Here is Wayne Allen Root, a supposed classmate of Obama's while at Columbia. He has a great column which I encourage you to read, parts of which follow:
My answer for Romney?
Call Obama’s bluff.
Romney should call a press conference and issue a challenge in front
of the nation. He should agree to release more of his tax returns, only
if Obama unseals his college records. Simple and straight-forward. Mitt
should ask “What could possibly be so embarrassing in your college
records from 29 years ago that you are afraid to let America’s voters
see? If it’s THAT bad, maybe it’s something the voters ought to see.”
Suddenly the tables are turned. Now Obama is on the defensive.
My bet is that Obama will never unseal his records because they
contain information that could destroy his chances for re-election. Once
this challenge is made public, my prediction is you’ll never hear about
Mitt’s tax returns ever again.
Why are the college records, of a 51-year-old President of the United
States, so important to keep secret? I think I know the answer.
But don’t take my word for it.
The Wall Street Journal reported in 2008 that Fox News randomly called 400 of our Columbia classmates and never found one who had ever met Obama.
I can only think of one answer that would explain this mystery.
Here’s my gut belief: Obama got a leg up by being admitted to both
Occidental and Columbia as a foreign exchange student. He was raised as a
young boy in Indonesia. But did his mother ever change him back to a
U.S. citizen? When he returned to live with his grandparents in
Hawaii or as he neared college-age preparing to apply to schools, did he
ever change his citizenship back? I’m betting not.
If you think I’m “fishing” then prove me wrong. Open up your records Mr. President. What are you afraid of?
http://www.theblaze.com/contributions/obama%E2%80%99s-college-classmate-the-obama-scandal-is-at-columbia/
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One of the key arguments that President Obama used to get his
health care law though Congress, control of soaring health care
costs, turns out to have been bogus.
Here is the way Obama put the argument in a September 9,
2009,
speech about
health care to a joint session of Congress:
Then there’s the problem of rising cost....insurance premiums
have gone up three times faster than wages....our health care
system is placing an unsustainable burden on taxpayers. When
health care costs grow at the rate they have, it puts greater
pressure on programs like Medicare and Medicaid. If we do nothing
to slow these skyrocketing costs, we will eventually be spending
more on Medicare and Medicaid than every other government program
combined....
Now, these are the facts. Nobody disputes them.
Obama’s voice saying “these are the facts. Nobody disputes
them,” is almost enough to set off sound effects akin to those that
accompany
Pinocchio’s
growing nose in the Disney movie.
Sure enough, now that the data are in, the emerging consensus is
that health care costs, rather than “skyrocketing,” have been
moderating, even flat-lining. And they were beginning to do so well
before Congress passed ObamaCare in March 2010.
http://reason.com/archives/2012/08/06/the-health-care-spending-claim-that-made
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A new report from the conservative Government Accountability Institute
(GAI) finds that President Barack Obama’s and Attorney General Eric
Holder’s failure to criminally charge any top Wall Street bankers is
likely a result of cronyism inside the Department of Justice and
political donations made to Obama’s campaign.
GAI argues that the Obama administration’s decision to not go after Big
Finance is due to senior DOJ leadership — Holder, Associate Attorney
General Tom Perrelli, Associate Attorney General Tony West, Assistant
Attorney General Lanny Breuer, Deputy Attorney General James Cole and
Deputy Associate Attorney General Karol Mason — who “all came
to the DOJ from prestigious white-collar defense firms where they
represented the very financial institutions the DOJ is supposed to
investigate.”
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The IRS is paying out billions of dollars in
fraudulent tax refunds to identity thieves; a problem that the tax
service’s inspector general told CNBC is a “growing problem” involving
numbers that are increasing “exponentially.”
In
a new report to be issued Thursday, the inspector general for the IRS
says that tax thieves are stealing the identities of taxpayers and then
filing bogus returns on their behalf and collecting fraudulent refunds
as a result.
The
inspector general estimates that the IRS could issue as much as $21
billion in fraudulent tax refunds over the next five years. In another
case, a single residential address in Chicago was the source
of 765 tax returns, generating more than $900,000 in potentially
fraudulent refunds, the report said.
[Don't they employ computer
programmers? Try doing something like this with a credit card and you
will be found out immediately.] http://www.cnbc.com/id/48462508
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Polish president accuses Obama of betraying Poland
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Hydraulic fracturing,
or “fracking,” is a process in which chemically treated water is pumped
into shale rock in order to release natural gas for extraction.
Fracking has brought economic benefits to states such as
North Dakota and Pennsylvania, while states where fracking is banned, such as California and New York, are suffering economically,
according to Stephen Moore, senior economics writer for the
Wall Street Journal.
“To be against hydraulic fracturing is like being against a cure for cancer,” Moore told the
Free Beacon.
Fracking represents “the most important revolution in the oil sector in decades,” according to a
study by Harvard Research Fellow Leonardo Maugeri.
Numerous scientists have
contradicted Gasland’s conclusions regarding pollution and cancer rates resulting from fracking.
“[Anti-fracking advocates] have a lot of amazing claims, but no peer-reviewed science to back up those claims,” said McAleer.
