Square Mobile Payment Systems Modifies User Agreement to Prohibit Gun-Related Purchases

Square payment services is one of those new payment applications that merchants can put on a smart phone and, along with the plug-in hardware, is used like a credit card swipe machine to accept payments made by their customers. This month, however, Square has changed its user policy and is now prohibiting merchants from using [...]

May 15, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Sequestration Just Got “Real” For DoD Civilian Employees

Real, as in “your pay is effectively being cut by 20% from July through September”… Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel announced yesterday that cuts due to sequestration will require DoD to reduce spending for civilian employees in order to meet required budget cuts. Hagel delivered the following message on civilian furloughs: “As you are fully [...]

May 15, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

When you lose the New York Times . . .

Once upon a time, you could count on the New York Times to have President Obama’s back no matter what what he or members of his administration did. Not anymore. In its 14 May 2012 edition, the New York Times published an editorial that starts with the following statement: The Obama administration, which has a [...]

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Gov’t Obtains Phone Records of 100 Associated Press Reporters

In the newest overreach perpetrated by the Obama administration, the Associated Press has discovered that some 100 of its Washington-based reporters have had their phone records–both personal and business–secretly obtained by Eric Holder’s Justice Department. The AP reports that the phone records were subpoenaed as a result of a DOJ investigation into who inside the [...]

May 14, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Liberal Groups Finally Discover that Deregulation is good for Consumers

The Democrats and the media are always claiming that Republicans want dirtier air, more polluted water, and fewer people with health insurance. Here’s Obama in Real Clear Politics a year before the last the presidential election on 10/17/11: The Republicans plan, Obama says, boils down to this: ‘Dirtier air, dirtier water, less people with health [...]

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Angelina Jolie: “I Made A Decision To Have A Preventive Double Mastectomy”

Angelina Jolie, one of Hollywood’s biggest and most visible stars, writes in a New York Times editorial about a very private medical decision she managed to keep secret. MY MOTHER fought cancer for almost a decade and died at 56. She held out long enough to meet the first of her grandchildren and to hold [...]

May 14, 2013 / 2 Comments / Read More

Obama’s Rogue Union Board Dealt Major Setbacks

Upon coming to office, President Obama began using the obscure National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to give big payoffs to unions at the expense of business and to the detriment of our economic recovery but at last his incredible abuse of this agency is under scrutiny. By and large, NLRB is not one of those [...]

May 13, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

The IRS Targetting Of Conservative Groups Was No “Low Level” Operation

ABC News has more details on the IRS inspector general report about the targeting of conservative groups by the IRS. Mary Katherine Hamm at HotAir detailed the intrusive questioning last week. The targeting of conservatives by the IRS started earlier and was more extensive than the IRS acknowledged last week, according to a draft IRS [...]

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Weekend Caption Contest™ Winners

This week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smashing success. The assignment this week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (John H) – “Obama visits the US-Mexico border and gives his “Tear down this wall” speech.” 2) (fustian24) – “One has to wonder. How’s he planning to get back across [...]

May 13, 2013 / 1 Comment / Read More

Last Weekend’s Caption Contest™ Winners

Last week’s Weekend Caption Contest™ was another smash hit. The assignment last week was to caption the following picture: Here are the winning entries: 1) (sarahconnor2) – “And the lesson from this week in the MSM: Announcing you are a homosexual makes you a hero. Announcing you are a Christian and pro-life makes you a [...]

May 13, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Inside the mind of a liberal

There’s been lots of doings transpiring at stately Von Ottomatic manor lately.  You may recall that I entered into an unwanted period of funemployment a few months back.  Rather than hop right into a job search I took the opportunity to invest a little time, along with some severance and my two plus months of [...]

May 12, 2013 / No Comments / Read More

Mom of Slain Son Bids Hillary Clinton a Happy Mother’s Day

Pat Smith’s son, Sean, was murdered by terrorists in Benghazi, Libya (9/11/12) thanks to Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama’s negligence. On Sunday, she has a message for Obama and Hillary. “I want to wish Hillary a Happy Mother’s Day,” Smith said. “She has her child. I don’t have mine because of her.” Mrs. Smith appeared [...]

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