A free market will not break down. All depressions are caused by government interference and the cure that is always offered is more of the same poisons that caused the disaster.”

After the stock market crashed on October 29, 1929, the government’s solution to the crisis was to raise the top tax rate from 25% to 63%. Successively this was increased to 79% and then to 94%, effectively choking off capital formation, investment, and the incentive to start new businesses.

Paul Ryan spoke at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in California as part of its Perspectives in Leadership Forum. Ronald Reagan embodied optimism and "there must be a pony in here somewhere...".Full speech and video below, be encouraged Americans, let's get to work on changing America's path.

Ninth Circuit Rules Against "Dirty Bomber" in Lawsuit Against Former Bush Official

In a bit of a surprise, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently ruled against convicted terrorist Vincent Padilla in his lawsuit against former Bush Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo. 

Padilla claimed his constitutional rights were violated when President Bush designated him as an "enemy combatant" and ordered his detention by the U.S. military, allegedly at the recommendation of Yoo. (Padilla is currently sitting in a federal prison after being convicted of providing material support to terrorists, among other criminal offenses.)