ONE YEAR LATER, what ever happened to Occupy Wall Street? Good riddance.

VIRGINIA ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN CUCCINELLI:

Last week one of our largest coal mines in Buchanan County was idled and hundreds of our fellow Virginians were placed on indefinite unpaid leave. This isn't the first economic hardship our state has faced, and certainly won't be the last. However, this one is different than anything we've seen before.

When he took office, President Obama promised to turn the country and our economy around. He took drastic measures by passing massive bailouts and supposed jobs programs. Not only have these policies not gotten Americans back to work, but they have increased our nation's debt by over $5 Trillion in less than four years.

Just like the law of gravity, which cannot be defied, there are undeniable and unavoidable economic laws.

In an economy that was already struggling and where resources were hard to come by, why would the President enact job-destroying regulations on private sector businesses that are trying to just stay afloat?

When President Obama spoke about creating jobs, he was talking only about jobs that get his permission. That's why his administration "invested" more than $500 Million into the now bankrupt Solyndra solar energy company.

At the same time that Obama was throwing money at his pet, Solyndra, he was taking it from hardworking American taxpayers and borrowing it from our kids and grandkids.

Obama has been choosing winners and losers. The winners were his Washington cronies and the losers are anyone who works in an industry not favored by President Obama.

This week I am taking a trip to Southwest Virginia. I'll again see firsthand the devastating effects of Obama's economy on the lives of the individuals in small communities in places like Abingdon and Wytheville.

Let's be clear, every time that President Obama comes out against coal, or other industries, it is a direct attack on the livelihood of Virginians.

We have the largest coal exporting port in the United States right here in Hampton Roads. Even if you don't work directly for a coal company, coal provides almost half of all of Virginia's energy, and in the poorest parts of Virginia, coal powers over 75% of the electricity.

President Obama's war on jobs has to end. It's time to stand up to President Obama and tell him that he doesn't know best. Individuals are better at making personal decisions than any government.

We are a country that was founded on the principle that we can all earn our own living - not take some government handout, or ask the government to pick and choose winners and losers, but to really earn it for ourselves.

Mitt Romney understands who built this economy: hard working American entrepreneurs. He understands that the free market is the driving force of innovation, and when our own government stays out of our way is when we achieve the most.

From my email.

CLINT EASTWOOD doesn't 'give a crap' about critics of his RNC speech.

MORNING EXAMINER: Obama's alternative Middle East reality ... is preposterous.

THEY REALLY want knee-knockers?

OHIO STUDENTS open to someone new in the White House. Florida too.

"NASA ASTRONAUT SUNITA WILLIAMS, who holds the record for the longest spaceflight by a woman, took charge of the International Space Station Saturday (Sept. 15), becoming only the second female commander in the orbiting lab's 14-year history."

GALLUP: Majority in U.S. Still Say Government Doing Too Much.


Look at the Obama years, 2009-Present (click to enlarge).

DEMOCRATS BLAME CONSTITUENTS for failure of 'followership'.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: "The Middle East is not fascist, communist, Baathist, pan-Arabist, or Islamist, so much as it is screwed-up-ist and blame-them-ist."

They sound like Progressives.... Read the whole thing.

NANCY DREW FEMINISM: "Buddy, this ain't your father's DNC."

CHE GUEVARA EMAIL an ‘inadvertent error’. Oh, come now. Even under the supposition that it indeed was 'inadvertant', it only shows the abysmal ignorance of the EPA employee.

And why is a government agency celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month? Or any heritage month?

MY FUTURE HOME in Obama's America.

MIGHTY OBAMA at the bat.

WHO TO BLAME?

It would almost be worth reelecting him to find out the answer.

IS THIS SUPPOSED TO BE A SURPRISE? I'd call it confirmation. Government employees work less than private sector employees.

DEMOCRATS AND THE MEDIA "don’t want voters to be educated or informed.... They want you to eat your gruel, take your medicine and re-elect the president because he knows more about what’s better for you than you do. With so many Americans now suckling the government teat, that easy message has a receptive and large audience. We have to be larger this November or our nation surely will be smaller in the future."