Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sec of State Clinton Clarifies Libyan Situation


If you share my thoughts, watching news of the rapidly developing situation in Libya, you are probably thinking "What is really happening, how has the United States become embroiled in this conflict within Libya and what is the US position?"

While I still have many questions, I believe that this position statement made by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Paris answers some of our basic questions. It's one of the clearer policy statements to come out of this current Administration and, I think, worth sharing with readers of the Independent View.

Friday, March 18, 2011

Argument In Favor of Developing Domestic Oil Resources



I agree with Rep. Young. With almost 3/4 of our oil coming from foreign sources, most of those sources not friends of the US, developing our domestic oil resources is essential to our national security as well as to our economic well-being.
~~ S. Lane


Click on the link below to view and listen to Rep. Young's speech in the House of Representatives.

Rep Don Young Urges Producing American Energy & Opening ANWR


[Posted by Sue Whalen blogging as S. Lane 3-18-2011]



Thursday, August 12, 2010

The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

This article zeroes in on the failures of the Obama Presidency with concise clarity. Very worth reading -- and rereading and sharing with your friends and associates of whatever political party or point of view.
Thanks to my friend JB for posting this link at Facebook.


~~  S. Lane





The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

Nile Gardiner

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR.



The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. While the anti-establishment Tea Party movement has gained significant ground and is now a rising and powerful political force to be reckoned with, many of the president’s own supporters as well as independents are rapidly losing faith in Barack Obama, with open warfare breaking out between the White House and the left-wing of the Democratic Party. While conservatism in America grows stronger by the day, the forces of liberalism are growing increasingly weaker and divided.
Against this backdrop, the president’s approval ratings have been sliding dramatically all summer, with the latest Rasmussen Daily Presidential Tracking Poll of US voters dropping to minus 22 points, the lowest point so far for Barack Obama since taking office. While just 24 per cent of American voters strongly approve of the president’s job performance, almost twice that number, 46 per cent, strongly disapprove. According to Rasmussen, 65 per cent of voters believe the United States is going down the wrong track, including 70 per cent of independents.
The RealClearPolitics average of polls now has President Obama at over 50 per cent disapproval, a remarkably high figure for a president just 18 months into his first term. Strikingly, the latest USA Today/Gallup survey has the President on just 41 per cent approval, with 53 per cent disapproving.
There are an array of reasons behind the stunning decline and political fall of President Obama, chief among them fears over the current state of the US economy, with widespread concern over high levels of unemployment, the unstable housing market, and above all the towering budget deficit. Americans are increasingly rejecting President Obama’s big government solutions to America’s economic woes, which many fear will lead to the United States sharing the same fate as Greece.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Team Obama Calls Out Swat Team on Tea Party Patriots!


S. Lane

Really !!
Definitely overreaction. Even the SWAT team members appear uncomfortable being there to police a peaceful gathering of patriotic moms and grandmothers, dads and grandfathers --
citizens exercising their First Amendment rights to freedom of speech and assembly
AND singing "God Bless America"

Now how threatening is that?


Team Obama Calls Out Swat Team on Tea Party Patriots!

STEYN: Bigotry label for thee, not me - Washington Times




This Washington Times editorial, written by Mark Steyn, a European immigrant, living legally in the United States, gives a reasoned perspective on immigration and why the influx of illegals is a serious problem which justifies legislation such as that passed in Arizona to control and contain it. The article also points out that large scale immigration into any country is not necessarily the boon the the host country's economy that some claimed it to be.
No, I am not anti-immigrantion if the immigrants come into our country legally. I am opposed to condoning illegal immigration and I do sometimes question whether the quotas for legal immigrants are set to high for the 21st century economic needs of the United States. ~~~ S. Lane


STEYN: Bigotry label for thee, not me - Washington Times

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Obama’s Budget Director: Powerful Rationing Panel (Not Doctors) Will Control Health Care Levels


What those who researched the Health Care Plan prior to its passage by Congress realized, but many in the public, hearing only what supporters of the plan told us did not.  This does not bode well for elder Americans who face potential rationing of medical services.   ~~~   S. Lane




Breitbart.tv » Obama’s Budget Director: Powerful Rationing Panel (Not Doctors) Will Control Health Care Levels

Monday, April 26, 2010

Taxes: All Options "On the Table"


So much for the election campaign promise of no tax increases for anyone earning less than $250,000 a year.

Now a spokesman for the Obama administration says that everything is "on the table" and that includes consideration of additional taxes.

~~~ S. Lane