Urban Nightmare: Livable Communities Act Boosts Federal Power Over Your Town

ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott serves as co-host of PJTV’s Trifecta, a thrice-weekly news, opinion and humor show with Bill Whittle & Steve Green. (NOTE: This week, St. Louis radio doyenne Dana Loesch subs for an ailing Steve Green)

ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott serves as co-host of PJTV’s Trifecta, a thrice-weekly news, opinion and humor show with Bill Whittle & Steve Green. (NOTE: This week, St. Louis radio doyenne Dana Loesch subs for an ailing Steve Green)
Media Sharks Attack ‘Cuda, So What’s Behind the Palin Smears?, host Dana Loesch

President Obama on Friday hailed the “amazing growth” in phony stimulus jobs, especially from nonexistent congressional districts, as a “sure sign that we’re seeing a make-believe recovery and an encouraging spurt in faux GDP.”

Faux gross domestic product usually trails other false economic indicators, the president said, but with projected unemployment plummeting, the federal government’s top alleged experts predict ill-founded consumer confidence will bounce back “before the end of the year at the latest, and quite possibly before supper time tonight.”
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Michael Koolidge, a talkradio host with global reach, interviews ScrappleFace.com editor Scott Ott following his first-ever political campaign. Use the audio player below, or click the link to download the 26 min. (12.2 MB) mp3 file.

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Decrying the lack of “choice and competition” in the U.S. memoir market, President Obama today backed a House bill to create a “single-writer public option” autobiography to serve the needs of an estimated 47 million Americans who can’t afford Sarah Palin’s $28.99 hardcover “Going Rogue.”

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As he left for a weeklong trip to Asia, President Obama announced he would hold a U.S. “jobs summit” in December, and promised that the convention of experts in government, business and academia would figure out how to get tens of millions of Americans employed and “won’t add a dime to the deficit.”

Obama said funding for the summit would come from millions of dollars worth of savings squeezed from existing government employment programs.

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Bill Whittle asks Steve Green and ScrappleFace editor Scott Ott what kind of president reacts the way Barack Obama did to the Fort Hood terror attack, on the latest episode of PJTV’s Trifecta.

Trifecta: Tale of 2 Presidents -- Calm Command v Cold Fish

ScrappleFace.com editor Scott Ott co-hosts a thrice-weekly show called Trifecta on PJTV.com with Bill Whittle and Steve Green. Subscribing to PJTV brings you information and insight from a patriotic perspective that you just can’t get in the mainstream media.
Fort Hood Fable: Media Persists in Painting Jihadist Killer as Victim
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Ft. Hood Fable: Shooter as Victim Trifecta Episode 2698

Journalists across the nation, moved by the plight of a troubled Muslim psychiatrist whose “understandable emotional turmoil” broke out in gunfire last week at Fort Hood, Texas, will hold a major fundraising event in the coming weeks in honor of the accused shooter, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan.

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NON-SATIRE

A note from Scott Ott…
After personally witnessing Friday’s review of precinct vote totals, by the staff at the Lehigh County Voter Registration office, I’m convinced that a recount is unlikely to produce significantly different results.

The final tally had me and incumbent County Executive Don Cunningham separated by only 870 votes out of 41,228 cast. His margin of victory came entirely from urban precincts where Democrats outnumber Republicans by three or four to one. Among the 30,000 or so voters who live outside of Allentown, I received about 2,500 more votes than he did.

While I know the final result has been heartbreaking to the many people who gave sacrificially of their time and money to this campaign, I see in this race genuine hope for a better future for Lehigh County, for our state and for our nation. No incumbent can rest on his laurels. No seat is safe. Every elected official must be called to account every day.
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