[This
might be a good place to begin if you are undecided about the issue. I
really have no opinion formed at this time on the issue. We will be
dealing with this issue for a long time, I'm quite sure.] http://freebeacon.com/thefrackattack/
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Tanzania could actually benefit from
climate change
by increasing corn exports to the United States and other countries
that may have more difficulty producing the crop in the future,
according to a new study.
Researchers at Stanford, Purdue University, and the World Bank set
out to determine how certain trade policies might provide a buffer for
countries like Tanzania from the worst effects of climate change.
http://weather.yahoo.com/tanzania-where-climate-change-could-good-thing-221556450.html
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A nonpartisan election integrity group has sent legal notices to 160
counties across the U.S. that it says have more voters on its
registration rolls than actual live, eligible voters — and thus
represent potential hotbeds for election fraud, the organization told
TheBlaze exclusively.
The Houston-based True the Vote said the counties may be in violation
of Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act, which mandates
that election officials maintain clean voter rolls by removing people
who have died, moved away or are no longer eligible to vote. True the
Vote is demanding each of the counties show proof of compliance or
they’ll bring civil suit.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/election-integrity-watchdog-sends-notice-to-160-counties-it-says-have-more-registered-voters-than-are-actually-eligible-to-vote/
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The state of Illinois faces at least $83 billion in unfunded liability
between its five pension systems, and is on track to spend more on its
government pensions than on education by 2016, a new study released by
Governor Pat Quinn’s office says.
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Indian government officials and Sikh leaders across India were outraged
by the attack that left 6 dead, including 4 Indian nationals, at a Sikh
temple near Milwaukee and called on the U.S. to do more to protect Sikhs
living in the United Sates. Clinton called Indian Foreign Minister
S.M. Krishna from
her stop in South Africa Monday after Krishna criticized the U.S. for
failed policies and a growing trend of violent incidents against
religious minorities.
"I have seen messages of condolence from President Obama and others.
They've emphasized protection of all faiths. The U.S. government will
have to take a comprehensive look at this kind of tendency which
certainly is not going to bring credit to the United States of
America,'' Krisha
said.
http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2012/08/06/state_department_tries_to_smooth_ties_with_india_after_wisconsin_massacre
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The District is paying 305 students with poor academic and behavioral records to attend summer school, The Washington Examiner has learned.
The rising ninth-graders are earning $5.25
an hour to participate in the "Summer Bridge" program, which targets
students identified by D.C. Public Schools as less likely than their
peers to graduate high school within four years.
The 95 students who voluntarily signed up for
the summer school program will receive half of an elective credit. But
to fill the 400-student session with at-risk students, DCPS reached out
to the Department of Employment Services. More than 300 students flagged
by DCPS and who had signed up for the Summer Youth Employment Program
were told that school would be their jobs this summer.
Handing paychecks to students for learning could, however, be a "slippery slope," said local political consultant Chuck Thies.
"How much will we pay going forward, and who
will we pay, and what's the cutoff to get paid?" Thies asked. "It's
critical that we get at-risk students and underperforming students and
failing students into the program, but I don't think incentivizing them
with money sends the right message."
lgartner@washingtonexaminer.com
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If Texas Republican Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and Colorado Democratic
Sen. Mark Udall have their way, rain will go away come again some other
day of their choosing.
Both Hutchison and Udall have introduced unsuccessful bills in the
past that would have created national boards to oversee and fund
research into weather modification. That is, artificially changing or
controlling the weather.
“I … am very supportive of and concerned about weather prediction and modification,” Hutchison
said
at an appropriations hearing in 2011. “And I think we need to know more
basic science, and we also need to — to use that to determine if we
should or should not engage in weather modification.”
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One of the primary difficulties with Medicaid coverage is that fewer
health care providers are accepting Medicaid patients. The New England
Journal of Medicine published a study last year that showed that
two-thirds of children on Medicaid are denied appointments to deal with
serious medical conditions (compared with 11 percent of privately
insured children).
Now nearly three in 10 physicians across the nation will not accept Medicaid patients.
Doctors aren’t refusing to take Medicaid patients out of cruelty.
Many have admitted to feeling guilty over refusing these patients and
have put off denying care for as long as possible. But, ultimately,
accepting Medicaid has been costing health care providers just too much.
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Now that the student loan industry is totally run by the federal
government, the federal government will be deciding for you which
degrees you can pursue and from what schools. Apparently you are not
smart enough to make your own decisions on this matter. Democrat
fireplug Senator Barbara Mikulski’s site spouted
this bit of irony yesterday:
“I’m for choice and opportunity in higher education, but
we cannot be enablers of debt without empowerment,”Senator
Mikulski said. “It’s appalling that schools are providing students with
worthless degrees while leaving families buried under debt. It’s wrong
for families and the federal government to make investments in higher
education and be left with nothing to show for it. I’m cosponsoring the Protecting Students from Worthless Degrees Act to
ensure that higher education programs meet the accreditation or
licensure requirements so when students graduate they are qualified to
be hired for the job they’ve prepared for.” http://www.libertynews.com/2012/08/06/senate-democrats-decide-for-you-which-college-degrees-are-worthless/
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