Dan Spencer

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Dan Spencer has been blogging at, and as, California Yankee since 2003. He lives in Connecticut and practices law in New York. Here he will discuss the politics of the Right.

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U.N. Security Council fails to act on North Korean rocket launch

By Dan Spencer | 04/06/09

What a surprise. The Sunday emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council, called to consider North Korea's launch of a ballistic missile, concluded without any official reaction to North Korea's provocation. The U.N. will dither on like it did with Saddam and North Korea's development of nuclear weapons, and as the U.N. continues to do with Iran's nuclear program. The U.S. says the "launch constituted a clear-cut violation" of... read more »

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Obama Received a $101,332 Bonus from AIG

By Dan Spencer | 03/18/09

Senator Barack Obama received a $101,332 bonus from American International Group in the form of political contributions according to Opensecrets.org. The two biggest Congressional recipients of bonuses from the A.I.G. are - Senators Chris Dodd and Senator Barack Obama. The A.I.G. Financial Products affiliate of A.I.G. gave out $136,928, the most of any AIG affiliate, in the 2008 cycle. I would note that A.I.G.'s financial products division is... read more »

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Obama Budget: More Spending than Anyone Can Comprehend

By Dan Spencer | 02/28/09

With his debt-busting budget which contains a trillion dollars in tax increase, President Obama plans to have the federal government spend 25 percent of the entire U.S. economy - one out of every four dollars produced in the U.S.Obama's massive spending plan puts the Democrat-controlled Congress on track to double the national debt by 2010 - to $17.6 trillion, after just four years of controlling the national purse strings.At FoxNews they... read more »

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Obama's Budget: $4 trillion in spending, a $1.75 trillion deficit, and another $750 billion bank bailout

By Dan Spencer | 02/26/09

President Obama's national debt busting first budget projects a $1.75 trillion deficit so Obama can spend nearly $4 trillion in fiscal year 2010 and "creates space" for another $750 billion bank bailout. The White House will formally release Obama's budget boondoggle overview at 11:00 a.m., but at FoxNews, Major Garrett provides a preview: Senior administration officials would not disclose a precise figure for the entire budget, but said it... read more »

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Words 'Ring Hollow' in Obama's Error Filled Speech

By Dan Spencer | 02/25/09

Calvin Woodward and Jim Kuhnhenn fact checked President Obama's non-State of the Union speech and found the speech so error filled that Obama's words "ring hollow."I have already said I did not care for Obama's the government will do every thing speech. Another reason the Obama speech failed to impress me were the many misrepresentations Obama made as he tried to sell his anti-Reagan bigger government vision.These are just the examples the two... read more »